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<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/21722962"><strong>On the mind</strong></a> (1135 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/Zetalial"><strong>This-is-my-otp</strong></a><br />Chapters: 1/1<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Fullmetal%20Alchemist%20-%20All%20Media%20Types">Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types</a><br />Rating: General Audiences<br />Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply<br />Relationships: Alphonse Elric/Edward Elric<br />Characters: Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric<br />Additional Tags: Established Relationship<br />Series: Part 6 of <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/series/1475240">Tumblr Elricest ficlets.</a><br />Summary: <p>When they're forced to be apart, even when it's only temporary, Ed and Al miss and worry about each other.</p>
Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
Alphonse Elric/Edward Elric
Alphonse Elric
← Previous Work Part 6 of the Tumblr Elricest ficlets. series
On the mind
This-is-my-otp (Zetalial)
When they're forced to be apart, even when it's only temporary, Ed and Al miss and worry about each other.
Did a short piece for a prompt on tumblr again. I'm not actually happy with this and yet I'm posting it here anyway...
I guess it feels rushed but I'm not the best at introspection. The prompt called for them being separated which means I attempted to write thoughts instead of character interaction, which I think I find easier.
Every decision came with good and bad. No decision was ever entirely perfect and no action was ever wholly bad. Sometimes great things were formed in the midst of calamity and sometimes great intentions came with darker outcomes.
That was how Al chose to see life now, a far cry from his and his brother’s naive beliefs on equivalent exchange and that the world was entirely fair. Their world was chaotic and random and bizarre but something lovely could still be formed anyway.
And that was how he liked to see the life he’d forged with Ed. They’d decided to live together and he’d taken a risk and confessed his feelings. At first, Ed had been confused and scared and uncertain. He was ever so afraid to hurt Al, when they’d both worked so hard to make him human again. Ed had been afraid he was stealing Al’s life away - he’d confessed as much, even as he confessed how much he loved Al back.
Maybe it was a mistake to let himself become so attached but it was the sort of mistake he wanted to make. He had believed that there was something precious to find. And he’d found Ed - the gentler, more sensitive side to him that he didn’t dare show anyone else.
There were consequences too however. They’d agreed it best to keep their relationship a secret and for the most part it was easy to pretend. They kept their moments of real intimacy private (like the both preferred), occasionally paid lip-service to the idea of dating and just kept to themselves, letting everyone else assume what they would. It was sometimes irritating but usually nothing more.
Today though, it was harder than normal. They’d made other choices too, tied themselves up with other people, and those choices came with their own consequences. Ed had let the new democratic assembly set up in place of the old military state use him and his reputation as the People’s Alchemist to help rally support for the radically changing Government and had unwittingly gotten himself involved in politics. It wasn’t a field suited to his impulsive, temperamental brother at all and it placed him under far more scrutiny than they could really afford.
Despite the issues, Ed was in a position to make a lot of positive change. Their past of dabbling in human transmutation had had to remain unknown and it had been recommended that they kept Al out of the spotlight as much as possible. (Al was far too small for the massive suit of armour he'd occupied for so long and it was best not to draw attention to it.) Therefore, it was a choice they’d both hastily agreed to - perhaps too hastily, for it had lead to them being apart with increasing frequency.
Al had prepared for many things when he’d deepened his relationship with Ed, but he hadn’t prepared for just how much he’d miss him when he was gone. Their little house felt empty without being filled with Ed’s animated chatter, the sounds of his uneven gait marching about the place or even his overly intent alchemy research. Even when Ed was working quietly, he had ways of making his presence be felt.
It was quite ironic how easy it was to grow used to his dynamic presence such that all his many quirks and habits were taken for granted. But the second he was gone, Al was dwelling on them.
It was a temporary separation, he reminded himself. It wasn’t an accident or a sign that things were wrong. It was a life they’d chosen with all the good and bad that came with it. He knew where Ed was, he wasn’t lost or in danger so he didn’t need to worry. So what if he hated sleeping alone?
But his eyes kept being drawn back to the newspaper he’d picked up just this morning. A few pages in, there was a lovely picture of Ed, smiling brightly and dressed up as the Fullmetal alchemist. (These days, he had a more varied wardrobe but his look had become very distinctive. Just as he’d intended all those years ago.) It was discussing some new initiative to help alchemists to be viewed as the builders of society rather than human weapons of the military state or something of the sort and Ed’s involvement had been heavily requested.
Just seeing and reading a story about him which Al had no role in was slightly wonderful but also terrible. Was Ed really so comfortable and at ease? Was Al wrong to be feeling so lonely?
The worst part was a second (thankfully smaller) image below the first one which also featured Ed and a girl right beside him, exchanging grins. It meant nothing, Al knew, yet why did he feel so anxious? So what if Ed didn’t get on well with most government workers? It was just a single picture, so what if the article had a single line where it mentioned that his brother was allegedly single?
Next time, he promised himself, he would insist on coming with Ed - risks be damned! He’d take those negatives if only to avoid this anxiety. Ed would argue about the problems but Al would welcome such an argument right about now.
Ed wasn’t usually a heavy drinker. This evening though, he decided he didn’t care.
It was strange to think himself lonely in a room filled with people but just the effort of plastering on a large grin was becoming tiresome. His companion was nice enough, a girl who disbelieved practically every story she’d heard about him and his chaotic life. It had been a good distraction to insist that, yes, they were all real. Yes, the military had given him a massive budget to wander around causing havoc. No they hadn’t supervised him. Yes he’d been twelve years old.
Of course, her coppery coloured hair and eyes reminded him strongly of Alphonse. (She didn't really look much like his brother, he knew, and yet Alphonse was on his mind.) Al would have responded to her questions so dryly, she’d realise he had to be telling the truth, forcing her to concede where Ed was struggling to sound convincing. Alphonse was much better at remembering useful details from some of their more esoteric adventures.
Al deserved to be here far more than he did. Al had done most of the research and planning for his contribution and Ed was just playing the part of the figurehead. Usually that was more than fine, but not when Al was a hundred miles away and left out again. It wasn’t fair.
Next time, he assured himself, (because there would definitely be a next time), he wasn’t going to be too afraid to ask Al to come with him.
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By making the most of Hokkaido’s climate and surroundings, delicious foods are being produced, skills from the pioneer period are being preserved and world-class items are being created. KAI headed out to the regions of Hokkaido to meet the professionals involved, and speak to them about the essence of their work and lives.
Manufacture and Sale of Wheelchairs for Dogs
The key is to envision the pain faced by dogs
Takagi Hiroyuki of ONE OFF PRO. Ltd / Sapporo City
As Japan raises more and more pets, the average pet age continues to rise. Mr. Takagi Hiroyuki manufactures wheelchairs and other equipment to bring joy back to the lives of dogs and cats in need of care or aid.
Words by Yajima Azusa
Photographs by Ida Yukitaka
Translation by Xene Inc.
Learning from a beloved pet
Mr. Takagi started making wheelchairs for dogs twelve years ago, when his pet French bulldog, Ryu, lost movement of his back leg due to a slipped disc. At the time, wheelchairs for dogs were predominantly manufactured overseas, and very costly. For lack of other choice, Mr. Takagi was inspired to build his own. With his experience working at an equipment manufacturing company, he thought that, to some extent, he had the tools and skills for the job.
However, completing the wheelchair took more time and effort than he had expected. With a smile, Mr. Takagi recalls, “Dogs cannot talk. I didn’t understand what needed improvement, much less how to improve my designs. My only reference was a single photograph from an overseas manufacturer’s website. Through extensive trial and error, after 67 modifications, Ryu could at last walk again. After coming to a deadlock midway, I studied books on veterinary medicine, and discovered a vertical movement that could avoid causing stress on the lower back. A wheelchair must do much more than simply move forward. It took me two years to complete.”
A difficult issue is fitting the torso. If the dimensions are even slightly off, the dog will feel discomfort, and in a display of rejection, will refuse to walk. Of course, it is essential to carefully take measurements for each dog, but in order to make the best wheelchair, it is also necessary to thoroughly understand the individual dog’s symptoms, living environment, and habits. Mr. Takagi explains, “If the leg is completely immobile, it’s best to slightly raise the harness which connects the body to the wheelchair, in order to prevent chafing of the leg. If the leg has even a small amount of mobility, it’s best to establish enough contact between the leg and the ground to allow walking for rehabilitation. The wheelchair becomes an essential part of the dog’s life, so must be given serious consideration.”
The first model of dog wheelchair, made for Mr. Takagi’s own pet dog
Each component is made by hand
Mr, Takagi’s workshop
Finding the best solution
Mr. Takagi tells us, “Animals are the same as humans. We feel discomfort if something is attached to our bodies. Before this job is possible, we must first envision the pain and feelings experienced by dogs. I constantly consider what arrangement will best suit the needs of each dog.”
By implementing the double wishbone configuration seen in cars, Mr. Takagi succeeded in developing a wheelchair capable of preventing hernia recurrence. The equipment is finely tuned for not only horizontal movement, but also for vertical movement, stabilizing the lower back and eliminating pressure upon the back leg. Through continued use, some dogs regain the ability to walk with only minimal dependence on the wheelchair.
From 80,000 yen, this high-performance model works for small to large dogs.
This artificial leg for dogs is carefully designed to prevent pain.
A system to support elderly owners
Mr. Takagi explains that, for each wheelchair he creates, “This is an aid device to support rehabilitation. I adjust the wheelchair to fit the dog’s body, but from there, the trusting relationship between owner and dog has a major role.” Regardless of the dog’s personality, it takes about three months of training before the dog begins to use the wheelchair. Of all the wheelchairs he has created, not one dog has failed to use their wheelchair.
While still in the conceptual stage, Mr. Takagi is working on developing an arrangement that will allow the dog to lay down when it becomes tired, while still attached to the wheelchair. He thinks that a combination of AI and miniature monitor technology to observe dogs’ movements may lead to success. Dedication and determination show on Mr. Takagi’s face as he speaks passionately. “There are more and more cases of elderly owners becoming unable to care for their dogs. I hope to also establish a system that will support elderly dog owners and their beloved pets.”
Dedication to his craft
A wheelchair for a Dachshund, whose long torso often results in stress upon the lower back (Courtesy of ONE OFF PRO)
A standing assistance aid for a cat (Courtesy of ONE OFF PRO)
An aid harness can be used for walking rehabilitation (Courtesy of ONE OFF PRO)
A French bulldog running with the assistance of a wheelchair (Courtesy of ONE OFF PRO)
有限会社ONE OFF PRO
Hours: 9:00 to 18:00(Saturday 17:00)
Closed: Sundays and public holidays
2-15 Kita 38-jo Higashi 6-chome Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Tel. and Fax.: 011-752-2635
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◄ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Daughter of Cora Buzzell & Henry Tolman Millay,
Great great-granddaughter of Findley Keller & his 2nd wife Polly (Mary) Boyd
Photo by Carl Van Vechten
Her mother, single and divorced, raised Edna and her sisters. Inheriting a tendency toward poetry and singing from her mother, she gained experience reciting poems on a table top at Kalloch Reunions. Her wonderful poetry is grounded in the Knox Co., Maine landscape and Edna returned often for the summer. In 1923 she became the first woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1981 she was commemorated with a U.S. postage stamp.
About Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Elinor Collemer Johnson, from the 1999 Kalloch Newsletter.
(Photograph by Arnold Genthe)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, June 1914
Savage Beauty
The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, book by Nancy Milford
Click the above picture to visit Amazon.com
for more information about this book.
Edna's obituary, Mother Cora's obit.,
Sister Norma's obit., Sister Kathleen's obit., Husband Eugen's obit.
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Web Links
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Wikipedia article
Edna St. Vincent Millay Society at Steepletop - Edna's home from 1925 to 1950, a 700 acre farm which she named Steepletop, a named drawn from a wild flower which grew all over the property, located in Austerlitz, NY.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Academy of Poets
Biography, examples of her poetry and some links to other sites.
Millay, Edna - Renascence and Other Poems
Bartleby Library has the complete contents of Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1917 collection. Titles include "Blight," "Bluebeard," and "The Dream."
Millay, Edna St. Vincent - AmericanPoems.com, Edna Millay
Read about lyric poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as poems from her 1921 work, "A Few Figs From Thistles." Includes "First Fig," "Thursday," and "The Philosopher."
Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Poems
Offers a full-text archive of Millay's poems, including her unnamed sonnets, I - XII.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Women Who Left Their “Stamps” on History
Biographical information on Millay, as well as information on the Edna St. Vincent Millay stamp issued by the US Postal Service in 1981.
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Deadtown - REVIEW
Behind the arras, Elizabeth Halpin 28 June 2019
https://www.behindthearras.com/Reviewspr/2019/reviewsPRApr-jun/deadtown-BR06-19.html
'The Forman Brothers are a leading company from Czech Republic. In their production of Deadtown,directed by Petr Forman, the company made up of circus performers, dancers and singers bring their talent for circus theatre and magic to the stage.
Its multi-lingual, multi-media production looks upon the silent movie genre to create their story set in the Wild West town. The Forman Brothers’ production shows a story that mixes the arts of circus performance, magic and early twentieth century film in an exhilarating performance.
The production is a celebration of many forms of performance art, and as a result, our senses are constantly at attention. We are greeted first by the circus ring master as the play starts, welcoming us in multiple languages. Within a few sequences, the company of talented circus performers treat us to many entertaining circus acts. The five-piece band constantly provide a musical background to create an impressive sensory backdrop, adding to the talent found in every corner of the production. We also see roller-skating men, beautiful singers and disappearing acts. It is a testament to a creativity that knows no bounds.
One sequence that should receive a special mention alone are the truly mesmerising scenes from the bicycle performers. The audience become more than impressed seeing the performer stand on the handlebars and riding one wheeled around the stage. But let’s not forget, this is a company specialising in magic. The stakes are raised even higher when a trampoline is then bought on stage. We then see the out of this world performer tackling jumps, tricks and cartwheels simultaneously with the bike and trampoline together, making him the acrobatic hero of the evening.
Deadtown draws upon the influences of silent and Western film. The second half of the rich production takes the form of a typical Western film plot. We are greeted again by the ringmaster from the start of the show who in effect tells us that what we just saw was good, but the real magic was about to begin.
Suddenly a gauze flies down from above and reflects images of a magician traveling through the plains of the West. Behind, we see the live action ‘film’ played out by company, as the magician makes his journey through the stormy deserts and arrives to the saloon in the ‘peaceful’ Deadtown. The landlady instantly takes to the magician’s talent and worldly experience, thinking him a perfect match for her daughter. The landlady’s daughter of course, is in love with the local cowboy of no regard or lineage. When the lover enters the saloon at the moment of the forced marriage to the magician, there ensues a Western shootout and dual to the death.
The Forman Brothers capture the essence of the silent Western genres with incredible flair. This is almost a given, being that they are the sons of the Oscar- winning Milos Forman. Each performer from the multi-talented cast of twenty create humorous motives as they take on the roles of chivalrous cowboys, alluding to typical characters from the big screen. Within this live action film, we are also constantly reminded that the brothers specialise in optical illusion, and so there are always surprises to keep our attention and intrigue.
To see the genre of film and theatre merge together is spectacular indeed. The production celebrates the great makers of film from the past, and adds their own unique approach to modern theatre making. The energetic and bold company are a thrill to see. It is a wonderful start to the BE Festival 2019, as this year sees its tenth year of celebrating European theatre and performance.'
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Bikram Yoga: Fit or Fad?
The heated argument over the pros and cons of this form of hot yoga, plus tips on surviving your first class.
Bikram yoga is hot these days, and in more ways than one. While the typical 105-degree Bikram yoga classroom is physically hot, this slightly sadistic form of exercise — founder Bikram Choudhury calls his yoga rooms “torture chambers” — is also picking up steam in pop culture. Beyoncé swears by it, although maybe less now that she’s sporting a baby bump. It makes Lady Gaga go gaga. George Clooney reportedly makes it his go-to when he’s traveling. And Ashton Kutcher told Men’s Health that it’s how he stays fit enough to survive any impending Armageddons. But is Kutcher just being punk’d?
Yes. No. Maybe so. On one hand, you have Dr. Anita Green from Sports Medicine Australia telling media that the Bikram yoga world is “cult-like.” On the other hand, you have Kate Walter. “Bikram yoga is an incredibly effective way to detoxify your body,” says Walter, who holds an E-RYT certification through the Yoga Alliance. “The room is heated and you are constantly moving. Due to the heat, your muscles warm up faster and stay warm longer, allowing people to go deeper into the yoga poses and stretching further than they might be able to achieve in an unheated yoga class.”
This sort of environment may help maximize the results you see from your workout and makes it appropriate for nearly all types of physical training. For example, Runner’s World magazine recently noted that Bikram yoga can make a good substitute for more traditional treadmill runs.
“It is fantastic at building up endurance,” says Ronald Johnson, a yoga instructor in Portland, Oregon. “The length of the class, the temperature in the room and the level of difficulty of the poses make for a very strenuous, demanding and ultimately uplifting workout.”
Ask people who have stuck through the classes and you’ll often hear glowing reviews. “It improves flexibility and stamina, reducing risk for injuries,” says Dr. Mary Clifton, who practices general internal medicine in Traverse City, Michigan. “I have been doing Bikram yoga for five years, twice a week. It’s changed my skeletal system. I’ll never quit.”
But others think that the rave reviews of Bikram yoga aren’t just a lot of empty, hot air, but potentially even dangerous. Health risks include dehydration — some medical experts estimate that the average Bikram practitioner loses approximately one litre of water in a single yoga session — and physical injuries related to the stretching, compression and extension moves incorporated into Bikram’s 26 postures.
Part of the reason for the increased injury risks may be because the room’s heat affects your body differently compared to a traditional pre-exercise warm up. “Muscles and soft tissue will lengthen more readily when warmed, but the risk of overstretching to the point of injury is lessened when the heat is generated internally rather than externally, as in an extra-heated room,” warns Karen Whittier, a yoga teacher who runs a health and wellness company in Sammamish, Washington.
Walter agrees. “I would caution against beginners taking a Bikram yoga class. Because the heat allows your muscles to relax and become warm, many people can overextend and cause injury to themselves,” she says. “If they have never done yoga before and do not know where their workout ‘edge’ is, they can push past this in a Bikram class and hurt themselves.”
The potentially confusing pros and cons have done nothing to diminish this form of yoga’s skyrocketing popularity. Yoga attendance in general has grown by upwards of 20 percent in the last decade, and Bikram yoga ranks as the most popular form of hot yoga. These days, it’s hardly surprising to see young urbanites carrying their yoga mats through the streets of Manhattan and Vancouver. If you wish to join the masses, a few tips can make your first class a little less like hell.
Four tips to surviving your first Bikram class
1. Drink three to four litres of water per day, starting several days before your first class so that your body has time to become fully hydrated. This helps combat dehydration and overheating. “Overheating may lead to fatigue, lightheadedness and fainting,” says Walter. “If a person has consumed less than their required amount of water for the day, I would recommend not taking a Bikram class, as they will be prone to dehydrate.”
2. Stock up on electrolytes. Eat a banana a few hours before class, and consider adding an electrolyte supplement to the water you bring to your class. After class, try some coconut water to rehydrate and replenish your body’s electrolytes.
3. Watch the mirrors, but not too closely. Every Bikram room is lined with mirrors so you can view and improve your form. While helpful, don’t get distracted by watching your classmates. There will always be fitter people around you, and it can be easy to feel intimidated. But yoga is all about you and how well you can complete each form, not how well you can do it compared to others.
4. Get plenty of sleep after your first class. Rest is one of the most important elements of muscle recovery, and sleeping will maximize the results you see from your Bikram workout. Additionally, your body releases the most growth hormones while it’s asleep.
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Patients Parade to Rep Poliquin (CANCELED)
April 1, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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We had a great, first parade on March 18,see https://youtu.be/lNNs7pkNnU4..but lets double the number this week!!! Public very welcoming!
Patients Parade to Rep. Poliquin
When: Saturdays: March 13, 25 and April 1 from noon to 1pm
Where: Oakland-Sidney United Methodist Church, 20 W. School St., Oakland. Gathering, Beginning and Ending at church parking lot
Who: Maine 2nd district patients, caretakers, health care providers and health care consumers.
Why: WE INSIST ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Our 2nd district congressman, Bruce Poliquin calls the Republican proposed health bill “much needed health insurance relief” which, in his words, will replace the “ rapidly failing” ACA . Rep Poliquin is reported to spend weekends in his hometown of Oakland giving the patients, their caretakers and all second district health care consumers the opportunity to sound out:
Rep. Poliquin: PRESERVE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
The House Republican leadership is pushing the House to pass its health care act by April 8 so legislators don’t have to listen to their constituents during the April 10- 28 congressional recess.
The Only Time to speak up and out is during the next 3 weeks:
There will be opportunity to provide personal testimonials, media has been invited.
in the event of inclement weather cancellation of the event will be posted on the Where’s Bruce Poliquin? facebook page no later than 10 am.
Additional Information: Route is no more than 3/4 mile with two stops. Folks are welcome to remain at the Gathering site if they feel unable to walk the route.
Since Rep. Poliquin is reluctant to meet with constituents due to “security’ concerns, there will be an opportunity to have statements videotaped for delivery to his office.
Healthcare, Waterville
bruce poliquin, Healthcare, oakland, Protest, Waterville
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President Zeman says NATO must remain vigilant in fighting international terrorism
President Miloš Zeman has said that the main benefit of NATO membership is the security guarantees it provides.
Speaking in an interview for the CTK news agency on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s entry to NATO, President Zeman said the main threat facing the alliance today is international terrorism.
He said in this connection that he would support a re-enforcement of NATO’s mission in Afghanistan.
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An agreement with the Taliban would mean that it would once again make Afghanistan a base for international terrorism, Zeman warned.
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Amidst growing tension over the latest developments in the Middle East, following the killing of Iran’s military leader Qassem Soleimani…
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Джон Клиз
Raymond Luxury-yacht
Грэхэм Чепмен
Голос за кадром
The cast:
(Cut to profile of Raymond Luxury Yacht from next sketch who has an enormous false polystyrene nose. Superimposed arrow pointing at nose.)
Voice Over: Number nineteen. The nose.
(A man sitting behind a desk in a Harley Street consulting room. Close-up of the name plate on desk in front of him. Although the camera does not reveal this for a moment, this name plate, about two inches high, continues all along the desk, off the side of it at the same height and halfway round the room. We start to track along this name plate on which is written: 'Professor Sir Adrian Furrows F.R.S. F.R.C.S. F.R.C.P. M.D.M.S. (Oxon), Mall Ph.D., M. Se. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Syd), ER.G.S., F.R.C.O.G., F. FM.R.C.S., M.S. (Birm), M.S. (Liv), M.S. (Guadalahara), M.S. (Karach), M.S. (Edin), B.A. (Chic), B. Litt. (Phil), D. Litt (Phil), D. Litt (Arthur and Lucy), D. Litt (Ottawa), D. Litt (All other places in Canada except Medicine Hat, B. Sc. 9 Brussels, Liege, Antwerp, Asse, (and Grower) '. There is a knock on the door.)
Specialist: Come in.
(The door opens and Raymond Luxury Yacht enters. He cannot walk straight to the desk as his passage is barred by the strip of wood carrying the degrees, but he discovers the special hinged part of it that opens like a door. Mr Luxury Yacht has his enormous polystyrene nose. It is a foot long.)
Specialist: Ah! Mr Luxury Yacht. Do sit down, please.
Mr Luxury Yacht: Ah, no, no. My name is spelt 'Luxury Yacht' but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.
Specialist: Well, do sit down then Mr Throatwobbler Mangrove.
Mr Luxury Yacht: Thank you.
Specialist: Now, what seems to be the trouble?
Mr Luxury Yacht: Um, I'd like you to perform some plastic surgery on me.
Specialist: I see. And which particular feature of your anatomy is causing you distress?
Mr Luxury Yacht: Well, well for a long time now, in fact, even when I was a child … I … you know, whenever I left home to … catch a bus, or… to catch a train… and even my tennis has suffered actually…
Specialist: Yes. To be absolutely blunt you're worried about your enormous hooter.
Mr Luxury Yacht: No!
Specialist: No?
Mr Luxury Yacht: Yes.
Specialist: Yes, and you want me to hack a bit off.
Mr Luxury Yacht: Please.
Specialist: Fine. It is a startler, isn't it. Er, do you mind if I… er.
Mr Luxury Yacht: What?
Specialist: Oh, no nothing, then, well, I'll just examine your nose. (he does so; as he examines it the nose comes off in his hand) Mr Luxury Yacht, this nose of yours is false. It's made of polystyrene and your own hooter's a beaut. No pruning necessary.
Mr Luxury Yacht: I'd still like the operation.
Specialist: Well, you've had the operation, you strange person.
Mr Luxury Yacht: Please do an operation.
Specialist: Well, all right, all right, but only … if you come on a camping holiday with me.
Mr Luxury Yacht: He asked me! He asked me!
(Cut to lyrical film of Luxury Yacht and specialist, frolicking in countryside in slow motion.)
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Rediscovered Aphrodite in Italy’s National Archeology Museum restored thanks to Friends of Florence
Editor . September 20, 2018
Florence, Italy – The recently restored statue of Aphrodite housed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archeological Museum/the Museum) in Florence, Italy, was unveiled in a public celebration on September 11, 2018. Funded by Friends of Florence with a donation by Michael and Sandy Collins, the cleaning and restoration process revealed a surprising development. Long thought to be a representation of the Spartan queen Leda that had been marred with dirt and grime over centuries, it was discovered to be the Greek goddess Aphrodite sculpted in now immaculately white marble.
“It is a great pleasure to present this ‘Rediscovered Aphrodite’,” said Simonetta Brandolini d’Adda, President of Friends of Florence. “In addition to the restoration, the project—originally a candidate in the first edition of the Friends of Florence Award Grant at the Florence Art and Restoration Fair in 2012—provided the unique opportunity to study the work in depth. The process was designed to allow the public to observe the restoration in an ‘open work site’ thanks to the kind cooperation of Mario Iozzo, director of the Museum, his staff, and restorer Daniela Manna who previously has worked on other important Friends of Florence projects. The open work site allowed us to help visitors understand what it means to restore a work of art, how delicate and precise the entire process is, and how important it is to conserve our artistic-cultural heritage. We thank all those who made this project possible, starting with our donors Michael and Sandy Collins, whose generosity enabled us to replace another tile in the great mosaic of Western art history and civilization.”
New source research during the restoration led to the identification of the statue as the one purchased in 1882 by Luigi Adriano Milani, then director of the Museum. It came from Palazzo Da Cepparello, in Florence. The building originally belonged to the Portinari family (Dante’s great love, Beatrice, was a Portinari). Subsequent owners include the Salviati family (a daughter Maria married Cosimo I de’ Medici). From its origins as a stately home, it later became a bank and is now being redesigned as apartments.
The statue has been identified as a good, first century A.D. Roman copy of a Hellenistic original dating from around 300 B.C. Restorers discovered that the marble (from the island of Paros) used for the body is different from the material of the head, which they revealed is antique but not original. The arms were sculpted and added in the eighteenth century when it was customary to repair broken statues by adding ancient or specially-made parts to make them whole and “beautiful,” in keeping with the times.
Before starting the restoration, which was conducted by Daniela Manna and assistants, the statue was photographed and subjected to a series of diagnostic studies aimed at identifying any original polychrome, traces of which were indeed found on the drapery and hair (red ochre and gilding). After having analyzed the conservation condition and identified alterations and deterioration, the restoration team selected the most appropriate methods and tools for cleaning, partially removing previous restorations and repairing lacunae. The cleaning was done with a laser device that gradually removed the black incrustations. The final phases involved re-gluing an original fragment using the same types of materials as in antiquity—materials which are still valid and appropriate for a statue displayed inside a museum.
Provenance research unearthed a catalogue entry and photography from the late 1800s of the statue in the Museum’s garden loggias which corroborated the figure’s identity. The “rediscovered” Aphrodite, on her beautifully carved, early nineteenth-century wooden base, will remain where she was studied and restored, on the ground floor and visible to all who enter the Museum.
The restoration was conducted with a grant from the Friends of Florence, through a gift from Michael and Sandy Collins.
Restorer: Daniela Manna
Assistants and photographic campaign: Simona Rindi, Serena Tizzanini, Carmine Santillo
Petrographic analyses: Emma Cantisani, Silvia Vettori (Istituto per la Conservazione e la Valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali – National Research Council, Florence)
Diagnostics: Andrea Rossi, Shao-Chun Huang (Diagnostica per i Beni Culturali)
Handling: Apice SCRL Florence
About Friends of Florence
Friends of Florence is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., supported by individuals from around the world who are dedicated to preserving and enhancing the cultural and historical integrity of the arts in the city and surrounding area of Florence, Italy. To date, the organization has raised and donated $10 million for conservation projects in the region, including the substantial upgrading and retrofitting of the Botticelli Room at the Uffizi Gallery and conservation of 48 drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo from the Horne Museum in Florence.
Friends of Florence provides financial support directly to the city’s restoration laboratories to restore, safeguard, and make available to the public a broad range of art from paintings and sculptures, to architectural elements and collections of smaller objects.
Through educational programs and events and by working closely with local and national partners—including the City of Florence, Italian Ministry of Art, and numerous international committees and organizations—Friends of Florence strives to increase public understanding and appreciation of Florence and Tuscany’s abundant art treasures. www.friendsofflorence.org
Aphrodite, (first century A.D.). White marble. Before (left) and after (right) restoration. Photo courtesy of Friends of Florence.
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Neal Barrett, Jr.
Author of Novels, Short Stories, and Comics
Out on the Curb
Interviews, Reviews, Appreciations
In January 2013, Internet radio host The Funky Werepig interviewed Neal Barrett Jr. You may download or stream the interview in MP3 format from this link. (Or search for 'Funky Werepig' podcasts on iTunes.)
An appreciation of Barrett by Sheila Williams in Asimov's
In February 2012, author and blogger Jay Ridler posted this memory of when Neal Barrett was a help to him as an author
In May 2011, Blogger Mr. Philoctetes Digressius wrote a very nice appreciation of Neal Barrett Jr., "Bugability: Neal Barrett, Jr. Bugs Me Out, Or How Writers Are Holy And Why That Matters", and also this review of the short story "Perpetuity Blues"
Made in S.A.: Neal Barrett Jr.Made in S.A.: Neal Barrett Jr., in the online publication Missions Unknown: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror in San Antonio (don't miss this one!)
Infintity Plus interview by Nick Gevers
A Double Shot of Wry: Author Neal Barrett, Jr., a lengthy and considered profile/interview article, by Mike Shea, from 1997 in the Austin Chronicle
Homegrown Don Quixotes: Neal Barrett Jr.'s Interstate Dreams, a review by Mike Shea, from 2000, in the Austin Chronicle
Inifinity Plus review of The Hereafter Gang Mojo Press reprint. "The Hereafter Gang is its author's undoubted masterpiece, the climax of the Barrett oeuvre. As one of the great eschatological fictions, it demands to be read; and once that compulsive reading begins, it will not stop, even at the boundary between Life and Death."
Infinity Plus review of Perpetuity Blues
Neal Barrett, Jr. Interview at Crescent Blues
Review of Stress Pattern by blogger Robert Bee
2010 Review of Stress Pattern (1974), by Scott A. Cupp, in Missions Unknown
Review of Prince of Christler-Coke by Rich Horton, on SF Site
Another review of Prince of Christler-Coke on SF Site, this one by Matthew Cheney
Review by blogger 'tarbandu' of Through Darkest America
2008 Review by blogger Bill Crider of The Hereafter Gang, with some added recommendations for other Barrett books
Review of The Prophesy Machine, by Rich Horton
An appreciation of Neal Barrett, Jr. from the 1997 Worldcon in San Antonio, Texas
A podcast 2008 interview (MP3) with Neal Barrett, Jr.
1997 feature story about Neal Barrett Jr. in The Austin Chronicle, by Mike Shea
A 1996 Austin Chronicle review of Skinny Annie Blues by Jesse Sublett.
The list below identifies some fellow authors who have some connection to Neal Barrett Jr. or is work. Many of these names are on the list because of the Texas connection, as laid out pretty well in the 2010 article Keeping Lone Star literature weird, in the Statesman of Austin, TX.
Andew Vachss
Scott A. Cupp
Rick Klaw
William Browning Spencer
Bradley Denton
Don Webb
Favorites and Influences
In an interview for Crescent Blues, Barrett said the following about his influences and favorites when it comes to other writers:
Sometimes people ask me what kinds of book or stories I read growing up. The answer -- and for most writers, I think -- is damn near everything. I read the magazines my folks bought -- marvelous primeval magazines that vanished some time ago: Bluebook (the best), Liberty, Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post. All the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, everything imaginable, everything I could find. I read A. Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, [A.E.] Van Vogt, [Ernest] Hemmingway, [John] Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe. All the good stuff, and the bad stuff as well. I still do. Today I read Charles Willeford, Lawrence Block, Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell, Stephen Hunter, Michael Connelly, and the historical series by Sharon Key Penman. On and on. Who do I respect? A few, including Cordwainer Smith. (No one has ever been like him, and no one ever will be.) Terry Bisson. William Browning Spencer. Joe Lansdale. Lots of others. John le Carre.
In the same interview for Crescent Blues, Barrett mentions few specifics:
Several highlights of discovery come to mind: one, a hardback of Best Supernatural Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1946) and the February 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Prior to all this, was the 1943 publication of The Pocket Book of Science Fiction (25 cents). I was totally hooked.
In another interview, with Nick Gevers in Infinity Plus, Barrett sings the praises of Cordwainer Smith, and also Moebius:
It's difficult for a writer who has been writing a long time to say who influenced his work, because there are so many, many who did, writers you can't even recall. I had my own Golden Age, as everyone does, and especially in the SF field. No way I can name the greats of the 40s and 50s. But who is my all-time hero from back then? Cordwainer Smith. Without a doubt, in my mind, the very greatest, the most awesome, the most creative, and, certainly, the writer most ahead of his time. Everyone has their own nomination. This guy is mine. And who else today just knocks me off my feet as one of the great fantasy minds of all time? Moebius. I absolutely adore this guy. His art and Cordwainer Smith's writing go places I want to be.
This interesting item appears in a description of Mr. Barrett's papers in the Wittliff Collection at Texas State University:
Box 1070 folder 21 - "Dwight Swain" � described as �friend and teacher� of Barrett, includes program from memorial service, newspaper clipping on Swain and Barrett�s tribute
This interesting passage from a great interview with Mr. Barrett, one that included Joe Lansdale and Scott Cupp interviewing Barrett, also mentions Swain, and also Walter Campbell:
Joe: From there you went back to back to Oklahoma, ended up in school. You had a writing instructor whom I understand was pretty influential.
Neal: There several writing people there. One of them was Walter Campbell, who wrote under the name of Stanley Vestal, about rivers and things. He was a godson of Sitting Bull. He�d tell us stories about the other side of some of these historical things. Sitting Bull would tell him, �We couldn�t figure out what Custer and those idiots were doing. We just had no clue what they had in mind.�
Joe: Who was your other writing instructor there? I was trying to remember.
Neal: Dwight Swain. Dwight Swain and Foster Harris. Foster Harris wrote for the Saturday Evening Post. Now, I�ve got to tell you, I love Oklahoma, but I tried several years to get in touch with those people up there. I worked for the Oklahoma Publishing Co., owned by the Gaylord family, when I got out of college. Ed Gaylord was just a kid my age back then, and we�d have coffee together. Now, they�ve got the Ed Gaylord Journalism school up there. It�s a pretty big deal. So, I tried to get in touch with (the school) and give them my archives, and they said, �Well, we�ll get in touch with you.� Now, Texas State, they were happy to have my archives. I don�t mind telling that out loud because �
Joe: Because you got dissed by Oklahoma.
Neal: I�ve not no great feelings about that because I was close to all those people at the school. I majored in professional writing. At that time, when you took that major, you took the short story one semester and you wrote a short story. The next, you took the novel and you wrote a novel. You didn�t screw around with those creative writing exercises.
Joe: That�s the way I teach. You make �em write.
Neal: Well, you can�t get a job now as a writing teacher unless you have your master�s. I tried to do that several times, tried to get a teaching job. I�d say, �Well, I�ve written 50 books.� �You don�t have a master�s now do you? Need to get that degree.�
See also Out on the Curb, an essay by Mr. Barrett about his influences.
Ask Dr. Sciense
From 1998-2000 Neal Barrett, Jr. wrote a column for Amazing Stories magazine (now-defunct) called Ask Dr. Sciense. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry for Mr. Barrett (see "Essays" section near the end) lists nine installments of the column having run.
A collection of Mr. Barrett's papers resides in the Southwestern Writers Collection (Special Collections) at the Alkek Library at Texas State University-San Marcos, as described in A Guide to the Neal Barrett, Jr., Papers. The collection, donated by Mr. Barrett in 1992, is also documented on this page at The Whitcliff Collections web site, including an additional donation of papers and books by Barrett in 2008. A detailed inventory of each box of materials is included.
The Neal Barrett, Jr. Wikipedia article is a little sparse at the time of this writing, but is is still worth checking out.
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The Neal Barrett, Jr. Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry is a good bibliographic resource. The book list is near complete, but is missing some of the more obscure items that Neal Barrett fans might like to track down, like a Daniel Boone novel that is actually a great read.
Subterranean Press has been one of the most important supporters of Neal Barrett Jr. in recent years, publishing some very fine editions and bringing his work to the attention of more readers through pieces published in the Subterranean and Subterranean Online magazine (see links below).
Most recently, at the time of this writing Subterranean is taking pre-orders for Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr., a new retrospective collection to be released as a limited edition of 750. Other titles include the short novel Piggs (click here for a chapter excerpt (PDF)), a collection of early short stories called A Different Vintage, and the chapbook The Day the Decorators Came.
Golden Gryphon Press
Golden Gryphon Press published the 2000 short story collection Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories and the 2004 novel Prince of Christler-Coke.
Mojo Press
The unfortunately short-lived Mojo Press, based in Austin, TX, published an important reprint of The Hereafter Gang, which was at the time out of print from its original publication by the Mark V. Ziesing publishing company. Barrett's comic script "Heilage Nacht" was produced in Weird Business, a 1995 black-and-white comics anthology from Mojo Press. In 1999, Mojo published a new Barrett novel, Interstate Dreams (see links to reviews and related interviews below).
Overlook Connection Books
The Overlook Connection has long maintained a good stock of collectible and out of print Neal Barrett, Jr. items. Dave's inventory of collectible books covers a diverse array of authors, but he's been one of the few to specialize in the cluster of authors related to Barrett, Lansdale, and Vachss, among others. One of the prize items in my collection is a signed set of the orginal four Aldair paperbacks, purchased from Dave at Overlook Connection, who went to the trouble to collect a set of fine copies of these books in the first place, and then to visit Mr. Barrett's home in order to have them signed. Thank you, Dave, for making Neal Barrett, Jr. one of your specialties.
In-Print Books and E-Books
Interstate Dreams
Crossroad Press e-book edition.
PIGGS
Crossroad Press ebook edition.
The Hereafter Gang
More Neal Barrett Jr. e-books
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The Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering's comprehensive programs are future-focused and founded on UA's long tradition of excellence. Civil engineering is one of UA's oldest programs, offering many specialties. Students work with the latest materials and technologies to design buildings, develop transportation networks, and enhance environmental systems for a sustainable world.
CCEE Department Honors Back as Professor of the Year
April 11, 2014 - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Tuscaloosa, Ala. – The University of Alabama Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering recently honored the department’s professor of the year award at a banquet held at the Bryant Conference Center. Dr. Edward Back was awarded the Donald H. McLean Civil Engineering Professor of the Year Award. Back, professor… Read more
Posted in Awards and Honors, Faculty and Staff - Features Dr. William Edward Back
In The News: DHS grad earns engineering awards
April 9, 2014 - The Demopolis Times - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Demopolis High School graduate Logan Culpepper Holley earned two awards from a recent engineering banquet at the University of Alabama. Holley was awarded the George J. Davis Award for Outstanding Civil Engineering Sophomore as well as the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for having a 4.0 grade point average. He was… Read more
Sources: The Demopolis Times
‘Vision is Reality’: With the opening of the final building, UA ready for a new era of engineering and science
April 8, 2014 - By Adam Jones - Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Just 15 years ago, the area between the engineering buildings on The University of Alabama campus and the Bryce Hospital land used to be the back edge of campus — driven through and walked across, but nothing else. So, when an artist’s rendering of the four-building engineering and science complex… Read more
Engineering Professors Chosen as 2014 Teaching Fellow
April 8, 2014 - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Tuscaloosa, Ala. – Dr. Wei Song and Dr. Stephanie Vereen, both assistant professors in the UA department of civil, construction and environmental engineering, were selected to participate in the American Society of Civil Engineering Excellence in Civil Engineering Education Teaching Workshop to be held during June in Fort Myers, Fla. Song, who came… Read more
‘UA Chose Me’: City engineer from Jackson, Miss., finds home at UA for doctorate degree
April 8, 2014 - By Judah Martin - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Charles Williams was certain he was done with school when he earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Mississippi almost 20 years ago. Over the years, Williams would find that, despite his success, he still hadn’t quite found that one niche he was most passionate about.… Read more
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The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama Foundation said Friday that Bidsters of Tuscaloosa was among the five startup teams that received a share of $135,000 in funding during the Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Competition Finale. Read more
Sources: The Tuscaloosa News, EDPA
Posted in Outreach, Students
In The News: Tuscaloosa’s Bidsters, Child Safety Pass join five other companies in the Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Competition Finale
March 20, 2014 - The Tuscaloosa News - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science
Two startup companies from Tuscaloosa will join five other young companies from Birmingham and Madison in vying for a share of more than $100,000 in prize money Friday in the Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Competition Finale. Read more
Sources: The Tuscaloosa News
Posted in Outreach, Research
In The News: UA Concrete Canoe Team Returning to Regional Competition
March 20, 2014 - WVUA-TV - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
A team from the UA School fo Engineering will return to a regional concrete canoe competition next week. A team of 18 civil engineering students have been constructing a concrete canoe since the beginning of the school year. The American Soceity of Civil Engineers Southeast Conference Concrete Canoe Competition will… Read more
Sources: WVUA-TV
Civil Engineering Grad Student A Winner for Research Presentation
March 20, 2014 - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Engineering Doctoral Candidate Will Guin recently won the “People’s Choice” award at the 2014 Council of Southern Graduate Schools Three Minute (3MT) competition. He was also the winner at UA’s 2013 3MT competition. Will’s presentation featured “pop-tubes,” which use microwaves to create a more effective airframe skin for Boeing 787 aircraft.… Read more
In The News: Alex Hainen receives Purdue CoE Research Award
March 20, 2014 - Purdue University News - Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Congratulations to Alex Hainen, recipient of the 2014 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. Alex Hainen is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University and future faculty at the University of Alabama in civil engineering focusing on transportation engineering. Read more
Sources: Purdue University News
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Roma a Not-Quite Masterpiece
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Netflix, 135 minutes, R (absurd rating for full frontal male nudity)
In Spanish, Mixtec, English with subtitles
I know several friends who grew up with household servants. They insist that they considered those individuals to be “members of the family.” It’s a nice sentiment and they no doubt mean it, but it’s also the ultimate bourgeois conceit. The “help” almost always have families of their own, plus they cannot be family members for the same reason that a president cannot really have “consensual” sex with an aide; the power differential creates a gulf between superior and subordinate.
Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón’s new film is what reviewer Owen Gleiberman sagely calls a “meditation” on his boyhood. The title refers to the middle-class section of Mexico City where Cuarón lived as a child, though you could be forgiven if your immediate thought was of Fellini. Roma is gloriously filmed in black and white and its episodic structure is evocative of earlier auteurs such as Fellini or Bergman.
Roma centers on an haute bourgeois family in the early 1970s. This was a chaotic moment in Mexican history in which a series of American-backed authoritarian presidents were in power that didn't hesitate to unleash the Mexican army to put down student protests. If you recall or have read about Kent and Jackson State, you know how the combined six deaths threw American society into paroxysms of anger and remorse. That was peanuts compared to Mexico, where the army killed hundreds in 1968, and another 120 during the Corpus Christi demonstration of 1971. The latter is touched upon in Roma and “touched upon” is the right description. We see it from the POV of our middle-class family as they watch from the window of a furniture store to which they’ve thoughtlessly traveled because their pregnant maid needed a crib.
The latter act is one of the ways in which those with money spin the “member of the family” tale. Roma focuses closely on Cleodegaria Gutierrez (Yalitza Aparicio), one of two live-in maids caring for a middle-class family with four minor children. “Cleo” (named for an Agnes Varda film!) is from an impoverished Mesoamerican Indian family. She and coworker Adela dearly love the children, hence materfamilias Sofia (Marina de Tavira) doles out small kindnesses and considers herself their benefactor. That is, until she barks orders at them to clean up the shit in the narrow patio/garage where they keep their dog penned all day, or when she nudges them to drop everything and run an errand. Much of Cuarón’s film is silent; he needs no words to convey how hard Cleo and Adela work while Sofia and the children obliviously move through their routines as if it’s the most natural thing in the world to have others pick up after them or indulge their spontaneous whims.
The class dynamic is all the more absurd given that this bourgeois family is dysfunctional to the point of impending dissolution. The father is an egotistical doctor who is as tyrannical as the country’s leaders. Although the kids initially think he’s on his way to a conference in Quebec, he’s actually leaving them for his mistress. To add to the already lopsided gender dynamics of the 1970s, it was very hard to force men to support the children they abandoned–a dynamic that plays out several ways in the film. Sofia seeks to maintain a veneer of materialism and stability, but we suspect the handwriting is in the wall.
Roma is also a film about race. If anything, Mexican society is more racially stratified than that of the United States. Some have called it a caste society, as Mexico parses race in more than the black/white paradigm that prevails in the United States. There is, however, no doubt that Spanish-speakers of Iberian origin view themselves as superior to indigenous peoples such as Cleo and Adela. The scene of Cleo visiting her village displays poverty and deprivation that evoke South African townships under apartheid.
Class, gender, and race…. These certainly give Roma contemporary relevance, even if the setting is in the 1970s. There are other reasons to watch this film. First among them is the astounding cinematography. From the opening shots of water rushing across tiles and swirling into a drain onward, Cuarón’s assemblages of images gives credence to my long-held assertion that black and white is frequently a more creative medium than color. If you're skeptical of that remark, watch carefully the wordless sequence of five people in a car returning from a beach holiday and get back to me. Cuarón uses light and contrast in ways that rival the impact of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show.
Several critics have hailed Roma as the best film of 2018, and it has already won several awards. I understand the hoopla, but I must stop short of declaring it a masterpiece. The film’s problems occur when Cuarón has to do more than just point the camera. His is not really a conventional narrative but still, there are so many telegraphed scenes in this film as to suggest Chekov’s gun was loaded with a full clip. At every juncture the story could have veered, Cuarón aimed straight toward where you would anticipate. Why such a conservative script for such innovative filmmaking? This is a semi-autobiographical film and Cuarón is still in touch with the woman upon whom Cleo is based. One wonders if there is also a way in which Cuarón still doesn’t quite get the racial dynamics of his own film. By this I mean there is a way in which this film could easily be read as a depiction of the Noble Savage, an inference that seems especially palpable in the film’s closing sequence.
Cuarón is the director who also gave us Gravity, Y Tu Mama Tambien, one of the Harry Potter films, and Children of Men. The last of these remains his masterpiece, though Roma is a superior work of craft. It is an almost-masterpiece, but Cuarón didn’t get enough distance from his past to see the full extent of his childhood false assumptions. Rob Weir
No Man's Land at Smith: Reasons to Remember WWI
No Man’s Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI
Through February 17, 2019
By the time you read this, a lot of hoopla about the end of World War I will be over. That’s because we love anniversaries that end in a five or a zero, but we don’t get overly excited by, say, the 101st year since a historical event occurred. World War I famously ended on “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918. .
2019 will bring its own anniversaries to the fore, but we should not forget World War I. More than any other event, it shaped the subsequent structure of the 20th century, which–all things considered–was not one of humanity’s finest historical periods. There were many problems before World War I guns began firing, but consider how different the world was before and after. Old aristocracies were swept away, but many of the new civil governments were corrupt, weak, bankrupt, or all three; perfect conditions for the rise of fascism. The Russian czar gave way to a Bolshevik Revolution that ultimately devolved into a Stalinist nightmare and led to a Cold War long before anyone thought of using that term. The WW I armistice wasn’t even signed before a flu pandemic broke out that killed more than the war. A global economic depression loomed on the horizon, as did another world war, a declared Cold War, an arms race, weapons of mass annihilation, and untold numbers of small conflicts that threatened to bring on World War III.
William Strang "The Convalescent"
Conservatives are fond of using World War II as an example of why pacifism doesn’t work. They ought to pay more attention to the lesson of World War I: that wars generally don’t resolve much and quite often leave behind worse problems than those addressed by conflict. Gaze upon the prints, postcards, scrapbooks, photos, and paraphernalia displayed at the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), and you’ll get a glimpse of war’s ugliness, futility, and horror. No Man’s Land will never show up in military recruiting ads. There was very little logic to World War I and there surely wasn’t much glory either.
Artists whose names you probably don’t know died in the war. You don’t know of Franz Marc, for instance, because his bud was plucked before it could flower. Those who survived were deeply impacted by what they saw. It is no accident that cubism reached its highest expression after the war. If the work of someone such as Georges Braque confuses you, ask why you would expect those who witnessed the Great War to see the world in anything other than abstract and fragmented forms.
Kerr Eby
There aren’t many American artists represented in the SCMA exhibit and that is as it should be. Kerr Eby is a noted exception. It was, after all, Europe that bore the brunt of trench warfare, gas attacks, and senseless charges across barbed wire terrain on their way to senseless death. When Otto Dix sketched the conflict, he didn’t see grand military pageantry, he saw grotesque waste such as he conveyed in “Wounded Soldier, Autumn 1916.” In fact, whenever on-the-scene artists presented soldiers marching or riding off to war, it was more akin to shades entering a void. Much was viewed as humanity’s undoing. Consider, for instance, that a grand Gothic cathedral such as that in Rheims, France, took centuries to complete. Then look at Raoul Varin’s depiction of how all was undone in 1917.
Varin, "Rheims"
McBey, "The Torpedoed Essex"
Quite a few images come from Scottish artists, especially James McBey, David Muirhead Bone, and William Strang. If these names aren’t familiar to you, it’s because their work discomforts and depresses. That might have something to do with the fact that English commanders often deployed Scots, Australians, Canadians, and New Zealanders for suicidal forays. How to display the nightmare? Boston Globe critic Mark Feeney observed that new styles such as cubism and futurism were trotted out but, “Most of all, it was an Expressionist war.” For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s something of Impressionism’s opposite. Impressionists sought to convey new ways of showing what they saw; expressionists showed us how art could convey feelings and emotions. Max Beckmann is perhaps the most famous of the artists on the wall, but his "The Large Operation" isn't an impression; it's a lamentation.
Beckmann, "The Large Operation"
Grosz, "The Hero"
There are military medals on view at the SCMA, but they feel both inappropriate and ironic. This is a powerful exhibit and you should take time to linger over what might first seem rough sketches or quick sketches. You won’t find much that bespeaks military heroism. World War I was a lethal freak show. We should ponder that and look away from modern military recruiting ads with their emphasis on testosterone-fueled images of manhood and faux promises of glory. Above all, we should rage against the lie of antiseptic warfare. When the guns fire, people die. As the George Grosz sketch "The Hero" reminds us, war isn’t pretty.
2018 Best and Worst in the Arts
2018 Best and Worst of the Arts
Time for the end of the year reckoning of things I loved and didn't. I admit that lists of this sort are often subjective, but here goes. A reminder: I'm not impressed by things that were first released only in New York and/or LA, so a few of these books, films, and recordings, are technically 2017 releases. We should honor things in the calendar year in which most Americans have access to them.
Anything underlined links to longer reviews. The lists below are in preferential order.
The Best:
1. Michael Ondaatje, Warlight: Wars don't end when the fighting stops.
2. Richard Powers, The Overstory: Yes, it's about trees and you should care.
3. Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: You'll laugh; you'll cringe.
4. Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone: Alaska. Mother Nature doesn't care.
5. Walter Mosley, John Woman: Reinvention, of a sort.
6. Stephen Markley, Ohio: Blue-collar grit, hopes, and despair in the Heartlands.
7. Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing: Memory, history, and slavery's legacy.
8. Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach: Girl power, redemption, and danger.
9. George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: Spoon River and its ghosts updated.
10. Tim DeRoche, The Ballad of Huck and Miguel: Huck Finn in the 21st century.
Books that Wasted Trees:
1. Billy Coffey, Steal Away Home: Preaching posing as a baseball novel.
2. Lauren Groff, Florida: Snakes, gators, losers, and who cares?
3. Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side: Well-written book but unworthy characters.
Best on Screen:
1. Leave No Trace: Debra Granik scores again with her tale of damaged people who just want to be left alone.
2. BlacKkKlansman: Spike Lee's improbable but true tale of a black KKK member.
3. A Fantastic Woman: My vote for the best film about a transgendered person.
4. The Insult: Palestinians and Christians failing to exorcise the past.
5. On Chesil Beach: Overlooked gem of young love derailed.
6. Love, Gilda: Documentary that does justice to Radner's genius.
7. RBG: Call this documentary the making of a Supreme Court justice.
8. Roma: Beautifully filmed, though flawed remembrance of a family maid. Best cinematography of the year.
9. Eighth Grade: So well done you'll relive the pain!
10. Won't You Be My Neighbor? Great year for documentaries. Good time to remember Mr. Rogers.
Please Turn on the Lights!
1. Three Identical Strangers: If a scandal isn't a scandal, why film it?
2. Victoria and Abdul: Enough with the warm fuzzy Queen Victoria genre already.
3. I Tonya: Billed as a comedy about Tonya Harding. I didn't laugh.
4. Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman: Does it take talent to make a boring film about fascinating subjects? Not really.
5. Planetarium: What I just said above, with séances.
6. The Circle: This Google-not-Google movie is an episodic mess.
7. The Death of Stalin: Comedy as broad as Siberia left me chilled and surly.
8. From the Land of the Moon: Marion Cotillard imagines things, such as that there might be a point to this movie.
9. Nuts: What I said in 4 and 5 above, but with goat glands.
This is always the hardest category for me to judge. So much good music. So many talented folks–young and old.
1. Moira Smiley, Unzip the Horizon: Innovative, inventive, bold & miles from her Solas days.
2. Thea Gilmore, Run: A veteran British chanteuse with a powerful voice.
3. Eleanor Dubinsky, Soft Spot of My Heart: Multilingual cross-genre music that's just flat-out gorgeous.
4. Kittel and Company, Whorls; Jeremy Kittel takes bluegrass fiddle deep into jazz terrain and paints contemplative moods.
5. Gretchen Peters, Sad Songs Make Me Happy: Hear the woman whose pen launched dozens of country hits.
6. Eliza Gilkyson, Secularia: Can an anti-religion album be spiritual? Yep.
7. Vivian Leva, Time is Everything: Spare and pure mountain music vocals.
8. Mink's Miracle Medicine, House of Candles: The miracle is Melissa Wright! Country and folk without gimmicks.
9. Greg Hawks, i think it's time: Time for country-influenced artists to address issues from the left side of the political spectrum.
10. Too many good people to leave off the list, so a collective shout out to Anita Aysola, Big Little Lion, Don Gallardo, Guy Menilow Ensemble, John Gorka, Newpoli, and Graham Stone.
Change the Earbuds:
1. Catherine Bent, Ideal: Not! Cello meandering to nowhere.
2. Elena Andukar, Flamenco in Time: Maybe hip flamenco isn't really a thing.
3. UNIFONY, Unifony: Three Euro jazz giants make a dull record.
4. Katie Herzig, Moment of Bliss: Pop grooves that failed to induce bliss.
Best Live Shows of 2018:
1. Richard Shindell: He was 100% on at the Parlor Room with new and old material and an alphabetical set list!
2. Cowboy Junkies: After 6 weeks on my back, the Junkies at the Academy of Music helped me heal.
3. James Keelaghan: James never gives a bad concert and pulled out the stops all weekend at the New Bedford Folk Festival.
4. Musique à Boucher: The surprise hit at New Bedford. A Capella mouth music of the most spirited kind. Surprising as their CDs are restrained.
5. Eliza Gilkyson: An intimate evening at the Parlor Room with a Texas treasure.
6. Jim Henry: Our own Western Mass hero. His Parlor room show was a love fest.
7. Richard Thompson: His electric show at the Academy needed a better mix, but he rocked the joint.
8. Rory Block and Cindy Cashdollar: The warm-up act trumped the headliners.
9. The Weepies: Amazing harmonies and a refreshing December show with no holiday music!
10. The Kittel Trio: Not your mother's bluegrass at the West Whatley Chapel.
Not Feeling It:
St Paul and the Broken Bones opened well at the Academy of Music, but then everything sounded exactly the same. Better shtick than repertoire.
I simply don't get the hype surrounding Lake Street Dive. I love vocalist Rachel Price, when she sings in a register quieter than Celine Dion at an airport. Lots of glitz and light show bling that makes them more of an experience than a musical act. Boring. I wish Rory Block and Cindy Cashdollar had headlined.
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WNBA Players Will Receive Salary Bump & Paid Maternity Leave In Historic CBA Deal
Source: G Fiume / Getty
The WNBA and their respective players’ union have come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement which will increase their annual base salaries to over six figures, marking a raise of 53 percent from current numbers. The league’s top players will also be able to earn cash compensation and earlier access to free agency.
“We believe it’s a groundbreaking and historic deal,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement obtained by ESPN. “I’m proud of the players; they bargained hard, they unified, they brought attention to so many important topics.”
While it is still well below the margins of their male counterparts in the NBA, it marks a significant moment fueled by league members who have collectively and separately spoken out about the need for improvement regarding incentives and pay.
The new agreement will also include new incentives based in healthcare, travel and career advancement.
Players who become pregnant in the league will receive their full salary while on maternity leave and those who are mothers will receive an annual child care stipend of $5,000 along with a two-bedroom apartment if needed. WNBA members who want to begin a family by exploring alternative family planning methods will be reimbursed up to $60,000 for fees relating to adoption, surrogacy, freezing eggs for later use or other fertility treatments.
Skylar Diggins-Smith recently broke her silence regarding the intense conditions her body was under and lack of support she received after she played the entire 2018 season while she was pregnant with her son.
“I played the ENTIRE season pregnant last year! All star, and led league (top 3-5) in MPG…didn’t tell a soul,” she wrote on Twitter in 2019.
People called me a quitter, said I gave up on my team, etc., etc.
Not knowing I took two FULL months away from everything because of postpartum depression. With limited resources to help me be successful mentally/physically.
But just wait though….KEEP THAT SAME ENERGY.
— Skylar Diggins-Smith (@SkyDigg4) October 19, 2019
Players will also have access to more accommodating flights, and will receive premium economy class status for any flights booked for regular season air travel.
Members will also be offered career advancement training to foster growth in any direction they plan to take in the off-season or after their careers come to an end, as well as coaching initiatives for players who want to remain in the game of basketball.
A new day has finally come for WNBA league members!
Still Single? Pump Rules’ Kristen Reveals Current Status With Carter
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CLEAN More Or Less The Truth (Sugarshack)
"You're not from Bristol!" was my first reaction on listening to Clean's debut album. And, unlike just about every other band on Sugarshack, they aren't…originally, it least. Clean are Swiss, but frustrated at failing to convert their underground following there into overground success they moved to Bristol, apparently because of an overwhelming desire to see what a town called Portishead would be like.
Clean's sound begins as standard issue modern guitar rock, but then gets freckled with dialogue samples and turntable dexterity. In places they remind me of dEUS, albeit without their occasionally glorious melodic gift and penchant for worshipping all things Beefheartian. In places "More Or Less The Truth" is quite enjoyable: "Right Now" drops samples from Dr. Dre's fabulous "Let Me Ride" and seashore soundtracks into an agreeably pleasant song. "Hilliard" sends some skittery beats trampling across samples of choral music, not to the same devastating effect as Orbital managed with the sublime "Belfast", but Clean earn points for effort, at least. "Cleaner" sounds like a hamfisted but heartfelt tribute to Portishead the band, the slow, melancholy keyboards and dialogue scratches being strongly reminiscent of their second album in particular. "Game" is probably Clean's most successful song, a sitar-plucking thing on which the formula works to its best advantage. The eerie instrumental coda to "Strange Journey" is worth investigation, too, sounding like nothing other than Jefferson Airplane's "Meadowlands" being broadcast at a Hell's Angels meeting, the result being observed from a great distance away, underwater, before being interrupted by some bizarre plastic organ jauntiness.
"More Or Less The Truth" might not be a fabulous album: Clean are too obviously in thrall to their influences, and the seams that hold their quirky ragbag of styles together are clearly apparent. But at least half of it is interesting, and if they can outpace the shadow of the bands that have inspired them and evolve a sound that is truly their own they might really be worth listening to.
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11 priests and deacons accused of abusing children worked in Paterson churches
February 15, 2019 by Jonathan Greene
New Jersey’s five Catholic dioceses released the names of 188 priests and deacons “credibly accused” of sexually abusing children on Wednesday. Among them were 11 clergy members who worked in churches in Paterson.
“Today, in our effort to be transparent, we are publicly releasing the names of those clergy members who we believe have been credibly accused of such misconduct,” bishop Arthur Joseph Serratelli of the Diocese of Paterson said on Wednesday. “None of these individuals is serving as a priest or deacon within the Catholic Church. To the extent that they had priestly faculties, those faculties were removed.”
Diocese of Paterson which covers Morris, Passaic, and Sussex counties released 28 names. 11 of the clergy members served in churches located in Paterson:
Jose Alonso – St. Agnes, Paterson; Our Lady of Victories, Paterson; St. John Cathedral
Charles Bradley – St. John Cathedral, Paterson; Faculty, Paterson Catholic High School, Paterson
William Cramer – Chaplain, St. Joseph Hospital, Paterson
Francis Dennehy – Our Lady of Victories, Paterson; Chaplain, St. Joseph Hospital, Paterson; St. Therese, Paterson.
John Derricks – St. Joseph, Paterson
Stanislaus Durka – St. Stephen, Paterson
Patrick Erwin – St. Gerard Majella, Paterson; St. Joseph, Paterson; Social Action Department (in residence – Our Lady of Victories, Paterson); St. Mary, Paterson.
Carlos Guzman – St. John Cathedral, Paterson
John Heekin – St. Mary, Paterson; St. Therese, Paterson.
James A.D. Smith – Our Lady of Victories, Paterson; St. George, Paterson.
John Sutton – St. Agnes, Paterson; Chaplain, St. Joseph’s Hospital.
100 of the 188 priests and deacons are deceased.
“If you have been a victim of sexual abuse, my prayers and heart go out to you for this horrible action which has been committed against you,” Serratelli said. “I pray for your healing and, on behalf of myself, our diocese and the Catholic Church, I deeply and sincerely apologize for the pain that you have endured.”
The release of names came after the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office established a task force to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by clergy.
“While this is a positive first step towards transparency and accountability, I hope this spirit of openness continues during the course of our ongoing investigation and in response to our requests for records and information,” Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said on Wednesday. “Despite the recent actions by the dioceses, our investigation remains ongoing because no institution or individual is immune from accountability.”
Grewal urged survivors and others with information to call 855-363-6548 which is staffed by trained professionals on a 24/7 basis.
This is why I left the church…they had a previous scandal they said they would fix it, and they ended up doing the same thing again…fool me once shame on you..fool me twice shame on me…
what a surprise! (sarcasm)
SNAPJudy
The lists of ALL credibly accused priests in each diocese and religious order clergy should have been released a long time ago. Exposing their names helps victims to know that they are not alone, plus it protects kids today.
Also, there needs to be a grand jury investigation with subpoena power in every state..like was done in Pennsylvania. This is the one true way to get the full truth of sex crimes and cover ups within these dioceses. Church officials can not be trusted to expose all the names of credibly accused priests.
Judy Jones, SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, snapjudy@gmail.com, 636-433-2511
This was always my worries when my kids went to the catholic school.
I see St George and my heart leap, loved that school. It’s since closed
But this was my fear for my sons and that why I took them out .
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Join us to celebrate 5 years of Progressive Circus with a musical prog party at Mejeriet’s café stage Saturday Oct 12, where we revisit three favourite PC bands!
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The idea of Progressive Circus was born in 2013, when Soniq Circus and Vulkan decided to do a gig together. Eventually more bands were added and it became the first PC festival, in Helsingborg, April 2014. For our 5 year celebration, we have gone back to where it all started…
SONIQ CIRCUS, who took the initiative to do PC14 and played at the festival three years in a row. The band celebrates 20 years in 2019 and has released two great albums at Progress Records, but you need to witness them live to get the full Soniq Circus experience. Expect sharp musical twists and turns, pretty melodies, instrumental quirkyness in odd time signatures and a solid rock drive as a base. The inspiration mostly comes from classic prog bands like Yes, King Crimson and Gentle Giant, but also from modern metal like Dream Theater.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/AFtR7uw9USM
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/1tLTgzwaDIb2VNo6yCPYu1
Facebook: http://facebook.com/soniqcircus
VULKAN from Karlstad/Göteborg, who did an awesome concert at PC14 with focus on the then yet unreleased ”Observants”. In October, we hope to hear some dark, distorted and dissonant tracks from both their two released albums and the coming third. There’s plenty of lead heavy Tool inspired rhythmical riffs, providing a base for heartfelt Jeff Buckley style singing which accentuates their Mars Volta-ish approach to songwriting with many dramatic twists and turns. Other influences include Radiohead, Mew, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa. Both on record and live their name Vulkan (volcano in Swedish) hints at the bombastic experience that will hit anyone who gives them a try!
Youtube: https://youtu.be/M91slSwR-qw
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/5xPUdomrEJpaTdsvG7Rr0p
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebandvulkan
KHADAVRA did a praised concert at ”Förfesten” the day before Magma at KB, Malmö in 2017, and of course we want to see them at a PC event again! Khadavra’s origin is in the forests of Värmland, with 70ies Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and King Crimson as musical roots. Influences from Wagner, Slowdive, Opeth and Tool are also blended into the music. The band is an outlet for the members’ concerns and feelings toward society and the modern kind of ”humanity” and it’s conventions. Prepare to be swept away when they play live for you!
Youtube: https://youtu.be/Q6LhN8Ptpq8
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1rzJtzRhMMascAx1Uid2jN
Facebook: www.facebook.com/khadavra
We hope you want to celebrate with us! It will be awesome =)
The event is arranged by Kulturpunkten in collaboration with Mejeriet, Skånsk Live and Region Skåne.
More info at www.progressivecircus.com or www.facebook.com/progressivecircus
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Download "THE COMMON GOOD AND THE GLOBAL EMERGENCY. God and the Built Environment"
Frederick Jackson
1 THE COMMON GOOD AND THE GLOBAL EMERGENCY God and the Built Planning and architecture have to be understood in relation to climate change and peak oil, and the concept of the common good is key to understanding how important this is. Leading on from his previous book, A Theology of the Built, providesa theoretical and political framework of the common good, applying this to the built environment. This framework is used to discuss and highlight issues regarding place, transport, food and farming, and, as such, explains the relation of Christianity to the built world in which we live. Exploring new themes in the context of the concern about climate change and resource depletion, Gorringe provides an innovative account, covering a wide range of source matter and illustrating the connections between modern theology and ethics. t. j. gorringe is Professor of Theological Studies at the University of Exeter. A Theology of the Built (2002), his previous book with Cambridge University Press, was the first to reflect theologically on the built environment as a whole. He is also the author of God s Just Vengeance: Crime, Violence and the Rhetoric of Salvation (Cambridge, 1996).
2 THE COMMON GOOD AND THE GLOBAL EMERGENCY God and the Built T. J. GORRINGE
3 cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb28ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: / c 2011 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2011 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Gorringe, T. J. (Timothy J.), 1946 The Common Good and the Global Emergency : God and the Built /. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn (hardback) 1. Common good Religious aspects Christianity. 2. Cities and towns Religious aspects Christianity. 3. Human ecology Religious aspects Christianity. I. Title. br115.p7g dc isbn Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
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5 A new politics of the common good has something to do with the project of building a common life, of shared citizenship. A lot of our public institutions public libraries, public transportation, public parksandrecreationcentres...arealsotraditionally sites for the cultivation of a common citizenship, so that people from different walks of life encounter one another and so acquire enough of a sense of a shared life that we can meaningfully think of one another as citizens in a common venture. Michael Sandel
6 Contents List of figures Preface page viii ix 1 The common good and the built environment 1 2 The common good and the global emergency 18 3 Grace and the built environment 40 4 Grace and place 69 5 Grace, politics and planning 99 6 Grace and public space Settlements in grace Feeding the city Connecting the city Housing by people The virtues of architecture 258 Conclusion: grace and the common good 284 Bibliography 291 Index 305 vii
7 Figures 1. The Allegory of Good Government, (fresco) by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1285 c.1348). Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy/The Bridgeman Art Library page 2 2. Piazzo del Campo, Siena. istockphoto 6 viii
8 Preface When A Theology of the Built appeared in 2002 it was claimed that it was the first attempt to think theologically about the built environment as a whole. One reviewer challenged this claim, though without telling me where to look for rivals. Since then a number of books have appeared, most particularly Eric Jacobsen s excellent Sidewalks in the Kingdom, a most promising study by a young scholar. I am grateful to him for the parcel of second-hand books, which included J. H. Kunstler and Daniel Kemmis: he will see how much I have learned from them. Philip Sheldrake has beautifully explored the theological significance of space, and John Inge and David Brown of place, largely in relation to sacred space and building. Some of the essays in Sigurd Bergmann s Architecture, Aesth/ethics, Religion explore secular themes, though it too mostly deals with the sacred. Many articles on the theology of the built environment are now beginning to appear in learned journals, some in planning as well as theology. In general, however, the sacred secular divide continues to appear self-evident: people are not convinced that the earth is the Lord s. Although people take for granted the fact that the church has something to say about war and sexuality, and perhaps even economics (though this is more contentious), the idea that one can reflect theologically about the everyday built environment, and not about churches or temples, seems perplexing. It is worthwhile, therefore, once again to try and make the point. After the book appeared I got to know Simon Fairlie and the Tinker s Bubble community. Simon did not like the book ( academic ), but every time we met he asked me if I had read Christopher Alexander. I knew only the article A City is not a Tree, which did not seem to me sufficiently revelatory to prompt further reading. However, the possibilities of prevarication are not endless, and I duly read Alexander s oeuvre: the results will be obvious. By and large Alexander is a prophet without honour. Some eco-architects say he does not respect the ecological imperative sufficiently. ix
9 x Preface I am sure, however, that the insights of the Pattern Language are indispensable towards the emergence of cultures in common (which are not homogenised cultures) around the world. Following up footnotes also led me to the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. Reading his work, so full of humour, humility and wisdom, is to get a glimpse of that earlier world, in twelfth-century Europe, where, while the military classes engaged in power games, the intellectuals and artisans learned from each other and largely agreed on fundamentals. So-called inter-faith dialogue is as nothing alongside sitting at the feet of such a great souled human being. It was only after the book appeared that I started to teach a course on theology and the built environment. The course has been taught from the back of a lorry: visiting cities, towns and villages, talking to planners, and sitting afterwards in churches, pubs and cafés to reflect on what we have seen. I am immensely grateful to all the planning departments who have given up time to talk to us when most of them are worked off their feet. The material in this book on Plymouth, Milton Keynes, Poundbury and Sherford all comes from these visits. In Milton Keynes Michael Synnot was an inspirational guide. I am also grateful to the students, who all began with perplexity and sometimes ended with it, but many of whom produced brilliant work in reflecting on their home streets, towns and cities. A number of universities and departments of theology and of planning have responded to the first book. I am grateful to John de Gruchy in Cape Town; to Charles Marsh and the University of Virginia; to Rob Furbey at Sheffield; to Bob Scott and Mark Richardson at the Trinity Institute, New York; and to Mark van der Schaaf in Minneapolis for arranging seminars and conferences which utilised the work. Some of the material in Chapter 5 appeared in an earlier draft in the International Journal of Public Theology and in The Land; in Chapter 6, Theology published an earlier draft of material on public houses. I had no intention of writing a second book on the theme. In 2004 I had begun writing a book on the body, a topic which I have taught for many years, when the death of my first wife intervened. I started to take this up again in 2008, but after a few weeks a word from the Lord instructed me with absolute clarity that I needed to return to the built environment. Such a statement will be a gift to critical reviewers: I simply record it as a fact. Demythologisers can translate it in terms of involvement with the Transition Town movement and an increasing sense that climate change, food and energy issues are going to be the key ethical issues of the coming century. I have said something about the differences of emphasis between this book and the first in the first chapter. Here I want only further to record
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The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a political party in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party overall, with eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Founded in 1970 from the New Ulster Movement, the Alliance Party originally represented moderate and non-sectarian unionism. However, over time, particularly in the 1990s, it moved towards neutrality on the Union, and has come to represent wider liberal and non-sectarian concerns. It opposes the consociational power-sharing mandated by the Belfast Agreement as deepening the sectarian divide, and, in the Northern Ireland Assembly, it is designated as neither unionist nor Irish nationalist, but 'Other'.
In May 2010 the Alliance Party won their first Westminster seat in a general election, in Belfast East, unseating Peter Robinson, First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. Naomi Long, the successful candidate, was the first MP from the Alliance Party since Stratton Mills, who joined the party from the Ulster Unionist Party in 1973. However, the DUP regained the seat at the 2015 Westminster election, leaving Alliance with no representation in the House of Commons.
1 Aims and objectives
3.1 Early growth
3.2 Stabilisation and decline
3.3 The Good Friday Agreement era
4 Regionalisation of Alliance's vote
4.1 Vote share by district council 1973-2011
5 Leaders of Alliance
6 Deputy Leaders
8 MLAs
9 Alliance Youth
Paragraph 1.3 of Alliance's constitutions states that 'the objectives of the Party shall be to heal the bitter divisions in our community and to promote the policies of the party as determined by the [ruling] Council'.
Over the past 40 years and particularly since the mid-1990s, Alliance's political philosophy has veered away from non-sectarian Unionism towards a more liberal, neutral position on the question of either an united Ireland or continued Union with Great Britain. While the Good Friday Agreement has attempted to implement consociational power sharing, Alliance continues to argue that such enforced coalition government in Northern Ireland entrenches division rather than providing a basis for overcoming it.
The Alliance Party was founded on the back of efforts by the New Ulster Movement (NUM), which was established as a moderating influence upon the Unionist Party. After Nationalist politicians withdrew their role as official Opposition at Stormont, and the resignation of Unionist leader Terence O'Neill in 1969, the NUM split between those who wished to remain a pressure group for the Unionist Party and those who saw reform only through the establishment of a new political party. The latter broke off and formed the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, on 21 April 1970.
As Alliance viewed the situation, the major problem of Northern Ireland was the division between Protestant and Catholic. The turmoil had its origins in that division and not in the partition of Ireland. "Partition was the result of the divisions and not the cause of them." (John Cushnahan, 1979)
The party's founding members resolved to change the "traditional mould" of sectarian politics in Northern Ireland, by launching a party deliberately set out to win support from both sections of the community. The party's founding principles were an attempt to address the "fundamental fears" of Protestants being coerced into a united Ireland, and of Catholics being condemned to a second-class citizenship within Northern Ireland.
The distinguishing feature of Alliance is its belief in the legitimacy of a distinctive Northern Ireland community, one that has more in common than what divides it, with most inhabitants speaking a common language, sharing some form of Christianity, and not separated by distinguishable racial or physical characteristics. "Its people are one community living in what has been called a place apart, but sharing a great deal with the rest of this island, the rest of these islands, and the rest of the developed world." (Alliance 1992)
Alliance does not view unionism and nationalism as distinct communities, but as "political positions." Furthermore, Alliance sees identity as an individual matter, originating in historical contexts, producing unionist and nationalist traditions. Alliance is at times seen as representing a "third tradition". "In the context of Northern Ireland it includes those who, whether in politics, culture, religion, or in private life have refused to be categorised as Orange or Green." (Alliance 1992)
As Alliance have moved to an ideologically liberal perspective, and Northern Ireland society has become more diverse, support for diversity has become a key Alliance platform, with Anna Lo MLA elected as the first ethnically Chinese parliamentarian in Western Europe and the party promoting a number of openly gay spokespeople.
Alliance are linked with the Liberal Democrats and are members of Liberal International.[6]
Early growth
It was formed in April 1970 as an alternative to the established parties. In the context of a rapidly worsening political crisis, the party aimed not only to present an alternative to what they perceived as sectarian parties, but to make sure that the primary policy of the party was in contrast to the Northern Ireland Labour Party and Ulster Liberal Party. Alliance expressly aimed, at first, to act as a bridge between the Protestant and Catholic sections of the community, with a secondary goal of attracting support from Northern Ireland's Jewish community and its small but steadily growing Asian (Chinese, Indian, Pakistani) population, the vast majority of whom are neither Catholic nor Protestant.
The Party's founding principles were expressly in favour of Northern Ireland remaining part of the United Kingdom, although in contrast to the Unionist parties, this was expressed in socio-economic rather than ethnic terms. It also placed great emphasis on the consent principle and therefore only supported the Northern Ireland's position within the UK as long as the people of NI wished it.
The party was boosted in 1972 when three Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland joined the party (one from the Nationalist Party, one from the Ulster Unionist Party and one Independent). Stratton Mills, an Ulster Unionist/Conservative member of the Westminster Parliament for North Belfast also joined, providing Alliance with its only House of Commons representation prior to the 2010 General Election. Its first electoral challenge was the District Council elections of May 1973 when they managed to win a respectable 13.6% of the votes cast. In the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly which followed the next month the party polled 9.2% and won eight seats. The then party leader, Oliver Napier and his deputy Bob Cooper became part of the short-lived power sharing executive body. Alliance's vote peaked in the 1977 District Council elections when it obtained 14.4% of the vote and had 74 Councillors elected. In 1979, Party Leader Oliver Napier came closer than Alliance had previously come to electing a Westminster MP, polling just 928 votes short of Peter Robinson's winning total in East Belfast, albeit placing third in a three-way marginal.
Stabilisation and decline
Alliance was seriously damaged by the Provisional Irish Republican Army Hunger Strike of 1981, which deeply polarised Northern Ireland politics, and led to the emergence of Sinn Féin as a serious political force. The Party supported the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, and despite claims that this would fatally damage its soft Unionist support, Alliance rebounded to pick up 10.0% of the vote in the 1987 United Kingdom General Election, with some voters rejecting the tacit mainstream Unionist support for violence in the aftermath of the Agreement.[citation needed] New leader, John Alderdice, polled 32.0% of the vote in East Belfast, while Alliance came within 15,000 votes of both the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin across Northern Ireland. In 1988, in Alliance's keynote post-Anglo Irish Agreement document, "Governing with Consent", Alderdice called for a devolved power-sharing government. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Alliance's vote stabilised at between 7% and 10%.
After the IRA and loyalist ceasefires in 1994, Alliance became the first non-Nationalist party to enter into talks with Sinn Féin, as an active participant in the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement, which it strongly supported.
The Alliance Party polled poorly for the 1996 elections for the Northern Ireland Forum, and the 1998 election for the Northern Ireland Assembly winning around 6.5% of the vote each time. This did enable the party to win six seats in the Assembly, although this was somewhat of a let down given that the party had been expected to do much better[7] with their surprise defeat in Belfast South being particularly disappointing for supporters.
The Good Friday Agreement era
John Alderdice resigned as party leader in 1998 to take up the post of the Assembly's Presiding Officer. He was replaced by Seán Neeson, who himself resigned as party leader in September 2001. Neeson was replaced by current party leader David Ford, a member of the assembly for South Antrim.
It was predicted that Alliance would suffer electorally as a new centrist challenger established itself in Northern Irish politics, the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, whilst the main Unionist and Nationalist parties both moderated their position on cross-community co-operation. Another problem for the APNI was that the rules of the Northern Ireland Assembly require major votes (such as the election of a First Minister) to have the support of both a majority of Unionist assembly members and a majority of Nationalist assembly members, thus diminishing the importance of parties such as Alliance which are not aligned to either of these two blocs.
Nevertheless, in the 2003 Assembly elections, Alliance held all their seats, while the Women's Coalition lost both of theirs. However Alliance's vote fell to just 3.7%. In the European Parliament Elections in 2004, Alliance gave strong support to Independent candidate John Gilliland[8] who polled 6.6% of the vote, the highest for a non-communal candidate in a European election since 1979. In the early years of the Northern Ireland peace process, the centre ground was relentlessly squeezed in Northern Ireland politics. The support for Gilliland's candidature, which was also supported by parties such as the Workers' Party and Northern Ireland Conservatives, reflected a desire to reunite the fragmented and weakened non-communal bloc in Northern Ireland politics.
In the 5 May 2005 United Kingdom general election, they contested 12 seats and polled 3.9% of the vote. In the simultaneous elections to Northern Ireland's local authorities, they polled 5.0% of first preference votes and had 30 Councillors elected, a gain of two seats relative to the previous elections.
The 2006–2007 period saw some signs of an Alliance upturn with Alliance topping the poll and gaining a seat in a by-election for Coleraine borough council.[9]
In the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly elections, Alliance put in a strong media campaign and polled 5.2%,[10] up from 3.6% in the previous election with Alliance gaining a seat in Belfast South following the successful candidature of Anna Lo, the first ethnic Chinese public representative in a national assembly anywhere in Western Europe. In an election cycle where many pundits had predicted that the Alliance Party would struggle to hold on to the 6 seats it won in the 2003 election, the Party pulled off a credible performance which included Deputy Leader Naomi Long doubling her share of the vote in Belfast East.
In 2008, during the deadlock between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party over the devolution of policing, the two parties came to an agreement that the Minister of Justice would not come from either party. The Alliance party was the obvious choice but party leader David Ford said "it's a very definite and a very emphatic no." Ford further stated, "this executive is incompetent, it's time they got on with doing the job that they were set up to do."[11] Following further negotiations, Ford assumed office on 12 April 2010.
At the 2009 European elections, Alliance candidate Ian Parsley achieved the party's best European Election vote share in 30 years with 5.5% of the vote.
In the 2010 general election, the party won its first seat in Westminster, with Naomi Long taking the seat of sitting First Minister Peter Robinson.[12] The 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly Election resulted in 8 Assembly members being returned with a gain in Belfast East. It overtook the Ulster Unionist Party on Belfast City Council.
In a poll conducted in November 2012, Alliance (on 11.6%) overtook the UUP (11.4%) for the first time.[13]
Regionalisation of Alliance's vote
One trend over time with Alliance's vote is that in contrast to 1973, when Alliance support was dispersed across Northern Ireland, APNI have increasingly polled best in the Greater Belfast hinterland. For example the 1977 elections, while representing an overall increase for Alliance, masked a sharp decline in vote share in many Western councils. In the 12 councils covering the former counties of Londonderry, Tyrone, Armagh and Fermanagh their vote only rose in Omagh, it remained static in Magherafelt and fell in the other ten councils (these being Fermanagh, Dungannon, Cookstown, Strabane, Londonderry, Limavady, Coleraine, Newry & Mourne, Armagh and Craigavon.) Overall in these 12 councils the number of Alliance councillors fell from 18 in 1973 to ten in 1977. In contrast, in the rest of the province Alliance increased their number of councillors from 45 to 60.
The party won eight council seats across Belfast in 1985. Although that has now recovered to six (from three in 2001), the six are entirely from South and East Belfast. Both seats in the Falls Road area of West Belfast were lost after the death and resignation of their councillors there in 1987 while their seat in North Belfast was lost in 1993 regained four years later and lost again, seemingly for good, in 2001. In the neighbouring areas of Dunmurry Cross (Twinbrook/Dunmurry) and Macedon (Rathcoole) Alliance lost their councillors in 1989 and 1994 respectively; on the other hand, the party won three out of seven seats in Victoria in 2011, the first time since 1977 that the party had won three Council seats in the same Electoral Area.[14]
By 2005, the party had Councillors in only half of Northern Ireland's 18 constituencies. However, this rose to 13 in 2011 after gains in Coleraine, Craigavon, Down and elsewhere. Having had around 30 Councillors for a decade, the party won 44 seats in 2011. In the 2010 Elections, the Alliance gained the Westminster seat of Belfast East, and gained a 22.6% swing there; in 2011 it re-emphasised that result winning two out of the six MLA seats available.
Vote share by district council 1973-2011
Antrim 16.1 16.9 10.9 7.6 7.0 8.5 8.2 5.5 6.9 11.3
Ards 14.8 20.8 12.3 12.4 18.8 23.4 21.1 16.7 14.1 18.2
Armagh 7.8 6.4 0.7
Ballymena 6.4 5.2 6.1 5.4 2.0 1.1 1.5 1.7
Ballymoney 7.7 8.3 8.1 2.6 2.0
Banbridge 5.7 6.2 4.6 1.6 2.2 1.8 5.1 2.0 4.5 4.9
Belfast 13.4 18.6 13.2 11.5 10.9 11.2 9.2 6.8 6.8 12.6
Carrickfergus 22.3 30.0 21.8 24.9 27.1 32.2 27.4 23.5 23.2 25.1
Castlereagh 22.1 32.5 21.1 18.8 21.5 21.9 18.7 15.2 16.2 25.2
Coleraine 13.2 10.6 6.3 6.2 7.9 11.8 9.2 6.4 4.7 8.8
Cookstown 6.3 5.2 0.6
Craigavon 16.0 11.3 4.1 4.3 5.8 6.2 4.5 1.6 2.4 3.4
Derry 14.5 11.9 6.4 2.7 0.6 1.0 0.9 0.9
Down 12.3 11.8 8.4 5.2 2.2 3.8 3.7 2.1 4.9
Dungannon and South Tyrone 5.9 2.9 1.1 0.9
Fermanagh 7.7 1.9 1.6 1.8 1.0 0.9 0.4
Larne 25.5 25.8 17.4 16.4 11.5 9.0 12.2 14.5 12.4 15.5
Limavady 11.2 8.5 2.0 1.9 2.1 2.0
Lisburn 18.1 20.4 12.2 11.0 10.7 12.3 13.0 11.0 9.2 10.4
Magherafelt 4.6 4.7 2.5 1.2
Moyle 5.0 2.9 7.0
Newry and Mourne 13.5 8.3 3.6 1.0 2.0
Newtownabbey 18.9 28.4 15.6 10.3 14.0 16.1 10.3 8.0 8.0 16.4
North Down 29.5 38.5 25.2 26.3 20.7 22.7 22.1 17.6 16.0 18.3
Omagh 12.2 16.0 9.0 4.7 3.7 5.0 3.3 1.5
Strabane 9.6 3.0 1.7 1.1 2.2 0.9
NORTHERN IRELAND TOTALS 13.7 14.4 8.9 7.0 6.9 7.6 6.6 5.1 5.0 7.4
Leaders of Alliance
Oliver Napier & Bob Cooper 1970 1972
Phelim O'Neill 1972 1972
Oliver Napier 1972 1984
John Cushnahan 1984 1987
John Alderdice 1987 1998
Seán Neeson 1998 2001
David Ford 2001 Incumbent
Deputy Leaders
Bob Cooper 1973 1976
Basil Glass 1976 1980
David Cook 1980 1984
Addie Morrow 1984 1987
Gordon Mawhinney 1987 1991
Seamus Close 1991 2001
Eileen Bell 2001 2006
Naomi Long 2006 Incumbent
Stratton Mills — Belfast North, 1973–74 (defected from Ulster Unionists)
Naomi Long — Belfast East, 2010–2015
Elected in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2011:
Chris Lyttle – East Belfast
Judith Cochrane- East Belfast
David Ford – South Antrim
Anna Lo – Belfast South
Trevor Lunn – Lagan Valley
Stephen Farry – North Down
Kieran McCarthy – Strangford
Stewart Dickson – East Antrim
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Logo of the Alliance Youth
The youth wing of the Alliance Party is Alliance Youth. Alliance Youth is an umbrella organisation, incorporating Young Alliance and Liberal/Alliance Societies at Northern Ireland universities. Liberal Youth Northern Ireland does not organize in any of Northern Ireland's Universities, encouraging members to become active within Alliance Youth societies. The current Chair of Alliance Youth is Jamie Doyle.
Contributions to liberal theory
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Liberalism in the United Kingdom
Secularism in the United Kingdom
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^ http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/nireland.html
^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/troubles/fact_files.shtml?ff=pp01
^ http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/alliance-party
^ The former leader of Alliance sits in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat
^ "Liberal International: Full Members". Liberal International. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
^ "The 1998 Election: Predictions".
^ Allianceparty.org
^ "Slugger O'Toole".
^ "BBC News".
^ "SF and DUP closer to justice deal". BBC News. 4 August 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
^ Guardian.co.uk
^ Alliance noses ahead of a flagging UUP while the big two consolidate, by Liam Clarke, Belfast Telegraph, 1 December 2012
^ Alliance won three seats in Belfast Area C and Castlereagh Area B in 1977.
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An estimated half of the 322 million people affected by depression don’t appear to benefit from treatment, but new brain research shows that figure soon may change — and potentially get help to millions of people who need it.
In a new study, scientists argue that treatment likely doesn’t help so many because 90 percent of antidepressants are based on the idea that depressed people lack serotonin and norepinephrine, two important chemicals in the brain.
However, a study to be published in the July edition of Neuroscience asserts that for some, depression isn’t necessarily linked to a lack of serotonin and norepinephrine, and antidepressants designed to make up for them don’t work on patients.
“Thirty percent of people on these drugs do not experience an effect,” says Saito and and co-author Yuki Kobayashi. “Obviously, we need a new drug! We need another explanation for what could cause depression.”
Depression in those thirty percent of people might be driven by a protein called RGS8, which Hiroshima University neuroscientist Yumiko Saito, Ph.D., describes as “a new type of depression.”
RGS8 Controls MCHR1
In a previous study, Saito and her team discovered that RGS8 controls a hormone receptor called MCHR1, which helps regulate mood and the body’s response to the need for eating and sleeping. RGS8 has been found to influence parts of the brain involved with movement and mood regulation, and can inactivate MCHR1 when the two are mixed in cultured cells. That hinted to Saito that decreased amounts of RGS8 means an increased chance of experiencing depression.
Researchers hypothesized that changes made to levels of RGS8 would affect a person’s likelihood of experiencing depression.
To test their theory, the scientists compared a control group of mice to another group of mice that were genetically engineered to have more RGS8 in their nervous system. In a test where the mice were forced to swim — which the study states is a “common behavioral analysis method” to assess depressive behaviors in animals — they examined the times in which the mice were active or immobile. Mice with more RGS8 in their systems were immobile for a shorter amount of time than the others: This demonstrated that these mice were less depressed than the mice not engineered to have higher amounts of the protein.
However, that resistance to depression didn’t happen when the mice were given a drug that stops the hormone receptor MCHR1 from working. To understand the relationship between MCHR1 and RGS8 better, the scientists examined the mice brains — subsequently discovering that not only were the RGS8-engineered mice less depressed, but they had longer cilia in a region of the hippocampus where the RGS8 levels were highest. Cilia are antennae-like organelles that are involved with cellular communication.
Scientists have previously linked dysfunctional cilia to cases of obesity, kidney disease, and retina disease. This new finding means that the researchers now will examine whether the organelles are linked to mood disorders.
Saito’s team now believes RGS8 is “a promising candidate toward the development of new antidepressant drugs.”
As suicide rates increase, developing a new antidepressant is a process that’s more important than ever, and researchers agree that new, more effective treatments for major depression are needed.
Source: Inverse
Tags: antidepressants, brain research, depression, help, MCHR1, new type of depression, RGS8, Saito, serotonin, treatment
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Why didn't Bader start yesterday since his starts have been so sparce?
He had stiff neck. Couldn't swing a bat. Probably couldn't throw. Could only run.
What's the likelihood that Joey Votto is the worst first baseman in the NL Central at the end of the year? Would that say more about him or his competition?
by SML 5/13/2019 6:42:43 PM
Wowser. That would be a turn of events, wouldn't it? One of the best hitters of his generation surpassed by four other first basemen in his own division. Bell is on the rise. Rizzo could win an MVP award. Goldschmidt could win an MVP award, a Silver Slugger, and the Gold Glove. And then there's Milwaukee. I'm not going to put Votto that far down the list just yet. But you are right -- the competition is fierce in this division. And people don't want to hear it but that does mean something for the Cardinals here and their first baseman. Paul Goldschmidt is the only player in the NL to be selected for the past six All-Star Games. Now, Cardinals Nation could get out there and rock the vote and make sure it's seven consecutive because in this division the production could mean few 1B get picked. Keep that in mind. It's been awhile since the Cardinals voters showed up in force to vote for a player and this year the Pauls could be worthy -- and Cubs could oust them. Just saying.
Matt Carpenter is tilting on his backside and driving everything high into the air. He needs to stand tall on his backside and then we will see him driving the ball. I noticed that Saturday especially. Derrick, Your thoughts please?
There's something to this. It's related to him getting back to a swing and success that he had not to long ago as a doubles machine -- a gap power hitter. He could drive the ball to left-center field and right-field field and rack up the doubles, not sky fly balls to left and look to crack homers to right. He's done well to find his pull power, but he's also running into approaches and shifts that are used to combat that. So he's adjusting. He's seeing fewer fastballs. He's adjusting. They're giving him so much open space to the left side of the field. He's adjusting. I think that's what we're seeing.
Looks like Mad-Bum did a great job in naming the teams on his no trade list(all contending teams) so now he has the leverage to get an extension done. Why don't more players do this?
A lot do when they have the leverage to negotiate a no-trade clause. It's a really smart thing to do, and you'll see that many contracts have variations of no-trade clauses. Some start small and then widen to a full no-trade (especially as 10-5 rights arrive), and some have a curious no-trade that shrinks from blanket no trade to toward the end of the extension the team starts to regain some ability to trade the player by having a 10- or 15-team list. No trades are fascinating. But you can bet they're set up for strategy not just for blocking trades.
I know Dakota hudson got through 6 innings yesterday, but he seemed to do it with a lot of smoke and mirrors. Do you see Gomber coming up and joining the rotation soon?
by Jackson 5/13/2019 6:50:13 PM
Gomber has pitched well and put himself in the discussion as the Cardinals audit their rotation in the coming week(s). I don't necessarily agree that Hudson did it with smoke and mirrors yesterday. He did it by throwing the sinker more often, getting it lower, and the grounders followed. There's an ability there with that pitch to pull of strong quality starts, and what's interesting about this is that he's doing it on the job. A decade ago, 15 years ago, he's doing this in the minors.
Is Hudson still untouchable?
by Old Fart 5/13/2019 6:51:20 PM
For trade? He never was. They just preferred to hold on to him. Thought he had the higher ceiling and he definitely had the more years of control when compared to Luke Weaver, for example.
Mr. Goold,
Any chance Carlos Martinez is used as an "opener" upon his return? Perhaps pitching 2-3 innings until his spot comes up in batting order every 2-3 games?
Shildt has pushed back on this idea pretty hard, several times. We've asked. He's said it's not something that they intend to try. Not with the rotation they have.
Did the team error on the side of over optimism in March when believing Carlos Martinez’s shoulder would magically heal and that Reyes would finally be Reyes and win some games? If not the case, did they really believe the current rotation could match and compete with the Cubs?
They had no reason to believe otherwise. They were far more bullish on Reyes than they were on Martinez. No one around the team was expecting it to "magically" heal. If anything, they got to a point where they believed getting any return from Martinez this season was going to have to be considered a bonus, not a guarantee. You could probably tell that by their comments in spring training -- and their actions since. Yes, the Cardinals saw their rotation and saw the Cubs rotation and liked their chances.
It's been longer than 2 minutes...Dracarys!
by Dany Targaryen 5/13/2019 6:53:58 PM
Fair. I guess if you're going to go, might as well go out in a blaze of dragon fire.
If Fowler continues to play everyday and gets on base the way he has thus far, should he be leading off? Also, what about Goldy 3rd?
Anything should be on the table at this point.
That starts to look like a long, deep lineup too if Fowler has the OBP to merit the top of the order. One concern here is it does invite a lefthanded reliever to face the turnaround on the lineup as it goes from Wong to Fowler (switch) to Carpenter. So maybe mix that up a bit.
What do you think is the most concerning thing you've seen with the team so far? What do you think is the most encouraging?
The starting rotation not handling innings, not providing quality night in and night out is the undoing of this team so far. It catches up with the bullpen. It eventually exposes the lineup on days it cannot produce five, six runs. And so on. The rotation needs to be the engine of the Cardinals' consistency, and it has not been. The most encouraging? Probably the power from Ozuna and all-around play from Paul DeJong, the quiet MVP.
Ok, lets give Mo some credit for what he did not do: trade Jose Martinez. He is the only Cardinal I have confidence will get us a hit when we need it.
That seems like a curiously short list. They explored trades. Didn't get the return they wanted.
Hi Derrick - Been watching Goldie in the dugout after successful hitting or just between innings and doesn't seem like he interacts with his teammates but more with the coaches. How is he fitting in with the rest of the players?
by Stlcardsphan 5/13/2019 7:01:42 PM
Quite well. Relievers, pitchers, and other hitters have all described interactions they've had with Goldschmidt. They spend a long time to talking to him, getting info from him, answering questions from him. He's a good fit. As advertised.
Mother's Day or not, who cares about the moms of Cardinals players? You are treading perilously close to 'The Alibi' territory.
by Jon Rainvold 5/13/2019 7:02:25 PM
I care to tell a good story. I took great care to try and tell their story. And some of the best ones I've heard involve moms. You are welcome not read the story. It wasn't like the newspaper was lacking for coverage that day. The response from the article says you, Jon, are the outlier. And that's OK. There's plenty of content out there for anyone's taste.
Hi Derrick, thanks again for the great chats.
So can we finally put to rest the idea that Matt Carpenter's offensive production is somehow magically connected to his spot on the lineup card?
by onwisconsin 5/13/2019 7:04:15 PM
Please. Please. Please. I've only been trying to say this for half of my adult life.
Time to start panicking about our pitching now that a quarter of the season is in the books and the results are not looking good? Should the Front Office be looking for a move earlier rather than later based on the past few weeks performance?
by Britt 5/13/2019 7:04:51 PM
They probably should be, yes. That would make a lot of sense. Forty games is forty games.
Was yesterday just a break for Carp or do you think there’s a chance he starts to lose playing time if he can’t hit his weight?
by Andrew Cardinal 5/13/2019 7:05:10 PM
It was a break to get his swing and get some rest and maybe heal an ache or two. That wasn't clear. But that was a possibility. It was not related to his batting average, strictly.
Derrick, just browsing through your new book- great read! When Carp struggled last year, the Cards analytical staff assured him that he would be fine going forward based on their internal metrics. I’m curious as to what those metrics are telling them this year?
by LACard 5/13/2019 7:06:02 PM
First, thanks for picking up the book. I'm not sure how much I should promote it in here. I'm bad at that. But maybe I'll mention an event coming up later in the chat. Second, great question. The answer is -- not entirely. Carpenter's K-rate is up. His walk rate his down. His fly ball rate is up, but his home runs off of those flyballs are down. His pull rate is less. (We've discussed that earlier in the chat.) And he's going more to center and to left -- and more often in the air and not with liners. All of that is from publicly available stats that I looked up in the past minute. A deeper dive -- which the Cardinals are going to be able to do, and have the time to do -- is probably going to give him a better sense of the heat map this season of the strike zone and how it varies from previous. That will would telling. He's getting fewer fastballs and far, far more off-speed pitches. Check out his slider rate: It's up from 12.4 in his career to nearly 17 percent this season. Three out of every five pitches he saw in his career before this year were fastballs. Now that number is shriveling toward 50 percent. The numbers are telling a different story.
The Cardinals boasted all winter about their pitching depth. So far, that depth has stayed mostly at Memphis. Should they utilize any of in the majors? If so, who should come up?
I'm not sure I agree. Hudson is part of that depth. He's been in the majors all season. Gallegos was part of that depth because of his performance and he's had a good run here. Helsley, Ponce de Leon -- they've been up and contributed. Webb has carved out a role for himself in part because he pitched his way into being part of the depth and then got the call. Gant is part of that depth and he's got a vital role in the bullpen. Reyes was part of the depth and he just wasn't ready, in hindsight. Rusty.
I can't help but look at the roster and see how that depth is already being utilized. It may not be making as big of an impact as planned, but it's being utilized. If you define depth as pitchers in the minors, then by definition the team will never use that depth because the moment they're used in the majors, they're not in the minors. You are seeing the Cardinals depth.
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by Chris 5/13/2019 7:22:12 PM
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In celebration of Abbey Road’s 50th anniversary, some of Australia’s most respected musicians and members of iconic groups, collectively known as ARC — Kram (SPIDERBAIT), Mark Wilson (JET), Davey Lane (YOU AM I) and Darren Middleton (POWDERFINGER) — all self-confessed Beatles tragics, will faithfully and lovingly bring The Beatles’ most audacious creation to life on stage, performing Abbey Road in full, from start to finish, followed by a second set comprising of a selection of hits spanning the breadth of The Beatles’ career and catalogue.
Abbey Road – The Beatles’ swansong and their crowning achievement as a recording group – is a stately, majestic, playful yet fiercely rocking masterpiece of pop music, regarded as one of the greatest records of all time.
Joining ARC live on stage will be special guests Ash Naylor (Paul Kelly, Even and Rockwiz), Linda Bull (The Black Sorrows, Vika and Linda Bull), Brett Wolfenden (The Pictures, Jim Keays) and James Fleming (Eagle and the Worm, Bob Evans).
Tickets for all shows will go on sale at this Monday, March 18.
For complete tour, ticketing and VIP Experiences information – including the Ultimate VIP Meet n Greet Experience which offers exclusive access to a Q&A session and an acoustic performance – visit: livenation.com.au.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band The Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by Apple Records. It was an immediate commercial success reaching #1 in the UK and US. Over time, the album became viewed as among The Beatles’ best and many critics have ranked it as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Abbey Road spent 81 weeks on the UK albums chart, 12 weeks at #1 on the Billboard chart and was certified 12-times platinum by the RIAA in 2001, selling in excess of 31 million copies.
The album’s iconic cover, which features the four band members walking across a zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios, has become one of the most famous and imitated images in the history of popular music.
“As far as rock music swan songs go, this might be the best there’s ever been.” – Billboard
ARC PRESENTS: THE BEATLES’ ABBEY ROAD LIVE
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TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY MARCH 18
For complete tour and ticketing information, visit: livenation.com.au
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About ARC:
Darren Middleton (POWDERFINGER), Mark Wilson (JET), Davey Lane (YOU AM I) and Kram (SPIDERBAIT) have joined forces to become ARC, one of the most collectively celebrated and successful supergroups in Australia’s rock history with 33 ARIA Awards and 16 Top Ten ARIA albums combined.
Kram – Drummer and vocalist for Spiderbait, one of Australia’s most successful and respected alternative rock bands, and Australian rock supergroup, The Wrights.
Mark Wilson – Bassist, pianist and backing vocalist for the internationally acclaimed rock band, Jet.
Darren Middleton – Guitarist and songwriter for one of the most successful Australian rock bands of the past two decades, Powderfinger, and now successful solo artist.
Davey Lane – Guitarist for definitive Australian rock band You Am I, The Pictures and rock supergroup The Wrights.
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Ernst August of Hanover to take son to court
Prince Ernst August of Hanover, 65, will be taking his elder son, Prince Ernst of Hanover to court in two to four weeks, reported FAZ on August 30.
Prince Ernst August wants to regain his German properties that were legally turned over to his son in 2004.. He is not happy with the younger Ernst August's agreement with the government of Lower Saxony regarding Schloss Marienburg.
At the beginning of 2020, the younger Prince Ernst August will transfer the Schloss to a charitable foundation for one Euro. The Lower Saxony government had previously dropped out of a plan to purchase the Schloss. Papa had been opposed to this plan.
Now he is also against the new foundation plan which Culture Minister Björn Thümler had negotiated after the first plan had failed.
Hereditary Prince Ernst August told FAZ that his father does not have a right to a reversal of the donation. "That's done. The topic is finished for me."
The state considers the senior Prince Ernst August to be irrelevant. To ensure the legal transfer of Schloss Marienburg to a charitable foundation, an evaluation report was drawn up a few months ago. Despite being a tourist site, Schloss Marienburg is considered worthless in its present state.
Prince Ernst August wants to prevent Schloss Marienburg's transfer to the foundation. He has complained that his son nor the government have not informed him about the plans for Schloss Marienburg.
The Lower Saxony government, however, does not consider the senior Ernst August to be a reliable person.
The office for the Welfen properties is in Gmunden, Austria. In 2012, Papa was forced out from the administration of the family estates.
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I have just looked at some photos of the interior of Marienburg online and it looks like a fairy tale castle. Do you happen to know why it is considered worthless? For example, does it have a shoddy roof, which would cost so much to replace that no tourist income would ever make up for it (or something like that)?
the castle needs a lot of maintenance and restoration, including dry rot
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The Curious Incident of the Statue in the Night-time: Part Two
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There was no war cry from the Mynci; that unnerved Sarah. She was used to people yelling in some otherworldly tone as they charged at her. She was on familiar ground with that, but silence was altogether new. A few metres from Sarah, the Mynci launched himself in the air and spun his blade around. Sarah back flipped just in time, knocking the Mynci’s Katana from his hands. Both combatants landed in a tense position as the blade clattered away into a corner.
Sarah expected this to be the part where both of them locked their gazes and stared into each other's souls as they worked out their attacker’s flaws. The Mynci chose otherwise. He didn’t even stop for breath before launching a fresh attack of two Silver Sais which he flung through the air at her. Sarah dodged one, but had to deflect the second with her dagger, sending both weapons flying across the room. The Mynci came to a rest back near the doors.
“A better fate lies ahead for the thief who hands herself in now, rather than the one who fights to the death,” the Mynci said wisely.
He held his hand out for the Jade Dandan. Sarah glanced down to it in her other arm, and then back at the Mynci.
“So be it,” he muttered.
He unsheathed a Broad Sword and stood ready at the doors. Sarah looked around; she was out of weapons. Then she looked back down at the statue, and an idea sprang into her mind.
She threw the Jade Dandan high into the air towards the Mynci as she broke into a run. For a split second, the Mynci looked upwards in astonishment, before he leapt high into the air, bouncing off a pillar against the wall, with a view to catch the statue in mid air. Meanwhile, Sarah ran under him, and reached the door as he grabbed the Dandan. She flipped a small lever to the side, which began to open the door. Behind her, the Mynci landed, cradling the Dandan in his arms. His Broad Sword clattered to the floor.
Almost instantly, he felt cold steel against his neck. It was the Katana he had lost at the beginning of the fight.
“Give me the statue,” Sarah demanded.
“I would rather die than betray the Emperor,” he replied.
Sarah sighed. Mr. Jennings’s ‘No Casualties’ rule was beginning to annoy her. Instead, she turned the sword round, and hit the Mynci firmly in the back of the head with the blunt end. He slumped forward, and Sarah reclaimed her prize.
Then she was off through the dark mists, sword and statue in hand. Her plan for the theft had gone wrong, but she could still make good her escape. She vaulted off the mountaintop the palace was located on, and landed on a nearby bridge. From there, she navigated her way towards the sky docks. Behind her, the palace guards spread out into the mists.
The Shenkuu sky docks were home to the city’s unique flying ships that could navigate both sky and sea. Sarah had been hoping to find a fast and sleek ship like the Cyodrake’s Gaze, what she found was quite different. There was only one ship inside the dark dock building. The words “Happy Pandaphant” were written in cheap paint on its hull. It was tiny; barely enough room for the small cabin that contained the ship’s wheel on the deck. From the smell, she judged it was a fishing vessel. Sarah looked back over her shoulder into the mists, then back to the boat. Finally, she shrugged and began to board. She flipped a small switch near the gangplank, and the roof of the sky docks split in half, separating out and revealing the night sky. Using the stolen Katana, she cut the guy ropes, and engaged the engine.
Rather noisily the Happy Pandaphant sprang to life and slowly rose up through the hole where the roof had been. It wasn’t a fast or manoeuvrable ship; in fact, Sarah almost veered directly into a nearby mountain, but it was still a ship. It was still an escape. She heard the yells as the guards spotted her flying away, but she didn’t care. She cradled the Jade Dandan in her arms and thought of the money she would make from Mr. Jennings.
It was dawn when Shan the Mynci was called by the Emperor. His head still hurt from where he had been knocked out by the Aisha thief, but he was as alert as ever. He was the best of the Shenkuu elite guard, charged with personally ensuring the Emperor’s safety. He knew the Emperor would be angry at him for his failure, but the shame of letting the criminal escape was in many ways punishment enough.
Shan found the Emperor in the Treasure House. He looked worried, and paced the floor as a dozen guards watched him.
“Highness,” Shan said as he knelt.
“Get up, Shan; this is no time for ceremony. This is a crisis. I trust you know what they stole?” the Emperor said, stroking his beard unconsciously.
Shan nodded but did not get up.
“The Jade Dandan,” he confirmed, “I saw the thief myself, and held the statue in my arms. However, the thief bested me; I am eternally shamed.”
The Emperor considered this.
“Do you know how he escaped?” he asked eventually.
“She, sir. She stole a fishing ship, the Happy Pandaphant. I have dispatched messengers to Altador asking for any information,” Shan told him.
The Emperor turned to face the empty dais.
“She will not head to Altador, of this I am sure. If it is a fishing vessel the thief stole, she will have to touch water before she reaches Mystery Island. That is where we shall begin our search,” the Emperor said.
“As is your wish,” Shan agreed.
He looked sideways at a guard near the entrance to the room, who nodded and rushed out to dispatch messengers.
“Did you recognise the thief?” the Emperor asked.
“No, my Lord, they were not familiar to me. It was a female blue Aisha; other than that, I cannot say,” Shan replied.
“Do you think you would recognise her, if you saw her again?” the Emperor asked.
“Absolutely,” Shan replied without hesitation. “Her face is forever etched into my memory for the shame she has brought upon me.”
“Strange, how fate weaves such a delicate web...” the Emperor muttered as he turned away.
“Pardon, your highness?” questioned Shan.
“You should read this,” the Emperor said.
He turned, and handed a letter to him. It was written in distinctive, neat handwriting that Shan would have recognised instantly had he been thinking, but he read on anyway. It read: “Dearest Emperor, as promised on my final day of service, I have claimed the birthright of the Shenkuu throne. This is only the beginning, I intend to take from you what you took from me, everything.”
Then he read the signature.
“General... Qin?” Shan asked.
“It is his signature, wouldn’t you agree?” the Emperor asked.
Shan re-read the letter.
“Yes... and his handwriting. But to do such a thing... I didn’t think the General was capable,” Shan said is disbelief.
“Exile can do a lot to a man,” the Emperor told him, taking back the letter.
“The Jade Dandan must be recovered,” the Emperor continued, “Undoubtedly your Aisha thief doesn’t know the power of what she holds, we must find her before she meets with General Qin. Qin cannot hold the Jade Dandan, we all know what he is capable of, and the statue can give him the power to carry it out.”
Shan nodded.
“You must go,” the Emperor told him.
“Emperor, I cannot. I cannot face the General. Send someone else, I beg you,” Shan asked.
“You are the only one who got a good look at this thief. You must go,” the Emperor said, “You are also the General of my troops, Qin’s replacement. I have faith in you; you are more skilled than he is. I could not send any other.”
“Sire-” Shan began.
“This is an order,” the Emperor told him, “Do you defy me?”
“No,” Shan replied.
“Then you shall go,” the Emperor told him, “Take a full contingent of soldiers, your choice. Take no chances; you know how dangerous Qin can be, and how little mercy he has.”
“What if we meet the General?” Shan asked.
“Then you know what must be done,” the Emperor told him, “Secure the Jade Dandan by any means. He once destroyed a village on a whim; he cannot be permitted to destroy an Empire.”
Shan nodded, and bowed his head again before leaving.
The Happy Pandaphant had run out of whatever it used to fly about half way to Mystery Island. Sarah wasn’t a sailor, but she was proud of the job she had done in docking the boat. Admittedly she had completely missed the island and shipwrecked herself on the beaches of Krawk Island, but that didn’t matter; if anything, for Sarah it was an improvement. Two days remained before her meeting with Mr. Jennings. She could afford a good night’s sleep on the island before finding a ship going to Kiko Lake in the morning.
She went to the only place she knew she could get a bed; the Golden Dubloon had long ago barred her. Instead, she went to the Rusty Dubloon, one of the island’s seedier taverns. It had been burnt to the ground more often than anyone could count, and was frequented by the types of local pirates who found the rougher taverns of Scurvy Island a bit posh for their liking. The themes were dank and grog and it achieved both with startling perfection. The current owner was a pirate Techo named Toothless Bob, so named because he was one of the few pirates on Krawk Island with a full set of teeth. Krawk Island’s sense of irony never ceased to amaze Sarah. Ownership of the Rusty Dubloon passed often, as owners tended to emigrate, get murdered, get shanghaied, or mysteriously disappear in other circumstances.
“Morning, Bob,” Sarah said at the bar over the loud din of pirate shouting in the tavern.
“Is it?” Bob replied, somewhat startled.
Sarah frowned. Bob rarely got outside; his tavern was open 24 hours a day.
“I need a room,” she told him.
“Money up front,” he told her.
She handed across three Dubloons.
“And the rest,” he said.
“What?” Sarah asked.
“Rooms cost four Dubloons,” Bob informed her.
“It’s always been three!” Sarah protested.
“That’s inflation for ye, it the whatjacallit, economy,” he said flatly.
Sarah grumbled and handed over an extra Dubloon.
“Up the stairs, second on the right,” Bob said happily.
Sarah found her room, and locked the door tightly behind her. She took the Jade Dandan from under her robes and hid it under the bed. Then, she collapsed on the bed and let sleep take her. It had been a long day, and tomorrow would be even longer.
» The Curious Incident of the Statue in the Night-time: Part One
» The Curious Incident of the Statue in the Night-time: Part Three
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» The Curious Incident of the Statue in the Night-time: Part Five
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City Slaps Surdyk's With Suspension For Sunday Sales
The store won't be able to sell liquor for 30 days starting July 2—just as other stores can begin opening Sundays.
Twin Cities residents were puzzled when Surdyk’s threw open its doors on Sunday. Was this a joke?
It turns out it wasn’t. The Northeast Minneapolis liquor and cheese store openly flouted the Sunday sales ban that remains in effect until this summer. For its act of civil disobedience, the store had lines out the door, plenty of press coverage.
“We just decided to open up,” Jim Surdyk, owner of the business, told the Star Tribune. “We’re here, we’re busy, it’s great. People are happy to be here.”
But not everyone was happy. A city inspector slapped the store with a $3,500 fine. Then, on Monday, the city reduced the fine that Surdyk owed the city to $2,000 but also slapped a 30-day suspension of his liquor license, effective July 2.
That date, nearly four months into the future, is no accident. The bill that lawmakers passed this session, ending Minnesota’s over 150-year ban on Sunday liquor sales, goes into effect on July 1—and the first Sunday of the month is July 2.
City officials confirmed that the date was chosen both as a symbolic measure and to provide Jim Surdyk with enough time to appeal the decision.
“When penalties were being discussed, July 2 was a date in mind because it’ll be the first day stores can legally sell liquor on Sunday in Minnesota,” Casper Hill, a media relations coordinator for the City of Minneapolis, told TCB in an email. “We needed to set a date a few months out to allow time for all potential appeals and hearings that may be needed. The July 2 date serves that purpose.”
Any appeal could go all the way to the city council, though the situation is unique, making it hard to find precedent.
“This sort of suspension has not been given to another Minneapolis off-sale liquor retailer in recent memory,” Hill said.
Still, there are signs that the council could soften or alter the punishment to alleviate any pain felt by workers who could be out of a job for a month. Councilmember Jacob Frey, who represents the area where Surdyk’s is located, tweeted, “Knowingly disregarding the law has a significant price tag, which should be paid by the owner, not the employees who had no part in the decision.”
In a reply to someone who pressed him on how to punish the owner without inflicting harm on workers, Frey said that the city could impose a fine or string the required closure dates out over time.
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Back to monkey business EDITORIAL 09/10/2011
Back to monkey business
Energy Chief Rene Almendras informed a Senate hearing that Noynoy Aquino may do a Ramos in solving a looming power shortage crisis that is expected to occur in the last three years of the Aquino administration.
What is meant by “doing a Ramos” is for Noynoy to be granted emergency powers by Congress which he will likely get, given that his congressional lapdogs are in the majority and always toe the Malacañang line.
Fidel Ramos, shortly after assuming the presidency in 1992 quickly sought emergency powers from Congress to address a then crippling power shortage that resulted mainly from the decision of Ramos’ predecessor President Cory Aquino, the incumbent Aquino’s mother, to mothball the nuclear plant without, however, prepapring for its power replacement, and abolished the Ministry of Energy (MoE) during her term that created a vacuum in energy supply planning.
The Ramos “solution” in the long run, proved to be horribly expensive for every Filipino..... MORE
‘Incapable Noynoy’ FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 09/10/2011
‘Incapable Noynoy’
From conversations between US officials and leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, as culled from the leaked WikiLeaks cables, the MILF apparently sees Noynoy as, well, short of being a simpleton who is incapable of grasping the problems of the peace process in Mindanao.
Michael Mastura, one of the MILF peace panelists, was quoted as saying to the US official that the Moro problem was “too complicated for Senator Aquino to understand.”
The MILF also appears to see Noy as a weakling around whom it can run circles.
There are signs that the Moro rebels see him as such, as it is fact that they succeeded in getting him, the president of a republic, to meet with the MILF leaders for a secret meeting in Tokyo, where the MILF discussed the establishment of a sub-state in Mindanao.
No head of government or state meets an armed rebel group, secret or no, as that would provide the rebels with a belligerency status. And in the case of Noynoy, it was even worse, since he brought along with him his Cabinet secretaries — including his Budget secretary, which would have something to do with funding the MILF. Already, an initial P5 million was released — and that’s just for sweetening starters..... MORE
Iraqi Kurds caught between rebels, Iran and Turkey focus 09/10/2011
Iraqi Kurds caught between rebels, Iran and Turkey
ARBIL — Iraq’s Kurds are caught between ethnic ties to Kurdish rebels based in the autonomous Kurdistan region, and heavy pressure by Iran and Turkey, which aim to eradicate the rebels’ bases.
Iran launched major attacks against rebels of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in July, targeting their rear-bases in Iraqi Kurdistan along the Iran-Iraq border, and shelling the area for weeks.
And in mid-August, Turkey began its own campaign of shelling and air raids against bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Kurdistan, which has ties with the PJAK.
“We are in a difficult situation because there are two countries (Iran and Turkey) telling us to control our borders so there will be no problems,” Massud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region in north Iraq, said on Tuesday during a meeting in Arbil with Kurdistan representatives based abroad..... MORE
7-year-old girl killed by a soldier; residents call for military pullout in ComVal
“Because of military deployment in civilian communities, the lives of the children are placed in great risk.” – Children’s Rehabilitation Center
MANILA – Almost midnight of September 3, seven-year old Sunshine Jabinez was peacefully sleeping inside the house she shared with her parents when a soldier went amok, fired his gun into the air and a bullet found its way into Sunshine. Her shocked parents immediately rushed Sunshine to the Pantukan District Hospital, but the child was pronounced dead on arrival.
The Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in the Southern Mindanao Region said a member of the the 71st Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces identified as Private First Class (Pfc) Baltazar M. Ramos fired his armalite indiscriminately after figuring in a heated altercation with a fellow soldier. Ramos was reportedly with several others drinking that night in a videoke bar.
According to reports, the fight began when one of Ramos’ drinking companions attempted to hit him with a bottle. Ramos then allegedly took his rifle from his patrol base and went after his attacker. The other soldiers attempted to pacify him and succeeded in removing the ammunition magazine, but one bullet apparently remained in the chamber. In the struggle Ramos accidentally pulled the trigger of his rifle and his bullet flew straight into the Jabinez family’s house and hit Sunshine.
Sunshine was a second grade elementary school student at Biasong Elementary School.
“Her parents only learned that their daughter was shot when they heard her cry ‘agay’ (ouch),” said Edessa Sandra A. Campos, CRC-SMR’s advocacy officer.
Campos condemned what she said was the military’s attempts to convince the public that they are deployed in civilian communities to further peace and development programs.
Children participate in a women’s day rally. (Photo courtesy of Children’s Rehabilitation Center / bulatlat.com)
“In reality, these peace and development teams of the 10th Infantry Division are no different from the division’s Re-engineered Special Operations Teams (RSOT) which are also deployed in communities. Because of military deployment in civilian communities, the lives of the children are placed in great risk.
Sunshine was killed because soldiers were deployed near where she lived,” she said.
The children’s rights advocate also condemned how the AFP also employs children in counter-insurgency operations, including to serve as guides to track down the members of the New People’s Army (NPA).
In 2007, elements of the 67th Infantry Battalion killed Grecil Buya, a Grade 2 student of Simsimen Elementary School, in an encounter with the NPA. The military asserted that Grecil was a NPA child soldier and at the time she was killed was carrying an M-16 rifle and firing at the military. Investigations and documentation showed otherwise.
Unfortunately, the perpetrators remain unpunished,” Campos lamented..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/09/10/7-year-old-girl-killed-by-a-soldier-residents-call-for-military-pullout-in-comval/
GPH-MILF peace talks heading for an impasse
The MILF leadership, particularly its negotiating panel headed by Mohagher Iqbal, views the “3 in 1” proposal of the Philippine government for a peace agreement as “detached,” has “no connections” and has in fact “derogated the past agreements and consensus reached by the two parties in the past 14 years of negotiations.”
MANILA — Recent developments in Mindanao do not augur well for the prospect of peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Yesterday the MILF condemned the Philippine Army for its “deliberate” violation of the MILF-GPH ceasefire after “a platoon-size troop of its 73rd Infantry Battalion (IB) under a certain Lt Col Espuelas entered and crossed over the perimeter defense post of the 107th Base Command of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) – MILF at upper Pananag, Maasim” in Saranggani.
The MILF ceasefire committee reported the violation to its counterpart with the Philippine government, as well as the International Monitoring Team (IMT), which responded by going to the government troops and informing the soldiers of their infringement of the ceasefire accord in having crossed over to the MILF defense line. But in a report at luwaran.com, the MILF said, the Army troops “totally disregarded” all these.
The MILF viewed this act as a “manifestation of direct command responsibility that does not augur well with the present situation of the peace talks between the government and MILF.”
Increased troop deployment in other provinces in Mindanao had also been reported in the media. Aside from violating the two parties’ ceasefire agreement, the Philippine Army’s act, said the MILF, also violates the agreement and mechanism of the government and MILF for the interdiction and isolation of criminal elements as mandated in the GPH-MILF Adhoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG).
Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters man an outpost at the entrance of the office of the MILF Peace Panel in Camp Darapanan, Maguindanao. The group recently rejected the peace plan offered by the government. (Photo by Karlos Manlupig / bulatlat.com)
This violation is similar to the alleged GPH violations of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), noted lawyer Datu Michael Mastura, a senior peace panel member of the MILF, in a round-table discussion with Moro-Christian People’s Alliance last week.
GPH may soon talk only to itself
Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, Chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said in a media interview yesterday, the MILF “will not sit down in the GPH’s proposed talks early this month in Kuala Lumpur because the subject of the talks is not their proposed sub-state.”
The MILF leadership, particularly its negotiating panel headed by Mohagher Iqbal, views the “3 in 1” proposal of the Philippine government for a peace agreement as “detached,” has “no connections” and has in fact “derogated the past agreements and consensus reached by the two parties in the past 14 years of negotiations.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/09/09/gph-milf-peace-talks-appears-headed-for-an-impasse/
The long, difficult road to justice for mothers of 2 missing UP students
“While we commend the courage of the mothers of Karen and Sherlyn, now human rights defenders themselves, in pursuing the criminal case, it is equally significant that the Aquino government must take concrete steps in making the roads to justice accessible for the victims and their families.” – Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development
MANILA – Mrs. Concepcion Empeño’s eyes looked tired but she was smiling at supporters.
As usual, she left Masinloc, Zambales at midnight to make it to the hearing at the Department of Justice (DOJ). By 6 p.m. of the same day, she has to travel back to their home. She gets there by 12 midnight and has to wake up early the next day to go to work. She is a principal of an elementary school.
This has been her weekly routine since the start of the hearings on the criminal complaint she and Mrs. Erlinda Cadapan filed against military officials linked to the abduction of their daughters Karen and Sherlyn.
“This is tiring but we cannot stop now. Physically, it is taxing, and financially too, but we could not give up until we find justice,” Mrs. Empeño, now 60 years old, told Bulatlat.com after a hearing on Sept. 7.
To get to Manila, Mrs. Empeño needs to shell out P1,000 for food and transportation. The family has meager income, with her husband Oscar tending poultry.
The same goes true for Mrs. Cadapan. “Honestly, I am very tired but this has to be done. We need to obtain justice. They have to surface my daughter and the perpetrators should be punished,” she said.
To be able to attend the hearings, Mrs. Cadapan stopped her backyard mushroom production, the family’s means of livelihood for years. She admitted that there were times she had no money for transportation and food but she constantly gets support from her children and her colleagues.
Karen, Sherlyn and farmer Manuel Merino were abducted by state security forces on June 26, 2006 in Hagonoy, Bulacan.
Five years of searching
Both mothers searched military camps, morgues and funeral parlors to look for their daughters.
They filed all kinds of petition before the courts. As early as July 17, 2006, the parents of the two students filed a petition for the writ of habeas corpus at the Court of Appeals but the said petition was dismissed on March 29, 2007 on the basis of the military’s denial of custody of Sherlyn and Karen. On October 24 of the same year, Mrs. Empeño and Mrs. Cadapan filed a petition for a writ of amparo. The Court of Appeals then granted the said writ but the UP students remain missing..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/09/09/the-long-difficult-road-to-justice-for-mothers-of-2-missing-up-students/
Jalandoni: NDFP remains committed to peace talks
“This is not something we can give up on easily. We are talking about our country’s chances of securing a just and lasting peace and putting an end to the armed conflict. These are aspirations that all peace-loving Filipinos share, and we should persevere in the peace talks. If there are problems, we have to find solutions to them; if there are obstacles, then they should be overcome.”
Solve problems, overcome obstacles.
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni is determined to exhaust all diplomatic and principled means to ensure that the peace talks with the Government of the Philippines (GPH) pushes through. Even as others might find it understandable to throw in the towel given how the GPH panel — specifically negotiator Alex Padilla — has been rudely behaving and speaking, Jalandoni and the rest of the NDFP’s peace panel including Coni Ledesma and Fidel V. Agcaoili remain steadfast in pushing for the talks.
In a forum sponsored by Pilgrims for Peace, an ecumenical formation of religious groups and lay associations, Jalandoni and Ledesma gave the background story on the not-so-rosy developments in the negotiations with the Aquino administration’s so-called peace makers.
Jalandoni answered at length what exactly is going wrong in the talks — the GPH’s refusal to uphold the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantee (JASIG) and honor its word to release the NDFP consultants in the custody of its armed forces — but not once did he betray frustration.
“This is not something we can give up on easily. We are talking about our country’s chances of securing a just and lasting peace and putting an end to the armed conflict. These are aspirations that all peace-loving Filipinos share, and we should persevere in the peace talks. If there are problems, we have to find solutions to them; if there are obstacles, then they should be overcome,” he said.
In the last month, the NDFP and the GPH have been exchanging sharp words over the media. The fiery exchange was triggered by loose statements made by GPH’s Padilla and Presidential Peace Adviser Teresita Quintos Deles saying that (1) the Jasig is no longer operable; and (2) the GPH was under no obligation to release any political prisoner, much less captured NDFP consultants.
National Democratic Front of the Philippines’ (NDFP) peace panelists Luis Jalandoni and Coni Ledesma declares the NDFP’s continuing commitment to the peace talks. Jalandoni said the NDFP will never give up efforts to forge a principled peace agreement with the Government of the Philippines (GPH) because “the Filipino people desire an end to the conflict and want peace based on justice” in the country. (Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com)
“The NDFP always sits at the negotiating table with a readiness to talk peace and a preparedness to uphold previously signed agreements with the GPH. These are serious matters which we all take pains to handle correctly and with sincerity,” he said. He seemed unable to hold back a measure of disappointment when he explained how the GPH is deliberately failing to carry its end in implementing previously forged agreements on the release of consultants. Even then, however, he is careful with his words.
“It is expected that both panels prove sincerity by carrying out the agreements. Releasing the NDFP’s consultants is a good-will building measure, it is true; but at the same time, it’s also a promise previously made by the GPH when we began negotiations earlier this year in February. As for the Jasig, neither the GPH panel nor the GPH itself can simply declare it’s inoperable — it will only lose effect if and when the head of the NDFP and the GPH agree to declare it so by one party sending a letter to the other,” he said.
In any case, human rights groups assert that even now the Aquino government continues to refuse to address the issues of torture, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings of Jasig-protected individuals, among them Leo Velasco, Prudencio Calubid, Rogelio Calubad, Sotero Llamas ; as well as hundreds of others without Jasig protection..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/09/08/ndfp-chief-negotiator-luis-jalandoni-ndfp-remains-committed-to-peace-talks/
Epira, the culprit behind high power rates
Failed promises of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001
Time and again the government has been promising that the privatization of government-controlled corporations and agencies would result in better services, lower rates and fees for the Filipino people while bringing in much-needed funds to the government. These privatization efforts have taken many forms: outright sale of government assets, contracting out functions of government agencies such as the purchase and importation of rice, Build-Operate-Transfer schemes, and the much touted Public-Private-Partnerships of the current Aquino government.
But the Filipino people’s experience with the power industry proved otherwise.
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MANILA – Power rates are expected to increase again this month. Meralco, the biggest power distributor in the country, said it will increase its generation charge by 0.085 centavos per kilowatt-hour to 5.3721 per kWh.
A household consuming 100 kWh can expect an increase of P8.50 per kWh in their electricity bills while those that use 200 kWh a month will have to pay P17 more for August. Households that use up 300 kWh monthly can also expect an increase by as much as P25.50 per kWh.
The never ending increases in power rates are blamed on privatization, according to a study POWER FAILURE: 10 years of EPIRA, A people’s review on the impact of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001, which was conducted by Bagong Alayansang Makabayan (Bayan), People Opposed to Warrantless Electricity Rates (Power) and independent think tank group Ibon.
According to Bayan, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) systematized and widened privatization and deregulation of the power industry in the country. Epira has paved the way for private corporations to control the transmission, generation and distribution of electricity. Corporations that control some of the distribution utilities also own generating plants.
Rates doubled under Epira
Despite strong opposition from various sectors, Epira was railroaded by Malacañang’s allies in the House of Representatives and signed by then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on June 8, 2001,
Epira, according to the Department of Energy aims to “bring down electricity rates and to improve the delivery of power supply to end-users by encouraging greater competition and efficiency in the electricity industry.” In its website, the DOE claimed that the Epira will make sure that the country will have reliable and competitively priced electricity. “The strategy is to put an end to monopolies that breed inefficiency, encourage the entry of many more industry players, and generate competition that will benefit consumers in terms of better rates and services.”
Ten years after, however, Bayan, Power and Ibon said Epira’s implementation is ten years of burden to consumers.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/09/08/epira-the-culprit-behind-high-power-rates/
MRT-LRT rate hikes unjustified—senators By Angie M. Rosales 09/10/2011
MRT-LRT rate hikes unjustified—senators
President Aquino’s legacy no doubt will be marked by high prices in goods and services in which he made no effort to stop them from rising too much.
He has announced that he will be removing the subsidy in the riding public’s fare of the Metro Rail and Light Rail Transit (MRT-LRT), which automatically translates to higher fares that the rail transits will be charging the commuters. Oil prices have been jumping weekly, and neither has Aquino made any move to talk to oil firms for them to slow down on the price hikes. Nor has he suspended the eVAT imposed on oil companies, for the prices of petrol to go down.
In the case of the the removal of the commuters’ subsidy in the rail transit, Aquino claimed that it is unfair for taxpayers who are non Metro Manilans to continue to pay taxes for the subsidy of Metro Manilan commuters.
But one of President Aquino’s allies in the Senate yesterday pointed out the lack of any justification in the government’s move to reduce subsidy in the commuters’ fare of the MRT-LRT, which will result in a rate increase soon..... MORE
Budget hearings marred quorum lack By Gerry Baldo 09/10/2011
Budget hearings marred quorum lack
The plenary debates on the proposed national budget for 2012 have been marred by the absence of so many lawmakers so much so that the House had to adjourn shortly after noontime.
But the House leaders, led by Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and Rep. Jospeh Emilio Abaya chairman of the appropriations committee, dismissed the lack of quorum, saying that this will hardly affect the timetable of the national budget’s passage.
This usually translates to the House passing the most important annual legislative measures without as much as debates or scrunity of the Malacañang-proposed measure.
It is usual too, for the House of Representatives, whose majority always is allied with Malacañang, to simply pass the measure without any cuts..... MORE
Pimentel proposes land title insurance against fraud 09/10/2011
Pimentel proposes land title insurance against fraud
BACOLOD CITY — Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III yesterday pushed the immediate enactment creating a system of land titling insurance in the statute books.
“If property can be insured against floods, fire, earthquakes and other calamities, then the same property can be insured against fraudulent land titling too,” Pimentel said.
Pimentel issued the statement in the wake of the resurgence of another huge land controversy in Quezon City where many ordinary land owners are threatened to be evicted from the homes that they purchased with their sweat and hard earned money.
Pimentel, however, emphasized that ultimately, in the Quezon City land row, the matter of determining ownership of the land is to be resolved by the courts..... MORE
EcoWaste asks retailers to remove products with chemicals 09/10/2011
EcoWaste asks retailers to remove products with chemicals
The EcoWaste Coalition, a toxic watchdog, yesterday asked top retailers to demonstrate their corporate social responsibility by removing children’s products that have been found to contain health damaging chemicals.
The EcoWaste Coalition and IPEN, in collaboration with project partners in Manila, Cebu and Davao, recently released the results of their investigation showing 121 samples, or over 27 percent, of the 435 children’s products tested were loaded with excessive amounts of toxic metals such as lead, a neurotoxin.
Some of the tainted products were procured by the EcoWaste Coalition from National Book Store (SM City North Edsa and Ayala Mall-Cebu), Toys R Us (Robinsons Galleria-Quezon City, Robinsons Place-Cebu and Robinsons in Abreeza Mall-Davao City), Toy Kingdom (SM City North Edsa, SM Cebu and SM Davao) and other formal retailers with official receipts issued.
The samples were screened for toxic ingredients such as antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury using a portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzer, a device that is routinely used by US regulatory bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The screening was conducted by Dr. Joe DiGangi , Senior Science and Policy Adviser of IPEN, who left the country last Wednesday..... MORE
CA stops execution of writ of possession of disputed QC lot 09/10/2011
CA stops execution of writ of possession of disputed QC lot
The Court of Appeals (CA) yesterday stopped the execution of a writ of possession issued by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) covering a disputed land near Visayas Avenue in Quezon City.
CA 6th Division chairman Associate Justice Amelita Tolentino issued a 60-day temporary restraining order (TRO) stopping the writ of possession earlier issued by Quezon City RTC Branch 224 Judge Marilyn Villordon in favor of the alleged landowner, Wilfredo Torres.
The TRO stemmed from a petition filed by the Maria Montessori School, which is located in the disputed land in Barangay Culiat, Quezon City.
In its decision, CA said the petitioner is required to post a P500,000 bond before the TRO finally takes effect..... MORE
House ratifies foster care bill for abandoned, abused, neglected children By Charlie V. Manalo 09/10/2011
House ratifies foster care bill for abandoned, abused, neglected children
A bill granting tax incentives to families participating in a foster family program for children who are abandoned, exploited or have physical disabilities has been ratified by the House of Representatives for approval by President Aquino.
Bagong Henerasyon Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy said the Lower House voted unanimously to adopt the Senate version of House Bill 4481 after congressmen found no substantial conflicts between the two proposals.
Herrera-Dy, a principal author of HB 4481, said the Foster Care Act of 2011 seeks to strengthen and propagate foster care for abandoned and neglected children and minors with special needs.
“The rights of a child must be respected and defended, all efforts must be exerted to eliminate all conditions prejudicial to their full development,” said Herrera Dy who also authored the so-called anti-corporal punishment on children proposal..... MORE
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Foul play EDITORIAL 01/05/2012
House prosecutors are into dirty play, aided moreover, by the yellow media, what with the lead prosecutor, Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., at a media forum, coming up with a deed of sale document of a condominium said to belong to Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, and claiming four more Corona properties that he said the prosecution is in the process of verifying while calling on the CJ to make public his Statement of Assets and Liabilities Networth (SALn).
The next day, the yellow media had a photo of an empty Taguig penthouse which is not even the condo that the CJ owns, and which condo, incidentally, he had earlier disclosed in his reply to the impeachment complaint..... MORE
‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’
Damascus is criticizing the US for sending an envoy to Cairo's Arab League discussions about ending the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. London-based political analyst Chris Bambery says the US is preparing for a military intervention in Syria.
According to Barbery, sanctions against Syria are only the beginning of Western intervention. "The key ally in this enterprise, Turkey, has been involved with the Free Syrian Army – training them, and we know there are also American advisers in those camps in Turkey," he says. And, "when you combine all that – sanctions, diplomatic moves, the involvement with the Free Syrian Army, it begins to create a dynamic that though perhaps the Americans don’t want involvement in the military operation in Syria, they can pull it in that direction.”.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/military-syria-arab-america-223/
‘EU lacks sense of society to politically unite’
“A monetary union without political union is impossible to maintain,” economist Arjo Klamer said 20 years ago. And as Europe struggles to deal with the euro crisis, the EU countries are still too different to politically unite, Klamer told RT.
Klamer, who is a professor of the Economics of Art and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, says a political union should be formed now, because stronger fiscal coordination and better social policy would support the euro. However, “There is too much heterogeneity. The countries are too different.
Countries are too attached to their own sovereignty,” he told RT..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/eu-political-union-failure-237/
Libya: Collapse of justice leaves at least 7,000 behind bars (w/ Video)
Libya: Collapse of justice leaves at least 7,000 behind bars
With their common enemy dead and gone, the uniting factor which bound Libya’s former rebels in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi has melted away. Now, in-fighting among the different armed factions is spilling onto the streets.
Meanwhile, thousands of Libyans remain behind bars waiting for the new rulers to try them for their crime of failing to jump ship.
One of the first amnesties of the new Libya was when hundreds of men and women, many of them sub-Saharan immigrants, were released from a makeshift prison. Most of them had spent several months in captivity for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/libya-justice-collapse-tripoli-227/
CNN censors vet that supports Ron Paul (w/ Video)
CNN censors vet that supports Ron Paul
The establishment’s war against Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has been evident since the Texas congressman began surging in the polls, but the previously privy attack on the candidate was made public to millions Wednesday night.
During a live interview Wednesday night from an Iowa caucus location, CNN briefly spoke to an US military veteran and adamant supporter of Rep. Ron Paul until the soldier began praising Paul for the non-interventionist ideals that separate the congressman from the mainstream candidates endorsed by the establishment..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/cnn-ron-paul-thorsen-207/
Poor Bart I.N.S.I.D.E . C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S Charlie Manalo 01/05/2012
Poor Bart
I.N.S.I.D.E . C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S
He may enjoy the title Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) but Nicanor Bartolome may be far from one.
According to reliable sources inside Camp Crame, ex-fugitive, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, who is reportedly being eyed by President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino to take over the helm of Department of Interior and Local Government, is already wielding his influence in the force, particularly on the appointment of officers in juicy positions.
According to the source, Ping, who went into hiding after being implicated in the Corbito-Dacer double murder case, only to surface later after Noynoy assumed the presidency, is imposing himself on Bartolome, allegedly dictating on the PNP chief on who to appoint to certain positions in the police organization, prompting one official to described Lacson as the “de facto chief PNP.”.... MORE
Noy gives green light to ‘shaved’ FoI By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 01/05/2012
Noy gives green light to ‘shaved’ FoI
A watered-down version of a controversial bill seen crucial in achieving transparency in government transactions was approved yesterday by President Aquino.
Press Undersecretary Manolo Quezon III admitted that the original version of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill has been defaced and many of its crucial provisions that promote free access to information have been removed.
The Malacañang version of the bill includes giving special shield for the President and his official family from being scrutinized on the basis of an FoI Law..... MORE
Pinoys in Syria reject return, say no jobs in RP By Michaela P. del Callar 01/05/2012
Pinoys in Syria reject return, say no jobs in RP
Majority of Filipino workers in Syria have rejected the Philippine government’s offer to repatriate them to the Philippines for free amid the worsening political security situation in the troubled Middle East state, citing scant employment opportunities back home, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario admitted yesterday.
Del Rosario, who flew to Syria last weekend to personally check on the progress of evacuation efforts of the Philippine Embassy there, said many Filipinos have expressed their desire to remain even as the government declared the highest crisis alert in the country that calls for mandatory repatriation of all its nationals.... MORE
Flood victims, kids compete for use schools 01/05/2012
Flood victims, kids compete for use schools
Flood evacuees and pupils competed for space of schools yesterday, with both wanting to use the buildings following the Christmas break, officials said.
In some cases, survivors of last month’s floods from tropical storm “Sendong” were moved to alternative shelters as children returned to schoolhouses that had been used as evacuation centers.
But in other instances, hundreds of the evacuees refused to leave, forcing school officials to find novel ways of conducting classes..... MORE
For not getting ‘pulutan,’ drunken man kills 3 women 01/05/2012
For not getting ‘pulutan,’ drunken man kills 3 women
A drunken man went on a shooting spree and killed three women and wounded an American after he was not given “pulutan” (appetizer) last Tuesday night in Tondo, Manila.
The suspect was identified as Ronald Cruz, 37, of 1220 Masinop St., Tondo, a former seaman and a messenger of Philippine Reclamation Authority..... MORE
Katipunan heroine’s remains brought to QC hall today 01/05/2012
Katipunan heroine’s remains brought to QC hall today
The remains of Melchora Aquino, more popularly known as Tandang Sora, are laid today at the Quezon City Hall after their exhumation from Himlayang Pilipino before they are brought to their final resting place at a shrine exactly where she was born 200 years ago.
At a press conference, Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista and Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte, who heads the Task Force Tandang Sora, said the relics of the Grand Old Lady of Katipunan, who was said to be a look-alike of actress Dawn Zulueta when the city’s lone heroine was in her 20s, will be brought to the city hall in a flag-draped casket and on a horse-drawn carriage..... MORE
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Wimpy Noy wants UK to join fray EDITORIAL 06/05/2012
Wimpy Noy wants UK to join fray
Noynoy appears bent on irritating China some more by announcing that he is meeting with US President Barack Obama and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron next week and that the Philippines’ territorial dispute with China over the Scarborough Shoal would be raised during his bilateral meetings with the two leaders.
Chinese leaders at a Singapore regional security summit held last weekend had indicated China’s concern over the so-called pivot of the United States forces in Asia-Pacific and the sudden emboldened administration of Noynoy to pursue a claim which has long been a subject of detente between the Philippines and China.
The standoff with China over the Scarborough Shoal dispute is already easing and negotiations are ongoing, and it is the worst time for Noynoy to say that he wants a new party to get involved in the territorial dispute the country has with the mainland..... MORE
Covering up the hidden wealth FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/05/2012
Covering up the hidden wealth
Noynoy and Malacaang, along with his senator-judges and congressional allies, may think the call for baring their financial records through unconditional waivers of the confidentiality of their bank accounts, will go away soon, but they should have another think coming, because the calls for transparency are getting louder.
The call for transparency on Noynoy got louder a few days ago after the Church hierarchy joined the demand for him and his Cabinet officials to sign waivers on the secrecy of their bank accounts.
Noynoy and his boys may think they can get away with it by merely claiming that he and the ousted Chief Justice, Renato Corona, are not on the same level and that Noynoy need not even come up with the same act of Corona since he is not under any obligation to do so apart from the lame excuse of his having signed a waiver in his statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn) for the Ombudsman to look into his financial records..... MORE
China expects respect after US naval shift
China has expressed mild concerns with the American plans to shift most of its warships to the Pacific region by 2020. Beijing called on to Washington to respect the interests of all sides in the Asia-Pacific, including that of China.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Liu Weimin said that the Asia-Pacific is the region where Chinese and the US interests overlap the most, so China expects Washington to play “a constructive role in the region.”
"We also hope that the United States will respect the interests and concerns of all sides in the Asia-Pacific, including China,” Chinese diplomat said..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/us-naval-shift-china-933/
Assange guests grilled: Is FBI collecting ‘evidence’ for indictment?
Will Julian Assange’s show make the Guinness Book of Records? Quite likely, especially if you think of all the people interrogated over their ties with the whistleblower before or after they talked to the WikiLeaks founder.
“The FBI is apparently collecting evidence to indict Julian Assange before a grand jury. Sweden must not be the final destination of the designed extradition,” sources close to the WikiLeaks and Julian Assange told RT.
The Cypherpunks episode of The Julian Assange Show has not even premiered on RT, but a pot of trouble is already boiling and Jeremy Zimmerman, a co-founder of cyber freedoms group La Quadrature du Net, has got a taste of it..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/assange-fbi-julian-us-991/
Syrian rebels abandon ceasefire, call on UN for no-fly zone
A Syrian rebel spokesman says they are no longer committed to Annan’s ceasefire. He has called for a UN-backed “peace enforcement mission” or a no-fly zone to replace the monitoring mission, demands the UN chief has rejected.
On Friday, the rebel military council had given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an ultimatum to end violence in the country or face armed reprisals.
"We have decided to end our commitment to this [plan] and starting from that date [Friday] we began defending our people," rebel spokesman Major Sami al-Kurdi told Reuters news agency..... MORE
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/syria-rebels-annan-ceasefire-958/
A forgotten history AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 06/05/2012
A forgotten history
When Renato Corona appeared before the impeachment court on May 22, he testified that he and his wife had been converting their peso earnings to dollars since the late 1960s, when the exchange rate had been two to one. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile pressed him on this date. Not the early sixties? No, late sixties. After 1965? Affirmative.
At that point, it seemed to this outsider that Chief Justice (CJ) Corona’s goose was cooked, because Enrile obviously knew that a two-to-one exchange rate had not been available in the late sixties. In the event, Enrile made no mention of this when he explained his conviction vote on May 29, but a day earlier Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas had zeroed in on the claim during his contribution to the prosecution’s closing argument, saying that Corona would only have been able to avail of that exchange rate until 1959.
With all due respect, Rep. Fariñas was three years out. It is surprising that so few Filipino lawmakers (let alone the former Chief Justice and those who advised him) seem to be aware of the date when the value of the peso was almost halved. What makes it memorable — or should do — are the circumstances in which the devaluation occurred. Does nobody read Lichauco or Constantino anymore?.... MORE
US vows continued ‘increased rotational presence’ By Mario J. Mallari 06/05/2012
US vows continued ‘increased rotational presence’
The United States’ top military official discussed boosting the poorly equipped Armed Forces at a meeting yesterday with President Aquino, a Palace official said.
Aquino and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, met in Malacañang amid a tense maritime territorial dispute between the Philippines and China.
“They talked about defense and security cooperation and the American (general) talked about providing us assistance on our minimum credible defense position,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters..... MORE
Aquino ‘worst performer’ of CARP, say bishop, farmers By: Fernan J. Angeles 06/05/2012
Aquino ‘worst performer’ of CARP, say bishop, farmers
By: Fernan J. Angeles
A Catholic bishop has rated the Aquino govenrment as the worst performer among post-Edsa administrations in terms of agrarian reform.
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo said the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has been consistently underperforming in implementing agrarian reform, particularly land acquisition and distribution (LAD).
“The current DAR administration has recorded the lowest Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) accomplishment when compared to all DAR-CARP administrations,” said Pabillo in an open letter to President Aquino.
The letter was also signed by Fr. Marlon Lacal, executive secretary of the Association of the Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP)..... MORE
JBC requires aspirants to present bank waiver 06/05/2012
JBC requires aspirants to present bank waiver
Hopefuls vying for the recently vacated position of Chief Justice will have to comply with a new requirement by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) for them to present a waiver of their peso and dollar denominated bank savings.
Senate justice committee chairman Francis “Chiz” Escudero who is a member of the collegial body that submits recommendations to the President yesterday told reporters that those aspiring the top judicial post needed to execute such a waiver.
Escudero added that the JBC will now require applicants/nominees to submit their statement of assets and liabilities and net worth (SALn) “from the moment (they) joined the government,” if they are public servants..... MORE
3 dead, 7 missing as ‘Ambo’ exits RP By Mario J. Mallari 06/05/2012
3 dead, 7 missing as ‘Ambo’ exits RP
Three children were killed and six fishermen were missing after tropical storm “Mawar” brought heavy rains and rough waters to parts of the Philippines, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Monday.
Two siblings were carried off by an overflowing river in the western island of Palawan while a seven-year-old boy drowned in a river east of Manila, the office’s deputy director, Florentino Sison said.
Reports from the NDRRMC identified the fatalities as two-year-old Princess Abrera and her four-year-old brother Shawn, both of Sitio Kiwit, Barangay Sagrada in Busuanga town, Palawan. They were reportedly carried away by overflowing river in the area..... MORE
Classroom shortage forces officials to cut school day from 5 to 1 day a week 06/05/2012
Classroom shortage forces officials to cut school day from 5 to 1 day a week
The shortage of classrooms in public schools has forced school officials to cut school day from five to one day a week, militant lawmakers said yesterday.
According to Kabataan party-list Rep. Raymond Palatino and ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio at least 20 percent of the high school students in five Quezon City high schools have to go through the predicament as school officials implement decongestion measures.
Palatino said students are given modules and exercises through Internet from Monday to Friday before finally going to school on Saturdays. The program is dubbed Alternative Delivery Mode..... MORE
K+12 violates children’s right to quality education — solon By Charlie V. Manalo 06/05/2012
K+12 violates children’s right to quality education — solon
A militant solon yesterday accused the government of sowing false hopes with its continued persistence in implementing the K+12 program, claiming the implementation of the program will worsen problems in public school facilities with the continuing shortage of 132,483 teachers, 97,685 classrooms and 153,709 water and sanitation facilities.
“The Department of Education’s (DepEd) claim that the universal kinder program will prepare the children socially, physically, mentally and emotionally is clearly debunked by this situation which glaringly exposes our government’s disregard for quality education. The situation from last year has not improved and yet the government continues to banner the K+12 program,” said Gabriela Rep. Emmi de Jesus of yesterday’s opening of public school classes and start of K+12 program..... MORE
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First Prize for the Worst Witch
BfK No. 232 - September 2018
This issue’s cover illustration is from The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Thanks to Chicken House for their help with this September cover.
By clicking here you can view, print or download the fully artworked Digital Edition of BfK 232 September 2018.
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This book is the latest in the series of Worst Witch novels begun in 1974. In this adventure Mildred, Maud and Enid return for their fourth year at Miss Cackle’s Academy for witches. There is a ceremony known as Fourth Year Firsts, where trainee witches are given prizes for their work to date. Everyone knows that Mildred’s arch enemy, Ethel Hallow, will win several prizes. She is odious but magically talented. All the girls want to win the coveted position of Head Girl for their last year at the academy. The appointment is made by the Head and her deputy. Does Mildred have a chance?
Mildred has a trademark gift. She makes well-meaning but hilarious mistakes which end up working out well for her and her friends – though less well for Ethel. In this escapade she comes across a circus and talking animals. Murphy’s unique talent is to combine a typical boarding school yarn with illustrations that bring the story within the compass of very young or struggling readers. For many years now Murphy has provided excellent read aloud material for teachers, librarians and parents – and this latest book is well up to her distinguished mark.
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Walton County Customary-Use Leaders Playing a Dangerous Game
September 8, 2018 - 6:00am
Nowhere in Florida is the new law dealing with beach access the firestorm it has become in Walton County. The reason is complicated. But many folks along the panhandle's Emerald Coast claim it's not helping that a pair of local crusaders have a lot of citizens convinced House Bill 631 is the worst thing to befall Florida since Mercury went retrograde.
In the last month Dave Rauschkolb and Daniel Uhlfelder -- brothers in activism -- have made themselves the pied pipers of HB 631 repeal -- whipping people up to sign affidavits, attend meetings, donate money -- in a nutshell, "make Florida beaches public for all."
Rauschkolb is a restaurateur, Uhlfelder an attorney. Together they're what former seasonal Seaside resident Lilly Bell calls "a tag team," dominating social media and public meetings to get people riled up against each other.
"Walton used to have only a handful of beachfront residents who wanted to enforce their privacy all the way to the water," said the retired interior decorator. "But most of them didn't care if people sat on their sand. Then Dave and Dan came along and caught a glimpse of the fame and attention they could get nationally. Now we have a civil war here."
The war, she said, is between the "coastal elites" -- residents, guests and tourists who live or vacation along 30A, the scenic beach road, -- and the rest of Walton County.
Bill Nelson showed up
Bell told Sunshine State News, "All you need is a camera, and (Rauschkolb and Uhlfelder) come running. They need to control people. They like to hear themselves talk and read what they write on Facebook. I think they're on some kind of power trip. My late husband called them a tag team."
HB 631, was sponsored by Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, and Rep. Katie Edwards-Walpole, D-Plantation. The bill passed the Florida Legislature with an overwhelming bipartisan majority and 100 percent support of the Walton County delegation -- 29-7 March 6 in the Senate and 95-17 March 8 in the House. That's a total of 24 votes against in the whole of the Legislature. No wonder the governor didn't veto it. Why would he?
Uhlfelder believes the legislation was a sneak attack -- that Walton was deliberately excluded until it was too late to fight back. Which is why I was disappointed Rep. Brad Drake, R-DeFuniak Springs never returned my call. I would have liked to ask him why he or the county's stable of lobbyists didn't point out 631 to County Administrator Larry Jones, at the very least.
Jones, incidentally, did his Master's thesis in customary use. Perhaps he might explain how he could let the county adopt an incomplete and unacceptable customary-use ordinance.
Meanwhile, Rauschkolb and Uhlfelder were discovering the high-theater potential of private property rights vs. customary use. They made customary use their next fight for justice.
Rauschkolb, who owns three restaurants in Seaside and a bakery/cafe/catering company in Grayton Beach, is used to getting things done. He takes credit for what he calls "game-changing community initiatives" including keeping high-rise condos out of South Walton, founding Hands Across The Sand (to stop offshore oil drilling in Florida); lobbying to remove the Confederate flag from the DeFuniak Springs courthouse, launching an effort to incorporate South Walton, and now something he calls "Stand Your Sand" -- a take-off of Stand Your Ground and an initiative for customary use of Florida’s beaches.
Uhlfelder, son of prominent Tallahassee lobbyist Steve Uhlfelder, has worked as a law clerk, staff aide in The White House, in the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. Now he has his own general law practice on 30A in Grayton Beach. Among his causes, he says he has worked avidly to bring down the Confederate flag. And he believes creating a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization called Florida Beaches for All (FBFA) is the way to "overturn bad law and give citizens the fundamental right to use and enjoy all our beaches. ... I was raised in an environment where you stood up for things, not on the sidelines," he said during a telephone interview.
Uhlfelder made national news in July, the weekend after Gov. Rick Scott signed an emergency order supporting open beaches. And that's when his mushroom started to grow -- away from compromise, closer to a move for legislation repeal.
Uhlfelder challenged the new law two days in a row -- some say he was trying to get arrested for trespassing on private sand, but he claims he was "just trying to get a line drawn in the sand" so he would know where he could legally park his beach chair. The second day, when a security guard called the Sheriff's Department, Uhlfelder made sure his experience was recorded on YouTube and displayed on Facebook. The video went viral, gaining more than 100,000 views on YouTube alone and well over 1 million views across social media platforms. (The video is displayed on this page.)
In addition, Rauschkolb was interviewed on the Weather Channel, which serves millions of viewers across America. National Public Radio showed up on the beach soon after. So did U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, looking for an opportunity to kick the governor, his senatorial opponent in November. And between the two proactive "protests" -- Uhlfelder's and Rauschkolb's and what has been described as "dozens of media interview requests," Walton's war for the beach had begun.
But some in the county, even the ones who don't live on the beach, have begun to grumble about what this customary-use movement is doing to their jewel of a county, and wonder if there might have been a more civil way for the two sides to come together.
Here are some of the disturbing aspects to Walton's situation:
The Conspiracy Theory. You don't often find a tin foil hat on a liberal, but Uhlfelder, the registered Republican for voting convenience only, sure is wearing one. This leader so many customary-use advocates are counting on has a conspiracy theory that goes straight to the top. He feels certain Walton County, where the suspicious "Governor Mike Huckabee" is a beach-owning resident, is being victimized by powerful dark forces. Uhlfelder is convinced "right-wing groups" -- for example, the Koch Brothers and the private property rights law firm Pacific Legal Foundation -- have hatched a plot at the highest level to make customary use unconstitutional and to privatize every inch of beach in America. "It's close," he told me. "They could do this in two years."
The Hypocrite Factor. Rauschkolb and Uhlfelder both live in communities with gated private beach access. Dave lives in fully-gated Watersound, Dan in Watercolor. To challenge the law and make his YouTube video, Uhlfelder had to contrive his beach outing to Vizcaya -- travel down to the end of 30A more than seven miles away, past some nine beach access points, when he had his own beach. Reading recent Facebook postings, the deception isn't sitting well with some residents.
Using the Sheriff. Sheriff Mike Adkinson and his deputies are slap-bang in the middle of the dispute. Adkinson is the right sheriff at the right time for on-the-spot conflict resolution -- patient, good with people, wanting desperately not to arrest anybody for trespassing. "I'm not proferring an opinion of customary use," he said. "My job is to make sure we're not being arbitrary and capricious in the way we apply the law. A sheriff's office should never be the tool to resolve this. ... But I can tell you this: All these people who say 'we're saving the beaches'? No, they're not. The only place this is going to be decided is in court."
Overlooking the Good Guys. Some 90 percent of Walton's beachfront property owners are embarrassed and offended to be lumped in with the 10 percent erecting signs and stringing up ropes to keep people off the sand. They don't mind well-behaved trespassers, as their presence on county Facebook sites attests. I asked Uhlfelder if he would entertain compromise instead of repeal. He said no. "You know what compromise is, don't you? It's money. They want us to pay for our own sand."
Affecting Tourism. Last year Walton welcomed 4.5 million visitors. Because of such strong tourism, the county records the lowest adjusted property tax rate in Florida. But 2018 might not be as strong if the compulsory-use battle continues. I asked VISIT FLORIDA Marketing Director Meagan Dougherty, by phone and by email, what affect, if any, the beach-access publicity was having on Walton tourism. She did not respond. But another VISIT FLORIDA official answered my question on condition of anonymity. "Hospitality industry people in Northwest Florida are telling us reservations are down and cancellations are up," the official said. "Of course they are. The national media got hold of a story that's telling the nation Florida's beaches are closed."
Fast, Loose and Frightening. Dan Uhlfelder is a lawyer. Florida Beaches for All is his baby. So, wouldn't you think he would make a priority of protecting the reputations of the people and organizations bundling under the FBFA umbrella? Last I looked, the non-profit 1) hadn't registered as a 501(c)(4) and 2) wasn't collecting Department of Revenue sales tax on the T-shirts and tank tops it's selling. (CORRECTION: FBFA is registered as a non-profit and must answer to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, not the Department of Revenue. I apologize for the error. But the issue is this: The charity is not registered with the state to solicit contributions at this time. That requires a permit FBFA does not have. When FBFA does apply, and their name appears on the "Check-a-Charity Florida" website, I will write a follow-up story to confirm the legal changes have been made.)
Deception, Confusion. Hundreds of Walton Countians are expected to show up at today's public hearing on customary use at South Walton High School with signed and notorized affidavits. But when they do, many of them might discover they've been misled.
'You mean, our affidavits aren't going to get us back our use of the beaches?" Walton visitor Daniel Flyer asked me.
Flyer said he was led to believe the affidavit he signed and had notorized was as good as a petition to repeal the law. Which is what Uhlfelder is urging. He didn't fully realize the hearing was a county meeting set by commissioners to gather evidence of customary use -- citizens' use of the beaches over a period of 20 years -- so the county can prepare an ordinance that complies with the judicial process laid out in the new Florida law.
No wonder Flyer's misunderstanding makes sense. If you plan to repeal, why would you need to complete the county's affidavit?
Reach Nancy Smith at nsmith@sunshinestatenews.com or at 228-282-2423. Twitter: NancyLBSmith
I cannot stand the double
Permalink Submitted by Walton resident on September 9, 2018 - 9:46am
I cannot stand the double talk here. You are holding them up as heroes while they tell the national media how this is such an economic catastrophee. How do you think that occurred. Who do you think was trying to get arrested so it could go viral. Your reaction is laughable by tens of thousands who live here and were probably living here decades before you were.
Daniel actually trespassed
Permalink Submitted by Viz Looker on September 9, 2018 - 4:28pm
Daniel actually trespassed three times on the private property with full intent to do so. Not two, but three. All a big show since his attempts to create an issue with the Confederate Flag fell on their face.
Don’t forget the failed
Permalink Submitted by Mike on September 13, 2018 - 12:42am
Don’t forget the failed attempt at incorporation and telling us our taxes would stay the same. What planet are they on!!!!
The county can claim the
Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on September 8, 2018 - 6:40pm
The county can claim the beaches because we have maintained them for many years, if they want to, but, they won’t because the county attorneys are owned by the elite
Hundreds of Walton County
Permalink Submitted by MaryN on September 8, 2018 - 6:32pm
Hundreds of Walton County property surveys clearly show their southern border at the mean high tide and these are “ not quiet title” properties. Not only do the surveys historically show the boundary at the mean high tide but the title searches and legal descriptions support the chain of title and ownership rights being conveyed. Do your homework and educate yourselves before repeating misinformation as if it were fact.
While it sounds as if you
Permalink Submitted by Peggy Davis on September 8, 2018 - 4:22pm
While it sounds as if you were actually present at this morning's meeting for customary use, you apparently failed to notice the number of people FOR Customary Use and the large stack of thousands of affidavits signed by local Beach lovers, both local and out of State, who are adamant about getting the beaches returned to them. The community is grateful that Daniel and David brought this most important issue to the Forefront. Your one sided article makes it sound like they are the problem. Here's the real problem. It's the high-rolling politicians in the community that have caused the issue. It's the judge that grants quiet title to the beaches usurping them from the public without their knowledge. If you want to write a real story, perhaps it should be one that tells the tale of the beginnings of HB631 to now. Name the players involved, the lobbyists, the campaign contributions, the emails and the quiet titles issued. That might be worth reading.
This IS the other side of the
Permalink Submitted by Nancy Smith on September 8, 2018 - 7:06pm
This IS the other side of the story. It's difficult to find a media outlet following the issue that hasn't written a ringing endorsement of Rauschkolb and Uhlfelder. Nevertheless, I am also answering you to point out a factual error in my column. I've inserted the correction above in bold. But to make double sure readers see it, I'll repeat it here: (CORRECTION: FBFA is registered as a non-profit and must answer to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, not the Department of Revenue. I apologize for the error. But the issue is this: The charity is not registered with the state to solicit contributions. That requires a permit FBFA does not have. When FBFA does apply, and their name appears on the "Check-a-Charity Florida" website, I will write a follow-up story to confirm the legal changes have been made.)
Thanks for reporting on the
Permalink Submitted by Marc S on September 9, 2018 - 4:20pm
Thanks for reporting on the Other Side as no one else will... Probably due to the vicious attacks that come when you do, as witnessed here with these posts from people who don't understand that everyone has an opinion and the right / freedom to express it. Check the Constitution, 1st Ammend.
You must be so proud of
Permalink Submitted by Cheryl Beck on September 9, 2018 - 2:36pm
You must be so proud of yourself-standing up for those who can buy politicians. And the technical detail of not getting a permit is your biggest beef? Funny how those little law details bother you when some people don't dot their i's
Walton County Lobbied in
Permalink Submitted by Marc Spector on September 8, 2018 - 6:04pm
Walton County Lobbied in support for HB 631. Fact check it.
Truth. Do a records request
Truth. Do a records request on the county attorney and see what they signed off on.
Then why isn't the Florida
Permalink Submitted by Replying to Mar... on September 8, 2018 - 11:02pm
Then why isn't the Florida Beaches for All group suing then? That's a fair question. If you have all this evidence, why are you letting them get away with it and not suing to stop this? It's not the job of the media to do that. Look you have a lawyer Mr. Uhlfelder the story says. Why is it that he spends time trying to get arrested (during 2 different days- boy that was rich) on a public beach that's miles away from the private beach community where he lives? I have watched this issue for 2 years. There is some truth to the statement that these guys are a little bit more than in love with themselves and probably made things worse than things would be otherwise.
Why don't you make the same
Why don't you make the same request and read and learn? I bet you won't. Just ask for the same request that was submitted and reference the Emails from Lobbyist Horton. Then, do more homework and find out WHO that person is. Don't expect everyone else to do your homework for you.
Walton County has had zero
Walton County has had zero enforcement by Adkinson and Code Enforcement. That coupled with no occupancy restrictions in rentals and a lower grade crowd of tourists since Katrina, thanks to aggressive marketing by the TDC, has brought on this problem. Add to it the growing business of "beach chair vending" and you have a toxic mix. Multiply that by incompetent leadership by elected officials and other county staff and you have a great concoction, ready to blow.
Without Rauschkolb and
Permalink Submitted by Joel on September 8, 2018 - 4:10pm
Without Rauschkolb and Uhlfelder there would no leadership fighting to maintain open beaches. The article is very one-sided and could have been written by the opponents of customary use. They need to keep up the good fight even with the deck stacked against them. Why no comments from the good citizens who support their efforts.
Because there’s a few hundred
Permalink Submitted by Answer on September 15, 2018 - 11:30pm
Because there’s a few hundred sheep who yell and are annoying and then thousands and thousands of us who are the silent majority. I went with my husband to both the hearing and the town hall that FL House Representative Brad Drake had. I don’t know which one was worse.....he walked out of the ordinance hearing and waited for me in the car after the Comm Chairman walked off stage during the 5th speaker. I left soon as well. We are totally turned off by current officials here and will be voting for all new ones at every opportunity.
I have been a business owner
Permalink Submitted by Margie Jordan on September 8, 2018 - 3:47pm
I have been a business owner and full time resident in So Walton for 20 years. We suffered through Hurricane Ivan, through the recession, and even the BP oil spill when we lost two retail stores and had to work to rebuild until we got enough BP money to restart our business. The impact of this HB631 has already frightened away tourists, some rental property owners are already selling their properties and if we cannot reclaim Customary Use we will cease to exist as we are now. I’m very saddened by the blame being put on two incredible local citizens Dave Rauschkolb and Daniel Uhlfelder, both of who are not collecting paychecks for their efforts to save Walton County. they are real people with real families who are a significant part of a large number of residents who reject recent Beach front owners coming in and claiming “private beach” to the waters edge. We will not go away, regardless of how you taunt us, how you blame and hate across your demographics. we are real people. We live here full time. We have families, businesses, and have invested many many years to help keep Walton County the paradise That thousands come to each year. You can sell your property now at a good price and go to your private island somewhere. Leave us alone.
Permalink Submitted by Coastal Jewel on September 8, 2018 - 9:18pm
Typical response from a
Permalink Submitted by William Nelson on September 8, 2018 - 4:40pm
Typical response from a Democrat supporting socialism.
Raushkolb is a fraud who
Permalink Submitted by Walton Joe on September 8, 2018 - 3:42pm
Raushkolb is a fraud who lives in a gated community (Watersound) with no public beach access. Take down your wall, Dave, before you start preaching to the rest of us!
Gate code please. I'm going
Permalink Submitted by Marc S on September 9, 2018 - 8:31am
Gate code please. I'm going to the beach today.
don't forget he drives a
Permalink Submitted by that's half of it on September 8, 2018 - 11:05pm
don't forget he drives a freakin Tesla but wants to shave 5 minutes off dropping his daughter to school by telling the county to put a road through the state forest.
I thank Dave and Dan for
Permalink Submitted by Marie Economus on September 8, 2018 - 1:54pm
I thank Dave and Dan for their work in fighting to make CU for all!
Marie — you’re not going to
Permalink Submitted by B. on September 19, 2018 - 12:21pm
Marie — you’re not going to be thanking them when you realize you signed a legal instrument that makes you a party to a lawsuit — or when your taxes go way up and they blame it on the Beaches lawsuit — or funds are tight for other government services because it all went to this lawsuit. Be careful about being a sheep in this and protect yourself. Unless you’re a Realtor. Then join the sheep. Some of us are angry about how the Realtors got into this. Licenses could be at risk.
This article includes an
Permalink Submitted by PC on September 8, 2018 - 1:52pm
This article includes an extremely skewed opinion that seems to have any real relevance to what is happening to public beach use in Walton County.
Put sand fences at the bottom
Permalink Submitted by Mike on September 8, 2018 - 12:39pm
Put sand fences at the bottom of the dunes like it used to be. You dont own to the water. The end
Why did Walton County allow
Permalink Submitted by Joel on September 8, 2018 - 11:13am
Why did Walton County allow so much development on the beach? I think they made some bad decisions years ago and now they want to blame the legislature and everybody else for them.
It’s an absolute shame that
Permalink Submitted by Ricky G on September 8, 2018 - 10:24am
It’s an absolute shame that these two blow hards have the population up in arms over a simple problem that is easily fixed by getting just a couple of smart business minds together. They chose to mislead the masses with their propaganda and willingly damage the tourist economy, all for the hope of personal political notoriety. They refuse to engage in public or private discussion with anyone that can prove their false mission. Vain Cowards, we all have met these bullies before, haven’t we? We will all feel the pain as these two children play house with our county.
It is a shame Ricky but it’s
Permalink Submitted by Observer on September 9, 2018 - 9:56am
It is a shame Ricky but it’s also a shame that there are so many sycophants being led around the nose by these two. I know some of the real estate people helping these two circus guys get people overstimulated, and with the exception of one or two (who will say and do anything for a sale), they are very smart people. They are stepping in it on this. I certainly wouldn’t recommend any of them now to anyone looking to buy or sell something here.
People need to boycott ECAR.
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New Death Note One-Shot Chapter Gets February Release Date
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Netflix's Live-Action Death Note Film Clip: Light Meets Ryuk
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Netflix's Live-Action Death Note Film: Light & L Posters Revealed
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[#] Wed Oct 11 2017 12:15:33 EDT from Ladyhawke @ Uncensored
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Who are you and what have you done with IGnatious T Foobar?!
[#] Wed Oct 11 2017 17:14:25 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
Like I said before ... if Microsoft hasn't gained a foothold outside of the desktop space by now, they're not going to ... and if Linux hasn't gained a foothold inside the desktop space by now, it's not going to either. So with the slippery-slope gone, and Windows finally out of beta (although they curiously named the 1.0 production release "Windows 7") ... bearing the friction of using a superior but unadopted Linux OS on the desktop simply doesn't make as much sense as it used to.
Also, now that Netscape has won the browser war, the desktop doesn't matter quite as much anymore either. It's too bad Netscape didn't survive to enjoy their victory.
Next you'll be saying that the Rosie O'Donnell show's not that bad, after all.....
[#] Wed Oct 11 2017 18:33:50 EDT from wizard of aahz @ Uncensored
Hah.. Now you're going too far.
[#] Thu Oct 12 2017 13:37:05 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
Somehow I doubt Rosie will ever be anything other than the horrible disgusting evil ugly poor-excuse-for-a-human that she is now. But if she changes I will acknowledge it.
The truth is, these days the biggest existential threats to the universe are Facebook and Amazon. Microsoft has largely been neutralized. (Karl Vreski can take it from here.)
[#] Thu Oct 12 2017 13:40:32 EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored
I hate what Facebook and Amazon have done to Algol. It's shameful.
That poor star deserves better.
[#] Thu Oct 12 2017 17:31:17 EDT from Ladyhawke @ Uncensored
*laughs*
[#] Sat Oct 14 2017 14:29:16 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
HEY. I *said* "Karl Vreski can take it from here." No one ran with that?
Not even Ragnar?
[#] Mon Oct 16 2017 15:49:54 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold @ Uncensored
I don't want neutral. I want dead.
Some people want to see the world burn:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin/
Oh yeah, *that* was what was missing from the world ... a rewrite of EDLIN.
Does anyone actually *use* FreeDOS? I thought it existed only as a placeholder for manufacturers to sell computers without an operating system pre-installed, but they have to put something on the disk to get around Microsoft's "any computer sold without an operating system automatically counts as piracy of Windows" schtick.
[#] Fri Oct 27 2017 06:36:27 EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored
For a long time, some form of DOS was needed to at least flash a BIOS or the like, but now that everything seems to support USB, and people building motherboards today account for this, I think it's far less useful than it used to be.
[#] Tue Oct 31 2017 11:38:21 EDT from kc5tja @ Uncensored
Many industrial computers drive equipment with software that only runs in a DOS environment. FreeDOS is primarily intended for similar such applications.
[#] Tue Oct 31 2017 12:49:26 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold @ Uncensored
Ha-Ha.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-engineer-installs-google-chrome-durin g-presentation-after-edge-freezes-518291.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/yangwolh
[#] Tue Oct 31 2017 13:59:15 EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored
Ah, that's rich!
[#] Tue Oct 31 2017 14:00:02 EDT from zooer @ Uncensored
We’ve seen lots of blunders on stage, and still happen occasionally, but this must be the best of all.
How soon they forget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKy9fV_zX_o
[#] Tue Oct 31 2017 19:16:45 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
Well, at least they correctly demonstrated that the only legitimate purpose of Internet Edge-plorer is to download a real web browser.
Remember the good old days when you had to use FTP to download Netscape?
[#] Wed Nov 01 2017 07:53:55 EDT from fleeb @ Uncensored
I think we can see something interesting here.
Microsoft bundled its browser with the OS, effectively killing Netscape.
In those days, people didn't seem to grasp enough about computers to even realize they had a choice in browsers... they were content to use the one on the OS, even if it was a pile of shit.
Today, people are savvy enough to not only recognize a shitty browser, but to also download and install a browser they prefer in its place.
Even though you'd think, "Well, it's just a browser, any of these ought to do," there's enough of a difference that people still care enough to install their own.
Frankly, we've come a ways from the computer illiterate person just getting into computers. It's part of our lives now, like it or not.
And those who never really got it about computers, or for whatever reason didn't embrace them, are probably kinda lost, and getting more lost as time moves forward.
[#] Wed Nov 15 2017 20:07:17 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
Microsoft was the primary culprit in killing Netscape, but Netscape also had a hand in its own destruction. The predominant attitude over there, espoused by famous assholes such as Mike Shaver and Jamie Zawinski, was "we invented the popular Internet and it is ours and you must continue to revere us as gods." They really did think of themselves that highly and could not imagine the crown passing to someone else.
Microsoft bashing observation for today:
People like to bash non-Microsoft office suites like LibreOffice because they occasionally don't have full fidelity opening Microsoft Office documents.
You know what's even worse at opening Microsoft Office documents? Microsoft Office 365. Anything other than the simplest of documents, it's like there was a middle step where someone tried to edit it in emacs first.
Also ... Sharepoint 365 is even worse than regular Sharepoint. I didn't even think that was possible.
[#] Thu Nov 16 2017 15:14:37 EST from Ragnar Danneskjold @ Uncensored
I haven't seen any real issues with Office 365 Word documents. As for Sharepoint, fuck that.
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Political mafia depopulates the country. Within one year, 13,000 fewer children in the first grade. Edi Rama hidesthe true figures.
Besa Shahini refutes Edi Rama’s claim, the Prime Minister increased the number of
students by 70,000 to hide the fatal consequences of mafia government, 27% less students
during the last 8 years. Discover the most awful national tragedy.
Albania kicked off the new 2019-2020 school year today, bringing to light one of the most
awful national tragedies ever produced by Edi Rama and his gang. This day could not pass
without the good wishes offered by the leader of Rilindja (Renaissance) gang, Edi Rama, who
even today did not spare the lies to hide one of the most fatal consequences caused by his
mafia government, that is, the depopulation of Albania due to the theft of public assets and
state budget money.
In his felicitations, Edi Rama says that today 455,000 students started the
new school year, from the first grade to the twelfth grade. Rama increased the real number of
the students by 70,000. “Good morning, together with these 10 stars who shine with their
example in every subject, I wish a very successful school year to all of the 455,000 students
from the first to the twelfth grade, to the teachers and parents across Albania.
But the Ministry of Education says that the number is much lower, refuting Rama’s claim.
According to the Ministry of Education, today, the real number of students who have started
the new school year is 386,000 and not 455,000 as Rama claims.
The invasion of the public
administration from the rulers’ family members and lovers, the lack of foreign investigations
due to corruption, the theft of half of the state budget each ear, the theft of national assets, tax
increases, health system deterioration, experiments on education, criminalization of the state
etc., have caused thousands of Albanian families to leave the country.
During the eight last years, the number of students from the first to the twelfth grade,
according to the Ministry of Education, has fallen by 27%. Thus, the schools have 13,000
fewer children in their classrooms during the 2019-2020 school year. If the Albanians do not
become aware to banish the ruling gang and the thieves who are waiting in the opposition to
assume power, Albania will be dominated only by the ruling caste and the slaves working for
them./Pamfleti
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Tag: barbecue
Blues and Funk With The C3 Band Live at West Alley BBQ in Jackson, TN @cdrumbum90
With lots of conflicting options with what to do on my Friday night (the first in many weeks that I hadn’t either had a gig or been out of town), I wasn’t sure what I wanted to choose. My drummer homeboy Mike Mosby had one of his Locked and Loaded events going on, Bristerfest was kicking off in Cooper-Young, Eden Brent was at the Center For Southern Folklore, and the Clarksdale Caravan Music Fest was going on down in Mississippi. But when I saw that my homeboys in the C3 Band were going to be playing at West Alley BBQ in Jackson, Tennessee, I decided to drive up there, both to catch their performance, and to check out the barbecue, which my homeboy Courtney Brown (C3’s drummer) had said was really good.
West Alley BBQ proved to be something like a large juke joint, with two older men tending to oil drum cookers outside along the side entrance. The look of the place would not have been unfamiliar to people who know Ground Zero in Clarksdale, but there were some elements that seemed more in keeping with Red’s Lounge instead, although the place was much bigger. The pulled pork was delicious, just as I had been told, and the club kept great roots blues playing over the speakers until it was time for the band to come up on stage. As I have discussed earlier, C3 is a blues power trio, with a repertoire that stretches from blues to funk to soul. Their performance on this particular night was augmented by a guest harmonica player that sat in, a visiting drummer that gave Courtney Brown a breather, and a superb female singer that closed out the night with a rousing rendition of Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” It was definitely a night to remember in Jackson, and West Alley BBQ will be a place to keep checking up on.
West Alley BBQ & Smokehouse
http://www.westalleybbq.com/home.html
SXSW Day 3: Beef Brisket Brunch at @RudysBBQ
It was fairly late in the day when I finally woke up on Wednesday morning, and I had had breakfast before going to bed. So I decided to forego the usually bacon and eggs and try some Texas-style barbecue, which generally means beef. Everyone had said that Franklin Bar-B-Q was the best, but I also knew that Franklin was an all-day proposition, and as badly as I wanted to try some beef brisket, I also wanted to do other things during the day as well, not spend it all waiting in line. So I had seen a place not all that far from my hotel called Rudy’s Bar-B-Que and Country Store, so I stopped there and decided to try their offerings. I didn’t know that they are considered one of the best barbecue places in Austin, but I can see why. Numerous times elsewhere I have ordered brisket and didn’t like what I got, but I loved the beef brisket I got at Rudy’s. I chose the lean brisket as I’m not a big fan of beef fat, and it was delicious, with a well-seasoned, smokey flavor that made the sauce almost superfluous. But the sauce was sweet and smokey as well, and made a nice addition. The inside is part dining hall and part country store, with long wooden tables the run the length of the room. Prices are not cheap, but neither are they outrageous, and the barbecue is really good. For those wanting to experience Austin barbecue without the four hours waiting in line, Rudy’s is a good option.
Rudy’s Country Store & BBQ
http://www.rudysbbq.com/page/home
Great Barbecue In An Authentic Setting at Daddy D’z BBQ Joynt in Atlanta
I recall on a previous trip to Atlanta trying to get into Daddy D’z one night when they were having a live band playing, and ultimately giving up because there was no place to park at all. The neighborhood around Daddy D’z has gentrified somewhat since that night, but Daddy D’z still has the same old hole-in-the-wall ambiance. That atmosphere, and the alluring aroma of smoking pork was too much to resist, and so after my A3C panel was over, I headed straight over to Daddy D’z for lunch, and I was thrilled with the result. As a Memphian, I’m picky about barbecue, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect, as barbecue is different in different states and cities. What would Atlanta barbecue be like? I’m not sure if Daddy D’z is typical of Atlanta barbecue joints, but the barbecue was not that much different from GOOD Memphis barbecue. It was largely lean pulled pork, with plenty of smoke flavor, and a good, sweet sauce that was extremely complimentary rather than overbearing. The french fries were good as well, and there are a considerable number of down-home sides including beans, cole-slaw, corn on the cob and more. One unique difference from Memphis barbecue restaurants is that Daddy D’z offers cornbread, which is delicious and just ever-so-slightly sweet. Sadly, my waitress told me that live blues bands at Daddy D’z are largely a thing of the past, but the walls are still covered with paintings that highlight live music. All in all, Daddy D’z is a must-visit when in Atlanta.
Daddy D’z BBQ Joynt
264 Memorial Dr SE
http://www.daddydz.com/
Memphis’ World Championship BBQ Festival: A Pig Deal in Tom Lee Pork @memphisinmay
The Memphis In May World Championship BBQ Festival has always been a big deal in Memphis, It’s about four days of food and fun in Memphis’ Tom Lee Park, and fortunately, this year the sun was out, and much of the muddiness from the Beale Street Music Festival had dried out. Teams come from all over the country to compete in what is probably the largest barbecue festival in the world, and although you cannot sample the contestants barbecue or enter their areas without permission, half of the fun is seeing their decorated shelters and seeing the hilarious names that teams come up with. Of course some teams represents businesses like The Shed in Ocean Springs, Willingham’s and Double J Smokehouse in Memphis, or Big Bob Gibson’s in Decatur, Alabama, and these typically are simply named for the business, which is also generally true for teams representing the Army Corps of Engineers or other governmental entities. Of the other teams, an amazing array of creativity goes into the names. References to films are popular, including “Natural Born Grillers”, “Aporkalypse Now” or “Reservoir Hogz”. Even more common are puns off music groups, such as the “Moody Ques”, “Notorious P.I.G.”, “The Count Bastie Porkestra” or “The Bastey Boyz.” At least one team referenced Elvis with “Love Meat Tender”! Unfortunately, health department regulations prohibit guests from sampling the competition entry barbecue, although one team, that of the late John Willingham was offering their competition barbecue for sale from a food truck. I tried it, and it was quite good. I later heard that The Shed from Ocean Springs, Mississippi was the big winner at this year’s competition.
On Location Memphis (@olm_trailer) VIP Reception at The Rendezvous (@rendezvous_ribs) in Memphis
On Friday, the VIP Reception for the On Location Memphis Film and Music Festival was hosted by Charlie Vergos’ Rendezvous in downtown Memphis. The event was open to all filmmakers and music performers in the festival, and featured the Rendezvous’ world-famous ribs and pulled pork, as well as a couple of music performances.
Ending #jukejointfest Day As It Began: At Red’s
Because I had a gig of my own up in Memphis, I couldn’t stay in Clarksdale for the Saturday night activities of the Juke Joint Festival, but in walking back to my car, it was fitting that my Juke Joint Fest Saturday both began and ended at Red’s Lounge, with great blues music wafting through the open door along with the tantalizing smokey smell of great barbecue from the cookers out front.
Carlos Elliot Jr (@CarlosElliotJr) and the Cornlickers Album Release Party at Red’s Juke Joint @VisitClarksdale #jukejointfest
Carlos Elliot Jr. is from Colombia, but on a visit to Clarksdale, he became aware of the music of people like R. L. Burnside and Jessie Mae Hemphill. Since then, he has amazed audiences all over the world with his unique style of blues, and last night, at the iconic Red’s Juke Joint in Clarksdale, he celebrated the release of a new CD with his band The Cornlickers, to a standing-room-only crowd that spilled out into Sunflower Avenue despite the cold weather. Red’s is the real deal blues experience, with big oil drums cookers of barbecue smoking outside, and it is a must-visit experience during Juke Joint Festival.
Blues, Barbecue and Biscuits at Indianola’s Blue Biscuit
After Mickey Rogers’ performance was over at the B.B. King Museum, I wanted something to eat, and the Blue Biscuit was literally a stone’s-throw away, and it looked quite intriguing. Reviewers on Yelp had recommended the catfish, and I love catfish if it’s done well, but once I was inside looking at a menu, I spied something totally unexpected- under the appetizers was a listing for “Biscuits and BBQ.” My waitress explained that it was exactly what it said it was- four freshly-baked biscuits with pulled pork piled on- rather unusual, but something that I had to try. She warned that it would take 20 minutes for the biscuits to bake, and it did, but the place has such a friendly vibe and cool appearance that I didn’t mind waiting. I was visited by the owner, who wanted to give me a tour of the place (which is truly large, with several rooms, a stage, a bar and two pianos, and decorated with all kinds of blues memorabilia and posters), and I learned that the executive chef is Trish Berry, formerly of Morgan Freeman and Bill Luckett’s Madidi in Clarksdale. Soon my biscuits and barbecue arrived- the biscuits were hot and crunchy on the outside, melting on your mouth on the inside. Each had been halved, and in between was more delicious pulled pork than they could hold, delicately tender, with plenty of smoked flavor, and a sweet barbecue sauce on the table to add to them as desired. Despite its listing as an appetizer, together with an order of french fries, four barbecue biscuits was plenty to eat, and even with a drink and tip, came to only about $11. Although there was no live music on the night I was there, The Blue Biscuit does often feature live music, and has a Blue Biscuit Festival on June 1st. They also have two bungalows for vacationers or business travelers, and with a location in walking distance of the museum and blues clubs, it’s definitely where you want to be.
On my last trip up to Jackson, Tennessee I had left a concert poster at Reggi’s Hickory Pit Bar-B-Que, so this trip I decided to have dinner there, and it really is great barbecue. The medium sauce is both sweet and hot, and the meat is high-quality, with a good, smoky flavor. For a later snack, I bought a bag of homemade pork rinds, and they’re truly amazing, not like anything you’ve purchased at the store. Reggi’s is definitely worth a visit the next time you’re in Jackson, Tennesseee.
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When trying to figure how to download YouTube videos. It can be a bit challenging to do this without any prior knowledge, however the following explains the three best ways to download YouTube videos to a Windows phone.
Method 1: Using Tube Pro
With Tube Pro, you are able to play videos on YouTube in high quality resolution. These videos can be downloaded onto a Windows phone for no cost at all. Videos can be downloaded, playlists can be created, subscriptions can be monitored, screen size settings can be selected, different volume settings can be selected, and much more than that. There are options to take part in a paid version of the app that allows there to be no more advertisements.
To use Tube Pro to download YouTube videos on a Windows phone, start by downloading the app from the Windows phone store. This app has become a major favorite among Widows phone users, and is worth giving a try before trying out other options available on the market. This app is free to download and allows users to download videos to be watched offline.
Method 2: Use Internet Explorer
For those updated to 8.1, it is easier than ever to download YouTube videos. Internet explorer opens up the opportunities for the downloading of YouTube videos at a high quality resolution. The resolution of the videos can be determined by the watcher.downloader.
To begin downloading on your phone browser, download the YouTube app form the Windows phone store. Save YouTube videos through Internet Explorer, by opening the browser, heading to YouTube, copying the URL, and heading to ssyoutube.com and pasting the URL. Lastly, select download and wait until there is a link for download on the right hand side of the video. Once there is, be sure to save in the correct location. Once the video is downloaded, simply find the video amongst your normal phone’s memory.
Method 3: Download YouTube on PC and Transfer to Phone
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is the easiest means of downloading videos. With Wondershare, you can enhance videos you choose to download and you can select the format in which the video is downloaded.
Open up the Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate by selecting its icon. Press the option at the top of the application to download. On the screen there will be two options, one of which includes “Add URL”. Select that option. Once you select, paste the URL in the box, select where you would like the video the save, and in what format. Let the download get started by selecting the “OK” button on the screen.
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Nova Delphini 2013: The story so far
Nova Delphini 2013 (also named V339 Del) is the biggest cosmic event in variable star astronomy this year, and this naked-eye nova is providing the community a wealth of new data on this important class of objects. The amateur astronomical community has made an enormous contribution of data for Nova Del so far, and now is a good time to review all that's happened so far in this nova outburst, and how the amateur community has played a role.
Discovery and subsequent observations
Koichi Itagaki, a Japanese amateur nova hunter, detected a bright transient in Delphinus at magnitude 6.8 on August 14 of this year, which subsequently brightened by half a magnitude in just a few hours. The object was quickly confirmed as an optical transient by a number of amateur and professional observers, and also confirmed spectroscopically as a nova by amateurs and professionals who observed independently at nearly the same time. The nova subsequently rose well into the range of naked-eye detectability. Within a day, amateur and professional observers were actively following this fine, naked-eye nova. At one point, more than thirty visual observers an hour were estimating and submitting data for this object.
Subsequent to discovery, astronomers around the world have been following up at nearly all wavelengths, from radio waves to gamma rays. Nearly five hundred members of the AAVSO community -- amateur and professional -- have contributed optical photometry to the AAVSO International Database. As of the morning of October 30, 481 people have contributed observations, more than four hundred submitting more than one observation. More than 4,500 visual estimates have been made, and more than fifty thousand instrumental measures have been submitted so far. Observers are still following Nova Del today, and we hope you'll all continue until the star fades from easy viewing.
All positive observations of V339 Del submitted as of 2013 October 30.5. Shown are: visual observations (solid black), Johnson UBVRI (solid turquoise, blue, green, red, and orange circles), and unfiltered CCD (green, red crosses) and DSLR (open red, green, blue circles) observations.
What we've seen so far
Nova Del 2013 is a very fast classical nova (type "NA"). Its nova-nature was confirmed while it was still rising through the presence of optical emission lines of hydrogen typically seen in novae. V339 Del is another member of the recently-discovered class of novae that show gamma-ray emission, something discovered to occur only recently; gamma rays were first detected in V339 Del by the Fermi satellite on August 18 (day 4). The nova quickly reached peak and remained near this plateau state for a few days, but began its decline on August 20 (day 6).
Its luminosity and spectral evolution since then has matched those of typical novae. A nova outburst progresses through several stages and the light curve changes as physical changes happen in the nova remnant and progenitor. The eruption begins with a bright, optically thick fireball, which begins to slowly cool after maximum light. At some point, this fireball cools (and fades in brightness) enough that the emission lines from the ejecta dominate the luminosity of the nova; this is the point where you see the first break in the V339 Del light curve around September 3 (day 20). Over the next few weeks, the system continues to cool and the emission lines fade more slowly than the continuum emission. X-rays were first detected on September 19 (day 36), which is a sign that the density of X-ray absorbing gas around the white dwarf is beginning to dissipate. The X-ray light rose steadily coinciding with much faster optical decline, a sign that the material responsible for the emission lines is also starting to dissipate and fade.
Around October 9 (day 55) we saw a large jump in X-rays, and on October 19 (day 65), AAVSO observations show a flattening of the optical light curve. At that point we likely entered the phase where we're seeing the surface of the white dwarf for the first time since the outburst, and it's generating both the X-rays and the optical continuum emission; the small B-V suggests we're seeing light from an extremely hot blackbody. As of October 24 (day 70), the nova is now a very bright X-ray "supersoft source", indicating that the environment around the nova's white dwarf primary has cleared enough to let the hot white dwarf shine through at low-energy X-ray wavelengths. V339 Del is currently entering the "nebular phase" in which a new series of emission lines characteristic of hot, low-density gas appear.
How AAVSO observers are contributing
The AAVSO community -- along with the larger astronomical community -- has collected an enormous amount of data for this nova outburst. Our community of observers are using nearly every observing mode to collect data for V339 Del, including visual estimates, photoelectric photometry, and both DSLR and CCD imaging. AAVSO photometry is being used by a number of researchers, and the AAVSO International Database is a valuable source of comparison optical data for multiwavelength observations and spectroscopy. Both the amount of coverage and the quality of the observations are high, and that's critically important to use these data for astrophysics.
Hourly averages of visual (black), V-band (green), and B-band (blue) observations of V339 Del
Visual observers had a comparison star sequence to use shortly after the outburst started. They've done a fantastic job of thoroughly covering the entire nova outburst, and the visual light curve traces the light evolution of V339 Del throughout its entire range. There are many enthusiastic pairs of eyes pursuing this nova, and we hope you continue well into the decline phase!
The AAVSO is also using V339 Del as an opportunity to educate our observer community on best practices. Early on in the outburst, AAVSO Director Arne Henden launched a very productive discussion of data quality and calibration for CCD observers, and the quality of CCD data have gotten steadily better over the course of the outburst. Observers are using this nova as an opportunity to get feedback on their observations and fine tune their observing techniques to produce the best results. The end result will be more useful data for researchers, both for Nova Del and for other stars too!
There are several common issues appearing in the discussion forum for photometry of this nova. A few quick takeaways for our instrumental observers are:
CCD observers need to be careful at the bright end to avoid saturation effects (even if you're below the quoted full-well capacity of your CCD)
Be aware of how your photometry software works, especially when it sets the apertures for measuring stars and sky
If the star isn't varying quickly, average multiple points together and submit the average instead of submitting each point individually
Not all filters are created equal! Be aware of whether and how your filters may include the wavelength range of emission lines, especially hydrogen at 656 nanometers
Scintillation will increase the scatter of short integrations
Both transformation and airmass corrections are important for making data consistent between one observer and another
Unfiltered observations are producing misleading magnitudes, often brighter than you would expect (see the open green and red points in light curve above)
Use realistic precision, both for magnitudes and for time!
Our observers are on average submitting good photometry; with a little extra effort, many observers are submitting great photometry, and that's really going to pay off when the community begins trying to understand this nova outburst based on your data!
Observations continue
V339 Del remains well within range of visual and instrumental observers with telescopes, and should be a good target for the remainder of this observing season at least. Please keep observing! Novae are fun objects to follow, but their long-term light curves can also yield new astrophysical knowledge. The longer the observing community can follow this star, the better our understanding will potentially be. With so many astronomers around the world looking at so many different wavelengths, this star provides all of us the chance to participate in a very comprehensive community project. The AAVSO will keep the community updated with news, help and advice for observers, and more on Nova Del 2013. We expect it to be newsworthy for quite some time!
Main AAVSO resource page for Nova Del 2013
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AAVSO Alert Notice 489 on Nova Del 2013
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Saffron Terror Trail: From Maharashtra to Goa, right-wing extremists leave imprints across India
The recent blast in Goa's Margao and the recovery of more explosive devices (IEDs) in Sancaole has once again brought spotlight on the fringe organisations that are involved in terror attacks in the country.
The name of Sanatan Sanstha that has come up in the course of investigations, has been linked to blasts man times in the past also.
This includes blast at a theatre in Thane and explosions in Vashi and Panvel.
Besides, the group is linked to another hardliner group--Abhinav Bharat that was responsible for the Malegaon blasts.
Any fundamentalist group belonging to any religion can have some sick and fanatic elements. However, the problem begins when there is reluctance among officials and the leadership in accepting that certain organisations can be involved in terrorism.
After the Goa blast, the headlines in channels and newspapers read like--'Extremist group involved', 'Sanatan activists quizzed' or 'Hindu group blamed'. Not once the word 'Terror' was used. Those arrested were termed 'activists' or 'suspects.
Besides, the use of word 'blame' in headlines is in sharp contrast to the otherwise 'judgmental reporting about terrorists caught, as per police version even when there is no blast'. It is also wrong to associate terror with religion. In fact, in all such cases, the word should be terrorist, rather than Hindu or Muslim.
Any group belonging to any religious community can have fanatic elements. Just like SIMI and the terror outfits with foreign support that have created terror in our country in the past, there are dozens of extremist organisations from Assam to Punjab and Manipur to Jharkhand. They could be Maoists or right-wing Hindu groups.
Hate can consume anybody. Early this year a right-wing activist was caught for injecting a Christian priest with poison-filled injection. We can only imagine that how strong must be his conviction or the motivation to fight the evangelists. And the 'man' who shot only those Muslims who married Hindu girls.
And there were Abhinav Bharat activists who were targeting Muslim cogregations and Churches. Not to mention, the procurement of RDX and the arrest of even an armyman [Colonel Purohit]. What is needed is that there should be tough action and similar nomenclature for all groups that are involved in disruptive activities.
This must include the political parties that attack citizens of other states in the name of regionalism and divide the society. Meanwhile, a few other revelations with regard to the Goa blast:
1. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the Sanstha's activists were involved in the recent communal riots in Miraj and Sangli just before the Maharashtra elections.
2. After Hemant Karkare's death, the investigation into the activities of the 'right-wing' terrorist groups came to a dead-end. Karkare had stumbled upon the network and the modules spread across Maharashtra and neighbouring states including MP and Karnataka. But a campaign to defame him was begun soon after he had begun the ATS' operation.
3. Blasts and attacks on mosques in Parbhani, Jalna, & Purna towns of Maharashtra, targeting towns like Malegaon, Modasa and attacks on Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti's shrine in Ajmer apart from Mecca Masjid and the Samjhauta Express had pointed to the direction of the right-wing terrorist organisations.
4. Malgonda Patil who died in the blast was expert in assembling bombs. The investigating team has reached Nagpur after they found that the gelatin sticks were brought from Maharashtra.
Samjhauta Express blast case solved: Planned in Indore!
Police teams of several states including Haryana and Rajasthan who were probing the attack on train, have finally zeroed in on the extremists in Indore. Local newspapers have revealed that the organisation members killed one of their own, RSS activist Sunil Joshi, so that the police couldn't reach them and bust the network.
Still, the bags used in carrying bombs in the train and other clues had taken police to Indore. A BJP leader's brother has been found involved in financing the bomb-making, reports an Indore based mass circulation evening newspaper. See the front page of the newspaper and the investigative report.
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Fiat 500 celebrates first birthday
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The award-winning Fiat 500, which has received countless honours this year, adds an extra important one this weekend – its first birthday celebrations. Although it only arrived in the UK in January this year, the popular supermini was first launched in Italy on 4 July 2007, and the Fiat Group is celebrating its anniversary with a series of bold, elaborate parties across the world, including the UK.
The date of this landmark occasion is especially significant as last year’s Italian launch of the car was exactly 50 years after the original introduction of Dante Giacosa’s classic post-war 500.
The UK party, hosted by TV presenter Alex Zane, is called the Fiat 500 PicNic and takes place at Alexandra Park, North London. It’s designed to be a traditional British summer outdoor gathering, but with a special 500 twist.
With invitations extended to more than 5,000 specially-invited Fiat 500 drivers and potential owners, this Saturday’s (5 July) PicNic initiative, which was conceived to share the passion and emotion of the huge Fiat 500 community, will feature live music, delicious Italian food and drink, outdoor games, big-screen sports coverage and special ‘chill-out’ zones for participants.
The London event is part of a series of global parties celebrating the hugely successful first year of Fiat’s iconic city car. Athens, Budapest, Copenhagen, London, Milan, Munich, Palermo, Paris, Rome, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Valencia, Hel, Liège, Zurich, and Cape Town are the chosen cities that, either in parks or on beaches, will welcome thousands of people brought together by the new car.
Music, art, and fun are the ingredients which will guarantee a successful event involving new Fiat 500 owners and those who are still waiting to get one (222,000 have been ordered so far).
“This is a global initiative that we in Britain are delighted to be involved in,” says Andrew Humberstone, managing director, Fiat Group Automobiles UK. “It is everything that the new Fiat 500 stands for – fun, excitement, freedom and the knack of bringing people together in a great atmosphere – and I am sure the event will be a great success.”
The London party will feature four special themed zones – Energy, Entertainment, Chill and Children. The Energy Zone offers outdoor games, fun races and a volleyball competition, while in Entertainment there will be live music, jugglers, a giant screen and Fiat 500 interactive car configurators to try.
The Chill Zone is designed for relaxation with Tai Chi, head massages and hammocks all available, and the Children’s Zone will feature face painting, street theatre and games.
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Miso Marinated Eggplant
By demartino
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There's a Japanese restaurant in Los Angeles that makes the most amazing miso-marinated eggplant. This is my home version - not too much like the restaurants, I'll admit, but still pretty good in its own right.
3 medium-sized Japanese eggplant
3 tbsp miso paste
1 1/2 tbsp seasoned rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp finely grated peeled ginger
1-2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
1 tbsp cilantro, finely chopped
1/2 tbsp scallions, finely chopped
1 tbsp vegetable oil, plus additional for sauteing
1. Wash eggplant; remove leaves, cut in half lengthwise, then slice into pieces about 3/4" wide. Place the eggplant in a large colander, sprinkle liberally with kosher salt, then spread eggplant so it's only one layer deep. Let drain for 30 minutes.
2. In a bowl or sealable container, combine miso, rice wine vinegar, sugar, ginger, garlic, herbs, oils and water. The thickness of the marinade will determine the amount of water used; you're looking for a medium-thick consistency, not too runny. Whisk or shake to combine.
3. Remove eggplant slices to a double layer of paper towels. Spread out into a single layer, cover with another layer of paper towels, and press to absorb all the moisture released. Place eggplant into a gallon-sized zip-top bag, pour marinade over, and seal, pressing out as much air as possible. Make sure the eggplant is completely covered in the marinade. Let sit for 30-45 minutes in the refrigerator.
4. Place a large skillet over medium-high heat and place a sparing teaspoon of vegetable oil in the pan. While pan is heating up, remove eggplant from the refrigerator and strain off the excess marinade in a colander or fine-mesh sieve set over a bowl. When the oil is very hot, add eggplant; don’t crowd the pan (you may need to cook it in two batches). The eggplant will pop and sizzle at first so use care. Let it cook, unattended, for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Lower heat to medium, stirring or shaking the pan often, for 7 to 10 minutes, or until the eggplant is browned, thoroughly softened, and reduced in volume by up to a third. Remove from the heat and serve.
This is a very easy recipe, it just requires a little bit of prep work. Today's eggplant varieties aren't particularly bitter anymore, especially not the thin Japanese eggplant, but I still like to salt to remove excess moisture. This way, the eggplant won't completely collapse into mush when it hits the hot pan.
Also, the way I see it, removing some of the excess moisture before marinating opens up some room in the eggplant for the marinade to seep in. You'll notice that I don't use very much oil in the pan. Normally eggplant requires a liberal amount of oil, since it's so absorbent. But since there's oil in the marinade, it's already going into the hot pan coated in an oily mixture. Having a lot of oil already in the pan will just turn this dish incredibly greasy. The eggplant will caramelize somewhat, and will have a tendency to stick to the bottom, so frequent stirring is key.
Alternately, you could use sake in place of the rice wine vinegar; it'd add a really vibrant punch to the marinade. This would probably cause the amount of water needed to change. If you're feeling ambitious, you can also save the left-over marinade that's strained off and reduce it in a sauce pan until it reaches a glaze-like consistency, and spoon it over the eggplant just before serving. Since no raw meat products are being marinated, there's no danger of getting sick off of bacterial contamination. Also, instead of chopping the eggplant, try halving them, brushing them with olive oil, and grilling, brushing the glaze on in light layers every minute or so.
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Written on June 19, 2015 by Admin in Life, Make Money, Working From Home
About working from home with Gerry Melanephy
Work from home Dad
“My name is Gerry Melanephy… I have six grown children and live in Sligo in North West Ireland. Prior to becoming a distributor with the home-based business Great Profits Team, I had gone from a Jack Hammer operator with a Phone company, to Team Leader of a Phone Installation Team and that was over 28 years of my life. At the end it seems I was only worth 4.75 an hour. I always wanted better, but seemed to be stuck in the one track, like a needle on a broken record. Oh I would whinge and complain to my mates and union, but now looking back, it was my own fault, because I did not improve my value to the workplace…
I was broke all the time and I had no promotion prospects. You may know the feeling of thinking you’re rich on Pay day, and yet next day you’re broke and not a cent in your bank account as you paid all those bills in the brown envelopes. and you just have enough to pay the mortgage at the end of the month. When I went for promotion, I never got the job I wanted as someone else in the company was on better terms with the boss and they got looked after. Then I tried to be a small business owner… But I was still working off the idea that the world owed me a better wage so I was still poor. I had poor pension plans and no hope of improving my situation.
As a work from home dad I am my own boss…
And then this home-based business just kind of fell in my lap. As I was fed up with been broke and not having even six months wages in the bank after 23 years working in what most people would consider a good job. Well, I took a look, loved what I saw, got involved for the price of a good meal out, and using the system they taught me, I went to work on a very part-time basis… I worked full time on my job and paid the bills and I worked Part Time on my future so I could have the life I wanted… I started learning from other like minded people who were already successful who are sharing what works with people like me and you.
I went back to school in that I started reading good books and I used my car cassette Cd player as my university to educate myself on the value of money and how rich and wealthy people really make money work for them instead of what I was doing up to then of working for money…
Now, I work when I want to, not on a boss’s schedule or target’s and I work with who I want to. I love helping my friends improve their life.
Being a work from home dad changed my life…
Today, just a few short years later, I am debt free and have paid off all mortgages and car loans, so I don’t owe a penny to anyone. I now earn more Part time per year, than I did in a full time job, and I’m still only working part-time!
I guess you could say that getting involved with this home-based business with the Great Profits Team continues to be one of the best decisions I have ever made.”
Now the question is are you at the crossroads of your life and ready to take this road like I did a few short years ago? Right let’s get started on your journey too…
Being a work from home dad changed my life for the better…
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17-Jun-2019 // por bgreenfestival // News
The Colegio Berchmans from Colombia was the grand winner of the bgreen // ecological film festival’s 9th edition, an initiative from OFICINA – Professional School. With the video #StopPlasticPollution, which calls out to the way plastic is flooding our life. The grand winners will embark on an EcoAdventure Trip to the Azores.
With more than 450 national and international spots in competition, the bgreen Grand Gala took place at the Municipal Pavilion in Vila Nova de Famalicão. The Councilman for Education of the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Leonel Rocha, highlighted the quality of the festival, as well as the commitment of thousands of youngsters towards environmental issues worldwide. The Municipal Pavilion in Vila Nova de Famalicão hosted more than a thousand people at the ceremony.
Besides the Bgreen Grand Prize, more awards were presented, namely: Father Alphonse Luisier award to Bwatch from OFICINA; The Bgreen Junior award to #projectstanart from St. Stanislaus High School – Mumbai, India; Best Making of to Blue Home, from Byåsen videregående skole – Trondheim, Norway; People’s Choice award to Human Failure, from Instituto Patria Tercer Milenio A.C – Mexico City, Mexico and the Honorable Mention award to Beneath the surface, Trondheim KatedralSkole – Trondheim, Norway.
The Bgreen Grand Gala was the pinnacle of a year’s work in which the motto Blue Home called out for the care of our planet. Soon, you will be able to watch, once again, the best moments of this year’s edition in the official website’s gallery. Meanwhile, visit our Facebook page and share your photos of the Gala with #bgreenfestival.
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The energy that is saved by recycling a glass bottle is enough to keep a 100 watts lamp on for 4 hours.
Used cooking oil is highly pollutant: Do not throw it down the drain! You can now hand it in at several restaurants and each liter will become a donation to AMI in the fight against social exclusion.
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Rea Wins Kawasaki Podium Lockout
Before the Race Two podium domination the ten-lap Tissot-Superpole race – effectively a sprint race - provided had already provided a podium for KRT, as Leon Haslam took third spot in a crash-strewn race. Rea had led the race, then fell from second place, remounting to take fifth place.
On a dry track in Race Two, which was hotter than the morning Superpole race, Bautista took a lead after his sprint race win. He fell on lap two, allowing first Haslam, and then Razgatlioglu and Rea, to do the front-running.
Rea and Razgatlioglu had a crowd-pleasing fight for the final win of the weekend on the final laps, with the eventual margin of victory only 0.381 seconds. Rea now has 75 career race wins, and a round figure of 150 career podiums from 262 race starts.
The three Ninja ZX-10RR riders that filled the Race Two podium – Rea, Razgatlioglu and Haslam - are the same three riders picked to race in the official Kawasaki Racing Team Suzuka 8 Hours squad next month.
After the Sunday races at Misano Kawasaki has now scored over 400 podium places in WorldSBK, with a new total of 403.
Arriving 41 points behind Bautista, Rea now leaves Italy for a home round in the UK next time out just 16 points adrift, and with two more race wins to his credit.
Haslam is still working toward finding an ideal set-up but his strong recovery from two crashes at Misano saw him leave with two more podium finishes, his first top threes since round one at Phillip Island. Haslam is fifth overall, just 11 points from fourth place as he approaches Donington, a circuit which is almost literally a home round for him.
In the championship standings Bautista has 330, Rea 314, Van Der Mark 188, Alex Lowes 164 and Haslam 153.
The next round will be held at Donington Park, between 5 and 7 July.
Jonathan Rea, stated: “Winning two races at Misano was good for us, especially the two important races. Unfortunately in the Superpole Race today I made a big mistake in turn ten, when I lost the front. But I restarted to finish fifth which was all important for the weekend. Race Two today was a tough one because the temperature was hot. I was very unsure of the pace. I felt like it was slow but I did not want to push any faster. I saw Alvaro go down very early in the race and the conditions out there were very tough, especially for the front tyre. The rear was just not digging in and going forward, it was just spinning so much – but we won, which was the main thing. It was a super-nice day for Kawasaki because we put three bikes on the Race Two podium. Team Suzuka! Donington next and we will go to every track with an open mentality.”
Leon Haslam, stated: “The third place in the sprint race today was just a matter of staying on and bridging the gap to Tom Sykes, and I managed to pass him on the last lap. This afternoon I was struggling from lap one and did not have much front feeling, but I think everybody was in the same position. When Johnny and Toprak came past I felt I could have pushed to go with them but I had already risked too much so I had to run my own race. Alex was then behind me and I did not want to give up the podium, so I fought a little bit at the end. We have made some good steps from the Jerez test but there are little things we are still finding out.”
Toprak Razgatlioglu (Turkish Puccetti Racing) finished just behind Haslam in fourth place in the short race but finished in a strong second place in Race Two, running out front of his fellow Kawasaki riders for 13 laps. He is now sixth overall and the top Independent Rider in the championship standings.
Toprak Razgatlioglu, stated: “For me, Race Two was my best race. In the short race I did not like the feel because yesterday I had a big crash and we tried the second bike. I did not have a good feeling in the race because the rear was sliding too much. I knew Race Two was important because I started from fourth position and I needed to stay with the front group. In the race I followed Johnny and Leon after Bautista crashed and I felt the bike was good, especially under had braking. I pushed in all laps and made a gap but I saw Johnny was coming. In the last lap I tried to get to the front again but it was not easy. After my crash yesterday this podium was for my crew who did a good job, and we tried a small set-up change that worked. Imola, Jerez and here, on the podium.”
Jordi Torres (Team Pedercini Racing Kawasaki) finished eleventh in the sprint and then tenth in Race Two. He is 12th in the championship standings.
Leandro Mercado (Orelac Racing VerdNatura Kawasaki) pushed himself to ninth in the sprint but fell in Race Two. He remounted but was eventually forced to retire. Leandro, despite missing some races through injury, is 17th in the points.
2019 KRT Rider WorldSBK Statistics
Jonathan Rea: World Champion 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018
2019: Races 19, Wins 4, Podiums 16, Superpoles 3
Career Race Wins: 75 (60 for Kawasaki)
Career Podiums: 150 (108 for Kawasaki)
Career Poles: 19 (15 for Kawasaki)
Leon Haslam:
2019: Races: 19, Wins 0, Podiums 4, Superpoles 0
Career Race Wins: 5 (0 for Kawasaki)
Career Podiums: 43 (5 for Kawasaki)
Career Poles: 3 (0 for Kawasaki)
6 x Riders’ Championships (Scott Russell 1993, Tom Sykes 2013, Rea 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018), 1 x EVO Riders’ Championship (David Salom 2014)
4 x Manufacturers’ Championships (Ninja ZX-10R 2015 & 2016, Ninja ZX-10RR 2017 & 2018)
4 x Teams’ Championships (KRT/Provec Racing 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018)
Kawasaki FIM Superbike World Championship Statistics
Total Kawasaki Race Wins: 131 – second overall
Total Kawasaki Podiums: 403 – second overall
Total Kawasaki Poles: 84 – second overall
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The five a day con
This post has been in my draft box for quite a while now and was brought to the forefront by Ali from Milly and Pip who questioned British fruit smoothie company Innocent about whether they were quite so innocent after all. The company which was caught making up the facts about the health benefits of its drinks back in 2007 is still a business that wants/needs to make money. Especially now its part owned by Coca Cola.
Back in 2007 the small print in the ad claimed that the drinks contained "even more antioxidants" than five actual portions of fruit and vegetables--a claim that failed to hold water.
Advertising watchdog's found the claim breached codes of truthfulness and substantiation, as well as of medical and scientific evidence. Accepted nutritional advice apparently states that fruit juice and smoothies can only count towards one of the recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables, regardless of how much is consumed.
However I do think their is some benefit for some people. If your about to pick up a Diet Coke and swig away then its obvious that a smoothie is far more healthy. Its still a pre packaged, pasteurized juice that you would be far better off juicing yourself. Not only would you save yourself a small fortune, but you would get a food/drink that was still alive and containing all the vitamins and minerals that it naturally should have.
Now lets turn our attention to the "5 a day" campaign. Its long been admitted that its wrong but it still sticks and its the main claim I hear on a day to day basis. It constantly feels like science doesn't need to be "proven" or "real" any more, it just has to sound right!
Fruit saves you from cancer! It doesn't, but it sounds good. Oh and it sells things which is always popular with business. People (maybe you) get hooked into emotional science, they believe in it and have faith in it. Throw those science books on the fire and lets have some faith. And remember faith is: trust, hope and belief in the goodness, trustworthiness or reliability of a person, concept or entity. This could be faith in a religion, or faith in a marketing concept.
Since 2003 our very own Department of Health had been telling us that eating five portions of fruit or vegetables a day. Even the authors of the study advised caution in the findings. Despite a nine year study little was known of the lifestyles of the subjects. Did they live on KFC? Did they exercise?
The original advice was taken from the World Health Organisation back in 1990's. Five-a-day was invented by a bunch (ha ha) of fruit & veg companies at a meeting with the American National Cancer Institute in 1991 . The American National Cancer Institute has since trademarked the term and the fruit & veg manufacturers, logistics and packaging companies hit the jackpot with this marketing slogan that is known across many countries.
A while back it was reported that eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day wrong and that these trustworthy scientists that we have faith in now think eight portions is more beneficial. Wow, Coca Cola the new 58% owners of innocent are going to make a fortune now we have to consume more!!!
Fruit is fantastic, I've just had my freshly squeezed OJ with a dash of lemon, but some fruit contains a great deal of fructose. Remember anything ending in ose is a sugar so fructose is fruit sugar. We know from the work of Ray Peat that "fructose inhibits the stimulation of insulin by glucose" which is why I always recommend fruits that contain more glucose (check out my previous posts).
Glucose enters the bloodstream and has a chance to be used for energy before it heads to the liver. Whilst fructose goes straight to our livers and clogs it up. So, not all fruit is that good for you. I have posted before about the fruits with the most useful sugars listed in order of preference.
My own wife was a beleiver in 5 a day purely on the basis of antioxidant protection. Her work had taught her that we need to eat brightly coloured fruit and vegetables (5 a day) to protect us from free radicals. Here's a thought though, why not avoid the things causing free radical damage? KFC, smoking, diet coke blah blah blah. The truth of the matter is people think they can get away with having a toxic lifestyle and that 5 a day will protect them like some rather sticky squishy Bananaman that will come to the rescue.
Enjoy your fruit (pick wisely though) but don't think its giving you any magic powers to avoiding treating your body well in the first place
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Horror Interview by The Gravedigger
Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for a former actor, singer, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk. He is also a former flower child and baby boomer who figures that in 1956 Elvis, dinosaurs and horror probably saved his life. His first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He personally disagrees but is perfectly happy to let you decide for yourself. His short story The Box won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from the HWA and he has written ten novels, the latest of which are Stranglehold, Red, and Ladies' Night. His stories are collected in The Exit At Toledo Blade Boulevard and Broken on the Wheel of Sex.
1) Tell Buried.com about yourself
Well, I was born in '46 and raised in New Jersey, in a small town much like that in THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, got my B.A. in English from Emerson College in Boston, taught high school for two years -- and got in some political hot water there -- did summer stock for a while in New York, Maine and New Hampshire, crossed the country -- you almost had to if you were a hippie -- got a job doing soft-sell ad copy for the PSYCHOLOGY TODAY Book Club out of San Diego which I took back east with me, moved to New York and wrote theatre reviews for a little East Side giveaway rag called OUR TOWN, moved to New Hampshire and did my Thoreau thing way out in the middle of nowhere, came back to New York with some halfway decent writing under my belt, got an agent for a children's book called THE SANDCASTLE and an off-off-Broadway theatre company to produce a few one-act plays of mine, two of which I directed, then acted and sang some more in summer stock and finally took a good hard look at the bank account which was sufficiently insufficient to inspire me to get a "real" job as an agent for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, a job that lasted three hellish years, taught me everything I know about contracts, editing and marketing, handed me some invaluable contacts and slapped me with a near nervous-breakdown and finally kicked my ass into gear to get down to the business of selling what I wrote, not what everybody else did -- and the rest, except for a brief stint back in San Diego editing a paleontology magazine called FOSSILS, is on the resume. And that was one hell of a sentence.
2) What is the most appealing thing about horror fiction for you?
That I get to scare my friends. I never could manage that when I was just a little fat kid. No, seriously. I like its flexibility. Good horror grabs you and holds you. And once you've done that to a reader you can take him anywhere, talk about issues that are important to you, real matters of life-and-death. And then it's just plain fun to read and fun to write.
3) Your horror fiction is reality based, primarily with people doing horrible thing to each other, whether it be cannibalism (OFF SEASON) or killing without (seemingly) reason (LADIES NIGHT). Do you think you'll ever write a more fantasy-oriented novel?
Probably not. Though SHE WAKES is supernatural horror and so are some of my stories. But there are other guys -- King, Tessier, Straub, to name just an obvious few -- who do that with a lot more conviction and grace than I can muster over the number of pages it takes to write a novel.
4) Some writers say that what they write doesn't have much to do with themselves-others say that their writing is very much influenced by their own experiences. How is this with you?
Depends by what you mean by experiences. You see a sound-bite on TV that infuriates you as happened to me with RED, is that experience? I'd say it is. I draw from whatever comes my way -- what I read, see in the movies, a conversation in a bar, the lives of people I love or loathe. I find myself saying to friends a lot, "you mind if I steal that someday?" Most often they say sure.
5) You've co-written some short stories with "Ed Lee". How did that come about?
Lee and I met at our very first horror convention and immediately became fast friends. Some time later he asked me if I'd like to tinker with a story he thought was pretty good but couldn't seem to get a handle on. I'm a pretty decent editor so I did. The result was LOVE LETTERS FROM THE RAIN FOREST. Basically Lee's story with me doing some rewriting, polishing and editing. We did another one like that and then I had one I couldn't find an ending for, so I sent that to him, and that became MASKS.
6) What is the weirdest true life thing that happened to you that if you wrote it down would read like fiction?
Jeez. There are a lot of them in the books and stories already. One of the unlikely but true things I haven't written about that springs immediately to mind -- no big deal but, to me, pretty odd -- is that out of the five suite-mates I had freshman year in college, only one of whom I kept in touch with -- the rest having gone their separate ways, the Marine Corps, rabbinical school, all over -- I met the other four each by accident on the streets of New York City. But then New York's a weird town anyway.
7) Who is YOUR favorite horror author.
Herman Melville. MOBY DICK.
8) If you could take a SCREAM QUEEN home for a night who would it be and why?
Boy, is that an easy one. Jamie Lee Curtis. And if you have to ask me why you oughta have your head examined.
9) You have many of your books published in England. Do you think the foreign market is more receptive to horror than the U.S?
I dunno. I've published in England, Italy, Greece, Japan, France, and Russia. But not extensively, except in Japan and briefly, England. So I'm not really an expert in foreign markets. The Japanese seem to like my stuff a lot though -- they've bought and translated everything from RED to RIGHT TO LIFE. And OFF SEASON was even serialized in a magazine concurrently with its book publication.
10) Anything you want to add?
I never add. I use the calculator. I know, I know, I'm being a wiseass. Okay, everybody go out and buy my new novel THE LOST, my novella THE PASSENGER in NIGHT VISIONS 10, and if you haven't got THE UNEXPURGATED OFF SEASON, COVER, LADIES' NIGHT, or THE GIRL NEXT DOOR yet -- well, shame on you.
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Kim Kardashian's Salon Run-In With Kyle Richards (VIDEO | 4 PHOTOOS)
Just a day away from her E! show's big second season finale, Kim Kardashianspent her Saturday afternoon (January 28) getting pampered in Los Angeles, California.
The 31-year-old brunette beauty first tended to an appointment at Anastasia Salon before hitting Nail Salon across the street, where she bumped into "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kyle Richards.
The sighting comes as Kim is gearing up for tomorrow's airing of “Kourtney & Kim Take New York" - during which she's seen in a preview clip dealing with the emotional rollercoaster of her marital demise with ex-husband Kris Humphries.
In the teaser, Miss Kardashian's heard saying of the inevitable split, "It's hard for me. He's a good heart, he's a Christian - everything on paper I want in someone, but for some reason, my heart isn't connecting."
"I feel awful that I made him move out here and change his whole life. I feel sad, I feel bad for the guy," Kim continues, with all of the drama set to unfold beginning at 10/9c on E!
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Simon Cowell’s Other Shows May Get Britain’s Got Talent Makeover
Simon Cowell plans to ratchet up the humiliation factor on X Factor by having hopefuls audition before a live studio audience, kinda like Britain's Got Talent. (Daily Mail)
Alexa Chung, a.k.a. the brunette biracial version of Natasha Bedingfield, was just sort of "eh" during the premiere of her new MTV live chat/Tweetfest. (NY Mag)
Hallelujah! It's Royal Ascot time and all the royals are dressing like church ladies at an Atlanta baptist church. (Telegraph)
Princess Beatrice? Nope, still can't keep her mouth closed. Might we suggest a decongestant…or an orthodontist? (Daily Mail)
I almost thought this was an article from two years ago, but Amy Winehouse's parents are back out pleading for their daughter to save herself. (The Sun)
Sacha Baron Cohen was trailed by muscle hunks at the Paris premiere of Bruno. It all looks pretty lame and rather dated, but that guy on the right in the blue fedora is right up my alley. Erm, so to speak. (The Sun)
A soap star from Coronation Street shows off her newly purchased boobs with no guile at all. (Daily Mail)
Filed Under: American Idol, Britain's Got Talent, Simon Cowell, X-Factor
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Consumers concerned about wedding photographer closure (Launch Film Productions)
UPDATE 27/03/2019:
Consumer Protection has received about 90 calls/emails from consumers affected by the closure of Launch Film Productions, with funds at risk estimated at $450,000. Liquidator appointed is Katie Blyth, PricewaterhouseCoopers 9238 3000 - www.pwc.com.au
Consumer Protection is investigating the closure of a Wangara wedding photography business which has alarmed many consumers concerned about receiving their photos and videos.
The business Knightly Corporation Pty Ltd, trading as Launch Film Productions, was placed into liquidation by the Federal Court today after a winding up application by the Australian Taxation Office. PriceWaterhouseCooper has been appointed as liquidators of the company. The company’s main website has been removed and contact phone numbers have been disconnected.
More than a dozen people have contacted Consumer Protection, some reporting that they are still awaiting the delivery of photos/videos of their weddings and others who have paid deposits and full amounts for upcoming weddings. Reports so far suggest total losses of $40,000.
A former employee has reported that more than ten customers had yet to receive their photos/videos and future bookings included four weddings this weekend and another eight in the near future.
Commissioner for Consumer Protection David Hillyard is calling on affected consumers to come forward.
“While we are still investigating, we are keen to have Launch Film Productions customers contact Consumer Protection and register their details so we can assess the situation and provide them with details of the liquidator and instructions on what to do,” Mr Hillyard said.
“It is always difficult for consumers when a business closes down as their orders and bookings are put into doubt and, in this case, there are fears that the photos and videos that can’t be recreated may not be supplied. There are also concerns for those with future bookings about getting an alternative photographer at short notice.”
Consumers who are awaiting products from Launch Films or have future bookings should contact Consumer Protection by email consumer@dmirs.wa.gov.au or call 1300 30 40 54.
General advice and tips
Consumer Protection receives a significant number of complaints each year against wedding suppliers so we recommend that people planning a wedding to do their homework before engaging suppliers and paying deposits.
Before engaging any services for a wedding, consumers should get recommendations from friends and family. In the case of photographers, verify claims by asking to see previous work and speaking to past clients.
A wedding is a significant life event so use a professional and insist on professional standards. Be careful when choosing someone who is operating as a paying hobby.
We recommend that consumers do not pay the full amount up front for these types of services, as this reduces their bargaining power should there be a delay in delivery and also takes away an incentive for the trader to complete the job on time. Consumers should get a formal written quote which sets out exactly what is included in the price of services and sets reasonable timeframes for delivery.
Consider paying by credit card so if something goes wrong with your purchase, or if goods are not delivered, there may be an option to request a chargeback to reverse the transaction.
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Mr. Greene wrote an editorial the next day announcing that an investigation into the deaths of the old ladies had been launched. Miss Volker was upset. She was going to write a letter to Greene and straighten him out. She wrote that everyone should accept the death of a few old ladies. The focus should be on keeping the town ALIVE. The history of Norvelt must be reserved.
Mrs. Gantos was afraid her dinners somehow killed the old ladies. Jack and Mr. Gantos teased her about going to jail. Mrs. Gantos had a gut feeling there was something to the murder talk. Mr. Gantos still wanted to move. He pointed out that they could sell their house to Mr. Huffer. That night in bed, Jack thought about whether the old women were murdered. Who would have killed them? Mr. Huffer...
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Virus-sharing pact eludes WHO group, but work will continue
(CIDRAP News) A World Health Organization (WHO) group that recently met to work out an agreement to ease the global sharing of H5N1 avian influenza viruses failed to resolve the issue, but signaled that work on the issues would continue.
WHO confirms backlog of 15 Indonesian H5N1 cases
(CIDRAP News) The World Health Organization (WHO) today recognized 15 H5N1 avian influenza cases from Indonesia dating back to late January, a few weeks after the country stopped sending H5N1 virus samples to the WHO as a protest against developing nations' lack of equal access to pandemic vaccines.
Roche cuts Tamiflu production as demand cools
(CIDRAP News) – The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche announced today it is scaling back production of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) because of waning demand, and simultaneously questioned whether countries stockpiling the drug are buying enough to protect their citizens in the event of an influenza pandemic.
Six countries to get grants for flu vaccine production
(CIDRAP News) In an effort to improve developing countries' access to potential pandemic influenza vaccines, the WHO (World Health Organization) said today it is awarding grants to six countries to help them develop the capacity to make flu vaccine.
WHO: Six developing countries may get flu vaccine plants
Editor's note: Contrary to this story, information obtained Mar 23 from the World Health Organization and from another news report indicated that Thailand had no plans to withhold H5N1 virus samples. See link at end of story for more information.
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Home Business International law firm names four new directors in Scotland
International law firm names four new directors in Scotland
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Law firm Pinsent Masons has promoted four Scottish lawyers to become legal directors
Edinburgh based Pamela Gilmor will make the step-up from senior associate level with her Glasgow colleagues Susannah Donaldson, Elaine MacGregor and Katherine Metcalfe.
Pamela Gilmour is experienced in advising lenders and corporates in all aspects of banking and finance, including structured real estate finance, acquisition finance and general corporate finance transactions.
Pamela Gilmour
Susannah Donaldson is an employment law specialist with a strong focus on complex employment litigation, discrimination and gender equality issues.
Susannah Donaldson
Elaine MacGregor advises on investment funds and has wide ranging experience in private equity, real estate, debt finance and infrastructure deals.
Elaine McGregor
And Katherine Metcalfe is a litigator specialising in advice on health and safety, fire safety and environmental matters.
Katherine Metcalfe
Richard Masters, Pinsent Masons Chairman for Scotland and Northern Ireland, said: “Congratulations to all four new legal directors who each make a significant contribution to our Scottish offering and to our clients working internationally.
“We have a diverse range of skilled lawyers, innovators and progressive thinkers at Pinsent Masons and all of them play an important role in delivering legal services to our clients.
“As a business we have long focused on creating an inclusive environment that enables everyone to work towards their aspirations and these promotions reflect this ethos.”
In the last 12 months Pinsent Masons has opened an office in Frankfurt, its third office in Germany, launched the Mindful Business Charter with Barclays and Addleshaw Goddard to help reduce unnecessary stress in the workplace, and been named Stonewall’s most LGBT-inclusive employer in the UK.
Moreover, over 60% of its UK offices are now designed exclusively for agile working.
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by Peter Moskos
The more things change... March 31, 1830
Failure to Obey, old school.
The Commissioners direct, that in future the Inspectors on Duty shall not take into custody any person brought in by a Police Constable on the vague charge of “obstructing the Constable in the execution of his duty.” If such a charge is to be made, it must be accompanied by a specification of particulars.
Source: Metropolitan Police. Instructions Orders &c. &c. 1836. London: W. Clowes & Sons.
[This is the last of these, which were a series of the very first police regulations ever, in real time, 182 years later. Thanks to the NPIA and the library staff at Bramshill, UK.]
Peter Moskos is a professor and chair of the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is the director of John Jay's NYPD Executive Master's Program, on the faculty of the City University of New York's Doctoral Programs in Sociology, and a Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project.
Moskos graduated from Princeton (AB) and Harvard (PhD) and was a Baltimore City Police Officer. He has authored three books: Cop in the Hood, In Defense of Flogging, and Greek Americans.
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Critical Acclaim for Cop in the Hood
Cops like the book, Cop in the Hood:
"Should be made mandatory reading for every recruit in the Balto. City Police Academy. ... I am so proud that you were a Baltimore Police Officer and a good one."
—Colonel (ret.) Margaret Patton, Baltimore City Police Department
"I just finished reading the last footnote! Great stuff."
—NYPD Lt. Detective (ret.) David Durk
"I have been a cop now for 23 years and your book really captured what it's like to be a street cop. . . . Great book, great insights."
—Detective-Commander Joseph Petrocelli
"Moskos strips away hard to decipher cop-speak and sociological mumbo jumbo and presents something easily digestible by the average reader.... Moskos is a veteran of a war [on drugs] he disagrees with. But he has walked the walk, respects the brotherhood and, as far as I’m concerned, still bleeds blue."
—Pepper Spray Me
Professors like the book, Cop in the Hood:
"Hard-edged sociological analysis.... A devastating critique of America’s failed war on drugs."
—Orlando Patterson
"The best recent study in the field or urban ethnography.... An exemplar for the field of sociology."
—Elijah Anderson
"Leads to a rethinking of some important ideas in the sociology of deviance."
—Howard Becker
"A masterpiece of the participant observation genre."
—Mitchell Duneier
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—John Van Maanen
"An imaginative ethnography, unconventional in style and purpose. ... A close and moving description of big city policing."
—Peter K. Manning
"[A] riveting tale of policing.... A must read."
—Sudhir Venkatesh
"It gives the reader the real dope.... Highly recommended."
"An extremely valuable study.... His insights are eye-opening."
—Jim Leitzel
"Truly excellent.... Mandatory reading for all fans of The Wire and recommended for everyone else."
"Ethnographic chutzpah.... Perhaps the best sociological account on what it means to police a modern ghetto.... Tells a great story centered around notions of race, power and social control."
—Andrew Papachristos, American Journal of Sociology
"Riveting"
—Monica J. Massey, ACJS Today
The press like the book, Cop in the Hood:
Riveting. . . . An unsparing boys-in-blue procedural that succeeds on its own plentiful—and wonderfully sympathetic—merits.
Never mind "The Wire." Here is the real thing.
"Galloping Prose!"
—Milt Rosenberg
"Engaging as well as persuasive."
"[An] adrenaline-accelerating night ride that reveals the stark realities of law enforcement."
"Genuinely eye-opening.... A compelling account."
"[An] objective, incisive and intelligent account of police work. Moskos's graphic descriptions of the drug culture... are the most detailed and analytical to be found anywhere.
—Arnold Ages, Jewish Post & Opinion
"Scrupulously researched."
—(Baltimore) City Paper
Everybody likes Cop in the Hood:
“Thoughtful, highly entertaining record of ... one of the country’s toughest urban districts."
"Moskos is a good man; he's up to the job."
—Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives.
"Recommended for...insights into law enforcement and, in a nerdier vein, how participant observation can inform social science."
"Sorta like a non-fiction Joseph Wambaugh for the new millennium."
—IrishPirate.
My former boss, a convicted felon? He hates it:
"Just garbage! ... Who does he think he is telling me what to do?"
—Disgraced Baltimore Commissioner Ed Norris on the Ed Norris show.
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Acclaim for In Defense of Flogging:
[Moskos's] provocative book makes many sanely provocative points; it is one I’ve urged on those who want to do more reading on the subject, and I’d urge it again now.—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
Don’t laugh: He makes a convincing case.... Clear, smart and highly readable prose.... Let the debate begin. —Craig Seligman, Bloomberg
You rascal, I thought. Moskos ... knows how to catch our attention. —Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
It could have profound consequences.... In Defense of Flogging forces the reader to confront issues surrounding incarceration that most Americans would prefer not to think about. —Mansfield Frazier, The Daily Beast
“Flogging” is intriguing, even in — or because of — its shocking premise. As a case against prisons, Mr. Moskos' is airtight. —Washington Times
Compelling… Although his outrageous idea may conjure up unsavory reminders of U.S. slavery, by the end of “In Defense of Flogging,” Moskos might just have you convinced. —Salon
One of the very few public-policy books I've encountered that goes past wringing its hands over a societal problem.... Moskos's sharp little volume has a potential audience far beyond the experts. —Rich Fisher, Public Radio Tusla
A brilliant piece of work.... Witty, entertaining, and creative. —Wendell Bell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
A very important work... provocative, timely, and well-argued. I agree with you completely that our criminal justice system is out of control.... On one hand, the problems seem intractable. On the other hand, we're doomed if we don't do something about it. —(Former) CIA Agent John Kiriakou
It was, in truth, a book that I could not put down. I read it in two sittings (my butt was hurting after the first!)... You did well. —Gary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University.
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South Africa squared the series – 2nd Test vs. Australia
Zia Rana February 23, 2014
South Africa 423 (Jean-Paul Duminy 123, AB de Villiers 116, Nathan Lyon 5-130) and 5-270 declared (Hashim Amla 127*, Quinton de Kock 34, Mitchell Johnson 2-51) beat Australia 246 (David Warner 70, Steven Smith 49, Morne Morkel 3-63) and 216 (Chris Rogers 107, Warner 66, Dale Steyn 4-55, Vernon Philander 2-39) by 231 runs.
The Proteas came back in the series by demolishing the strong batting line up of the Kangaroos twice within four days and clinched the encounter comfortably.
The hosts amassed 423 in the first innings and declared the second at 270 in 64 overs after losing five wickets. The tourists were sent back to the pavilion for 246 in their first one and their second innings was squeezed for 216 mere runs.
Jean-Paul Duminy (South Africa) was declared ‘Player of the match’ for his all round performance.
The fourth day of the second Test came to an end on Sunday, February 23, 2014, at St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth.
Hashim Amla – 21st Test ton
Earlier, the hosts started the day at 4-192 in 47 overs whereas Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock were unbeaten for 93 and 9. The latter was dropped on the second ball of the day by Steven Smith and Amla plundered his 21st Test century with a boundary. The score was pushed to 231 when de Kock was gone for 34 and was replaced by Jean-Paul Duminy. The latter held his crease for 18 and Hashim Amla was at the other end at 127 when Garem Smith declared the second innings at 5-270.
Mitchell Johnson and Peter Siddle shared two wickets each whereas Nathan Lyon got one.
Australia was given a task of scoring 448 runs to win the game in almost two days. Chris Rogers along with David Warner gave their side a positive beginning by scoring 55 runs in 11 overs with 10 fours. The latter got a life at 36 and he attained his consecutive Test fifty in the 24th over. Rogers reached his sixth Test half century in the process and the opening partnership was broken at 126 when Warner was declared leg before wicket off Dumniy for 66. The Proteas bowlers never looked back from there and especially Dale Steyn became unplayable.
Chris Rogers witnessed the downfall of the middle and lower order batting of his team as the wickets kept on falling like ninepins. The remaining batsmen were unable to enter the double figures while Rogers powered his fourth Test hundred in the 58th over. He was finally dismissed for 107 as the entire Aussies side was bowled out for 216 runs in 73.4 overs.
Dale Steyn was the top wicket taker with four, Vernon Philander held two whereas Morne Morkel, Jean-Paul Duminy and Dean Elger chipped in with one wicket each.
Australia grabbed the game with a wide margin of 231 runs and levelled the series at 1-1. The third and final Test will commence on March 1, 2014, at Newlands, Cape Town.
Tags: Australia, Chris Rogers, Dale Steyn, David Warner, Hashim Amla, Mitchell Johnson, Quinton de Kock, South Africa, Test, Vernon Philander
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Kusal Perera leads Islanders to a series win – 3rd ODI vs. Bangladesh
Easy win for the Windies – only ODI vs. Ireland
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Making Neurology Global: The First international Neurological COngress in Berne, Switzerland
The First International Neurological Congress was held in Berne Switzerland in 1931. New York neurologist Bernard Sachs (1858-1944), the President of the Congress, welcomed an audience of 890 participants from forty nations and six continents, by declaring: "The purpose of this congress is to establish personal contacts and to unite the neurologists of the entire world."
The Congress unquestionably fulfilled that aim. After almost sixteen years of unwavering animosities, neurologists representing all of the belligerent nations of the 1914-1918 conflict gathered together in neutral territory. There they exchanged pleasantries at a steady stream of smokers, high teas, late-night dinner parties, dances, and a host of field trips to nearby cultural attractions, all the while discussing the science and medicine of the nervous system.
What was the fundamental purpose of these cultural and intellectual exchanges in Switzerland? What was their legacy? Despite the vast expansion of knowledge about the nervous system and its diseases that occurred between 1880 and 1919, the establishment of institutional settings for neurology in the interwar period had been a haphazard affair. The organizers of the Congress intended it as a global corrective to that situation. In other words, the Congress promoted the specialization of an internationally recognized, autonomous field of medicine. Yet this agenda posed many challenges. Not least, could obvious ideological differences between nations be overlooked temporarily and could the tensions readily remembered from past violence truly be forgotten?
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Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science
My review in "Science" can be found here (paywall). From the summary:
The life of Ivan Pavlov was characterized by both sluchainost' (chance and randomness) and pravil'nost' (regularity and lawfulness), two words which appear frequently in Pavlov's own writing. In a new biography, Daniel P. Todes draws on multilingual archival and literary sources to capture the subtleties of the famous physiologist's life and work. The result, according to reviewer Stephen T. Casper, is an exemplary work of scholarship that transforms biography into history.
The Usual Suspects: A Satire
‘Gentlemen.’ The thin impeccably-dressed well-groomed man grimaced slightly in recognition of the room’s demography. ‘Madam.’ He inclined his head. ‘My employer Mr. Brickmann, has assembled you together for a purpose and one purpose only. It is not optional. As you are no doubt aware he is the brilliant inventor of an idea. He now wishes that his idea should become real. And you are his chosen actualizers. Mr Brickmann has picked you and only you because you define Mr Brickmann’s own self-regard for his idea. Only you Gentlemen.’ Again there was that slight hesitation. ‘I leave you to it. But I wish to state for the record that you should regard Mr Brickmann’s high self-regard as you would your own. It is not a trifle. It must be.’ There was now no hesitation. ‘It is only up to you to make it so.’ With that, he turned with graceful imperiousness and vanished leaving behind only the thinly veiled threat that hung over the confounded silence that now filled the lavish boardroom.
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Book Review: Steven Pinker: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Viking Adult: 2014)
The Mighty Pinker Has Struck Out
By Charles Euchner
Charles Euchner is a case writer and editor at Yale School of Management. Author or editor of books on civil rights (Nobody Turn Me Around), writing (The Big Book of Writing), public policy (Urban Policy Reconsidered, Playing the Field, Governing Greater Boston), baseball (The Last Nine Innings), and more, Euchner has contributed to The Boston Globe, The American, CommonWealth, Newsweek, Education Week, The Big Roundtable, The New York Times, and many other publications. Previously he served as executive director of the Rappaport Institute at Harvard University. He blogs at TheWritingBeat.com.
Somewhere, right now, someone is bemoaning the decline of writing. Grammar scolds lay down the law on the “proper” ways to speak and write. Business executives complain about the poor quality of emails. Government bureaucrats wade through piles of regulatory documents, sending some back for rewrites. And of course teachers grouse that texting and social media make their jobs impossible.
Statistics support the complaints. By one account, American businesses suffer $204 billion in lost productivity every year because of poor writing. Businesses and colleges must run remedial courses on writing. But writing programs—in schools and companies—usually make little difference. Less than half of the 2,300 students tracked in a four-year study said their writing had improved in college.
To the rescue comes Steven Pinker, the rock-star language maven from Harvard. Pinker is celebrated for his friendly and lucid style. The subtext of his writing might be: Here, let me translate what those eggheads are saying—and how you should think about these academic debates. So he would seem to be the ideal person to offer a thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century. And that is just what he sets out to do in The Sense of Style, which he sees as a successor to Strunk and White’s classic but outdated Elements of Style.
A definitive writing manual seems the next logical step for Pinker’s work. After writing two scholarly tomes early in his career, he has become a popularizer of intellectual ideas. In The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, and How the Mind Works, Pinker offers erudite tours of the mysteries of thinking and acting. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, he argues that the world is becoming a safer, less violent place. In the ongoing debate about evolution, Pinker argues that all kinds of abilities—including family feelings, sharing, aggression, ethnocentrism, morality, spatial orientation, logic, probability, and even understandings of physics, biology, and psychology—are built into our DNA.
Surely, all of these innate abilities could be used to help people write well. Writing is, above all, an act of sharing and storytelling, those distinctively human activities.
Alas, Pinker fails. His guide is a mess. The best part of the book explores “classic style,” in which the writer “orients the reader’s gaze,” pointing out interesting or important things in a conversational style. But Pinker gets lost in a maze of academic exercises and random prescriptions. For 62 pages Pinker expounds on abstract models for analyzing writing. For 117 pages, he renders judgment on a random assortment of quarrels on word usage. Very seldom does Pinker actually explain how to build a piece of good writing, sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph.
Adolf Meyer writes to Henry Head about Aphasia
My dear Dr Head: Dr. Noble from Sydney, who has visited us recently, told me that you are preparing a work on Aphasia. It occurred to me that inasmuch as my attitude toward the Aphasia problem coincides to quite an extent with your own but also has taken into consideration the "best" way of keeping relations with brain physiology, you might be interested in my Harvey Lecture, which, I suppose, is not very readily accessible. I also enclose a reprint of my course in the teaching of brain anatomy, which is an upshot of suggestions received through my early work in comparative anatomy and a few but much appreciated contacts with Hughlings Jackson. Believe me, very truly yours, Meyer.
25 March 1922, Letter from Adolf Meyer to Henry Head, Meyer Papers I/1633 Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.
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Critical Response: “Northern Light and Northern Times: Swedish Leadership in the Foundation of Biological Rhythms Research” by Jole Shackelford Transactions of the American Philosophical Society vol. 103 part 2 (2013), pp. v-96”
In his aptly titled Northern Light and Northern Times: Swedish Leadership in the Foundation of Biological Rhythms Research (link), Jole Shackelford tackles the complicated and fascinating history of chronobiology. Hitherto a topic only explored in any serious way in a landmark essay by Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating, Shackelford’s long essay explores the social, institutional, and intellectual history of biological rhythms research chiefly in the period from 1930 to 1970 and places that history in both a longer history of ideas and a considered view of the torn geopolitical circumstances that dominated the globe in the modern and postmodern epochs. Shackelford in particular pays much attention to the first meeting of the ‘chronobiologists’, which took place at Ronneby Brunn in 1937. From there, his essay explores Swedish neutrality in the turbulent years of the 1940s and 1950s and closes with a discussion about the emergence of a more international society after 1949. That Shackelford’s emphasis is on the Swedish history of science in the modern period in particular adds a further valuable dimension in a historiography too-often dominated by a focus on Germany, France, Britain, Canada, and the United States. The essay is a pleasure to read and also a highly informative and illuminating exposition which could start many a budding historian of biology and neuroscience onto an interesting investigation of metaphor, space and time, and biology. Worthy of the hour it will take you to read this informative history!
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Political Descent and the Politics of Evolutions
Two quotes that pair nicely with my review of Piers J. Hale's excellent book.
To furnish the most unremitted excitements of this kind, and to urge man to further the gracious designs of Providence, by the full cultivation of the earth, it has been ordained that population should increase much faster than food. This general law (as it has appeared in the former parts of this essay) undoubtedly produces much partial evil, but a little reflection may, perhaps, satisfy us, that it produces a great overbalance of good. Strong excitements seem necessary to create exertion, and to direct this exertion, and form the reasoning faculty, it seems absolutely necessary, that the Supreme Being should act always according to general laws. The constancy of the laws of nature, or the certainty, with which we may expect the same effect, from the same causes, is the foundation of the faculty of reason.
Malthus, Population: The First Essay, 1798 (reprint 1996), pp. 126-7
I might show, for instance, that while man derives great advantages from his highly developed intellectual faculties, the human species in general suffers from them at the same time considerable disadvantages; since these faculties confer the means for doing harm as easily as good, and their general effect is always to the disadvantage of those individuals who make least use of their intelligence, and this is necessarily the case of the greater number. It would appear therefore that the main evil in this respect resides in the extreme inequality of individuals, an inequality that cannot be entirely destroyed. Nevertheless, it may be inferred with still greater certainty that the thing most important for the improvement and happiness of man is to diminish as far as possible this enormous inequality, since it is the origin of most of the evils to which he is exposed.
Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy 1809 (trans. 1959), p. 361
Book Review: Piers J. Hale, Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
“Malthus,” philosopher of biology Robert J Richards has observed, “brought Darwin to recognize the tremendous fecundity of organisms and their consequent struggle to acquire the necessities of survival” (Richards 1987, 100) but Darwin also, “misread Lamarck from the beginning, for clearly neither the Histoire naturelle nor the Philosophical zoologique invoked will to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics”(Richards 1987, 93). Piers J. Hale’s Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England is not only about this moment of Charles Darwin’s close reading of both Malthus and Lamarck, Hale’s fascinating and provocative study is also about the ways the legacy of that reading came to haunt intellectual modernity and after. For the Victorians, Hale writes, “biology and politics were mutually informative subjects”. That is surely true now as well. Thus in a book ostensibly restricted to Malthus, mutualism, and politics, we find so much more.
Political Descent must be situated historiographically in a longstanding debate among historians of biology about the politics of evolution. Adrian Desmond, Robert J. Richards, Janet Browne, Peter Bowler, and many others have had much to say on these matters, and most historians readily accept Adrian Desmond’s assertion that evolutionary ideas – particularly Lamarckian ones – were associated with radical politics. Hale’s contribution to this debate is to show firstly, as most historians recognize, that Darwin’s discovery of a Malthusian mechanism for natural selection, moved the politics of evolution into a more normative political dialogue, while secondly showing, which most historians have missed, that a strong tradition of anti-Malthusian, heavily Lamarckian thought persisted into the twentieth century. The politics of evolution, Hale demonstrates in Political Descent, was thus much more contested than historians have hitherto recognized.
In broad brush detail, Political Descent tells a story that is about the formulation of theories of natural law and the advance of secularization. It is a book about labor and industry, individual struggle and social evolution, political norms and radical politics, and the relationship between culture and biology. Famous ‘Darwinians’ and ‘evolutionists’ grace its pages – Spencer, Chambers, Wallace, Huxley, Kropotkin, Galton, Weismann, and Pearson. There, too, however, are seemingly less likely figures for a history of biology – Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Beatrice Webb, William Morris, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Kidd, and many others. All saw the question of whether natural selection acts on individuals or groups to be essential to answer, and appropriately for our Neuro Times, most also recognized that the answer would have immediate ramification for the study of mind, brain, and human behavior.
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How Lamarck Divided the Species
Here is a fact worthy of readers attention. From Jean-Baptiste Lamarck:
In order to avoid ambiguity and hypothesis, I divide the entire known animal world in my first course of lectures at the Museum in the spring of 1794 (the year II of the republic) into two perfectly distinct groups, viz: Animals that have vertebrae; Animals without vertebrae.
J. B. Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy. Translated by Hugh Elliot (New York and London: Hafner Publishing Co, 1963), p. 62.
Labels: Evolution
A Further Note on "Contagious Shooting"
In my recent history of "Contagious Shooting," I suggested that mechanical metaphors would be mobilized in media discourse to shape further public attitudes about the physiological nature of police over-reaction. Yesterday, Joel F. Shults, writing in The Washington Post, delivered this fine nugget:
Brain processes take time and often move slower than reality. A study published in 2003 showed that it takes a shooter about one-third of a second to recognize a threat, then each trigger pull takes one-tenth of a second. But the mental process of deciding to stop shooting takes longer than the decision to shoot. The result is that another two or three shots can be fired as the senses, brain, nerves, and muscles put on the brakes. In other words, an officer can execute several trigger pulls after a visual input indicates a subject is no longer a threat.
Further, multiple shots don’t guarantee that a person will not continue to advance or attack. And it can take over a second for a body to fall to the ground after being fatally shot. This leaves even more time for shots to be fired before an officer’s finger stops pulling the trigger.
In total, whatever happened in Ferguson likely happened in the time it takes to sing the first four words of the national anthem – and the officer was forced to make quick decisions to keep up.
Take a look at the study. Just do it.
The Trial of Rebecca Schuman's Tractatus
Rebecca Schuman hates academia so much that she gets paid to write a regular column for Slate.com about it. And she positively hates on anyone who fails to recognize her viewpoint and faun over her logic. Fully realizing that for her the road leading to fame and glory as an education pundit is lined with blazing righteous indignation about all of the problems in higher education she sees and knows can be corrected if we just get rid of all the tenured and tenure-track faculty, who, of course, are egotistical jerks, Schuman writes contempt with unmatched panache and is a leading stylist in the art of derision. She manages almost always to write about problems everyone agrees are problems in ways that makes it seem that she is the only one with the adroit logic to see and solve the problem. Her solution is simple: fire everyone. And probably burn all the libraries too. And destroy the buildings. And ignite effigies of philosophers that do not meet with her approval. And, after all of that, recommend truth and reconciliation commission for adjuncts and students, who have been traumatized by the horror that is the tradition of universities for centuries.
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The Recent History of “Contagious Shooting” (1982-2006) and more recent events in Ferguson, Missouri
In the decade since the “Decade of the Brain” the neurosciences have acquired a spectacular cache in the humanities and social sciences. One need look no further than the work of Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached, scholars who argue in their striking volume Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and Management of the Mind that governing in the future will occur through the brain (2013). While for contemporary neuroscientists and neurologists such an expansion of a-disciplinary neuroscience might and probably should represent a crisis in terms of the public face of their science and practice (see Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld 2013), I would suggest that when combined with other disconcerting trends in governence these developments have wider implications in terms of global civil society, policy, common law systems, jurisprudence, and economics. Such a starting place may seem very far away from Ferguson, Missouri. But I think that isn’t the case at all. And in this long essay, I’ll try to explain why.
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The Neurologists: A history of a medical specialty in modern Britain, c 1789-2000
“An important contribution to our understanding of specialization in medicine. Casper's carefully researched and lucidly argued study presents an illuminating picture of the way in which British neurology developed an intellectual and ultimately institutional identity separate from that of elite medicine generally. It is a complex and nuanced story that cannot be explained by technological innovation or market incentives alone.”
Charles Rosenberg, Harvard University
“A most substantial and illuminating contribution, not only to the history of neurology, but also to our understanding of scientific-medical disciplines and the relationship of science to its broader context. Casper uses the confusing and often contradictory usages of the words "neurology" and "neurologist" by historical actors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as points of departure for a convincing and richly contextualized historical account of neurology and the dynamics of specialization.”
Professor Daniel Todes, Johns Hopkins University
The last twenty years in the English speaking world have seen the rise of a new cultural discourse derived from neurology and neuroscience. Found everywhere in this contemporary moment are cultural products that celebrate these fields: fMRI brain scans, case studies of neurological patients, works of science fiction focusing on cybernetic creatures, films about amnesia, hallucinations, and multiple personality disorders, popular science books, and, not least, an overwhelming imagery of brains, spines and nerves. How we arrived at this moment deserves consideration and contemplation. What is it about neurology and neuroscience that makes such perceptions self-evident? Telling this story requires a history devoted to analyzing the rise of medical and scientific neurology. The Neurologists is that book.
When I set out to write my book, I wanted to give my readers an opportunity to answer those questions. At the same time, no comparable book on neurology existed. In beginning my research, I felt very much at sea. What historically had been the differences between neurology and psychiatry? Was neurology synonymous with neuroscience before the advent of neuroscience? How did physiology and pathology fit into the story? Could Freud really be called a neurologist? Such questions were not, and are not, easy to answer. I hope, however, that The Neurologists provides readers with a place to start. Although I realize that many may disagree with my interpretation about the reasons underpinning the specialization of neurology into a branch of medicine, I suspect many new scholars interested in these topics will find it a useful place to begin.
NeuroPun: Neurologian
Published here by permission of Ngan "Kim" Le.
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Jonah Lehrer's New Blog
Jonah Lehrer has started a new blog (link here). I am personally of the opinion that he should be given a third (if last) chance.
Forgiveness is a virtue known only to humans. Forgetfulness is a still better advantage. I think we all would do well to exercise both more frequently. Am I wrong?
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Episode Two (Unabridged)
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Audiobook Summary:Here are three more Sherlock Holmes adventures from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by Edward Hardwicke, who has become the definitive Dr. Watson of the 80s and 90s due to the spectacularly successful Granada television series in which he appears with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. The Cardboard Box , which features in the 1994 series, tells the gruesome tale of a parcel containing two severed ears arriving at the home of a reclusive spinster who had no enemies in the world. Who sent them, for whom were they intended and why? The Man with the Twisted Lip tells about the disappearance of a city commuter. What did he do in the city, why did he disappear, and what was his connection with an opium den? In The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans , a man's body is found on the rails of the underground with no ticket in his pocket. Why was he carrying top secret papers and why were three of them missing? These three exciting stories are full of mystery and suspense with the inevitable Conan Doyle coup de theatre at the conclusion of each.
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Debate for Peace Delegation to Oxford MUN, Ecuador and Kosovo embassies; interfaith meetings
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Written by Silvia G. Golan
Nine students from schools around Israel participated in the second Debate for Peace delegation to Oxford Global MUN. In addition to the conference, the delegates had numerous meetings and briefings in London, as well as celebrating Juma’a and Shabbat together.
The delegation began on November 14th with a visit to the Treasures collection of the British Library, where ancient religious texts, Shakespeare, and the Magna Carta are all on display. The students then went to Bentham House, where they had an engaging discussion on public international law, and the laws of war, with Professor Kimberley Trapp. The delegation then met with several Middle East experts at Chatham House for a discussion about peacebuilding, and the “Israel and Palestine: Beyond the Stalemate” project. Afterwards there was a two hour workshop at Europe House, which focused on Brexit. There the delegation also met with youth from different countries through the Asfar organization. Finally, the day concluded with a briefing at the Behavioral Insights Team, where the students learned about behavioral economics, and its impact on policy-making.
On Friday the delegation was photographed Fran Monks as part of the Hug Project. Then the delegation joined the Muslim Educational Center of Oxford for Juma’a prayers, where they heard the khutba from Dr Taj Hargey and had a lively discussion on contemporary Islam. That evening the delegation joined the Jewish community at the University of Oxford for shabbat dinner.
From Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon the students engaged in their respective committees, representing a range of countries such as Australia, China, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. At the closing ceremony on Sunday Teba Massalha (UAE) received a Best Position Paper award in OPEC, while Eliran Ben Yair (China) received an Honorable Mention award in CSW.
Back in London the delegation met with peacebuilding experts at Conciliation Resources, and visited the Embassy of Ecuador, where they met Ambassador Jaime Marchan-Romero, and the Embassy of Kosovo, where they met Counselor Imer Berisha. They also visited one of the largest Hindu temples outside of India, and heard a piano concert by Rachel Starritt at the St. Martin in the Fields church. The delegation also received a private tour of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, including a visit to the Agha Khan Centre Gallery, featuring work by contemporary Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab. The delegation was lucky to be guided by curator Esen Kaya, and joined by academic and musician Dr. Vanessa Paloma. Kaya told Diplomacy that she was very interested in “hearing about the students debate programme and the passionate messages they had conveyed in Oxford. They all liked our building, the Islamic gardens and were amused with reading some Arabic text within specific art works and gardens around the building.” She added that it was interesting to see the responses of young leaders to topical contemporary culture as well as traditional religious texts.
The delegation also found time to visit the National Gallery, the Museum of Natural History, and the British Museum, featuring the Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies and other treasures. They finished the delegation by meeting with Jaron Soh to learn about his efforts to help refugees and displaced persons support themselves using traditional handcrafts, contemporary technology, and global economics.
Lareen Habashi from Iksal High School told Diplomacy that this was “a special experience that I did not have before. We discussed different topics concerning the whole world, we met people from different ages, different positions and fields from several countries around the world.”
Shahaf Navon, from Ben Gurion Comprehensive school in Petah Tiqva, added that the delegation “helped us to personally evolve and not only to get to know the other side but to befriend them, (and the) meetings with different NGO was a wonderful experience.
Maya Qawasmi from Al Qassemi high school in Baqa added “we had an amazing week, visiting different places and meeting with people who gave us so much information about several subjects. We had a fun time in the museums, and finally three incredible days in Oxford conference.”
The upcoming Debate for Peace delegations will be to Yale MUN and Johns Hopkins MUN in the US.
Photo Credit: Fran Monks and Debate for Peace
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Where is she from?
a) Sydney
b) Adelaide
c) Melbourne
What's Adelaide like?
a) It's a huge city
b) It's an industrial city
c) It's a big country town
How long has she lived there?
a) 6 years
b) 8 years
c) 16 years
What does she think about Australia?
a) She loves it
b) She doesn't say
c) It is OK
After Japan, is she going back to Australia?
a) Temporarily
b) Probably not
c) Yes, for good
OK. Hello!
Hi. Could you say your name please?
Sophie Wilkins.
Sophie Wilkins. Uh, Sophie, where are you from?
Um..I'm from Adelaide, South Australia.
Oh, nice. Adelaide. Uh..what's Adelaide like?
Um..it's a big country town, although it is actually a capital
city of South Australia.
OK. Is it..uh..is it like over a million people or..?
Um, it's about 1.8 million people.
Oh, that's pretty big. Nice. How long have you lived there?
Um..I've lived there for about six years.
Six years!
OK. So, you weren't born there?
No, no. I was actually born in..on a farm in..um..mid-north South Australia.
Oh, nice. Farmer girl.
That's cool. Um, OK. So what, what do you think about Australia?
Um, I love it. I love the space. Um..how clean it is. The health..
the lifestyle. It's very healthy.
Um..and the people as well.
OK. Great, so after Japan are you going to go back to Australia?
Temporarily I think yes. Um..for a couple of months and then
hopefully come back to Japan.
OK. Great. Thanks.
Q3: Would...?
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Tegan and Sara’s Seventh Studio Album, Heartthrob
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Tegan and Sara is a group to be reckoned with! If you haven’t listened to their music before, maybe you should do a back track to see how grown these women have become. This is the seventh album by these ladies and although it is a good album it is for acquired taste.
This album is very pop; which can catch newcomers off guard because their music does not get a lot, if any, radio play. The first track off this album, which is also the first single, is called “Closer” and it is blunt straight to the point.
All I want to know is, can you come a little closer?
Here comes the breath before we get a little bit closer
Here comes the rush before we touch, come a little closer
Most people would think about something physical and although she wants that, a verse makes it clear that physical is not the only thing she wants. This sounds like a love song, a mellow tempo one but it isn’t. It is filled with electric pop; not tacky like the 80s but it is done well and the video is really cute and plays off on the 80s theme.
The entire album is about a relationship; whether it is one relationship or several, each song is about some specific, you can feel in not only in how the song is sung but the lyrics. My favorite song on the album is “I was a fool.” It is more emotional than the other songs on the album and it is more down to earth than the other songs. Although the beat doesn’t make it seem like a sad song, it does put you in a state in wonder of your past heartbreaks.
The album is not for everyone; but there will be a song that you’ll love or can’t get out of head. This album gets a 4 out of 5. The content is great and I really wish they had a larger audience; after 7 albums hopefully this will be the one to make them a household name.
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And, we have arty magic provided by cultural geek design superstars (yes, that's a term) that we've then specially curated and set up for fans as gorram awesome Firefly-related shirts HERE.
Some of the designs have also been scanned in from the originals we have here at Firefly Store HQ as part of our ludicrously large art collection of everything Firefly or Serenity related. Seriously, there ain't enough walls in the world. Certainly not in our house.
But what can we say, we're so, so weak when it comes to coveting fabtabulous art. At least we also do it for a good cause now...
CALLING ALL ARTISTS - WE'D LOVE TO DO SOMETHING GREAT WITH YOU!
We're keen to hear from any artists who might like to get involved in our much-delayed We Are Family initiative, whereby we will be selling 100 copies of Firefly related A4-sized prints under the theme of 'family'. Most of the profits from these prints will go towards various adoption charities, to help them continue their wonderful support to children and families. But we also want to give the artists a little something from each sale too. How?
Well, our approach is to offer great A4-sized limited art prints to Firefly fans at a really affordable price, raising cash for the charities at the same time. But to help us afford to work with even more great artists, we're hoping to get the artwork donated or bought for a reduced rate, but then we'd also like to give some of the proceeds of each sale back to the artists too. It's that win-win-win again. The work can be original, adapted or even already existing - so long as you created it yourself and it fits within the family theme.
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We've also got a bunch of prints and interpretative works from artists who have kindly donated their efforts or sold them to us for selling as part of our charity initiatives or events. A few links to the online special places of some of these talented friends and favourite artists are at the bottom of this very page - so please have a look at the serious skills on display. Awesome stuff.
Having spent a few years offering support and advice to people in the creative industries as a rewarding 'real world' job, we've continued to actively promote and help those with awesome talents out there in the 'Verse. Now part of Firefly Store, we still try to engage with artists and creative types (digital and traditional) who might be under the radar of many professional agencies and clients. These are the artists who we believe have immense creative talent and feel their work deserves to be appreciated by a wider audience.
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Over 2,000 attend annual air show
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By Becky Holland
More than 3,000 people were expected to attend the Third Annual Heart of Georgia Air Show at the Heart of Georgia Regional Airport in Eastman Saturday. Clouds and questionable weather brought in a little more than 2,000 people.
Attendees enjoyed touring the aviation college as well as trying out the flight simulator and other interactive exhibits. They also were able to tour a passenger airplane. Eight food vendor trucks were on site as well.
Hosted by Middle Georgia State University, and presented by Kenocoa Aerospace, the family-friendly event was set to have aerobatic performances by pilots, like Jimmy Burke, Buck Roetman, The Silver Wings, The Twin Tigers and Gary Ward.
Ward was to be the grand finale. A native of north Georgia, he began his air show career in 1998 in a Pitts S2-B. In 1999, he moved to the Giles 202 and in 2006, he became the first pilot to begin flying air shows in the awesome new MX2. While waiting for the weather to clear, attendees were able to view all of the airplanes that would be used in performances. Ward’s was a popular one for viewing.
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Letterkenny Public Services Centre Break-In
Further to a break-in at the Letterkenny Public Services Centre in the early hours of this morning (Friday), Donegal County Council wish to confirm that the office remains open to the public during normal hours.
The Motor Tax Office will reopen at 9.15am on Monday morning.
Donegal County Council wish to reaffirm, that no cash is kept in any of it’s offices overnight, and while minor damage was done as a result of this incident, the burglars left empty handed.
The Council’s security systems kicked in as per procedure, and Gardai are investigating the incident.
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Information Constellation
An experiment in making the professional personal.
Outside the Lines zine
Metaliteracy and the New Draft ACRL IL Framework
I want to start this post with the unabashed fact that I am a metaliteracy geek. Anyone who’s been reading this blog during the past year and a half should know this. But on the chance that this is one of the first posts you are reading here, it’s worth stating at the outset that I totally get metaliteracy, believe it is a thing, and an important one at that. So much so that my research partner, Teresa, and I chose to present our study findings related to the effects of social media on students’ information seeking attitudes and behaviors through the lens of the metaliteracy framework developed by Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey in C&RL in 2011. (Shameless plug: our article, “Teaching metaliteracy: a new paradigm in action,” is slated to appear in Reference Services Review 42.2 later this spring.)
Metaliteracy and me -- we're tight.
I wanted to say that at the outset, because what I’m about to say will seem directly at odds with the above sentiment. Which is…
I don’t think metaliteracy should be elevated by name to the extent that it is in the new draft ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
This draft was made available yesterday to the profession at large, with an invitation to comment and provide feedback on the important work the task force, charged with developing this document, has completed thus far. Formal feedback should be offered through a SurveyMonkey instrument the task force has set up for this purpose, but informal discussion of the document has already begun on Twitter. See #ACRLILRevisions, #futureofIL, and #infolit tweets timestamped February 20th for some of this conversation, though many of the exchanges are occurring without hashtags, making tracing the conversation there a challenge.
Before I continue, I want to say that I am incredibly excited by the draft, and I believe the task force has done incredibly good, but challenging, work on a gargantuan task. I am grateful to them for developing the living, dynamic framework for IL that our profession and others who will use the document deserve, and also for their graciousness and wisdom in inviting librarians and other stakeholders to offer critical and (at times) uncomfortable feedback on their work, with the goal of making it better. For all of this, they have my sincere thanks.
Amid the vast Twitter conversation following the draft being made available to all, one member of the task force tweeted the following, in response to many of the initial reactions and responses to the document observed on Twitter:
themes are already emerging in the reaction to #ACRLILRevisions, mostly concerning #metaliteracy. #notsurprised
— elizabeth berman (@elizabethberman) February 20, 2014
In short, many folks are not sold on metaliteracy as a necessary “anchoring element” (draft, p. 6) for this new IL framework. Metaliteracy is presented alongside another new mode of understanding IL, through the use of threshold concepts, where “metaliteracy” and “threshold concepts” appear to be weighted equally as influential lenses and underpinnings of the structure and content of this new framework. Leading up to this draft, there has been anxiety surrounding both of these new-to-librarians terms, since the task force shared with the profession last fall that these two ideas would be very influential in the drafting of the document. Along these lines, click here for a snapshot of some of the Twitter conversation related to the problematic nature of naming metaliteracy and giving it such weight within the document.
My proposed solution, both in that Twitter conversation and here, is to integrate metaliteracy into this new IL framework without naming it. After completing a thorough read-through of the draft, I now feel even more confident that this is the best way forward for the document, and the task force charged with developing it. Here below is my case for this recommendation.
First, I should clarify: I don’t suggest removing the word metaliteracy from the document entirely. Trudi and Tom have done such extensive work on metaliteracy, and very good work that connects metaliteracy to information literacy, in case any of the naysayers have yet to actually engage the concept as articulated by them and others. And I’m not just saying this as a metaliteracy fangirl: I really mean it. They have described something that is so evident, to me at least, as someone who has used social media as a pedagogical tool in the classroom for five years now, that it just is: it is our reality today, both in terms of the information environment we all find ourselves in, and also in terms of the needed responses to this environment -- metacognitive reflection, and a critical awareness of why we do what we do with information, being the foremost of these. This is important work, and it should be recognized in the parts of this new IL framework that directly draw upon and are influenced by metaliteracy as it has been articulated by Trudi and Tom.
That being said, as I read through the draft, I detected as I went the growing sense that, while threshold concepts are fully fleshed out in terms of their connection to and usefulness for the work of information literacy, to the extent that they are the organizing principle of the document (each section of the framework is identified by a threshold concept for IL)...while this was the case for threshold concepts, it did not feel the same for metaliteracy as a self-referential “thing” that needs its own categories, justifications, and objectives within this new IL framework.
The first place I noticed this in the draft was in the extensive introduction to the framework. The section titled “A New Framework for Information Literacy: Using Threshold Concepts” (pp. 5-6) is very fleshed out, provides a clear and compelling rationale, connects the concept to other disciplines, and is 1.25 pages long. Immediately following this section is another section titled simply “Metaliteracy” (p. 6) which, based on the expectations set up by the section about threshold concepts, I was expecting to provide a similarly compelling and detailed rationale for this second “anchor” situated alongside threshold concepts. The “Metaliteracy” section of the introduction, however, doesn’t provide this; instead it provides 1/3rd of a page of text that articulates the important and useful elements of Trudi and Tom’s articulation of metaliteracy that we can expect to be incorporated into the framework that follows.
The second place I noticed that metaliteracy feels a bit tacked on while yet articulating important things (more on this later), is in the structure of each Threshold Concept for IL -- three of which have been offered to us in this draft for comment, though my understanding is that the final framework will have upwards of ten threshold concepts for IL identified, defined, and fleshed out. Each Threshold Concept for IL includes the name of the concept, a definition (in bold), a more detailed description of the concept, Knowledge Practices (Abilities), Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives, Dispositions, Self-Assessments, and Possible Assignments/Assessments. As a first-time reader of the document, reading through one sample Threshold Concept for IL, when I reached the “Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives” they felt redundant in terms of the purpose of the separate sub-section/list -- these learning objectives can in every instance be integrated into either Knowledge Practices (Abilities) or Dispositions, either as discrete additions to those lists, or as added nuance to items already included on those lists. The only reason there would need to be a separate list of “Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives” is if metaliteracy remains a “thing” unto itself in this framework -- the way threshold concepts are. I no longer believe it should be.
My marginalia on one set of
"Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives"
But where does that leave us? Do we throw metaliteracy out the window, along with the baby (i.e., metacognitive reflection on one’s information attitudes and practices) and the bathwater (i.e., the complex information environment we find ourselves in, replete with participatory information environments wherein information seekers are now also content creators, curators, and sharers)?
No, of course not! So what do we do?
My suggestion, as someone who has heavily engaged and applied metaliteracy as articulated and developed by Trudi and Tom, is to articulate in the framework’s introduction the parts of metaliteracy that are absolutely vital to information literacy today, and then to integrate/incorporate/embed these elements heavily and explicitly throughout the Threshold Concepts for IL sections -- without feeling the need to identify these elements as “metaliteracy” every time we do.
And what are these vital elements of metaliteracy we need to integrate thoroughly in this framework? They are:
the “new roles and responsibilities brought about by emerging technologies and collaborative communities” (draft, p. 6)
which include learners as information producers/creators, curators, and sharers
and which in turn require, now more than ever, the learner’s development of “metacognition, or consciously reflecting on one’s thinking” as well as “multiple domains” of learning, including “cognitive, metacognitive, affective, and behavioral” (draft, p. 6), in order to negotiate and thrive in these new roles -- in addition to the more traditional roles of one who identifies an information need, and then accesses, evaluates, and uses the needed information effectively and efficiently (ACRL 2000).
In my understanding, the key thrust of metaliteracy as articulated by Trudi and Tom is:
1) The environment and context in which learners engage with information has drastically changed, which means
2) learners are now information creators, curators, and sharers, in addition to the more traditional roles articulated in the old ACRL Standards (2000), which in turn now requires that
3) learners develop greater and deeper metacognition related to their own information attitudes, behaviors and practices, in order to constantly improve and strengthen their ability to thrive in this new environment.
By so doing, they develop into information literate learners.
It is a three-part argument, metaliteracy is, though of course there are many implications associated with each part of the argument, which Trudi and Tom have developed extensively in their 2011 C&RL piece, and which have been incorporated into the Metaliteracy Learning Objectives the task force has at present included in the draft as a set of lists separate and apart from the Knowledge Practices (Abilities) and Dispositions for each Threshold Concept for IL, as I described above. But to me at least, these three assertions I've just outlined as the "argument" of metaliteracy are the key contributions that Trudi and Tom's work on metaliteracy has to offer to this new IL framework.
As such, my suggestion to the task force is to remove metaliteracy from its elevated position as an “anchoring element” in the framework, and instead incorporate it into the overall literature review, drawing on Trudi and Tom’s work to articulate the above aspects of metaliteracy that any new IL framework today needs to address. Leave it in the glossary, since it is a relatively new term to librarians and others who will be using the framework. But -- and this is key -- analyze all of the Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives associated with each Threshold Concept for IL, and deeply embed them in either the Knowledge Practices (Abilities) or Dispositions for each threshold concept, doing away with the separate list of Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives altogether.
In several cases, this will require deconstructing the Related Metaliteracy Learning Objective in question, since many of these objectives intentionally include both abilities/practices and dispositional elements... And this is precisely what makes their presence as a separate list/entity so confusing to the reader of this new IL framework document: on the one hand, the document seems to want to distinguish abilities from dispositions (a useful distinction, in my opinion), but on the other, there is this list of “Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives” that contains objectives that intentionally combine abilities and dispositions. This makes putting into practice these Threshold Concepts for IL difficult and more complicated than it needs to be. More fully integrating the elements of metaliteracy that are vital to information literacy, and doing away with the separate lists of Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives, makes for a stronger framework overall, and as a bonus will serve to un-alienate those members of our profession whose “unnecessary jargon detectors” have been going off like mad ever since the task force articulated the direction the revised framework would take. It's a win-win.
I have already marked up the three Threshold Concepts for IL provided in this first draft, attempting to do this work of deconstructing the Related Metaliteracy Learning Objectives and integrating them into the lists of Knowledge Practices (Abilities) and Dispositions for each, so I know that it is possible to do this, if those doing the work see the value in doing so. (See image above for a snapshot of my marginalia along these lines.)
I love this kind of work -- integrating one set of ideas deeply and tightly into another set, making the resulting set so much stronger than either set was on its own. And it is the work I challenge the task force -- co-chaired by Trudi, no less, which positions her to lead boldly in this work of integration -- to do, to make the final version of the framework as strong as it can be.
I am so excited for the #futureofIL. Let's do this.
Posted by Donna Witek at 7:48 PM
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LAS PIZARRAS CHARDONNAY 2017: THE BEST CHILEAN WINE BY ROBERT PARKER, WITH 98 POINTS
In its latest Chile report, the prestigious publication awarded with unprecedented 98 points the 2017 vintage of Las Pizarras Chardonnay, ranking all alone in the first place among all wines tasted –both reds and whites- and rising as the Best Chilean Wine. This is the first time in Robert Parker’s history that a Chilean wine achieves 98 points, an acknowledgement that acquires even greater importance, as it is a white wine.
“This is hands down the best vintage of Las Pizarras and the best Chardonnay I’ve ever tasted from Chile. It’s amazing how this wine has developed in only four vintages (…) It’s awesome beyond belief! Viña Errázuriz produces some of the best wines from Chile and surely one world-class white—the Chardonnay Las Pizarras, a true icon and sought-after wine that has been made in only four vintages. Bravo!”
Eduardo Chadwick, Viña Errázuriz’s President, commented: “As a team, we receive this recognition sincerely proud and with the deepest satisfaction, as it is the confirmation of a great bet we placed over the Aconcagua Costa appellation that allowed us create what today is considered the best wine from Chile.”
Gutiérrez also highlighted the 2016 vintage for Viña Errázuriz’s top red wines: “2017 seems to have produced even fresher whites, while 2016 seems to perfectly fit the style of freshness and elegance they took some years ago (…) The quality of the wines from Errázuriz is very high, and they are extremely reliable. Their Pizarras Chardonnay from the pizarra(slate) soils in Aconcagua Costa is becoming one of the finest wines in the country. It leads the hierarchy in this report with its 2017 vintage. A true icon and sought-after wine that has been made in only four vintages.”
Viña Errázuriz consolidates as Chile’s quality leader by Robert Parker, accomplishing outstanding scores for its wines Don Maximiano –the winery’s flagship wine-, Kai, La Cumbre and the Aconcagua Costa range.
Don Maximiano 2016, 93 points: “It’s an ultra-classical Aconcagua Cabernet-based blend with good ripeness while keeping the freshness, and it has generous oak that does not overwhelm but makes the wine softer and spicier. It has some fine-grained, slightly dusty tannins. The very classical label is very coherent with an updated classical blend.”
Kai 2016, 92 points: “They want to show the maximum potential of Carmenere in the 2016 Kai, which is from very stony soils in Aconcagua and contains some 7% Petit Verdot. It has some cereal-like aromas and a lactic and leafy touch. This is still in a fuller, more classical Panquehue style, slowly being refreshed through the years and getting closer to the more modern and fresh house style of other ranges. The palate is medium to full-bodied.”
La Cumbre 2016, 93 points: “Their top Syrah, the 2016 La Cumbre, is produced with grapes from the interior, with a touch of the cooler Aconcagua Costa. Winemaker Francisco “Pancho” Baettig has been working to reduce the alcohol and the oak, removing the sweet fruit sensation, but it’s still a more classical style, more generously oaked, more fruit-forward and slightly riper but without excess.”
Villa Don Maximiano 2016, 91 points: “A new red blend and second wine from the same terroir as Don Maximiano, the 2016 La Villa de Don Maximiano is a blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Petit Verdot, 20% Malbec and 15% Cabernet Franc. It’s a very classical Bordeaux blend in the style of Don Maximiano, with a pungent palate and produced in a fresh style from the warmer vineyard. 10,000 bottles produced.”
Las Pizarras Pinot Noir 2017, 94 points: “As with the Chardonnay, the 2017 Aconcagua Costa “Las Pizarras” Pinot Noir is also fresher and sharper than the 2016 I tasted next to it, despite the year being somewhat warmer. This feels very young and fruit-driven, open, aromatic, exuberant.”
Las Pizarras Chardonnay 2017, 98 points: “Really fascinating, and it’s even sharper, more restrained and with higher acidity than the 2016 that I tasted next to it. Winemaker Francisco “Pancho” Baettig is really pushing the wine to the limits —harvesting early and with more concentration and structure achieved through lower yields, which provides depth and complexity. This is really young and austere (…) it’s pure, mineral, long, precise like a laser cut, symmetric and chiseled. Even if it’s sharp and citrusy, the palate has more volume and depth, and some nutty notes appear after some time (…) Great length. It’s a monumental mineral white, with the coastal freshness and the slate tastiness.”
Aconcagua Costa Chardonnay 2017, 93 points: “The truly excellent 2017 Aconcagua Costa Chardonnay is a dry, austere and mineral cool-climate Chardonnay with a sharp palate, chiseled flavors and nice texture. The palate is dry, serious and mineral, with no sweetness whatsoever. It seems like the 2017s represent a step up in precision when it comes to the Chardonnays from Errázuriz. Superb! Getting closer to the already iconic Las Pizarras.”
Aconcagua Costa Syrah 2016, 93 points: “An elegant and fresh cool-climate Syrah with subtle varietal aromas and an earthy touch. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannins and elegant minerality. I think 2016 worked very well for the reds here. This feels more Northern Rhône-like, with a touch of incense and smoky balsam. Nicely structured with good acidity.”
Aconcagua Costa Pinot Noir 2017, 92 points: “It has moderate alcohol, and it’s a restrained and serious style of Pinot Noir, with subtle aromas, clean and tasty flavors, good complexity and a layered structure.”
9 九月, 2019
VIÑA ERRÁZURIZ: CHILE’S QUALITY LEADER BY ROBERT PARKER’S WINE ADVOCATE
VIÑA ERRÁZURIZ CONSOLIDATES ITS WORLD-CLASS QUALITY IN LATEST 2019 REPORT BY JAMES SUCKLING
Eduardo Chadwick launches new 2016 vintage of Chilean Icon Wines in Asia – Into the Future
For second year in a row, Viña Errázuriz is awarded with Best White wine and Best Wine of Aconcagua Valley in Descorchados
2 十月, 2018
Viña Errázuriz releases new 2016 vintage of Icon wines
VIÑA ERRÁZURIZ PARTICIPATED IN ROBERT PARKER’S WINE ADVOCATE MATTER OF TASTE SINGAPUR
PHOTOGRAPHER ESTANIS NÚÑEZ AND WINE CRITIC LUIS GUTIÉRREZ VISIT VIÑA ERRÁZURIZ AND VIÑA SEÑA
EDUARDO CHADWICK DELIVERS INSIGHTFUL KEYNOTE SPEECH AT THE SOCIETY OF WINE EDUCATORS’ ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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Inside NCI - The magazine for Friends of National College of Ireland (Issue #4)
The February edition of Inside NCI is now available. Print copies can be picked up in the College, while it is also published online here. This edition features the former President, Dr Paul Mooney, with the former World Champion snooker player, Ken Doherty who is a member of the College's Governing Body, on the cover. It is packed full of news and items ranging from an introduction to the new President, Graduation 2009, launch of the new disability service, the Legends in your Lunchtime Series, and the launch of a new Home Visiting Service. Lots and lots of interesting stuff to read and it is packed full of photos.
I was delighted to see a news item on the launch of my book (page 7), and a flattering photo (thanks Emma F.) of myself and Mark Ryan of Accenture.
Congrats to the NCI marketing Department for once again producing an excellent publication - make sure you check it out.
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part of the Blood Brothers anthology
Blood Brothers, Book 3
Eve Vaughn Books • 04/26/2014
Christine Summers is content with her life as is, a good job, and nice home, and good friends. However, when she spies hunky Romeo Grimaldi in a bar, she figures a little flirtation can’t hurt. The flirtation leads to an explosive night of mind-blowing sex. Sex leads to more sex, and more than that, love. But Christine has a secret…
Ages old, vampire Romeo Grimaldi is a self-proclaimed hellraiser and thrill-seeker. He can’t see himself tied down to one woman for the rest of eternity because his motto is, ‘the more the merrier’ however when he meets the lovely Christine Summers, there’s something he just can’t walk away from. And when an old enemy shows his face, Romeo will trade lust for love, because he will protect his mate.
This bad boy has finally met his match.
“Are you sure this is what you want?” Romeo asked for the third time that night. Jasmine-scented perfume drifted to his nostrils and Romeo had to stop himself from burying his face against her skin. It had been a long time since Romeo had wanted a woman with such an animalistic need.
Christine fumbled with her keys before unlocking the front door of her tiny Cape Cod . “You wouldn’t be with me right now if I wasn’t sure. You do want this, too, don’t you?” She looked over her shoulders, her eyes twinkling with amusement.
She obviously had no idea how much he wanted her. He wanted to pull her into his arms and rub his cock against the gentle swell of her bottom. He realized he’d been extremely lucky to meet her tonight. Wolf had been so entranced by the fem vampire that he was truly missing out on this beauty. A slow smile tilted his lips as Romeo thought about his friend, who’d been left stewing at the club when Nya made it clear in no uncertain terms that she wasn’t interested.
It had been rather pathetic to watch Wolf try to win the fem over, only to be rebuffed none too gently over and over again. Romeo felt lucky that it wasn’t him in the same position, because Nya didn’t seemed inclined to like either one of them.
Christine, on the other hand, had made it obvious that she was very willing by flirting with him throughout the night. He’d liked the way she talked, even though most Boston accents annoyed him to no end, sounding coarse and unrefined to his ears. From her mouth, however, it sounded delightful. Her intelligence and grasp of world events also intrigued him. She was definitely not the bimbo type to go from one one-night stand to another, so it surprised him that she’d been willing to bring him back to her place.
“Come on in, please. Would you like some coffee or something to eat — oh! I’m sorry.” She stumbled over the last words.
What was that all about? He stepped into her small but cozy living room. The house was neat and full of furniture and knick-knacks, yet it didn’t seem cluttered. He felt a strange sense of coming home. “Nice place.”
“Thank you. I like it.” She smiled at him.
One of Christine’s front teeth slightly overlapped the other, but it only seemed to add to her charm. It was a smile he knew he’d remember for a long time to come. “So, what were you about to say?”
“Why did you stop after asking me if I wanted something to eat?”
“Uh, well …” She covered her mouth, her face going slightly red. “I didn’t mean to offend you. I didn’t think before offering.”
Now he was really confused. “You were just being a good hostess. Why would I be offended?”
“Because you don’t eat,” Christine blurted out before her face went an even deeper shade of red.
“Says who?” Was this woman on some kind of drugs? How could he have misjudged her so badly? “Why wouldn’t I eat?”
“Because … uh, never mind.”
Romeo tried to touch her mind, but something seemed to be blocking him. Humans couldn’t block their thoughts from vampires, yet he was ninety-nine point nine percent sure Christine was human. What was going on? “Tell me what you meant by that comment.”
“Well … I’ve never seen Nya eat anything.”
Her meaning finally dawned on him. “You know what your friend is?”
“And you know what I am?”
“Is that what Nya talked to you about when she dragged you away from the table?
“I see.” He didn’t really, but this certainly made things more and more interesting.
Christine raised her head almost in a defiant gesture. “I’m not scared, though.”
Romeo couldn’t help but to grin at that. She was obviously trying to conceal her fear, but he definitely liked her more with each passing second. “And why aren’t you scared? How do you know I won’t drain you of all your blood and leave you for dead?” He took a step forward, yet she remained where she was, although a thin sheen of sweat glistened over her brow.
“Because Nya said you wouldn’t hurt me and I trust her.”
“Funny how she knows that about me when tonight was the first time I’ve had the … pleasure of meeting her.”
Christine cocked her head. “You sound like you don’t like her.”
“I don’t know her well enough to form an opinion, although she seems already to have formed one of me. Tell me, what else did your friend say, and how is it that you have become so close to one of my kind?”
“It’s a complicated story. It doesn’t matter, does it? We both want one thing tonight. Have you changed your mind?”
“Hell, no, but I will have my answers — if not now, then eventually. And, by the way, I do eat. You must watch too damn much television.”
Christine laughed. “That’s exactly what Nya said earlier.”
“You know, if I could live the nineteenth century all over again, I’d kick Bram Stoker’s ass.”
This time, Christine clutched her sides, laughing harder than ever. Her laughter was so infectious, he couldn’t help but to chuckle himself.
“So you find that amusing, do you?”
“It was the way you said it,” she said, wiping a tear from her eye.
“Well, imagine what it’s like for me when I see Hollywood ‘s version of vampires. I stopped watching vampire movies after Blackula . Even I had to draw the line somewhere.”
This seemed to tickle Christine even more. “ Blackula ? I can’t say I’ve seen that one. Please tell me you’re making that one up.”
“You didn’t miss much. It’s a blaxploitation movie from the seventies. Don’t get me wrong, Richard Roundtree in Shaft was the man, and I loved Pam Grier in Foxy Brown , but Blackula ? Come on.”
“I see your point. The title alone sounds horrible. I know how you feel, though. Full Metal Jacket ruined my life.”
“You have no idea how many men think it’s cool to approach me by saying, ‘Me so horny. Me love you long time!’”
“You’re kidding.”
“I wish. It didn’t help that Two Live Crew remixed it into a song. That had to be the worst summer of my life. Let me tell you something — the next guy who asks me for a happy ending is going to get my knee shoved into his crotch.”
She looked so cute during her little rant. “You poor baby.” Romeo reached out and pulled her into his arms.
“I’m sorry about my narrow views of vampires.”
“And I promise I won’t ask you to ‘suckie suckie.’” He winked at her.
Christine glared at him before her features softened when she realized he’d only been teasing her. She laughed again. “You’re too much.”
“And you’re too beautiful,” he murmured, caressing her soft cheek.
“So … would you like something to eat?”
“The only thing I want to eat right now is your pussy,” Romeo whispered before lowering his head. Her dark eyes widened, but she didn’t pull away. The feel of her soft lips beneath his had his cock straining against his jeans, begging to be released.
His tongue traced the seam of her lips, licked off the fruity flavor of her lip gloss. When she sighed and wrapped her arms around his neck, Romeo took advantage and slid his tongue into the sweet cavern of her mouth.
Christine was absolutely delicious. He could taste the faint trace of alcohol, along with a cherry flavor, as if she’d eaten some candy earlier. With her head tilted back, her mouth opened under the gentle persuasion of his kiss and Romeo explored every cavern and crevice, savoring the very essence of her.
God, she was lovely. Never before had his body reacted quite this way. He lifted his head to look down at her. Christine’s eyes were closed and her lips were slightly parted, as though waiting for him to bring his head back down to hers. Romeo’s lips traced a path from her jaw to her neck, then she seemed to tense up.
“Relax,” he whispered against her skin.
Romeo’s lips grasped the pulsing hollow at the base of her neck, loving the sound of her soft moans. The tormenting sweetness of her body against his only fueled the flames of his passion further. His fingers deftly worked to unbutton her blouse. He was eager to see all of her.
Romeo slid her top from her shoulders, his hand sliding inside her bra to tweak one pert nipple. She trembled beneath his caresses, and her reaction excited him. “Do you like that?”
“Oh, yes. More. Oh, God, more,” she moaned, arching her back. Romeo smiled down at her, rolling the tight tip between his fingers. In one sudden movement, he ripped the bra away from her body with his free hand, not bothering with the clasps. “I’m sorry, I’ll buy you another.”
His hands worked on her skirt and panties until he had her naked in front of him. Stepping back to survey her perfect body, Romeo smiled. She was gorgeous from her small, but beautifully shaped bronze-tipped breasts, to her flat stomach and small waist, which flared into rounded hips and slightly muscular legs. He could tell that she worked out and took good care of her body.
Romeo licked his lips at the sight of her hairless cunt. He had no preference for shaved or unshaved women, but looking at the smooth skin between her silky thighs, he couldn’t wait to bury his face inside it.
Christine brought her arms up, crossing them over her breasts in a self-conscious gesture.
“Don’t. You have nothing to be ashamed of. You’re beautiful.”
“Well, I’m standing here naked while you still have all your clothes on.”
He grinned. “Something that can easily be remedied,” Romeo said, shrugging out of his leather jacket.
“No. Let me.” Christine covered the short distance between them and placed her hand on his shirt.
“If you insist.”
She slid her hand under his T-shirt. The contact of her palms on his chest filled him with such a rush of desire, he could barely keep still. If he wasn’t careful, this woman would be the death of him.
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GPSC codes of conduct are in place to ensure football is a positive and enjoyable for everyone. GPSC adopts the SSFA codes of conduct for all members, including coaches. All members are expected to abide by the codes. Copies of all our codes of conduct are available under Documents and Forms.
1. Do not tolerate acts of aggression.
2. Provide feedback to players and other participants in a manner sensitive to their needs. Avoid overly negative feedback.
3. Recognise players’ rights to consult with other coaches and advisers. Cooperate fully with other specialists (for example, sports scientists, doctors and physiotherapists).
4. Treat all players fairly within the context of their sporting activities, regardless of gender, race, place of origin, athletic potential, colour, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, socio-economic status and other conditions.
5. Encourage and facilitate players’ independence and responsibility for their own behaviour, performance, decisions and actions.
6. Involve the players in decisions that affect them.
7. Encourage players to respect one another and to expect respect for their worth as individuals regardless of their level of play.
8. Ensure that the tasks and/or training set are suitable for age, experience, ability, and physical and psychological conditions of the players.
9. Ensure any physical contact with players is appropriate to the situation and necessary for the player’s skill development.
10. Be acutely aware of the power that you as a coach develop with your players in the coaching relationship and avoid any sexual intimacy with players that could develop as a result.
11. Avoid situations with your players that could be construed as compromising.
12. Actively discourage the use of performance enhancing drugs, and the use of alcohol, tobacco and illegal substances.
13. Do not exploit any coaching relationship to further personal, political or business interests at the expense of the best interest of your players.
14. Accept and respect the role of officials in ensuring that competitions are conducted fairly and according to established rules.
15. Know and abide by rules, regulations and standards, and encourage players to do likewise. Accept both the letter and the spirit of the rules.
16. Be honest and ensure that qualifications are not misrepresented.
In addition, the following general codes apply to all members:
1. Respect the rights, dignity and worth of others.
2. Be fair, considerate and honest in all dealing with others.
3. Be professional in, and accept responsibility for, your actions.
4. Make a commitment to providing quality service.
5. Be aware of, and maintain an uncompromising adhesion to high standards, rules, regulations and policies.
6. Operate within the rules of the sport including national and international guidelines.
7. Do not use your involvement with GPSC to promote your own beliefs, behaviours or practices where these are inconsistent with those of GPSC
8. Demonstrate a high degree of individual responsibility especially when dealing with persons under 18 years of age.
9. Avoid unaccompanied and unobserved activities with persons under 18 years of age, wherever possible.
10. Be aware of responsibilities under the Child Protection Act and report any matters as required under the mandatory reporting requirements of the Child Protection Act.
11. Refrain from any form of harassment, discrimination or racial vilification of others.
12. Refrain from any behaviour that may bring GPSC or football into disrepute.
13. Provide a safe environment for the conduct of the activity.
14. Show concern and caution towards others who may be sick or injured.
15. Be a positive role model.
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From ISDS to ICS: a leopard can’t change its spots
Position paper on the Commission proposal for an investment court system in TTIP
Publication - February 12, 2016
This position paper illustrates Greenpeace’s position on the Commission proposal for an Investment Court System (ICS). The Commission presented the proposal at the end of 2015, after its initial approach to Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms received vehement criticisms by the public, NGOs, SMEs, media and political parties in the European Parliament.
The public debate on ISDS and the results of a public consultation on the inclusion of the mechanism in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) forced the EU Commission to suspend for two years (from January 2014 to February 2016) the negotiations on the TTIP investment chapter and to rethink its approach to investment protection.
Whilst containing some improvements, the new proposal substantially fails to address and mitigate our concerns on the detrimental impact of ISDS mechanisms on the protection of public interests, such as health and the environment, and on the fair and non-discriminatory access to justice.
Position Paper: From ISDS to ICS: a leopard can’t change its spots
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Gülsin Onay’s subsequent, truly international, career has spanned 80 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. Gülsin Onay has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world.
An exceptional Chopin interpreter, Gülsin Onay was in 2007 honoured with the award of a State Medal by the Polish nation. She is also acknowledged worldwide as the finest interpreter of the music of A.Adnan Saygun, whose works feature prominently in her concerts and recordings, and whose 2nd Piano Concerto (which she has premiered in Turkey and abroad) was dedicated to her.
“An exceptional pianist, endowed with virtuosic brilliance and boundless energy, and an interpretive power both intelligent and emotionally sensitive”, Gülsin Onay has recorded 20 albums that illustrate the breadth of her repertoire as well as her interpretive power.
Gülsin Onay takes a special interest in the promotion of charitable causes, giving charity concerts around the world – most recently for children in Lebanon, under the auspices of UNICEF, whose Turkish National Committee appointed her “Goodwill Ambassador” in 2003. Since its inception in 2004, Gülsin Onay has been the artistic advisor of the Gümüşlük Classical Music Festival.
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Garbage To Release 20th Anniversary Reissue Of Their Debut Album: Morning Mix
Bianca Gracie @BiancaEnRogue | September 3, 2015 5:00 am
Did You Hear?
:: Good news for Garbage fans, as the American/Scottish band has plans to reissue their self-titled debut album in celebration of its 20th anniversary! Look out for CD and digital formats on October 9 and the double vinyl version on October 30. [NME]
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:: Current model Rihanna recently revealed she is gearing to launch a makeup line! There is nothing solid in the works yet, but the project will be the latest addition to the pop starlets ever-blossoming brand. [Jezebel]
:: If you’re having a down day, watch this hilariously genius Kanye West VMAs speech/Seinfeld mashup to brighten your spirits! [Crushable]
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The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, today marked Rail Safety Week by announcing new funding for railway crossing improvements
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Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Peter Fassbender, on behalf of Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone, was joined by Ron McKinnon, MP for Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, on behalf of the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and TransLink board chair Don Rose today to announce that the Evergreen station plazas will be built over the summer and to give a sneak peek tour of Inlet Centre Station in Port Moody
The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, and the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, today announced the Government of Canada's intention to work with Parliament to postpone for one year the repeal of certain provisions of the Canada Transportation Act that were enacted in 2014 by the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act.
The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, is advising the public of power steering issues with certain model vehicles from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Canada and is seeking the public's feedback
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American Couple spread Krishna-kirtan Worldwide
Vrindavan Today: DECEMBER 12, 2015
A devotee couple, having imbibed Krishna-bhakti since childhood, is dedicated to spreading Krishna-kirtan around the globe. Residents of Gopinath Bhavan in Vrindavan, Sudevi Dasi and her husband Kishori Mohan are from California.
Childhood friends since their Gurukula days, they met Narayan Maharaj in 1996 and became devotees of Krishna. Although their parents are Christians, they chanted the Hare Krishna Mahamantra, attended Mangal Arati, and listened to the pastimes of Krishna since childhood. They have been practicing Krishna-bhakti and kirtans for the past 17 years.
Acclaimed for their Kirtans, their album Bhakti without Borders was also nominated for the Grammy Awards last year.
They wedded in the traditional Vedic manner 21 years back in the Rupa-Sanatana Gaudiya Matha at Seva Kunj.
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Guru and Sisya
Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math: Oct 13, 2015
The meaning of the word, Guru (Spiritual master), is very grave. If the word is analyzed it’s only two parts ‘Gu’ and ‘ru’ are obtained. Here ‘Gu’ signifies ‘Darkness’ and ‘ru’ means ‘Light’. It simply indicates that he who is able to save forever illusioned persons from the clutches of darkened maya (illusion) and is able to make them reach the sun or light-like God will be considered to be described as a ‘Guru’. Similarly the meaning of the word, ‘Sisya’ (Disciple), has its own speciality. A disciple promptly places on his head every order of all known as spiritual masters. He carries out the order in question with responsibility, regularity and pleasure and adds to the happiness of Krishna, the original Guru of all, and his Diksha Guru and Siksa Guru and all other Vaisnavas. The inherent meaning of the word Sisya, is associated with a person who always joyfully follows without any question the rules of all sorts of preceptors. In this age the difference between a preceptor and a disciple is going to be abolished forever. This article is presented in this context.
In the Gita Krishna, the Supreme Godhead, taught lessons to all living in the world by addressing Arjuna. In the very way, the saviour from Kali and the apostle of love, Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, addressed Sri Rupa Goswami and his brother, Anupam, when He was seated with them at Dasaswamedh Ghat in Prayag, and taught us that innumerable bounded up jiva souls wonder through 8 400 000 species in the fourteen worlds. There are two classes of jiva: mobile and immobile. Mobile creatures are of three types: aquatic, terrestrial and flying creatures. Among them terrestrial class is the best. Man is the best in this class. Among them the human beings are very small in number. There are many persons who are devoid of civilization and virtue and are atheists. One-half of those who are called virtuous, have reverence for the Vedas and accepts them verbally. Most of these religious persons who have attachment to the Vedas are workers. On analysis one wise person is found among many thousands of workers. In the same way one liberated persons will be detected among thousands of wise men. Similarly, one devotee of Sri Krishna is very scarce among one crore liberated persons.
According to Sriman Mahaprabhu, the apostle of love, devotee of Sri Krishna is very rare. But, in recent days so many rare devotees of Krishna are found all around. Is the utterance of the Lord a false one then? No, it can never be so. His words will never be false. Devotees of Krishna are truly very rare.
Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu instructed Nityananda Prabhu and Namacharya Haridas Thakur after observing the troubles of jivas struck by Kali:
suna suna nityananda suna haridas
sarbatra amara ajna karaha prachar
prati ghare ghare giya kara ei bhiksha
bala krishna bhaja krishna kara krishna siksa
“My dear Nityananda and Haridas, please, give ample publicity of my order to all places. Go to every house and beg for uttering Krishna, worshiping Krishna and learning Krishna.”
In order to follow the instruction and to place on high positions the flag signifying the conquest over all views in the foreign countries my Param Gurudev Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur, at first sent there his three competent disciples: Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Pradip Tirtha Maharaj, Tridandi Swami Srimad Bhakti Saranga Goswami Maharaj and Srimad Bhakti Hriday Bon Maharaj, for propagating in every house the way to make lives significant by pronouncing the Name of Krishna, taking part in the service of Krishna and going through the books having bearings on Krishna. He also wanted to overflow the world by the Holy love of Lord Krishna through the above requests. After that Srila Prabhupada disappeared. In his absence nobody came actively to the foreign countries for a long time for preaching the lessons of Sriman Mahaprabhu. In 1965 Srila Bhakti Vedanta Swami Maharaj, my siksha Guru blessed by Srila Prabhupada and the Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, preached with the vigour given by Srila Prabhupada almost everywhere in the world as per the following desire of Srila Prabhupada and instruction of Sriman Mahaprabhu ‘Harer-nama harer-nama harer-namaiva kevalam’ (The Name of Hari, The Name of Hari, only the Name of Hari). He did so with the desire and grace of Sriman Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada to make the following saying of Sriman Mahaprabhu a true one:
prithivite ache yata nagaradi gram
sarvatra prachar haive mor nam
“My name will be preached to all towns and villages in the world.”
He made it known to all that Hari-nam only is the natural faculty of the people struck by Kali. It is the only means to get peace by giving up quarrel and enviousness. As a result, at least a number of people having devotion to Mahaprabhu can be found out.
During the time of the prakasa-lila (life-time) of Srila Bhakti Vedanta Swami Maharaja, the founder of ISKCON, many enthusiastic foreign devotees of Sriman Mahaprabhu were available. In course of time with the disappearance of Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja and his class-fellows all Vaisnavas belonging to Sri Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Saraswat Sampradaya (community) and all other so called Vaisnava sects were griped by the awful seizure of Kali.
Men living in this material world lost their awareness about their abode and became devoid of religion. They believe in the so called worldly affairs, disregard the rules of religion and almost all of them are entangled in transgression. Now in the name of religion we, the devotees in the eyes of the worldly people have made the very flow of the preaching of the message of Sriman Mahaprabhu the way to earn our livelihood. Each jiva is after enjoying sensual pleasures. He never gave us the chance of such an enjoyment. The entrance of the British in India about 254 years ago with measuring instrument of a businessman can be taken up as an instance. They found that the hearts of the Indians are soft like flowers. Their measuring instrument gradually broke the said hearts by a magic power and they took over the ruling power in their hands with the aid of their enjoyment tendency.
In this way the religious arena is actually devoid of a true Guru today. We neglected the rules of the scriptures in the name of religion and like the British we made our religion a way to earn our livelihood. As a result, people living in this country and the foreign lands United themselves in the foreign lands and in this country respectively in the beguile of accepting Guru and preaching religion. By the attraction of Mahamaya we are detached from our religion and Varnasrama and gave religion an ugly form in connection with the relation of Guru and his disciples. Guru is the container and conveyer of religion. It makes us describe our Guru as the identical revelation of God. Previously we were proud of the judgment and characteristic of the practice of pure devotion by my Param Gurudev Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur. Afterwards my Gurudev, Om Vishnupad 108 Sri Srimad Bhakti Promode Puri Goswami Maharaj and his godbrothers showed the same ideal of Srila Prabhupada and taught us that the real home of every jiva is Bhagavatdham, Golok, where the Supreme Godhead Himself is engaged in lila (Pastimes) in company with His associates. Jiva is forever related with Him as His servant. They taught us this matter and showed us the way to return to our real home, Bhagavatdham.
‘Asakti rahita, sambandha sahita kara ucchaisvare Harinam.’ — ‘Pronounce loudely the Name of Hari by discarding attachment and embracing relation with Him.’ It is a matter of great regret that we have down-trodden those ideals of the mahajanas (Great saints) as very insignificant ones and have used their great names. On the other hand we bade good bye from the core of our hearts to the land of religion, India and came to the foreign countries to earn money by hook or by crook in the name of the service of God and Guru-Vaisnava. By getting money in this way we saved it giving birth to attachment and leaving our ideal of detachment. Finally we are very much engaged in fulfilling our greed for the enjoyment of our senses.
Some persons disclose, ‘after earning money in the foreign countries we shall go back to our Dham and accept strict Bhajan like Rupa and Sanatana.’ In the words of Srila Viswanath Thakur this type of alternative thinking is called byudhavikalpa. It means a plea to enjoy worldly possessions in the name of service to God by forgetting Saranagati. In fact, only Saranagati (complete surrender) and nothing else is the stair to reach to the door of the knowledge of Bhagavata. At the time of composing the kirtan ‘Vaisnava ke’ — ‘Who is the Vaisnava?’, Srila Prabhupada said ‘Kanaka, Kamini Pratistha baghini chariache yare, sei to vaisnava’ — ‘He who has discarded gold, female sex and the tigress, reputation is the Vaisnava’. Yet we being his prasisya (followers of the next generation) are worshiping the three hindrances to Hari Bhajan: gold, female sex and reputation. In fact, most of us made Srila Prabhupada and His initiated personalities the capital of our business, entrapped ourselves in the guise of Vaisnavas and after accepting materialistic views we are in the look out for making the number of Apasampradaya so many in place of only thirteen.
Srila Prabhupada always said ‘The condition of so called Guru and Sisya is very miserable. The condition of all Gurus is more regrettable than Sisyas’. In the words of Srila Prabhupada both Guru and Sisya of this type are blind while they follow the path to devotion. Gurudev is the pathfinder to the Bhagavat-dham. A blind can not show the way to another blind. If a person plays the role of a guru without practicing pure devotion and shows negligence to the scriptures he will receive two pushes at the time of trying to show the way to his sisya and his sisya will get one. His venture of this type will bring to him the first push. He will fall down in a ditch. His second push will come when his sisya will fall flat on him from behind having the first push.
In recent days another problem appeared very prominently. On getting in touch with different posts in religious organizations Guru and sisya both are now busy with these positions. Whenever they are asked of pure devotion, they being burdened with the posts say with wonder ‘What is that?! Now we are very busy.’ Srila Sukadeva Goswami told us to chant the Name of Hari for sixteen rounds on the beads and look after the property as the one belonging to Krishna. The exact time for taking Hari Nama sixteen times on the beads is not found out in view of the malice of property. Practically when a property is taken as one belonging to me instead of Krishna, jiva by unbiased strength of Krishna goes far away from Him and gets a burning sensation as a separate entity.
Now gold, female sex and reputation are our necessity in place of love to Krishna. What will be the consequence? Will our taking shelter of the lotus feet of Guru and endeavour or service be proved futile? Our taking shelter of the lotus feet of Guru will then be meaningful when we shall be able to follow with pleasure all the principles laid down by him instead of imitating them and chant the Name of Hari whole-heartedly. In this way, our venture to be united with the soul of our Guru chanting of Harinam everyday and measures to serve the Vaisnavas and the Lord will make us follow Bhakti-anga instead of playing the role of accepting pure devotion. If a Guru is engaged in the robbing of the wealth of his sisya instead of removing his miseries and a sisya is entangled in enjoying his Guru instead of rendering devotional service to him (that was described previously at the time of showing the attempt of Guru to earn his livelihood by making the Name as the capital and his engagement in enjoying the senses) then Yamaraj will construct a special naraka (hell) for both the Guru and his said sisya.
This dasadhama prays with a piece of cloth fastened around his neck to Srila Guru Padapadma, Srila Prabhupada and the Acharyas following the footsteps of Rupa ‘Please, wake every one living in the world, making them detached from Anyabhilasa (other aspirations) by defeating the two hindrances to pure devotion — knowledge and work, and give them that is conducive to the nourishment of pure devotion and allow them to be the eternal devotees of the Lord Krishna Chandra.’ They are also requested by him to allow the boat of his human body to serve the lotus feet of the pilot who takes us to the opposite bank of the ocean in the form of this world, to rescue us by creating the chance for establishing an eternal relation with the Lord and to make us liberated from our condition of confinement in Maya.
This Dasadhama politely submit to the readers to kindly forgive the Aparadha (offences) for his faults.
Etiquetas: Guru, sisya, Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math
Sannyasa: The Final Vow (Documentary)
A short documentary about the significance of taking Sannyas Vow in Vaishnava Tradition explained by the prominent spiritual leaders of ISKCON. The documentary focuses on the inner journey of HH Krishna Kshetra Swami when he decides to take Sannyasa Initiation which will be his final vow. The movie is dedicated to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada the Founder-acarya of ISKCON. Copyrights reserved. 2015
Etiquetas: documentary, ISKCON News, the final vow
Opposition unites against UP Gov’t takeover of Banke Bihari
Vrindavan Today: December 5, 2015
The Congress and BSP have decided to come together to protest against the state government’s decision to acquire the famous Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan, alleging that it would monopolise temple activities and disturb the faith of devotees.
Presently, the temple is run by a private management committee comprising 80 members along with dozens of priests. The proposal for acquiring the temple was initiated by the state government after a senior IAS officer was fined by the committee for taking VIP treatment, temple administration claims.
“The officer used a table and chair and had food on the campus which is prohibited. We imposed a fine of Rs 7.50 lakh on ‘Sewayat Gosains’ (Saraswat Brahmins who serve Bihari ji) for this act. After reaching Lucknow, the proposal for acquiring the temple was initiated. This will result in corruption in the temple,” Nandkishore Upmanyu, president, Banke Bihari Temple Committee told The Indian Express.
“We are also going to start a free hospital, dharamshala, school and garden for Thakur ji’s Shringar. We cannot allow government interference as it will result in destabilising the set practices,” Upmanyu added.
Pledging their support to the Banke Bihari Temple Committee, local BSP MLA Raj Kumar Rawat and Congress Legislature Party leader and MLA Pradeep Mathur, along with various local Hindu organisations such as Dharam Raksha Sangh and Hindu Jagran Manch have come together to oppose the government’s decision.
“We are against the government’s move as ‘Thakur ji’ belongs to every Brijwasi and will remain for them. There should not be any government interference in ‘Thakur ji’s’ puja,” said MLA Rawat. Mathur said, “It is a harsh step which the government should not take. It will disturb the faith of devotees. All parties should sit down and work for improving basic facilities at the temple.”
Government officials dismissed the protest as handiwork of those with vested interest. “Our main concern is security and facilities to the devotees. Most of the time these people are fighting among themselves. Only those who have vested interests are protesting. They have sought time and we have given them time for hearing their representation,” Navneet Sehgal, Principal Secretary, Religious Affairs department said.
The temple receives nearly Rs 50 lakh per month as donation from devotees, while nearly Rs 1.20 crore is spent on private security and housekeeping. The temple is served by nearly 550 Saraswat Brahmins who trace their origin to Swami Haridas who had set up the temple nearly 550 years ago.
Swami Haridas was the guru of music maestro Tansen. Presently, the temple is visited by lakhs with waiting period of over a year for participating in Phool Ka Bungla (floral decoration) among devotees.
Etiquetas: Banke Bihari, opposition, takeover
Ubicación: Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India
Who is Vaishnava? How to recognize a Vaishnava?
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaja speaking Hari-katha in English.
www.sreecgmath.org
www.youtube.com/channel/UCu8nE_A6MapBddHopet4dJw
Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaj's Audio and Video Recordings of Divine Harikatha and Kirtan
Etiquetas: audio, English, Hari-katha, Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaja
Sri Giri Govardhan in Vrindavanita, Colombia
By Vrinda Family News
On November 15th was celebrated the beautiful festival of Sri Giri Govardhan and the transcendental disappearance of Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavanita Eco Yoga Farm Monastery, Bogota-Colombia.
There were several activities and offerings full love by the dear devotees.
Here are some pictures of this beautiful festival that was full of joy and sadhu sanga.
Giri Govardhan giving us her divine darshan and mercy
The most lovely smile
Vinoda Devi Dasi with her small child bathing Giri Govardhan
"There is not bigger treasure than teaching your children the path towards Krishna Consciousness"
BV Sagar Swami, Vrinda Mission's missionary, worshiping Sri Govardhan and giving us his nectar in this day
All expansions of Giri Govardhan giving us their sweet darshan
Sharing in family, Sadhu sanga Ki, Jay!
Ecstatic kirtan by Prabhu Askalita, pioneer and guardian of the Vrinda Mission in Colombia
Sri Giriraj Govardhan Ki, Jay!
Vrindavanita Ki, Jay!
Vrinda Mission Ki, Jay!
Etiquetas: Eco Yoga Farm, Sri Giri Govardhan, Vrinda Family News, Vrinda Mission, Vrindavanita
Ubicación: Colombia
Anuttama Dasa & Michael Langone at Parliament of World Religions
by ISKCON News
ISKCON's Minister of Communications, Anuttama Dasa, spoke in October at the World Parliament of Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah, on a Panel entitled "Understanding and Mitigating the Dangers of Manipulation, Undue Influence and Abuse within Religious and Spiritual Communities." Anuttama was joined by Dr. Michael Langone, the Executive Director of the International Cultic Studies Association. Both discussed potential problems of spiritual leadership and the means of avoiding abuse through training, accountability, and transparency.
Etiquetas: Anuttama Dasa, iskcon, Parliament of World Religions
Ubicación: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Kirtan Raga: JOY - Album Promo Clip
“Joy” - KirtanRaga’s first album of live kirtan recordings. Kirtan Raga is an educational project dedicated to sharing knowledge about the philosophy and practice of kirtan. “Joy” is available on iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay, Spotify, and other digital platforms. All profits will be used to fund worldwide promotion of kirtan through website development, publications, events, and educational initiatives.
Etiquetas: devocional music, Joy, Kirtan Raga, music, video
Giri Govardhan Celtic Remix- Virtual Mantra Choir
Etiquetas: celtic music, Giri Govardhan, music, video
Vrindavan festival to bring together various cultures
Vrindavan Today: Mathura, November 17, 2015
A week-long festival seeking to unite different cultures and create an environment of peace and harmony will be held here from November 18 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the 16th century monk and reformer Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsav is set to bring together at least 40 different styles of music from 25 states across the country.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is said to have promoted the community-style devotional worship of Krishna with kirtans.
President to attend opening function
President Pranab Mukherjee, Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav along with host of dignitaries will be present at the inauguration on November 18.
Of the various avatars of Vishnu, he revered Krishna and popularised the chanting of the ‘Hare Krishna’ mantra, also known as ‘Sankirtan.’
“India is known for acceptance and tolerance, and we want this festival to be known for that. The essence of this festival is to create love and harmony,” says Abhishek Goswami, the convener of the festival.
With Manipuri manjiras fusing with mridangams from Bengal and Manganiyar musicians from Rajasthan, the festival aims to “bring the whole country together in a single sutra.”
“The main objective of the festival is creating a bridge between all forms of culture, music and to emanate love,” says Mr Goswami.
Organised by Vrindavan based organisation, Earth Voice, with the support of Kathak Kendra, the Sangeet Natak Akademi and Dharmik Leela Commitee, the festival would host musical legends including Sanjeev Abhyankar, Kalapini Komkali and Trichur Brothers.
Etiquetas: event, vrindavan, Vrindavan Today
Dipwali
By Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
Varsana, Vrndavana, India
Devotee: Why do we celebrate Dipavali, and in what mood is it celebrated by Vrajavasis?
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja: Dipavali means a time of happiness. When Lord Rama defeated Ravana and reached Ayodhya, a big Dipavali festival was performed there. Sri Vamanadeva wanted to cheat Bali Maharaja. He did not cheat him; rather He gave His mercy, although it seemed that He was cheating. When Bali Maharaja was offered a benediction from the Lord, he requested, “Always remain in my home.” In this way the Lord Himself was “cheated.” Lord Vamanadeva was very glad, and He agreed to stay there forever. Due to great happiness, Bali Maharaja then asked all his associates to hold a Dipavali festival, and that was the first Dipavali. When Krsna defeated Duryodhana and returned to Dvaraka, a Dipavali was also celebrated there.
Lord Krsna Himself, along with Mother Yasoda, Nanda Baba and all the other Vrajavasis, came here to Manasa-ganga, and celebrated this festival with their own hands. In other words they themselves offered dipa (a lighted ghee wick) and rendered many other services.
Dipavali also means light. If there is no bhajana of Krsna there is darkness, and in Krsna Consciousness there is light. We celebrate this function in order to give up darkness and to bring the light of bhakti, pure devotion. This is the same celebration. Real happiness comes from playing karatalas and mrdangas. If one hears this, and if maya hears, maya will go away at once. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu brought the saìkirtana movement to this world to drive out maya. Sri Krsna and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu celebrate this Dipavali Themselves, and we should try to follow Them.
Etiquetas: Dipwali, divali, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
Halloween Evening Harinama at New York's Union Square
ISKCON News: Nov. 6, 2015, 5:43 a.m.
Rama Raya Das wraps up an intense Halloween evening kirtan and costumed passersby dance with devotees and later offer lamps to Damodara. Rama Raya then offers his concluding speech.
Etiquetas: Halloween, iskcon, video
Ubicación: New York, NY, USA
500th celebrations from Amiya Nimai temple
By Vrindavan Today: Vrindavan, November 12, 2015
Mahaprabhu's portrait is taken on sankirtan around Vrindavan.Mahaprabhu's portrait is taken on sankirtan around Vrindavan.
Of the many celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Shri Chaitanya’s Mahaprabhu’s advent in Brij-Vrindavan, the one being organized by the Amiya Nimai temple in Gopinath Bazaar. Amiya Nimai is the most important temple dedicated to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Vrindavan and the scene of annual celebrations commemorating Mahaprabhu’s 1515 visit every Karttik Purnima.
This year, under the leadership of Vaishnavacharya Padmanabh Goswami of the Radharaman temple, festivities this year will be much expanded, bringing together many prominent persons from various walks of life. It will be held from the 18th to 25th November.
The President of India, Hon’ble Shri Pranab Mukherjee, will inaugurate the celebration on the 18th November. Various dignitaries will also grace the occasion by their presence and the lineup will include Shri Ram Naik, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of UP and Smt Hema Malini, MP for the Mathura constituency.
On the 18th November, at the request of Acharya Shri Padmanabh Goswami, Acharya Shri Padma Lochan Goswami, Acharya Shri Anurag Goswami, the President of India and Guests of Honor will visit the Shri Radha Ramanji Temple and the Amiya Nimai Mahaprabhu Temple. They will then attend a stage program at the Parmeshwari Devi Dhanuka Saraswati Vidya Mandir.
21 Nov. 6.30 p.m. Installing the auspicious vessel, performance of the adhivasa kirtan, by followers of Ramdas Babaji of Path Bari, Barah Nagar, Kolkata, W.B.
22 Nov. 5-6 p.m. Bhaktamal discourse by Bhaktimali Ji.
23 Nov. 4.30 p.m. Mahanta Sri Sachidananda Shastri, lecture.
23 Nov. 5.30 p.m. Tridandi Swami Bhaktivedanta Madhusudan Maharaj, lecture.
24 Nov. 9.00 a.m. Akrura-lila kirtan, by followers of Ramdas Babaji of Path Bari. Followed by bhoga offering and Vaishnava seva.
24 Nov. 5.00 p.m. Mahanta Premdas Shastri, lecture.
25 Nov. 9.00 a.m. Sri Harigopal Goswami (Kolkata) will read from Chaitanya Charitamrita the section on Mahaprabhu’s arrival in Vrindavan.
25 Nov. 3.30 p.m. Nagar sankirtan. Followed by bhoga offering and prasad.
Vaishnavacharya Padmanabh Goswami, Sevait of Radharaman and Amiya Nimai temple.
The celebration will culminate in a grand procession on the 25th November, Kartika Purnima at 3.30 p.m. from Shri Amiya Nimai Gauranga Mahaprabhu Temple. On this full moon day of the Kartika month, a kirtana procession goes out to the places in Vrindavan that Mahaprabhu visited on the day he first arrived.
During this procession, various kirtanas are performed that describe what Mahaprabhu felt when He saw the various pastime places of Shri Shri Radha Krishna.
On the day of Maha-raas Leela i.e. Kartik Purnima, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to Vrindavan for the very first time. During His visit, he came to places where Radha and Krishna conducted their pastimes by doing the internal Parikrama of Vrindavan.
Every Kartik Purnima for the past 100 years, thousands of Gaudiya devotees and aspirants follow those footsteps of Mahaprabhu by going to those same sacred places, entering the mood of Vrindavan just as he himself taught his followers.
The procession starts off from the Amiya Nimai Mahaprabhu temple (also known as Boro Gaur or Big Gaur) in Gopinath Bazaar at 16:00, and continue through the streets of Vrindavan until 12:00 am, singing the kirtans of those lilas that signify the feelings Mahaprabhu developed as he went to each place, the moods he was in when he saw the places of Shri Radha Krishna’s pastimes. On this particular day, none of the main seven temples or any other temple closes until this procession reaches them.
Birbhadra Das Babaji Maharaj of Barahnagar Path Bari leading kirtan in Vrindavan on Karttik Purniima, 2013.
We would like to invite you to enjoy the divine nectar and the swim in the ocean of devotion. Radhe Radhe!! (Vishakha Dasi)
Etiquetas: 500, Amiya Nimai temple, Sri Vrindavan Dham
Darshan: Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar Ji
Sri Vrindavan Dham
Today's darshan of Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar in golden costumes and ornaments.
Source Radha Syamasundar
Etiquetas: darshan, Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar, Sri Vrindavan Dham, Thakurji
From the Beatles to Elvis Presley, these musical devotees have brushed with fame: meet the Hare Krishnas of Hong Kong
South China Morning Post: 12 October, 2015
Govinda Swami, a senior member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, during his recent visit to Hong Kong.
With a famous DJ as a father, and a grandfather who worked as a missionary in Africa, it’s not surprising Govinda Swami chose a path that balances music with religion.
“My dad was a disc jockey in Tennessee. He was Elvis’ first producer and managed him for a while,” he says matter-of-factly about his father Bob Neal’s relationship with the rock ’n’ roll star. Music producer Neal also helped launch the careers of Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. “Elvis often visited the house; he would babysit me. He called me ‘younger brother Sean’.”
Today, Sean Neal is better known as Govinda Swami and is a senior member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded in 1966 in New York by Srila Prabhupada.
He joined in 1971 and his devotion to the movement has taken the 64-year-old around the world, including to Hong Kong, where last month he held kirtans – a form of devotional chanting – at ISKCON’s temple in Tsim Sha Tsui.
First introduced to Hong Kong in 1972, the movement was officially registered here in 1981.
Receiving a blessing on the way into the temple.
It’s uncertain how many Hare Krishnas reside in Hong Kong because the temple is open to the public, says locally based devotee Vrishabhanu Kumari.
“In terms of regular practitioners, I’d say we have about 100 to 150, split between Chinese, Indians and a few Westerners – Americans, Aussies, British and Europeans, and a healthy mix of people in their golden years, young couples, youth and tiny tots,” she says.
One of the basic requirements for a devotee is daily chanting of the maha mantra (maha means “great”; mantra means “sound that liberates the mind”). The chant is supposed to cleanse the heart of greed, envy, lust, anger and other obstacles to peace. Chanting and singing – and meditation – help achieve a higher state of consciousness. The music is said to help bring about spiritual awakening.
WATCH Hare Krishna in Hong Kong:
To become fully initiated, says Kumari, devotees must train in various ancient texts, chanting and kirtan, as well as service. Devotees must also recite the mantra (at least 16 rounds daily) and follow the four regulative principles – no meat, no illicit sex, no gambling and no intoxicants.
The devotee can reach out to any “initiating gurus” they feel connected to, says Kumari. “The process of seeking out the guru is one of the most important steps for progressing in spiritual life and devotees are encouraged to take their time,” she says.
Most impressions of the Hare Krishnas have been moulded by movement’s often distorted portrayal in media and popular Western culture. In the 1960s and early 1970s, it became confused with the hippie subculture – in the 1967 hippie musical Hair, for instance, the Hare Krishna mantra is used in a song.
But its biggest mainstream exposure came via The Beatles, who came into contact with Hare Krishnas in 1969. Some of the Fab Four wrote songs that reference the movement, including George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord and John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance.
Musicians including Boy George, Tenacious D, Thievery Corporation, Fleetwood Mac, Marc Bolan and Stevie Wonder have songs referencing the mantra. It has also featured in TV shows from Mad Men to The Simpsons, in films (in Blade Runner, Hare Krishna devotees are seen singing in the street) and even gets a mention in the game Grand Theft Auto.
Today the movement’s image is not of shaven-headed, garland-wearing devotees dancing in the streets, but is more toned down. And in Hong Kong, it reflects the city’s international demographic, as can be seen at the sixth-floor temple on Chatham Road South, in a room aglow from the gold statues and frescos on its walls.
We hold many activities, from teaching the public about Vedic scripture to promoting a healthy and spiritual lifestyle. We have a slogan – ‘simple living and high thinking’
Josephine Ng, Hare Krishna enthusiast
It’s a Sunday, the first night of Mid-Autumn Festival, and the swelling crowd is excited about Govinda Swami’s visit.
Hongkonger Vicki Ip, 26, glides past bunches of cut chrysanthemums in a blue sari and sits on a mat. Fellow Hongkonger Tiffany Chan, in a floral silk sari, sits beside her. Their foreheads are marked with tilaka, a mix of clay and water.
In front of them, sitting in the lotus position, is Indonesian-born fashion designer Ika Butoni. Holding her prayer beads, used for keeping count while reciting or chanting, Butoni says her interest in the movement stemmed from her business partner and friend Hans Keilman, who died this year from liver cancer. Dutch-born Keilman was the design coordinator for ISKCON’s flagship Indian temples in Vrindavana, Uttar Pradesh, and Juhu in Mumbai in the 1970s. An architect by trade, he first encountered the movement at a nightspot in Amsterdam where they were chanting Hare Krishna onstage with Eric Clapton’s backing band.
“I love the dancing, the music and holding the beads – I find them calming,” says Butoni.
Butoni also plans to get involved with Food For Life, an annual project started by founder Prabhupada in the ’70s after he saw poor children in India fight dogs for scraps of food. His vision was that anyone within a 10-mile radius of a Hare Krishna temple should not go hungry.
Josephine Ng, oncologist and Hare Krishna devotee.
Food For Life is one of the many events hosted by the movement, says oncologist Josephine Ng, a member since 2010.
“We hold many activities, from teaching the public about Vedic scripture to promoting a healthy and spiritual lifestyle. We have a slogan – ‘simple living and high thinking’. We also promote organic farming and natural cures,” says Ng, adding the movement provides respite from working for sick and dying people.
Other activities include yoga classes, street chanting, distribution of prasadam (vegetarian food with religious significance), educational programmes and concerts.
At the temple, Govinda Swami, dressed in flowing saffron-coloured robes, enters the room. Some devotees meet him with bows while others clasp their hands in prayer position. He sits, kartals (cymbals) in his hand, and starts the kirtan.
Govinda Swami and his musicians have mesmerised devotees worldwide, including at famous events such as Woodstock in Poland and concerts with orchestras from Russia to South Africa. He recently returned from the mainland, where he was a guest of the yoga community.
Vrindavan Kirtan Das, 21, starts with slow beats on the mridanga drum, a traditional instrument that’s said to be an incarnation of Krishna’s brother Lord Balarama. Das was born into the movement and has been travelling the globe with his drum since he was 15.
Making up the trio is New Yorker Akincana Krishna Das on the harmonium. Sitting in front of him is his Russian wife, who stands out from the crowd not just because of her height and canary-yellow sari but because she is one of the few Westerners in the group.
Hare Krishna devotees in Hong Kong celebrate the Janamashtmi festival, the birthday of Lord Krishna.
The kirtan starts with slow rhythmic beats building momentum until – two hours later – the audience, young and old, are dancing, singing and chanting, arms waving in the air. It’s almost rave-like, but with all ages. Here, everyone is on a natural high – a concoction of music and dance is their drug.
At the end of the session, the vegetarian prasadam – literally meaning “mercy” – is served. The next day, Govinda Swami does it all over again at Pure Yoga in Central. He also makes home visits before his final session at the Tsim Sha Tsui temple.
“There’s a yoga kirtan concert by Spanish singer Atmarama Dasa on October 22,” says Ng. “Would you like to join?”
With endorphins soaring from hours spent chanting and dancing, it’s an invitation that’s hard to resist.
Mahaprabhu’s mercy is running everywhere … INVITATION
Back to Bhakti October 10, 2015
[Sripad Premananda Prabhu extends an invitation to everyone to attend a program that is going to commemorate Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s 500th anniversary visit to Vrndavana from Jagannatha Puri]
There is one program that is going to commemorate Mahaprabhu’s 500th anniversary visit to Vrndavana-dhama. After sannyasa, Mahaprabhu came from Jagannath Puri to Vrndavana. Hence, five hundred years have passed since Mahprabhu’s visit to Vrndavana. Now, our Prime Minister is arranging one program in Vrndavana. His representative has come to invite everybody.
Our program is from November 25 to 30. And also, the in-charge of Tota Gopinatha temple in Jagannatha Puri has arranged a party of Vaisnavas to come from Jagannatha Puri to Vrndavana. There are more than three hundred devotees who are walking from Jagannatha Puri to Vrndavana. They are near Kanpur now. They will come to Mathura on the 22nd. They will halt in Mathura for two days and then, they will come to Vrndavana. A program will be arranged in Vrndavana.
The Prime Minister said, “I will arrange everything.”
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Etiquetas: Back to Bhakti, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Monk walks through valley on 900-mile pilgrimage
Standard Speaker: October 8, 2015
Bhaktimarga Swami, the Hare Krishna walking monk, stops for a break near the Pilot Truck Stop on Route 93 in Sugarloaf Township Wednesday after walking 8 miles of his daily 20-mile trek. Swami left Boston, Mass., on September 20 walking his way to Butler in western Penn. by walking 20 miles per day.
On Wednesday, the Hare Krishna monk passed through Butler and Sugarloaf townships on his 900-mile pilgrimage to western Pennsylvania in memory of his guru, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who founded the International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
Swami hopes his 20-mile-a-day hike will raise awareness to his spiritual teacher and all teachers. He started his spiritual journey in Boston on Sept. 20 and celebrated his 63rd birthday on Monday while on the road sleeping under the stars.
“This is the best time of the year to walk,” he said, sitting at a picnic table near the Pilot Travel Center in Sugarloaf Township. “It’s rare to see someone walking on the road.”
Bhaktimarga Swami stops for a break near the Pilot Truck Stop on Route 93 in Sugarloaf Township.
Most of his walk through New England and even Pennsylvania was among the mountains and trees, and on Wednesday opened up to the state’s rolling hills and rural farmland, he said. He joked his traditional orange garb blended in with the pumpkins.
Swami believes walking allows people to experience the world and see the sights, he said.
“I’m not a fan of the automobile,” he said. “The sights are there, but you whizz by. Life should not be a blur.”
Walking also lends clarity and gives people time to process their thoughts and future plans, and reflect on their past.
“We shouldn’t be walking faster than a donkey,” he said. “We should take time to slow down and think about things that are important as a human being. It’s easier to hit divinity.”
Plus, he meets new people on his journeys. The upbeat monk said he waves to people passing by and often shares a laugh with those who stop to talk.
“They can be fun,” Swami said, recounting the day a police officer approached him one morning, because someone called about someone in orange lying on the side of the road. The officer said he checked out the report because prisoners who escape would be in orange jumpsuits.
One of the folks he met along the way, Tre’von Stapleton of Windsor, Connecticut, joined him on his journey.
“I asked for a guiding light from the universe and a few days later we met,” he said.
The pair, who have a support vehicle following them, hoped to log another 12 miles before stopping for the night on their westward pilgrimage. After reaching Butler, they’ll return east to New York City.
Etiquetas: Bhaktimarga Swami, iskcon, pilgrimage
Ubicación: Boston, MA, USA
What is Initiation?
Gaudiya Darshan: 1 October 2015
Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj explains the definition of dīkṣā.
What is dīkṣā?
divyaṁ jñānaṁ yato dadyāt kuryāt pāpasya saṅkṣayam
tasmād dīkṣeti sā proktā deśikais tattva-kovidaiḥ
The spiritual specialists say it is the process through which spiritual knowledge is imparted. Divyaṁ jñānaṁ yato dadyāt: new knowledge, new estimation about the environment, about the world, awakens in one’s heart. A new angle of vision arises within. What we saw was false. It was māyā. Now we want to realise what is reality.
Kuryāt pāpasya saṅkṣayam: the reactions that were due to me for my activities resulting from my false calculation, these are cleared off. Pāpa means the reaction I acquired because of my false estimation and transaction with the environment. That is cleared when I get a real estimation of the environment, of the world outside. This is the result of dīkṣā, divya-jñān [divine knowledge]. Not knowledge from my narrow standpoint but from the standpoint of the most wide view. I see with my narrow selfish outlook, but I must get rid of that false notion of selfish enterprise and replace that with the proper and true estimation of the environment, of the world outside. Accordingly, we shall learn to interact with the world. This is dīkṣā. By doing that, we are to understand what is the nature of the world we are living in.
I am not a master of what I see. I am not the monarch of all I survey. This is totally wrong. It is down right falsehood. But there is a monarch. I am not that monarch, but there is a monarch, and I am within His survey. “I am monarch of all I survey.” No. I am not the surveyor. Rather, I am an object being surveyed. The world is being surveyed, and I am a part of the world. I am also being surveyed by the monarch of the world. And what is the result of that survey? To know that and go on accordingly, to learn to go on according to the instructions of the surveyor proper, the absolute surveyor, that is dīkṣā, divya‑jñānam.
What is divine knowledge? Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ (Īu: 1): not only it is false that I am the owner, but no one is owner. There is only one onwer, and that one is not myself. The master of the whole is God, the Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Not only does the world belong to Him, but we also belong to Him. This is knowledge.
What are we? We are slaves to the master of the world. Divine knowledge means to feel that this is the truth.
jīvera svarūpa haya kṛṣṇera nitya dāsa
(Śrī Chaitanya-charitāmṛta: Madhya-līlā, 20.108)
[“The soul is by nature an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.”]
I am very small and insignificant. My condition is very pitiful. I have to create mercy, help, from the higher for my misguided life, my misunderstood life. All these things are to be dealt with every day. This is the purpose of getting dīkṣā, divya-jñān. Divya-jñān means to do away with our local experience and to invite the perspective, the estimation, of the centre and the surveyor from the centre. What is what? Divine knowledge means to be introduced newly to the environment, to forget my previous estimation and to invite a new estimation about things and go on accordingly, control my conduct accordingly. What we see around us has an owner. It is not ownerless, and I am not the owner. I am not the owner of what I survey, and at the same time, no one like myself is the owner either. There is one owner, and He is also my owner. Now, how to go on? It is a mathematical calculation: this is His property, and I am also His property. I am His servant, and this is His substance. So, according to the master’s will, I am to deal with everything. That is, I am to serve. The Lord is to be served, not to be enjoyed, and His things are also to be served, not to be enjoyed. That will be the deduction. That will be deduced from divya‑jñān. I am a serving unit in this world.
I cannot take to the side of renunciation either. I have no right to renounce. A slave cannot go on strike: “I won’t do the work.” You are bound to do your duty. Neither can you go on with the work according to your own whim, nor can you go on strike, saying, “I won’t cooperate.” Only one side is open: you have to discharge your duty. If you do not do that, then you commit offence, and offences are punishable. So, you will be punished. The fact is so stark. The reality is so cruel.
We have no independence of our own. We must not think that we are an owner. We cannot think that we are the owner of our own self and that according to our will we can deal with our environment. No. You are duty‑bound to treat your environment in a particular way: in a reverential and serving way. Then, you are normal. Otherwise, you are abnormal and you are to be punished. That is aparādha, offence. Sevā [service] is neither bhoga nor tyāga, neither enjoyment nor renunciation. We have no right to enjoy and no right to renounce, to not cooperate. Only one side is open: to serve. We are to face this cruel reality.
At first, it may seem to be rough, cruel, but if we can understand the underlying purpose in it, then we shall gradually find, “This is the one and only key to a happy life.” We should not engage in self‑aggrandisement with the help of others. Wanting to live on others’ energy is insulting. It is cowardice, and it is improper. Or because we cannot utilise something only for our selfish purpose, we must leave it—that is also not honourable or justifiable.
We are living together. So, we must have some sort of duty towards the environment. I cannot see myself as a thing cut‑off from the environment. In an organic whole, the parts are correlated. So, we also have a correlation with our environment, with all things on all four sides. This is natural. We are a part of an organic whole, and we have got our respective duty to one another just as one part of our body has some duty to discharge for the whole of the body and through that performs a duty to every part of the body.
Neither the tyāga like that of the jñānīs, the Buddhists, and the Śaṅkārites, neither their formula or estimation is right, nor are the exploitationists: “Whatever I see is for me; I am the monarch of all I survey.” That view is also not true. We have to understand this deeply. Someone may be a good scholar but be perplexed or nonplussed by this. Intellect is not sufficient to make us understand all the difficulties of this life. Independent reading of the scriptures cannot impart us the necessary light to understand the things contained in the scriptures.
yāha bhāgavata paḍa vaiṣṇavera sthāne
(Śrī Chaitanya-charitāmṛta: Antya-līlā, 5.132)
Mahāprabhu says, “Go and study the Bhāgavat from a Vaiṣṇava. Try to get the angle of vision from him.”
tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā
upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 4.34)
[“Learn divine knowledge through surrender, enquiry, and service. Those who know and see the truth will teach it to you.”]
āchāryavān puruṣo veda
(Chāndogya-upaniṣad: 6.14.2)
“You must have an Āchārya if you want to study the revealed scriptures.”
You can’t study alone, independently. Not in an empirical way will you be able to understand. Only by the descending method it is possible. Divine knowledge comes in a descending method, and it does not depend on our literary education. “A literate man will understand more, and an ordinary illiterate person won’t be able to understand spiritual truth.” This is not true. The illiterate can understand, and the literate may fail to understand. It is independent of worldly scholarship. Only praṇipāt [surrender], paripraśna [enquiry], sevā, a serving attitude, will help. These things are necessary to be illuminated by the higher revealed truth. Through Guru and Vaiṣṇava, it will come down to my heart and then to my brain, but really it will come down to my soul. The soul will be awakened, and the soul’s body will grow. We will see the soul come out from bondage.
Divya-jñān, dīkṣā, means all these things: to engage oneself in the quest of the revealed truth through a particular process. Praṇipāt, parispraśna, and sevā—surrender, honest inquiry, and serving attitude—we can acquire that sort of knowledge and understanding in this way, and we are to adjust ourselves accordingly to catch the benefit of dīkṣā.
It is not a mere formal thing. It is not that only we shall repeat the mantram we receive. The mantram wants to say something to us. The mantra has its meaning. The mantra wants to say something to us and asks us to do that, and we have to do that. Then, we will get the desired result. Then, the purpose of dīkṣā will be fulfilled. Mere repetition of a few technical sounds does not complete dīkṣā. Dīkṣā means knowledge is transmitted, and you must utilise that sort of knowledge in favour of your realisation of higher life, your real life, your proper life, your eternal life, your life after death, your life after so many deaths. This will continue: it is eternal knowledge. It is eternal knowledge of the eternal soul about eternity. The knower, the known, and the knowing—these three things are all eternal. You will find yourself: “I am an eternal part of this world, and I have a part in eternity also. An eternal relationship is there, and from that relationship, so many functions and activities are presupposed. They should be done.” This sort of duty should be discharged. This is dīkṣā, divya-jñān. Divya means ‘not mundane’; it means supernatural, transcendental.
“Because it imparts divine knowledge and destroys sin, the expert teachers of the scriptures call it dīkṣā.”
Etiquetas: diksa, Gaudiya Darshan, initiation, Srila Sridhar Maharaja
Sri Nagar Sankirtan for Janmastami
Sri Nagar Sankirtan at Guwahati organized by devotees of the Gaudiya Mission (গৌড়ীয় মিশন) on the occasion of Sri Krishna Janmastami on 5 September, 2015.
Sri Nagar Sankirtan at Guwahati Gaudiya Mission on occasion of Srikrishna Janmastomi on 05.09.2015 / Hare Krishna.
Posted by Gaudiya Mission (গৌড়ীয় মিশন) on Tuesday, 8 September 2015
Etiquetas: Gaudiya Mission, Janmastami, Nagar Sankirtan, Sri Krsna Janmastami
Ubicación: Guwahati, Assam, India
Gaudiya Math's Invitation
Gaudiya Mission (গৌড়ীয় মিশন)
The Sri Madhavendra Gaudiya Math, near Sri Dham Vrindavan, Khirchora Gopinath Dham, takes the pleasure to invite you all for the auspicious inaugural ceremony of a newly built temple on 3rd & 4th Dec 2015.
Check details at http://www.gaudiyamission.org/uploads/Remuna.pdf
Etiquetas: gaudiya math, invitation, Khirachora Gopinath, new temple, Sri Madhavendra, Sri Vrindavan Dham
Appearence day of Lord Vamana Dev
Special Darshan at Sri Radha Madhava ISKCON Mandir, Sridham Mayapur, India, for the appearence day of Lord Sri Vamana Dev. 25th September, 2015.
Source: Aradhya Gouranga Dasa Photography
Etiquetas: appearance, darshan, iskcon, Special Darshan, Sri Vamana Dev, Sridham Mayapur
Ubicación: Mayapur, West Bengal, India
When Israelis chanted 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna'
IndiaToday.in: Harish, Israel, September 6, 2015
The devotees staged plays portraying episodes from Krishna's childhood life, besides singing and dancing late into the night to the beatings of tabla and dholak and as harmonium, jhaal and flute played for hours.
The festival of Janmashtami was celebrated with full fervor in Israel as hundreds of devotees, mostly Jews, chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare Rama" descended here from across the country to celebrate the birth of Lord Krishna.
Kibbutz Barkai, one of many agriculture-based collective communities in Israel, is located close to a small township of Harish, which has come to be identified with followers of Lord Krishna popularly known here as "Hare Krishnas".
Several devotees along with their families have settled down in Harish and religiously practice the tenets of the sect they learnt about during their visits to Vrindavan and Mayapur in India.
The fanfare surrounding the celebrations has also caught the attention of many others who see it as a must-see event. "I have a strong attraction towards Indian culture but this group has also contributed majorly to the strong inclination and I haven't missed out on these celebrations since I was introduced to them some 14 years ago," said Karen, who came from a small town near Jerusalem.
"This is probably the biggest gathering of devotees in years and we made adequate arrangements having sensed such a massive turnout. The popularity of the teachings of the sect has been constantly on the rise in Israel and it doesn't come as a surprise," a devotee said .
The practices of the sect "brings a welcome relief amid the chaos surrounding the region, lifting people's spirits", another devotee said. Krishna Prasadam, comprising 108 vegetarian dishes, was served to the guests after the cultural programmes.
Etiquetas: India Today, iskcon, Israelis, Maha Mantra
Ubicación: Harish, Israel
Srila Haridas Thakur's Divine Glories
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math: 19 September, 2005
Reported by Sripad Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj currently staying with His Divine Grace at our Dum Dum Park Temple, Kolkata.
Today is the Divine Disappearance day of Srila Haridas Thakur, and early in the morning, after Mangal Arati in Dum Dum Park in Kolkata, Srila Govinda Maharaj spoke of Srila Haridas Thakur's divine glories. The following are several of the themes His Divine Grace discussed.
Srila Haridas Thakur was an exemplary devotee who always preached by his words, his actions, and his mind. Even before the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu he was already known as a dedicated devotee and preacher, and after the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu he dedicated himself to Mahaprabhu one hundred percent.
Srila Haridas Thakur was an intimate friend of Sri Adwaita Acharya and Srivas Thakur. When Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared, Srila Haridas Thakur could understand than an incarnation of the Lord had come because so many people were enlivened and chanting the Holy Names of the Lord.
After Mahaprabhu took sannyas, Srila Haridas Thakur told the Lord that it was impossible for him to continue living in Nabadwip and that his desire was to be with Mahaprabhu in Puri. In Puri, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu asked Kasi Misra for some place with a simple thatched hut, where there is a garden, and that place is known as Siddha Bakul. Kasi Misra replied that everything is for the satisfaction of the Lord Himself, and that Mahaprabhu did not have to ask, that he could have any place he desired. So Haridas Thakur was given that place, that garden house, in Siddha Bakul.
The Lord stayed in the Gambhir and daily he would go to visit Srila Haridas Thakur on his way to the ocean, where he would bathe at midday.
The society at that time was very strongly opposed to accepting anyone who was a mleccha, and Hinduism was very strong. Of course we are not Hindus, or Christians, or Muslims, or any of those things - but Vaisnavas. Srila Govinda Maharaj explained that everyone is coming from Vishnu, therefore all are Vaisnavas.
Haridas Thakur was the Nama-Acharya and always lived for the chanting and glorification of the Holy Names of the Lord. When he heard Srila Rupa Goswami's glorification of the Holy Name he was very moved:
"I do not know how much nectar the two syllables 'Krish-na' have produced. When the Holy Name of Krishna is chanted, it appears to dance within the mouth. We then desire many, many mouths. When that Name enters the holes of the ears, we desire many millions of ears. And when the Holy Name dances in the courtyard of the heart, it conquers the activities of the mind, and therefore all the senses become inert."
Haridas Thakur commented that he had heard many verses glorifying the Holy Names but he had not heard any verse like this glorification given by Srila Rupa Goswami.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu lived for twenty-four years in Puri. The first six years He extensively travelled, and the last twelve years He was absorbed completely tasting Radha-Krishna lila in the Gambhir.
Haridas Thakur had a special ability that he could understand that soon the Lord would disappear and he commented that he did not want to see that final lila of the Lord. He asked the Lord to grant his desire: that he could leave this world before that final chapter of the Lord. In reply, Mahaprabhu assented, and said that Lord Krishna would satisfy Haridas Thakur's petition.
The next day Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came there with His devotees and began the chanting of the Holy Names - a kirtan that lasted more than two hours. Then Haridas Thakur took the lotus feet of the Lord upon his chest and began chanting, "Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Sri Krishna Chaitanya...."
He had dedicated his entire life to the chanting of Krishna's Name. His vow was to daily chant three lakhs (300,000) Names of the Lord, chanting the Mahamantra. But at the time of leaving this world, he chanted, "Sri Krishna Chaitanya," Mahaprabhu's Name, while looking at the lotus face of the Lord.
Then Mahaprabhu began dancing while holding the body of Srila Haridas Thakur. After the soul passes away, the body must be washed with water, and Mahaprabhu took Haridas Thakur's body to the ocean. Then with His own hands, and with the help of the devotees, Mahaprabhu dug a hole near the shore and, after burying Haridas Thakur's body, a mound was made above the body for the samadhi. In this way the Lord was engaged personally and it was very miraculous. There, all the devotees had a big kirtan and then all went with the Lord to bathe in the sea.
Afterwards, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu went to the shopkeepers near the Jagannath Temple, held out his uttariya and begged Jagannath Prasad from them for the festival of Srila Haridas Thakur. They all wanted to give all their stock of prasadam to Mahaprabhu, but Swarup Damodar, who was so close to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, told the Lord that he would collect the offerings for the festival. In that way he collected a few palmfuls of each preparation from each of the shopkeepers and accumulated a large quantity which was then carried back for the festival. Kasi Misra also sent a large quantity of Jagannath Prasad for the Lord and all the devotees.
When all the devotees were to take prasadam, the Lord wanted to serve them, but He wanted to give each person more than what five men could eat. Then Swarup Damodar told the Lord that unless He personally sat down to take prasad, no one would eat. The Lord was made to sit, and Swarup Damodar and others then served the devotees.
Today is the festival of the disappearance of Srila Haridas Thakur, and as Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita notes, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu gave the boon that all those who participated in this festival, and those who will participate in the future festivals, all will receive eternal benefit and go back to Krishna.
Etiquetas: nama acharya, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Srila Govinda Maharaj, Srila Haridas Thakur
Ubicación: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Indradyumna Swami visits Mongolia
Land Of The Blue Sky
By Indradyumna Swami
Our long awaited dream to visit Mongolia came true today. As our plane circled the airport waiting to land at Ulaanbaatar I was surprised to see that the barren brown landscape, which stretched as far as the eye could see, did not contain a single tree. I also noticed all roads leading out of the capital were simply dirt roads. During a quick tour of the city before arriving at our local ISKCON temple for our first program we found people extremely curious about us and very, very friendly. Our great adventure has begun!
All photos by Ananta Vrindavan dasa
Etiquetas: Indradyumna Swami, Mongolia
Ubicación: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Global PV market to grow by another 621.7 GW by 2022, Solar Power Europe says
(Summary description)Global newly installed capacity for 2018 is forecast to reach 102.6 GW, of which “only” 39 GW are expected to come from China. Fourteen countries are expected to cross the GW threshold this year.
Global newly installed capacity for 2018 is forecast to reach 102.6 GW, of which “only” 39 GW are expected to come from China. Fourteen countries are expected to cross the GW threshold this year.
The European solar industry association, SolarPower Europe has released its outlook for the 2018 global Solar Carport PV Mounting System market. As the association told pv magazine in early June, new Solar Carport PV Mounting System additions for this year are expected to reach 102.6 GW, thus enabling the Europan solar market as a whole to improve on last year’s figure of 99.1 GW.
Furthermore, in its Global Market Outlook for Solar Power 2018-2022, the association forecasts that China will not account for more than half of global demand this year, as it did in 2017, and will “only” add 39 GW, as a consequence of the recent changes in policy (read feed-in tariff cut and a quota for DG). Yet, according to the report, 14 countries are on track to install more than 1 GW of new Solar Carport PV Mounting System capacity this year – a group that in 2017 was limited to just seven countries.
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The Disappointing Week Turned Around...
Well we were supposed to be in Tennessee this week. But I didn't feel very well and was not having a good week. So the kids and I stayed home. The kids had been sick, and Lydia was getting over a cold. So we were disappointed that we didn't get to head down to one of our favorite areas and hang out for a few days. I quickly threw together some lessons to do, so they weren't just laying around doing nothing. We all know that this is what they would do!
This week we started a new history/science study. We'll learn about a new herb daily, and I also have the WildCraft game that I'm going to start playing with them. It's a neat game, but not exactly what I wanted, so will be making some adjustments.
We didn't have Art/Science club since we were not even supposed to be here. So the kids and I played Bird Bingo.
I keep the coffee table stocked with prizes for impromptu awards and treats.
This week I chose the artist Joan Miro for their art study. After watching videos on his whimsical art, they were told to re-create his piece "Air".
I signed all the kids up for Outschool.com classes. The boys are taking a Class called Adulting 102 that covers various topics we have already covered. Including insurance, financing, and even cleaning. It's an ok class, and if we hadn't already been working on it, would be fine. But I was a little annoyed at the speed she has been covering topics, and her assignment requirements. So in true homeschooler style.... just not following her schedule, since the class was supposed to be self-paced anyway. But even after telling her there was no way Joey could handle the amount of work she was requiring in one day, she gave him an F. At that point, I just said Screw it!
Caty is excited to have her own email. She and I have been playing with this all week. Watch for our review on KidsEmail next month!
Math has been frustrating...so she been using A+ Interactive Math to catch up on skills.
I pulled a Science Kit off the shelf for Joey to use. It was on Vision & Optics. He thought this was fun, and something different.
It's hard to tell, but the window image is upside down. This is the way we see things, but our brain makes them upright.
Last week was nice. I was even walking down to get the mail daily. But holy cow....We got SNOW twice this week!!
Brayden watching his YouTube class on Outschool.com.
Lydia took a class on using her 3D printer. The teacher printed something he found for her. She was excited. Can't wait to get her printer lined up and ready to go.
Playing Star Wars Clue. Brayden received this as a gift from his Uncle, Aunt and cousins a couple weeks ago. It was very neat.
Working on her art project. The dogs were very comfortable.
The boys started their Science fair project on How Clean Are Your Shoes? They took swabs to see what would grow.
My socks because I had been running all over, including the basement.
The dogs paws
All labeled and "ready to grow".
We picked up the girls Unicorn bowls they made like a month ago. This place has very limited hours and it was hard to get back. They were excited.
We had 4H elections this week. Lydia is the Club Historian this year.
Brayden and Caty both tried to out for the Game Director position.
Caty made sugar cookies for gifts for me.
Smores died suddenly. It was very tragic. Lydia got a new rabbit. She decided on a lionhead. It's name is Daisy.
We went to a bee pollination event. The girls were learning about building small bee houses to hang to help the bee population.
She was all tuckered out and the dogs were keeping warm...lol
The boys had Bingo Night with the social group. Brayden cleaned up again on prizes. Don't know how he does it.
Joey won coverall also.
That was our week! Busy as it was, we made it through again.
Hope everyone had a wonderful week! See you all next weekend!!
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A Perfectly Rounded Ending to Decades-Favorite Characters- Toy Story 4 (2019) Review
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"I'm TRASH!!! TRASHHHHHHHH!!"
- Forky
How do I even start? Toy Story is my childhood. After the last installment of the series, I was sure that the series was over, with Andy going off to college and all. SO, after Andy gave away his beloved toys, I locked the Toy Story franchise away in my memory bank. When I first heard word that there was going to be an additional installment, I was apprehensive, but this film was everything the viewers deserved. Starting with Forky...
Toy Story 4 beautifully narrates the difficulty some children have with starting kindergarten, through Bonnie's creation and relationship with Forky. Forky is a sporky that gets our sweet Bonnie through her first day of kindergarten. Like a newborn, he has no idea who he is and why he was created. From that we are able to watch a charming story of Forky's journey to self-worth and actualization. You are not trash. You have worth. You are loved, and life is cherished. It's a noteworthy lesson Toy Story tries to teach its' watchers through this lovable new character.
Woody continues to be your ever loyal-to-a-fault cowboy with the biggest heart. Our beloved plush cowboy goes on a well-deserved journey of finding himself. His story is wildly influenced by Bo. One of the many topics this film tackles is loyalty. We see Woody choose his loyalty to Andy over his love for Bo, who is being given away in the beginning of the film, and continuously choose the loyalty he has to Bonnie over the safety of his friends throughout the rest of the film.
9 years has passed, and Bo is now a "lost toy," but she is actually far from that, in every other meaning of the term. She has found long-lasting family and friends in other nomadic toys.
After saying goodbye to Andy, Woody's whole meaning to life has been a question mark, and he attempts to make that same bond he had with Andy to Bonnie. The humble Woody may have a kid, but he is lost. He helped Andy through his life's milestones, and after that chord was cut, Andy has no choice but to finally choose a new kind of purpose and happiness- one that benefits himself.
Last, but not least, Buzz follows his destiny from loyal sidekick to co-leader. He and Jessie are able to take the reigns and guide the other toys without Woody as the mastermind for once. Buzz is able to use his inner voice in the most noble, yet hilarious, of ways. He has truly come full circle, and it's highlighted in the film. He is no longer the budding sidekick who believes a child's bedroom is a planet. He is now Buzz Lightyear, a star commander.
This film was so well thought out and deserves every award and recognition it receives. I cried from the first 5 minutes of the film, sporadically throughout the entire film, until I was literally bawling at the end. And I still paused for outbursts of laughter inbetween. The Toy Story franchise has a phenomenal group of writers that are able to tell a story that is easily relatable to children and adults alike. Once again they are able to remind us that a friend can be found in anyone and anything- it's about who you feel safe with, comfortable with, and warm inside with. "Like trash." Toy Story 4 is a story for all ages, and it is a sentimental farewell to a beloved franchise.. "To Infinity and Beyond..."
***Honorable Mentions of new toys introduced: Duke Caboom is Canada's greatest stuntman, and Keanu Reeves is Hollywood's favorite actor right now for Very good reason. Gaby Gaby deserves the world. Jessie deserves her own spinoff film. Bunny and Ducky should seek therapists, and Giggle Mcdimples is the supportive, girl BFF we all need***
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Professor of Psychiatry, WBMES and Consultant Psychiatrists AMRI Hospitals, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Singh OP. Closing treatment gap of mental disorders in India: Opportunity in new competency-based Medical Council of India curriculum. Indian J Psychiatry 2018;60:375-6
Singh OP. Closing treatment gap of mental disorders in India: Opportunity in new competency-based Medical Council of India curriculum. Indian J Psychiatry [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 22];60:375-6. Available from: http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/text.asp?2018/60/4/375/246203
Psychiatric disorders are one of the major causes of global burden of diseases. According to the WHO study, the treatment gap (the number of people with disease who are not in treatment) of mental disorders in developing countries was 76%–85%.[1] According to the recently conducted National Mental Health Survey (NMHS), the treatment gap of any mental disorder in India was reported to be as high as 83%.[2] The overall current mental health morbidity was 10.6% of which 10% prevalence was accounted for by Common Mental Disorders (CMDs), which include depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.[2] Literature highlights that child and adolescent age group are severely affected, and suicide is emerging as a major concern with 1% population reported to have high suicide risk.[2] Despite efforts to provide care, huge treatment gap exists for all types of psychiatric disorders. Mental illness results in poor quality of life, decreased productivity, and lower earning potential.
Stigma remains a major impediment in the delivery of mental healthcare. It has been found across various studies that attitudes of doctors of other specialties and other healthcare professionals also contribute to stigma due to their lack of knowledge and awareness about psychiatry and mental health problems.[3]
The District Mental Health Program, which was launched in the year 1996 under the National Mental Health Program, had aimed at the integration of psychiatry services with general health services as one of its key goals. However, it has largely remained a “psychiatrist"-oriented program, and the desirable transfer and integration of care from psychiatrists to general medical officers and other specialists have not been achieved.[4],[5],[6]
The number of mental health professionals remains abysmally low. According to the recently concluded NMHS, the number of psychiatrists in India remains abysmally low and varies from 0.05 in Madhya Pradesh to 1.2 in Kerala per lakh population.[5] It is very obvious that solution lies in training other healthcare professionals in mental health and utilizing their services to treat CMD which can easily be treated by general healthcare providers. Training in mental health provided after graduation, though highly appreciated, has failed to inspire them to provide mental healthcare, as the District Mental Health Program experience shows. Despite receiving training in mental healthcare, healthcare providers perceive mental health as something not within their domain and this perceived lack of competency in mental healthcare despite adequate training has been a major impediment in expanding the base of mental healthcare.
Considering this prevailing scenario, it has been recognized that teaching psychiatry at undergraduate level is the way forward for integration so that psychiatry gets its due recognition as a medical specialty.[7] Psychiatry teaching in undergraduate was limited to few hours of lectures and clinical postings, and only one short note in examination which led to avoidance of psychiatric training and was given less importance by most medical students. For the most part, it was very uninspiring and laced with the dogma of psychoanalysis which further alienated the medical students. Not only did they find it difficult to comprehend but it was also out of sync with their medical schema of training. The Indian Psychiatric Society has been trying to introduce psychiatry as a separate subject at the undergraduate level for the last few years. This effort is justified because 30% of patients attending general medical clinic are suffering from CMDs.[8]
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has prescribed a new syllabus for MBBS to be implemented from 2019 onward which is competency based and gives weightage to psychiatry which has horizontal and vertical integration with other subjects. This also includes teaching ethics and communication with patients and family members such as breaking news of death.[9] Psychiatry in this syllabus occupies its rightful place, and competencies are required about suicide, Mental Health Act, neurodevelopmental disorders, and several other common conditions. Integration with other subjects will reduce stigma and feeling of “alienation” about psychiatry. Emphasis on undergraduate education of psychiatry and opportunities in new competency-based curriculum of MCI can help narrowing the treatment gap of psychiatric disorders in the country. Onus is now on us to provide quality undergraduate training in psychiatry and understand that it differs significantly from postgraduate training both in conceptualization and delivery. Those teaching psychiatry should understand that training needs of all future doctors should be met and not merely of those who pursue psychiatry at postgraduate level. CMDs which are more common in primary care settings than severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder should be given more emphasis.
Visibility of psychiatrists in prominent teaching roles throughout the curriculum promotes positive view of psychiatry[10] and influences the choice of psychiatry as a career for medical students. Thus, the new curriculum provided by the MCI is an opportunity to popularize psychiatry and reduce the existing treatment gap.
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Dr. Om Prakash Singh
AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria, Kolkata, West Bengal
DOI: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_458_18
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6/21/2019 2:58 AM CDT At 258 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near bellwood, or 8 miles east of columbus, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, columbus, david city, utica, valparaiso, bellwood, rising city, duncan, brainard, staplehurst, dwight, bee, ulysses, richland, garrison, surprise, college view trailer park, camp pawnee, shell creek elementary school, lake north babcock campground and central community college. This includes interstate 80 in nebraska near mile marker 366.
6/21/2019 2:25 AM CDT At 222 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near osceola, or 20 miles north of york, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/14/2019 9:57 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for seward, northwestern saline and southwestern butler counties will expire at 1000 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however small hail, gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
6/14/2019 9:36 PM CDT At 936 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near beaver crossing, or 17 miles east of york, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, seward, milford, friend, utica, beaver crossing, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, goehner, cordova, garrison, surprise, blue river state recreation area and tamora. This includes interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 388.
6/14/2019 9:18 PM CDT At 917 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles south of waco, or 10 miles southeast of york, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/5/2019 3:47 PM CDT At 347 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over ulysses, or 25 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/5/2019 3:25 PM CDT At 325 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over brainard, or 22 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, david city, brainard, weston, prague, malmo, bruno, abie and garrison.
5/5/2019 3:17 PM CDT At 317 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near brainard, or 22 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
7/1/2018 1:07 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southern colfax, northwestern lancaster, eastern seward, butler and western saunders counties will expire at 115 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms.
7/1/2018 12:52 AM CDT At 1251 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles south of schuyler to near valparaiso to 5 miles south of lincoln, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, lincoln, seward, schuyler, david city, milford, valparaiso, bellwood, brainard, weston, prague, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, malcolm, denton, raymond, davey, octavia and bruno. This includes interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 382 and 405.
7/1/2018 12:39 AM CDT The national weather service in omaha has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. southern colfax county in northeastern nebraska. northwestern lancaster county in southeastern nebraska. eastern seward county in southeastern nebraska. Butler county in east central nebraska.
7/1/2018 12:33 AM CDT At 1232 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles northeast of bellwood to 4 miles northwest of dwight to near milford, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, columbus, seward, schuyler, david city, milford, utica, bellwood, beaver crossing, rising city, brainard, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, goehner, cordova, octavia and bruno. This includes interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 388.
7/1/2018 12:14 AM CDT At 1213 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles southeast of duncan to 4 miles northeast of gresham to 3 miles southwest of beaver crossing, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/30/2018 7:35 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for north central seward and southwestern butler counties will expire at 745 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 900 pm cdt for southeastern and east central nebraska.
6/30/2018 7:21 PM CDT At 720 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near ulysses, or 25 miles southeast of columbus, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, rising city, bee, ulysses, garrison and surprise.
6/30/2018 7:18 PM CDT At 718 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles northeast of ulysses, or 25 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/30/2018 7:03 PM CDT At 703 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over gresham, or 14 miles northeast of york, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/9/2018 3:07 AM CDT At 306 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles south of leigh to 3 miles northwest of rising city to near bradshaw, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, schuyler, david city, utica, bellwood, beaver crossing, rising city, brainard, staplehurst, dwight, ulysses, cordova, octavia, bruno, garrison, surprise and tamora. This includes interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 371.
6/9/2018 2:38 AM CDT At 237 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles east of platte center to shelby to near henderson, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/6/2018 8:41 PM CDT At 840 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near prague to 4 miles northeast of ulysses, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/6/2018 8:18 PM CDT At 818 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near cedar bluffs to 6 miles east of brainard to near shelby, moving south at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, wahoo, david city, valparaiso, bellwood, rising city, brainard, weston, prague, dwight, and ulysses.
6/6/2018 7:56 PM CDT At 755 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near cedar bluffs to 6 miles south of columbus, moving south at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/1/2018 11:26 PM CDT At 1124 pm cdt, the leading edge of a line of severe thunderstorms was located along a line extending from 4 miles north of nickerson to near mead, moving east at 40 mph. additional damaging winds are expected well behind the leading edge of these storms (trained weather spotters reported 60 mph winds at dodge. wind damage has been reported along this entire line of storms). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, fremont, wahoo, david city, north bend, scribner, hooper, cedar bluffs, rising city, nickerson, brainard, inglewood, weston, prague, snyder, uehling, morse bluff, octavia, malmo, colon and winslow.
6/1/2018 11:09 PM CDT At 1107 pm cdt, the leading edge of severe thunderstorms was located along a line extending from near scribner to 3 miles west of cedar bluffs to 5 miles south of david city, moving east at 50 mph. damaging winds continue well behind the leading edge of the storms as well (trained weather spotters reported power lines down in clarkson. additional wind damage has been reported along this entire line of storms). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include, fremont, wahoo, david city, north bend, scribner, hooper, dodge, cedar bluffs, valparaiso, bellwood, rising city, nickerson, brainard, inglewood, weston, prague, snyder, uehling, dwight and ulysses.
6/1/2018 10:44 PM CDT At 1043 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near howells to 6 miles north of schuyler to 6 miles south of duncan, moving east at 40 mph. this is the leading edge of an area of damaging thunderstorm winds (trained weather spotters reported wind damage across platte county and the columbus airport measured 63 mph wind gust at 1042 pm). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
5/1/2018 3:58 PM CDT At 357 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over shelby, or 16 miles south of columbus, moving northeast at 35 mph. another severe thunderstorm was located 3 miles north of surprise, also moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include half dollar size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
6/16/2017 7:43 PM CDT At 743 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles northwest of david city, or 13 miles southeast of columbus, moving southeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/16/2017 7:07 PM CDT At 706 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 4 miles northwest of pisgah to near shelby, moving southeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/13/2017 11:09 PM CDT At 1108 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bellwood to 7 miles north of brainard to 6 miles north of valparaiso to 5 miles south of pleasant dale, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, seward, crete, david city, milford, friend, dorchester, valparaiso, beaver crossing, rising city, brainard, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, malcolm, goehner, bruno and garrison. this includes the following highways, highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 434. Interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 369 and 392.
6/13/2017 10:57 PM CDT At 1056 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 4 miles southwest of rising city to 3 miles northeast of staplehurst to near dorchester, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/13/2017 9:55 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northwestern lancaster, seward, butler and western saunders counties will expire at 1000 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however nickel size hail, gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 100 am cdt for southeastern and east central nebraska.
6/13/2017 9:47 PM CDT At 946 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 3 miles southwest of cedar bluffs to near valparaiso to 5 miles west of milford, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, seward, david city, milford, utica, valparaiso, beaver crossing, brainard, weston, prague, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, malcolm, raymond, goehner, cordova and octavia. this includes the following highways, highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 419 and 446. Interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 390.
6/13/2017 9:37 PM CDT At 936 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles south of north bend to near dwight to 3 miles north of beaver crossing, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, seward, david city, milford, utica, valparaiso, beaver crossing, brainard, weston, prague, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, malcolm, raymond, goehner, cordova and octavia. this includes the following highways, highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 419 and 446. Interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 390.
6/13/2017 9:27 PM CDT At 926 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northeast of north bend to near dwight to 4 miles south of seward, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/13/2017 9:18 PM CDT At 918 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 4 miles southwest of snyder to 5 miles southwest of prague to 4 miles west of beaver crossing, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, fremont, seward, schuyler, wahoo, david city, milford, north bend, utica, hooper, cedar bluffs, valparaiso, bellwood, beaver crossing, rising city, brainard, inglewood, weston, prague, staplehurst and garland. this includes the following highways, highway 275 in nebraska between mile markers 135 and 140. highway 30 in nebraska between mile markers 387 and 426. highway 77 in nebraska between mile markers 90 and 93, and between mile markers 108 and 126. highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 412 and 452. Interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 392.
6/13/2017 9:07 PM CDT At 906 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles south of howells to 5 miles east of david city to 3 miles southwest of beaver crossing, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/13/2017 8:59 PM CDT At 859 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 4 miles east of scribner to 3 miles south of inglewood to 5 miles south of valparaiso, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, fremont, schuyler, wahoo, david city, north bend, scribner, hooper, clarkson, dodge, cedar bluffs, valparaiso, howells, bellwood, rising city, nickerson, brainard, inglewood, weston, prague and snyder. this includes the following highways, highway 275 in nebraska between mile markers 124 and 156. highway 30 in nebraska between mile markers 387 and 426. highway 77 in nebraska between mile markers 90 and 93, and between mile markers 108 and 135. Highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 446.
6/13/2017 8:42 PM CDT At 840 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from dodge to near north bend to 3 miles southeast of ulysses, moving east at 45 mph. another line of storms was moving across southern platte and into western butler counties, also moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/13/2017 8:32 PM CDT At 831 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near howells to 6 miles northeast of schuyler to 4 miles south of david city, moving east at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, schuyler, wahoo, david city, north bend, scribner, clarkson, dodge, cedar bluffs, valparaiso, howells, bellwood, rising city, brainard, weston, prague, snyder, dwight, ulysses, morse bluff and octavia. this includes the following highways, highway 275 in nebraska between mile markers 127 and 132. highway 30 in nebraska between mile markers 387 and 420. highway 77 in nebraska between mile markers 85 and 93. Highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 446.
6/13/2017 8:21 PM CDT At 821 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 3 miles southwest of clarkson to 3 miles west of schuyler to 3 miles northeast of ulysses, moving east at 50 mph (trained weather spotters). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/12/2017 9:20 AM CDT At 920 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over david city, or 16 miles southeast of columbus, moving north at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, david city, bellwood, rising city, brainard, octavia, bruno and garrison. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 430.
6/12/2017 9:11 AM CDT At 910 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles south of david city, or 20 miles southeast of columbus, moving north at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, david city, bellwood, rising city, brainard, octavia, bruno, garrison and surprise. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 430.
6/12/2017 9:05 AM CDT At 904 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles northeast of ulysses, or 22 miles southeast of columbus, moving north at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, david city, bellwood, rising city, brainard, dwight, ulysses, octavia, bruno, abie, garrison and surprise. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 433.
6/12/2017 8:56 AM CDT At 855 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over ulysses, or 26 miles south of columbus, moving north at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/17/2017 2:20 AM CDT At 220 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 4 miles north of ulysses to near seward to 5 miles south of dorchester, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, seward, crete, david city, milford, dorchester, bellwood, rising city, brainard, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, goehner, octavia, bruno, abie, garrison and surprise. this includes the following highways, highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 430. Interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 371 and 388.
5/17/2017 2:09 AM CDT At 209 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near gresham to 5 miles northeast of beaver crossing to 7 miles east of milligan, moving east at 60 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, seward, crete, david city, milford, friend, utica, dorchester, bellwood, beaver crossing, rising city, brainard, staplehurst, garland, pleasant dale, dwight, bee, ulysses, goehner, cordova and octavia. this includes the following highways, highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 430. Interstate 80 in nebraska between mile markers 366 and 388.
5/17/2017 1:58 AM CDT At 157 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 3 miles northeast of benedict to 4 miles south of utica to 3 miles north of milligan, moving northeast at 65 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
11/27/2016 5:47 PM CST At 547 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located near ulysses, or 24 miles southeast of columbus, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, david city, brainard, staplehurst, dwight, ulysses, octavia, bruno, abie, garrison and surprise. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 415 and 434.
11/27/2016 5:32 PM CST At 532 pm cst, a severe thunderstorm was located near utica, or 14 miles east of york, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
9/16/2016 12:05 AM CDT At 1204 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over brainard, or 25 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. locations impacted include, wahoo, david city, valparaiso, brainard, weston, prague, dwight, ceresco, octavia, malmo, colon, bruno, abie and garrison. this includes the following highways, highway 77 in nebraska between milemarkers 82 and 93. Highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 419 and 446.
9/15/2016 11:58 PM CDT At 1158 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near brainard, or 26 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 35 mph. this storm does have some rotation (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, wahoo, david city, valparaiso, bellwood, brainard, weston, prague, dwight, ulysses, ceresco, octavia, malmo, colon, bruno, abie and garrison. this includes the following highways, highway 77 in nebraska between milemarkers 82 and 93. Highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 415 and 446.
9/15/2016 11:51 PM CDT At 1151 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles south of david city, or 21 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, wahoo, david city, valparaiso, bellwood, brainard, weston, prague, dwight, ulysses, ceresco, octavia, malmo, colon, bruno, abie and garrison. this includes the following highways, highway 77 in nebraska between milemarkers 82 and 93. Highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 415 and 446.
9/15/2016 11:44 PM CDT At 1144 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles south of david city, or 20 miles southeast of columbus, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
8/2/2016 2:21 AM CDT At 221 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles northeast of david city to near brainard to 3 miles northwest of bee, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. siding. And trees.
7/7/2016 1:04 AM CDT At 104 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles southeast of dwight, or 20 miles northwest of lincoln, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
5/10/2016 10:55 PM CDT At 1055 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near david city, or 20 miles southeast of columbus, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
9/18/2015 9:56 AM CDT At 955 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near utica, or 12 miles east of york, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
8/2/2015 7:06 PM CDT At 706 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over david city, or 19 miles southeast of columbus, moving southeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. locations impacted include, david city, bellwood, brainard, dwight and garrison. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 419 and 430.
8/2/2015 6:31 PM CDT At 631 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near david city, or 13 miles southeast of columbus, moving southeast at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
7/25/2015 12:18 AM CDT At 1218 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near valparaiso, or 13 miles northwest of lincoln, moving northeast at 60 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
7/24/2015 11:28 PM CDT At 1128 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near shelby to near bruning, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
6/4/2015 8:11 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southwestern butler county will expire at 815 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits and exited the warned area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however, heavy rain is still possible with this thunderstorm.
6/4/2015 8:06 PM CDT At 806 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near ulysses, or 21 miles northeast of york, moving east at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. locations impacted include, rising city, ulysses, garrison and surprise. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 423, and between mile markers 409 and 423.
6/4/2015 7:56 PM CDT At 756 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near rising city, or 22 miles northeast of york, moving east at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include half dollar size hail. Damage to vehicles is expected. locations impacted include, david city, rising city, brainard, dwight, ulysses, bruno, garrison and surprise. This includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 433, and between mile markers 409 and 433.
6/4/2015 7:40 PM CDT At 740 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near shelby, or 20 miles northeast of york, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include half dollar size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
5/6/2015 7:21 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for butler county will expire at 730 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.
5/6/2015 7:13 PM CDT At 712 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near brainard, or 22 miles southeast of columbus, moving north at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, david city, rising city, brainard, dwight, ulysses, garrison and surprise. this includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 430, and between mile markers 409 and 428. 0. 75in.
5/6/2015 7:06 PM CDT At 706 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near ulysses, or 25 miles southeast of columbus, moving north at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding and trees. locations impacted include, seward, david city, rising city, brainard, staplehurst, garland, dwight, bee, ulysses, garrison and surprise. this includes highway 92 in nebraska between mile markers 409 and 430, and between mile markers 409 and 428. a tornado watch remains in effect until 900 pm cdt for southeastern nebraska. 0. 75in.
5/6/2015 6:57 PM CDT At 656 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over staplehurst, or 24 miles east of york, moving north at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
5/2/2015 11:19 PM CDT At 1118 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bellwood to near david city, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include half dollar size hail. damage to vehicles is expected
4/12/2015 7:11 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for central butler county will expire at 715 pm cdt. the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits. and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. However hail up to nickel size is still possible with thunderstorms as they.
4/12/2015 6:58 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 715 pm cdt for central butler county. at 657 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located over brainard. or 23 miles southeast of columbus. moving northeast at 20 mph. hazard. quarter size hail. source. Radar indicated.
4/12/2015 6:44 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 715 pm cdt for butler county. at 643 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located near brainard. or 22 miles southeast of columbus. moving east at 35 mph. Other strong thunderstorms were moving into the western portion of butler county and could also product hail up to quarter size.
4/12/2015 6:27 PM CDT The national weather service in omaha has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. butler county in east central nebraska. until 715 pm cdt * at 627 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located over rising city. or 18 miles south of columbus. Moving northeast at 25 mph.
4/12/2015 6:18 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 630 pm cdt for western butler county. at 618 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located over rising city. or 18 miles south of columbus. moving northeast at 25 mph. hazard. quarter size hail. source. Radar indicated.
4/12/2015 6:04 PM CDT The national weather service in omaha has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. western butler county in east central nebraska. until 630 pm cdt * at 604 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located near shelby. or 19 miles south of columbus. Moving north at 30 mph.
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Est 60 mph...2-3 inch tree branch down in butler county NE, 0.3 miles SSW of Garrison, NE
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Source: Omri Ceren, Israel Moves to Limit Google Street View Risks, Commentary Magazine, 27/2/2011
My friend Dr. Andre Oboler has an exhaustive article up on the Jerusalem Post site about the potential risks and benefits of Google Street View coming to Israel. The service, as most people know, allows you to take “virtual tours” up and down streets mapped by Google Maps (and Google Maps itself goes way beyond public streets, into zoos, amusement parks, and so on).
The problem, of course, is that terrorists and militias use services like Google Maps and Google Earth to maximize their carnage. The Mumbai terrorists very famously mapped out their attacks beforehand using Google services. Google Earth images of British military bases were found in the homes of Iraqi insurgents. And the Iranian proxies surrounding Israel have been bragging for years that they use Google Earth to set rocket targets.
On the other hand, it’s a losing battle to fight the spread of information, especially when Google gets involved. The deep controversy is about the advance of technology outpacing our legal and ethical coping mechanisms, but that’s not really important for this context. Suffice to say that new communication technologies are being developed and deployed almost recklessly, and certainly in the absence of mass public deliberation. India expressed concerns about Google Maps and Google Earth as early as 2005, those concerns were largely ignored, and then Mumbai happened. Israel is afraid that something similar will occur.
But the Jewish state is small enough that at least some checks can potentially be enacted, and Israeli security services are calling for exactly that. Oboler suggests several obvious measures:
Any permission to proceed with Google Street View should be coupled with both specific and general obligations on Google; for example, an obligation to collect and use data only in a manner consistent with the public interest, and an obligation to respect the rights of individuals. Keeping the data in Israel is the only way to ensure the Israeli courts can order enforcement. … Israel also has a responsibility to act in the Interests of its people and of the Jewish people more generally. … Israel may also request further unrelated guarantees from Google, such as an undertaking to cooperate more fully with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the fight against Antisemitism.
This is a conversation that should be happening in the United States as well. Google and similar companies make billions by quite literally entering and mapping public spaces and then selling ads related to what they organize. They don’t really owe anyone anything if they’re only helping convey information, but new technologies do introduce new risks, and inevitably Google Maps will be exploited for a domestic terrorist attacks. It’s something that should be talked about more, and more explicitly and more publicly.
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Ides of Gemini Live at LA’s Complex
By Invisible Oranges Staff May 17, 2017 11:30 AM
Words and photos by Diana Lungu
After spending a few days with Ides of Gemini’s new album, Women, it was safe to say that I was sufficiently excited come the evening of their record release, what would come to be one of the final shows at Complex. I’ve always considered Ides of Gemini an LA staple; they have yet to let me down. Seeing them share the evening with fellow locals Taarkus and Zig Zags was no exception.
Taarkus began the evening with their unique brand of Native Peoples-influenced doom. Lead singer Stephanie Sallee’s soaring vocals, intertwined with the melody of her flute, carried the audience. The band also paid homage to legendary doom band Candlemass, performing an excellent cover of their song “Solitude” that the audience seemed to enjoy across the board.
Next, punk band Zig Zags, whom I had originally thought would be a strange addition to an otherwise doom-and-gloom filled bill, ended up providing some needed energy with their upbeat tunes. A pit actually opened up towards the end of their set, getting a good few members of the audience moving along.
Ides of Gemini took to the stage last. Show goers had begun to huddle around closer to the stage in anticipation just as the fog machines started filling the space, adding to the ethereal atmosphere. Sera Timms nailed the vocals as per usual; looking behind me, I felt as though the audience was in a trance. The set list included songs both old and new, including a special performance of the track “Heroine’s Descent” which featured guest vocals from CJ Leedy and two other guest singers. It was inspiring to say the least – being a woman in the metal scene has at times made me feel as though I don’t belong, but being a witness to Ides’ performance definitely made me feel at home. They concluded their set with an old favorite off their sophomore album Old World New Wave, “May 22, 1453.” All in all a fantastic night and a fitting way to welcome Women into the world.
-Diana Lungu
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Ides of Gemini
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Badan Warisan Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur Attractions
Badan Warisan Malaysia is home to the Heritage of Malaysia society. Set in the shadow of the PETRONAS Twin Towers, the main building is called the Heritage Centre. It is a bungalow built in 1925 that hosts regular art exhibitions on historic Malaysian buildings, and their environs.
The group’s motto is ‘Giving our past a future’ and the non-governmental organisation has played an important role in the preservation and conservation of the country’s architectural heritage since 1983. Besides the art exhibition in the main gallery, Badan Warisan Malaysia hosts monthly talks and lectures.
Rumah Penghulu Abu Seman
Another interesting feature within the Badan Warisan Malaysia grounds is the meticulously-restored Rumah Penghulu Abu Seman (Headman Abu Seman’s Home). Originally built in Kedah between 1910 and 1930, it relocated to here in 1996: it is a handsome example of a restored Malay-style wooden house of a local Malay chief. Also within the property’s grounds is the Heritage Garden which has a selection of herbs and plants indigenous to the country.
Daily guided tours of Rumah Penghulu Abu Seman are conducted at 11:00 and 15:00 from Mondays to Saturdays. The gift shop inside the Heritage Centre has a beautiful collection of wooden furniture, antiques and local handicrafts for sale.
No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre
The Heritage of Malaysia society also manages the beautifully restored No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre in Malacca (Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock), a replica of a two-storey shop-house constructed in the mid-late 1700s. Check out the permanent exhibit at the Badan Warisan Malaysia complex that details the conservation and restoration process of No. 8 Heeren Street Heritage Centre, Malacca, along with shop-house’s early history.
Badan Warisan Malaysia
Opening Hours: 11:00 – 16:00 Tuesday – Saturday
Address: 2 Jalan Stonor Kuala Lumpur 50450
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Rage Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum, or: Understanding the Complex Continuum of Internet Butt-Hurt*
Posted in Assumptions on Mar 7, 2014
I once stood at a bus stop in Durban while two young, drunk men murmured sexually explicit threats and promises to a young woman standing next to me. It was just the four of us – the woman being threatened, me, and the two perpetrators.
South Africa is not the world’s safest place, though with how often folks pull out guns to solve disagreements in the US – legally! – now, I’d argue it’s not so safe here, either. In any event, I kept my mouth shut. After all, they weren’t threatening her with an actual weapon. They were just talking about all the sexual things they wanted to do to her.
It didn’t concern me.
I didn’t want to get knifed, or attacked, or threatened in kind. Who wants that?
But after a few minutes, when they didn’t seem to tire of their threats, but instead kept at it, I finally lost my shit.
It was a fantastic losing-of-the-shit, because I’d spent the last six months hurrying back to my flat before dark, being told by every well-meaning person I knew that there were evil men waiting to rape, mutilate and murder me – maybe not even in that order! – even in broad daylight. I had one guy in a car slow down once on a sunny Sunday afternoon on the hill just outside the university where I was walking alone, who told me I best not walk alone, and best get inside, because people were likely to jump out of the woods and haul me off to the terrible fate all young white girls traveling abroad are assumed to inhabit, eventually.
I’d spent some time getting cat-called, yelled at, and solicited, though most folks in Durban were in fact quite lovely. In truth, I was to receive far more direct threats and harassment as a young woman living in Chicago than I did in Durban.
But that’s a post for another time.
To an outsider seeing my screaming meltdown at these two men, in which I raved and shouted and told them how they were utter assholes for harassing us, and they should fuck off, and who the fuck did they think they were, this might have seemed like the raving of some unhinged person. After all, from afar, all you see is two guys at a bus stop talking to a woman who seems deeply uncomfortable. But my rage, my “sudden” outburst was actually the result of the venting of six full months of increasing dread and terror inflicted on me not even so much by actual bad people, but people ostensibly concerned for my safety, whose admonitions that I “stay inside” and watch my back, and be careful, and who would then go on to talk about who’d been raped, shot, stabbed or mugged that week, had really started to get to me. It was a rage at the entire situation, at being expected to shut the fuck up and go inside all the time because I was a young woman. It was rage at the idea that the threat of violence so clearly worked to keep people in line.
After I raged for a few minutes, the guys milled about for a bit, confused, and finally wandered off. When they did, the young woman next to me breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Thank you so much. I was afraid to say something, because I was afraid they’d knife me or something.”
When the internet loses its shit over what, to many, looks like a single, insignificant incident unrelated to anything else, it’s easy to say they’re fucking nuts. They’re raging over some perceived slight that’s been blown waaaaay out of proportion. That, in truth, is the easier narrative. There’s a reason folks say things like, “Women are crazy,” to explain away some perceived hurt or slight, because it’s easier than thinking through why that rage makes one so uncomfortable (often because that person is complicit in acts that contribute to that rage in some way by perpetuating both sexism and the belittling of women’s voices). It’s easier to say people are crazy than to try and figure out why.
Especially when you’re in a place where it’s never your butt getting hurt.
Internet rage is almost never a one-off. It happens in a continuum. It’s seen as one more event in a long line of connected events.
About ten years ago, some dude blogger with a big following would ask, about every six months, “Where are all the women bloggers? I don’t read any women bloggers. So women must not blog!”
And the feminist blogosphere would fall on him.
Every. Six. Months.
We’d clog up his blog comments with our voices. We’d link to other women’s blogs. We’d point out that the reason he never saw women is because it was easier to not see them. It was easier to link to the dudes that he knew.
You don’t see people you don’t listen to.
That went on for a couple of years. At some point, after Wonkette got big and Amanda Marcotte got tapped to do social media outreach for a major political candidate, these conversations stopped (now it’s “here are all the white people you should be following on Twitter” lists that don’t have a single person of color on them, even though people of color make up over 40% of Twitter users and generate the majority of tweets and some of the biggest online memes and movements have originated with influencial folks on that end. Same shit, different pocket).
We got all sorts of push back on this, about how we should be more “civil” and “settle down.” We got told we were “over-reacting.” We were being “pushy bitches” and “making something out of nothing.”
But the truth was that unless we made a big fucking stink, people went back to the status quo.
Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance.
“Settle the fuck down, you got your way,” also doesn’t work after a fight is over, because though dudes may go “Yeah, we get it, women blog” unless you’re on it like a fucking trainwreck, you’ll have the conversation again six months later.
They forget. They start rewriting the narrative.
Calls for civility, as good-intention as they may be, smack to me of folks telling me I should have swallowed my tongue at the bus stop. After all, it’s not as if the men were physically harming the young woman. And I should have held my tongue when people said women don’t blog, because obviously, if I wrote well enough, and shut up enough, and acted demure enough, people would just magically notice me, right?
Clearly, ya’ll have no idea how this works.
Oh. Wait. You do.
If I shut the fuck up, then all the people you quote, all the people who write the post-narrative, the big pieces that folks look back on to create the history and narrative of an event, even a successful one, will be made by the powerful, influencial people who believe their hurt feelings at being called out as problematic somehow outweigh the concerns of an entire community of folks with no media pull and no platform whose voices have been marginalized their whole lives, and are now being reduced to a crazy, screaming, angry mob acting up out of nowhere, instead of a passionate community of folks reacting to an event they see as existing on a problematic continuum.
We have a strange habit of falling back on “civility” as if every social movement was entirely civil. Like unions didn’t bust up on scabs. Like Nelson Mandela didn’t blow shit up. Like MLK would tell us all to shut the fuck up, and women never chained themselves to the fences in city squares, stormed political buildings or committed acts of arson and violence in an effort to achieve suffrage.
My specialization is in the history of revolutionary movements, and let me tell you, folks – being nice and holding hands didn’t get shit done. Or sure, it was one tactic. But never the only tactic. I wish a nice circle jerk got shit done as much as the next person, but if it were so, history would look much, much different.
Change is messy. It’s angry. It’s uncomfortable. It’s full of angry people saying angry things, because they’ve been disrespected and forgotten again and again and again and again, and they’re tired of being fucking nice because it makes you uncomfortable if they act in any way that is not deferential or subservient to you and your worldview.
I’m sorry if we’ve interrupted your latest Kickstarter, or pin-up calendar, or the purchase of your million-dollar estate in California, and you’re throwing all your Hugo pins into Mount Doom in the hopes it will shame us into silence.
That must be really, really tough.
I’m sympathetic, I really am. Because I too know what it is to be comfortable and safe and pretend everything’s fine. I’m white. My parents aren’t poor, and I make decent money now. I get how annoying it can be, to get called out on that, and to have to listen to people who have problems you don’t. Real fucking problems and issues that exist on a continuum of shame, disrespect, and forced subservience they’ve had to deal with their whole lives.
For a community of folks who grew up reading comic books and farmers-who-become heroes, we sure do balk when we suddenly go from farm boy to hero. Because that’s a heavy fucking responsibility, and it’s easier to pretend you’re still mewling Peter Parker, complaining about how no girl will fuck you. You may not feel like you have power or influence, but you do – as do I.
There are a few things we can do when we have power and influence.
We can take our toys and go home.
Or we can get the fuck up and fight for the people who are continually shit on, and act like a fucking hero would act.
I know which I’d rather do.
*others have noted use of “butt-hurt” here is really annoying, dismissive, and problematic, as discussed here. I am aware. My use of it in this post in particular is in response to this dismissive tweet about latest rage, which employs it in its generally annoying way.
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April 3, 2019 UPDATE
McLean Hospital appealed the Land Court’s decision to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) who heard oral arguments on April 2, 2019. Parties are now awaiting court decision. We will update this website once the decision is released.
McLean Hospital Litigation - Board of Selectmen November 14, 2018 Update
A few weeks ago we reported that the Land Court had ruled in favor of the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) in the matter of the Board’s denial of McLean Hospital’s application to establish a residential treatment program for adolescents on its Bypass Road properties. McLean Hospital has subsequently filed a Notice of Appeal to preserve its rights. In response, the Board of Selectmen has voted to retain the services of Special Counsel, Jay Talerman, on an ongoing basis to continue the Town’s vigorous defense in this matter as necessary, and to authorize the Town Administrator to continue to expend funds for this purpose.
Again, we appreciate the efforts of all those whom participated in the defense of the Town during the Land Court proceeding.
Jonathan Dwyer, Chair
Jennifer Glass
James Craig
Earlier Updates:
McLean Hospital Appeals ZBA Decision 2016
At the request of the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA), the Board of Selectmen (BOS) has voted to appoint outside counsel to represent the ZBA and the Town in connection with the lawsuit filed by McLean Hospital (McLean) related to the ZBA’s decision to overturn the Building Inspector’s opinion that McLean was entitled to utilize the so-called Dover Exemption with respect to its proposed facility on Bypass Road, as well as in connection with any related appeals or lawsuits that may arise.
Update: October 23, 2018
The Court has ruled in favor of the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) in the matter of the Board's denial of McLean Hospital's application to establish a residential treatment program for adolescents. A Board of Selectmen Press Statement and Copy of the Court's Decision can be found by clicking here.
ZBA Decision: Click here
To View McLean Appeals click below:
McLean Chapter 240 Complaint November 2016
McLean Chapter 40A Appeal December 2016
McLean Hospital a mental health treatment & education facility affiliated with Harvard Medical School is interested in operating an educational therapeutic residence located AT 16-22 Bypass Road. The hospital currently operates another residential program at 5 Old Cambridge Turnpike in Lincoln. This would serve a maximum of 12 clients ages 15-21 for a duration of 60-120 days that would live in a home environment and participate in a structured, closely supervised educational therapeutic program. The residence would operate under 24 hours 7 days a week. Staff would work in 8 hours shifts with 2 overnight staff. The Planning Board held a meeting on May 24, 2016 where they determined that the changes requested required a public hearing. The Planning Board held a Public Hearing for Site Plan Review on Tuesday, June 28, 2016 at 7:00pm at 16 Lincoln Road 1st floor meeting room and was continued to July 26, 2016 and closed on July 26, 2016. The Board voted to approve the Site Plan on September 13, 2016.
To view Planning Board documents, plans and other material please click here
To view documents for the ZBA appeal click here
McLean Time line Process
McLean representatives contacted town administrator
Town Administrator suggested McLean contact Planning Director
Planning Director spoke with representatives from McLean to coordinate a meeting with Building Inspector & Planning Staff
Planning Director, Planning Board Administrator, and Building Inspector met with MCLEAN to get a better understanding of their project. Asked McLean to put it in writing so Town Counsel could review proposal.
Mclean submits a letter dated 04/22/16 to Town
Town Counsel Supplies Town with Legal Opinion
Internal Staff Meeting to discuss review process
6-7 pm Neighborhood Meeting - McLean Hospital
7:45 pm Planning Board Meeting - Determination of Major Change. PB scheduled a public hearing for June 28, 2016
McLean Closed on properties.
Planning Board site visit
7:00pm Planning Board Site Plan Review Hearing. Continued to Tuesday, July 28, 2016 at 7:30pm. Hearing Closed on July 26, 2016. Planning Board voted to approve the site plan approval on September 13, 2016.
09/29/16 Appeal of Building Inspector's determination - ZBA Hearing was held on September 29th at 7:30pm, continued to October 20, 2016. The ZBA voted at its November 3, 2016 in favor of the appellants. The ZBA is meeting again on December 7, 2016 at 7:30pm. ZBA Decision
11/16/16 McLean's law suit of ZBA Decision. Chapter 240 Complaint
12/13/16 McLean's appeal of ZBA Decision 40A Appeal
October 2018 Land Court rules in favor of ZBA
November 2018 McLean filed a notice of Appeal
Sign Offs Required
Title 5 Permit - reviewed by health agent
Building Permit & Certificate of Occupancy
Zoning Enforcement Officer
Letter Use Permitted under MGL Chapter 40A Section 3
Conservation determination that wetlands filing is not warranted
No formal signoff - will look at safety & security. Police require Safety & Security Plan of external & internal accountability
Open up account (will look at water use if sprinkler system is needed)
Town Counsel's review
Determine if congregate living qualifies on State's subsidized housing inventory - It does not count.
PILOT Agreement (Payment in Lieu of Taxes)
Birches School, RLF and Athletic Field
Care Dimensions
Carroll School - Wayland
Comprehensive Long Range Plan Committee
Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee
Crown Castle 295 Cambridge Turnpike
Hanscom AFB Proposed Doppler Radar
MBTA Rates/Schedule
MBTA Monopoles
Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School
Open Space Plan Update
Oriole Landing Housing Development
Route 2 Project
Stormwater and Climate Resiliency
South Lincoln & SLPIC
Wayland Recreation Field
1265 Main Street Waltham
Zoning Reform
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Vieux Fort minibus parking lots overrun by private vehicles
Kingsley Emanuel Created : 14 January 2020 St. Lucia News
Private vehicles parked in the parking lot of minibus drivers
Minibus drivers who ply various routes from Vieux-Fort to other communities in the south of the island are complaining that owners of private vehicles are taking over their parking lots.
They say the owners of those private vehicles are so inconsiderate that they block the entrance of their parking lots, located on the Vieux-Fort/Laborie highway.
The problem recently got worse after the markings on the parking lots, which separate the various routes alongside each other, faded.
According to the concerned minibus drivers, what is even more worrying is that the police say that they can’t do much of anything to assist them.
The two cones which the police recently placed at the entrance of the parking lot to control parking there is of no help to the affected drivers.
Cletus Augustine, a minibus driver lamented: “We have taken our concern to the police, but they told us that they can’t give anyone a ticket for parking in our parking lot because it is not marked.”
He added that they have also taken their concerns to the Ministry of Transport, which is responsible for marking the parking area, but to no avail.
Nicholas Henry, another minibus driver described the situation as “irritating”.
“The drivers of those private vehicles don’t even use their discretion. They park anywhere,” he said.
According to Alexis Louisy, the situation has left him fed-up.
“Right now, we don’t know what to do. The parking lot no longer belongs to us...,” he said.
Another driver said that minibus drivers need to “pin” the drivers of private vehicles when parked in their parking lot for the problem to stop.
Recently, there have been minor accidents in the parking lot due to indiscriminate driving and parking.
minibus drivers
Vieux Fort/Laborie Highway
Minibus drivers in south impressed by Gros Islet peers
Vieux-Fort/Laborie Highway hit and run driver quietly left scene
Minibus drivers and passengers at odds over Jetrine charges
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Youth's Endearing Charm
A partial print of Youth's Endearing Charm still exist and is held by the Library of Congress. See the notes below.
U.S.A. Release: September 4, 1916
Produced by: American Film Corporation
Distributed by: Mutual Film Corporation, A Mutual Star Production
Directed by: William C. Dowlan
Cinematography By: David Abel
Scenario By: J. Edward Hungerford
Screenplay By: Maibelle Heikes Justice
Six Reels
Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format
Mary Miles Minter as Mary Wade
Wallace MacDonald as Harry Disbrow
Harry von Meter as John Disbrow
Gertrude Le Brandt as Mrs. Disbrow
Al Ferguson as Joe Jenkins
Bessie Banks as Mrs. Jenkins
Harvey Clark as George Horton
Marguerite Nichols as Maud Horton
Mary Wade (played by Minter) is an orphan who is the ward of the Jenkins family at their remote farm. Life at the farm already being harsh enough, Mary takes her dog, Zippy, and runs away to the city after Mr. Jenkins starts making obvious advances towards her. With no income, she pretends to be blind and becomes a beggar which ultimately causes her problems with the law.
While appearing in court, she meets the young son of a millionaire, Harry Disbrow, who takes Mary to his family home being secretly in love with her. Head of the household is Harry's father, John Disbrow, who is partner in a securities firm with George Horton. Horton has been stealing from the firm and is ultimately confronted by his partner, whereupon a classic screen struggle ensues. Mary saves the day after crashing a vase over Horton's head. A happy ending is assured as she wins over the affections of the Disbrow family and marries the handsome young Harry.
* Youth's Endearing Charm was the first of the Mary Miles Minter films by the Flying A Studios (American Film Corporation).
* An incomplete print of Youth's Endearing Charm is held by the Library Of Congress. We have seen portions of the film which is in, unfortunately, extremely deteriorated condition. Regardless of the damage, it was a special treat to view some of the earliest footage of Mary which still exists.
* Re-released in 1921 as "Youth's Melting Pot"
* You can read the complete screenplay for Youth's Endearing Charm by clicking the butterfly below. Every butterfly on this site links to a new page.
Youth's Endearing Charm Screenplay
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Mary Miles Minter
Miss Minter...
A Short Biography
Postcard Pages
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A Paper Doll!
Selected Biographies
Our Problem With
Film Preservation
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2013-2014 State Officer Team
The team that will excel past all limits. Your 2013-2014 State Officer Team is constantly working for Maryland FBLA to further both the organization and members. The excitement for the opportunities this year is undeniable. Take advantage of those opportunities from Future Business Leaders of America! There is a wide realm of programs, from Government Awareness Program to Butterflies for Babies and much more, there will always be something that you can take back to your local chapter. Your State Officer Team is always available to provide guidance and assistance, just call or send and e-mail; When you see amazing happen this year just remember, its Excellence In Action!
Put Excellence in Action
with your 2013-2014 state officer team.
Erica Shields
2013-2014 State President
Erica T. Shields is rising senior at Huntingtown High School in Calvert County, MD. This year Erica is eager as your new State President and her local chapter's President for two years now. Having alumni as siblings, she was the first of her graduating class to join FBLA. After attending her first NFLC in Washington, D.C., Erica had finally found her passion. She then went on to become the only sophomore on her local officer team fulfilling the position of Treasurer. She has also attended every NFLC, SFLC, SLC, and NLC since her freshman year. Erica has won numerous local and state awards, including being a three-time regional and state placing competitor along with her completion of the Future and Leader level of the Business Achievement Awards. She is an A.P. and honors student as well as an active member of Best Buddies, Key Club, Academy of Finance, Sophomore Student Council, Student Senate, Tutoring Programs, and Huntingtown's Volleyball Manager. Erica maintains a 3.9 GPA, while participating in her school’s Varsity Basketball, Tennis, Track and Mock Trial teams. Erica looks forward to a year of Excellence in Action and taking her chapter and Maryland State FBLA to an epic level.
Megan Bunn
2013-2014 State Vice President
Megan Bunn, a senior at Huntingtown High School in Calvert County, is honored and thrilled to serve as your State Vice President for the 2013-2014 school year! Megan has been involved in FBLA since her freshman year, and since has served in multiple officer positions and as the chair person for many committees. She has received numerous awards at the Regional and State level in Desktop Publishing and Public Speaking. Outside of FBLA, Megan is an officer in Student Class Council and is heavily involved in theatre and chorus, performing at the regional, state and national levels. She is an honors and AP student and maintains a 3.8 GPA. She is beyond excited to set into motion the goals the State Officer Team has set to Put Excellence into Action in Maryland FBLA this school year!
Natalie Tran
2013-2014 State Secretary-Treasurer
Natalie Tran, a senior at River Hill High School in Clarksville, Maryland, is honored to serve at the local, state, and national level. Natalie started her FBLA career at River Hill as Freshman Ambassador and has worked up the ranks to serve as Chapter President, State Secretary Treasurer, and National Eastern Region Vice President. For her, this is no ordinary high school club; this organization has allowed her to grow and develop into a true leader. A four-time local officer and two-time state officer, Natalie definitely has a passion for this organization. She wants to give back to the organization that has helped her so much along the way, and is excited to contribute to FBLA-PBL in any way she can. If you have any questions about FBLA, please feel free to contact Natalie.
Jenna Pilarchik
2013-2014 State Reporter-Historian
Jenna Pilarchik is a senior at River Hill High School. She has been a member of FBLA since her sophomore year and is so thankful for all the opportunities FBLA has offered her. She is Maryland FBLA's 2013-2014 Reporter-Historian and her chapter's Secretary. As a junior she was her chapter's Historian and it inspired her to run for the state position. She is very excited to join you to put Excellence in Action. Jenna is a member of National Honor Society and maintains a GPA of 3.5. Jenna enjoys art and photography. Jenna is ready to report the events of the year and is excited to document this very fun year! She encourages the members to email her events and achievements of your chapter and to send photos of your chapter's successful year. Jenna wishes you luck in your competition and hopes you achieve greatness through FBLA!
Tyler Graybill
2013-2014 Region 2 Vice President
Tyler Graybill is an incoming Junior at Hereford High School. He is currently the chapter president at Hereford and region 2 Vice President. He joined the FBLA program as a Freshman in 2010. Tyler hopes to expand his knowledge in business and help grow the FBLA program. His future goals include running a successful FBLA chapter, continue high academic scores, college entrances into business schools, and enter the field of business administration.
Jessica Lukeman
Jessica Lukeman, a senior at North East High School in Cecil County, is honored to serve as your 2013-2014 Maryland FBLE Region 3 Vice President. Along with being the Region 3 Vice President, Jessica serves as Vice President in her local chapter. As State Officer, she plans in helping the State Officer team in improving membership for years to come. Jessica is also a three-time placing competitor at states, and a two-time National competitor! With last year being Jessica’s first year serving on her local officer team, she managed to lead her chapter to new heights and hopes to do the same for Maryland FBLA. Jessica plans to increase communication throughout her large region, and successfully host her first Regional Conference! Jessica is looking forward to making an impact and help out Excellence in Action with Maryland FBLA!
Skylar Mealing
Skylar Mealing is a senior at Northern High School in Calvert County, Maryland and this year's 2013-2014 Region 4 Vice President. She is also the president of the Northern High School Future Business Leaders of America. Outside of FBLA, she is the Editor in Chief of the Northern High School Patriot Press and a member of the National Honors Society. She also plans on going to a four year accredited university and majoring in Journalism (print) and minoring in Economics. She is looking forward to a fantastic year for Region 4 and FBLA as a whole.
Payal Pubbi
Payal Pubbi is a senior at Atholton High School in Howard County, Maryland and she is the 2013-2014 Region 5 Vice President. Along with this, she is also her local chapter’s President. After joining FBLA as a freshman, she realized she had found her passion, and then became her chapter’s Public Relation’s Agent. Then she decided that she wanted to take on a role at the state level, so she first became a member of SPDC. Then, at the 2013 State Leadership Conference, she ran for and was elected Region 5 Vice President. She has achieved numerous awards, at both the regional and state levels for FBLA, and she is currently working on her Gold Award for Girl Scouts. Payal is an AP and honors student, as well as a member of National Honor Society and French National Honor Society, and the newly appointed Editor in Chief for her school yearbook. Payal is excited to promote excellence in action this year in her local chapter as well as Maryland State FBLA!
VIEW ANOTHER YEAR'S STATE OFFICER TEAM
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