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M.Arch. Radek Toman Ph.D.
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e: tomanr@fa.vutbr.cz
Ing.arch. MArch. Jan Kristek Ph.D.
Dean of School
Bachelor Programme: Czech
Master Programme: Czech or English
Doctoral Programme: Czech
The school of architecture in Brno was established in 1919. After the fall of the communist regime in November 1989 a new concept of architectural education was adopted by Professor Ivan Ruller, the first democratic Dean of the Faculty. The organizational structure of the faculty subsequently changed. Former departments were transformed into institutes, and a new two-stage model of bachelor's and master's degree programs was introduced. In 1994, Professor Alois Novy was appointed Dean of the Faculty. The Faculty became more open to experts and established contacts with domestic and foreign cooperators. Since 2000, the faculty was headed by Associate Professor Josef Chybik. Further reorganization was carried out and new studios, departments, and centers were established. In 2006 Professor Vladimir Slapeta took over the leadership with experience from The Technical University of Prague. The Faculty has undergone many structural changes, strengthened its international position and developed cooperation with IIT Chicago. Since 2010 the school was again lead by Associate Professor Josef Chybik, who enabled the emergence of student community SOFA as well as supported the creation of several independent communication platforms such as FORMAT400. In 2014-2018 the school was headed by Associate Professor Jan Hruby. The school was further reorganized and new institues were introduced, such as Institute of Spatial Design, Institute of Experimental Design and Institute of Monument Care. Since 2018 the school is headed by Jan Kristek, M.Arch., Ph.D,
Brno is a home to many notable architectural works - Villa Tugendhat by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and architect Ernst Wiesner's Crematorium, architect Bohuslav Fuchs's - Hotel Avion, Moravian Bank, or the Brno Pavilion at the Brno Trade Fairs exhibition center. Brno is a home of architect Adolf Loos, scientist Johann Gregor Mendel and actor Hugo Haas. Brno is a university town and also a center of culture and technology transfer. It is going through a time of dynamic building and urban development, especially of brownfields.
529 students (311 Bachelor, 168 Master, 50 PhD), 5% of foreign students.
64 staff members (35 full-time and approx. 29 visiting lecturers and critics).
ISC-International Students Club VUT, SOFA-Faculy of Architecture Student Community. Workshops, screenings, study trips, open lectures and competitions are organized throughout the year.
CAD - Lab
Computing service
Conference auditorium
Lecture Room
Modelling room
Painting studio
Plot centre
Printing facilities
Sculpture studio and painting studio
BUT provides good-class accommodation in modern halls of residence, mostly in double rooms. Complete information regarding accommodation can be found at: http://www.skm.vutbr.cz/Angl/Default.asp. It is necessary to book a room by a student before his arrival through internet at: https://www.kam.vutbr.cz/english/?p=SocratesKon&t=wt
Admission & Fees
Entrance exams are required.
For detailed information please visit our homepage.
30 November - for Bachelor Study in Czech
15 March - for Master Study in Czech or English
31 March - for Doctoral Study in Czech
31 May – for Short Term Exchange Study starting in September (Erasmus, CEEPUS, etc.)
15 November – for Short Term Exchange Study starting in February (Erasmus, CEEPUS, etc.)
Bachelor Programme, Bc (eq. Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree), 4 Years, Bachelor, Czech, 240,
Master Programme, Ing. arch. (eq. Master of Science in Architecture degree), 2 Years, Master, Czech or English, 120,
Doctoral Programme, Ph.D., 4 Years, Doctoral, Czech,
Structure of the curriculum
Please find more information about the Curricula on our homepage:
For study in Czech: http://www.fa.vutbr.cz/pages/studijni_programy.aspx?lang=cz&menu=3
For study in English: http://www.fa.vutbr.cz/pages/studijni_programyDB.aspx?lang=en&menu=3
The educational and professional goal of the Bachelor’s level is to educate a universal expert in the field of architecture and urban design, an architect – designer. The bachelor is trained for activity in architectural and structural design offices and other institutions. The graduates may choose to continue in a master’s study programme.
Detailed information: https://www.vutbr.cz/en/students/programmes/programme/6235
Master Programme
The educational and professional goal of the Master’s level is the preparation of a graduated architect to become a creative expert in the whole complex of his profession, who is able to cope with design and management tasks in the process of capital construction. He shall also be qualified for activities in state administration. It is strictly required that the acquired education and knowledge is made use of according to the principles of sustainable development and optimum formation of the environment. The graduates may choose to continue in a doctoral study programme.
The Doctoral level of study is provided in the field of Architecture and Urban Design with specialization in Architecture and specialization in Urban Design. It offers doctoral students the opportunity to carry out individually supervised scientific work in contemporary problems of Architecture and Urban Planning as well as in basic and applied research.
Our Faculty focuses on the implementation of principles of sustainable development through innovation in teaching of existing courses as well as by creating new ones while conceptualizing architecture and urbanism in the context of sustainable development. Implementation of the project OPVK enables us to increase our qualifications, adaptability and mobility, leading to our long term competitiveness. Our Faculty is targeting at the development of bilateral cooperation in science and education between the Czech Republic and Austria through the AKTION Programme in the areas of revitalization of industrial heritage and in the urban development planning. We are striving to become a more active member of EAAE. In the area of Research our Faculty also supports the international mobility of students and academic staff and invites visiting academics to our Faculty.
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+32 (0)9/39 86 470
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Off the grid: Five watches for the serious adventurer
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Space legend Charlie Duke celebrates 50 years since Apollo 11
Michael Harry
Ex-astronaut Charlie Duke appears at a gala Omega dinner with Lisa Wilkinson. Photo: Brendon Thorne
NASA legend Charlie Duke is one of just 12 men to walk on the moon, and is still the youngest. "I'm 83 and I'm still the youngest man on the moon, which is really a sad commentary, I thought we'd be back years before this," he says.
Duke played a pivotal role in Apollo 11, when Neil Armstrong personally asked him to be the CAPCOM – or capsule communicator – on the mission. "[CAPCOM] is the only guy from Mission Control who has the authority to speak to the crew," Duke told guests at a gala dinner held by Omega watches, whose Speedmaster was worn during the mission.
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Turning blue
It was during the Apollo 11 mission that Duke uttered his famous line, "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue … we're breathing again," which was heard around the world as the crew finally landed on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969.
The 2019 Omega Speedmaster is virtually identical to the version worn on the moon. Photo: Supplied
"We started having communication problems and that rose the tension level a bit in Mission Control," recalls Duke. "And then we started having computer problems … I thought we were dead in the water and not going to get to land."
Armstrong ended up landing the spacecraft just 17 seconds before Mission Control was due to call abort. "If you can imagine the tension in Mission Control, it was breathless. Then Neil said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here, the eagle has landed", in the calmest voice I've ever heard … [I said] "We copy you on the ground, you've got a bunch of guys here about to turn blue." I was speaking about us guys in Mission Control and it was true, we were holding our breaths."
Mission complete
A few years later, Duke had his chance to frolic on the surface of the moon as an Apollo 16 lunar module pilot, spending almost three days on the surface. "It was exciting, you never got tired of being on the moon," he says. After a three day journey home, the astronaut hit the earth's atmosphere at over 40,000 kilometres per hour in a ball of fire. "It was so much fun I wanted to go again!"
Duke never dreamed of going to space as a child, but wound up in the navy where he fell in love with planes instead of ships. A stigmatism in his right eye meant he wasn't qualified for navy aviation, but was taken by the US air force instead, leading him all the way into orbit.
Duke transfixed guests including Julie Bishop, Mack Horton and host Lisa Wilkinson at the lavish black tie gala at Sydney's Fox Studios, who sat at tables transformed into lunar landscapes, underneath a giant gold spaceman suspended over the room.
Omega has been intrinsically linked to space after its Speedmaster watch was worn by NASA astronauts in the 1960s and '70s. The Speedmaster was originally made for auto-racing teams and engineers, but was chosen for space travel after passing a series of rigorous durability tests.
"The watch was mostly used for the stopwatch function [in space]," says Duke. "It was very critical … the watch was extremely valuable and it never failed. We never had a problem."
The 2019 version of the Speedmaster is virtually identical to the Apollo 11 version, with two new Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Limited Edition timepieces featuring the same craftsmanship that held up so well in the galaxy.
But not everything survives so well in space.
The black tie gala transformed Sydney's Fox Studios Stage 1 into a lunar landscape. Photo: Brendon Thorne
"I left a picture of my family up on the moon … it's still there but unrecognisable," says Duke. "We left a car on the moon. There's three of them up there, so if you want an $8 million car with a dead battery, I can tell you where to go get one."
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Books EXTRA & FEATURES
CARPE LIBRUM: ‘In the Absence of Good Men’ raises stakes by lowering morals
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CARPE LIBRUM: Celebrating fatherhood and the holidays with Tolkien’s Father Christmas
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CARPE LIBRUM: Local comic-book anthology blends spectacular art and storytelling
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CARPE LIBRUM: New coloring book makes superheroes of African-American trailblazers
CARPE LIBRUM: A tome on typewriters proves mechanical type never goes out of style
PHONEMIC AWARENESS: Christopher Brantley releases comic book in time for National Dyslexia Awareness Month
CARPE LIBRUM: A new book by a local historian sheds light on the Cape Fear region’s European roots
POET POWER: Meg Day on finding strength and pleasure on the page and in the classroom
CARPE LIBRUM: Locally set fantasy-fiction entertains, while loosening reins on accuracy
Gwenyfar Rohler
Wilmington’s literary community keeps gaining accolades (two National Book Awards nominees in 2015) and attention in the press. With multiple established publishers in the state (Algonquin, Blair) and new smaller presses gaining traction (Lookout, Eno, Bull City), and a pair of well-regarded literary magazines out of UNCW, it is timely to shine a light on discussions around literature publishing. More so, it shows the importance of communicating a truthful story in our present world.
Welcome to Carpe Librum, encore’s biweekly book column, wherein I will dissect a current title and an old book—because literature does not exist in a vacuum but emerges to participate in a larger, cultural conversation. I will feature many NC writers; however, the hope is to place the discussion in a larger context and therefore examine works around the world.
In the Absence of Good Men
Anghus Houvouras
Outlaws Publishing, 2019, pgs. 180
Local filmmaker, playwright, and novelist extraordinaire (and encore film reviewer) Anghus Houvouras has released a new novel, “In The Absence Of Good Men.” Part of what I enjoy so much about Anghus’ work is he can make books with a premise I normally would not find appealing yet are absolutely irresistible. “The Fence Mender,” one of his previous novels, is a great example. Generally speaking, post-apocalyptic showdowns are not really my thing, but “The Fence Mender” had me from page one.
Anghus has done it again with “In The Absence Of Good Men.” The novel is set in an Old West-style world. The protagonist, Edward Merchant, is a contract killer. It is actually more of a noir-like thriller than anything. If Merchant reminds me of anyone, it is Phillip Marlowe from the Raymond Chandler books. Women are very disposable, interchangeable and unimportant in Merchant’s world. Indeed, only two women speak in the book. One is a Miss Havisham-like character and is dispatched like a dog: put out of her misery.
The other has a name that continues to change; sometimes she is Renee, sometimes she is Rachel, and other times she is Penelope (the last is an homage to the famed Penelope who waited for Ulysses). But all of them speak to the idea that a woman is an object, not a person, and is not worthy of the same space in Merchant’s brain as even the least interesting of his professional contacts. At least we know where he stands.
Like many people of his ilk, Merchant has a very specific code of ethics he will not violate. It might not be the code most would chose to live by, but it is Merchant’s. As a result he winds up going to prison for a crime he did not (entirely) commit—and he doesn’t turn in any of his associates. While in prison he receives the proverbial offer he cannot refuse—two, actually. The first involves taking down the hero of the prison’s general population.
We watch him destroy another person for the sheer joy of it—something he has claimed he did not do. Still, Merchant positively revels in it. His deteriorating mindset—from seeing killing as his craft, to viewing it as something that gives him more joy than anything in the world—makes for irresistible reading. Anghus moves the plot inexorably to a climax so deftly, I seriously could not put down the book—as in, “dinner is just going to have to wait” could not put it down.
Coincidentally, I also wrote a book about a contract killer a few years ago, and our two characters could not be more different. Perhaps that is why I find Anghus’ novel so fascinating. My contract killer expected to be an angel of retribution and instead became a tool of petty squabbles. She cared constantly and was eaten alive by the moral dilemma.
Anghus’ killer doesn’t want to know the backstory, doesn’t want to get involved, and doesn’t care. It is all about perfecting a skill and deploying it to the best of his ability. Money is Merchant’s major motivator. He is completely immersed in the seedy underbelly of the world and has no need to pretend to aspire to a different life … most of the time. Well, some of the time, really.
Anghus is most comfortable writing for screen and it is the secret to his prose. He writes battle and fight scenes that can only be described as “cinematic.” Also, he understands pacing. There is not a slow moment in the book. Reflective, yes. Slow, no. It is like someone fired a starting pistol, and right from the start, we are on a steady course—just a bit faster than we usually move. And it’s nonstop.
Anghus is also adept at foreshadowing and scene construction. So when we do get to the key detail—a handkerchief—we already know what is inside it (as does Merchant), before he unfolds it. It is actually a frustrating yet satisfying payoff for that one page.
But Anghus is not going to let his us feel satisfied for long. He has another trick up his sleeve. And another. And another. He loves the power an unreliable narrator provides him: the ability to create plot twists and surprise. He utilizes that power right up to the final sentence.
In this article:‘In the Absence of Good Men’, Anghus Houvouras, book reviews, encore magazine, Gwenyfar Rohler, Outlaws Publishing, The Fence Mender, Wilmington NC
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THE NEW CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE
David Heathcoat-Amory, a member of the Convention on the Future of
Europe, reveals the true meaning of the proposals for a European
Constitution.
On Friday 20 June, the political landscape of Europe will be transformed
by the arrival of a new European Constitution. For on that date, Valéry
Giscard d’Estaing will present his new Constitutional draft to the
Thessaloniki Intergovernmental Conference (IGC).
It is now clear that the new Constitution will endow the Union with far
greater powers than the existing EU already enjoys, writes David
Heathcoat-Amory MP in The European Constitution and what it means for
Britain, published today, Tuesday 17 June 2003 by the Centre for Policy
Many more decisions on foreign policy, criminal justice matters and
economic and employment policies will in future be taken in Brussels,
not Westminster.
The author, who has served on the Convention on the Future of Europe for
the past 15 months, shows how the approach of the Convention was
integrationist and instinctively hostile to suggestions that EU powers
should be devolved (see pages 13 onwards). He condemns for instance the
process by which contributions from Convention members were limited to
two minute speeches.
He acknowledges that at the IGC changes will be made – but the scale and
scope of the undertaking will remain. The result is a new constitutional
order for the Union and its member states, with profound implications
for parliamentary democracy and the principles of self-government.
The new Union will have a permanent President and a Foreign Minister;
the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Court
of Justice will all gain new powers; national parliaments will be the
losers. The gap between the Union and its citizens is set to widen.
This is not, as the Government (uniquely) claims, a “tidying-up
exercise”. (See the attached sheet for examples). Indeed, the author
lists six specific areas in which the Government itself has promised a
veto (see page 34).
Most other member states have announced that the final Constitution will
be put to national referendums. Denmark, Ireland, France, Spain,
Portugal, Austria and Italy are all likely to hold referendums with
others still to declare. In the Convention itself a German campaigning
group has obtained signatures from 95 members of the Convention calling
for national referendums.
What if a referendum were held and the result ‘no’? The author describes
the true legal position: the country concerned could not be ejected from
the EU but could negotiate a relationship with the Constitution member
states from a position of strength.
The British Government has no mandate to ratify such a major
constitutional change without a referendum. In contrast to Maastricht,
the 2001 Labour manifesto contained no reference to the Convention or
any proposal for a European Constitution.
The European Constitution founds a new Union, with incalculable
consequences for the way we are governed, by whom, from where and by
what powers. The author concludes:
“The Government’s refusal to admit a referendum is based on deceit and
cowardice: deceit, in trying to disguise the importance of the
undertaking; cowardice, in not having confidence in their own arguments.
This must be challenged by all who believe that democracy is more
important than expedience, and that Constitutions must be decided by the
1. The European Constitution and what it means for Britain, by Rt Hon
David Heathcoat-Amory MP is published today, Tuesday 17 June 2003 by the
Centre for Policy Studies, 57 Tufton Street London SW1P 3QL. Price
£7.50. The full document can be downloaded from www.cps.org.uk/euconvention.pdf
2. David Heathcoat-Amory has been Member of Parliament for Wells since
1983. He was appointed Minister for Europe in the Foreign Office in
1993. In 1994 he became Paymaster General at the Treasury and resigned
from the Government two years later over the issue of Europe. He was
made a Privy Councillor in 1996. He has served on the Convention on the
Future of Europe for the past 15 months as a member from the House of
Commons.
3. The Centre for Policy Studies has been at the forefront of the
analysis of the European Constitution. In February 2003, it published A
Defining Moment? A review of the issues and options for Britain arising
from the Convention on the Future of Europe by Norman Blackwell. On 6
May 2003, the CPS held a private seminar to inform selected journalists
on the workings of the Convention, which in turn contributed to the wide
media coverage of this subject in the weeks that followed.
4. Contact details:
David Heathcoat-Amory: 020 7219 6370 (House of Commons)
0783 148 3125 (mobile)
Tim Knox 020 7222 4042 (office)
(Editor, CPS) 020 7587 0220 (home)
TIDYING UP?
The Government has repeatedly described the European Constitution as a
‘tidying up exercise’.
The following proposals in the new Constitution can be compared to
equivalent clauses in the existing EU Treaties:
1. Legal personality
New: The Constitution establishes a Union, which ‘shall have legal
personality’ (Articles 1-1 & 6).
Existing: ‘By the Treaty, the High Contracting Parties [i.e.
member states] establish among themselves a European Union (TEU Article
Note: The existing intergovernmental treaties are replaced by a new
legal entity, the Union, founded by the Constitution, separate from
member states.
2. Primacy of Constitution and Union Law
New: The Constitution, and Union law, ‘shall have primacy over the
law of the Member States’ (A. 1-10).
Existing: No equivalent Treaty reference.
Note: The primacy of EU law has hitherto been established by European
Court of Justice case law only and is not unconditional. The primacy of
the Constitution is an entirely new concept.
3. New powers
New: The Union shall have ‘exclusive competence’ over competition
rules, common commercial policy, the customs union, the ‘conservation of
marine biological resources under the common fisheries policy’, and to
make international agreements (A. 1-12).
Existing: The EU possesses such exclusive Treaty powers only in
regards to the customs union.
4. New areas where member states cannot legislate if the Union chooses
to do so
New: The Union shall ‘share competences’ with member states in most
policy areas, including transport, energy, social policy, ‘economic,
social and territorial cohesion’, the environment and consumer
protection. ‘Shared competence’ is defined to mean that member states
cannot legislate if the Union chooses to do so. (A. 1-11 and 13).
Existing: No such category of powers exists. There is no EU
responsibility over energy.
5. Coordination of economic and employment policies
New: ‘The Union shall adopt measures to ensure coordination of the
economic and employment policies of the Member States’. (A. 1-14)
Existing: No such powers or instructions exist under the Treaties.
6. Harmonisation of criminal justice rules and procedures by QMV
New: Harmonisation of criminal justice rules and procedures by
Qualified Majority Voting. Provision for a European Public Prosecutor
(A. 111-166, 167 and 170).
Existing: No QMV; no legislation allowed on national criminal
procedures, eg trial by jury, habeas corpus. No criminal prosecutions by
7. A European President and a European Foreign Minister
New: A full-time European President and European Foreign Minister
who, ‘shall conduct the Union’s common foreign and security policy’ (A.
1-21 & 27).
Existing: No such positions exist.
8. Most national vetoes to disappear
New: Qualified Majority Voting becomes the norm, and is extended in
more than 20 areas where the national veto currently exists, including:
§ criminal justice and policing
§ asylum and immigration
§ social security
§ intellectual property
§ energy
§ culture
§ civil protection
§ certain aspects of company taxation
§ initiatives by the European Foreign Minister.
David Heathcoat – Amory MP.
Late News:
The final draft includes a provision for all remaining vetoes to be
surrendered by the European Council without the need for National
Parliament assent or referendums.
This important pamphlet, essential for everyone who wants the inside
perspective on what the new EU Constitution will mean for Britain, is
available to e-mail subscribers at the reduced price of five pounds inc.
p&p (standard cover price: seven pounds fifty pence).
To order one or more copies please send a cheque to the Publications
Officer, Centre for Policy studies (www.cps.org.uk), 57 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL.
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Exercising inversion table
An exercising inversion table includes a base frame, a support post, a main post, a bench, and a lift unit. Thus, the user initially lies on the bench in a horizontal manner, thereby providing a comfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table. In addition, the foot support post is disposed at a slightly bent state to satisfy the ergonomic design, so that the user's feet are placed on the support seat and pressed between the foot support bar and the ankle support bar smoothly and naturally, thereby providing a comfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table.
Chen, Chiu-ku (Taichung, TW)
A63B26/00
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BAKER, LORI LYNN
Mayer & Williams, P.C. (55 Madison Avenue, Suite 400, Morristown, NJ, 07960, US)
1. An inversion table, comprising: a base frame; a support post mounted on the base frame; a main post pivotally mounted on the support post; a lift unit mounted on the base frame and connected to the main post to drive the main post to pivot relative to the support post.
2. The inversion table in accordance with claim 1, wherein the lift unit includes a lift rod pivotally connected to the main post, and a drive motor mounted on the lift rod to drive the lift rod to move outward and retract inward.
3. The inversion table in accordance with claim 2, wherein the lift rod of the lift unit has a first end pivotally connected to the main post and a second end pivotally connected to the base frame.
4. The inversion table in accordance with claim 2, wherein the drive motor of the lift unit is operated by a remote controller.
5. The inversion table in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a foot support post mounted on an end of the main post.
6. The inversion table in accordance with claim 5, wherein the foot support post is disposed at a slightly bent state.
7. The inversion table in accordance with claim 5, further comprising a knee support bar mounted on the foot support post for placing a user's knees.
8. The inversion table in accordance with claim 5, further comprising a support seat mounted on a front end of the foot support post for placing a user's feet and ankles.
9. The inversion table in accordance with claim 8, further comprising a foot support bar pivotally mounted on an upper portion of the support seat, and an ankle support bar securely mounted on a lower portion of the support seat and located under the foot support bar 62.
10. The inversion table in accordance with claim 1, wherein the main post is normally disposed at a horizontal state.
11. The inversion table in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a bench mounted on the main post to move therewith.
12. The inversion table in accordance with claim 11, wherein the bench is normally disposed at a horizontal state.
13. The inversion table in accordance with claim 11, wherein the support post functions as a fulcrum of the main post and the bench.
14. The inversion table in accordance with claim 11, further comprising two opposite handles mounted on the main post and located beside the bench.
15. The inversion table in accordance with claim 1, wherein the drive motor of the lift unit drives the lift rod to move toward the main post.
16. The inversion table in accordance with claim 9, wherein the foot support bar is pushed to pivot upward to allow placement of a user's feet between the foot support bar and the ankle support bar, so that the foot support bar presses the user's feet by its gravity, thereby preventing the user's feet from being detached from the support seat during an inversion exercising process.
The present invention relates to an inversion table, and more particularly to an exercising inversion table for inverting a human body.
A conventional inversion table is used to invert a human body upside down so as to exercise the user's body and to promote the blood circulation of the user. However, the user is initially placed on the inversion table in an upright manner and then inverted by the inversion table so that the user easily fears during the inverting process, thereby greatly providing an uncomfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table. In addition, the user's feet are tightened by a fastening device of the inversion table, thereby providing an uncomfortable sensation to the user during the exercising process. Further, the user is initially placed on the inversion table in an upright manner, so that the displacement distance of the inversion table is increased, thereby wasting the electric power.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an inversion table, comprising a base frame, a support post mounted on the base frame, a main post pivotally mounted on the support post, and a lift unit mounted on the base frame and connected to the main post to drive the main post to pivot relative to the support post.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide an inversion table, wherein the user initially lies on the bench in a horizontal manner, thereby providing a comfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table.
Another objective of the present invention is to provide an inversion table, wherein the bench is normally disposed at a horizontal state so as to shorten the displacement distance of the inversion table, thereby saving the electric power.
A further objective of the present invention is to provide an inversion table, wherein the foot support post is disposed at a slightly bent state to satisfy the ergonomic design, so that the user's feet are placed on the support seat and pressed between the foot support bar and the ankle support bar smoothly and naturally, thereby greatly providing a comfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table.
A further objective of the present invention is to provide an inversion table, wherein the user's feet can push the foot support bar upward to allow placement of the user's feet between the foot support bar and the ankle support bar, so that the foot support bar presses the user's feet by its gravity, thereby preventing the user's feet from being detached from the support seat during the inversion exercising process.
Further benefits and advantages of the present invention will become apparent after a careful reading of the detailed description with appropriate reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an inversion table in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a partially exploded perspective view of the inversion table as shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a side plan view of the inversion table as shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a schematic operational view of the inversion table as shown in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a schematic operational view of the inversion table as shown in FIG. 4; and
FIG. 6 is a schematic side plan operational view of the inversion table as shown in FIG. 1.
Referring to the drawings and initially to FIGS. 1-3, an inversion table in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises a base frame 1, a support post 4 mounted on the base frame 1, a main post 2 pivotally mounted on the support post 4, and a lift unit 3 mounted on the base frame 1 and connected to the main post 2 to drive the main post 2 to pivot relative to the support post 4.
The lift unit 3 includes a lift rod 32 having a first end pivotally connected to the main post 2 and a second end pivotally connected to the base frame 1, and a drive motor 31 mounted on the lift rod 3-2 to drive the lift rod 32 to move outward and retract inward. The drive motor 31 of the lift unit 3 is operated by a remote controller 9.
A bench 7 is mounted on the main post 2 to move therewith, and the support post 4 functions as a fulcrum of the main post 2 and the bench 7. Two opposite handles 8 are mounted on the main post 2 and located beside the bench 7. The main post 2 is normally disposed at a horizontal state, and the bench 7 is also normally disposed at a horizontal state.
A slightly bent foot support post 5 is mounted on an end of the main post 2. A knee support bar 51 is mounted on the foot support post 5 for placing a user's knees. A support seat 6 is mounted on a front end of the foot support post 5 for placing a user's feet and ankles. A foot support bar 62 is pivotally mounted on an upper portion of the support seat 6, and an ankle support bar 61 is securely mounted on a lower portion of the support seat 6 and located under the foot support bar 62.
In operation, referring to FIGS. 3-6, the main post 2 is normally disposed at a horizontal state so that a user can lie on the bench 7 in a horizontal manner as shown in FIG. 3. Then, the user's feet are placed on the support seat 6 and pressed between the foot support bar 62 and the ankle support bar 61. Then, the drive motor 31 of the lift unit 3 is operated by the remote controller 9 to drive the lift rod 32 to move toward the main post 2 to move the bench 7 upward so that the bench 7 is pivoted upward about the support post 4 as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. In such a manner, the user is successively disposed at an upside-down state as shown in FIG. 6 so as to exercise the user's body and to promote the blood circulation of the user.
Accordingly, the user initially lies on the bench 7 in a horizontal manner, thereby providing a comfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table. In addition, the bench 7 is normally disposed at a horizontal state so as to shorten the displacement distance of the inversion table, thereby saving the electric power. Further, the foot support post 5 is disposed at a slightly bent state to satisfy the ergonomic design, so that the user's feet are placed on the support seat 6 and pressed between the foot support bar 62 and the ankle support bar 61 smoothly and naturally, thereby greatly providing a comfortable sensation to the user when using the inversion table. Further, the user's feet can push the foot support bar 62 upward to allow placement of the user's feet between the foot support bar 62 and the ankle support bar 61, so that the foot support bar 62 presses the user's feet by its gravity, thereby preventing the user's feet from being detached from the support seat 6 during the inversion exercising process.
Although the invention has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment(s) as mentioned above, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. It is, therefore, contemplated that the appended claim or claims will cover such modifications and variations that fall within the true scope of the invention.
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Uluslararası Gümüşlük Klasik Müzik Festivali
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ESER ÖKTEM – PIANO
1 August Thursday, 20:30 Dibeklihan
Johann Sebastian Bach/F.Busoni: Chorale Prelude “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” BWV 659
Frederic Chopin: Scherzo No.2 in B flat Minor, Op.31
Claude Debussy: Nocturne L.89
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor S.178
Eser Öktem
Eser Oktem was born in 1990, in Nicosia, the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Shortly after he started playing the piano, he was accepted to the Ankara State Conservatoire of Hacettepe University, with a TRNC State Scholarship. He worked with Prof. Semra Kartal and Prof. Kâmuran Gündemir. He completed the secondary school period at the Music Preparatory School of Bilkent University, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts. After completing Kamuran Gündemir’s class, he took lessons from Emre Şen for a year. In 2006, he worked with Murray McLachlan at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester; with Gülsin Onay in Cambridge in 2007; and with Kevin Kenner at the Royal College of Music in London in 2008. In 2014, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts of Bilkent University where he enrolled in 2009, by working with Ersin Onay. His first concert was with the orchestra of Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, directed by the conductor Burkhard Rempe at the Bellapais Monastery in 2005. He continued his career with the concerts held in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, in Turkey, in the UK, Russia, France and in the Greek Cypriot State. He performed as a soloist with Bursa Regional State Symphony Orchestra, Southern Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra, Mersin State Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Ankara Youth Symphony Orchestra (AGSO), TRNC Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Academic Orchestra.
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Dibeklihan 20:30
GÜLSIN ONAY – PIANO
GFA Concerts
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Posted in Elections
Singer Martelly tipped to win in Haiti
By Clarens Renois and Guillaume Decamme (AFP) – 1 day ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Partial results suggested Monday that carnival singer Michel Martelly was on course for a landslide in quake-hit Haiti’s surprisingly peaceful presidential run-off election.
There had been fears Sunday’s polls, delayed for months by bickering over a violence-plagued first round in November, would be overshadowed by the return from exile of charismatic ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
But Aristide honored a commitment not to upset the delicate political situation and voting in a Caribbean nation whose recent past has been scarred by dictatorship and upheaval was largely without incident.
Tally sheets read out on television and radio indicated Martelly was well ahead of his rival, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, in key urban areas such as Petionville and the Cite Soleil slum in the capital.
“I think he has won the election. From everything that I’ve heard it looks like it may even be a landslide, at least in the urban areas,” said US-based Haiti expert Robert Fatton.
Authorities said two people had been killed in election-related violence, but in most parts of Haiti the polls elections passed off calmly, winning the country plaudits from the international community.
The United Nations, which deploys thousands of peacekeepers in the notoriously troubled Caribbean nation, where more than 220,000 people were killed in a January 2010 earthquake, offered particularly strong praise.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the primary task of the new leader will be “to oversee the reconstruction of the country after the tremendous tragedies that have befallen it in the past year.”
France described the polls as “satisfactory,” but urged candidates not to stir up trouble now by prejudging the results.
They “should respect this democratic process by abstaining from any unilateral proclamation based on partial results,” a spokesman for French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told reporters in Paris.
Known to fans by his stage name “Sweet Micky,” the 50-year-old Martelly waged a slick campaign built on promises to dramatically transform Haiti’s elitist politics and drag the masses out of poverty.
The candidates are vying for the job of rebuilding a nation beset by problems, from endemic corruption and the aftermath of the 2010 quake to a cholera epidemic that has claimed almost 5,000 lives since mid-October.
Pre-election opinion polls showed Martelly enjoying a slim lead over the soft-spoken Manigat, a 70-year-old whose husband was president in 1988 for a few months before being ousted by a coup.
Voting problems were minor compared to November when polling stations were trashed and the whole process deteriorated into a farce when most of the candidates called for a re-run even before the polls had closed.
At least five people were killed in December when days of rioting erupted at the news that Martelly had finished third behind ruling party candidate Jude Celestin and would not make the run-off.
After weeks of US-led pressure and a review by international monitors, Martelly was eventually reinstated at the expense of Celestin, who was seen as current President Rene Preval’s handpicked successor.
French sociologist Laenec Hurbon agreed with Fatton that any Martelly victory was more likely due to the perception of him as the change candidate than because people necessarily backed his right-leaning politics.
“If Martelly does it, it’s by default,” Hurbon, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, told AFP. “It’s a vote against Preval, against continuity. People are sick of a government seen as devoid of energy and lacking any ideas.”
Fatton worried about a low turnout but said concerns about the legitimacy of the new administration would evaporate if Martelly was to win convincingly.
“On the other hand if those initial results are incorrect and you have a very close election then I think we are in for a very turbulent period,” he warned.
Voting Sunday at a school in the upscale neighborhood of Petionville, Martelly told a crowd of several hundred cheering supporters: “Today is the day of change, change for Haiti. The day when Haiti will escape its misery.”
The international community is watching closely as it has committed billions of dollars to help reconstruct Haiti, where hundreds of thousands of quake survivors are forced to eke out an existence in squalid camps.
Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved. More »
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Chuquicamata, Core of a Planetary Scale Cu-Mo Anomaly
Автор(ы): Alejandro Faunes, Armando Sina, Fernando Hintze, Hector Veliz, Mario Vivanco
Издание: PGS Publishing, Linden Park, 2005 г., 24 стр.
Язык(и) Английский
The copper and molybdenum mineralisation of the Chuquicamata deposit has been known since the 19' century. The deposit is located within the Codelco Norte District in the Andes Ranges of northern Chile, 200 km northeast of the city of Antofagasta. Small miners initially worked the exposed oxidised outcrops and high grade oxide veins that were the surface expression of the deposit, although industrial scale mining did not commence until 1915 with open pit exploitation of the main disseminated oxides. Mining has continued to the present day, currently removing approximately 170 000 tonnes of ore and 400 000 tonnes of waste per day.
Exploration since the 1950s has delineated a resource of 67 million tonnes (Mt) of/'« situ fine copper at Chuquicamata. It has also outlined additional deposits within the district, including the Mina Sur exotic accumulation with 5 Mt of fine copper derived from Chuquicamata, and Radomiro Tomic (RT) with a potential for 25 Mt of fine copper, representing the northern extension of the main Chuquicamata orebody. Further drilling has located additional mineralisation to the southwest at the MM deposit and the Toki Cluster. Recent deep drilling in the vicinity of these Eocene-Oligocene age porphyry copper deposits of the Codelco Norte District, and new concepts derived from pre-existing information, indicate that Chuquicamata is the core and main deposit of an exceptional regional scale anomalous concentration of copper, molybdenum and other elements of economic interest, that may be called a "planetary scale anomaly". Prior to mining, this "planetary scale anomaly" is estimated to have contained 125 Mt of fine copper and comprises a 39 to 31 Ma mineralised belt, largely covered by recent gravels, but partially exposed over a 30 km long, NNE trending interval. It is the final product of a very complex sequence of processes related to tectonic permeability and structural architecture, with intrusions and multi-episodic pulses of hypogene alteration and mineralisation, and subsequent supergene leaching, oxidation and enrichment.
The Chuquicamata deposit is hosted by a NNE elongated, tabular, 14x1.5 km intrusive complex, which is subvertical to steeply west dipping. This complex, which extends from the Chuquicamata open pit to the RT mine, is known as the Chuqui Porphyry (Chuqui Porphyry) and comprises three phases, the East, West and Banco porphyries. To the east it intrudes a Palaeozoic igneous-metamorphic basement, Triassic granodiorite, sediments and Mesozoic volcanics, while to the west it cuts the 39 to 38 Ma Tertiary Fortuna Intrusive Complex, and both to the east^and west the 37.3 Ma Elena Granodiorite. The West Fissure, an important district scale branch of the regional Domeyko Fault System, is a regional, north-south trending, subvertical fault located to the west of the deposit. It exhibits post mineral displacement which splits the Chuquicamata deposit, dividing the highly mineralised Chuqui Porphyry to the east, from the barren Fortuna Complex to the west. The West Fissure is believed to be Cenozoic in age. It has a complex kinematic history including transcurrent and probably reverse movements, and has had a strong structural control over the setting of the ore hosting porphyries, the mineralisation itself and the post mineral evolution of the Chuquicamata deposit. The Messabi Fault-East Deformation Zone, which is recognised on the east and north-east margins of the Chuquicamata and RT pits, affects the wall rocks of the Chuqui Porphyry, and produced ductile and semi-ductile fabrics, including mylonites and cataclastic flows, and was active before, during and after the intrusion of the Chuqui Porphyry, and probably during the early stages of mineralisation.
Recent work has supported a new synthesis of the geological evolution of this giant deposit, commencing with the syntectonic intrusion of the 34.6 Ma East Porphyry as a roughly NNE trending dyke. There is evidence that the Messabi Fault-East Deformation Zone, probably associated with a transpressive dextral tectonic environment, played a key role in localising this intrusive phase. The East Porphyry appears to have been barren or only accompanied by weak, late-magmatic alteration and mineralisation. A more pronounced mineralising event was synchronous with the intrusion of the smaller West and Banco porphyries, dated at 33.4 Ma. This event produced an intense stockwork of barren "A-type" quartz veins, mostly in the northern part of the deposit, with a huge background potassic alteration halo of selective biotitisation of mafics, and secondary potassic feldspar partially replacing plagioclase. This halo affects most of the Chuqui Porphyry, carrying weak and mostly disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite and bornite, while in its outer fringes chloritic alteration with pyrite predominates, with little or no copper. The background potassic alteration preserved the original texture of the porphyry, adding, depending on the alteration intensity, copper values ranging from 0.1 to 0.5% Cu. Following the background potassic alteration, an intense potassic event ensued which was responsible for the main hypogene mineralisation stage at Chuquicamata. This intense potassic alteration occurred as NNE oriented bands, probably related to repeated reactivation of the Messabi Fault-East Deformation Zone. The two resultant alteration assemblages (potassic feldspar-fine quartz and grey-green sericite) shared the same locus as earlier pulses, destroying the porphyry textures and adding abundant veining and disseminated assemblages of bornite-digenite-chalcopyrite-covellite with cumulative grades in the range of 0.6 to 1.2% Cu. Toward the end of the intense potassic event a late pulse of chalcopyrite was zonally deposited on its fringes, generating an average grade of 0.8% Cu, and marking the onset of the more destructive episodes of phyllic alteration. During the transition from the potassic feldspar-fine quartz to the immediately following grey-green sericite phase, a series of massive quartz-molybdenite veins were emplaced. This veining produced a tabular, subvertical, north-south to NNE oriented core zone in the central-south portion of the deposit, with average molybdenum grades ranging from of 0.1 to 0.2% Mo.
Clear evidence of brittle-ductile deformation is registered from the period between the early alteration/ barren to weak mineralisation stages and the later main poly-episodic quartz-sericitic (phyllic) event. During this period, which extended from 33.4 to 31.1 Ma, the deposit was subjected to important tectonic stresses. Intense main and late stage quartz sericitic alteration was imposed on a north-south elongated zone in the western part of the deposit at 31.1 Ma. This phase obliterated the former mineralogy and generated a telescoped, high sulphidation, primary mineral assemblage, with the addition of abundant pyrite and variable amounts of digenite, covellite, enargite, chalcopyrite and bornite, representing a significant increase in S, Fe, As and Cu. There is evidence to suggest that the copper grades following this last phase of intense quartz-sericite alteration largely reflect the distribution inherited from the intense potassic phase with rare remobtlisation and the addition of no more than 0.3 to 0.5% Cu. Dextral-normal, north-east oriented, distributive faulting, e.g., the Estanques Blancos and Portezuelo Systems, produced en echelon, progressive "south block down" displacement, finally truncating the ore body to the south, while exposing it close to the roots of the mineralised system to the north, in the direction of the RT mine. This was followed by uplift and sinistral displacement along the West Fissure juxtaposing the barren block on its western side with the orebody to the east. Finally a sinistral-normal north-west fault system was reactivated to produce weak segmentation of both the hypogene mineralisation and the West Fissure, while increasing the permeability that influenced the subsequent supergene processes.
Between 19 and 15 Ma the deposit was subjected to at least two leaching, oxidising and enrichment events. The first generated a thick, strongly enriched blanket with grades averaging 2 to 3% Cu, which was focussed by the late and waning stage quartz sericitic alteration that produced non-reactive rocks with abundant pyrite. This blanket extended, although relatively thinly developed, beyond the quartz-sericitic zone, into more reactive sectors to the east and north with lesser pyrite and predominantly early potassic alteration. Subsequent tectonic uplift lowered the meteoric water table, oxidising the enriched blanket to produce hematitic leached remnants in the quartz-sericite rich lithologies, and high grade copper sulphates in the potassic alteration of the near surface in the eastern and northern sectors, which were the target of early mining activity at Chuquicamata. Low grade remnants of this oxide cap may still be observed in the northern part of the present pit. The leaching, which originated in the phenomenon of sudden downward fluctuation of the meteoric water table, also produced exotic mineralisation that was principally transported south from the main deposit through a palaeo-channel to form the Mina Sur orebody.
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Метки Chuquicamata deposit, Copper, Molybdenum, Медь, Месторождение Чукикамата, Молибден
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VIDEO: Duff McKagan talks new Loaded album
Duff McKagan’s Loaded returns with new music this Spring, as “The Taking” is set for release April 19.
The project was recorded at a Seattle-area studio with producer Terry Date (Soundgarden. Pantera, Deftones).
Duff McKagan’s Loaded
Due: April 19, 2011
01. Lords Of Abaddon
02. Executioner's Song
03. Dead Skin
04. We Win
05. Easier Lying
06. She's An Anchor
07. Wrecking Ball
08. King Of The World
09. Cocaine
10. Your Name
11. Follow Me To Hell
Two songs from the record are already available: “We Win” and “The Fight” – both were played live by the band at a Seattle Seahawks game as part of the team’s “Military Appreciation Day” in early November.
Eagle Rock also plans to re-release Loaded’s 2009 album, “Sick,” in May. This special reissue of the CD also packs a bonus DVD, featuring 11 tracks from a live set filmed at The Garage in Glasgow in December, 2008.
We Win - Single - Duff McKagan's Loaded
Fight On - Single - Duff McKagan's Loaded
Duff spoke with Artisan News Service about the project, as well as taking center stage with Loaded.
Duff McKagan – interview
Artisan News Service – February 17, 2011
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A brief note on the whereabouts of Chris Curran.
Posted on October 1, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
The Reign opened training camp Friday and, for the first time, Chris Curran wasn’t there.
When healthy, he was one of the most consistent players in the Reign’s brief existence.
“When healthy” is the crucial phrase there — were it not for injuries that ultimately ended his professional hockey career, Curran would probably be in Ontario right now.
The 27-year-old was an agitating forward who built his game on blocking shots, winning puck battles and make punishing body checks. Some of that was lost after he broke his femur crashing into the end boards in the final game of the 2008-09 regular season.
“It was a really tough mental battle; coming back from something traumatic was a battle itself,” he said in a telephone interview from his hometown of Mississauga, Ontario. “The way that I play, I put everything into it – block shots, play the body, do anything for the team. This year after my femur break I didn’t feel quite like myself.”
Curran played the entire year with screws in his femur, which he had surgery to remove at the end of the season. He also endured bone chips in his right leg and ankle, the result of blocking a shot. Then during a March series in Alaska, Curran broke his nose after taking a high stick to the face, which required surgery and a full visor for the remainder of the season.
“I tried to have (surgery) done when I was awake,” he said. “That didn’t go well. So I went under on a Thursday (March 18) prior to a three-in-three weekend series and played the next three days.”
The season was so physically challenging that Curran said he is still home resting before he decides what’s next in life. The only plans he’s made are to stay in the area of Missisauga and Toronto, which is 17 miles east.
Curran has no regrets.
“I truly do feel satisfied with my hockey career and it ending in Ontario,” he said. “I had an awesome experience, great fans, met a lot of good people. I’ve accepted it. I have to look after my body now.”
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Training camp has arrived.
The Reign’s training camp begins today (9:30 a.m. to noon, Center Ice Arena). Check out today’s editions of the Sun and Daily Bulletin for this weekend’s dates/times (all are free and open to the public) as well as a roster, and “five burning questions.” There’s going to be at least one name missing from the roster, as there are always some late additions. Check back here for more names as we get ’em.
Here are a few news and notes that didn’t make the paper:
• Former Reign forward Jon Rheault is either making the Calgary Flames’ opening-day roster, or becoming one of the last players cut from training camp. According to matchsticksandgasoline.com, he’ll be on the ice again tonight when the Flames take on the New York Islanders. If you caught the Flames’ win over the Phoenix Coyotes Wednesday night on the NHL Network, you would have heard a wise TSN commentator identify Rheault’s last ECHL team as the Ontario Reign of Ontario, California.
• Don’t expect Aaron Lewadniuk in camp today, because apparently he’s still busy scoring goals for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose. Matt Delahey might be. He was released from his tryout with the Providence Bruins.
• No updates as of Thursday night on any of the other AHL campers contracted to the Reign, including Dusty Collins in San Antonio and the Manchester Monarchs gang.
• I had been planning a story on Chris Curran and Shawn Germain to run this week. The two 27-year-olds where coming off serious injuries and decided to hang up their skates over the summer. Haven’t gotten a hold of Germain yet, but I’ll post what I’ve written about Curran here in the coming days.
Posted in Ontario Reign/ECHL | Tagged Aaron Lewadniuk, Chris Curran, Shawn Germain | 2 Replies
Francisco re-signs; qualifying offers sent.
Posted on July 2, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
The Reign’s 2010-11 roster began to take shape Friday, when Jon Francisco was announced as the first signing of the new season and eight qualifying offers were mailed out.
Francisco, 29, is the only captain in team history and a valuable two-way center. In 72 games, he had 15 goals and 45 points – both down from the previous season (20 goals, 48 points), when Francisco appeared in 63 games.
“He’s been one of our core guys,” Reign coach Karl Taylor said. “He had a decent season last year. We’re going to expect more out of him next year, and I know he’ll expect more out of himself.”
Qualifying offers were tendered to a league-maximum eight players: James McEwan, Greg Hogeboom, Jon Rheault, Geoff Walker, Curtis Darling, Peter Lenes, Mike Zacharias and Chris Curran.
None of the qualified players have re-signed with the Reign. The qualifying offer remains open until August 1, or until it is accepted by the player, during which time he cannot be traded.
The Reign will retain each qualified player’s ECHL rights for next season, regardless of whether or not he returns. For example, Taylor does not expect Peter Lenes back after the forward recently signed in Austria. But if Lenes decides to return to the ECHL, “maybe we’ll keep him, or maybe we’ll (trade) his rights.”
The complete list of qualified ECHL players can be found here.
Posted in Ontario Reign/ECHL | Tagged Chris Curran, Curtis Darling, Geoff Walker, Greg Hogeboom, James McEwan, Jon Francisco, Jon Rheault, Mike Zacharias, Peter Lenes | 24 Replies
Reign announce season-ending roster.
Posted on June 16, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
ECHL season-ending rosters were released today, the lists of up to 20 players from whom teams can qualify eight. The Reign’s season-ending roster included exactly 20:
Mike Egener, Chad Starling, Jon Francisco, Tim Kraus, Tony Voce, Peter Lenes, Curtis Darling, Chris Curran, Geoff Walker, Greg Hogeboom, David Walker, Sean O’Connor, Mike Zacharias, Jon Rheault, Dan Knapp, Luis Tremblay, Todd Jackson, Robert Pearce, Shawn Germain and James McEwan.
Of the players who finished 2009-10 on the Reign’s roster, five are missing:
• Defenseman Andrew Martens, who has signed in the Central Hockey League;
• Forwards C.J. Stretch and Jordan Nolan, who were playing on Amateur Tryout contracts, and therefore not eligible for the season-ending roster;
• Forward Michael Pelech and defenseman Colten Teubert, who were assigned to the Reign by the Kings.
In other words, the season-ending roster looks just as expected.
The next step in the process of whittling down who will be back next season is submitting qualifying offers.
Each team is entitled to qualify a maximum of eight players
the list of 20 by extending a qualifying offer no later than July 1. Of
eight qualified players, no more than four can be veterans (260 regular-season professional hockey games played as of the start of the 2010-11
season). Players on open qualifying offers cannot be traded. Teams are
required to extend a qualifying offer to players who sign a contract
to July 1.
Posted in Ontario Reign/ECHL | Tagged Andrew Martens, C.J. Stretch, Chad Starling, Chris Curran, Colten Teubert, Curtis Darling, Dan Knapp, David Walker, Geoff Walker, Greg Hogeboom, James McEwan, Jon Francisco, Jon Rheault, Jordan Nolan, Luis Tremblay, Michael Pelech, Mike Egener, Mike Zacharias, Peter Lenes, Robert Pearce, Sean O'Connor, Shawn Germain, Tim Kraus, Todd Jackson, Tony Voce | 3 Replies
Reign announce protected list.
Posted on June 3, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
There were no surprises on the Reign’s protected list, announced Wednesday:
Kellen Briggs, Dusty Collins, Chris Curran, Curtis Darling, Mike
Egener, Jon Francisco, Shawn Germain, Greg Hogeboom, Todd Jackson, Dan Knapp, Tim
Kraus, Peter Lenes, Andrew Martens, James McEwan, Sean O’Connor, Robert Pearce,
Jon Rheault, Chad Starling, Jason Tejchma, Luis Tremblay, Tony Voce, David
Walker, Geoff Walker, Mike Zacharias.
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Las Vegas 7, Reign 6, shootout.
Posted on March 5, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
This game could be summed up in one word: Crazy.
It ended in the 12th round of the shootout when Jerry Pollastrone scored on Curtis Darling, and Tony Voce missed on the other end, ending the Reign’s team-record-tying win streak at six.
The Reign gained a point in the standings but gave up two, leaving both teams tied for the seventh and final playoff position in the National Conference standings. Technically, the Wranglers are in seventh place by virtue of the higher winning percentage.
It was only possible because of Vegas’ four goals in the third period, which negated a 5-2 lead by the Reign and sent the game to overtime.
Continue reading “Las Vegas 7, Reign 6, shootout.” »
Posted in Ontario Reign/ECHL | Tagged Chad Starling, Chris Curran, Curtis Darling, David Walker, Geoff Walker, Greg Hogeboom, Jon Rheault, Las Vegas Wranglers, Mike Egener, Sean O'Connor, Tim Kraus, Tony Voce | 6 Replies
Lenes, Pielmeier, etc.
Posted on February 25, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
In case you missed today’s story, including items on Peter Lenes and Chris Curran, click here.
Also, if you’ve been double-dipping in my Ducks blog, you will have noticed that Bakersfield Condors goaltender Timo Pielmeier is in Anaheim. The Reign host the Condors on Sunday, but Pielmeier is expected to be back by then; head coach Randy Carlyle said that Jonas Hiller is supposed to rejoin the Ducks in practice Sunday and he probably won’t need three goalies.
Posted in Ontario Reign/ECHL | Tagged Bakersfield Condors, Chris Curran, Peter Lenes, Timo Pielmeier | 6 Replies
Posted on January 28, 2010 by J.P. Hoornstra
Before we get to the current state of the Reign, an update for all you Bud Holloway fans out there … he has a new blog up on the Manchester Monarchs’ Web site. “Jersey Shore” is mentioned. So is the movie “Avatar.”
Anyway, here are a few notes and quotes left over from Wednesday’s practice that did not make my notebook today …
Continue reading “Odds and ends.” »
Posted in Ontario Reign/ECHL | Tagged Chris Curran, Curtis Darling, Karl Taylor, Mike Zacharias | Leave a reply
Reign 5, Utah 3.
Mike Zacharias and Tony Voce haven’t done much for the Ontario Reign lately.
Yet each was instrumental in the Reign’s win at the E-Center, which ended a four-game losing streak for the Reign and set up a rubber match Monday night in West Valley City.
Making his first start since Dec. 26, Zacharias stopped 28 of 31, while Voce scored twice, his first goals since Dec. 27. Jon Francisco added two assists, and Chris Curran, Mike Howe and Greg Hogeboom also scored for the Reign (15-20-3-3).
Curran scored short-handed 1:44 into the game, but Utah (18-17-2-2) answered with goals by all-stars Ryan Kinasewich and A.J. Perry in the second. Down 2-1 at 5:36 of second period, Howe scored his third goal of the season 28 seconds later. Howe had not scored since Dec. 12 and was playing his second game after a nine-day lay off.
But the Reign weren’t done. Voce scored his 10th goal of the season just 36 seconds later to provide a 3-2 lead that the Reign wouldn’t relinquish. Voce scored again at 17:03 of the third, and Hogeboom added a power-play goal in the third period to make it 5-2.
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Las Vegas 2, Reign 1.
Posted on December 19, 2009 by J.P. Hoornstra
Todd Jackson returned to the Reign lineup and scored Ontario’s only goal, but the Reign lost 2-1 to the Las Vegas Wranglers at Orleans Arena on Saturday night.
Jackson could do nothing about the eventual game-winning goal by the Wranglers — he was in the penalty box for tripping at 4:48 of the third period when Shay Stephenson scored to put Las Vegas up 2-0. It was the only power-play goal in nine man-advantage shifts for Las Vegas. The Reign also survived a 40-second long, 5-on-3 penalty kill in the first period.
With 4:15 left in the third period, Jackson halved the Wranglers’ lead with his first goal of the season, taking a pass from Chris Curran, taking advantage of a Michael Pelech screen and firing past Michael Ouzas. It was Jackson’s sixth game of the season and his first since Dec. 11 in Idaho.
Friday night in Ontario, the Reign also fell behind 2-0 early in the third period but were able to come back and tie; they never got the second goal Saturday, even after Curtis Darling (30 saves) was pulled for an extra attacker in the final minute. Ouzas stopped 22 of 23 for the Wranglers (10-14-2-1), who still trail the Reign (13-13-2-1) by six points for second place in the Pacific Division standings.
Reign forward Tony Voce missed his 11th straight game with a strained MCL, and defenseman David Walker did not play a night after suffering a scary head injury.
The Reign have a week off before facing the Wranglers in Las Vegas again on Dec. 26.
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Maroon Petchem Plant to sign Deals with Euro Firms
By editor on 1st June 2017 in Oil & Gas
Maroon Petrochemical Plant (MPP) is to sign deals with Shell and two Italian companies for development of two projects, the MPP managing director says. Rahim Sharif Mousavi said one of the projects will concern the ethyl oxide unit of the facility, adding Italy’s engineering company Maire Tecnimont will join the project as one of its […]
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Italy in 1bn EUR Iran Petrochemical Deal
By editor on 15th February 2016 in Oil & Gas
By John Lee. Italian engineering company Maire Tecnimont has signed a 1-billion-euro agreement to build refineries and petrochemical plants in Iran. Mehr News Agency reported on Monday that the agreement signed with the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Co. (PGPIC) includes providing finance, parts and equipment, as well as solutions to processing issues. The company will […]
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Kansas Cyclist Podcast: Episode 12
Posted September 30, 2009 @ 11:39 am - Filed under: Podcasts
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Episode 12 of the Kansas Cyclist Podcast features an interview with two Kansas City area cyclocross promoters, Chris Locke and Mark Thomas, who will be discussing Cyclocross and specifically the Cyclocross Community in the Kansas City area. We will also be checking in with Lee Merrill regarding the Octoginta ride events in Lawrence, Kansas on October 3rd and 4th.
Chris Locke runs MultiSport Marketing, which organizes and promotes the De Stad Cyclocross Van Kansas series, the Fat Tire Duathlon series, and the Bone Bender Mountain Bike Race. Chris also runs the Cow Town Cycling team and maintains a personal blog at chrislocke.blogspot.com. As you can see, Chris is very active in promoting cycling in Kansas City, and also manages to find time to race himself, in duathlons, triathlons, mountain bike races, and cyclocross races. He’s also been the Kansas City Commuter Challenge champion for several years running.
Mark Thomas runs localcycling.com, which provides bicycle racing coverage for Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Oklahoma City, Colorado, and Nebraska. Mark is also the race organizer and promoter for the Series 60 cyclocross races in the Kansas City area, and was the driving force behind bringing the 2000 US Cyclocross Nationals to Kansas City. Mark is an accomplished racer as well, and brings a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge to the sport.
Lee Merrill is the president of the Lawrence Bicycle Club, and co-director of this year’s Octoginta. Lee tells us about this year’s festivities, including the time trials, swap meet, Tour de County recreational ride, and Sunday’s big ride. This year’s event is being called the “Bob Frederick Octoginta” as a memorial to the late KU Athletic Director (and avid cyclist), who was originally slated to be the director the the 2009 Octoginta, but passed away earlier this year.
Here’s a quick summary of the rest of the podcast, with links to more information:
Bicycling News:
Emporia Bike Rack Design Competition
Prominent Topeka Cyclists Injured
In Farmington, Missouri, the city has found a new use for its old county jail, refurbishing the building and turning it into a bike hostel for use by the many touring cyclists that pass through the eastern Missouri community each year on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail. [link]
Fall 2009 Bicycle Friendly Businesses Announced – Still none for Kansas, sadly.
Upcoming Rides and Events:
October 3 & 4: Octoginta in Lawrence, Kansas. Time trials and the “Tour de County” ride on the 3rd, the main Octoginta ride on the 4th.
October 3: Prairie Spirit Trail Trek starting near Ottawa, Kansas.
October 3: Yellow Brick Road Ride in Pottawatomie County, Kansas.
October 10: Prairie Trail Scenic Byway Ride in north-central Kansas.
October 10 & 11: Big Wheeled Ballyhoo in west central Nebraska.
October 11: Falun Classic in Lindsborg, Kansas.
October 11: Ride to Paradise in Russell County, Kansas.
October 11: Northland Nightmare in Kansas City, Missouri.
There are many more ride opportunities available nearby, so please view the regional calendar for a complete list.
Trail News:
A Review of the Lake Barton Trails near Great Bend, Kansas, contributed by Brian Holdsworth.
Bicycle Safety Talk:
Each episode, we discuss an aspect of bicycling safety. This time, we discuss a type of collision known as “The Red Light Of Death”. Thanks to BicycleSafe.com for the safety tips.
And thanks also to Mark Franzke, who’s graciously provided original music for the Kansas Cyclist Podcast. You can find out more about Mark and his music and art by going to Banjodog.com.
As always, we hope you’ll listen to the Kansas Cyclist Podcast, and consider subscribing to future episodes. We welcome your feedback, so please send in your comments or suggestions.
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One response to “Kansas Cyclist Podcast: Episode 12”
Sweet, love this! More Cyclocross info please.
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"Lupin the Third Part IV" (2015) »
New "Lupin the Third" TV series starting 2015, debuting in Italy (in 2 ways!)
Author Topic: New "Lupin the Third" TV series starting 2015, debuting in Italy (in 2 ways!) (Read 139176 times)
MGFanJay
Oh yeah...
Re: New "Lupin the Third" TV series starting 2015, debuting in Italy (in 2 ways!)
Lupin works really well in TV episode format - cautiously optimistic about this.
penguintruth
I'm hoping Koike is involved somehow and it's tonally similar to the Fujiko TV series, if just a little different.
I just hope it won't be the soft, toothless, neutered Lupin of the TV specials, who can barely even flirt with a woman now, let alone shoot somebody in the face when necessary.
Check out my Lupin III Recommendation Video!
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Red Dear
Lupin The Third analyst and crazy penciller
Koike doesn't seem to be involved with this new TV series but the production includes
veteran master animators and the writer of Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone as well as Telecom
studio. So all in all, I think we're in good hands.
Time to play the game, time to get a chance !
Ooh, this is exciting news! I look forward to seeing what comes of it.
Psycho_Kenshin
Fujiko is super hot, Lupin is uber cool
Incredibly groovy news! Hot damn. Always very pleasantly suprised when I log on here, Lupin and his gang are more lively than ever.
Some words from the crew: http://otakuusamagazine.com/Anime/News1/New-Lupin-III-Series-To-Debut-In-2015-5991.aspx
Sounds engaging.
SSJ3_Goku345
Yes, it does! These comments make me hopeful for this series.
But it's Telecom Animation what we are talking about! The past projects they've worked in remain the best, in terms of animation. Just think about Cagliostro, Nostradamus or Fuma, among other specials and some TV episode.
I have, however, a great doubt. Where's Goemon?
It might be a little bit too soon to speculate anything, but I read somewhere that the recent Tomb of Daisuke Jigen hinted (somewhat) a future project. Haven't watched it yet, could this series be the project hinted? Like a story that takes place after the movie? Lupin's outfit, Fujiko's hair color and the absence of Goemon in the official pictures make me wonder about this.
And what if Goemon, along this series, ocassionally crossed roads with Lupin & Co. without meeting them actually? Like in the Fujiko series, but with a "real" load on the plot? I don't know if I'm explaining myself properly.
It would be nice or, at least, different
SSJ3: They do the spin-off thing more often in manga, at least.
lupinthewolf
Even though the series will be airing in Italian first, I'm assuming Japanese will still be considered the original language track. International releases of Space Dandy, for example, list Japanese as the original and not English.
« Last Edit: November 17, 2014, 02:08:22 pm by lupinthewolf »
It's probably safe to assume that shows like Space Dandy that are animated in Japan were originally written in Japanese, then translated into English at some point. Whether the animation is dubbed into English or Japanese first seems to be irrelevant by that metric. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is another odd example, where the English audio track came first by a whole year. But, again, since the film likely had a Japanese script before an English one, some could argue that its original language was Japanese.
You can find new screenshots from the production, with even a small bit of animation
here, on Lupin Central: http://lupincentral.tumblr.com/post/111900713013/and-heres-a-very-quick-look-at-the-show-in
http://lupincentral.tumblr.com/post/111900502618/these-images-are-taken-from-an-episode-of-nhk
http://lupincentral.tumblr.com/post/111860255178/paisleypawpads-lupincentral-here-we-go-some
This is not much but it's enough for me to be, once again, hyped as all hell !
Akai Shuichi
Shottogun
Yea! Me too! Now, if crunchyroll picks this up I will lost my freaking mind.
SolHerald
If Crunchyroll streams it, and Discotek releases it, I'll probably have a hysterical breakdown.
Red: Thanks. I like how they're still pretending the pink jacket Lupin doesn't exist.
Quote from: GATSU on February 23, 2015, 11:08:35 pm
XD. I didn't see it that way, I admit. But this could just be a way to compare models. ^^
Anyway, we know the whole regular cast is there (plus an unknown blond woman but it could as well be a Fujiko variant), so if Goemon actually interacts with Lupin and Jigen, this could mean this series is at least taking place after Green Jacket.
Or this series follows its own continuity. Or Goemon will not be interacting with Lupin but I find it hard to believe.
Also, they say the blue jacket is a reference to the national football uniform of Italy. In my opinion, this is more of an after-thought. I think this new blue jacket dates back from the Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna promotional visuals and has been retained to make this production unique, to make Lupin enter a new era. ^^
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2017 Harvest Report Los Vascos
2017 Harvest marked by dryness and high temperatures
The season was marked by very high temperatures from the start, i.e., from September, which brought the harvest forward by 20 days.
With annual precipitation of approximately 300 mm (540 mm in 2016), the vines required early spring irrigation.
Temperatures were in the normal range in winter, with an average high of 21ºC and an average low of -1ºC.
Spring passed by almost unnoticed due to the high temperatures, 30ºC and higher, that had prevailed since September and set the trend for the rest of the season. In the previous harvest, maximum temperatures over 30ºC were felt only from November and lasted until February. Conversely, in this harvest, high temperatures started as early as September and remained until April.
The summer was very hot, with night-time temperatures higher than normal. The number of hours with temperatures over 30ºC totalled 330, compared with164 in the previous season.
Temperatures remained high until the harvest. The intensity of the sun’s radiation increased to 181.2 W/m2 which, coupled with the low rainfall, resulted in a very early harvest. The harvest started on 16 February, which is 20 days earlier than in 2016. The climate took a toll on yields, which were lower by 13%, despite the efforts to regulate thinning and thus ensure similar yields and high quality in the vineyards that supply the grapes used in Grande Réserve and Le Dix wines. In the case of Cabernet Sauvignon, the lower yield (8 500 kg/ha) led to higher concentration, which should translate into higher quality.
2017: A small crop but with concentrated wines of quality
Cabernet Sauvignon: the high temperatures just before véraison and during ripening led to early and rather quick ripening of the Cabernet grapes. The period between véraison and ripening was considerably shorter than usual.
Picking of the Cabernets was spread out between 15 March and 25 April. The Cabernets showed small bunches with small berries. The resulting wines are concentrated with a good level of tannin. The wines are driven by black fruit with some Kirsch and roasted notes. Very good potential for ageing.
Syrah: also picked early, between 23 February and 15 March, the Syrah wines showed a dense and deep colour on running off accompanied by a well-defined tannic framework, which will need ageing in our barrels from the estates’ cooperage. Spicy notes, but also floral, combined with notes of black ink characterise the nose of these wines.
Carmenère: it is a good vintage overall for our Carmenère, because the heat toned down the vegetal notes for which this grape is often reproached. The wines are dense, well coloured, the tannic framework can appear a bit angular in the wines from our youngest vines planted on granite; for the older vines, the wines are splendid.
Chardonnay: The Chardonnay grapes produced at Los Vascos contribute density and fat, while those from Casablanca, near to the Pacific Ocean, bring freshness on the palate and notes of white pear, pineapple, acacia blossom; the marriage works wonderfully. The Chardonnays were picked from 16 to 22 February, in other words 3 weeks ahead of a normal year.
Sauvignon Blanc: The Sauvignon Blancs have a pleasant freshness, despite the year being slightly warm: they offer notes of citrus fruit, boxwood and green asparagus, and are well-balanced on the palate. The harvests took place between 20 February and 15 March: almost a month earlier than in 2016!
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Oktoberfest draws thousands to Whiteface Mountain
By GRIFFIN KELLY - For the News (gkelly@adirondackdailyenterprise.com) , Lake Placid News
WILMINGTON - Bill Hummel likes to use a particular word when talking about the Whiteface Oktoberfest - "Gemutlichkeit." It's a German word describing a feeling of cheer, warmth and togetherness.
As guests made their way into the festival this past weekend, Sept. 28-29, they were greeted by Hummel and his two fellow musicians, Andrew Hartley and Ian Hargreaves. They wore lederhosen and blew into 12-foot long alphorns, emitting deep bass tones, similar to the advertisements for Ricola cough drops. The wooden, hand-crafted alphorns originated as communication tools in Switzerland and the Bavaria region of Germany.
For the past 18 years Hummel and other members of his alphorn group have traveled here from Virginia every fall for this town's rendition of the popular Munich celebration.
From left, Andrew Hartley, Bill Hummel and Ian Hargraeves of Virginia blow alphorns at the Whiteface Mountain Oktoberfest in Wilmington Sunday, Sept. 29.
(News photo — Griffin Kelly)
"We're invited every year and play the same songs," he said. "Just trying to keep the tradition alive."
This year marked Whiteface Mountain's 28th Oktoberfest. Many say they keep coming back because of its familiarity and traditions.
About 6,300 guests attended the festivities Saturday and Sunday, according state Olympic Regional Development Authority officials announced at their board meeting on Monday, Sept. 30.
Inside Whiteface's base lodge sat Ed Schenk of Morrisonville, a slender 82-year-old playing a black and blue Beltuna accordion. Guests passing by immediately got into the spirit, stomping their feet and slapping their knees like polka dancers. His accordion skills even managed to calm down a toddler in the midst of a temper tantrum.
This is Schenk's 15th year with the Oktoberfest. He attended the real Oktoberfest in Germany as an 18-year-old soldier in the U.S. Army.
"I hear millions of people show up for that one nowadays," he said. "Back then I was amazed to see, you know, 600,000 attend it."
Schenk said Whiteface's Oktoberfest is one of his favorites.
"You have the mountain here, and it's just a great looking place," he said.
Richard Moncsko of Wilmington has been the burgermeister, or mayor, of the Oktoberfest since its inception. The role is ceremonial. He puts on a suit and bow tie, wraps a green sash around his chest and sticks a large white feather in his hat.
"My job is to basically walk around, talk to people and enjoy the celebration," he said. "Sometimes folks think I'm actually in charge of a lot of things. I once had a women tell me there was no toilet paper in the bathroom. Another year, a guy came up to me 'cause an overheated light started a fire in one of the tents. I think it's the big feather - makes me easily recognizable."
This year, Monscko's daughter Michele Gilbert accompanied him as the burgermeister's daughter. They like the celebration because it's a family affair. Sure, there's beer, but Moncsko, Gilbert and other Oktoberfest regulars said Oktoberfest is more about the sense of community and friendship it creates.
"You see a lot of the same faces every year, and you make connections," Gilbert said. "We were just talking to a man we met years ago, and we've been in touch with him ever since.
"This Oktoberfest is big enough where you can have a lot of fun but small enough to keep it intimate and friendly."
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Did The Amazon Basin House A Huge Society?
On August 18, 2013 by Lazer Horse
Archaeologists have long believed that the Amazon basin was too harsh an environment to house any kind of perpetual society. With poor soil quality and numerous hazards, they thought only small bands of hunter gatherers could have ever managed. Evidence is now growing that the reverse may have been true, with towns and villages housing people who lived off the land. Some archaeologists are now theorizing that there may have been as many as 20 million Indians housed in the convoluted jungles, centuries ago.
There are reports from a Spanish friar – Gaspar de Carvajal – back in 1451 about towns and cities in the Amazon. However, for many years his writing has been discredited as fiction produced by him to justify to investors his lengthy trips in search of a city, El Dorado, filled with gold. He wrote of “cities that gleamed white,” canoes that carried tens of warriors and “fine highways”.
New technology has helped archaeologists find clues beneath the dirt that previously would have been impossible to spot. Shards of submerged pottery have been found in various sites that were once thought unlivable. One scientist, Augusto Oyvela-Caycedo says “There is a gigantic footprint in the forest….. It’s a product of human actions.” Another clue to human culture is the widespread unearthing of a special type of dirt named terra preta which is a nutrient rich soil produced by mixing in charcoal, excrement and other organic matter. At one site deep in the jungle this terra preta has been found running 3 feet deep across 100 acres, which would be enough area to feed 5,000 people.
Eduardo Neves, a Brazilian archaeologist has found vast orchards of semi-domesticated fruit trees. Michael Heckenberger has found moats, causeways and canals from AD 800. In the 1980’s Anna Roosevelt produced controversial evidence that on Marajo Island, near the mouth of the Amazon, there was enough advanced agriculture to support 100,000 ancient people.
Other evidence has been unearthed thanks to the hideous amount of deforestation that goes on in these regions. Aerial photos have found over 200 geometric earthworks (geoglyphs) in the upper Amazon region. Some are near perfect circles and squares.
Ditches have been measured that are 36 ft wide and 100-300m long dating between 200-1283AD. So how did a group manage these infertile lands and successfully grow crops? One theory is that they used a technique called raised field agriculture, where large tracts of lands were elevated. This aids drainage and avoids seasonal flooding.
Evidence seems to be mounting but there are still many that believe this is a fantasy world produced by archaeologists looking for a promotion. Only time will tell, but it does seem that even if the numbers are inflated, there certainly were a significant number of people dwelling permanently in these hospitable jungles.
Where did they go? Europeans probably spread their dirty diseases to them in the 15th and 16th centuries. Dirty westerners.
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PROJECTS MATCHING AUTOMATION:
Google Transit Feed Project
This was a contract gig for RouteMe2 Technologies, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in developing location based service (LBS) applications for Google's Android smart phone.
My job was to digitize shuttle route maps and timetables and create sets of files conforming to the Google Transit Feed Specification. There were 95 routes in total, mostly free shuttles operating in the San Francisco, and the work was done on a milestone basis over several months.
All of the bus stops for each route needed to be Geocoded and the timetable and fare information extracted.
For the former it was a matter of reading the stops from the route maps and trying to pinpoint them on google maps. Street view came in very handy for this and many of the bus stops I could actually see, which was great for accuracy. That part of the job was a little bit like a cross between aerial reconnaissance and "Where's Waldo?". I was even able to call some of the agencies to dig for more information.
For the time-tabling, KPDF has a great feature that lets you draw a rectangle around a section of text in a PDF and extract it as plain text. which ended up being a big time saver. I wrote a few short perl scripts to take a timetable in CSV format and covert it into GTFS format. I used an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet to keep the datasets straight.
The final destination for all of this data is an application called "PedNav", developed by RouteMe2 technologies. It's a google Android application that works a little bit like a personal assistant. You tell it where you need to be for the day and at what time and it will create an itinerary for you with instructions of where to walk, and which bus to take. The application won the first round of the Google Android Developer Challenge.
Url: http://www.routeme2.com/
Tags: perl, automation, applications, parser
Son of Perl Video Grabber Script
This was yet another scripting project for Jay at Primary Web Services, LLC. The goal for this script was to take a source video, show a group of 15 or so frames, allowing the user to pick one, or move on to the next group of frames. When a frame is chosen it will save it to an output directory and move on to the next video in the source folder.
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The solution was coded in Perl, utilizing ffmpeg decoder and the Tk module to handle the GUI aspect.
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Perl Video Frame Grabber Script
Jay at Primary Web Services, LLC needed another image processing script - this time, grabbing frames from a video source. The script had to cycle through a folder of videos, displaying a frame from the start of the video and a pair of "yes" / "no" buttons. If "yes" is chosen, it writes the visible frame to an output folder, otherwise it skips ahead a specified number of frames and displays that. If it gets to the end of the video and a frame has not yet been selected it returns the beginning and decreases the number of frames to skip.
To realize this I coded a Perl script that leveraged the ffmpeg decoder to first extract all of the frames, then used Perl's Tk module to display the frame in a GUI window with the "yes"/"no" buttons.
Son of Perl Image Conversion Script
A couple of days after completing the first Perl Image Conversion Script for Jay at Primary Web Services, he came with another spec based on the core functionality of script #1
This time, it needed to output images and update a CSV file with the image names. So, I built on to the original to create a Perl script that would scan a directory of images and output to another directory images compressed just enough to get them under the specified file size (I'd gathered from the filenames that some of these compressed images were destined for mobile phones).
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Amber Heard Kisses Cinematographer Bianca Butti During Palm Springs Getaway
People 1/15/2020 Gabrielle Chung
© Provided by Meredith Corporation Amber Heard Kisses Cinematographer Bianca Butti During Palm Springs Getaway
Amber Heard may have a new lady in her life.
The Aquaman star, 33, was seen getting cozy with filmmaker Bianca Butti during a trip to Palm Springs on Sunday. While waiting at a valet stand, Heard and Butti were spotted locking lips before hopping into a red vintage Mustang together.
Heard wore a pink flannel jacket over a black top and distressed jeans for the outing. She was also photographed with a medical boot, which she has been wearing since New Year’s Day.
Meanwhile, Butti was clad in a grey coat, bright turquoise pants and a large gray brimmed hat.
© BACKGRID Amber Heard and Bianca Butti | BACKGRID
Butti is a Los Angeles-based cinematographer whose credits include Hank and Asha and An American in Texas. She has also worked TV shows such as Love & Hip Hop and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 at the age of 34, according to a GoFundMe page set up on her behalf. After undergoing surgery and rounds of chemotherapy, she was declared cancer-free. However in March last year, the cinematographer was diagnosed with cancer for a second time.
According to Butti, she has since turned toward “holistic healing” as a form of alternative treatment.
“I will say that getting a cancer diagnosis for the second time, is a lot less scary than the first time. After being diagnosed a few years ago, I did a lot of research about breast cancer and cancer in general. For cancer round two I felt more patient and well informed about what my options were for treatment,” she wrote in a note shared on GoFundMe.
© GoFundMe Bianca Butti | GoFundMe “I firmly believe that the most powerful treatment is the treatment one believes in,” she continued. “In my research, I found a cancer center that uses a more integrated approach, the Center for New Medicine in Irvine. I can’t tell you how empowering it is to walk into a cancer center and feel that what is happening in there aligns with what you believe.”
Butti said in the note that she hopes to raise $60,000 to cover medical costs as “insurance companies do not cover ‘alternative’ treatments.”
So far, her GoFundMe has received more than $18,000.
Heard’s sighting with Butti comes almost one year after Heard was linked to It: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti.
© Neilson Barnard/Getty Amber Heard | Neilson Barnard/Getty The actress previously dated photographer Tasya van Ree for four years before they split in 2012.
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New Jersey Academy of Music - NJAOM
World Class Music Instruction and Performance
Academy Division (Private Instruction)
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NJAOM offers two types of programs for music instruction.
Students in both divisions have a rare and unparalleled opportunity to study with world-class instructors.
Academy Division
This track provides individualized, one-on-one private lessons and offers the most tailored instruction for students. This program is best for students and families who can commit to weekly lessons and dedicate time at home to practice daily. Private lessons combined with consistent and diligent practicing provide the best opportunity for progression and achievement.
We accept students (child and adult) of all levels of experience, from beginner through advanced. Some children are capable of beginning weekly private lessons at age 3, but most children are able to concentrate for the duration of a 30-minute lesson by age 5.
WHY NJAOM?
Private lessons at NJAOM offer students access to our world-class faculty. Our instructors are dedicated professional musicians with advanced degrees from the some of the very best music conservatories in the world, including The Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory, Indiana University, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. All of our faculty have years of experience teaching and are active performers who have been feature in many of the most prestigious concert halls in the world. As a result, our instructors are uniquely qualified to provide the very best music education for our students.
Additionally, our faculty only teach the instrument in which they have expertise. At NJAOM, you will not find violin teachers giving voice lessons, piano teachers giving cello lessons, or guitar teachers giving piano lessons. Our instructors are serious and accomplished musicians who have high expectations for their students and are committed to helping them achieve whatever goals they may have. We believe in matching each student, from beginner to advanced, with a master instructor who will provide the proper training and guidance throughout their studies.
Click here to read more about each of our world-class instructors.
Enrolled students at NJAOM are expected to practice regularly, actively participate in their lessons, and exhibit dedication and eagerness toward learning and achievement on their instrument. Parent involvement is also key to a student’s success. For our young beginners, we require a parent to attend lessons to observe what is being taught, take notes, and then serve as their child’s “coach” at home to help set practice schedules and ensure that the tasks assigned by the teacher are completed properly throughout the week until the next lesson. Parents and students who commit to this approach are greatly rewarded when realizing both short-term and long-term goals. We find that families who are not fully dedicated to this method ultimately encounter stumbling blocks with their child, who generally does not progress with meaningful results, becomes frustrated with the perceived lack of ability to achieve, and many times chooses to quit.
All prospective students (or parents if student is a child) must attend an information session prior to registering for private instruction. This will enable us to provide you with detailed information about our philosophy, approach to teaching, and student/parent commitment needed in order for the student to excel in our program. Information sessions times and registration links can be found on our Registration page.
Our Academy Year is divided into two terms: Fall Semester and Spring Semester. Our Fall and Spring Semesters each have 18 weeks of lessons plus a Make-up Week/Bonus Week. We also offer a Summer Term, which spans July and August.
Please click on the Calendar link at the top of the page for specific term dates. We offer 30-, 45-, and 60-minute weekly private lessons, and for select instruments, enrolled students will also receive weekly performance class and orchestra instruction in a group setting.
DISCIPLINES OF STUDY
NJAOM offers weekly private, one-on-one instruction in the following disciplines:
composition (writing music)
percussion (drums)
In addition, we offer coaching in the following disciplines:
small ensembles (trio, quartet, quintet)
performance coaching (piano coach for string instruments and voice)
THE NJAOM APPROACH TO TEACHING
Strings and Piano
We welcome students into our Strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar) and Piano private instruction program from age 3 and up (9 and up for bass).
For young private students enrolled in violin, viola, cello, and piano, we ascribe to the philosophy of Shinichi Suzuki, who developed an unparalleled method — the Suzuki Method — to guide young students in learning music through a balanced combination of leveled achievement and ear development, alongside supplemental technical skill acquisition. Parent attendance at studio lessons and parent assistance during home practice are key elements to ensuring a young student’s ability to excel in music. This process will establish a focused work ethic and lay a strong foundation for the advanced player’s challenges that lie ahead. For older children and adult private students, a combination of Suzuki or similar methodology and a traditional, individualized progression work well to establish routine and meticulous attention to detail. Advanced students focus on a combination of technical mastery and breadth of repertoire to refine their performance delivery and interpretation.
We welcome students into our Voice private instruction program from age 7 and up.
Beginner and intermediate voice students at NJAOM receive a strong foundation in classical voice training, including breathing techniques and core pitch training. Advanced students expand their repertoire with a focus on articulation and expression. In addition, they may explore multiple genres of music to expand their range and depth of interpretation.
We welcome students into our Woodwind private instruction program from age 8 and up.
Beginner and intermediate private woodwind students (clarinet, saxophone, flute, oboe) at NJAOM receive focused studies on technical fundamentals, coupled with note reading and rhythmic understanding. Advanced students develop musical interpretation through controlled breathing and advanced technique.
We welcome students into our Percussion private instruction program from age 6 and up.
Beginner private percussion students at NJAOM receive instruction on fundamental stick handling on a variety of drums, coupled with music reading and rhythmic understanding. Intermediate and advanced students further develop technique on drums, drum set if desired, and marimba, and may be invited to join one of our orchestras.
PERFORMANCE CLASS INSTRUCTION
Students who are enrolled in select private instruction (violin, viola, cello, and piano) will also receive weekly performance class instruction, which is assigned to each private instruction student based on ability. Private instruction students whose goal is to perform and share music with others can obtain necessary skills to play together and provide thoughtful musical comments through ensemble classes. In performance class, these students often play in unison to perfect review pieces and work on following a leader to perform together, or listen to peers play in a workshop setting in which the instructor offers comments and welcomes input from all students. Intermediate and advanced private students, upon invitation, may collaborate with peers to hone their performance skills through chamber music and orchestral studies, and through solo performance classes with peer critique.
Community Division
GROUP INSTRUCTION
This track consists of our popular Instrument Explorers for ages 3-6, Rhythm & Drums for ages 5-10, our AIM Group Instrument Lessons for ages 7+, Singing Stars for ages 5-12, Introduction to Jazz for ages 8+, and Music Therapy for ages 5+.
INSTRUMENT EXPLORERS
The NJ Academy of Music offers group classes for our youngest students, who could benefit from a structured introductory music class prior to committing to private lessons for a specific instrument. Group instruction allows our students to explore and learn musical concepts in an energetic, interactive setting.
Our classes are lead by one of our master instructors, so every child in our program, whether taking private lessons or group classes, has the opportunity to learn from our award-winning faculty. Group classes are geared as a stepping stone to taking private lessons in a chosen discipline, and our instructors will guide and advise you when your child is ready for that transition.
For our youngest students, group instruction provides a first opportunity to learn about music and its fundamental structure. Students begin to develop an understanding of rhythm and sound and learn more about various musical instruments. They will also get hands-on experience in a variety of real instruments appropriately sized, and focus on movement in music as they skip, hop, and explore beats, sounds, and rhythms.
Instrument Explorers classes are offered during our Fall and Spring Semesters as well as during our Summer Term. Class descriptions and times can be found on our Registration page. You may also enroll via this link.
RHYTHM & DRUMS
Rhythm & Drums provides a solid foundation in rhythm, coordination, and basic drumming through the use of a variety of drums, including bucket drums. Stick control will be introduced, along with basic rhythmic concepts such as strong beat, syncopation, and listening and modifying beats.
Our classes are lead by our percussion instructor and serve as a launching pad for young students interested in percussion, as well as students in other instruments who are interested in a stronger understanding of rhythm.
Rhythm & Drums is a tiered NJAOM program for ages 5-10, in which students experience the excitement of hands-on instruction in rhythm using proper technique. No prerequisites are required.
Rhythm & Drums classes are offered throughout our school year as well as during our Summer Term. Class descriptions and times can be found on our Registration page. You may also enroll via this link.
SINGING STARS
Singing Stars Jr. and Singing Stars provides a fun and interactive environment for children interested in singing. Children will enjoy singing and learning songs from popular Broadway shows, TV, and animated films while being introduced to breathing, vocalization, vocal exercises, movement, and rhythm.
Classes are taught by our expert voice instructor who has a background in genres from opera to Broadway. No prior music or vocal experience is required; just bring a love of singing!
Class times can be found on our Registration page. You may also enroll via this link.
AIM (Accelerated Introductory Music) GROUP CLASSES
AIM (Accelerated Introductory Music) is a launchpad for students interested in starting an instrument but not quite ready for the commitment and expectations of private lessons.
The AIM program is designed specifically for students in Grades 2+ (ages 7 and up) who have no prior playing experience, and allows them to become acquainted with an instrument and learn basics through instruction in a group environment without as great a commitment as private lessons.
For those interested in violin, this class is also ideal for elementary school students who want to get a head start prior to joining their school orchestra or who need instruction to be able to “catch up” and join their school orchestra the following year. Class sizes are kept small so that each student will receive some individual attention during each class.
Enrollment in AIM gives students access to our master teachers and provides an introduction to playing an instrument properly. Currently, we offer violin, piano, and guitar through our AIM program.
Students will learn proper set-up, including posture, instrument handling, finger and hand placement, instrument technique, and rhythm. Students will be taught introductory pieces and learn play individually as well as in a group. At the end of the term, the instructor will make recommendations for students to either continue in AIM or to graduate to the private instruction track.
The AIM program is designed to be utilized for a maximum of 1 year (and students may opt to switch instruments at the start of a new term). After a maximum of 1 year in the AIM program, students who are committed to continuing with their instrument will be encouraged to move on to private lessons, as individual instruction offers the optimal path toward the most successful playing.
INTRO TO JAZZ CLASS
The NJ Academy of Music offers Intro to Jazz class for students who have been playing their instrument for a minimum of two years.
Our jazz class is lead by one of our jazz specialists and will focus on improvisational structure, key transitioning, and other jazz basics. More advanced jazz students should consider private instruction to focus on particular areas of interest.
This introductory course is ideal for young musicians of any instrument who would like to explore jazz and improv playing. Note reading is not required but may be helpful.
Intro to Jazz is offered during our Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions. Class descriptions and times can be found on our Registration page. You may also enroll via this link.
NEW!!! MUSIC THERAPY
The NJ Academy of Music has expanded to offer Music Therapy group classes for children with special needs ages 5+. Classes are taught by our experienced, board-certified Music Therapy instructor. One-on-one sessions are also available. Please contact us for more information.
Group classes are divided into two age ranges: K through 5, and middle school through high school. Each offers an engaging and inclusive group experience where hands-on music exploration is the primary focus. Through singing, movement, playing instruments, songwriting, and improvising, children will enhance their communication skills, gross and fine motor skills, cognitive development, and social interaction.
Music Therapy class descriptions and times can be found on our Registration page. You may also enroll via this link.
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Lines on NBA
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January 22nd NBA news ... Welcome to Lines on NBA, the site that provides the NBA enthusiast with all of the up to the minute lines and betting information.
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NBA: Are Atlanta Hawks already a bad bet?
If you missed Game 1 of the second round NBA Eastern Conference playoff series between Orlando and Atlanta, you need only look at final score to realize what a disparity the game was. Orlando won by 43 points, 114-71. Making matters worse, the game was once tied at 27, meaning the Hawks are coing into Thursday�s Game 2 hoping to stop a surge of 87-44. Still, oddmakers at Sportsbook.com have kept the line similar to Tuesday�s contest, Magic by 9.
After a one game reprieve against a Milwaukee club that in all fairness isn�t in Atlanta�s world talent-wise, the Hawks reverted back to being the Hawks on the playoff road. Now 2-11 ATS (aver. loss 19.9 PPG) on postseason excursions, Atlanta showed exactly why they don�t belong with NBA elite.
After passing the ball around for a few first quarter assists and buckets, Woodson proved he really has no control of this team as Joe �iso� Johnson and Jamal �shot craver� Crawford were a combined 5 for 22 from the field, which is truly �amazing�.
The Hawks are 4-18 ATS away from home versus good teams outscoring opponents by three or more points a game after the mid-point of the season the last three years and might have to use Dictionary.com to look up the word � team.
Josh Smith was the only player that had a descent stat sheet with 7-14 shooting and three steals, but he took silly fouls and continues to play �street ball� on the NBA court. In his defense, just think what Atlanta would have shot (they were 34.6 percent) for game if Smith had not made half his shots?
Dwight Howard only played just over 28 minutes, but this time it wasn�t because of foul trouble, it was because it was a total demolition by Orlando. Howard had 21 points, 12 boards and five blocks and the only word that came to mind watching Al Horford and Zaza Pachulia trying to stop �Superman� was �helpless�. In fact, the Atlanta big men really wanted so little to do with Howard he couldn�t find enough of their players to commit his usual three or four reckless fouls.
Oddsmakers like those at Sportsbook.com can�t overreact to 43-point cave-ins and the Hawks are nine-point underdogs, with total of 189.5. Atlanta hopes to bounce back and is 8-1 ATS after a game scoring 85 or fewer points.
Coach Stan Van Gundy probably wouldn�t mind a competitive contest, since it appears the next round could be coming soon and his team is 29-12 ATS after playing a home game this season. Orlando is 30-14 UNDER after scoring 110 points or more and the unimposing Hawks are 20-7 UNDER revenging a road loss of 10 points or more.
Stayed tuned to ESPN at 8:00 Eastern to witness the next massacre or if Atlanta can really play with heart, for a change. The StatFox Power Line suggests more of the former, showing Orlando by 15.
NBA: All Systems Go on NBA Monday
It�s the final three days Apuestas Deportivas Golf Betting Online Bingo Sportsbook NFL Betting Lines of the regular season in the NBA, which also means it is the last Monday of taking a look at some of the best systems in professional basketball to get the week started. In this last installment, we find five contests that could provide winning systems for the sports bettor to profit from to begin another work week. Game lines and totals are courtesy of Sportsbook.com.
Miami (-4, 193) at Philadelphia
It�s been a miserable year for the 76ers at 27-53 and they�ve been one of the worst home teams in the league at 12-28 and 11-27-2 ATS. Philadelphia is coming off one of its finest offensive performances of the season, scoring 120 points in rout of Memphis, shooting 57 percent from the field. When there is a contest involving two average three point shooting teams (33-36.5 percent) after 42 or games in the season and the home team made 55 percent or more of their shots with the total between 190 and 199.5 points, the UNDER is 33-11.
Orlando (-3.5, 210) at Indiana
There could well be hope next season for the Pacers if the close of this year is any indication of what the future holds. Indiana has won four in a row and 10 of 12 (8-3-1 ATS), shooting the ball with great proficiency at over 47 percent in eight of those games. The Pacers could be a play again since home underdogs of 3.5 to 9.5 points, in a matchup involving two defensive teams holding opponents to 43.5 to 45.5 shooting percentage, who commit 14.5 or less turnovers, facing a poor pressure defense (14.5 or fewer turnovers forced), after 42 or more games, they are 40-13 ATS, 75.5 percent the last 14 seasons.
Minnesota (+14, 205) at San Antonio
The Spurs have endured a ruthless April schedule, with this being their seventh contest is 11 days and fifth in the last week. San Antonio has made the playoffs with their 49-31 record and would like to get out of eighth slot in the Western Conference; however the Timberwolves might not bring out the best of what the Spurs have to offer. Look to wager against home favorites with win percentage between 60-75 percent playing their fifth game in seven days, facing a team with a losing record. In the previous three seasons, the home chalk is prosaic 5-22 ATS.
Houston (+2.5, 210) at Sacramento
The Kings have lost 14 of the last 18 encounters, which includes 126-108 beat-down by Dallas on Saturday night. When the line is +3 to -3 in April matchups and the home team is off one or more defeats, they are unsightly 41-75 ATS.
Dallas (-11, 198) at L.A. Clippers
It�s been another fruitless campaign for the Clippers with 28-52 record. They are 28th in the NBA in point differential (-6.4), but at least are off a 107-104 triumph over equally inept Golden State. Here we find it is best to play against home teams being outscored by their opponents by six or more points a game, after a close win by three digits or less. Since 1996, this system is tasty 58-20 ATS.
All systems from the Foxsheets.
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Week 13: Milan – Napoli
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The week 12 match at Juventus was a good performance, certainly by recent season standards it was a competitive encounter. Milan even had more shot on goal than the reigning champions. As the game went on a 0-0 tie was very possible, if not a win. Ultimately the game was lost because Juventus can count players of the quality of Douglas Costa and Paulo Dybala from the bench. The latter scored the winner and Milan lost again. In the end Milan went into the international break with an amount of optimism.
During the slow news days of the break most of the talk has concentrated on possible re-enforcements in January. Whether Elliott can spend or not is questionable but the need to generate revenue via Champions League participation remains crucial so a top 4 finish must remain the goal. Ibra may or may not return to Milan. A midfielder such as Luka Modric may too. Realism may ultimately win out and additions may be underwhelming. Time will tell.
Napoli are struggling as well. The players have had a disagreement with the president of the team over training and the team hasn’t won in over a month. Napoli sit in seventh place and need wins almost as much as Milan.
Bennacer and Calhanoglu will miss week 13 because of yellows they received at Juventus so the starting 11 will likely feature Biglia and Rebic or Bonventura. The rest of the 11 should remain the same with Suso and Piatek the other up from three. Piatek showed a few flashes at Juventus and needs to regain his touch quickly. He certainly claims to be ready for it. He was quoted as saying as much. Krunic and Paqueta may start again with Kessie continuing his exile on the bench. Conti and Hernandez look to continue being the full backs. The former actually had a surprisingly good game at Juventus. The middle of the defense will feature Romagnoli with Musacchio as Duarte is apparently carrying a small injury. The central defenders need to be more organized and close down the opposition better than they have done most of the recent weeks.
Posted by milanmania on November 23, 2019
Week 12: Juventus – Milan
Amid the crisis and midtable position Milan visit Ronaldo and Juventus. Week 11 had a few bright spots but ultimately the loss to Lazio was a poor one and the only goal – which was credited as a Bastos own goal – was one of the very few useful touches by Piatek. The Polish striker was once again the lone center forward and was either isolated or unable to control the balls that came his way. Suso missed the week 11 match due to a knock and his replacement only lasted 35 minutes before leaving due to injury. Castillejo had looked bright and made energetic runs but Ciro Immobile opened the scoring for the visitors. The 2-1 loss was confirmed by a well finished Joaquin Correa shot. In both goals the defensive line was questionable and this included the disappointing Romagnoli and Donnarumma. The loss added more misery and questions and highlighted troubles in even more areas of the pitch.
Milan go into Turin without Kessie. The Ivorian is apparently excluded because of disciplinary issues during training. In any case the midfielder has underperformed and Krunic did better in his spot versus Lazio. Suso is set to return for this week 12 match but the 4-3-3 may be modified. The one centerforward and two wingers formation has failed more often than not and if the new 3-4-2-1 does the same, as it is likely, then Milan will continue having trouble getting Piatek involved and scoring. The three defenders will likely include Rodriguez as a left sided central defender. Closing the attacks in a more organized way is as important as any other versus Juventus. if the formation does change Theo Hernandez and Conti will be de facto wings backs with Krunic and Bennacer down the middle.
There has been talk of experienced transfers in the January transfer window and Ibra’s name has been mentioned. Getting the Swede will represent a change in Elliott’s plans for the team and certainly add a big focal point on the pitch. What such a transfer does to Piatek’s future is unknown. Boban and Maldini claim to want to return to winning ways sooner rather than later and if they manage it within UEFA’s restrictions they will add to their legend. All this while the stadium saga takes some turns and twists and it is far from clear when (and where) the Milan teams can start the new and much needed investment.
Ronaldo was questionable for this week 12 match but has made the Juventus squad and looks to play up front with Higuain.
Week 11: Milan – Lazio
The first win of Pioli’s era arrived versus SPAL. The coach had mostly resisted adjusting the criticized formation of the previous games but did leave Suso on the bench. For much of the game Milan retained control but barely threatened SPAL’s goal. The overall impression was one of nervousness and hesitancy. This could be seen very clearly in Paqueta’s performance. The Brazilian looks to have regressed and kept missing shots on goal and shooting well off ala Kessie. The so called Castillejo experiment ended early in the second and Suso returned to the pitch. His chance to save the game arrived, Piatek was fouled near the box and the Spaniard converted the freekick in excellent fashion. Milan hung on to win 1-0 without convincing many.
The game versus Lazio comes only three days after the aforementioned win. There is little time to gear up for the stronger opposition but with games against Juventus and Napoli coming up this might be the best chance to get three points before November ends. The CL qualification objective is a still a far off hope but it is all Milan has to play for.
The game winning goal might have earned Suso a few more (mostly undeserved) starts but he may miss this game due to a knock. Castillejo is set to get another if his compatriot is not ready. The midfield might look slightly differently as well with Krunic a possible beneficiary. Right back has become an urgent problem with both Calabria and Conti struggling, so much so that Borini’s name has been whispered again. In all cases a 4-3-3 seems a wrong formation but major deviations from it remain unlikely. Only Pioli can answer why the 4-3-3 keeps surviving despite evidence it is not suited form-wise and leaves the lone center forward isolated.
Posted by milanmania on November 3, 2019
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In 2012 we bid farewell to Tour of the Tucson Mountains, including the Fun Ride. Thank you for an excellent run!
Event Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012
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Pizza Hut proudly sponsors the Fun Ride, scheduled for Saturday, April 28, 2012 at Tour of the Tucson Mountains main start/finish line at Marana Town Hall in Marana, Arizona. All cyclists must wear a helmet. Register for either:
A 4-mile flat course for young cyclists, their families and friends on road bikes, mountain bikes, BMX, tandems, or anything on two wheels. Please, no motor assist bikes, gas or electric.
Starts at 10:30 a.m.
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Starts at 10:45 a.m.All participants must register in order to take part in the event.
Pizza Hut Fun Ride Awards Ceremony starts at 11:30 a.m. with a special award for the Most Decorated Bike!
Free massages available! Relax but don’t miss the music and food at the start finish area! Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the TMC Children’s Miracle network and University of Arizona Medical Center – South Campus Children’s Clinic Center and Perimeter Bicycling Association of America, Inc.
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The Pizza Hut Fun Ride is open to riders of all ages and abilities. Registration fee: $15.00 per rider. Everyone – including adults/guardians must register to participate. Groups of 4 or more receive a special rate of $10 per cyclist. One application per cyclist; group applications MUST be submitted together.
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| 21/10/17 | Written by Joshua Fields
Economics and Musical Chairs
I started studying economics as a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed teen, intent on studying the subject that I was told would lead to a respectable career and maximum possibilities in life. I had a good grasp of the fundamentals from the beginning, with a relatively intuitive understanding of supply and demand as well as the basics of inflation and unemployment.
But there was one concept that I just couldn’t get my head around.
That concept was debt.
I remember toiling over my failure to understand one of the core ideas of economics, staring blank-faced at my economics teacher Mrs Beattie as she recited the textbook exposition of debt and interest. I was equally oblivious at home as my dad explained how businesses operated and expanded on the basis of bank loans.
Despite my seniors’ best attempts, I just couldn’t wrap my head around debt. I distinctly remember being embarrassed that everyone else in class seemed to have this understanding of this evasive truth that my little brain just didn’t have the capacity to ‘get.’
So, I decided to shut up shop, learn what I needed to learn for exams, and proceed, in classic Western-education style, to regurgitate answers that I’d read and pretend to actually understand the mechanism at play, all the way from school to university.
Surely, I couldn’t admit such vulnerability.
The shame!
The stupidity!
Everyone who studies economics gets debt, right?
But I just didn’t get it.
In fact, I still don’t get it.
Debt doesn’t make sense.
And the reason debt doesn’t make sense
is because
quite simply
How Money Works
“Where did the money come from? It came – and this is the most important single thing to know about modern banking – it came out of thin air. Commercial banks – that is, fractional reserve banks – create money out of thin air.” Murray Rothbard, The Mystery of Banking (2008)
I was initially taught that our debt-based money system works when someone puts savings into a bank and this money is given to someone else in the form of a loan.
In reality, when banks make loans, the money isn’t actually taken from anyone. It doesn’t come from Paul and go to Peter.
It comes from nothing.
97% of money in the UK comes from thin air.
97% of money in the UK comes not from the Bank of England, but from the inherent mechanics of a fractional–reserve, interest–bearing money system (same goes for the US). (I won’t go into an explanation of fractional reserve banking, other than to say that its mechanism means there is always a multiple of debt more in the system than there is money. See here for a further explanation).
Let’s say a punter called Paul goes to a bank and asks for a loan of £1000. The bank says okay, but as long as you give us back £1500 in 5 years time. Paul receives the £1000, and all is well.
But where is that extra £500 going to come from? Where will Paul get that extra money?
For interest payments to be met, Paul has to find that extra £500 from somewhere else in the system.
Because of interest, at any given moment, the amount of money owed is always greater than the amount of money already existing. To make new money in order to keep the whole system going, more goods and services have to be created, leading to a perpetual conversion of life into commodities (usually ‘objects’ that were hitherto free – childcare, land, sea). And since there is always a deficit between debt and money, we are in perpetual competition with one another for what is circulating.
Now this isn’t some secret that the banks are keeping from us. In fact, it’s just an accepted facet of the modern economic Machine.
The reason economists don’t tend to get their knickers in a twist about this is that interest-bearing money works smoothly so long as the rate of economic growth is greater than the interest rate. If you can borrow at 10% but increase your output by 20%, then you gain wealth in excess of what is given to the bank. Magic!
But what happens when the economy isn’t growing?
Do you remember the game, musical chairs? All is well and fun while the music is going, but as soon as it stops, all hell breaks loose for the remaining seats.
In a similar vein, not everyone can win in our monetary system, because the amount of debt (number of people) is greater than the amount of money (number of chairs). This is all good and well while the music (growth) is playing, but what happens when it stops?
Bankruptcies.
Repossessions.
Losers.
There will always, always be losers when the music stops.
And here’s the killer point.
Our system is built on the assumption that the music won’t stop.
Our entire debt-based money system hinges on the necessity that growth will keep going forever. This is seen as an inherently good thing, as growth inspires innovation and progress.
But here’s the problem, if you’ve not already guessed it.
We cannot grow indefinitely in a world with limited natural resources.
As we’re seeing with our ecological crisis today, growth cannot keep going forever.
To keep growth primed, consumption has to keep rising, production has to keep increasing, and firms must continue to think of every way they can to make sure you pay for more stuff.
Since 2008, central banks, through quantitative easing, have been trying to keep the music going.
But if we look deeper into the mechanism at play here, we see that all they’re doing is kicking the can down the road of the realisation that we cannot assume infinite growth as an axiom in our economic models.
Are Humans Hungry Ghosts?
Since leaving university, I’ve realised that much of what I was taught was based on unquestioned assumptions. I took it for granted that professors, policymakers and the rest of the establishment had the answers, and so I rarely queried the foundations upon which they had formed their ideas.
Having dived further into the source of economic models over the last couple of years, I’ve discovered that the theories that dominate society are actually just extensions of snowballed belief systems. Hitherto I assumed market forces and their underlying assumptions were akin to Newtonian physical laws we’d discovered, rather than the subjective inferences that a handful of economists articulated as truths.
We assume that growth is fundamentally a good thing. Growth is Good with a capital G. Growth means the economy is expanding, people have jobs, and all is bright in the Garden of Eden. Rarely do economists question the downside of growth, despite its pursuit (and all of the industrialised activities that relate to it) being the key to the ecological disaster we find ourselves on the brink on.
In Economics 101, we are taught that since humans are self-interested and have unlimited demands (i.e. are gluttonous creatures who will never be fulfilled), there will always be scarcity. Economics is the study of the behaviour of humans given this matching problem – selfish humans with unlimited demands competing for a limited supply of resources.
Here’s the thing. If we have unlimited demands, then the logical next step is to build models and structures around infinite economic growth, because it makes sense that we must continue to grow indefinitely to account for the hungry ghosts that possess humanity.
Similarly, if we are indeed self-interested animals, then of course a system that rewards and accounts for competitive behaviour is optimal.
And here’s the link to our money system. We’ve built a debt-based system around the assumption of infinite growth, which is in turn a function of assuming that humans will always compete and never be satisfied with what they have.
But are these statements true? Are unlimited demands and rampant self-interest fair assumptions of humanity’s true nature?
Or instead, could unlimited human desires and selfish behaviour be results of our system, not the causes of it?
Might people desire more ‘stuff,’ because our economic system implores them to, well, want more ‘stuff’?
Might people act selfishly because our economic system rewards them for doing so?
When you look at sprinters in the 100 metres, they are demonstrating the aspects of themselves that are required in the race, such as speed, acceleration and determination. It is the nature of the race that brings forth these attributes. Usain Bolt doesn’t show you his high jump, nor his breakdancing skills, during the 100 metres. These aren’t parts of him that the system (i.e. the race) values.
Our desires seem unquenchable because money and possessions, the accumulation of which debt and growth are based upon, cannot fill the gaping internal hole that we carry that knows there’s something missing. We’re trying to fill our existential emptiness with more things, new inventions, fancier technology, an emptiness that materialism will never fill.
It’s The System, Stupid
Are humans inherently greedy and competitive? Yes, I think so. But is it not also true that humans have the capacity for solidarity? For selflessness? For altruism? For collaboration?
We are vessels for a multitude of attributes. It is the system that determines which behaviour is most prevalent.
This is where we’ve gone wrong. We’ve made a generalisation about the nature of human behaviour whilst engaged in the ultimate confirmation bias. We’ve found proof of unlimited wants and human greed while looking at a system that rewards and encourages those very aspects of our nature.
So although I agree that the world has limited resources, I do not believe that humans have unquestionable insatiability. We’ve translated an observation of human behaviour under certain circumstances and translated it into the truth of human nature in all circumstances.
And to those who say we need more economic growth to make the world a better place, I disagree. We need growth to keep the money system going as it is, for sure. But for the first time in history, we have ample resources for every single human on the planet to live comfortably. The fact that there is poverty is not a GDP problem. It is a resource allocation problem deriving from greed.
And greed is a prevalent behavioural outcome because the system that we’re in rewards it.
We Cannot Quantify Interiority
If our economic system were really serving our base human needs, would our current society not be the most fulfilled of all time?
Steven Pinker and Peter Diamandis have recently been proclaiming that this is the best time in history. They are using measurable statistics like GDP and life expectancy to proclaim that the world has never been better.
But what use is greater GDP if it leads to ecological disaster?
What good is an extra 20 years of living if your life is spent in severe depression and anxiety?
None of these authors are taking into account the intangibles.
How loved do we feel?
How connected do we feel?
How meaningful are our lives?
What are the systemic impacts of our actions?
What is the state of our interior mind?
How are we aspiring towards values, like truth and compassion?
And really, these aspects of life are life.
Our money-based system has put us all into competition with each other under the premise that this is the arrangement that brings out the best in us. We need to see money for what it is – a symbol and a social agreement that has become the God of our times, a God that is not aligned with the deeper questions above.
What if we were to change our culture around what it means to be wealthy?
What if we recognised greatness in society not through how much people own, but how much people give?
A cultural shift is required to transition us away from a money system that is based on debt and growth and towards one in alignment with values. This will likely only come about when the system fails under the pressure of its own distorted mechanics (the consumer debt bubble, inequality and ecological crisis are the core risk factors). But the articulation of an alternative is needed now, despite the unlikeliness of a transition while vested interests are still in play.
And an alternative, altruistic culture is not as idealistic as it sounds. Obese people in prior centuries were seen as the most attractive, as their size showed they had access to food. Pale-skinned people were seen as the most beautiful, as their skin demonstrated they weren’t outdoor labourers.
From this we see that our perception of what is aspirational is malleable.
Imagine if we created a culture in which we aspired to be givers, not owners.
A culture of ‘we-ness’ not ‘me-ness’.
In which money embodied the goodness of gift, not the gluttony of greed.
And to those who are sceptical, bear in mind that almost all of our aspirations – cars, houses, clothes, the latest gadget – are social signals. Never forget that we are, in part, animals using social cues as mating calls for the opposite sex, and demonstrations of where we are in the social pecking order.
When we recognise that our actions have their basis in social recognition, we see that when we alter what we socially perceive to be valuable and worthy, that which people aspire towards will change, and another mating call will come around.
For those who still aren’t convinced that this is feasible, does a fish know anything other than water? We’ve been swimming in a competitive debt-based system since we were born, so it’s nigh impossible to imagine something aligned with principles that are other than those we have grown accustomed to. The mechanics of the system – of limitless growth and limitless debt – are coming to an end. We must reformulate how we conceive of our relationship with money, debt and growth.
Was there wisdom to my unconditioned teenage self? An intuition that preceded societal memes and cultural norms? A sense of understanding that the mechanics of debt and money weren’t sustainable?
What I do know is that that wee guy inside of me has had enough of musical chairs, and thinks it’s time to play a different game.
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Keeping lottery winners private could increase fraud, lottery director warns
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Created: 10 Jul 2019
"Although the advantage to winners of remaining anonymous is apparent, the disadvantage to players, lotteries and other stakeholders are less obvious, frequently overlooked and of great merit," Wisconsin Lottery Director Cindy Polzin said. Polzin said during a public hearing Wednesday on a bill that would keep the names of lottery winners private that past lottery fraud attempts were identified because the winners' names were made public.
MADISON - The director of the Wisconsin Lottery suggested Wednesday that keeping the names of lottery winners private could hurt player security and increase lottery fraud.
"Although the advantage to winners of remaining anonymous is apparent, the disadvantage to players, lotteries and other stakeholders are less obvious, frequently overlooked and of great merit," Wisconsin Lottery Director Cindy Polzin said.
Polzin said during a public hearing Wednesday on a bill that would keep the names of lottery winners private that past lottery fraud attempts were identified because the winners' names were made public.
Lawmakers considering the legislation also on Wednesday signaled skepticism of the measure, which has also drawn criticism from open government advocates.
Assembly Bill 213 would prohibit lottery ticket retailers, the administrator of the state lottery and the Department of Revenue from disclosing the name and personal information of a lottery prize winner who requests confidentiality.
It includes exemptions to privacy, including for winners who are delinquent in paying taxes or have been ordered by a court to pay child support.
Democratic Rep. Tod Ohnstad of Kenosha said by keeping lottery winners' names from public view, distrust of the program's legitimacy could fester.
He noted that people are "often disgruntled about anything relating to government" and decreasing transparency would not help.
"It just seems to me that if people didn’t know who was winning, I think it does raise a certain level (of concern) in some people’s minds of whether or not the lottery is something that can be trusted," he said.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos of Rochester introduced the bill in May, a month after 24-year-old Manuel Franco claimed a historic $768.4 million Powerball jackpot.
Vos said the bill would provide winners with the “option to protect themselves from unwanted fraud, abuse or harassment," adding that Franco has been subject to months of harassment that have forced him to go "off the grid."
Franco's attorney Andrew Stoltmann in a letter to the committee encouraged the Legislature to support the bill. He said disclosing winners' names to the public "places a massive target" on their backs.
"This policy also subjects them to near constant harassment by financial advisers and scammers who simply want to take their money," Stoltmann said.
But Polzin said that while lottery winners may be concerned that they could be targeted by neighbors and family members, the Wisconsin Lottery has "not heard of any instances where winners were harassed or threatened."
She added that although there is no requirement to have a winner's picture taken or have a press conference no matter how big the winnings, Franco requested to have a press conference.
"It is very rare," she said. "I was as shocked as anybody could be that he wanted to have one. Even before we knew who he was, he wanted to have a press conference."
Republican Rep. Gary Tauchen, who is sponsoring the legislation, noted Wednesday that a handful of other states allow winners to remain anonymous.
Only a handful of states offer lottery winners total anonymity. Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia all offer anonymity only when a certain amount of money is won.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/10/keeping-lottery-winners-private-could-increase-fraud-director-warns/1692400001/
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THE SIBYLLINE MOUNTAINS: A PARK WITH MANY LEGENDS
20 January 2016|In Insights, Stories|By Salpi
The Sibylline Mountains have always been a place of great stories and fantastic legends, of preserved wilderness from a much older time dazzling in its austere beauty, of sanctuaries perched on mountaintops, of convivial meals and fragrant spices. This wilderness, its waters, caves, and lakes have given rise to mysterious and evocative stories.
It is Sybil, the ancient oracle who was believed to dwell in the deep gorges of the mountains, who has animated this place from time immemorial. She was an oracle to be consulted about the future and entrusted with one’s troubles and doubts, as has been recounted in novels since the fifteenth century. According to legend, in the bowels of Mount Sybil lies an enchanted kingdom that could only be reached through a narrow cave. It is a world populated by wonderful creatures that for one day a week turn into fearsome monsters.
Myth has it that the body of Pontius Pilate, who was sentenced to death by the Emperor Tiberius, was thrown into Lake Pilate, a small lake found deep in the Sibylline Mountains. The story has it that he was first stuffed into a sack that was then attached to a cart of buffalo free to roam aimlessly around the countryside. These animals wandered all the way here from Rome and reached the top of Mount Redeemer from whose crest Pilate’s body fell into the lake.
A tangle of mysterious yet paradoxically calming landscapes are open to visitors of the National Park of the Sibylline Mountains where rare species of animals that have disappeared elsewhere can still be found, such as wolves, wildcats, porcupines, and the roe deer. For a few years now, the park has also been reintroducing into the wild colonies of elk and antelope, golden eagle, goshawk and sparrow hawk, the eagle-owl and peregrine falcon, birds that take us back to the days of medieval hunting and the earliest landscape paintings.
It is a park that joins together the Regions of the Marche and Umbria offering ancient and diverse food products (from the prosciutto of Norcia to the lentils of Castelluccio), extraordinary places of spirituality such as the Abbey of Saint Eutizio at Preci, and historic and natural itineraries of incomparable quality.
Ancient engraving depicting the Apennine Sibyl, mythical inhabitant of the homonymous cave of Mount Sybil, which for centuries has been veiled in an aura of legend and mystery.
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Mount Sybil as drawn by Antoine de La Sale (1420) conserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris
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“The perfect storm”… of human incompetence and failure
Posted on July 28, 2019 by Ian
I take the first part of this title from an SMBC employee describing events, who was present at the meeting at Smethwick Hall park regarding the appalling bird deaths following the confirmed Severn Trent Water’s contamination of the site with raw sewage .
The second part I take from direct observation and answers obtained through questions of SMBC themselves.
What is blatantly clear to even the most stringent SMBC supporter is that this site has been badly neglected for many years. Even Cabinet member Maria Crompton, who suddenly appears to have found a new appreciation for our beloved geese, has acknowledged as much and has proclaimed that she will get it sorted out.
But let’s not pretend that this situation has suddenly crept up on SMBC. It is one that must have been known about for years, by parks officers and directors, and for whatever reason ( and don’t give me any bullshit about “the cuts”), has been put off for another day.
There is more silt in this pool by volume than water. Having set waist in it myself, I know this to be the case. There was a ridiculous spectacle of swan pedallos at this site a few years ago where the real birds themselves were roped off inside the area that they now need to be kept out of.
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This “fun day” event was used as a publicity vehicle for a then prospective Labour Councillor, who bizarrely would become a cabinet member for parks for a time before being ousted after making derogatory remarks about fellow councillors, including the one who is now in his stead. Then we had the useless Gavan, who paraded in front of the cameras at Victoria Park Smethwick last year following bird deaths there , blaming the hot weather, unaware that the water collapse itself was due to a collapsed Severn Trent Water asset that someone from SMBC had botch job repaired. This sets the scene of the farcical political “storm” that is Sandwell council- and the sewer swamp which unfortunately never appears any closer to draining.
The twitter picture below, a favourite tool of SMBC’s spin machine and their ex Express and Star journalists comms team, (where invariably they go to die along with reporting any vestige of the truth), shows the previous incumbent posing in a high vis vest fest, along with the failed staff and directors who apparently could not spot the silt or debris in the pool that they claimed to be doing something at during their “customer service week”.
Talentless shit
The silt has obviously been building up with litter debris over at least 20 years. There is talk from local residents that some dredging was carried out around the early 2000’s but this was only to dig “a channel” and did not remove anything around the edges. We know from the recently obtained NIRS reports from the Environment agency that contamination from Severn Trent Water PLC has been occurring at the site since at least 2006, linked to bird deaths at the time.
“Sounds like wrong connections, and the dead birds are a cause for concern.”
“Smethwick hall park is quite heavily polluted by wrong connections and is also covered with litter to the extent that litter is the favoured nesting material for coots, no dead birds seen at time of visit, but seven were seen during a second visit a week later”
After the discovery of the Smethwick turdberg and the raw sewage in the lake, SMBC then devised a kneejerk let’s remove the blockage disaster at the outfall from the lake. All that this achieved was to create the “perfect” breeding ground for Severn Trent’s microbes of excrement by dropping the water levels significantly to expose the turdberg to direct sunlight.
The crud blocking the outfall was over 1 foot deep of litter and silt above the water level.
The recent hot weather and also rain has provided the final straw, but let’s not pretend that this is some “natural” event that has lead to these circumstances, it is a series of managerial failures and poor decisions made of top of these which have made the situation worse.
I made a complaint to SMBC about this before the recent spate of deaths, particularly about the failures to clear and maintain the silt and litter situation that had built up. At this time, SMBC staff had at least acknowledged their failures of communication with regard to their contractors HILLS who were supposedly tasked with clearing out and maintaining this pool amongst others.
The official response that I got was a pack of spin doctor bollocks, which failed to acknowledge any of the statements that these same staff had made in private.
“Dear Mr Carroll,
We have responded to your case with reference number CU124317552.
I refer to your recent correspondence concerning Smethwick Hall Park.
Severn Trent, the Environment Agency and Sandwell MBC have been working closely together to improve the overall quality of the pool. Severn Trent have recently discovered an unmapped overflow that unfortunately had cause some pollution into it, however the Environment Agency removed much of the contaminated water and subsequently pumped clean water back into it.
There is a large sediment bank within the pool, it is our understanding that this has contributed towards its stagnation. We are currently looking at potential feasibility options regarding the removal of this bank.
The management of outflow at the pool is undertaken on a monthly basis through contractors.
We are aware of issues where children have entered the pool and walked upon the sediment bank. As you’re aware, some signage has been placed around this location and we are also working with relevant partners to actively discourage and prevent any further instances of this nature occurring again. However, we cannot provide around the clock supervision at this site. Therefore, should you witness any person entering this area I would encourage you to contact the local police service (telephone number 111) or our Environmental protection team (telephone number 0121 569 2200).
We will continue to work with partners to ensure that the pool is kept clear from contamination and are seeking further assurances from Severn Trent to prevent this from happening again. We are also looking at the viability to install a permanent aerator into this pool.
Thank you for showing an interest in this matter.
Kind regards Customer Feedback Team
The claim about Severn Trent’s “had cause some pollution into it,”, whatever the hell that means, refers to the raw sewage that local observers and the Environment agency recorded, yet why do SMBC attempt to deny the serious nature of what THEY KNOW had gone into the pool? The signage that they put up failed to communicate ANY of the risks of danger to the public, failures under The Health and Safety at Work ACT, and also The Occupiers Liability ACT when it comes to excluding unwanted trespassers to a known site containing danger.
Even the latest sign that they have put up, still fails to acknowledge what the “contamination” was!
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Instead of attempting to cover up their and Severn Trent’s mess, perhaps a little honesty instead of deliberate spin doctoring would not go amiss.
I stated to SMBC that their response was garbage, and also the provision of false information as regards what had really happened with the contractors. And then I received this response, which appears to suggest that the failed management themselves get to decide what is a complaint and when someone can make it!
To unravel the lies a little further, I put in A freedom of Information request to SMBC about the said supposed “monthly” clearance of this lake by Hills, and the response only drops them further in the shit.
“(I) Could you please supply all correspondence held with Severn Trent Water including emails and attachments in relation to the confirmed sewage pollution and other matters which occurred earlier this year.
(11) All correspondence held between yourselves and your contractors HILLS for clearing out the outfall into this lake, when it was realised that this supposedly monthly task had not been done for many months. NB conversations with council officers have explicitly stated that this was the case.”
The response was a series of emails which I have deciphered below. What is apparent here is that SMBC supplied no emails about the confirmed sewage incident with Severn Trent itself. The only communication between the two parties appears to have been about some herras fence panels that had been left behind by Severn Trent.
It is clear from the “monthly trash screen inspections” from SMBC that the pool on February 27th was seen to “need long reach mechanical to clear debris in grid.”
What is not clear from this one supplied monthly inspection is how long this issue had been flagged. I have therefore put in a further FOI request to SMBC in regard to these records going back a few years.
The issue at the site at the end of April only appears to have triggered this grid block flag however, as an email from an SMBC officer confirms.
It appears that removing this blockage cost SMBC via Hills £2,362.25.
Later in June, well after the proven raw sewage issue had been noted and SMBC officers were fully aware of this, it appears that SMBC again contacted Hills with a view to removing the now exposed turdberg of shit at the other end of the pool. Once again SMBC refer to this as “a sediment bank”- not revealing any of the issues surrounding it which were well known to them.
Hills responded stating that the sediment needed to be properly tested- and so they should as a responsible contractor baring in mind that known human waste contaminated with shit would be classed as “special waste”. It appears that Hills also refer to their previous job at the site which appears to indicate that this material from the outlet to the pool was given to SMBC to get rid off at their leisure. One can of course only speculate as to what SMBC did with this, or if any of the tests referred to, baring in mind the known human excrement contamination of the pool were carried out.
What happens next with this removal of silt should perhaps be taken out of the hands of all those who have previously had involvement with this site. I would not recommend the manual removal of this known human waste contaminated turdberg. When Hills undertook the debris removal at the other end, the smell was horrendous and the liquids were split all over the path outside someone’s house and leading to a school entrance. The risks of spreading this vile crap all over the grass and banks of the pool near Margaret gardens should not be contemplated.
Only a more expensive vaccum truck removal technology will suffice here, which limits the amount of this material being spread even further. The risks to the birds at the site will also have to be considered and the area fenced off for many weeks after any removal has taken place.
Personally I would cut off and partially infill the area where the council; have now finally erected a barrier to stop the birds entering this high risk area, including the island. I would cut off Severn Trent’s asset from the pool permanently, or if this cannot be done, turn this area into a permanent interceptor which does not allow anything but clean water out into the pool. Reed planting should be encouraged to help manage this process.
The dredging of the rest of the pool, is going to be a very costly operation. I believe a similar exercise at Redhouse Park cost around £400,000. Perhaps a polypropylene liner should be considered to further reduce the risk from the pool.
In terms of costs, perhaps it is time for local businesses in this area to step up to the plate and make a contribution. It should also be noted that just half a mile away, SMBC have acquired and are spending themselves around £4 million pounds on tarting up West Smethwick Park- a fraction of which really needs to be spent on a park with already adequate facilities. Unfortunately however, SMBC are a vanity project led organisation who will throw millions in one direction while everything else goes to shit creek.
Things such as restoring the Chance bust- an industrialist polluter company in the area are a fucking joke of taxpayers money quite frankly. The Chance family themselves should pay for this not us.
Of course the “idiots” who pay the idiots at SMBC to make grave errors of judgement are never listened to, and so I unfortunately see the disaster at Smethwick hall park only continuing for some time to come. Perhaps in 2022 when the eyes of the world are on Sandwell for the Commonwealth games where the aquatics centre is to be built in the next street, the grim reality of the local environment will finally be dealt with as a “legacy”.
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From Critique to Creativity
January 15, 2018 | By Daniel Pryfogle
Does God care about the poor or does God side with the poor?
Days before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a March 1968 mass meeting at Memphis' Mason Temple to support striking sanitation workers. (Photo by Memphis Press-Scimitar; from the Civil Rights Digital Library at the University of Georgia; licensed under Creative Commons 2.5)
Maybe the answer is just yes. Maybe it's both. But I am thinking about the difference between these two statements, the first a sentiment and the second a predicament, and the value of a binary choice as people of faith come up against the shameful reality that “the rich get richer, the poor are getting poorer,” as John Lydon sings.
What's prompting this reflection is the new Poor People's Campaign, the national effort started by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago and now revived by the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. According to the New York Times, the ministers and their allies “hope to mount large protests on 40 consecutive days … in at least 25 state capitals and other locations, with crowds in the tens of thousands courting arrest.”
I believe in the power of protest. The civil rights movement changed America because people put their lives on the line. These new protests will take up the unfinished work of 50 years ago by critiquing an unjust economic system, an appraisal upon which the real value of our nation depends.
Yet above the critique we need creativity. This is the shift Dr. King began to make in his thinking and action at the end of his life as he called attention to the struggle of Memphis' sanitation workers. Had he lived longer he would have advocated for job creation, for community enterprise, for black enterprise; he would have preached about impact investing; he would have raised up young leaders as entrepreneurs.
A practical theologian, King would have reached back into the black experience of “labor” and “property” and “ownership” to secure a new word of hope. His hermeneutic would have generated possibility even as it exposed structural inequality.
A biblical preacher, King would have returned to an ancient text to lay hold of the most contemporary question: “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?” His homiletic would have confronted the fear that leaves us doubting our resources to create. He would have asked, as the Spirit of God asked a doubting Moses, “What's that in your hand?”
It is not empty conjecture to conclude that on the other side of Memphis, King would have observed the continuing plight of oppressed people and felt compelled to “get his hands dirty” in commerce, much like his predecessor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the Rev. Dr. Vernon Johns, who did what others deemed unseemly or shameful for a pastor when he stepped from the pulpit to sell produce from the back of a truck because he sought to provoke his members to economic justice.
Given the stakes we face 50 years after Memphis, I believe King would have provoked people of faith to make some binary choices.
Advocate for living wages or create the jobs that pay living wages?
Push for policies that protect the environment or create the new technologies that reduce carbon emissions?
Critique the unjust systems that trap people in poverty or create the enterprises that build wealth in the broken places?
The binaries are an embarrassment for the progressive movement that 50 years after Memphis obtains the security of the status quo and the acclaim of righteousness without risk as the poor cry out for another way.
The binaries are an intellectual affront to those who reason against “either/or” for “both/and” while knowing full well they choose policy over practice because the former preaches, keeps the purse strings open, and keeps them as players in halls of power.
Faith calls for conscious choice, decision determines direction, and our world, as King wrote in his letter from the Birmingham jail, is “in dire need of creative extremists.”
So my reflection continues. I wonder: What is the most foolish choice people of faith can make about economics? I ask this recalling that the Christian scripture says, “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” So what's the most foolish choice we can make?
That God cares about the poor? Or that God sides with the poor?
That God calls the privileged to give up privilege for the poor? Or that God calls the privileged to use privilege alongside the poor?
That God calls people of faith to call the government to righteousness for the sake of the poor? Or that God calls people of faith to risk an arrangement with the government to create another way the government cannot risk to see?
The choices are troubling, the questions unsettling. And one more may be most uncomfortable: Do we yet feel enough shame to move from critique to creativity?
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Crossrail to open by March 2021 as bosses confirm new timetable
The Elizabeth Line will open by March 2021 at the latest as a new six-month delivery window for the Crossrail’s crisis-hit central section is revealed by the project’s bosses.
The announcement confirms that Crossrail, already heavily delayed and overbudget, will be completed at least two years behind schedule, with the midpoint of the delivery window at the end of 2020.
But the new plan does not include the opening of Bond Street, one of the 10 new stations for the new line, which has been delayed due to “design and delivery challenges.”
Crossrail said in its statement that “many risks and uncertainties remain in the development and testing of the train and signalling systems”, but that following a detailed audit of what has gone wrong so far, the new plan would put the project back on track.
Mark Wild, chief executive, said: “I share the frustration of Londoners that the huge benefits of the Elizabeth Line are not yet with us. But this plan allows Crossrail Ltd and its contractors to put the project back on track to deliver the Elizabeth Line.
“Crossrail is an immensely complex project and there will be challenges ahead, particularly with the testing of the train and signalling systems, but the Elizabeth Line is going to be incredible for London and really will be worth the wait.”
Originally due to open in late 2018, the earliest new opening date identified is October 2020, and its bosses say Crossrail’s central section will be delivered by March 2021 at the latest.
Crossrail expects the remaining fit-out and systems installation in the stations and tunnels to be completed in 2019 and for the central section works to be completed within the funding package agreed in December 2018.
London mayor Sadiq Khan described the new timetable as “realistic and deliverable.”
Crossrail said 100,000 interdependent tasks still need to be completed, with the four major tasks remaining, including the building and testing of software to integrate the train operating system with three different signalling systems.
Station systems need to be installed and tested, as well as complete installation of the equipment in the tunnels. When this is done, the trains need to be trialled over thousands of miles on the completed railway to “shake out any problems.”
The central section will open between Paddington and Abbey Wood and link the West End, the City of London, Canary Wharf and southeast London, with initially 12 trains per hour during peak times.
Crossrail Ltd said it was working closely with Costain Skanska Joint Venture to ensure Bond Street opens as early as possible, and full services across the Elizabeth Line from Reading and Heathrow in the west to Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the east will commence.
Tony Meggs, Crossrail chairman, said both the board and leadership team “recognise the seriousness of the challenges we face,” but was pleased with the progress made by the new team to get a grip on the project and pull together a new robust plan.
Caroline Pidgeon, chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee, welcomed the announcement with “cautionary relief,” but with the project pushed back twice already she questioned if the six-month window was just another “hedge-betting exercise.”
“It is also incredibly frustrating that no senior executives will accept any responsibility for the litany of failures that have led to this delay.”
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The Liberal Democrats and the Coalition Government, last week, announced the great news that free Wi-Fi is set to be rolled out on rail services. Millions of pounds will be spent on faster Wi-Fi for commuter trains across England and Wales.
The scheme will be funded, in part, by the record-breaking fine given to Network Rail last summer for missing punctuality targets and will provide seamless mobile internet connections that will be at least 10 times better than the services currently provided.
Thameslink and Southern Rail will be among the franchises included in the scheme which means that coverage will be provided to Sutton, Carshalton, Wallington and Croydon.
The initiative will allow passengers to benefit from these enhancements as soon as possible. All new franchises and direct awards will include obligations to fit free Wi-Fi to rolling stock, but the Network Rail penalty (£47.8m) will be used to make changes to existing franchises that will not be re-let before the end of 2016.
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Commenting, Tom Brake said: “I am delighted to hear that the plans to provide free WiFi for rail services in my constituency have gone ahead! We have taken this decision to ensure that taxpayers receive better value for money and it is important that no franchise will be left for over two years without any Wi-Fi obligations.”
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Do You Know The Real History Of Air Suspension?
1st May 2014 28 Comments
Stock cars on air
Preconception is a funny thing. It seems air suspension gets a beating (pun intended) from all sides, with people talking like experts without any first-hand experience, and really very little knowledge about the origins of how it came to be. To some it might feel like a relatively new arrival on the performance scene, but as you’re about to see, it’s just not. While talking to a couple of the Air Lift team last summer, they told us about a whole raft of sponsored NASCAR and drag racers they’ve looked after since setting up shop in 1949. 1949? That’s right, air suspension been around for half the time we’ve been driving cars! So Air Lift Performance have been there, done that and taken the photo. What’s more, they’ve kept them all and collected a whole bunch of cool old product over the decades too.
In chatting with the Air Lift guys this story came about from a simple fact: there are a lot of misconceptions about air suspension. I’ve always been an advocate of air because I came from the minitruck and kustom car scenes where it’s an acceptable, scratch that, even an expected way of suspending your car. Of course, now it’s getting widespread love in the Volkswagen/Audi scene, but still, you can’t bring up the topic without someone chiming in with their objections.
What’s that you say? Air can’t be used in a performance application? It doesn’t have enough development history for you to trust it? It’s overly complex? You should read on.
First, a very brief history lesson. After World War II Air Lift founder Claud Pemberton began working on an idea for an air spring that could be installed inside a vehicle’s coil spring to boost the load-carrying capacity of nearly any car or truck. By 1949 he was ready to go into business with his new concept, but he didn’t know at that time was how much the racing world was going to embrace his idea.
I was able to go right to the source, well two of them actually, to learn and present to you this story of Air Lift’s involvement in the racing and aftermarket industries. The first wealth of knowledge is Claud Pemberton’s grandson Jody. Since Air Lift is a family-owned business, he was there to witness a lot of what you’re about to see firsthand, especially the racing. In fact, he still owns the D-500-1 from the lead image and is currently working on its restoration. Our other Air Lift historian is Chris Garlitz, a 44-year company veteran who saw and did it all. He used to drive that D-500-1, with open pipes mind you, to pick up the mail from the downtown post office.
With that out of the way, this seems like a good place to start: 1950-something in Darlington, South Carolina. These were the early days of stock car racing; drivers racing real cars that you could buy at the dealership, on dirt, sideways, and probably a little sleepy from running moonshine the night before. Those moonshine legends? There’s certainly some truth to them, and I was as surprised as you are to learn that they used Air Lift bags to keep the rear from sagging under a trunk full of illegal booze.
So with that shining endorsement, the drivers started asking for air springs in their race cars too. For example this 1950 Olds driven by Buck Baker, one of the first race cars to really demonstrate what Air Lift’s technology could do. The car had inflatable butyl rubber springs at all four corners that were filled with 1-20psi to effectively load each individual corner and influence handling as needed. 20 psi would add 150 pounds of spring rate to one corner, usually to the right side of the car since they were on a left-turning oval. The air system was installed in a parking lot with illumination from a flashlight, on the night before the race. Since then another dozen winning NASCAR drivers have piloted this very car, including Richard Petty’s dad, Lee Petty. This car is such a stock car icon that it was shipped to Goodwood a couple years ago along with Dale Earnhardt’s #3 car.
It seems the ’50s were really an exciting time for Air Lift. They were preparing high performance promo cars to go racing, sponsoring major teams and even created Air Lift Day during Daytona Beach Speed Week. It was a full day of performance tests sponsored by Air Lift – flying mile racing, acceleration tests, and even braking trials were set up to find the best drivers on the circuit. Of course, they had to wait until 3.00pm to start the festivities, that’s when the tide went out and the beach would be ideal for racing. It wasn’t all advertising hype either, legitimate records were set by professional drivers on Air Lift Day.
Seen back in Michigan before their trek down south is Archie MacMillan in the hat, an advertising guy who also hand-painted the wagon he’s leaning on. Rod McLean is on the right, he was Air Lift’s Chief Mechanic and worked on all the Air Lift-equipped race cars over the years. He’s in the Michigan Motorsports Hall of Fame now for his extensive involvement in racing since the ’50s.
Clearly Air Lift saw merit in their promotional racing efforts. That D-500-1 Challenger seen in the lead image for this story was one such promo vehicle to be raced from a standing start on Daytona Beach. Another was the ’57 Olds J-2 Rocket seen here waiting for the top five stock car drivers (L-R Herb Thomas, Buck Baker, Jim Paschal, Lee Petty, Speedy Thompson) to race a standing mile, back-to-back, all in this one car. Rumor has it the Air Lift prize money for those challenges was bigger than even the NASCAR purse at the time, and it was often the only way the winner could fund his travel to the next race.
Here’s a better shot of the Oldsmobile back in frozen Lansing, Michigan. The Air Lift guys would drive these cars straight to Daytona Beach, change the tires and oil once they got there and then let the drivers have their way with them. After the races they would turn right around and head back to Michigan. How’s that for a reliability run?
That fella looking under the hood is Bill France, racer and co-founder of NASCAR. That dumbfounded look he has on his face is because Lee Petty just set a huge record at 144mph. Notice Rod McLean again in the back with the cigar.
From 1958 to 1961 Jody’s dad, Bob Pemberton, raced for Pontiac in factory-fresh cars like this ’59 Bonneville. Bob would get a brand new Pontiac up in Michigan and drive it straight to Daytona Beach to break in the engine, transmission and wheel bearings. Once everything was freed up from the drive, he would stop off at Stephen’s Pontiac to freshen up the car before the race. The dealership actually shut down its service bays for two full weeks to accomodate the Pontiac teams. Bob won the Flying Mile and Economy Run with this car, and the relationship he built with Pontiac President Bucky Newson often proved beneficial to Air Lift on the engineering side too.
It wasn’t just promo cars that ran air suspension though, the race cars ran it too. Around this same time Air Lift got involved with Carl Kiekhaefer of Mercury Marine fame, who funded one of the most serious racing operations of the time. Liken it to the mega-teams of today like Hendrick Motorsports.
These guys were running multiple race cars, auto transports (at a time when most race cars were driven to the track) and paid good money to persuade top drivers into the Kiekhaefer cars and onto the podium. On the left is Junior Johnson and in the center is Ken Flock, unfortunately we weren’t able to identify the third driver. The Kiekhaefer team dominated for the short two years it raced, and set the standard for how a professional stock car team could be run.
By the early ’60s Air Lift was fully embedded in stock car racing, due at least in part to the Pemberton’s own interest in racing. The #1 car blasting by is another Air Lift-equipped Pontiac piloted by Paul Goldsmith. This picture was taken at the famous Milwaukee Mile, where an estimate 25-30,000 spectators packed the stands.
A bit later, at the Daytona 500 around 1969 according to Chris and Jody, we have one of their most prized images. Chris and Jody used to hand paint these pit signs back at the Air Lift shop, then go to track and add numbers for each driver. You have to remember this was before the advent of race radios, so the signs were the only way for a pit crew to communicate with the drivers about when to stop for fuel or tires. The reason the guys are so proud of this particular image is that it was put on the Associated Press wire and printed in newspapers nationwide. The next day they got phone calls from people all over the country who saw the picture with their hand painted pit boards.
Back in the early ’60s Air Lift found another niche in drag racing. When I first saw this picture I assumed it was to demonstrate the helper springs on the back of the Suburban. They’re meant to level a tow vehicle when it’s pulling a trailer after all. Jody told me that the Sub probably does have bags in the rear, but the interesting part is that the dragster had them too.
It seems the drag racers had figured out a way to adjust their suspension using air, and Air Lift had yet another racing market that wanted their product.
Back in the ’60s tire technology still had a long way to go, and racers would try anything to get some traction. Remember the altered wheelbase cars and gassers? These were merely attempts to get the rear tires to stick.
If the drag racers wanted air bags, then Air Lift wanted to be involved, and our historian Chris says he spent many a weekend at tracks around the country sponsoring racers on the spot and installing air springs for them in the pits. All the driver had to do was slap on a decal, and if he won while running the Air Lift logo he would even get a contingency payout. Chris says his installations always picked up at the end of the day as people saw other drivers winning with the Air Lift logo on their cars.
Air Lift ventured into professional quarter mile racing with Cyclones from ’65-67 and Eddie Schartman behind the wheel.
He ran an air spring on his funny cars that was mounted off the rear of the axle and connected to the torque arm to help the car bite as it launched. Apparently it worked for Eddie, because he won a lot of races using this system.
Pony cars rose to prominence in the late ’60s and Eddie piloted his most famous car, a 1969 Cougar. Jody tells me it was a beautiful car, with yellow paint that was nicer than any other funny car at the time. They came up with the name ‘Air Lift Rattler’ and the coiled snake logo became well known when a model of the car hit the toy stores. Kids would come to the races and ask for a Rattler sticker of their own. Yes, it seems Eddie and his Air Lift Rattler were good PR.
This isn’t ancient tech either, Air Lift still has a product specifically marketed for drag racing today.
They’ve seen it all
With Air Lift providing products for towing, leveling and all sorts of racing, it started to make sense that the movie industry would seek their technology at some point too. When George Barris built the original Batmobile, he called on Air Lift to provide a suspension that could be used for stunts like jumping a car or flogging it around a corner without leaning over. Chris got to work on this project through Ford, making for an understandably memorable highlight in his career.
Another Ford project was the early Bronco, which used air suspension for desert racing at the Mint 400 and Baja to keep from bottoming out on jumps. This was way before triple bypass coilovers and jounce shocks existed. Air Lift was also granted a contract to supply their product as standard equipment on Broncos equipped with snow plows after Ford dropped off a brand new truck and requested a solution for the added weight.
Lifting up saggy suspensions has always been at the core of what they do though.
It all goes back to Claud Pemberton’s initial idea for an inflatable helper spring that sat inside of a coil.
In the late ’50s and early 60s this idea was developed further into a product called the L10, seen to the far left of this photo. The idea was similar to an air shock but much more robust, with a machined piston, stamped and cast brackets, and u-bolts that attached to the axle. It proved too difficult and expensive to manufacture and was abandoned after only 18 months. A few examples remain, with one set residing on Jody Pemberton’s 1939 Dodge truck. Yes, the 50-year-old springs still hold air.
The L10 was strikingly similar to what Air Lift makes today, so it’s fair to say it was an idea ahead of its time.
As the years went on more and more people found uses for a tough inflatable bladder. One such use was for the big air bag in the middle of this shot. It was used by General Electric to manufacture the large copper windings found in electric motors. The airbag was inflated and copper wire wrapped around it, then the winding was dipped in wax before the bag was deflated and removed. Other companies found unique uses for Air Lift parts too, like leveling Coke machines and cushioning tractor seats.
Here’s Air Lift’s second building which they used in the ’50s and ’60s for everything from manufacturing, to installation, to sales. The window logos were hand painted using real gold leaf, and when the building was torn down the employees had the foresight to hire a glass cutter to remove the logos. Today Air Lift’s board room table features one of the gold leaf logos, Jody has another on his desk and they keep a couple more wrapped up for safe keeping. That’s the kind of stuff that you just don’t see anymore, and it’s worth holding onto.
I thought airbags started with minitrucks, and you thought they were a new way to stance a VW Golf, but it turns out we were both wrong. Saggy old car suspensions, overloaded trailers and stock car racing on the beach, that’s where it really started.
After 65 years of continuous innovation it’s safe to say the Air Lift guys have seen and done it all, and the result is a modern suspension system that’s bulletproof, rides great and can hang with some respectable static setups on a road course too. I think they’ve got this air suspension stuff figured out!
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A special thanks to Jody Pemberton and Chris Garlitz for their assistance with this story.
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4:34 pmMay 1, 2014 Auschwitz
Great read, more historical posts would be a nice change from reading another article about Porsche and MAGS...
4:49 pmMay 1, 2014 worker bee
Great article. Its good to read about the origins of commonly used technology and why they were developed. I have only one problem with air suspension. Weight. I am one of those persons that believe modern cars are bvery heavy and will do as much as I can to not add an extra pound to the weight of my car if necessary. I prefer the weight to go down rather than up. If air suspension can be of similar performance and similar (or lower) weight to struts and coilovers etc. then its all good.
4:51 pmMay 1, 2014 prazzi
I always wondered what sort of life span air suspensions have, a '39 with 50 year old bags... Question answered. Very cool info here, thanks
5:18 pmMay 1, 2014 Wildcardfox
Wow. I have been ignorant. I had no idea air lift has been around for so long. Cool.
6:24 pmMay 1, 2014 Speedhunters_Bryn
Wildcardfox Exactly why we put this feature together. I'm a open minded kind of guy and was neither a fan or hater of air suspension. Then I met the Air Lift guys last summer and realised I'd been missing out. It's a pretty cool history to have, so it was an obvious one for us!
@Auschwitz When the subject is suitable and interesting, I'm a big fan of these articles.
8:40 pmMay 1, 2014 Brent
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Keith, but AirLift are NOT the inventors of air suspension as you suggest in this article. The idea of air suspension was first patented as early as the 1840's ( U.S. Patent No. 4,965 "Pneumatic Springs for Railroad Cars, Locomotives, Burden-Cars, Bumpers &c."). The first production motor vehicles in the United States to be equipped with
air springs was the 1914 Owen Magnetic, and Firestone are attributed with being the creators of the modern multiple bellow airbag design:
"Roy Wilbur Brown (1891–1967), a Firestone engineer who managed a small aircraft product development group called "Research Engineering," located in the company's Akron, Ohio, headquarters during the 1930s, was the father of the two-convolution "bellows" configuration that became the first successful air spring."
Brown also installed these springs in cars in the early 30's:
"To demonstrate his product, he modified several existing car models, replacing the steel springs on a 1934 Plymouth, a 1935 Buick (Fig. 2.14), a 1936 Chrysler (Fig. 12.15), a Ford, a Cord (Fig. 2.16—in process of installation), a Studebaker, a LaSalle, a Lincoln, a Checker Cab, and an experimental rear-engine Stout "Scarab"—converting each to air suspension"
If anyone wants to read an actual history of air suspension try reading, Riding on Air: A HIstory of Air Suspension (Jack Gieck), which I took the two preceding sentences from and shows pictures of each of Roy Browns airbag installations. This is an SAE document and funnily enough makes no mention of Claud Pemberton or his supposed contribution to airbag design.
9:01 pmMay 1, 2014 KeithCharvonia
@Brent Easy buddy, this is simply the history of Air Lift as a company. I never meant to say it was a comprehensive history of the concept of air suspension itself. Perhaps the title was too general?
4:41 amMay 2, 2014 Tim F
Nice story! It's always nice to learn something new, I'm looking forward to similar stories
6:21 amMay 2, 2014 ThomasLucic
Is there any chance we could see a Speedhunters write up on the cars of early 70's NASCAR. We see bits and pieces of Daytona's and others on here from time to time, but I would love to see an in depth look a say Petty's 72' Roadrunner or Bobby Issac's K&K insurance Daytona. Not that I don't love drooling over JDM classics, ridiculously powerful drift cars, Lancia rally cars, or classic British race cars at Goodwood, I just have a soft spot for early 70's race prepped MOPARs.
8:30 amMay 2, 2014 plainpaul
Great article! Airlift is a fantastic company. They may not be the inventors of air suspension but I'm glad they have been innovating it for so long.
9:48 amMay 2, 2014 DaveT
When I went to Air Lift HQ last year I was blown away by the entire operation. I learned a bit about the history but seeing it documented like this here is awesome.
It's really wild how far air systems have come from what originally introduced me to them (trucks) and how much further things will probably keep going.
10:00 amMay 2, 2014 johnny6
@Brent Nobody is impressed by your cut/paste skills Mr. Peanut Gallery
10:09 amMay 2, 2014 Speedhunters_Bryn
plainpaul Small world fact, when I was at Air Lift in January I mentioned a plain white Golf I'd seen parked up in Columbus around 2007? Maybe summer of 2008? Corey said it was yours!
10:29 amMay 2, 2014 lachapsnl8
great article, Air Lift will definitely be my suspension of choice for my future wagon build
10:30 amMay 2, 2014 KeithCharvonia
DaveT I'm hoping to visit their facility soon too, I'm sure it's really cool in person.
ThomasLucic Definitely something to look into. This is the kind of thing that Air Lift is actually a huge help with. If they don't own a certain car themselves, they probably knows the guy who does.
2:19 pmMay 2, 2014 Big Pooky
Excellent story! I highly enjoy these historical/informational articles. I'd be very interested to see more of what Air Lift does today regarding their involvement in racing.
johnny6 Ah nobody was meant to be impressed genius, hence why I stated that I had cut/paste the info and credited the source!
But my bad I guess, I should have known that an article presented as a "History of Air Suspension" was in fact not a history of air suspension, but a summary of the early years of airlift (which were very impressive years).
5:41 pmMay 2, 2014 Lightning071
the third fellow in the ad with Junior Johnson and Tim Flock is Tim's brother Fonty Flock
2:25 amMay 4, 2014 MilesHayler
Great article. Really amazing!
8:16 amMay 5, 2014 Speedhunters_Bryn
Lightning071 Thanks for that great info!
Speedhunters_Bryn Haha! That's awesome! What were you doing in Columbus?
4:42 pmMay 5, 2014 hushypushy
Great article, Keith; well-researched and written. I learned quite a bit here.
9:12 pmMay 5, 2014 mbretschneider
Ok, now i`m wanting to test it, and i want it badly!
Thanks for make me start stuffing the piggybank , Keith
8:24 amMay 6, 2014 KeithCharvonia
mbretschneider You and me both!
hushypushy Thanks, glad you enjoyed the article.
1:12 pmJune 18, 2014 JasonLitherland
while I found all of this very interesting i'm currently looking in the modern history of air bags used in a more custom car sense. It seems that my father insist that he was one of, if not the first to use them in the 80s. He had a late 70s longbed step side chevy pick up and after a few years of winning awards, made a more radical move to adapting the air bags from transport trucks to his truck. After he did this the awards started to pour in, best in show, best truck, most inovative. Almost seemed like it struck gold in a sense. After a couple years in the early 90s cali trucks were all on bags. Where the trend started? Whos to say, but my dad, claims to have done it first..
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Book Review: Disruption (Disruption #1) by Jessica Shirvington
2014 Releases, Book Reviews, Dystopia, Young Adult
Title: Disruption (Disruption #1)
Author: Jessica Shirvington
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Genre: Dystopian, Young-Adult
Format Read: Paperback, 336 pages
Expected Publication: 1st April 2014 by HarperCollins Australia
Synopsis: “What if a microchip could identify your perfect match?
What if it could be used against you and the ones you love?
Eight years ago, Mercer Corporation’s M-Bands became mandatory. An evolution of the smartphone, the bracelets promised an easier life. Instead, they have come to control it.
Two years ago, Maggie Stevens watched helplessly as one of the people she loves most was taken from her, shattering her world as she knew it.
Now, Maggie is ready. And Quentin Mercer – heir to the M-Corp empire – has become key to Maggie’s plan. But as the pieces of her dangerous design fall into place, could Quentin’s involvement destroy everything she’s fought for?
In a world full of broken promises, the ones Maggie must keep could be the most heartbreaking.” (Taken from Goodreads)
When I was studying psychology in first year uni, I was always interested in human pheromones and how it influenced the way we develop relationships with one another. Jessica Shirvington took the idea of pheromones and turned it into a fast paced and action packed novel full of kick.
In Maggie Stevens’ present day world, M-Corp has introduced a wristband that each individual must wear. But it’s not until you turn 18, that your M-bands are equipped with the technology that allows you to rate every individual that you pass based on how their pheromones match with yours. In this present day world, people are becoming obsessed with rating each other, to the point that anyone who rates ‘negative’ three or more times a month will be taken away for questioning and sent to ‘rehabilitation’ camps.
These ‘negs’ are people that are suspected of having done something extremely unforgiving, or are expected to sometime in the future. Similar to how scientists are looking for a ‘killer gene’ or even a ‘gay gene’, this novel revolves around the idea that negs are considered dangerous and unworthy of life within common society.
Maggie Stevens is a brilliant character that’s been training and gathering intel for two years, in search of her missing father who turned neg suddenly with no explanation. Left with a shattered reputation and all her father’s debts, Maggie’s family moves from their countryside home to Arlington, Washington DC, to start a new life. Little did her mum or brother know, Maggie was on a mission to find her dad. She’s discovered that the ‘rehabilitation’ camps advertised by M-Corp are bogus, and instead they are keeping negs in underground facilities, and stripping away their identities and hopes in order to produce well-behaved and robotic human beings. Maggie will stop at nothing to save her dad, even going as far as using a ‘Disruption’ formula her dad created to manipulate M-Corp’s youngest heir to work on her side.
This novel is amazing, and it’s all because of Maggie. She’s held herself so well, given all the crap she’s had to deal with following her dad turning neg. She’s a strong person, inside and out, and has this unwavering determination that helps her get the job done. But most of all, even though she continuously puts on a cold front, deep down she’s as human as anyone else. And that’s what makes her great, because she’s empathetic and loving, making her a realistic character that you can’t help but root for.
Maggie doesn’t have many relationships in her life, but she’ll protect the people she does care about and trust. I loved her dynamic with Gus, her work manager that she’s blackmailing for his special IT skills. Gus and Maggie seem to hate each others guts, working along with each other only for their own benefits. But at the end of the day, they will always be there for each other if one’s in danger. I had so much fun reading their interactions with each other, because each is just so snippy and irritated all the time. They share a brother-sister dynamic that’s not often seen in YA novels all that much. It’s hard to beat a relationship like theirs, and I will admit it was my favourite relationship in the book.
Maggie and Quentin Mercer’s relationship began on shaky grounds, as Maggie manipulates him into thinking he’s a neg with her father’s Disruption formula, which changes a person’s pheromone signals for a short period of time. Believing Maggie had saved his ass from a neg interrogation, Quentin reluctantly works with her in exchange for a way to turn him from neg to normal for short periods. Little did he know, he wasn’t a neg a all. Maggie and Quentin’s relationship develops slowly, which I really liked. There are definitely traces of insta-like there, to push along the story, but it wasn’t distracting or the only plot of the story. Huzzah!
As an heir to M-Corp, Maggie was using Quentin to gain access to his father’s computer and files, in order to search for her missing dad. Along the way, they start to develop feelings for each other. Sneaking around in tunnels together and running for their lives really helped. Literally. Their oxytocin levels must have been out of this world. I really enjoyed Quentin as a character, whose ability to change from a stuck-up wealthy heir to an empathetic individual had always been there. From the first page, he was portrayed as someone that looked beyond just ratings, but was brainwashed by his family into someone that didn’t care. Believing he himself was a neg led him to thinking he was dysfunctional, giving him the sympathy to open his eyes to what was happening under his nose.
I really liked this world Shirvington had built. Having read a lot of dystopians in the past year, I kept forgetting that the story was based in our world, with only one difference being the M-Bands. The world is Disruption actually seems disturbingly believable, especially with our rapid technological growths every year. Will Google Glass turn into something similar to the M-Bands? Eep!
While I really enjoyed the story, I just thought the twist at the end was a bit…unbelievable. It wasn’t exactly a surprising twist, but it wasn’t exactly an ‘omg no way!’ twist either. It’s hard to explain why the twist makes no sense without ruining it, so I will just say that there are certain points that don’t add up. This by no means ruins the story in any way, but personally, I had just hoped for something different … not exactly sure what. My brain is mush I swear.
Overall, Disruption was such a brilliant and different novel. I loved the characters, I loved this world, and I’m itching to know what’s going to happen next. Ms Shirvington, you’ve done it again!
Thank you to HarperCollins Australia for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review.
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Top 5 National Parks in Rajasthan
The desert state of India, Rajasthan ironically is very vibrant with its fauna. Also known as the land of kings, Rajasthan offers spacious environs for the wild to roam around carelessly in their natural habitat. Offering a large diversity in the landscape, the state makes it easy for its ecosystem to survive together in the extremes. Ranging from the dry arid lands to lush green swamps, the state colors itself with the hues of its inhabitants. With such a variation in the land the place offers brims with an unmatchable biodiversity. The flora of Rajasthan also experiences a huge contrast because of the contrasting feature of the region. Enlisted here are top five wildlife habitats in Rajasthan that should be visited once in a life time to experience the wild first hand.
1. Ranthambore National Park
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Enclosed in an area of about 392 sq km in the Sawai Madhopur area of Rajasthan, Ranthambore National Park is one of the essential wildlife habitats of the country. Edging on a plateau, the park lies amid the two rivers of Banas and Chambal to its north and south respectively. Kela Devi Sanctuary and Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary were merged together to form the tiger reserved region and hence the Ranthambore National Park. This park is an abode to the tigers, leopard, chital, sloth bear, hyena, Nilgai and Sambhar. With its deciduous forests, plenty of banyan trees offer their shade to the wilds. The major attraction of the Ranthambore National Park is its jeep safari that lets one explore the wild.
2. Sariska National Park
Photo by Koshy Koshy, CC BY 2.0
Declared to be a wildlife reserve in the year 1955 but announced to be a Tiger Reserve in 1978, Sariska National Park lies in the Alwar District of Rajasthan. The first globally successful reserve to relocate and rehabilitate the tigers this national park once flaunted the Royal Tigers of Bengal which then disappeared and were relocated and now can be counted on the finger tips. Other local residents of the park are the Rhesus monkeys, hares, chowsinghaa, Chinkara, Nilgai, striped hyenas, wild boars caracal, golden jackals, jungle cats, sambhar and leopards. Also some beautiful birds including grey partridge, tree pie, bush quail, sand grouse, peafowl, golden backed woodpecker, could be seen chirping here.
3. Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary
Photo by Anupom sarmah, CC BY-SA 4.0
Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary is globally acclaimed to be the largest one and is the utopia for the bird watchers. The sanctuary is being named after the Keoladeo Temple that lies within the boundaries of the place. Laying close to the town of Bharatpur in Rajasthan it sprawls in an approximate area of 29 sq km. The sanctuary witnesses an ample amount of avian migrations and therefore artificial wetlands have been made and are managed by the forest department. With over 350 variants of birds that reside here over the year, the major ones are Indian Courser, White-tailed Eagles, Indian Spotted Eagles, Black-necked bills, Asian Open bill Storks, Sarus Cranes, Black Bittern, Snipe darters, Large-tailed Darters and Dalmatian Pelicans. The sanctuary could be explored both by the camel safari and the jeep safari.
4. Desert Natural Sanctuary
One of the largest Natural Sanctuaries consisting of 3162 sq km of land, Desert National Sanctuary lies near the Jaisalmer city of Rajasthan. Mainly including the desert region, the place is called the Desert Natural Sanctuary. About one-fifth of its area consists of the sand dunes and hence offers a spectacular abode to animals who are the habitants of the dry and arid regions. Desert fox, Desert Cat, Bengal Fox, Chinkara, wolf and blackbuck are the animals that could be easily sighted here. Also having a colourful avifauna contrasting with the golden sands of the desert the sanctuary also entertains birds like Great Indian Bustard, a highly endangered species that is found only in this region. Apart from that while demoiselle crane, falcons, steppe eagles and Houbara bustard are also sighted.
5. Mount Abu Sanctuary
Photo by CorrectKnowledge, CC BY-SA 3.0
Nestled in the Aravali Range of Mountains, Mount Abu Sanctuary varies in the altitudes that range from 300 meters to 1722 meters as the highest peak. With such an elevation it makes the animals comfortable to roam carelessly in the nature and also homes flora that sprawl across the hill slope abundantly. Housing animals like leopard, jungle cat, jackal, hyena, Indian Fox and porcupine, the sanctuary is known for residing the rare grey jungle fowl. It also witnesses some beautiful varieties of orchids and wild roses.
With such a biodiversity that is encompassed in Rajasthan the wildlife here is abundant and truly secure in all forms. Boasting about avian fauna and some of the most camera friendly tigers, Rajasthan is one of the best lands to experience wildlife closely.
Major Attractions in Rajasthan
Taragarh
Ranakpur
Dundlod
National Parks In Rajasthan
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary / Keoladeo National Park
Sita Mata Wildlife Sanctuary
Hill Stations In Rajasthan
Best Time To Visit Rajasthan
Haunted Places in Rajasthan
Hill Forts
Historic Places and Monuments in Rajasthan
Palaces in Rajasthan
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Fires burn Flathead Reservation, restrictions kick in
Issue Date: 8/13/2014
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Sunday, Aug. 17 update
FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION — The lightning-caused Seepay Fire burning on the Flathead Indian Reservation 20 miles west of Dixon is currently at 1,050 acres, with hot spots primarily on the western flank. Humidity and rain throughout the past three days has slowed growth considerably. A helicopter from the incident was loaned to the nearby Thompson River Complex to assist them in firefighting, and firefighters secured a historic cabin just east of the fire area. Main objectives of the Seepay Fire are to protect firefighter and public safety, and additionally to contain the fire within the Seepay-Magpie roadless area. Four fire crews and four helicopters are currently working on the fire.
At today’s 7 a.m. briefing, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Elder Pat Pierre inspired firefighters with a homily delivered in Salish and English. He related his experiences growing up in the Perma area and contrasting the fire behavior of today with the less intense and less destructive fires of his childhood. He thanked the assembled firefighters for all their efforts.
The following roads are closed due to fire activity: Seepay Creek Road from Hwy 200 up is closed. Revais, Magpie, and Vanderberg creek roads are closed from the top over into Seepay. The public can still drive up to top of Revais, Magpie, and Vanderberg. Roads at the top are closed and barricaded. Fire managers realize this may impact local Tribal residents’ huckleberry harvesting but fortunately there is such a bumper crop this year that other areas outside the fire closure are available across the tribal lands.
For the latest fire information/photos http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4077/
Updated Friday, Aug. 15
The lightning-caused Seepay Fire burning on the Flathead Indian Reservation 20 miles west of Dixon is currently at 1,038 acres, growing only eight acres since yesterday due to a light rain and thunderstorms void of high winds that accelerated the fire on Wednesday.
Today’s weather forecast calls for continued thundershowers throughout the day with a 60 percent chance of wetting rain. Temperatures are unlikely to exceed 70 degrees and relative humidity will be in the high 50-percent range, allowing firefighters to catch spots in problematic areas.
Yet the unpredictability of thunderstorms will continue to keep firefighters aware of dangers from lightning strikes and falling snags. Five crews of 195 personnel are working on the fire along with two helicopters.
Updated Thursday, Aug. 14
Wednesday afternoon rainstorms caused problems for firefighting efforts meant to suppress the Seepay fire located on the far western part of the Flathead Reservation.
Winds that occurred before the fire caused a walls of flames to race northwestward, a press release said. The fire crossed Road 2080 and approached Road 2000, as it grew 150 acres in size.
Crews were able to disengage the fire safely, but the 47 mph winds at the incident command post near Perma Bridge caused complications. A logistics yurt and numerous personal tents were damaged.
A firefighter was injured from slipping on a rock Tuesday evening, hyperextending a knee. The firefighter is expected to make a full recovery.
As of Thursday morning the fire had grown to 1,031 acres. More than 100 firefighters were working in two crews with two helicopters assisting.
Updated Wednesday, Aug. 13
The Seepay Fire, located about six miles south of Perma, has grown to 880 acres as of Wednesday, and Diane Hutton's Wildland Fire Management Team assumed control of management of the blaze on Tuesday night.
The fire is burning south of Highway 200 and is being managed with a confine and contain strategy due to the difficult terrain and heavy amounts of dead fuels.
Objectives are primarily to protect firefighter and public safety and additionally to contain the fire within the Seepay-Magpie Roadless Area.
The fire grew approximately 200 acres on Tuesday and an infrared flight on Tuesday evening showed continued intense heat on the north, west and east flanks. Crews disengaged the fire for two hours on Tuesday afternoon when erratic winds caused visibility to plummet and created a safety hazard. Fire behavior analyst Risa Lange-Navarro stated the fire is moving mostly by backing down slopes with very few crown runs. Firefighting efforts were concentrated on building contingency lines along the west side of the fire using heavy equipment to connect clear-cuts and open up the 5000 road. Firefighters also worked to keep rolling material from crossing the 2000 road. The ability of the fire to push north or south is limited by old fire scars. An Incident Command Post was erected along the Flathead River near the Perma Bridge.
Today’s weather forecast calls for a chance of thundershowers throughout the day. Erratic winds with gusts up to 30 miles per hour may accompany these storms. Temperatures for Tuesday will be in the 80’s in the valleys and 70’s on the ridge tops with humidity in the high twenties to upper thirties. Winds on the ridges will be from the southwest at 3 to 6 mph with gusts up to 15 mph while winds on the slopes will generally push upslope and upvalley at similar speeds. Today’s operations will be concentrated on continuing the construction of contingency lines and effectively distributing in-coming resources to the areas they are needed.
Another fire burning west of the reservation is contributing to the haze in Mission Valley. The Thompson Complex Fire started Friday, Aug. 1 and had grown to 1,300 acres as of Aug. 13.
According to a press release from Lolo National Forest officials, it has been difficult to draw firelines around the blaze because of difficult terrain. More than 447 firefighters and 20 aircraft are fighting the fire. A Type II team has begun management of the fire, which was 25 percent contained as of Aug. 13.
Original story below:
RONAN — Three lightning-caused wildfires are filling Mission Valley skies with smoke, and the Flathead Reservation entered Stage 1 Fire Restrictions at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, in hopes of preventing future incidents.
“We’re in full swing, as you can see with all the smoke in the air,” Division of Tribal Fire Investigator and Information Officer Devlin Lafrombois said Tuesday.
A lightning storm Aug. 2 spurred reports of 10 wildfires on the reservation. Lafrombois said authorities located five of the fires. Four have been extinguished. Other fires that weren’t found may have burned out, been put out by rain, or have not grown large enough to be noticed.
One fire ignited from the storm grew to 257 acres in size by Aug 5. The blaze is located in the Lozeau area five to seven miles west of Elmo. As of last week, the fire was contained.
“It’s not spreading anymore,” Lafrombois said.
Another fire that has been burning longer is also being monitored by tribal firefighters. The Seepay Fire, located about six miles south of Perma, was discovered July 17 in a roadless area of steep terrain with heavy downed dead material from beetle-killed lodge pole pine and sub-alpine fir timber.
Warm and dry conditions helped the fire grow from 200 acres to more than 575 acres over the weekend. The Division of Tribal Fire originally let the fire burn because the conditions were too treacherous for firefighters, but as of Monday more than 100 firefighters were working the large blaze.
A special outside team was expected to take control of the fire on Wednesday morning.
According to Tribal Division of Forestry worker Tony Harwood, air drops were scheduled to help fight the fire,
There will be heavy traffic in the area, with parts of Vanderburg Creek Road (D-3000), Magpie Creek Road (D-3000), and Three Lakes Peak Trailhead blocked off. The entirety of Seepay Creek Road (D-1000) is closed to everything except fire traffic.
“Roads will be closed for an indefinite period of time,” Harwood said.
We’ll be fighting the fire over the next couple of weeks or so.”
There are no structures close to the Seepay Fire, he added.
Another fire burning west of the reservation is contributing to the haze in Mission Valley. The Thompson Complex Fire started Friday, Aug. 1 and had grown to 781 acres in size by Aug. 10.
In the past month Tribal Fire has also dealt with three fires it believes were intentionally set in the Arlee area. The blazes did not threaten structures.
Volunteer fire departments have also been at the ready, Arlee Volunteer Fire Chief Donnie Henderson said. He had some suggestions for avoiding inadvertent blazes.
“Be careful when operating a vehicle out in the tall grass,” Henderson said. “Most cars and trucks now days are equipped with a catalytic converter. These converters run between 900 and 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This alone will ignite dry grasses.”
Henderson also suggested not parking hay equipment inside, under a building, or next to other equipment. A clear gravel spot away from dry grass is the best place to park the equipment, he said. He recommends using compressed air to blow fine chap and hay dust off equipment at the end of the day.
Be careful with your equipment that you use for haying.
“This will lessen the likelihood if a fire does occur on the equipment, that it will or could spread to other buildings or equipment,” Henderson said.
A mower blade striking hidden rock and hot woodcutters are also common causes of fire, Henderson said.
“When mowing your lawn, try to avoid mowing new areas, before checking them out by walking them,” he said. “ (With) Woodcutters use a sharp chain while cutting. This helps to keep the chip pile temperature down and is a lot easier on the saw. Have somebody act as a fire watch while you are cutting, and after you are done walk the area you just cut in to make sure that nothing is laying there smoldering.”
Both Henderson and Lafrombois reminded people that if convicted of starting a wildfire, people can receive jail time, be fined, and have to pay the costs of damages of the fire.
Stage 1 Fire Restrictions prohibit the following:
·Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire except within a developed recreation site, or improved site.
·Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site or while stopped in an area at least three feet diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials.
Stage 1 exemptions are extended to:
·Persons with a written permit that specifically authorizes the otherwise prohibited act.
·Persons using a device solely fueled by liquid petroleum or LPG fuels that can be turned on and off.
·Persons conducting activities in those designated areas where the activity is specifically authorized by written posted notice.
·Any federal, state, or local officer or member of an organized rescue or firefighting force in the performance of an official duty.
·All land within a city boundary is exempted.
·Other exceptions unique to each agency/tribe. (i.e. cultural fires, tanning fires, sweats, etc.)
Exceptions do not absolve an individual or organization from liability or responsibility for any fire started from exception activity. Lafrombois asked that people who are operating a fire under an exception rule let their local fire department know beforehand.
If anyone spots a fire, they should immediately call 911, authorities said.
Additional questions can be directed to the Division of Fire at 675-2700, ext. 6400, or fire@cskt.org.
Arlee Fire Flathead Indian Reservation Mission Valley Dixon Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
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There Are A Bunch Of People Who Think Rihanna’s Singing In Another Language On Her New Songs
Funny, the folks attacking Ri's enunciation are doing so with the worst grammar imaginable.
by VH1 1/28/2016
-By Michael Arceneaux
Less than 10 seconds into Rihanna’s new single, “Work,” featuring Drake, I started dancing like I had no self-respect. Obviously, after a few false starts, Rihanna has finally found the big hit she needs to properly launch her long-delayed new album, Anti. Now, while I know everything ain’t for everybody and that it’s often best to ignore Twitter A&R reps, there was a very Donald Trump-like critique about “Work” that I cannot ignore.
Apparently, some folks don’t like that they cannot make out exactly what Rihanna is saying on the track. Well, that’s the politically correct way of saying these fools are being prejudice as hell. Like, I imagine they say things like “BUILD THAT WALL” in their spare time.
Sample tweets include:
Does Rihanna speak English https://t.co/3yQyha7l2T
— Dean Doherty (@Dean_Dohertyy) January 27, 2016
is rihanna singing english or illegal barbodian immigrant
— CLAIRE (@cloxic) January 27, 2016
Rihanna wasn't even speaking English on her new track w/ Drake…no bueno
— PJ (@pj_walshe17) January 27, 2016
Rihanna how long have you been in the states? & you still can't speak English for me
— Blair Waldorf (@Amour_Jaya) January 27, 2016
Can't wait til @rihanna drops the English version of #Work
— Sami Jo (@TheSamiJoShow) January 27, 2016
You know, this is why a lot of folks across the globe give Americans sh-t about being terrible. To be fair, I was too busy body rolling to make out what Rih-Rih was saying on the song. But you know what? When I wanted to figure out what she was saying exactly so I could sing along probably, I turned to the internet.
And to the surprise of anyone with intellectual curiosity who isn’t terribly lazy, Google sent me to Genius who provided me with the lyrics of the song. There. Problem solved.
Do you see how easy that was for me? Awesome, now you can stop being xenophobic, insensitive pricks and follow suit.
By the way, don’t think I didn’t notice the irony in so many people attacking Rihanna’s enunciation on a dancehall record doing so with the worst grammar imaginable. You baby Stacey Dashs’ have your nerve. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to dancing to “Work.”
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Ufukuzo Road Racing Club - Barbados > Other Events >
Great Train Run
The Colin Hudson Great Train Hike is held annually on the third Sunday in February. The total distance is about 41 Km (about 25 miles).
The Hike starts at 6:00am at Independence Square in Bridgetown, although some groups start as early as 4:00am.
See here for press coverage of the hike organized by Hike Barbados and the Barbados National Trust.
Watch this video for some more info.
The 2016 Colin Hudson Great Train Hike will take place on Sunday, February 21, 2016, starting at 6:00 am at Independence Square.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY ORGANIZED RUN IN 2016. If you are an experienced trail runner (marathon distance and beyond) and wish to run the route in 2016, please review the below details and maps on www.run246.com and then email ralf@ufukuzo.com for any questions.
The entire route is on public land, but it is not marked and conditions of the trail may vary.
For details of the 2013 run see below:
The Great Train Run is a footrace open to runners and hikers.
It took place on Sunday, February 17, 2013, starting at 5:00 am at Independence Square.
The route is about 41 Km and is made up of 8 stages varying in length between 2.9 Km and 6.5 Km.
The surface consists of asphalt/concrete roads/sidewalks, cart roads and trails (woods, grass, beach).
As not everyone is willing/able to run/hike close the marathon distance, especially when it is mostly on trail, the event will had relay/team categories.
Individual (each participant runs/hikes all eight sections for a total distance of about 41km)
Team of 2 (each participant runs/hikes four sections for a total distance 18-22km)
Team of 4 (each participant runs/hikes two sections for a total distance of 8-12km)
Team of 8 (each participant runs/hikes one section with a total distance of 3-6.5km)
Team runners/hikers in the 2 and 4 category are free to choose whether to run/hike one or more of their segments consecutively or take turns.
Please go to www.run246.com for details of the 2013 Great Train Run: "A 40Km Footrace for Runners and Hikers"
The intention is to have aid stations to provide water and Powerade at the start and end of each section, i.e. every 3 to 6.5km and the route will be clearly marked.
The entry fee has not yet been determined, but will probably be in the $25 to $40 range per person, which would include water, Powerade before, during and after, a finisher medal for everyone and a few prizes for the top finishers (depending on what we get from the sponsors).
We plan to start at 5:00am, sunrise is at 6:20am, so the first two, maybe three segments will require running/hiking with a torch or headlamp.
For those who do not like running on trail at all, the last section from Cattlewash to Belleplaine is entirely on asphalt road (about 5km). The first section, from Independence Square to Salters is mostly on road.
For more information, email ralf@ufukuzo.com or go to www.run246.com
In 2010, Ufukuzo member Ralf Luther ran the entire route, starting at Independence Square in Bridgetown at 4:30 am and finishing in Belleplaine at just after 8:30 am. Jerry Harewood (stages 1 and 2), Winston Mascoll (stages 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7 and 8), Vaughn Renwick (stages 5, 6, 7 and 8) and Paulina Valencia (stage 8) provided support on various sections of the route. 2010 Pictures
In 2011, Ralf was joined by Ufukuzo members Winston Mascoll and Andre Procope on the entire route, with Victor Henken (stages 1, 2 and 8) and Vaughn Renwick (stages 5, 6, 7 and 8) providing support..
They started at 4:30 am finished at just after 9:00 am in Belleplaine. 2011 Pictures
Vaughn's blog entry of his experience in 2011.
In 2012, Winston and Ralf were joined by Ufukuzo members Lidia, Paulina and Roger (his first run beyond 20 miles) and Trinidadian visitors John (a veteran of 37 marathons) and Curtis (first run beyond 16 miles). For a third year in a row, Vaughn ran Stages 5, 6, 7 and 8. This year also saw Danielle (Stages 1, 3 and 8), Lauren, Dawn and Mark (Stages 3, 4 and 5), Rachel (Stages 3 and 4), Carla (Stages 4, 5, 6 and 7) and Eric (Stages 5, 6 and 7) running some sections of the route.
Click here for additional information for the 2012 run.
Danielle's blog entry for 2012.
Lauren's blog entry for 2012.
The Great Train Run Route
Click on the image to enlarge.
Subpages (6): Great Train Hike Press GTR 2011 GE Route GTR 2011 Stages GTR 2012 GE Route GTR 2012 Stages GTR 2015 stages
Contact: ralf@ufukuzo.com
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Back | Programme Area: Social Policy and Development (2000 - 2009)
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It is a great pleasure to introduce this work of Jean-Michel Collette. In less than 100 pages, he has succeeded in giving us a clear, complete, rigorous and highly entertaining panorama of an important facet of the intellectual history of Western Europe. It is the story of those who understood, as early as the seventeenth century, that it would be intellectually rewarding and politically useful to observe and measure the living conditions of people.
Listen to William Petty, who was not only the first to publish an estimate of the national income of England but also founded the new science of “political arithmetics”—a name widely used until it was replaced by “statistics” at the end of the eighteenth century. To justify the use of “numbers, weight and measure” in dealing with social topics, he said: “For falsity, disproportion and inconsistence cannot be rectified by any sermonications, though made all of figurate and measured periods…, [any] more than vicious wines can be remedied with brandy and honey”. Listen to Rowntree who, among other achievements, refined the “poverty line” invented by Booth and drew the distinction between “primary” and “secondary” poverty:
To raise the material standards of those in poverty may prove difficult, but to raise the mental and spiritual life to a markedly higher level will be an infinitely harder task. [Y]et on its accomplishment depends the lasting greatness of the State.… A totalitarian State does not demand high intellectual or spiritual standards from its people.… A democratic State can only flourish if the level of intelligence of the community is high and its spiritual life dynamic.
This was written in 1941. A century before, Le Play had argued that prosperity was defined not only by “material consumption” but also by “stability” of social mores and moral values. Still earlier (even before Villermé had founded empirical sociology with his famous surveys), Quételet developed new statistical techniques and Ducpétiaux classified, in 1853, households’ expenditures in three categories: expenses of a “physical and material” nature; of a “religious, moral and intellectual” type; and of a “luxurious and improvidential” type. Who could ever think that work on statistics and indicators is dry and somewhat boring?
The great human beings evoked by Jean-Michel Collette obviously were characterized by intellectual curiosity, a strong appetite for knowledge, and a burning desire to understand their society and the world. (Le Play measured the budgets of working-class families not only in Western Europe, but also in Scandinavia and in the Russian and Ottoman Empires!) They also had genuine sympathy for the subjects of their inquiries and an active interest in the reforms that their findings were to stimulate and orient. These clergymen, physicians, self-made social scientists, wealthy merchants and prominent academics worked very hard, with patience and steadiness, and with enthusiasm. With joy, it would seem. For they were convinced that it was necessary and possible to improve the human condition. Neither detached nor cynical, they studied and learned, measured and published to make a difference in their societies. No doubt they had their pettiness, their personal ambitions and quarrels, but their work and lives breathe dignity, nobility and faith. They believed in the possibility of human progress.
These same pioneers obviously had ideas and assumptions about the meaning of the social conditions they were analysing and measuring. Their minute descriptions had a purpose, and their interpretations had a theoretical framework. Some years before the French Revolution, for instance, Lavoisier assembled data to help reform the fiscal system and economic policy of his country. In the late nineteenth century, Booth embarked on the monumental work that culminated in his Life and Labour of the People of London in order to discover “the numerical relations which poverty, misery, and depravity bear to regular earnings and comparative comfort”. But their respect for facts was much stronger than their desire to prove their point. At least among those described in this superb essay, intellectual honesty and integrity appears to be beyond any doubt. Is it because Jean-Michel Collette has selected only the authors he could be comfortable with? Or is it because this line of work is simply not possible without constant preoccupation with the truth? At any rate, none of these thinkers was encumbered with a comprehensive theory of social change or an all-embracing vision of what constitutes a good society. They had moral principles and sharp intellectual tools rather than ideological convictions.
If lessons should be drawn, the virtues evoked above offer plenty of inspiration. But a few additional comments, in the form of suggestions for reflection and research, are perhaps in order. The most obvious is that this type of synthetic and yet extremely well researched and informative panorama, drawn by Jean-Michel Collette for Western Europe with an incursion into North America, should be undertaken for other regions and cultures as well. Keeping as a point of entry the assumed relationships between “good statistics” and “good government”, what is the historical experience of China, Eastern Europe, India, Japan, Latin America or the Middle East? International and national statistical techniques and publications unquestionably have their origins in the work summarized in this essay. But this is precisely one of the reasons to look elsewhere for traditions and ideas that dominant forms of modernity have ignored.
The intellectual curiosity and innovative spirit that was required in the seventeenth century to measure the levels of living of “temporal and spiritual lords”, as well as of “cottagers”, “paupers”, “common soldiers” and “vagrants”, is now required to understand and measure such phenomena as the process of economic and financial globalization, the apparent concentration of power in the hands of a new international class, and the living conditions of the unemployed and marginalized in different cities of the world. We need new typologies of social groups that would capture differences not only in income, but also in security and hope for a better future. There is certainly much work to be done in such domains and many others. But are basic concepts and basic data sufficiently questioned? Is there sufficient interrelation between the work of philosophers and sociologists and the work of statisticians and other national and international civil servants, for instance, on the conception and measurement of poverty? Could more conceptual and statistical work be done on Rowntree’s distinction between “material” and “spiritual” poverty—a distinction reaffirmed in terms of “needs” by the World Summit for Social Development, convened in Copenhagen in March 1995?
The “social investigators” and “social reformers” discussed here were disturbed, often shocked, by the misery they encountered in the households they surveyed. And they provided hard data and sober analyses to inform the ruling elite and the benevolent and educated public of this state of affairs. Although Jean-Michel Collette had no space to treat this question, he would probably agree that these writings had a role in the measures that were taken and in the progress that was achieved in Western European societies throughout these three centuries. For enormous progress was achieved, at least in material comfort. The world community as a whole, and notably the international organizations of the United Nations system, need to receive the same kind of service and the same kind of pressure from intellectuals and scientists concerned with the common good. Again, many examples could be given of such efforts. But they are dramatically insufficient.
Originally, Jean-Michel Collette prepared his essay in the context of the 1999 Copenhagen Seminar for Social Progress, organized by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The topic of this seminar was “defining, measuring and monitoring social progress and social regress”. Its report will be issued in a few months. UNRISD has also done significant work on statistics and indicators, including aggregate indices, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s. A resumption of this work, with a renewed approach, would make sense on the part of an institute with a demonstrated capacity for intellectual rigour and political imagination. The readers of the following pages will certainly agree that this is worthwhile endeavour.
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At the UN Climate Conference in Doha the “Tree of Hope” was born. The foliage of the tree has become greener and denser as people from all over the world wrote their wishes, messages, demands and fears on its green leaves. They were pinned to the tree trunk that was created by waste collected in Doha. With the “Tree of Hope” at the Doha bazaar, the site became a place of dialogue, intensive exchange of thoughts and the hope for a better future and an intercultural meeting point.
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As young people from all over the world we want to create a global identity. This should be something that our policy-makers can take with them into the negotiations where we, as youth, do not have access.
During a lunch break at a workshop we had an inspiring idea: the green thread. The image is simple, but conveys a powerful message! The green colour represents hope – for a better future and a paradigm shift; green is also the colour of nature. Indian rainforest tribes do not have a term for green per se; they have a word for every shade of green! Accordingly, it does not matter which shade of green the thread is. Every difference only symbolises the diversity of our world and why we should protect it.
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urges us to recognise the ‘fragile’ state of the thread on which the Earth hangs.
guides us and orientates us to act responsibly today for our own sake as well as for future generations.
calls us to work together to confront on global challenges. Especially the thread’s knot is a symbol for the intense cohesion and diversity.
empowers us to jointly fulfil our role as change ambassadors and actors of sustainable development.
Connects us and invites you to be part of our movement and to become active!
…weaves its way through all the world!
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Aided by artists, young people from all over the world made a big tree from discarded [building materials, flotsam and other] waste. The tree is a confronting image of our self-destructive lifestyles; a reminder of nature’s bid for survival. Seemingly, useless and carelessly disregarded objects are being upcycled as they can be found in the tree.
Through the efforts of young people from around the world, the “Tree of Hope” has taken root in many places – Berlin (Germany), Doha (Qatar), Izhevsk/Udmurtiya (Russia), Cairo (Egypt), Kathmandu (Nepal), Lima (Peru), New Delhi (India), Osnabrück (Germany), Pristina (Kosovo), Trento (Italy), Wellington (New Zealand) and Wuhan (China).
Its foliage blooms with messages, wishes, demands and ideas written on its leaves. This is its plea to society,
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The tree turns public places into sites of dialogue initiated by the youth and invites everyone to exchange ideas regardless of their age.
When in full bloom, the powerful image of accumulated ideas, demands and concerns from across the globe are directed at all stakeholders influencing processes and actions affecting the environment and our societies.
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Amelia?
By Meghan B.
Now that the massively epic two-parter start to Doctor Who's sixth season is over, we can get down to brass tacks.
What in the blazes is happening to Amy Pond?
The spunky, sexy Mrs Pond has seemingly gone through everything. She lost her fiancé, forgot he existed, was shot by him, trapped in the Pandorica and then managed to bring her parents, Rory and the Doctor back all in time to dance at their wedding. The Girl Who Waited quickly became the best companion since Donna Noble (while the Doctor is always lamentably non-ginger, he seems to pick up quite a few redheads to ride in the TARDIS).
So why does season six Amy seem so... blah?
Spoilers after the jump, Sweetie...
The big shock of the two-parter, apart from the Doctor's death, was the idea that Amy Pond may be pregnant. Possibly. Sorta. Ish. We aren't sure yet. It's very quantum. Schroedinger's fetus. You know how it goes, what with the timey and the whimey...
There is nothing I hate more in sci-fi (or any medium for that matter) than the trope of the random female pregnancy. It seems every so often a producer or writer realizes "hey, we have a female character! You know what we should do? Boom, pregnant!". I can even see the meetings in my head discussing it. There is something about each pregnancy that seems to compromise the actual female character, and Amy doesn't seem any different.
In season five, Amy had a fake pregnancy. It was the trick of an enemy aboard the TARDIS and Amy seemed rather miserable with her new home and ponytail'd husband and new bundle of joy on the way. Hopefully this will also turn out to be just a clever fake out by Stephen Moffat, but I'm not so sure and that has me nervous.
I know, Amy. I want to scream too.
The first two episodes of the new season fell short of my (rather high) expectations and one of the main reasons was Amy. While River and Rory gave outstanding performances (especially Rory on the dam), Amy seemed different that her season five self. She was still funny and snarky, but she lacked her usual spunk and sense of adventure. The death of the Doctor took the wind out of her sails and she never regained it. The daughter angle just made it worse.
I hope the normal Amy comes back soon, full of piss and vinegar, ready to give the Doctor a hard time instead of falling by the wayside. In the "Day of the Moon" episode, she spent a fair amount of time screaming, running and sobbing over the com-link. While being kidnapped is a grand companion tradition, it was almost cringe-worthy to listen to Amy cry.
Perhaps I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but I can see a marked change in Amy this season and I'm not sure I like it. I want my brave Amy back. I have my worries. Oh, and Moffat? Get another shtick. The pregnancy thing is way overdone.
Posted by Meghan B at 10:00 AM
Labels: Amy Pond, craziness, Doctor Who, Feminism, Fictional Females, gender, nerd rage, sci fi, Women in Science Fiction
mkirkland May 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Maybe she's having the Doctor's baby? There is a little Time Lord running around...
I think the change is bound to happen in a universe where the characters grow and develop. Eventually, I reckon Amy will pop out on top. Moffat has some dark sensibilities, but he's good at happy endings, too. He likes his fairy tales - and people are happy at the end of fairy tales.
Knight_of_Pentacles here from io9: I'm somewhat in agreement with you about Amy being sidelined in these first two episodes. However, I'd hold on till we see her in Episode 3, "The Black Spot". From the previews we've seen so far, it looks like she's going to be involved in some serious swashbuckling! Pirate regalia and swordplay! Seems like she will have a significant role in saving The Doctor and Rory from something bad.
Little Sara N May 10, 2011 at 7:44 AM
So very much in agreement with your pregnancy sentiments! Whenever I hear a sci fi female utter "I'm pregnant" what I'm really hearing is a male writer saying "I ran out of ideas". Possible exception? Zoe explaining to Wash how a little space baby would mess up there lives. More Zoe, less Amelia.
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Robert Maxwell was the son of Sir George Maxwell of Orchardtoun, 5th Bt. and Margaret Maxwell.1 He died circa 1740 at Douai College, Douai, France.1
[S8355] William Fraser, The Book of Carlaverock: memoirs of the Maxwells, Earls of Nithsdale, Lords Maxwell & Herries (Edinburgh: n.p., 1873), page 591. Hereinafter cited as The Book of Carlaverock.
Sir Robert Maxwell, 7th Bt.1
M, #699362, d. 21 September 1786
Sir Robert Maxwell, 7th Bt. was the son of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1 He married Margaret Maclellan, daughter of Robert Maclellan of Barscobe.1 He died on 21 September 1786.1
He was educated at Douai College, Douai, France.1 He fought in the Battle of Culloden in 1745, where he was taken prisoner.1 He succeeded as the 7th Baronet Maxwell, of Orchardtoun [N.S., 1633] on 3 February 1761.1 On his death, his baronetcy became extinct.1
Margaret Maclellan1,2
F, #699363, d. March 1772
Margaret Maclellan was the daughter of Robert Maclellan of Barscobe.2 She married Sir Robert Maxwell, 7th Bt., son of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1 She died in March 1772.1
Her married name became Maxwell.1
[S8368] Adrian Radcliffe, "re: Maxwell Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 21 July 2017. Hereinafter cited as "re: Maxwell Family."
Ann Maxwell1
Ann Maxwell is the daughter of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1
Barbara Maxwell1
Barbara Maxwell is the daughter of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1
Henrietta Maxwell1
Henrietta Maxwell is the daughter of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1
Elizabeth Maxwell1
Elizabeth Maxwell is the daughter of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1
Agnes Maxwell1
Agnes Maxwell is the daughter of Mungo Maxwell and Mary Cairns.1
Robert Maxwell is the son of Robert Maxwell of Blackbelly and Elizabeth Maxwell.1 He married Elizabeth Henry at Kelton, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.1
Children of Robert Maxwell and Elizabeth Henry
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The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM 2018) is being hosted by the UK Government this week.
Post- Brexit, UK is working hard to rebuild trade relations with members of the Commonwealth. In recent years Britain has concentrated on doing business within the EU and in many ways ignored the Commonwealth.
The UK is also moving away from the rest of Europe and it will be interesting to see what the British Government has to offer to the rest of the world post-Brexit. CHOGM 2018 will in some way show the rest of the world the economic roadmap of post-Brexit Britain.
All eyes on Modi
The leader who will be most awaited and watched will be PM Modi. He has become a powerful world leader and well respected too. Once again the Bhartiya diaspora is preparing to give him a really warm welcome.
Interestingly, Mr. Modi will be the only leader with whom the British Premier will have bilateral talks on the sidelights of CHOGM2018.
Bhartiya is now the fastest growing economy in the World. The ease of doing business in Bhartiya has also improved by a big margin from 136th position to 103 making it amongst the top 100 countries to do business with.
This is a remarkable jump and reflects the major reforms that PM Modi and his government have implemented. This also reflects the fact that these reforms are being looked at as positive changes in the World.
The Bhartiya economy has further jumped in the World rankings and is now set to become the 5th biggest in the World, surpassing France and UK.
PM Modi’s economic reforms and policies have aimed to improve the life of the average person by putting more money in his or her pocket. This makes sense because if the average person is happy and satisfied, the society will live in peace and work towards economic progress. In this context, it is notable that the Government recently introduced free medical care for the poor. This is unprecedented and never happened in the past. There is increasing attention and support provided to the farmers, whose plight was being ignored leading to many suicides.
Bold Reforms
There are certain quarters who have been critical about Modi while quoting examples of excessive Hindutva, corruption etc. One can debate about these but no one can dispute the argument that the Bhartiya economy has now been brought on a stronger footing by the current Government. Moreover, it takes a lot of effort to implement major changes. Yet this government has demonstrated its capability to bring in bold reforms such as demonetization and GST.
Would you rather have a Government that does nothing or one that keeps on trying with new and bold reforms, even if some of these might not be as effective or perhaps slower in achieving the desired objective?
All this begs the question of whether one allows this Prime Minister to continue in 2019 or to take a risk of an alternative regime that may risk the future.
In my past dealings with Mr. Modi, I have always seen him as a promoter of business and investment. I am now seeing a different dimension in him. He has clearly embarked on improving the worth of the average person of India. Today,
22% of India’s population still lives below the poverty line but this figure is an improvement from the past. Nevertheless, poverty alleviation still remains a challenge. The economic reforms will work to improve the position and also help grow the economy further.
Opportunities galore!
For the UK, Bharat represents a huge market to target.
Whilst Bharat and UK are both 3rd biggest investors in their respective countries, the trade statistics are rather disappointing.
UK exports to Bharat have remained static since 2000 whilst exports to the rest of EU have tripled in the same period. The UK has a lot of work to do but there also lies a great opportunity. The reforms and changes in Bharat over the years make it a near developed economy vastly different from 50 years ago when many UK Companies started to reduce their focus on India as they found it difficult to business there.
Time has come again to mark the needs of the over 300 million strong middle class of Bharat. It is this group which is earning a good income, creating wealth and aspiring to become international citizens with similar spending power.
There are also opportunities for UK companies to develop corporate transactions with Bhartiya companies who are looking for collaboration on technology, skills transfer, joint ventures for mutual benefit etc.
Bharat has now risen to a position where Britain can longer look down upon her as an economy that does not matter but a country that has great potential and must be addressed as an equal partner. Already, the rest of Europe has seen a tremendous increase in their exports to India. The UK has always had a strategic advantage with Bharat given the common language and the 1.3 m Bhartiya diaspora connection.
Time has come for Britain to view Bharat afresh as the latter is no more a country it was 30 years ago.
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Porsche E-Performance is everything that you expect from a Porsche. And more. It is goose bumps. G-f...
Porsche E-Performance is everything that you expect from a Porsche. And more. It is goose bumps. G-forces. Adrenalin. Because we are not satisfied with merely boosting efficiency when we can take performance and driving pleasure to the limits at the same time. There is a good reason why all of our experience and successes in motor sports have a major influence on development.
The core of Porsche E-Performance is the vehicle. Our plug-in hybrid technology therefore has to meet two strict requirements. Firstly, it must drastically reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Secondly, it must deliver an experience that pushes the driver firmly back into the seat. Which is precisely the right place to be in a Porsche.
It takes courage to try out something new. Of course, this is something we knew already. And yet we stick to this principle. It therefore almost goes without saying that our next step when it comes to Porsche E-Performance should involve a Sports Car that has revolutionised the saloon segment.
The result of our work combines performance and practicality in equal measure. A hybrid drive that perfectly combines the combustion engine and electric machine. For your everyday life. For an outstanding driving experience. For the future of the Sports Car.
A few years ago, everything to do with the saloon suddenly changed. Large, cumbersome and thickly pa...
A few years ago, everything to do with the saloon suddenly changed. Large, cumbersome and thickly padded instantly seemed outmoded qualities. On the road, something happened – something rather fast and dynamic: a sports car came along. A sports car with four seats, an unmistakable silhouette and performance figures normally associated only with a Porsche.
The Panamera. It changed everything. For drivers of saloons first and foremost. Sporting spirit – in business and in personal life – found its automotive counterpart. The courage to perform found a matching performer.
Now the change continues. Forwards. On the road, something is happening again. For sporty drivers – and their sporty companions – our engineers and designers have created the next Panamera. With the courage of a new generation.
Our engineers have demonstrated their courage with the Panamera concept. By continually re-evaluating and reinventing. By reconciling apparent contradictions: performance and comfort, dynamics and efficiency, career and family. And by forever remaining true to our roots, with shared traits like the ignition lock on the left and the rev counter in the middle – in short: typical Porsche DNA.
Chassis control systems, such as Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport), Porsche 4D Chassis Control, three-chamber air suspension or rear-axle steering, intensify the driving experience.
Assistance systems, such as Porsche InnoDrive, make it safer and more relaxing. Thanks to Porsche Connect, all new models are connected to the digital world. Just what you need when you’re on a journey to the future.
The new Panamera. Courage changes everything.
Executive Models
The new Panamera Executive models combine sporty driving with a comfortable work zone in the rear co...
The new Panamera Executive models combine sporty driving with a comfortable work zone in the rear compartment – thanks to an extra 15 cm added to the length of the body, which benefits the rear passengers the most. Visual hallmarks of the Executive models are silver-coloured elements in the slats of the front air intakes and above the sideskirts. The air outlet trims in the front wings are in silver colour with a high-gloss finish.
The standard specification includes adaptive air suspension, a panoramic sunroof, side airbags in the rear compartment and a rear roll-up sunblind. Particularly pleasant: power seats in the rear compartment with seat heating and comfort headrests.
Panamera 4S Executive and Turbo Executive models are additionally equipped with rear-axle steering, ParkAssist including reversing camera and soft-close doors. Standard in the Panamera Turbo Executive: four-zone air conditioning system.
Does a sporty saloon really have to look like a saloon? Or can it look rather more athletic? With a ...
Does a sporty saloon really have to look like a saloon? Or can it look rather more athletic? With a taut roof line, for example, that displays a sleek and harmonious contour more likely to be associated with a two-seater?
The silhouette and proportions of the new Panamera models are more Porsche than ever. Clearly perceived rounded transitions, powerful muscles and a sharpened sports car silhouette emphasise the precision of the new design.
The wheelbase is 3 cm longer than that of the predecessor – the shorter overhang at the front and the longer overhang at the rear lend visual dynamism. The more prominent sculpting of the side creates the customary Porsche waistline and sense of lightness.
A stunning identifying feature at the front: LED main headlights with four-spot daytime running lights. Distinguishing features in Acid Green: brake callipers, instrument cluster pointers, border of the "e-hybrid" logos on the front doors and the model designation on the tailgate.
Characteristic features of all Panamera models: the light strip on the rear end and the slimline three-dimensional LED taillights with four-spot brake lights. The extending rear spoiler integrated into the body reduces lift at the rear axle at high speeds.
The interior has been completely restyled – and nevertheless remains typically Porsche. The centre c...
The interior has been completely restyled – and nevertheless remains typically Porsche. The centre console ascends towards the front. The dashboard is flat and conspicuously wide. The analogue rev counter is positioned in the middle of the instrument cluster.
Also new is the control concept: Porsche Advanced Cockpit. The centre console with Direct Touch Control has a surface in glass look featuring touch-sensitive buttons for direct access to the most important functions. In between: the compact gear selector. A high-resolution 12-inch touchscreen display is integrated into the dashboard. In conjunction with optional four-zone automatic climate control, the passengers in the rear also have a touchscreen display of their own. Two high-resolution screens, one to the right and one to left of the rev counter, display virtual instruments, maps and a range of other information.
Above all, though, there is plenty of space and comfort. Not so typical of a sports car. Absolutely typical of the new Panamera.
The all-new twin-turbo V6 engine in the Panamera 4S and twin-turbo V8 engine in the Panamera Turbo a...
The all-new twin-turbo V6 engine in the Panamera 4S and twin-turbo V8 engine in the Panamera Turbo are lighter and more compact than their predecessors and come equipped with VarioCam Plus. Their two turbochargers are now positioned in between the cylinder banks. This reduces the distance that the exhaust stream has to travel to reach the respective turbo – delivering a more rapid response.
The twin-turbo V8 engine of the Panamera Turbo is equipped with twinscroll turbines. The exhaust streams arrive at the turbine wheel through physically separate channels – for optimised gas cycles. The result: high torque even in the low rpm range.
When you're in the lead, you have to keep going. And here's the proof ‒ the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid. The high-performance hybrid realises its full potential with a powerful 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine and an electric machine. Together they speak a clear language, namely performance.
New 8-speed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK)
Getting more power from an engine is worthwhile only when you know where it needs to go. And how qui...
Getting more power from an engine is worthwhile only when you know where it needs to go. And how quickly and effectively. The latest Panamera models are therefore equipped with a newly developed 8-speed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), which translates the tremendous drive force of the respective engine into the acceleration expected of a sports car.
Gears 1 to 6 have a sports ratio and top speed is reached in 6th gear. 7th and 8th gear have a long ratio, which helps to keep engine revs low even at high road speeds – for efficient and comfortable driving over long distances. The precise gearshifts take place in milliseconds with no discernible interruption in the flow of power – as you would expect of a sports car.
All Panamera – except the Panamera with turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 engine and rear-wheel drive – mode...
All Panamera – except the Panamera with turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 engine and rear-wheel drive – models are equipped with Porsche Traction Management (PTM). This active all-wheel drive with electronic and map-controlled multi-plate clutch ensures the optimum distribution of drive force whatever the driving situation – for excellent acceleration power on long straights, through tight corners and on road surfaces with varying grip.
The multi-plate clutch regulates the distribution of drive force between the rear axle and the front axle. Driving conditions are constantly monitored, enabling the system to respond to a variety of situations. Sensors check, among other variables, the rotation speeds of all four wheels, the longitudinal and lateral acceleration of the vehicle, and the steering angle. If the rear wheels threaten to spin under acceleration, a greater proportion of drive force is distributed to the front by a more powerful engagement of the multi-plate clutch.
Whether you’re behind the wheel or occupying a passenger seat in the front or rear: in a Porsche, ev...
Whether you’re behind the wheel or occupying a passenger seat in the front or rear: in a Porsche, every drive should feel like sport, not transport. With comfort, not cosy cuddles.
The chassis of the new Panamera models performs this balancing act between sport and comfort effortlessly – and in the most masterful way possible: with further-developed, optional chassis technologies. Examples include the adaptive air suspension with threechamber technology boasting a 60 % greater air capacity than that of the predecessor, new Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) and rear-axle steering. What’s also new is the integrated Porsche 4D Chassis Control system, which centrally analyses the driving situation in all three spatial dimensions, e.g. pitch, roll and yaw, computes optimum driving states from these data, and synchronises all chassis systems in real time: the fourth dimension. The objective is to optimise overall performance, and to make the middle ground between sporty driving and comfort as expansive as possible.
Available for the Panamera models for the first time: optional rear-axle steering. It enhances perfo...
Available for the Panamera models for the first time: optional rear-axle steering. It enhances performance and everyday driveability in equal measure.
During low-speed manoeuvres, the system steers the rear wheels in the opposite direction to that of the front wheels. This has the virtual effect of shortening the wheelbase. The turning circle is reduced, agility is increased and parking becomes noticeably easier to manage.
During high-speed manoeuvres, the system steers the rear wheels in the same direction as that of the front wheels. This virtual extension of the wheelbase increases driving stability.
Rear-axle steering makes it clear that there is no contradiction between stability and agility or performance and everyday driveability. The result: greater manoeuvrability and driving safety in everyday use – and a significant increase in maximum driving performance.
PASM is an electronic damping control system. It actively and continuously adjusts the damping force...
PASM is an electronic damping control system. It actively and continuously adjusts the damping force on each wheel, based on current road conditions and driving style. The effect is to reduce vehicle body movement and thereby improve comfort in all four seats.
Three modes are available: ‘Normal’, ‘SPORT’ and ‘SPORT PLUS’. Sensors record the body movements as they occur during powerful acceleration, braking, fast cornering or on uneven road surfaces. From these data, the control unit of the Porsche 4D Chassis Control system determines the effect on the actual driving state of the car and modifies the damping force on each of the wheels in accordance with the selected mode. The results are tangible: increased driving stability, improved comfort and enhanced performance.
Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) including Porsche Torque Vectoring Plus (PTV Plus)
New Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) is an active roll stabilisation system with a...
New Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) is an active roll stabilisation system with an ultra sporty setup. It registers the lateral inclination of the body induced by cornering from the very outset and acts to suppress it. The system also reduces the lateral instability of the vehicle on uneven ground.
The new system sees the introduction of active electromechanical anti-roll bars. These provide a much faster response and are tuned for sporty driving. The result: improved performance.
In combination with new PDCC Sport, PTV Plus enhances driving dynamics and stability. As a function of steering angle and steering speed, accelerator pedal position, yaw rate and vehicle speed, it improves steering response and precision by strategic braking of the right or left rear wheel. At high speeds and when accelerating out of corners, the electronically controlled rear differential lock with fully variable torque distribution also acts to provide greater driving stability and traction.
The overall result? Strong resistance to destabilising side forces for self-assured poise. Excellent traction. Great agility at every speed – with precise turn-in and well-balanced load transfer characteristics. And, accordingly, even more fun in the corners.
We rise to the challenge we’re given. The same applies to the wheel dimensions of the new Panamera. ...
We rise to the challenge we’re given. The same applies to the wheel dimensions of the new Panamera. The tyres are wider, the contact surface larger – for enhanced performance under acceleration and braking. As of now, optional sizes of up to 21 inches are available from a range of wheel designs, assuring you of a grand appearance. The Panamera models are equipped as standard with 19-inch wheels, the Panamera Turbo 20-inch wheels. The material? Alloy, of course. The design? Classic and sporty. A choice of other 19-, 20- and 21-inch wheels is available on request.
With SPORT mode, you can swap from a comfort-oriented tuning to a sporty setup. The electronic engin...
With SPORT mode, you can swap from a comfort-oriented tuning to a sporty setup. The electronic engine management system demands a sharper response. Engine dynamics become more direct. In SPORT mode, PDK shifts up later and shifts down sooner. Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) and optional Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) and rear-axle steering also switch to SPORT mode, delivering harder damping and more direct turn-in – and even greater agility through corners.
Sport Chrono Package including mode switch
Adrenaline at the push of a button: the Sport Chrono Package offers an even sportier tuning of the c...
Adrenaline at the push of a button: the Sport Chrono Package offers an even sportier tuning of the chassis, engine and transmission. The kit includes a digital and analogue stopwatch, a graphic in the instrument cluster showing longitudinal and lateral acceleration, and a performance display for viewing lap times in Porsche Communication Management (PCM).
What’s new is the mode switch on the steering wheel with SPORT Response button, derived from the 918 Spyder. Four driving modes are available to choose from: ‘Normal’, ‘SPORT’, ‘SPORT PLUS’ and ‘Individual’ – for an even more personalised driving style.
In SPORT mode alone, the new Panamera delivers increased dynamics and more direct handling. In SPORT PLUS mode, the engine becomes even more responsive. The rev-limiter is adjusted to a harder setting. Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) and Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control Sport (PDCC Sport) are retuned for harder damping and more direct turn-in. The adaptive air suspension drops to Low Level and firms the spring rate. The rearaxle steering acts to provide even greater agility. Another function included in the package is Launch Control – for optimum acceleration from a standing start.
The stopwatch mounted on the dashboard displays recorded driving time or can be used as a conventional clock. Porsche Communication Management (PCM) is upgraded to include a performance display, enabling you to view, store and evaluate laps or other driving times.
Pressing the button in the centre of the mode switch primes the engine and transmission for the fastest possible unleashing of power (e.g. for overtaking).
In other words, maximum responsiveness – for a period of approximately 20 seconds.
In conjunction with the Sport Chrono Package, Porsche Stability Management (PSM) is supplemented by a ‘Sport’ mode. It allows a significantly more sporty driving style, with PSM remaining active in the background. For a further enhancement to your driving experience.
For over 60 years, we’ve been working on being faster. Even when it comes to slowing down. That’s wh...
For over 60 years, we’ve been working on being faster. Even when it comes to slowing down. That’s why the new Panamera models are equipped with a brake system having six-piston aluminium monobloc fixed brake calipers at the front and four-piston equivalents at the rear. The brake discs are internally vented and slotted. This improves braking behaviour even under extreme conditions and heat is dissipated more effectively. The one-piece brake calipers have an enclosed construction. This makes them lighter yet highly resistant to deformation. Pedal travel is tight, the pressure point precise, the braking distance impressively short.
Proven in motorsport, Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB) is available as an option. For the new ...
Proven in motorsport, Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB) is available as an option. For the new Panamera models, the cross-drilled ceramic brake discs of PCCB now have a diameter of 420 mm at the front and 390 mm at the rear – for even more formidable braking performance. PCCB features 10-piston aluminium monobloc fixed brake calipers on the front axle and four-piston units at the rear – all painted in yellow – to provide braking forces that are considerably more powerful and, crucially, are exceptionally consistent. PCCB enables shorter braking distances in even the toughest road and race conditions. Safety under high-speed braking is also improved thanks to its excellent fade resistance. Another advantage of PCCB is the extremely low weight of the ceramic brake discs, which are approximately 50 % lighter than standard discs of a similar design and size. This results in better roadholding and increased comfort, particularly on uneven roads, as well as greater agility and a further improvement in handling.
LED main headlights including Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS)
Available as an option for all Panamera models, fitted as standard to the Panamera Turbo: LED main h...
Available as an option for all Panamera models, fitted as standard to the Panamera Turbo: LED main headlights including Porsche Dynamic Light System (PDLS) with dynamic range adjustment, dynamic cornering lights and speedsensitive headlight range control. For enhanced near-field, lateral and far-field illumination – and added safety.
Even greater foresight is achieved with LED main headlights featuring matrix beam technology. The ma...
Even greater foresight is achieved with LED main headlights featuring matrix beam technology. The matrix beam strategically deactivates specific segments of the permanent main-beam cone. Eighty-four individually controlled LEDs adapt to the situation ahead by switching off or dimming accordingly. Vehicles in front or in the oncoming lane are no longer dazzled, while the areas in between and to the side continue to receive full illumination. To optimise target fixation, not only are the lights selectively dimmed to fade out oncoming vehicles, the area to the right of the light void is lit more brightly for better guidance of the driver’s visual attention. What’s more, segment-specific dimming of highly reflective traffic signs also acts to avoid driver dazzle. LED main headlights with matrix beam including PDLS Plus: bright, homogeneous, safe.
PDLS Plus, which includes all the functions of PDLS, now comes for the first time with electronic cornering lights and an intersection assistant function based on navigation data. As you approach a crossroads or T junction, the intersection assistant function activates the left and right cornering lights, and the light cone becomes wider and shorter – for enhanced illumination of your surroundings.
Night View provides the driver with information even beyond the range of the headlights. An infrared...
Night View provides the driver with information even beyond the range of the headlights. An infrared camera detects pedestrians or large wildlife before they are illuminated by the headlights. A thermal image in the instrument cluster warns the driver: the detected person or animal is highlighted in yellow – or in red and accompanied by an audible signal if within the critical range in front of the vehicle. In combination with PDLS Plus, the marker light function briefly flashes the headlight at the pedestrian on the kerbside or in the carriageway three times to alert the driver’s attention.
This system regulates the speed of your Panamera fully independently in line with the speed of the v...
This system regulates the speed of your Panamera fully independently in line with the speed of the vehicle in front. Radar sensors inside the front end scan the road ahead. Let’s imagine you’ve selected a cruising speed but have begun to gain on the vehicle in front because it is driving more slowly – the system reduces the speed of your vehicle by restricting throttle or gently applying the brakes until your chosen distance from the vehicle in front is restored.
Your Panamera now continues to maintain this distance from the vehicle ahead. If it brakes even more, adaptive cruise control will reduce your speed accordingly – even down to a halt. As soon as the road ahead clears, your vehicle will accelerate back up to the cruising speed originally set.
Those who drive a Porsche want to drive. The more sporty, more comfortable, more efficient and more ...
Those who drive a Porsche want to drive. The more sporty, more comfortable, more efficient and more safe the drive the better. Porsche InnoDrive assists you in a completely new way.
The system enhances adaptive cruise control with additional, innovative functions.
It predictively optimises your speed. With the aid of high-resolution navigation data and information supplied by the radar and video sensors, Porsche InnoDrive determines speed limits and topographical road features, such as gradients or corner radii, along your route even before you reach them – and modifies the gearshift strategy and speed of the Panamera accordingly. For intelligent driving and a significant efficiency advantage.
You can adapt the driving feel by pressing the SPORT button. Depending on the mode, the system selects the optimum parameters for engine management and gear selection, including coasting and deceleration.
Implemented for the first time at Porsche in the Panamera, the system uses the knowledge gained from its prediction horizon of up to three kilometres to formulate the optimum timing for acceleration, constant speed driving and deceleration phases to provide a harmonious driving experience.
Imagine, for example, that a speed restriction is in force further along the route but the traffic sign is not yet in sight of the driver: the system already knows that deceleration will be required and initiates a fuel-saving coasting manoeuvre.
Porsche InnoDrive represents the typically Porsche realisation of efficient driving – for greater comfort and greater driving pleasure.
Another feature of Porsche InnoDrive including adaptive cruise control is Traffic Jam Assist. It eases the burden on the driver when congestion is encountered on major inter-urban roads and motorways.
At speeds of up to approximately 60 km/h, the system uses gentle steering inputs to keep the vehicle in the middle of the lane, regulates the distance from vehicles in front and follows the queue ahead where system limitations allow. To do this, Traffic Jam Assist tracks roadway markings and other vehicles on the carriageway. The benefit? Appreciable stress relief and greater comfort on long journeys.
* The assistance provided by Porsche InnoDrive is subject to system limitations. The driver must monitor driving style at all times and intervene in cases of doubt. The system can be overridden at any time by use of the brake or accelerator pedal.
Porsche InnoDrive is not available in some countries.
Lane Change Assist uses radar sensors to monitor the areas to the rear of the vehicle and the blind ...
Lane Change Assist uses radar sensors to monitor the areas to the rear of the vehicle and the blind spots on either side. As you move to change lane, the system issues a visual warning signal in the exterior mirrors if another vehicle is rapidly approaching your vehicle from behind or is residing in one of your blind spots. The function can be activated in PCM as required. For greater comfort and safety, especially on the motorway.
During low-speed turns, new Turn Safety Assist improves safety at the rear. Once you’ve arrived at an intersection, Turn Assist issues a visual warning if it detects objects approaching in the blind spots behind your vehicle.
Lane Keeping Assist including traffic sign recognition and cornering notification
Lane Keeping Assist is a camera-based system for automatic detection of divider line markings on the...
Integrated traffic sign recognition uses a camera and navigation data to detect speed limits and ‘no overtaking’ zones and to infer local traffic codes (e.g. from boundary signs). Information is displayed in the instrument cluster. The advantage over information stored in the navigation database is that even temporary speed restrictions can be detected.
New for Porsche is the cornering notification, an enhancement to the traffic sign recognition function. Based on navigation system data and camera recognition of cornering road signs, the system displays an arrowed direction warning on the instrument cluster display alerting you to tight corners. Long before you reach them.
ParkAssist including reversing camera and Surround View
ParkAssist is fitted in all Panamera models and audibly alerts the driver to the presence of obstacl...
ParkAssist is fitted in all Panamera models and audibly alerts the driver to the presence of obstacles detected to the front and rear of the vehicle. The audible alert is supplemented by a visual warning on the central display screen.
The optional reversing camera facilitates precise reverse parking and manoeuvring and also assists in hitching a trailer. Help is provided in the form of the camera image and the dynamic, superimposed guidelines on the PCM screen, which illustrate the predicted course of the vehicle given the current position of the steering wheel.
The optionally available Surround View system supplements the reversing camera with three more high-resolution cameras – one in the front apron and one in each lower trim of the exterior mirrors. Based on the information supplied by all four cameras, the system generates a virtual bird’s eye view of the car and displays it on the PCM screen. It is also possible to switch between various camera views to improve visibility, e.g. at narrow exits.
The tinted glass panels of the new panoramic sunroof on the Panamera models create a particularly br...
The tinted glass panels of the new panoramic sunroof on the Panamera models create a particularly bright and pleasant lighting mood in the interior. The two-piece panoramic sunroof can be tilted and opened electrically at the front.
Sporty, for an outing on the racetrack. Comfortable, for a long journey in a party of four. There is...
Sporty, for an outing on the racetrack. Comfortable, for a long journey in a party of four. There is no ‘either–or’. That’s the Panamera. Its ingenious sports car ergonomics are centred on the driver and on performance – without disregard for the well-being of passengers.
Let’s give you some examples. Ascending centre console: enabling swift hand movements from the steering wheel to the gear selector. New control and display concept: Porsche Advanced Cockpit with newly styled centre console in glass look and touch-sensitive buttons arranged in logical groups. High-resolution 12-inch touchscreen display. Instrument cluster with analogue rev counter positioned in the middle, flanked on the left and right by two high-resolution displays. Multifunction sports steering wheel.
In the new Panamera Executive models, you have even more legroom. Power seats with specially contoured comfort headrests are included in the standard specification. Optional additions, such as a large centre console or folding tables, make the rear compartment an even more agreeable working environment.
Large rear centre console and folding tables
Available as an option for the Panamera Executive models, the large centre console for the rear compartment provides not only extra storage space, but also another smartphone compartment for optimum reception, additional USB interfaces as well as a 12 V and a 230 V socket.
In conjunction with the large centre console, folding tables are available for the rear compartment on request. Folded away, they are concealed inside the large centre console. For use, they fold out manually – aeroplane-style – and adjust for distance.
Ambient lighting with rear interior lighting
Optional ambient lighting with rear interior lighting is an indirect lighting concept designed to enhance passenger comfort. You can choose from seven lighting colours and customise their intensity.
And what else? You decide: seat variants, leather or two-tone interior schemes? Fine woods, aluminium or carbon? More sporty? More luxurious? Both? Thanks to our extensive range of personalisation options, the possibilities for you and your wishes are virtually boundless.
A cinematic experience enjoyed in the second row: new Porsche Rear Seat Entertainment has been speci...
A cinematic experience enjoyed in the second row: new Porsche Rear Seat Entertainment has been specially developed to appeal to the discerning taste of a Porsche passenger and offers a fully integrated and networked infotainment system for on the move. Both units are removable, making them convenient to use outside the vehicle, too.
Porsche Rear Seat Entertainment connects to Porsche Communication Management (PCM) via WLAN to provide access to the radio, media, navigation system and vehicle functions of your Panamera. A wealth of entertainment awaits, thanks to two separate 10-inch touchscreen displays on the front seat backrests, an internal 32-GB memory, micro SD card slot, micro USB interface, Bluetooth® and NFC (near field communication). Through the connection to the WLAN router of the Connect Plus module, you also gain access to the Internet and up to one million apps and games, to movies and music, audiobooks, e-books and productivity applications from the GOOGLE® Play Store.
For an unrestricted listening experience, the sound can be output from the integrated loudspeakers, the in-car sound system or the wireless Bluetooth® headphones.
Analogue meets digital: the new instrument cluster of the Panamera models is reminiscent of Porsche ...
Analogue meets digital: the new instrument cluster of the Panamera models is reminiscent of Porsche motorsport history – and, at the same time, it is as modern as only it can be.
In the middle and in direct view of the driver is the analogue rev counter, its needle integral to its truly classic design. To the left and right, two high-resolution displays provide you with a variety of information as and when you need it, such as the navigation map or Night Vision Assist.
On the left-hand side of the rev counter is the speedometer. In its centre, you can see data relating to adaptive cruise control, for example. In the display field on the outside left, you can choose to show the speed limit indicator, traffic sign recognition or the outside temperature.
On the right-hand side, the possibilities are even more varied. The inside display field is occupied by information from the on-board computer, the fuel gauge or the residual range. In the field on the outside right, you can see the time. And there’s also the option of viewing the map of the navigation system.
The front seats offer a high level of comfort and provide support in fast corners without restrictin...
The front seats offer a high level of comfort and provide support in fast corners without restricting freedom of movement. The seat height, squab and backrest angles and fore/aft position are electrically adjustable.
The Panamera Turbo is equipped with 14-way power seats including memory package in the front. These add seat squab length adjustment and four-way lumbar support for the driver and front passenger. The memory function stores settings for seats, steering column, both exterior mirrors and other personalised in-car settings.
Adaptive Sports seats
Available as an option, adaptive Sports seats (18-way, electric) including memory package provide even better lateral support – thanks to the elevated side bolsters on the seat squab and backrest. Electrically adjustable, they offer comfort on long journeys and made-to-measure lateral support in the corners.
The most striking feature of the rear seats? There are two separate ones. With plenty of leg- and headroom and offering excellent lateral support through fast corners without sacrificing comfort. Eight-way power seats are available as an option for the rear in any Panamera model. In addition to the electric backrest adjustment, seat squab length adjustment and lumbar support, there is a facility to adjust the front passenger seat from the rear compartment (depending on equipment specification). In conjunction with adaptive Sports seats in the front, Sports seats featuring elevated side bolsters are also fitted in the rear.
The front seats of all new Panamera 4S models – and the rear seats of the Panamera Turbo – come equipped with seat heating to warm the squab and backrest to an agreeable temperature. Optional seat ventilation incorporates active aeration of the perforated seat centre and backrest to provide a pleasant seating environment – even in hot weather.
Massage function
On request, the power seats are also available with a massage function – front and rear. With five programmes and five intensity levels to choose from, 10 air cushions in each backrest provide a relaxing treat for the back muscles. For improved seating and long-distance comfort.
Four-zone automatic climate control including touchscreen display in rear compartment
Welcome to your personal climate zone. Four-zone automatic climate control features individual tempe...
Welcome to your personal climate zone. Four-zone automatic climate control features individual temperature setting controls for the driver and front passenger, and separate ones for each seat in the rear, too. The system also comes with a dedicated touchscreen display for the rear compartment. In addition to the air conditioning, this can be used to operate a range of other comfort and entertainment functions (depending on equipment specification).
An active carbon filter traps particles, pollen and odours and thoroughly filters fine dust out of the outside air before it can reach the interior.
A new ionisation function is available as an option – for improved air stream quality. Before it reaches the cabin, the air in the automatic climate control system is passed through an ioniser. Airborne viruses, bacteria and spores are reduced and the interior air is appreciably refreshed for an even more pleasant cabin environment.
The BOSE® Surround Sound System features 14 amplifier channels and offers a total output of 710 watt...
The BOSE® Surround Sound System features 14 amplifier channels and offers a total output of 710 watts. Fourteen loudspeakers including a 160-watt passive subwoofer box ensure a balanced, faithfully reproduced acoustic pattern. The patented AudioPilot® Noise Compensation Technology continuously measures the ambient noise inside the vehicle and adapts music playback instantly and automatically so that a consistent sound is maintained – whatever the driving conditions. The result is a captivating 360° acoustic experience delivered to all four seat positions. At all times.
Burmester® High-End 3D Surround Sound System
A concert hall with the four best seats around? Panamera. The Burmester® High- End 3D Surround Sound...
A concert hall with the four best seats around? Panamera. The Burmester® High- End 3D Surround Sound System delivers an acoustic performance worthy of one of the best concert halls in the world. Every audience member can enjoy the full breadth of the stage thanks to the perceived spatial distribution of the sound source.
Quiet, please, as we introduce a total output of 1,455 watts, 21 individually controlled loudspeakers including an active subwoofer with 400-watt class D digital amplifier, two-way centre system and a total diaphragm surface area of more than 2,500 cm². Ribbon tweeters have been used for unmistakably fine, clear and undistorted high-frequency sound reproduction with excellent level stability. All loudspeaker housings are perfectly matched and deliver superior bass foundation, definition and impulse accuracy. The result is a natural and richly textured spatial sound, even at top volume. Particularly impressive is the new 3D sound experience, created by the loudspeakers integrated into the roof pillars and by the use of a special 3D algorithm.
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The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement By Diane Lockward Wind Publications, 2016 The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement begins with quotes from Byron (“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity),” and, rather more unusually, from the Stanford Law Review (“. . . . carrots are often inefficient),” discussing the relative merits of incentives and […]
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Why are some poems easier to learn by heart than others? It cannot be simply a matter of simplicity and regular rhythms and rhyming, for sometimes the latter are the hardest of all to master. I found this out a few years ago when I set out to learn Robert Lowell’s poem “Mr. Edward and […]
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The New York Times obituary would describe Lola Ridge as one of the “leading poets of America,” and in 2011, former poet laureate Robert Pinsky called her “[a]n early, great chronicler of New York life.” She was a chronicler, too, of the working class throughout the industrial Northeast: Charge the blast furnace, workman. . . […]
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A poet’s poet, Annie Finch is known for her original blending of formalist and free verse styles in her poems, and her activism on behalf of other poets, particularly women. With all her degrees from Stanford and Yale, and her rich literary and scholarly ancestry, Finch is far from elitist, promoting the literary voices of […]
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Obstinacy as Hedge against Feelings of Nothingness Is Marianne Moore’s poem a war poem in disguise? Horses are beautiful, sleek, graceful. Mules are obstinate and onerous–and useful. As a personality the poet Marianne Moore was nothing if not pragmatic; I’ve always liked Moore’s meditative poem on human and animal obstinacy, on inflexibility as means of […]
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"Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup?" (Parry). The big IC conspiracy theory, mentioned first in December: "A Spy Coup in America?":
"There’s another possibility in play here: that the U.S. intelligence community is felling a number of birds with one stone. If indeed U.S. intelligence bigwigs deemed both Clinton and Trump unfit to serve as President – albeit for different reasons – they could have become involved in leaking at least the Podesta emails to weaken Clinton’s campaign, setting the candidate up for the more severe blow from FBI Director Comey in the last week of the campaign.
Then, by blaming the leaks on Russian President Putin, the U.S. intelligence leadership could set the stage for Trump’s defeat in the Electoral College, opening the door to the elevation of a more traditional Republican. However, even if that unlikely event – defeating Trump in the Electoral College – proves impossible, Trump would at least be weakened as he enters the White House and thus might not be able to move very aggressively toward a détente with Russia.
Further, the Russia-bashing that is all the rage in the mainstream U.S. media will surely encourage the Congress to escalate the New Cold War, regardless of Trump’s desires, and thus ensure plenty more money for both the intelligence agencies and the military contractors.
Official Washington’s “group think” holding Russia responsible for the Clinton leaks does draw some logical support from the near certainty that Russian intelligence has sought to penetrate information sources around both Clinton and Trump. But the gap between the likely Russian hacking efforts and the question of who gave the email information to WikiLeaks is where mainstream assumptions may fall down.
As ex-Ambassador Murray has said, U.S. intelligence was almost surely keeping tabs on Podesta’s communications because of his ties to Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments. So, the U.S. intelligence community represents another suspect in the case of who leaked those emails to WikiLeaks. It would be a smart play, reminiscent of the convoluted spy tales of John LeCarré, if U.S. intelligence officials sought to cover their own tracks by shifting suspicions onto the Russians.
But just the suspicion of the CIA joining the FBI and possibly other U.S. intelligence agencies to intervene in the American people’s choice of a president would cause President Harry Truman, who launched the CIA with prohibitions against it engaging in domestic activities, and Sen. Frank Church, who investigated the CIA’s abuses, to spin in their graves."
"[Exposed] GOP’s secret plot to replace Trump". This is Part I, with Kristol's various machinations to follow, Part II being the release of the emails to WikiLeaks (was Seth Rich CIA?), Part III being the late Comey attack on Clinton (after previously, and ridiculously, completely absolving her, and at a time when Comey had to assume a Clinton victory was a sure thing), Part IV being the electoral college shenanigans, and Part V being the various attacks on Trump based on alleged Russian dealings. One might conclude that the IC is a bunch of bumblers.
"The Scandal Hidden Behind Russia-gate" (Lazare). Rigorous summary. Good stuff on CloudStrike (and the baffling failure of the FBI to actually open an official investigation), and the funding/motives of CAP.
"The ‘Soft Coup’ of Russia-gate" (Parry). Parry discusses the neocon warmongering motives for using Russia as the basis of the attack on Trump!
"Breaking: Clinton Insiders Reveal ‘Blame Russia’ Plan Hatched ‘Within 24 Hours’ of Election Loss".
"Washington’s political crisis over the Comey firing: A harbinger of revolutionary upheavals". I include this just to demonstrate how pitifully weak socialist analysis really is.
"Hours Before Being Fired, James Comey Gave “We are In Love with You” Speech to the ADL". ["Anti-Defamation League Backs Down: ‘We Are Not Aware of Any Anti-Semitic Statements from Bannon’", kowtowing to Dersh].
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Watch Dogs MoCaps Aiden Pearce as a "Survivor Fighter"
Published by Soha E. on June 2, 2013
Ubisoft Montreal brought gamers into their motion capture facilities to showcase their latest work on Watch Dogs which hits PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U this November, and the PS4 and Xbox One sometime in Q4 2013. Animation director Colin Graham discusses taking advantage of the athetlic Sebastian Merlowe to perform takedowns and combat moves for the game's protagonist Aiden Pearce.
Graham says in the video, "For Aiden we tried to create a fighting style that's a lot more realistic than you normally see. We didn't want to do anything that was fancy or showy. We wanted to create a sort of brutal streetfighting style -- almost survival fighting."
Combat will also present Aiden as "intelligent and extremely violent," which is the result the animation team wanted. Aiden will use his steel batallion and undergo stealth sequences to incapacitate enemies and further progress in the open world hacking game.
Another interesting feature the team is particularly proud of is Aiden's ability to walk around with his hands in his pockets and have the textures of his coat synchronize with the movement of his hands. It seems miniscule, but I think this is a rather great design that will hopefully solve the maddening pet peeve of seeing characters sleep on top of their sheets rather than under them in games because simulating the texture is too difficult.
I don't know if it's possible to not have combat moves come off as showy, a common feature in the Assassin's Creed franchise, but I'm looking forward to seeing more from the motion capture team in other action scenarios.
Are you picking up Watch Dogs in November?
Absolutely Daft 6 years, 7 months ago
I got a new boner for Watch Dogs after watching this. But I REALLY would love to see how the Yakuza series does their motion capture. Mainly because of the fantastic visual feedback of seeing both the attacker and receiver over exaggerate their body language which then makes it believeable in its own universe. Including NPCs in the Revelations.
All around it makes sense for a street fighting style for Watch Dogs. I disliked George Saint Pierre's Mocap Work in Sleeping Dogs because it screams Caged MMA fighting more than it is suppose to be Kung fu. I could argue that it could be San Sou, but Wing Chun is a powerful Kung Fu style that doesn't have the practitioner "swim on land"(Bruce Lee's critique on traditional Kung Fu) that could've been used. But Sleeping Dogs wasn't suppose to be a tribute to Hong Kong cinema so I can deal with it.
*Panting* alright I'm done rambling. So Soha! Which game has your favorite Mocap work?
theottomatic91 6 years, 7 months ago
This does seem more impressive but honestly would have preferred to see more gameplay for this.
*more impressive than standard mo cap
mreihms 6 years, 7 months ago
I thought the rope where he hangs his hands was a pretty genius idea
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Airbus Helicopters, which has succeeded in relocating 50 H225 helicopters, could add 12 to 20 more to the French Air Force after conversion under a leasing contract.
Airbus Helicopters continues to find buyers for its H225 originally intended for the off-shore market. This time, it is the French Air Force since a notice of pre-information having for object the “lease-sale and the support of 12 to 20 used helicopters EC-225 (ed. note: H225) to modify under approval for the benefit of the French Air Force and associated services” has just been broadcast. These Airbus Helicopters H225s will be reconverted to carry out specific SAR (Search and Rescue) and SIF (Security and Intervention Forces) missions. The future H225M will be located in “air bases in mainland and overseas France and abroad (Djibouti)”. The procedure will be launched in 2020. Airbus Helicopters has already succeeded in relocating more than half of the hundred H225 helicopters initially intended for the off-shore market, notably with two major contracts: the one made by Ukraine in July 2018 for a total of 21 copies, the other by the U.S. operator Air Center Helicopters, which signed for 17 H225 for the refueling of the U.S. Navy ships off the coast.
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Dickens the Editor To Dickens the Writer: Make It Sell
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
It is an enduring mystery of English literature: What secrets lie entombed in the thick scribbles that Charles Dickens made as he wrote, and rewrote, the 66 pages of ''A Christmas Carol'' in 1843?
The manuscript of this classic holiday ghost story, written in six weeks to raise much-needed cash, is housed at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, where it bears all of Dickens's additions and subtractions in his own hand.
On Page 3, he inserted ''his eyes sparkled'' to amplify the portrait of Scrooge's nephew, whose beneficence is crucial to the plot.
On Page 12, where Scrooge takes Marley's ghost to be evidence not of the supernatural, but of his own indigestion (''more of gravy than of grave''), he converted the offending bit of food from being a ''spot of mustard'' to a less digestible ''blot of mustard.''
For the public, the opportunity to spot such finds has been limited. The manuscript is exhibited each holiday season at the Morgan, but as a matter of expedience, only one page is put on view each year, under glass.
This year, however, the Morgan agreed to allow The New York Times to photograph and display the entire handwritten manuscript on the Web.
Readers are invited to go online to examine the high-resolution images and submit what they think is the most interesting edit in the work.
Declan Kiely, the curator who heads the library's department of literary and historical manuscripts, will review the submissions and pick the one he finds most intriguing. That reader will be invited as the paper's guest to afternoon tea at the Morgan.
At the time ''A Christmas Carol'' was written, Dickens feared for his future. He had six children to feed, a large house in London to maintain and a lavish lifestyle. Christmas was approaching.
Yet ''Martin Chuzzlewit,'' the work he was then producing, a few chapters at a time, was not selling as well as earlier installments of ''The Pickwick Papers'' or ''Nicholas Nickleby.'' Bitterly, he confided to a friend that his bank account was bare.
''He did make money, but not as much as he thought he would,'' said Michael Slater, the author of ''Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing,'' a new biography for Yale University Press and emeritus professor of Victorian literature at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Conjuring up what Dickens himself described as a ''ghost of an idea,'' about a rich man's conversion from heel to hero, he got to work. The 6,000 copies printed in time for Christmas sold out. But because he had splurged on hand-colored drawings by John Leech, one of England's leading illustrators, the project was a financial bust.
Fortunately for Dickens, his quickie book went on to become a classic. So his Christmases future were far better than his Christmases past.
PHOTOS: Students from the Lycée Français, top, studied the single page of the manuscript on display this year at the Morgan Library and Museum. The page is filled with Dickens's revisions. Examine high-resolution images of the entire manuscript at nytimes.com/cityroom. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY ÁNGEL FRANCO/THE NEW YORK TIMES)
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Edmonton Eskimos general managers, Saskatchewan Roughriders general managers, BC Lions general managers,
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Eric Tillman
Date of birth: (1957-07-24) July 24, 1957 (age 62)
Place of birth: Jackson, Mississippi
Position(s): GM/VP (Football Operations)
College: Mississippi
As administrator:
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Edmonton Eskimos (GM)
Hamilton Tiger-Cats (Consultant)
Grey Cup Championship (1994, 1997, 2007)
Eric Tillman (born July 24, 1957)[1][2] is a consultant for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the former general manager of the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. He was fired November 3, 2012. He had previously held the same position with the British Columbia Lions (1993–94), Toronto Argonauts (1997, 1999), Ottawa Renegades (2002–04),[2] and the Saskatchewan Roughriders (2006–2010).[3][4] He won Grey Cups with teams he was managing in 1994, 1997 and 2007.[2][3]
Tillman previously served as a CFL analyst for TSN and Rogers Sportsnet,[3] and as a scout.
Saskatchewan Roughriders Edit
Part way through the 2006 CFL season, Tillman was hired as the Roughriders general manager after they fired long time GM Roy Shivers.[2] The team finished 5-4-0 down the stretch and clinched a playoff spot. Tillman was credited with being the brains behind the scenes that allowed Saskatchewan to win their third Grey Cup, in 2007,[5] and he was rewarded with a contract extension through 2010. The coach at the time was former Rider quarterback Kent Austin, the quarterback who won the Grey Cup with the Riders in 1989. Other notable signees in Tillman's time were Stevie Baggs, Weston Dressler, Rob Bagg, Omarr Morgan(second stint with the team)Yo Murphy, Jason Armstead (second stint), as well as re-acquiring the fan favourite in Regina, Corey Holmes.[6]
Sexual assault charges and resignation Edit
On January 27, 2009, Tillman was charged with sexual assault. Regina police spokeswoman Elizabeth Popowich said the complainant, a 16-year-old girl, made her allegation on August 6, 2008.[7] He was placed on paid administrative leave by the team on February 5, 2009.[8] Tillman testified in his defence that he had been on medication when the incident occurred, while the accuser and his family had accepted his apology. Tillman pleaded guilty to the charge on January 4, 2010, the day his trial on this summary offence was to begin.[9] He was granted an absolute discharge the following day and subsequently received no criminal record but was fined $50.00.[10] [11] Judge Murray Hinds stated that Tillman was "genuinely remorseful [and] in this case there's no suggestion that Mr. Tillman is not generally of good character. He has no prior criminal record. His behaviour towards [the teenage girl] on Aug. 6 appears to be an aberration fuelled by his consumption of two non-prescription drugs, which he used for sleep and pain relief."[6] On January 8, 2010, after a several hour discussion with the board of directors, he resigned from his position as the Roughriders' general manager.
Edmonton Eskimos Edit
On September 14, 2010, Tillman was hired as General Manager of the Edmonton Eskimos. He took over an Eskimos team that had a league-worst 2-8 record. Tillman stated that his primary goal would be improving the team's Canadian players. After joining the Eskimos midway through the 2010 season, the team went on a tear going 5-3. They finished just two points out of the final playoff spot, losing to the Roughriders on the final day of the season.
According to Eskimos president Rick LeLacheur, the team received a "substantial" number of phone calls from fans opposed to hiring Tillman, however, the Eskimos organization had deemed him worthy of a second chance. Tillman said LeLacheur has already given it to him straight: "There is a second chance, there will not be a third chance." Tillman said he doesn't begrudge those who didn't want him hired. "It's my responsibility to carry myself in a way and conduct myself in a way that will re-earn respect and trust," he said.[12]
On Dececmber 12, 2011, Tillman traded quarterback Ricky Ray to the Toronto Argonauts for quarterback Steven Jyles, kicker Grant Shaw and a first-round pick in the 2012 CFL Draft. The move would be criticized as Jyles struggled at quarterback for the Eskimos while Ray led the Argonuats to victory in the 100th Grey Cup.[13][14]
On November 3, 2012, 26 months after he was was hired, Tillman was fired by Eskimos president Len Rhodes.[14]
CFL GM record Edit
10 8 0 .556 2nd in West Division 0 1 Lost in West Semi-Final
11 6 1 .611 4th in West Division 3 0 Won 82nd Grey Cup
15 3 0 .833 1st in East Division 2 0 Won 85th Grey Cup
9 9 0 .500 4th in West Division 0 1 Lost in East Semi-Final
4 14 0 .222 4th in East Division - - Missed Playoffs
5 4 0 .556 3rd in West Division 1 1 Lost in West Final
12 6 0 .667 2nd in West Division 3 0 Won 95th Grey Cup
10 7 1 .556 1st in West Division 1 1 Lost in 97th Grey Cup
5 3 0 .625 4th in West Division - - Missed Playoffs
11 7 0 .611 2nd in West Division 1 1 Lost in West Final
7 11 0 .389 3rd in East Division - - Fired During Playoffs
111 95 2 .540 2 Division
Championships 11 5 3 Grey Cups
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↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Tillman is fan friendly". www.canada.com. http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=3d3a8850-c5bd-436d-9bee-f72b112fd4e4. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Tillman's future in CFL in doubt". CBC. January 5, 2010. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/story/2010/01/05/sp-cfl-roughriders-tillman.html. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
↑ Murray McCormick (January 5, 2010). "Tillman stands behind Saskatchewan Roughriders' code of conduct". Montreal Gazette. http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Tillman+stands+behind+Saskatchewan+Roughriders+code+conduct/2409238/story.html. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
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↑ "Tillman Named New General Manager of Floundering Eskimos". TSN.ca. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=333761. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
↑ Moddejonge, Gerry (November 7, 2012). "Ricky Ray trade will overshadow everything else in former Edmonton Eskimos GM Eric Tillman's tenure". Edmonton Sun. http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/11/07/ricky-ray-trade-will-overshadow-everything-else-in-former-edmonton-eskimos-gm-eric-tillmans-tenure. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
↑ 14.0 14.1 O'Leary, Chris (November 3, 2012). "Edmonton Eskimos vague on reasons for firing GM Tillman". Edmonton Journal. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/football/edmonton-eskimos/Edmonton+Eskimos+part+ways+with/7495078/story.html. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
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Everything Trump knows about fighting fires he learned from Fox News
Like most of Trump's weird ideas, his latest claim about Finland using rakes to fight fires is a garbled version of something he saw on TV.
Trump has said plenty of spectacularly dumb and uninformed things about science. But while touring the devastation from California's wildfires this weekend, Trump uttered one of the weirdest dumb and uninformed things he's ever said about science.
California wouldn’t have all these problems with deadly wildfires, Trump claimed, if they just raked the forest floors, like they do in Finland.
“You’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forests, it’s very important,” Trump told reporters. "I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We have a much different — we’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. And they don’t have any problem.”
The president of Finland said he had no idea what Trump was talking about. The internet rejoiced with mockery and created the hashtag "Rake America Great Again." Trump supporters tried to scold the Washington Post with claims that Trump obviously meant to say something totally different from what he actually said.
The Post also seems to have figured out where Trump got this bizarre idea in the first place. Can you guess?
Yep, it was something he saw on TV — probably on Fox News, given what we know about how Trump likes to spend his "executive time."
And not just something he saw on TV, but something he saw on TV, then misinterpreted and misremembered, then spewed back out in a garbled mutation of the original — as if Trump was playing a game of telephone with himself.
“I was watching the firemen the other day, and they were raking areas. They were raking areas!" Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace in an Oval Office interview taped before the California trip. “They’re raking trees, little trees like this — nut trees, little bushes, that you could see are totally dry. Weeds! And they’re raking them. They’re on fire.”
Trump pantomimed raking as he did this.
“That should have been all raked out,” he added. “You wouldn’t have the fires.”
So, Trump saw a firefighter on TV dealing with underbrush in a way that looked to Trump like ordinary garden raking; Trump's brain decided that this "raking" is just how everybody handles underbrush growth in the type of forest management that prevents fires; Trump talked to the president of Finland in a general way about forest management; and voila, suddenly the entire nation of Finland has a rake-based fire prevention strategy.
As many scientists and lawmakers have pointed out, this idea of Trump's is extremely wrong and dumb for many reasons — not the least of which is that these latest fires started in urban areas, not forests.
“It’s not about forest management,” University of Utah fire scientist Philip Dennison told the AP. “These aren’t forests.”
And even if forest management were the issue, Trump has no idea what he's talking about.
“If preventing wildfires were as easy as raking leaves, we would have done that by now,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC, pointing out that the real problem is climate change, dry weather, and high winds.
Trump gets most of his ideas from Fox News, including on military policy. And sometimes he can't even get what Fox is saying right.
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Musk Ox
The Musk Ox (Ovibos moschatus) are large cattle-like animals that are part of the Bovidae family. They can be found on the treeless tundra from Alaska east through northern Canada to Greenland. Their name is derived from the strong musky smell of the bulls that is omitted during the mating season in summer. The musky smell is used to attract females during breeding.
There are 2 known subspecies of Musk Ox, Greenland Musk ox (Ovibos moschatus wardi) also known as the White-Faced Musk ox which are found in Greenland and the Canadian high Arctic and the Barren Ground Musk ox (Ovibos moschatus moschatus) which are found on the Canadian mainland. Musk Ox are more closely related to sheep and goats than to oxen. The closest relative of the Musk ox is the Takin, a goat-antelope found in the Eastern Himalayas.
Musk Ox Description
The Musk Ox is a huge hoofed mammal with a heavy bony plate across the forehead. The Musk Ox, along with Yaks of Central Asia, have the longest fur of any other animal. They have an insulated woolly undercoat and some of the hairs in the outer coat are almost 100 centimetres long. Their coats are thick and dark brown hair in colour and hang almost to the ground.
Musk Oxen have a stocky build and a pronounced shoulder hump. These bulky animals can stay in the Arctic all year round, surviving temperatures of -70 degrees centigrade. With its long, shaggy outer coat, the Musk Ox is well protected from the bitterly cold winds of the Arctic Tundra.
Adult Musk Ox measure around 1.9 – 2.3 metres (6.25 – 7.5 feet) in length from head to rump and weigh 200 – 410 kilograms (440 – 900 pounds). Musk Ox stand around 1.2 metres (3 feet 11.2 inches) high at the shoulder. Males are larger than females. Their huge size means they have very few natural predators. However, young Musk Ox are vulnerable to predators especially when newborn. Both male and female Musk Ox have broad, curling horns.
Musk Ox Habitat
During the summer, Musk Oxen live in wetlands, such as river valleys, moving to higher elevations in the winter to avoid the deep snow.
Musk Ox Diet
Musk Ox are herbivores and graze on grasses, reeds, sedges and other ground plants, digging through snow in the winter to reach their food. One of their favourite foods is willow.
Musk Ox Behaviour
Musk Oxen live in herds of around 10 -20 animals and are social animals. Winter herds can contain over 70 animals of both male and female.
Young Musk Ox are often taken by Grey Wolves, however, if the herd spots a wolf pack soon enough, it has a chance to deploy an effective defensive strategy. Adults quickly gather into a circle of tightly packed animals, all facing outwards, with the young hidden away in the middle. The hunting wolves meet a wall of tough heads and horns and large bulls will charge out of the ring, swiping their horns at their attackers. The defence is only broken if the wolves manage to get the Oxen on the run. Other predators of the Musk Ox are the Brown Grizzly Bear and the Polar Bear.
Musk Ox Reproduction
Mating season peaks in mid August when males compete for dominance. One dominant bull will drive the other males out of the herd. Non-breeding males will often for herds of 5 – 10 and wander the tundra alone. Males can get extremely aggressive during breeding season and chase off any other animal that approaches, even birds. To prove their dominance, males have confrontations known as ruts. During these ruts, males emit a lion-like roar and run towards each other, crashing their heads together.
Females are sexually mature at 2 years of age. Males reach maturity much later at around 5 years. The gestation period is 8 – 9 months and almost all births are single calves. The young are nursed for around a year but may begin to eat grass as soon as a week after birth. The young huddle in its mothers long coat to keep warm.
The life span of a Musk Ox is around 20 – 24 years.
Musk Ox Conservation Status
The conservation status of the Musk Ox is ‘Least Concern’. Muskoxen became extinct across much of their range in Europe and Alaska, largely as a result of overhunting. Reintroduction attempts have since been reasonably successful and muskoxen now live once again in parts of Alaska and northern Europe. They are not currently listed as threatened in any way.
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Hereditary Angiodema (HAE)
About Clinical Research Center of Alabama
Clinical Research Center of Alabama has been conducting clinical research studies since 1998. Our center has conducted hundreds of clinical studies in adult and pediatric patients, and has contributed to the development of new therapies for asthma, allergic rhinitis, eczema, hives, other skin conditions, hereditary angioedema (HAE), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Clinical Research Center of Alabama conducts Phase II, III, and IV clinical trials for both large and small pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations. Our research center has earned a reputation for excellence. Our physician investigators are Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and in Asthma, Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Weily Soong and Dr. John Anderson are on the teaching faculty at the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UAB) and have published multiple research articles. All of our physician investigators have been certified in clinical research. Our dedicated clinical research staff is highly trained and experienced. Our center has six certified clinical research coordinators (CCRC). All coordinators and investigators have completed the CITI training program from the University of Miami, and our research staff includes a nurse practitioner, a registered nurse, a registered respiratory therapist and other well trained professionals.
Clinical Research Experience
The Clinical Research Center of Alabama conducts Phase II, III, and IV clinical trials for both large and small pharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations. Our research center has earned a reputation for excellence. Our center reaches and exceeds the expected recruitment and randomization goals with qualified compliant study patients. Due to rigorous and careful screening, our center has enjoyed high completion rates with minimal numbers of screen failures. We accurately document all study procedures, tests and events, maintaining complete and accurate source documents and timely completion of case report forms. The Clinical Research Center of Alabama is able to work with centralized Institutional Review Boards.
FAQs About Participating
Affiliations & Accolades
Lead Investigators
Sub-Investigators
Research Coordinators
Weily Soong, MD
John Anderson, MD
Maxcie Sikora, MD
Sunena Argo, MD
Carolyn Comer, MD
William Massey, MD
Patricia Luthin, CRNP
Sub-Investigator
Blake Youngblood, CRNP
Michelle Payne, CRNP
Annie Ketcham, CRNP
Erin Cuzzort, CRNP
Monica Ray, CRNP
Becca Watkins, CRNP
Stephanie Edwards, CRNP
Esther Lange, CRNP
J. Christopher Davis, MD, FACS
Michael Sillers, MD
Helen Combs
Kim Aultman
Site Director
Kelli Phillipson, RN
Clinical Trial Revenue and Contract Administrator
Beth Hagerty, CCRC
Diane Paige, CCRC
Kendra Williams, LPN, CCRC
Kaylee Hale, CCRC
Kellie Steager, CCRC
Carla Honeycutt, CCRC
Will O’Donnell
Recruitment Specialist
Maegan Walker
Jhana Plump
L.E. Laupus
What is a clinical research study?
A research study involving human volunteers is conducted to answer specific health questions.
Carefully conducted clinical research studies are the safest and fastest way to find treatments that work in people and new ways to improve health.
Research studies are conducted according to a plan called a protocol.
A protocol describes what types of patients may enter the study; schedules of tests and procedures, drugs, dosages, and length of study, as well as outcomes that will be measured.
Each person participating in the study must agree to follow the protocol.
Why are research studies conducted?
To see if a new drug or device is safe and effective for people to use.
To compare existing treatments to determine which is better.
To study different ways to use standard (approved) treatments, so they will be more effective, easier to use, and/or decrease side effects.
To learn how to best use the treatment in a different population, such as children, in whom the treatment was not previously tested.
How are participants protected?
To protect the rights and welfare of clinical research participants, U.S. Federal Agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) & the National Institutes of Health (NIH) oversee much of the medical research in the U.S.
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) oversee the centers where clinical research studies are conducted.
IRBs review and approve study protocols to ensure that a clinical trial is ethical and that volunteers’ rights are protected.
A participant in a clinical trial has access to the IRB that is overseeing the research and access to a volunteer advocate, the physician and staff conducting the trial.
Federal agencies inspect individuals and institutions conducting research. They also inspect IRBs.
Some IRBs are accredited much like hospitals can be “accredited” and some research investigators and staff are “certified” as research professionals.
What are some of the possible benefits of my participation?
Gain access to potentially new research treatments.
Receive expert medical care for the condition being studied, since investigators are often specialists in the disease area being studied.
Help others by contributing to medical research and treatment advances.
Receive financial reimbursement for time and travel.
What are some of the possible risks of my participation?
There may be unpleasant, serious, or even life-threatening side effects resulting from the treatment.
The treatment may not be effective.
Participation in the trial may be demanding and time consuming.
The American Academy of Allergy, Ashthma, & Immunology
The American College of Allergy, Ashthma, & Immunology
UAB Excellence in Business Top 25
Thank you for your interest in joining the team at the Clinical Research Center of Alabama. Interested applicants should submit a cover letter with salary requirements, employee application, and resume to Kim Robinson, Site Director, at krobinson@alabamaallergy.com.
The following positions are currently open:
CLINICAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR – view a description of the position and apply HERE.
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Title 360 WAC
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PHARMACY, BOARD OF
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DISPOSITION OF CHAPTERS FORMERLY CODIFIED IN THIS TITLE
Chapter 360-08
360-08-005 Practice and procedure cross reference. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), § 360-08-005, filed 2/25/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-020.
360-08-010 Appearance and practice before board—Who may appear. [Regulation .08.010, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.010, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-030.
360-08-030 Appearance and practice before board—Solicitation of business unethical. [Regulation .08.020, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.030, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-040 Appearance and practice before board—Standards of ethical conduct. [Regulation .08.030, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.040, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-040.
360-08-050 Appearance and practice before board—Appearance by former employee of board or former member of attorney general's staff. [Regulation .08.040, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.050, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-050.
360-08-060 Appearance and practice before board—Former employee as expert witness. [Regulation .08.050, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.060, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-060.
360-08-070 Computation of time. [Regulation .08.060, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.070, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-080 Notice and opportunity for hearing in contested cases. [Regulation .08.070, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.080, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-090 Service of process—By whom served. [Regulation .08.080, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.090, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-100 Service of process—Upon whom served. [Regulation .08.090, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.100, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-110 Service of process—Service upon parties. [Regulation .08.100, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.110, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-120 Service of process—Method of service. [Regulation .08.110, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.120, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-130 Service of process—When service complete. [Regulation .08.120, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.130, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-140 Service of process—Filing with the board. [Regulation .08.130, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.140, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-230 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Right to take. [Regulation .08.230, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.230, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-070.
360-08-240 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Scope. [Regulation .08.240, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.240, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-080.
360-08-250 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Officer before whom taken. [Regulation .08.250, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.250, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-090.
360-08-260 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Authorization. [Regulation .08.260, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.260, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-100.
360-08-270 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Protection of parties and deponents. [Regulation .08.270, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.270, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-110.
360-08-280 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Oral examination and cross-examination. [Regulation .08.280, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.280, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-120.
360-08-290 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Recordation. [Regulation .08.290, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.290, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-130.
360-08-300 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Signing attestation and return. [Regulation .08.300, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.300, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-140.
360-08-310 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Use and effect. [Regulation .08.310, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.310, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-150.
360-08-320 Depositions and interrogatories in contested cases—Fees of officers and deponents. [Regulation .08.320, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.320, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-160.
360-08-330 Depositions upon interrogatories—Submission of interrogatories. [Regulation .08.330, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.330, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-170.
360-08-340 Depositions upon interrogatories—Interrogation. [Regulation .08.340, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.340, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-180.
360-08-350 Depositions upon interrogatories—Attestation and return. [Regulation .08.350, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.350, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-190.
360-08-360 Depositions upon interrogatories—Provisions of deposition rule. [Regulation .08.360, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.360, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-200.
360-08-370 Official notice—Matters of law. [Regulation .08.370, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.370, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-210.
360-08-380 Official notice—Material facts. [Regulation .08.380, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.380, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-220.
360-08-390 Presumptions. [Regulation .08.390, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.390, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-230.
360-08-400 Stipulations and admissions of record. [Regulation .08.400, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.400, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-240.
360-08-410 Form and content of decisions in contested cases. [Regulation .08.410, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.410, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-420 Definition of issues before hearing. [Regulation .08.420, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.420, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-250.
360-08-430 Prehearing conference rule—Authorized. [Regulation .08.430, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.430, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-440 Prehearing conference rule—Record of conference action. [Regulation .08.440, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.440, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-450 Submission of documentary evidence in advance. [Regulation .08.450, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.450, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-460 Excerpts from documentary evidence. [Regulation .08.460, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.460, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-470 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Number and qualifications of witnesses. [Regulation .08.470, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.470, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-480 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Written sworn statements. [Regulation .08.480, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.480, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-490 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Supporting data. [Regulation .08.490, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.490, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-500 Expert or opinion testimony and testimony based on economic and statistical data—Effect of noncompliance with WAC 360-08-470 or 360-08-480. [Regulation .08.500, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.500, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-510 Continuances. [Regulation .08.510, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.510, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), filed 2/25/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-08-520 Rules of evidence—Admissibility criteria. [Regulation .08.520, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.520, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-260.
360-08-530 Rules of evidence—Tentative admission—Exclusion—Discontinuance—Objections. [Regulation .08.530, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.530, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-270.
360-08-540 Petitions for rule making, amendment or repeal—Who may petition. [Regulation .08.540, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.540, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-280.
360-08-550 Petitions for rule making, amendment or repeal—Requisites. [Regulation .08.550, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.550, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-290.
360-08-560 Petitions for rule making, amendment or repeal—Agency must consider. [Regulation .08.560, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.560, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-300.
360-08-570 Petitions for rule making, amendment or repeal—Notice of disposition. [Regulation .08.570, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.570, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-310.
360-08-580 Declaratory rulings. [Regulation .08.580, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.580, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-320.
360-08-590 Forms. [Regulation .08.590, filed 1/10/63; Regulation .08.590, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-330.
INTERNSHIP REQUIREMENTS
360-10-010 General requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-06-060 (Order 211), § 360-10-010, filed 3/2/88; Order 139, § 360-10-010, filed 12/9/77; Order 106, § 360-10-010, filed 6/3/71; Regulation 48, § I, filed 6/17/66.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-020.
360-10-020 Registration of interns. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), § 360-10-020, filed 12/9/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A.020. WSR 83-18-021 (Order 175), § 360-10-020, filed 8/30/83; Order 106, § 360-10-020, filed 6/3/71; Regulation 48, § II, filed 6/17/66.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-030.
360-10-030 Rules for the pharmacy intern. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-11-041 (Order 170B), § 360-10-030, filed 5/10/91, effective 6/10/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), § 360-10-030, filed 12/9/87; Regulation 48, § III, filed 6/17/66.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-040.
360-10-040 Intern training reports. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), § 360-10-040, filed 12/9/87; Order 106, § 360-10-040, filed 6/3/71; Order 102, § 360-10-040, filed 12/5/69; Regulation 48, § IV, filed 6/17/66.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-050.
360-10-050 Requirements for preceptor certification. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-11-041 (Order 170B), § 360-10-050, filed 5/10/91, effective 6/10/91; WSR 90-11-079 (Order 055), § 360-10-050, filed 5/16/90, effective 6/16/90. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-06-060 (Order 211), § 360-10-050, filed 3/2/88; Order 106, § 360-10-050, filed 6/3/71; Regulation 48, § V, filed 6/17/66.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-060.
360-10-060 Rules for preceptors. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-11-041 (Order 170B), § 360-10-060, filed 5/10/91, effective 6/10/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-06-060 (Order 211), § 360-10-060, filed 3/2/88; Order 102, § 360-10-060, filed 12/5/69; Regulation 48, § VI, filed 6/17/66.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-070.
360-10-070 Repeal of prior regulations. [Regulation 48, § VII, filed 6/17/66.] Repealed by WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), filed 12/9/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-10-080 Special internship approval. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), § 360-10-080, filed 12/9/87; Order 114, § 360-10-080, filed 6/28/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-858-080.
PROFESSIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION
360-11-010 Continuing education. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-010, filed 6/26/80. Statutory Authority; RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-11-010, filed 3/27/79; Order 116, § 360-11-010, filed 11/9/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-020.
360-11-020 Continuing education programs. [Order 116, § 360-11-020, filed 11/9/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-030.
360-11-023 Applications for approval as a provider of continuing education—Post-approval of continuing education credits. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-023, filed 6/26/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-040.
360-11-027 Continuing education program providers' responsibilities. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-027, filed 6/26/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-050.
360-11-030 Instructors' credit toward continuing education unit. [Order 116, § 360-11-030, filed 11/9/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-060.
360-11-033 Credit for continuing education. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-033, filed 6/26/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-070.
360-11-037 Credit for individual study programs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-037, filed 6/26/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-080.
360-11-040 Amount of continuing education. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-040, filed 6/26/80; Order 116, § 360-11-040, filed 11/9/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-090.
360-11-045 Pharmacist audits—Disallowed credit. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-045, filed 6/26/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-100.
360-11-050 Application of excess continuing education units. [Order 116, § 360-11-050, filed 11/9/73.] Repealed by WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), filed 6/26/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12).
360-11-060 Advisory committee on continuing education. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 80-08-036 (Order 156, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-11-060, filed 6/26/80; Order 116, § 360-11-060, filed 11/9/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-110.
360-11-070 Waiver of the continuing education requirement. [Order 116, § 360-11-070, filed 11/9/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-861-120.
360-12-010 Applicants—Citizenship. [Order 121, § 360-12-010, filed 8/8/74; Regulation 1, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 89-17-017 (Order 227), filed 8/7/89, effective 9/7/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-12-015 Examinations. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-22-045, § 360-12-015, filed 10/30/89, effective 11/30/89; WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), § 360-12-015, filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(1) and 18.64.080. WSR 84-04-029 (Order 183), § 360-12-015, filed 1/25/84. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-12-015, filed 3/27/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-020.
360-12-020 Applicants—Application forms—Fees. [Order 109, § 360-12-020, filed 5/23/72; Regulation 19 (part), filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-12-030 Applicants—Experience requirements. [Regulation 29, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed with saving clause as to prior experience (WAC 360-10-070). WAC 360-12-070 is repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
360-12-040 Applicants—Reciprocal registration—Experience. [Regulation 20, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed with saving clause as to prior experience (WAC 360-10-070). WAC 360-12-070 is repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
360-12-050 Applicants—Reciprocity applicants. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), § 360-12-050, filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-12-050, filed 3/27/79; Order 121, § 360-12-050, filed 8/8/74; Regulation 4, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-030.
360-12-060 Applicants—From foreign countries. [Regulation 21, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 122, filed 9/30/74.
360-12-065 Foreign-trained applicants. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-015 (Order 180), § 360-12-065, filed 1/9/84. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-12-065, filed 3/27/79; Order 122, § 360-12-065, filed 9/30/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-040.
360-12-070 Applicants—Pharmacy graduates of U.W. and W.S.U. [Regulation 3, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
360-12-110 Licensed pharmacists change of address. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-23-078, § 360-12-110, filed 11/17/89, effective 12/18/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-12-110, filed 9/6/79; Regulation 5, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-050.
360-12-120 Licensed pharmacists—Employed as responsible managers—Duty to notify board. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-12-120, filed 9/6/79; Regulation 8, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-060.
360-12-125 Inactive pharmacist license. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.140. WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-12-125, filed 2/22/85.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-070.
360-12-128 Retired pharmacist license. [Statutory Authority: RCW 43.70.250. WSR 91-13-002 (Order 173), § 360-12-128, filed 6/6/91, effective 7/7/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 86-24-057 (Order 203), § 360-12-128, filed 12/2/86.] Repealed by WSR 91-19-028 (Order 194), filed 9/10/91, effective 10/11/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.70.040. Recodified as § 246-863-080.
360-12-130 Pharmacists—Reinstatement or reactivation of license. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.140. WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-12-130, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-12-130, filed 3/27/79; Regulation 2, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-090.
360-12-140 Pharmacist prescriptive authority—Prior board notification of written guideline or protocol required. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-19-086 (Order 163, Resolution No. 8/81), § 360-12-140, filed 9/17/81. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(4) and (11). WSR 80-08-035 (Order 155, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-12-140, filed 6/26/80, effective 9/30/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-100.
360-12-150 Monitoring of drug therapy by pharmacists. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), § 360-12-150, filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.075. WSR 83-20-053 (Order 176), § 360-12-150, filed 9/29/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.240. WSR 83-10-013 (Order 174), § 360-12-150, filed 4/26/83.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-110.
360-12-160 AIDS prevention and information education requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-23-058 (Order 221), § 360-12-160, filed 11/15/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-863-120.
EXTENDED CARE FACILITY
360-13-010 Promulgation. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-10-027 (Order 159), § 360-13-010, filed 4/28/81; Order 104, § 360-13-010, filed 12/5/69; Order 50 (part), filed 3/28/67.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-020.
360-13-020 Emergency kit. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-06-077 (Order 158), § 360-13-020, filed 3/4/81; Order 104, § 360-13-020, filed 12/5/69; Order 50, subsection 1-12, filed 3/28/67.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-030.
360-13-030 Supplemental dose kits. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-06-077 (Order 158), § 360-13-030, filed 3/4/81; Order 114, § 360-13-030, filed 6/28/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-040.
360-13-040 Drug storage. [Order 109, § 360-13-040, filed 5/23/72.] Repealed by Order 121, filed 8/8/74.
360-13-045 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), § 360-13-045, filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-06-077 (Order 158), § 360-13-045, filed 3/4/81; Order 121, § 360-13-045, filed 8/8/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-010.
360-13-050 Poisons and other nonmedicinal chemical agents. [Order 109, § 360-13-050, filed 5/23/72.] Repealed by Order 121, filed 8/8/74.
360-13-055 Drug facilities. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-06-077 (Order 158), § 360-13-055, filed 3/4/81; Order 121, § 360-13-055, filed 8/8/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-050.
360-13-060 Record requirements. [Order 109, § 360-13-060, filed 5/23/72.] Repealed by Order 121, filed 8/8/74.
360-13-065 Pharmaceutical services. [Order 121, § 360-13-065, filed 8/8/74.] Repealed by WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), filed 3/2/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075.
360-13-066 Pharmaceutical services. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-11-007 (Order 214), § 360-13-066, filed 5/9/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-14-055 (Order 161), § 360-13-066, filed 6/30/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-060.
360-13-070 Medications. [Order 109, § 360-13-070, filed 5/23/72.] Repealed by Order 121, filed 8/8/74.
360-13-100 Provision for continuity of drug therapy for residents. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.240. WSR 83-10-013 (Order 174), § 360-13-100, filed 4/26/83.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-865-070.
IMPAIRED PHARMACIST REHABILITATION
360-15-010 Purpose and scope. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-010, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-001.
360-15-020 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-020, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-010.
360-15-030 Applicability. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-030, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-020.
360-15-040 Reporting and freedom from liability. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-040, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-030.
360-15-050 Approval of substance abuse monitoring programs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-050, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-040.
360-15-060 Participation in approved substance abuse monitoring program. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-060, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-050.
360-15-070 Confidentiality. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-054 (Order 025), § 360-15-070, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-867-060.
360-16-005 Pharmacies and differential hours. [Order 106, § 360-16-005, filed 9/11/70.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-020.
360-16-010 Notice of opening new drug store. [Regulation 34, effective 5/28/59, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 114, filed 6/28/73.
360-16-011 Pharmacy license notice requirements. [Order 114, § 360-16-011, filed 6/28/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-030.
360-16-020 New pharmacy registration. [Order 130, § 360-16-020, filed 11/10/76; Regulation 10, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-040.
360-16-025 Pharmacy license renewal. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-14-041 (Order 215), § 360-16-025, filed 6/30/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.043. WSR 84-12-019 (Order 186), § 360-16-025, filed 5/25/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-050.
360-16-030 Change of ownership or location. [Order 109, § 360-16-030, filed 5/23/72; Regulation 33, effective 5/28/59, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 114, filed 6/28/73.
360-16-040 Employers to require evidence of pharmacist's qualifications. [Regulation 19 (part), filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-060.
360-16-050 Responsible manager—Appointment. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-16-050, filed 9/6/79; Regulation 6, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-070.
360-16-060 Responsible manager—Responsibility. [Regulation 7, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), filed 9/6/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-16-070 Clinic dispensaries. [Regulation 9, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-080.
360-16-080 Prescription department grading. [Regulation 22, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.
360-16-090 Equipment. [Regulation 11, amended 5/28/59, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.
360-16-094 Prescription transfers. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-23-058 (Order 221), § 360-16-094, filed 11/15/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-090.
360-16-095 Narcotic register book—Exempt narcotics. [Regulation 31, effective 6/12/58, filed 3/23/60.] See WAC 360-28-070 and 360-28-075.
360-16-096 Prescription record requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-22-046, § 360-16-096, filed 10/30/89, effective 11/30/89; WSR 88-23-058 (Order 221), § 360-16-096, filed 11/15/88; Order 131, § 360-16-096, filed 2/4/77; Order 126, § 360-16-096, filed 5/21/75; Order 117, § 360-16-096, filed 11/9/73; Regulation 49, filed 12/1/65.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-100.
360-16-097 Record requirements—Dangerous drugs. [Order 100 (part), § 360-16-097, filed 6/25/68.] Repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
360-16-098 Refusal to permit inspection. [Order 109, § 360-16-098, filed 5/23/72; Order 103, § 360-16-098, filed 12/5/69.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-110.
360-16-100 Maintenance of pharmaceutical supplies. [Regulation 32, effective 5/28/59, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67. For later reenactment, see WAC 360-16-230.
360-16-110 Hospital pharmacy standards. [Regulation 35, effective 10/2/59, filed 3/23/60, subsection (4)(b), as corrected, filed 12/8/60.] Repealed by WSR 82-12-024 (Order 167), filed 5/25/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-16-120 Mechanical devices in hospitals. [Regulation 47, filed 12/1/65.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-120.
360-16-150 Return or exchange of drugs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-12-020 (Order 187), § 360-16-150, filed 5/25/84; Regulation 28, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-130.
360-16-160 Sale of inhalers over the counter. [Regulation 13, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), filed 9/6/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-16-170 Drug vending machine for over-the-counter drugs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-16-170, filed 9/6/79; Regulation 17, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 85-11-066 (Order 194), filed 5/21/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-16-180 Prescription department—Conversing with pharmacist prohibited. [Regulation 37, filed 11/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-140.
360-16-200 Physical standards for pharmacies—Adequate stock. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 85-11-066 (Order 194), § 360-16-200, filed 5/21/85; Order 131, § 360-16-200, filed 2/4/77; Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-150.
360-16-210 Physical standards for pharmacies—Adequate facilities. [Order 131, § 360-16-210, filed 2/4/77; Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-160.
360-16-220 Physical standards for pharmacies—Sanitary conditions. [Order 131, § 360-16-220, filed 2/4/77; Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-170.
360-16-230 Physical standards for pharmacies—Adequate equipment. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 85-11-066 (Order 194), § 360-16-230, filed 5/21/85; WSR 84-03-015 (Order 180), § 360-16-230, filed 1/9/84; Order 131, § 360-16-230, filed 2/4/77; Order 118, § 360-16-230, filed 1/2/74; Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-180.
360-16-235 Pharmacy inspections. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 87-08-031 (Order 205), § 360-16-235, filed 3/27/87.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-190.
360-16-240 General. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.043. WSR 84-12-019 (Order 186), § 360-16-240, filed 5/25/84. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201. WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), § 360-16-240, filed 2/1/79; Order 131, § 360-16-240, filed 2/4/77; Order 51 (part), filed 8/15/67.] Repealed by WSR 87-08-031 (Order 205), filed 3/27/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-16-245 Poison control. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 87-08-031 (Order 205), § 360-16-245, filed 3/27/87; Order 120, § 360-16-245, filed 3/11/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-200.
360-16-250 Patient information required. [Order 118, § 360-16-250, filed 1/2/74; Order 116, § 360-16-250, filed 11/9/73.] Repealed by WSR 89-04-016 (Order 223), filed 1/23/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-16-255 Prescription labeling. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.246. WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-16-255, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-22-027 (Order 191), § 360-16-255, filed 11/1/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-210.
360-16-260 Patient medication record system. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-16-260, filed 12/17/82; Order 125, § 360-16-260, filed 1/28/75, effective 7/1/75.] Repealed by WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), filed 1/9/84. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-16-265 Patient information required. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-04-016 (Order 223), § 360-16-265, filed 1/23/89.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-220.
360-16-270 Child-resistant containers. [Order 126, § 360-16-270, filed 5/21/75.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-230.
360-16-290 Pharmacist's professional responsibilities. [Order 129, § 360-16-290, filed 7/13/76; Order 127, § 360-16-290, filed 12/1/75.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-240.
360-16-300 Closing a pharmacy. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.240. WSR 83-10-013 (Order 174), § 360-16-300, filed 4/26/83.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-250.
Chapter 360-16A
PARENTERAL PRODUCTS FOR NONHOSPITALIZED PATIENTS
360-16A-010 Scope and purpose. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-010, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-001.
360-16A-020 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-020, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-010.
360-16A-030 Policy and procedure manual. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-030, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-020.
360-16A-040 Physical requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-040, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-030.
360-16A-060 Personnel. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-060, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-040.
360-16A-070 Drug distribution and control. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-070, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-050.
360-16A-080 Antineoplastic medications. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-080, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-060.
360-16A-090 Clinical services. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-090, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-070.
360-16A-100 Quality assurance. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 90-03-055 (Order 026), § 360-16A-100, filed 1/17/90, effective 2/17/90.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-871-080.
HOSPITAL PHARMACY STANDARDS
360-17-010 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 82-12-041 (Order 168), § 360-17-010, filed 5/28/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-010, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-010.
360-17-020 Applicability. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 82-12-041 (Order 168), § 360-17-020, filed 5/28/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-020, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-020.
360-17-030 Licensure. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-030, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-030.
360-17-040 Personnel. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-040, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-040.
360-17-050 Absence of a pharmacist. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-050, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-050.
360-17-055 Emergency outpatient medications. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-12-011 (Order 225), § 360-17-055, filed 5/26/89; WSR 83-23-109 (Order 179), § 360-17-055, filed 11/23/83.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-060.
360-17-060 Physical requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 85-11-066 (Order 194), § 360-17-060, filed 5/21/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-060, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-070.
360-17-070 Drug procurement, distribution and control. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-070, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-080.
360-17-080 Administration of drugs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-080, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-090.
360-17-090 Investigational drugs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-090, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-100.
360-17-100 Additional responsibilities of pharmacy service. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 81-16-036 (Order 162), § 360-17-100, filed 7/29/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-873-110.
LICENSING PERIODS AND FEES
360-18-010 Licensing periods. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-14-042 (Order 216), § 360-18-010, filed 6/30/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-18-010, filed 12/17/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 (4) and (11). WSR 80-05-074 (Order 154, Resolution No. 4/80), § 360-18-010, filed 4/28/80.] Repealed by WSR 91-19-028 (Order 194), filed 9/10/91, effective 10/11/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.70.040. Recodified as § 246-907-020.
360-18-020 Fees. [Statutory Authority: RCW 43.70.250. WSR 91-13-002 (Order 173), § 360-18-020, filed 6/6/91, effective 7/7/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-04-015 (Order 222), § 360-18-020, filed 1/23/89; WSR 88-14-042 (Order 216), § 360-18-020, filed 6/30/88; WSR 88-07-011 (Order 209), § 360-18-020, filed 3/3/88; WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), § 360-18-020, filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(4). WSR 85-22-033 (Order 196), § 360-18-020, filed 10/31/85; WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-18-020, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-17-142 (Order 189), § 360-18-020, filed 8/22/84; WSR 84-04-030 (Order 184), § 360-18-020, filed 1/25/84; WSR 83-22-034 (Order 177), § 360-18-020, filed 10/26/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A.020. WSR 83-18-021 (Order 175), § 360-18-020, filed 8/30/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(12). WSR 82-12-041 (Order 168), § 360-18-020, filed 5/28/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 (4) and (11). WSR 80-08-035 (Order 155, Resolution No. 6/80), § 360-18-020, filed 6/26/80, effective 9/30/80; WSR 80-05-074 (Order 154, Resolution No. 4/80), § 360-18-020, filed 4/28/80.] Repealed by WSR 91-19-028 (Order 194), filed 9/10/91, effective 10/11/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.70.040. Recodified as § 246-907-030.
360-18-025 Fee payment. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-07-011 (Order 209), § 360-18-025, filed 3/3/88.] Repealed by WSR 91-19-028 (Order 194), filed 9/10/91, effective 10/11/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.70.040. Recodified as § 246-907-040.
360-18-030 Intern registration fee. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 (4) and (11). WSR 80-05-074 (Order 154, Resolution No. 4/80), § 360-18-030, filed 4/28/80.] Repealed by WSR 83-18-021 (Order 175), filed 8/30/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A.020.
PATIENT MEDICATION RECORD SYSTEMS
360-19-010 Purpose. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-010, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-001.
360-19-020 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-020, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-010.
360-19-030 Minimum required information in an automated patient medication record system. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-030, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-020.
360-19-040 Minimum required information in a manual patient medication record system. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-040, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-030.
360-19-050 Minimum procedures for utilization of a patient medication record system. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-050, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-040.
360-19-060 Auxiliary recordkeeping procedure. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-060, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-050.
360-19-070 Retrieval of information from an automated system. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-070, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-060.
360-19-080 Confidentiality and security of data. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-080, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-070.
360-19-090 Extension of time for compliance. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-090, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-080.
360-19-100 Effective date. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 84-03-016 (Order 181), § 360-19-100, filed 1/9/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.65.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-875-090.
SALES PROHIBITED
360-20-010 Sulfa bandages. [Regulation 16, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order, filed 8/24/67.
360-20-020 Exempt narcotics to minors. [Regulation 36, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-20-030 Ozone manufacturing devices. [Regulation 27, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70 and Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-20-035 Hypodermic syringes and needles. [Order 106, § 360-20-035, filed 9/11/70.] Repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
360-20-040 Dihydrocodeinone or any of its salts. [Emergency Regulation 38, filed 6/15/60 and Permanent Order 39, filed 6/15/60.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-20-070 Exempt narcotics—Narcotic register books. [Order 105, § 360-20-070, filed 12/5/69, effective 3/1/70.] Repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
360-20-100 Drug sample prohibitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-22-047, § 360-20-100, filed 10/30/89, effective 11/30/89; Order 114, § 360-20-100, filed 6/28/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-877-020.
360-20-200 Hard gelatin capsule restrictions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 86-18-023 (Order 201), § 360-20-200, filed 8/26/86.] Repealed by WSR 86-21-033 (Order 202), filed 10/9/86. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-20-210 Unsealed hard gelatin capsule restrictions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 86-21-033 (Order 202), § 360-20-210, filed 10/9/86.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-877-030.
360-21-010 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-010, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-010.
360-21-020 Minimum standards for wholesalers. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-020, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-020.
360-21-030 Inspections. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-030, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-030.
360-21-040 Records. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-040, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-040.
360-21-050 Security. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-050, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-050.
360-21-060 Unauthorized sales. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-060, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-060.
360-21-070 Application for full line wholesaler license and over-the-counter only wholesaler license. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-070, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-070.
360-21-080 Application for controlled substance wholesaler license. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-080, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-080.
360-21-090 Export wholesaler. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-21-090, filed 3/2/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-879-090.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE ADVERTISING
360-23-010 Drug price advertising defined. [Order 124, § 360-23-010, filed 10/31/74; Order 120, § 360-23-010, filed 3/11/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-881-010.
360-23-020 Drug price advertising conditions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-23-020, filed 9/6/79; Order 124, § 360-23-020, filed 10/31/74; Order 120, § 360-23-020, filed 3/11/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-881-020.
360-23-030 Prohibition on advertising controlled substances. [Order 124, § 360-23-030, filed 10/31/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-881-030.
360-23-040 Advertising or mail order solicitation of sale or distribution of prescription drugs prohibited. [Order 124, § 360-23-040, filed 10/31/74.] Repealed by WSR 83-10-013 (Order 174), filed 4/26/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.240.
360-23-050 Drug price disclosure—Required. [Order 124, § 360-23-050, filed 10/31/74.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-881-040.
PROHIBITED ADVERTISING
360-24-010 Price advertising of drugs requiring prescriptions prohibited. [Emergency Rule 41, effective 10/21/60; Permanent Rule 41A, effective 11/20/60.] Repealed by Order 110, filed 6/15/72.
360-24-020 Advertising or mail order solicitation of sale or distribution of prescription drugs prohibited. [Emergency Rule 40, effective 10/21/60; Permanent Rule 40A, effective 11/20/60.] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-24-030 Prohibition on advertising exempt narcotic products. [Order 100 (part), § 360-24-030, filed 6/25/68; Regulation 42, filed 3/23/64.] Repealed by Order 110, filed 6/15/72.
360-24-035 Prohibition on advertising controlled substances. [Order 110, § 360-24-035, filed 6/15/72.] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-24-040 Full disclosure in drug advertisements. [Regulation 43, filed 3/23/64.] Repealed by Order 110, filed 6/15/72.
360-24-045 Prohibition on advertising legend or prescription drugs. [Order 110, § 360-24-045, filed 6/15/72.] Repealed by Order 120, filed 3/11/74.
360-24-050 Misleading advertising of drug prices. [Regulation 44, filed 3/23/64.] Repealed by Order 110, filed 6/15/72.
DRUG PRICE DISCLOSURE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
360-25-001 Drug price disclosure implementation delay. [Order 120, § 360-25-001, filed 3/11/74.] Repealed by WSR 80-05-074 (Order 154, Resolution No. 4/80), filed 4/28/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 (4) and (11).
360-25-005 Drug price disclosure policy. [Order 119, § 360-25-005, filed 1/2/74, effective 4/1/74. Order 120, filed 3/11/74, extended effective date to October 31, 1974 (Repealed before implementation date).] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-25-010 Drug price disclosure defined. [Order 119, § 360-25-010, filed 1/2/74, effective 4/1/74; Order 112, § 360-25-010, filed 8/21/72; Order 110, § 360-25-010, filed 6/15/72. Order 120, filed 3/11/74, extended effective date to October 31, 1974 (Repealed before implementation date).] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-25-020 Drug price disclosure conditions. [Order 119, § 360-25-020, filed 1/2/74, effective 4/1/74; Order 112, § 360-25-020, filed 8/21/72; Order 110, § 360-25-020, filed 6/15/72. Order 120, filed 3/11/74, extended effective date to October 31, 1974 (Repealed before implementation date).] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-25-025 Drug price disclosure—Required. [Order 112, § 360-25-025, filed 8/21/72.] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-25-030 Drug price discount defined. [Order 110, § 360-25-030, filed 6/15/72.] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
360-25-040 Drug discounts—Conditions. [Order 110, § 360-25-040, filed 6/15/72.] Repealed by Order 124, filed 10/31/74.
SALES REQUIRING A PHARMACIST'S SUPERVISION
360-28-010 Pharmacist supervised sales—General. [Regulation 15, filed 3/23/60.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-869-260.
360-28-011 Hypodermic syringes and needles. [Order 109, § 360-28-011, filed 5/23/72.] Repealed by Order 137, filed 11/8/77.
360-28-020 Pharmacist supervised sales—Bromide preparations. [Regulation 14, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70.
360-28-030 Pharmacist supervised sales—Antihistamine products. [Regulation 18, adopted 5/28/59, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70.
360-28-040 Pharmacist supervised sales—Dangerous medicinal preparation. [Regulation 12, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70.
360-28-050 Pharmacist supervised sales—Vitamin contained compounds labeled with a therapeutic dosage. [Regulation 30, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70.
360-28-060 Pharmacist supervised sales—Legend type preparations. [Regulation 26, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70.
360-28-070 Exempt narcotics register book. [Order 100 (part), § 360-28-070, filed 6/25/68; Regulation 31 (part), filed 11/6/64.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-28-075 Exempt narcotics—Pharmacist's responsibilities. [Order 100 (part), § 360-28-075, filed 6/25/68; Regulation 31 (part), filed 11/6/64.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-28-080 Requirements for purchasers of exempt narcotics. [Order 100 (part), § 360-28-080, filed 6/25/68.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-28-085 Maximum quantity of an exempt narcotic in a forty-eight-hour period. [Order 100 (part), § 360-28-085, filed 6/25/68.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-28-100 Exempt narcotics—Signature of dispensing pharmacist. [WAC 360-28-100 (reference section to WAC 360-32-020).] Repealed by Order 109, filed 5/23/72.
HYPODERMIC SYRINGES, NEEDLES AND DEVICES
360-30-010 Hypodermic devices sale registrations. [Order 134, § 360-30-010, filed 9/7/77.] Repealed by WSR 81-19-086 (Order 163, Resolution No. 8/81), filed 9/17/81. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-30-020 Hypodermic devices destruction. [Order 137, § 360-30-020, filed 11/8/77.] Repealed by WSR 81-19-086 (Order 163, Resolution No. 8/81), filed 9/17/81. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-30-030 Enforcement. [Order 137, § 360-30-030, filed 11/8/77.] Repealed by WSR 81-19-086 (Order 163, Resolution No. 8/81), filed 9/17/81. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
SALES REQUIRING PRESCRIPTIONS
360-32-010 Home fluoridation preparations. [Regulation 23, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 79-09-138 (Order 149, Resolution No. 9/79), filed 9/5/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-32-020 Oral narcotic prescription list. [Order 101, § 360-32-020, filed 12/5/69; Regulation 24, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-32-030 Inhalers containing analeptic substances. [Regulation 25, filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by Order 106, filed 9/11/70.
360-32-035 Inhalers having directions to be sold under direction of a physician. [Regulation 13 (part), filed 3/23/60.] Repealed by WSR 79-09-138 (Order 149, Resolution No. 9/79), filed 9/5/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-32-040 Hallucinogenic drugs. [Regulation 46, filed 12/1/65 and Emergency Order 46, filed 10/5/65.] Repealed by Order 108, filed 10/26/71.
360-32-045 Ephedrine prescription restrictions. [Order 132, § 360-32-045, filed 5/4/77; Order 128, § 360-32-045, filed 5/19/76.] Repealed by WSR 79-09-138 (Order 149, Resolution No. 9/79), filed 9/5/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-32-050 Identification of legend drugs for purposes of chapter 69.41 RCW. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.44.075 [69.41.075]. WSR 85-18-091 (Order 196), § 360-32-050, filed 9/4/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.075. WSR 83-20-053 (Order 176), § 360-32-050, filed 9/29/83. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075. WSR 81-10-025 (Order 160), § 360-32-050, filed 4/28/81. Statutory Authority: 1979 1st ex. s. c 139. WSR 79-09-138 (Order 149, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-32-050, filed 9/5/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-883-020.
360-32-055 Ephedrine prescription restrictions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.41.075. WSR 82-06-042 (Order 165), § 360-32-055, filed 3/2/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075. WSR 81-10-025 (Order 160), § 360-32-055, filed 4/28/81. Statutory Authority: 1979 1st ex. s. c 139. WSR 79-09-138 (Order 149, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-32-055, filed 9/5/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-883-030.
360-32-060 Regulated steroids. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-22-048, § 360-32-060, filed 10/30/89, effective 11/30/89.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-883-040.
IDENTIFICATION OF LEGEND DRUGS—IMPRINTS, MARKINGS, AND LABELING
360-33-050 Drug imprint information provided by manufacturers and distributors. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.240. WSR 83-10-013 (Order 174), § 360-33-050, filed 4/26/83.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-885-020.
DRUG TREATMENT AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS
360-34-010 Methadone maintenance program. [Order 106, § 360-34-010, filed 6/3/71.] Repealed by Order 114, filed 6/28/73. Repealed second time by Order 121, filed 8/8/74.
360-34-020 Methadone withdrawal programs. [Order 106, § 360-34-020, filed 6/3/71.] Repealed by Order 114, filed 6/28/73. Repealed second time by Order 121, filed 8/8/74.
ANIMAL CONTROL—LEGEND DRUGS
360-35-010 Purpose. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-010, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-001.
360-35-020 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-020, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-010.
360-35-030 Registration. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-030, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-020.
360-35-040 Approved legend drugs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-040, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-030.
360-35-050 Training of personnel. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-050, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-040.
360-35-060 Legend drug administration. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-060, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-050.
360-35-070 Responsible individuals. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-070, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-060.
360-35-080 Notification. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-080, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-070.
360-35-090 Recordkeeping and reports. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-090, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-080.
360-35-100 Drug storage. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-100, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-090.
360-35-110 Violations. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-04-056 (Order 140B), § 360-35-110, filed 2/4/91, effective 3/7/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-886-100.
REGULATIONS IMPLEMENTING THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT
360-36-010 Uniform Controlled Substances Act. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-010, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.301. WSR 87-10-029 (Order 206), § 360-36-010, filed 5/1/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(4). WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-36-010, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.301. WSR 80-05-074 (Order 154, Resolution No. 4/80), § 360-36-010, filed 4/28/80; WSR 79-10-007 (Order 151, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-36-010, filed 9/6/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.301 and chapter 69.50 RCW. WSR 78-02-070 (Order 140), § 360-36-010, filed 1/25/78; Order 132, § 360-36-010, filed 5/4/77; Order 108, § 360-36-010, filed 10/26/71.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-020.
360-36-020 Dispensing Schedule V controlled substances. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-36-020, filed 12/17/82. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.41.075. WSR 82-19-022 (Order 169), § 360-36-020, filed 9/8/82; Order 108, § 360-36-020, filed 10/26/71.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-030.
360-36-100 Additional Schedule I substances. [Order 142, § 360-36-100, filed 12/9/77; Order 126, § 360-36-100, filed 5/21/75.] Repealed by WSR 80-14-012 (Order 157, Resolution No. 9/80), filed 9/22/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180.
360-36-110 Additional Schedule II substances. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201. WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), § 360-36-110, filed 2/1/79; Order 142, § 360-36-110, filed 12/9/77.] Repealed by WSR 80-14-012 (Order 157, Resolution No. 9/80), filed 9/22/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180.
360-36-115 Designation of nonnarcotic stimulant drugs for purposes of RCW 69.50.402 (a)(3). [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-08-069 (Order 148, Resolution No. 7-79), § 360-36-115, filed 7/24/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-040.
360-36-120 Additional Schedule III substances. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201. WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), § 360-36-120, filed 2/1/79; Order 142, § 360-36-120, filed 12/9/77.] Repealed by WSR 80-14-012 (Order 157, Resolution No. 9/80), filed 9/22/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180.
360-36-130 Additional Schedule IV substances. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-36-130, filed 3/27/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201. WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), § 360-36-130, filed 2/1/79; Order 142, § 360-36-130, filed 12/9/77.] Repealed by WSR 80-14-012 (Order 157, Resolution No. 9/80), filed 9/22/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180.
360-36-140 Additional Schedule V substances. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201. WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), § 360-36-140, filed 2/1/79; Order 142, § 360-36-140, filed 12/9/77.] Repealed by WSR 80-14-012 (Order 157, Resolution No. 9/80), filed 9/22/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180.
360-36-150 Rescheduled substances. [Order 142, § 360-36-150, filed 12/9/77.] Repealed by WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), filed 2/1/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201.
360-36-160 Placement of phencyclidine in Schedule II. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 78-05-048 (Order 144, Resolution No. 12-78), § 360-36-160, filed 4/24/78.] Repealed by WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), filed 2/1/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201.
360-36-170 Placement of lorazepam in Schedule IV. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 78-05-048 (Order 144, Resolution No. 12-78), § 360-36-170, filed 4/24/78.] Repealed by WSR 79-02-060 (Order 146, Resolution No. 2-79), filed 2/1/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9) and 69.50.201.
360-36-210 Sodium pentobarbital for animal euthanasia. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-210, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89; Order 138, § 360-36-210, filed 11/8/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-050.
360-36-220 Product restrictions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.50.301. WSR 79-10-006 (Order 150, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-36-220, filed 9/6/79; Order 138, § 360-36-220, filed 11/8/77.] Repealed by WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201.
360-36-230 Registration. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.301. WSR 80-05-074 (Order 154, Resolution No. 4/80), § 360-36-230, filed 4/28/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 69.50.301. WSR 79-10-006 (Order 150, Resolution No. 9/79), § 360-36-230, filed 9/6/79; Order 138, § 360-36-230, filed 11/8/77.] Repealed by WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005.
360-36-240 Storage. [Order 138, § 360-36-240, filed 11/8/77.] Repealed by WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201.
360-36-250 Sodium pentobarbital administration. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-250, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89; Order 138, § 360-36-250, filed 11/8/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-060.
360-36-260 Sodium pentobarbital records and reports. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-260, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89; Order 138, § 360-36-260, filed 11/8/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-070.
360-36-270 Sodium pentobarbital registration disciplinary action. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-270, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89; Order 138, § 360-36-270, filed 11/8/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-080.
360-36-400 Authority to control. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. WSR 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-400, filed 11/7/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-090.
360-36-410 Schedule I. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-410, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89; WSR 86-16-057 (Order 200), § 360-36-410, filed 8/1/86. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. WSR 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-410, filed 11/7/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-100.
360-36-411 Adding MPPP to Schedule I. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.44.075 [69.41.075]. WSR 85-18-091 (Order 196), § 360-36-411, filed 9/4/85.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-110.
360-36-412 Adding PEPAP to Schedule I. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.44.075 [69.41.075]. WSR 85-18-091 (Order 196), § 360-36-412, filed 9/4/85.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-120.
360-36-413 Adding MDMA to Schedule I. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.44.075 [69.41.075]. WSR 85-18-091 (Order 196), § 360-36-413, filed 9/4/85.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-130.
360-36-420 Schedule II. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-420, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89; WSR 86-16-057 (Order 200), § 360-36-420, filed 8/1/86. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. WSR 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-420, filed 11/7/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-140.
360-36-425 Schedule II immediate precursors. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-11-007 (Order 214), § 360-36-425, filed 5/9/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-06-060 (Order 211), § 360-36-425, filed 3/2/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-150.
360-36-430 Schedule III. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-430, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. WSR 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-430, filed 11/7/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-160.
360-36-440 Schedule IV. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-440, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. WSR 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-440, filed 11/7/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-170.
360-36-450 Schedule V. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. WSR 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-450, filed 11/7/84.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-180.
360-36-451 Adding buprenorphine to Schedule V. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.44.075 [69.41.075]. WSR 85-18-091 (Order 196), § 360-36-451, filed 9/4/85.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-190.
360-36-500 Other controlled substance registrants—Requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-500, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-887-200.
PRECURSOR SUBSTANCE CONTROL
360-38-010 Precursor substance defined. [Statutory Authority: 1988 c 147 § 5. WSR 88-14-096 (Order 218), § 360-38-010, filed 7/6/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-889-020.
360-38-020 Reports of precursor receipt. [Statutory Authority: 1988 c 147 § 5. WSR 88-14-096 (Order 218), § 360-38-020, filed 7/6/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-889-030.
360-38-030 Monthly reporting option. [Statutory Authority: 1988 c 147 § 5. WSR 88-14-096 (Order 218), § 360-38-030, filed 7/6/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-889-040.
PROPHYLACTICS
360-40-010 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730]. WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-40-010, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-010, filed 12/17/82; Order 108, § 360-40-010, filed 10/26/71.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-891-010.
360-40-020 Application for license. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-020, filed 12/17/82.] Repealed by WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730].
360-40-030 Display of licenses and identification. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-030, filed 12/17/82.] Repealed by WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730].
360-40-040 Conditions for the sale of condoms. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-20-038 (Order 219), § 360-40-040, filed 9/30/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730]. WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-40-040, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-040, filed 12/17/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-891-020.
360-40-050 List of approved condoms. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-050, filed 12/17/82.] Repealed by WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730].
360-40-060 Submission of condoms for testing. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-060, filed 12/17/82.] Repealed by WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730].
360-40-070 Condom standards. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730]. WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), § 360-40-070, filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-070, filed 12/17/82.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-891-030.
360-40-080 Suspension or revocation of prophylactic licenses. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-40-080, filed 12/17/82.] Repealed by WSR 85-06-010 (Order 193), filed 2/22/85. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and 69.040.730 [69.04.730].
PUBLIC RECORDS ACCESS PURSUANT TO INITIATIVE 276
360-44-010 Purpose. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-010, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-010, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-001.
360-44-020 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-44-020, filed 12/17/82; Order 113, § 360-44-020, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-010.
360-44-030 Description of central and field organization of the board. [Order 113, § 360-44-030, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-020.
360-44-040 Operations and procedures. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-040, filed 4/12/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005, 18.81.080 and 42.17.290. WSR 83-01-083 (Order 171), § 360-44-040, filed 12/17/82; Order 113, § 360-44-040, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-030.
360-44-050 Public records available. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-050, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-050, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-040.
360-44-060 Public records officer. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-060, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-060, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-050.
360-44-070 Office hours. [Order 113, § 360-44-070, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-060.
360-44-080 Requests for public records. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-080, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-080, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-070.
360-44-090 Copying. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-090, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-090, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-080.
360-44-100 Exemptions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-100, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-100, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-090.
360-44-110 Review of denials of public records requests. [Order 113, § 360-44-110, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-100.
360-44-120 Protection of public records. [Order 113, § 360-44-120, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-110.
360-44-130 Index of public records available. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-130, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-130, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-120.
360-44-140 Address where requests to be directed. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-140, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, § 360-44-140, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-130.
360-44-150 Adoption of form. [Order 113, § 360-44-150, filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-140.
360-44-990 Appendix A—Form. [Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. WSR 89-09-020 (Order 224), § 360-44-990, filed 4/12/89; Order 113, Appendix A (codified as WAC 360-44-990), filed 4/27/73.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-893-998.
STATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT EXEMPTION
360-45-010 SEPA exemption. [Order 128, § 360-45-010, filed 5/19/76.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-857-340.
GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE FOR FINISHED PHARMACEUTICALS
360-46-010 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-010, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-010, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-010.
360-46-020 Finished pharmaceuticals—Manufacturing practice. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-020, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-020, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-020.
360-46-030 Personnel. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-030, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-030, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-030.
360-46-040 Buildings or facilities. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-040, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-040, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-040.
360-46-050 Equipment. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-050, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-050, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-050.
360-46-060 Production and control procedures. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-060, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-060, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-060.
360-46-070 Components. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-070, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-070, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-070.
360-46-080 Product containers and their packaging material. [Order 133, § 360-46-080, filed 8/4/77.] Repealed by WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), filed 12/9/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11).
360-46-081 Component and drug product containers and closures. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), § 360-46-081, filed 12/9/87.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-080.
360-46-082 Reuse of teat dip containers and closures. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11). WSR 88-01-025 (Order 208), § 360-46-082, filed 12/9/87.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-090.
360-46-090 Laboratory controls. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-090, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-090, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-100.
360-46-100 Stability. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-100, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-100, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-110.
360-46-110 Expiration dating. [Order 133, § 360-46-110, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-120.
360-46-120 Packaging and labeling. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-120, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-120, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-130.
360-46-130 Master production and control records—Batch production and control records. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-130, filed 10/10/88; Order 133, § 360-46-130, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-140.
360-46-140 Distribution records. [Order 133, § 360-46-140, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-150.
360-46-150 Complaint files. [Order 133, § 360-46-150, filed 8/4/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-160.
360-46-160 Variance and procedure. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-21-025 (Order 220), § 360-46-160, filed 10/10/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-895-170.
AMYGDALIN (LAETRILE)
360-47-010 Availability. [Order 135, § 360-47-010, filed 10/5/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-020.
360-47-020 License. [Order 135, § 360-47-020, filed 10/5/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-030.
360-47-030 License application. [Order 135, § 360-47-030, filed 10/5/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-040.
360-47-040 Good manufacturing practices. [Order 135, § 360-47-040, filed 10/5/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-050.
360-47-050 Identity. [Order 135, § 360-47-050, filed 10/5/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-060.
DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE (DMSO)
360-48-010 Availability. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-010, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-120.
360-48-020 License. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-020, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-130.
360-48-030 License application. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-030, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-140.
360-48-040 Good manufacturing practices. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-040, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-150.
360-48-050 Purity. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-050, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-160.
360-48-060 Contents. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-060, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-170.
360-48-070 Labeling. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-070, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-180.
360-48-080 Other forms of DMSO. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.075 and 1981 c 50 § 1. WSR 81-22-048 (Order 164), § 360-48-080, filed 11/2/81.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-897-190.
DRUG PRODUCT SUBSTITUTION
360-49-010 Dispensing responsibilities. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180. WSR 79-12-063 (Order 152), § 360-49-010, filed 11/29/79; Order 143, § 360-49-010, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-899-020.
360-49-020 Product selection responsibilities. [Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180. WSR 79-12-063 (Order 152), § 360-49-020, filed 11/29/79; Order 143, § 360-49-020, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-899-030.
360-49-030 Manufacturer requirements. [Order 143, § 360-49-030, filed 12/9/77.] Repealed by WSR 79-12-063 (Order 152), filed 11/29/79. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180.
360-49-040 Manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, pharmacy location, requirement that drug products offered for sale comply with 21 USC 355—Immediate suspension and subsequent revocation of licenses authorized for violation. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 87-18-066 (Order 207), § 360-49-040, filed 9/2/87. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.41.180. WSR 80-14-012 (Order 157, Resolution No. 9/80), § 360-49-040, filed 9/22/80; WSR 80-02-113 (Order 153, Resolution No. 1/80), § 360-49-040, filed 1/28/80.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-899-040.
360-49-050 Out-of-state prescriptions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-13-004 (Order 174B), § 360-49-050, filed 6/7/91, effective 7/8/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-899-050.
PHARMACY ASSISTANT
360-52-010 Level A pharmacy assistants utilization. [Order 141, § 360-52-010, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-020.
360-52-020 Level A education and training. [Order 141, § 360-52-020, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-030.
360-52-030 Limitations, trainees. [Order 141, § 360-52-030, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-040.
360-52-040 Level A program approval. [Order 141, § 360-52-040, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-050.
360-52-050 Level A certification. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64A.030. WSR 88-14-043 (Order 217), § 360-52-050, filed 6/30/88; Order 141, § 360-52-050, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-060.
360-52-060 Level B pharmacy assistants utilization. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64A.030. WSR 88-14-043 (Order 217), § 360-52-060, filed 6/30/88. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(11) and 18.64A.030. WSR 80-02-113 (Order 153, Resolution No. 1/80), § 360-52-060, filed 1/28/80. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. WSR 79-04-048 (Order 147, Resolution No. 3-79), § 360-52-060, filed 3/27/79; Order 141, § 360-52-060, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-070.
360-52-070 Level B certification programs. [Order 141, § 360-52-070, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-080.
360-52-080 Identification. [Order 141, § 360-52-080, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-090.
360-52-090 Board approval of pharmacies utilizing pharmacy assistants. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64A.030. WSR 88-14-043 (Order 217), § 360-52-090, filed 6/30/88; Order 141, § 360-52-090, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-100.
360-52-100 Level A experience equivalency. [Order 141, § 360-52-100, filed 12/9/77.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-110.
360-52-110 Pharmacy assistant AIDS prevention and information education requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 89-04-015 (Order 222), § 360-52-110, filed 1/23/89.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-120.
360-52-120 Pharmacist to pharmacy assistant ratio. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 91-11-040 (Order 169B), § 360-52-120, filed 5/10/91, effective 6/10/91.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-901-130.
NUCLEAR PHARMACIES AND PHARMACISTS
360-54-010 Purpose and scope. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9). WSR 79-02-061 (Order 145, Resolution No. 1-79), § 360-54-010, filed 2/1/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-903-001.
360-54-020 Definitions. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9). WSR 79-02-061 (Order 145, Resolution No. 1-79), § 360-54-020, filed 2/1/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-903-010.
360-54-030 Nuclear pharmacies. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9). WSR 79-02-061 (Order 145, Resolution No. 1-79), § 360-54-030, filed 2/1/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-903-020.
360-54-040 Nuclear pharmacists. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9). WSR 79-02-061 (Order 145, Resolution No. 1-79), § 360-54-040, filed 2/1/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-903-030.
360-54-050 Minimum equipment requirements. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005(9). WSR 79-02-061 (Order 145, Resolution No. 1-79), § 360-54-050, filed 2/1/79.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-903-040.
HOME DIALYSIS PROGRAM
360-60-010 Home dialysis program—Legend drugs. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), § 360-60-010, filed 2/25/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-905-020.
360-60-020 Pharmacist consultant. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), § 360-60-020, filed 2/25/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-905-030.
360-60-030 Records. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), § 360-60-030, filed 2/25/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-905-040.
360-60-040 Quality assurance. [Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. WSR 88-06-026 (Order 210), § 360-60-040, filed 2/25/88.] Decodified by WSR 91-18-057 (Order 191B), filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. Recodified as § 246-905-050.
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Coles Backflips On Reusable Plastic Bag Decision
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by Jodie Ramodien
Despite Coles initial pledge to phase out the single-use plastic bags that take years to break down, they have since reversed their decision in order to appease a small vocal portion of angry customers.
The bags would have been gone by July 1, instead they will now be sticking around and Coles will be advocating the use of thicker reusable bags which previously cost 15 cents and will now be handed out for free. These ‘reusable’ bags are also made of plastic and consequently take longer to break down than the thin single-use bags Coles sought to ban.
Coles reusable bags. Credit: thewest.com.au
In a statement made yesterday, Managing Director of Coles, John Durkan made an announcement explaining the reasoning behind their decision:
“At Coles we are absolutely committed to reducing our impact on the environment and making a positive contribution to the communities in which our customers and team members live and work.”
“One part of this commitment is removing single-use plastic bags from our stores. As you would have experienced first-hand in stores, this has been a big and difficult change for many of our customers.”
“But we know that many customers are still finding themselves a bag or two short at the register and we want to do the right thing by them during this transition period. Putting our customers first is in our DNA and we must always be empathetic and responsive to their needs.”
For the impactful change removing plastic bags would have been, Coles caving over customer complaints at this small inconvenience looks to be a weak move made by the supermarket chain.
Zoe Deans, an Australia Pacific campaigner at the non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace, predicted that this decision will not only cost the environment, it will also negatively affect Coles’ reputation and business.
“Coles have caved in far too quickly to a small but vocal minority and there is absolutely no doubt Coles will be punished for this decision by customers who don’t want to see plastic bags littering their beaches and killing marine life,” Deans comments.
“This decision makes a complete mockery of Coles’ claim to want to reduce plastic waste and is a betrayal of the millions of their customers who want the supermarket to do the right thing in favour of a vocal minority,” she continues.
“Removing the price means that these reusable bags are far more likely to be used once and discarded.”
The state of NSW is alone in its outrage over the transition to a more environmentally friendly change. According to ABC News, “Every state and territory except New South Wales has either outlawed single-use plastic bags, or has plans to ban them.”
While the rest of the country is embracing this much-needed change, it appears as though NSW will remain rigid in its outdated mentality.
Rival supermarket chain Woolworths may be the better option to shop for groceries as it has remained true to its commitment to make meaningful changes in reducing its impact on the environment.
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Justin Milne Steps Down as Chairman of the ABC
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Hay Exportations Continue Through Drought as Farmers Call Government to Action
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Greg Combet To Leave Parliament
Greg Combet has announced that he will retire from Parliament at the forthcoming election.
Combet quit the Cabinet on Wednesday night, following the re-election of Kevin Rudd as the ALP’s leader, replacing Julia Gillard.
He says he was already in discussion with Gillard about leaving parliament. “My reasons are personal and are not attributable to the change in the leadership of the Labor Party this week, although this has provided a catalyst for my decision.”
The former Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation has held the NSW electorate of Charlton since 2007. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions before entering parliament. [Read more…]
Filed Under: 2013 Federal Election, A.L.P., Gillard, Rudd, Video Tagged With: A.L.P., ACTU, Charlton, Dave Oliver, Greg Combet, Kevin Rudd
Martin Ferguson Resigns From Gillard Ministry; Second Departure Today
Martin Ferguson, the Minister for Resources and Energy, has resigned from the Gillard government.
Following yesterday’s leadership spill debacle, Ferguson said his resignation was “the only honourable thing to do”. He voted for Kevin Rudd in last year’s leadership ballot and would have voted for Rudd yesterday if the former prime minister had contested the ballot.
Ferguson is the second minister to resign today. The Minister for Tertiary Education, Chris Bowen, announced his resignation this morning. [Read more…]
Filed Under: 2013 Federal Election, A.L.P., Audio, Cabinet-Ministry, Gillard Tagged With: ACTU, Batman, Kevin Rudd, leadership spill, Martin Ferguson
When Is A Shift Not A Shift?
A frontpage report in the Financial Review this morning invited readers to believe that union support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s leadership was “shifting”.
A closer read showed that a meeting at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) on Tuesday discussed the Labor leadership but the union leaders remained supportive of Gillard, although conscious that “time is running out”.
Union and political figures have been at pains during the day to dispute the accuracy of the report. They have adamantly denied suggestions of a “shift”.
Perhaps the most reliable take-out from the Financial Review report is the claim that union leaders were concerned about the advent of an Abbott government. Their attitude to the leadership is reflected in their desire to avoid an early election that could result from any attempt to remove Gillard.
Media critics have been quick to jump on the report as further evidence of the media’s preoccupation with leadership at the expense of policy. Others see it as evidence of a shift to the right under the Financial Review’s new editor, Michael Stutchbury.
However, it seems clear that another decision on the Labor leadership is likely over the next few months. What isn’t clear is whether the obstacles to a Rudd revival can be overcome. Moreover, it isn’t clear whether the party has the capacity to change leaders without destroying the government and precipitating an election. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Gillard, Opinion Tagged With: ACTU, Financial Review, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Michael Stutchbury
ACTU Congress Pays Tribute To Bill Kelty
The triennial Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has paid tribute to the work of its former Secretary, Bill Kelty.
At a dinner in Sydney, former Prime Minister Paul Keating led the tributes.
Kelty was ACTU Secretary from 1983 until 2000. Throughout the Hawke/Keating governments, he was pivotal to the operation of The Accord with the union movement.
Kelty’s work with the government on superannuation reforms, wage fixing, tariff reductions and other issues was vital to the economic reform and social legislation of the 1980s and 1990s. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Economy, Gillard, Hawke, Keating, Unions, Video Tagged With: ACTU, Bill Kelty, Bob Hawke, Dave Oliver, Ged Kearney, Jeff Lawrence, Paul Keating, Solidarity Forever
Gillard Addresses ACTU Congress: “I Fight For Australia”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has addressed the triennial ACTU Congress in Sydney. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Gillard, Unions, Video Tagged With: ACTU, Ged Kearney, Julia Gillard
ACTU Distances Itself From Health Services Union
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is about to suspend the Health Services Union.
Officials of the Australian Council of Trade Unions officials said today the organisation had “zero tolerance” for corruption or the “misuse of members’ funds”. Ged Kearney and Jeff Lawrence said the ACTU was considering suspension of the Health Services Union. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Gillard Tagged With: ACTU, Craig Thomson, Ged Kearney, HSU, Jeff Lawrence
Crean Accuses Howard Of Destroying Medicare
In a speech to the Australian Council of Trade Unions Medicare Summit, the Leader of the Opposition, Simon Crean, has said the Prime Minister, John Howard, is fulfilling a long-held goal to destory Medicare with the changes announced this week.
Crean said: “For all of its words, John Howard’s policy will destroy Medicare in this country – it can’t do anything else. He is introducing a two-tier system. A two-tier system that even won’t be adequate for the persons on a lower tier that he says that he wants to look after.” [Read more…]
Filed Under: A.L.P., Health Tagged With: ACTU, Medicare, Simon Crean
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CODE 8: Stephen and Robbie Amell’s Epic Crowd Funded Sci-Fi Action Film Scores Distribution with Vertical Entertainment
Almost three years vhave passed since cousins Stehen and Robbie Amell’s short film Code 8 premiered to favorable reviews from the masses and now after a hugely successful crowd funding […]
Almost three years vhave passed since cousins Stehen and Robbie Amell’s short film Code 8 premiered to favorable reviews from the masses and now after a hugely successful crowd funding campaign, the short is now a feature length film which has just landed distribution with Vertical Entertainment per Deadline.
Both Stephen and Robbie star in the film and also served as executive producers. Per Deadline, “Code 8, written by Chris Pare, is set in a world where 4% of the population is born with some type of supernatural ability, but instead of being superheroes, they are heavily policed and live in poverty. Connor Reed (Robbie Amell) is a powerful young “electric” struggling to pay for his ailing mother’s medical treatment. To earn money, he joins a lucrative criminal world led by Garrett (Stephen Amell), who teaches him how to use his powers to pull off a series of increasingly dangerous crimes. Sung Kang (Fast & Furious) and Greg Bryk (Ad Astra) also star.”
Stephen Amell, Director Jeff Chan and Robbie Amell on the set of Code 8.
Directed by Jeff Chan, who in a statement along with the Amells, said:
“We took a grassroots approach to getting this film off the ground and we’re beyond thrilled to unveil it alongside our partners at Vertical. This has been a labor of love for us and the tens of thousands of supporters who have been there since the start of this journey.”
Vertical’s Rich Goldberg added, “Code 8 is a visually immersive and action-packed film that introduces powerful real-world implications to a story revolving around individuals with the super-powered abilities. Like the best science fiction, it manages to entertain while challenging us to ask questions about the world around us and we can’t wait for audiences to experience it.”
Code 8 was produced by Colony Pictures, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with Lane E Productions, the Fyzz Facility and Ontario Creates. Along with Stephen and Robbie, Lee Kim, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Pare, Cynthia Guidry, Lainie Guidry, Sascha Penn, Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones are executive producers.
Stephen Amell is best known for playing Oliver Quenn on The CW’s Arrow which will run its final eighth season this fall while Robbie has been on The Flash where he played Ronnie Raymond AKA Firestorm.
Keep it locked and loaded right here for mre details to drop and in the emantime, check out the short film that inspired the film!
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Siena, San Gimignano and Chianti Experience
Discover 3 of the most authentic gems nestled in the heart of Tuscany countryside. Siena, the famous Palio city, San Gimignano, a UNESCO world heritage site and Monteriggioni, one of the most enchanting Italian walled towns.
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Experience Siena, Monteriggioni, and San Gimignano by van
Visit ancient churches, medieval castles and little hamlets
Explore the medieval town of San Gimignano and its beautiful squares, buildings and churches
Have a typical lunch in a great location
Enjoy a guided tour in Siena
Explore the essence of Tuscany: Siena, San Gimignano and Monteriggioni are waiting to be discovered. The first step is Siena. Here, be welcomed by a local guide that will lead you through the most typical spots such as Piazza del Campo and Piazza del Duomo, where you can appreciate the authentic medieval atmosphere which makes this town special and unique. After that you will have an hour of free time that you can spend to visit the Duomo, do some shopping or simply enjoy the local deliciousness.
Back in the minivan, head to the lovely town of Monteriggioni. Built in 1213, its fame was so big that the great poet Dante Alighieri made a sign to his round enclosure in the Divine Comedy. Here, finally, have lunch in a typical restaurant and have the chance to taste local food and wine.
In the afternoon, reach San Gimignano, where you will have free time to discover the town and admire the amazing landscape. The city of beautiful towers, has been nominated as a UNESCO world heritage site as an example of a medieval town. At the end of the visit, come back to Florence in full comfort just in time for the sunset.
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Tuesday Wake-Up Call: GSK reviews, Childish Gambino video goes viral
By Alexandra Jardine. Published on May 08, 2018.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc company headquarters in London, U.K.
Credit: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. What people are talking about today: Pharma and consumer-health giant GlaxoSmithKline is reviewing its global media account. As Ad Age's Megan Graham reports, the review is a mandatory three-year review but it's huge: the marketer spent about $1.7 billion on advertising in 2017, according to Ad Age Datacenter. The incumbents are Omnicom's PHD and WPP's MediaCom; PHD referred comment to the client while MediaCom didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
'Horrifying maw of the now'
'This is America," a song by Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, with a hyperviolent video, has quickly gone viral and become a cultural talking point around the world.
As Ad Age's Simon Dumenco reports, after Glover hosted "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, performed the song live on the show and then released the music video on YouTube's Vevo, it has become a media obsession around the world. As of this morning, the official music video has now racked up more than 31 million views. With its topics of guns, police, fear and the black experience, it's already inspired essays and think pieces around the world. Singapore-based street culture magazine Juice published a review, for example, describing it as "the screaming, fiery, horrifying maw of the now in which we're chewed and crushed on repeat." Meanwhile, cultural commentators on the U.K.'s BBC Radio "Today" program reviewed it this morning -- and Twitter is abuzz with discussion about its meaning. Check out the video here if you haven't seen it already.
Small Agency Conference
How do you maintain your culture as an agency as you grow? This question and many more will be on the agenda at this year's Ad Age Small Agency Conference on July 17 and 18 in Marina del Rey.
Others that will be discussed include how to design a succession plan; when is it time to sell; how does a small agency get noticed; best practices for new business; reshaping your rate card; tips for winning over big clients and more. Ad Age is also looking for some small agency chiefs to share their own experiences on our website with the theme: "What I know now that I wish I knew then." Plus, there's still time to enter the Small Agency awards: check out some frequently asked questions about entry here.
Comcast to bid for Fox in cash?
The battle for Twenty First Century Fox is heating up: Comcast Corp is hoping to make an all-cash offer for the media assets that Fox Inc. has agreed to sell to Walt Disney Co for $52 billion, reports Reuters.
According to the story, three people familiar with the matter said on Monday that Comcast is asking investment banks to increase a bridge financing facility by as much as $60 billion so it can make the offer. But it only plans to go ahead if a federal judge allows AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner to proceed.
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No two moms are alike, and brands can make a mistake behaving as if that's true. Here are three pointers to help you avoid the generic marketing trap. Read more by Foursquare's April Denn here.
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Beer by drone? In its World Cup ad, Budweiser depicts Buds delivered by drone to thirsty fans at a stadium in Russia, site of this year's tournament, reports Ad Age's E.J. Schultz. The ad, by Anomaly, will run in more than 50 countries, but not in the U.S., where the soccer team failed to qualify for this year's Cup.
Snap CFO steps down: Snap's chief financial officer Drew Vollero is stepping down, and the company is bringing in Amazon executive Tim Stone to replace him, reports Bloomberg. Vollero's exit isn't related to any disagreement about Snap's accounting, operations or other practices, the company says. Stone has worked for Amazon since 1998 in various roles, including vice president of finance and VP of physical stores.
Japan's biggest takeover: Japan's Takeda has reached an agreement to buy Dublin-based pharmaceuticals group Shire, maker of the ADHD drug Adderall, reports The Guardian. The $62.42 billon deal is likely to be the biggest overseas acquisition ever by a Japanese company.
Creativity Pick of the Day: What does the Venus de Milo do when she's finished her "shift" at the museum? In an ad promoting its shell-less pistachios. Wonderful Pistachios shows the famous statue doing her grocery shopping, wearing a power suit and singing the praises of pistachios. As Ad Age's Jessica Wohl writes, the campaign, by the Wonderful Agency, also features other works of art including Michelangelo's "David" and baby Jesus putting some clothes on. The tagline? "Sometimes, Naked Is Better." Check out the videos here.
Alexandra Jardine
Alexandra Jardine is the associate creativity editor, U.K. at Ad Age.
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology for Architecture, Engineering and Construction
New service to track ground movement on UK infrastructure from space
Satsense converts satellite data every six days and offers historical snaps shots going back to 2015
Satsense, a spin out from the University of Leeds, has recently launched a service that measures incremental vertical ground movement to a +/- 1mm accuracy, based on satellite readings from the European Space Agency satellite, Sentinel 1.
The company is targeting the construction, geotechnical, property conveyancing and insurance industries, as well as large infrastructure owners such as Highways England, Network Rail and Water Utilities. The technology can be used as a preventative maintenance solution for large assets such as dams, water, and gas pipelines.
Satsense data is stored online and automatically updated every six days. It goes back to 2015 so firms can explore how infrastructure may have moved over the last four years.
Through the online portal, subscribers can investigate any site of interest in the UK. SatSense provides example data for London and Stoke via its website.
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‘This splendid, thoroughly researched, two-volume history of Princeton Seminary reads like a novel. It tells the story of one of the key institutions that shaped the transformation of post-colonial, adolescent America into a world power, and that for the first time made the Christian faith global, carrying it literally to the uttermost ends of the earth. Calhoun has ‘the gift’ , he makes historical characters spring to life. His story is more than the story of a theological seminary; it captures the essence of a whole century and a quarter (1812-1929) of the coming of age of America.’– SAMUEL HUGH MOFFET
‘What a blessing for mind and heart!’ , ROBERT PETERSON, PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, COVENANT SEMINARY
From modest beginnings in 1812, Princeton Seminary soon became an intellectual and theological school of great importance. Long before the death of its first professors its name was almost synonymous with erudite biblical exposition, carefully worked-out reformed theology and deep spirituality. Hundreds of ministers (Baptist as well as Presbyterian) and many outstanding missionaries passed through its lecture rooms, chapel services and communal fellowship to leave a permanent spiritual mark on the people whom they later served in the advance of the gospel. These
were men who believed that ‘preaching Christ is the best, hardest, sweetest work, on this side of beholding him.’ In this, the first of two volumes, we have the story with a wealth of detail and colour down to the year 1868. While the history of an institution, it is also a record of thought and action, trends and personalities. Backed by years of careful research, by his own long experience in the training of men for the ministry, David Calhoun has produced a work which must find a permanent place in the Christian literature of the English-speaking world.
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This is a phenomenal read. This should be required reading for any ministerial candidate.( It is my understanding when these volumes first came out a copy of it was made to 50 students at Princeton Seminary.) The book gives you almost a first hand impression of the lives of several of the founding fathers of the seminary and some of interaction with our some of the founding fathers of the nation, including George Washington. It rehearses the careful planning and solid ground given to the forming of the school. You won’t be disappointed with this read.
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The hardest raids in World of Warcraft!
Higher tier raiding in World of Warcraft has been the most prestigious activity in the game. Unlike solo adventures, raiding, in general, requires much more focus, knowledge, preparation and above all teamwork. Requiring 20-40 people to work as a cohesive unit to achieve a certain goal is a feat in itself. The newer expansions always bring harder raids and harder boss fights in general. But is that really the case? Let’s take a look at the hardest raids in World of Warcraft
How can we measure correctly the “hardness” of the content?
Well, we can use different metrics but there will never be one concise winner. Should we measure them by how long it took for the first kill? Perhaps, we should use the attempts at downing them as an example? Or maybe, we should use the number of guilds that downed it as the benchmark? Today, we will use all 3 metrics.
Which raid and which boss took the longest to defeat?
This specific raid is special as not only did it take the longest time to kill its final boss but also had the coolest raid opening ever! Of course, we are talking about the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj (AQ40). The sheer amount of work, prestige, and lag that went into opening the gates of Ahn’Qiraj should qualify it immediately as one of the hardest raids. However, the real raid started once someone hit the gong and opened the gates. And this raid was no joke. Temple of Ahn’Qiraj is a raid set in the Silithus desert with only 9 bosses inside. While AQ40 was not the most mechanically challenging raid, it’s final boss C’thun holds the world record for the longest time to stand undefeated. It took the best guild, at the time, 86 days to down C’thun once the Twin Emperors (The pre-final boss) was killed. However, you might argue that Ouro, from the same raid, with its 87 days alive is the winner here, but that is not really the case. Ouro was an optional pre-final boss. Which means, you didn’t need to kill it in order to reach C’thun. That’s the only reason it stands undefeated for 1 day longer than C’thun.
Why did C’thun last that long, if it wasn’t the most challenging fight?
Overtuning. There was a post back in the day explaining the math behind it. Even if all 40 people, did their maximum effort, it would still be impossible to down C’thun. The best guild, at the time, killed C’thun very shortly after the nerfs.
Next up, which boss took the most attempts to be defeated?
Firstly, some honorable mentions. #3 Fallen Avatar – Tomb of Sargeras 453 attempts by Method #2 Archimonde – Hellfire Citadel 472 attempts by Method Finally, the last boss of the Tomb of Sargeras in World of Warcraft Legion, Kil’jaeden. Boasting at a whopping 654 attempts by Method. This fight had everything! From protecting the platform from orbs to running around with an orb, to a secret Mythic only phase, to a general overtune by Blizzard. Everything a true World of Warcraft hardcore raider a.k.a. masochist could ever wish for. In an interview for Allcraft, leader of Method “Sco” mentioned that they had over 400 wipes at KJ until Blizzard finally understood that the fight was mathematically impossible. After the quick tuning, only 200 wipes were needed to achieve complete victory in the Tomb of Sargeras. Having 2 of the top 3 boss attempts in it. We can safely declare the Tomb of Sargeras as the hardest boss if we count the sheer amount of wipes it took to be killed. The Method boys also agree with us that this the hardest raid ever in World of Warcraft.
Which of the World of Warcraft raids is the hardest, by its exclusivity?
We all know what is coming here… Vanilla Naxxramas is by far one of the most exclusive raids ever in World of Warcraft. Just slightly bellow 100 guilds actually managed to kill Vanilla Naxx, before TBC. I know what you are thinking. – 100 guilds? – That’s a lot! Not really. By the end of Vanilla, World of Warcraft had around 7 million active subscribers. That puts the total population that has seen the death of Kel’Thuzad at below 1%. That is why Naxx came back in the Wrath of The Lich King.
Was Vanilla Naxx really that hard?
The answer is yes and no. Vanilla Naxx came at a time where people were still very new to the genre. The grind, skill, and persistence is at a much higher level now than in 2006. So if you put a team of 40 skilled, veteran players in that scenario now, it would be a different story. However, there are arguments to be made that Vanilla Naxx was just not fair. One of the people who have the world first kill in Naxx gives us some clarification in this video. It truly shows how unforgiving and overtuned Vanilla Naxxramas really was.
World of Warcraft is ever changing. It is evolving with us, the players. So, there is a general opinion that the newest raids will always be harder than their predecessors. As the players’ skill grows, so will the hardness of the raid. Do you agree with our list for World of Warcraft hardest raids?
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Apple’s Families Microsite Brings All Parental Control Tools Under One Roof
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Adding fuel to the never-ending debate of smartphone addiction among children, a couple big-time Apple investors chimed in to term the iPhone as a ‘public health crisis’ and called out the tech giant for not doing enough to curb the problem. Apple had then assured them saying that it’d provide parents more control over their kid’s screen addition and is making good on its promise at last.
The Cupertino giant has today introduced a new ‘Families’ section on its official website to help parents learn more about Apple’s parental control and family features in one location.
This family-focused microsite is designed with just the sole focus of providing the parents of today’s youth with some peace of mind. The website has been broken down in many sections, such as App Store recommendations, in-app purchases, enforcement of content and browsing policies on your kid’s devices and more. Apple says:
We’re continually designing new features to help make sure kids use them in the ways you want.
The company further adds that parents are well aware of their kids’ activities and there is a need for tools necessary to keep their smartphone or tablet usage in check. Apple has highlighted the fact that parents can always curate content that’s appropriate for their children and make sure they only have access to that. They can also use tools such as ‘Find My Friends’ to keep track of the location of their children and further manage all health, privacy, and family sharing options for added security.
Apple has just clubbed what was already available on its platform and listed all the features and apps one may need to manage their kids’ screen addiction on this microsite. It has not detailed any new features that have been added, or ones may be coming to the Apple’s iOS platform in the near future to curb this problem.
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Samsung confirms 30M Galaxy S III sales in 5 months
Jordan Kahn
- Nov. 5th 2012 7:26 am PT
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There were hints a couple of days ago, but Samsung officially confirmed on its website this morning that it surpassed 30 million global sales of the Galaxy S III since it first launched five months ago in May. Samsung noted that’s 20 million more devices than the 10 million Galaxy S II units sold in its first 150 days. Samsung also announced last week that it sold 3 million units of its new Galaxy Note II in just 37 days of being on sale.
Samsung is a technology conglomerate based out of South Korea that makes some of the world's most popular smartphones such as the Galaxy S8/S8+ and Galaxy Note 8.
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Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac, & contributes to 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, & Electrek.co. He also co-authors 9to5Mac’s weekly Logic Pros series and makes music as one half of Toronto-based Makamachine.
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Itinerary Guide Activities Culture Restaurants
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The Guide to a Weekend Getaway in Downtown Los Angeles
Coming in for a landing at the Skyslide | Photo by Joseph Choi
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Originally written by RootsRated for Discover Los Angeles.
In recent years, Downtown Los Angeles has experienced a renaissance of mass proportions. The once gritty streets of the city’s historic center have seen an incredible resurgence of culture, restaurants, hotels, nightlife and neighborhoods. If you're looking for an urban adventure for your next weekend getaway, then Downtown L.A. is the place to be.
Photo courtesy of The Rooftop at The Standard Downtown L.A., Facebook
First and foremost, find a hotel in a central location so you can easily experience all the sights and sounds that Downtown L.A. has to offer. For those seeking a hip and trendy setting, the The Standard is perfect. This boutique hotel has chic rooms and a rooftop complete with a pool, bar, beer garden and amazing city views.
If ultra-luxurious is more your style, then the Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE will not disappoint. Living up to its world-famous reputation, the hotel’s rooftop pools, panoramic views, and top-of-the-line service will have you feeling like a superstar in no time.
Book a room at the historic Los Angeles Athletic Club and your stay includes access to the club's world-class fitness facilities, which are normally members-only.
Metro Bike Share
Photo courtesy of Metro Bike Share, Facebook
Once you have a homebase, it’s time to figure out where to go and what to do. If you're interested in exploring Downtown L.A. by bike, then Metro Bike Share is an ideal option. Read More →
Keeping it active in Downtown L.A. is easy. You can walk or bike almost everywhere, and there are numerous green spaces to enjoy. Read on for a weekend of adventure as you walk, bike and discover Downtown L.A.
Sausage, egg and cheese sandwich at EggSlut | Photo by Joshua Lurie
8 a.m. - Grand Central Market
Start your morning at Grand Central Market, where you can get a quick breakfast (or lunch or dinner, for that matter) and enjoy stellar people watching. Amid the stalls selling food and other goods, you’ll find eateries to suit almost every taste. One of the most popular is Eggslut, where the star ingredient—the egg—is cooked up a variety of ways and served in a warm brioche bun. It gets crowded, so be sure to arrive early to avoid lines.
Bradbury Building in Downtown L.A. | Photo courtesy of Candice Montgomery, Flickr
10 a.m. - Los Angeles Conservancy
One of the best ways to explore Downtown L.A. is to take one of the eight guided walking tours presented by the Los Angeles Conservancy. Their Historic Downtown tour gives you a great overview of the area’s culture and growth through the lens of its architecture. Highlights include the Bradbury Building, Central Library and U.S. Bank Tower.
The Conservancy also offers tours that focus on specific areas of interest, such as the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, the Modern Skyline, or the Broadway Historical Theatre and Commercial District. If you can’t make one of the guided tours, you can use one of the Conservancy’s downloadable guides and go on a self-guided journey.
Sashimi lunch special at Sushi Gen | Photo by Stacey Sun
Lunch - Sushi Gen
After you have worked up your appetite walking around historic Downtown L.A., it’s time for some good sushi. At Sushi Gen in Little Tokyo, they've found that sweet spot between quality and price, and you can’t go wrong—the restaurant’s long lines will attest to that. Sit at a table to get the $15 sashimi lunch special, or if you want to watch the chefs at work, grab a seat at the sushi bar.
2 p.m. - California Science Center
A world of science adventure awaits at the California Science Center, one of several acclaimed cultural destinations in historic Exposition Park. Now on view through April 9, 2017, The Science Behind Pixar is a 12,000 square-foot interactive exhibition that presents a first-time look into the Pixar filmmaking process, and explores the science and technology behind some of the most beloved animated films and their characters.
Other must-sees at the Science Center include the Space Shuttle Endeavour, stunning IMAX films like Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D, and attractions like the High Wire Bicycle, Motion-Based Simulator, and Ecology Cliff Climb. For online tickets, visit californiasciencecenter.org/visit/admission.
Skyslide at OUE Skyspace | Photo by Joseph Choi
5 p.m. - OUE Skyspace LA
Opened in June 2016, OUE Skyspace LA is California’s tallest open-air observation deck and a must-see destination for panoramic, 360-degree views of Los Angeles. Located nearly 1,000 feet above the city at the iconic U.S. Bank Tower in Downtown L.A., the highlight of OUE Skyspace LA is Skyslide, a first-of-its-kind outdoor glass slide that’s attached to the exterior of the U.S. Bank Tower. The Skyslide is 45 feet long, about four feet wide and made entirely with 1.25-inch glass. Visitors can glide from the 70th to the 69th floor of the U.S. Bank Tower and see Los Angeles in a way that few will ever experience. For more information and to purchase online tickets, visit skyspace-la.com/tickets.
Photo courtesy of 71Above, Facebook
Dinner - 71Above
After your Skyslide adventure, you'll be ready to unwind at 71Above, perched one floor above OUE Skyspace. Start with a classic Vesper (made famous by James Bond in the book and movie, Casino Royale) and enjoy the spectacular sunset and panoramic city views. You can nosh at the bar, or for a more refined experience, make a reservation in the elegant dining room for a three-course dinner featuring Chef Vartan Abgaryan's New American cuisine.
Photo courtesy of Exchange LA, Facebook
Downtown L.A. offers a myriad of nightlife options. World-class venues like STAPLES Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall host performances ranging from pop music to classical. Dance the night away to EDM at Exchange LA, salsa at the Conga Room, or get your groove on the disco floor at Honeycut, discreetly located beneath Flower Street. For a more mellow scene, check out live jazz at the Blue Whale in Little Tokyo.
Whole Grain Latte | Photo courtesy of Lazy Brewing Company, Facebook
9 a.m. - Lazy Brewing Company
You've slept in long enough, it's time to start your second day of adventure at one of Downtown L.A.'s hottest new coffee spots. A sunny, bright space located between Main and Los Angeles Streets in the Historic Core, Lazy Brewing Company is the cafe you’d imagine a group of twentysomething bohemian friends in the big city would make their local. Influenced by founder Jiniee Yoo’s Korean culinary heritage, the specialty drinks are the ones to try. The Whole Grain Latte is a must - spiked with a traditional health-food blend of black beans and whole grains. Settle into a worn leather couch and tuck into avocado toast with crisp-crusty rustic bread, topped by paper-thin radish circles, vibrant sprouts and a slice of lemon. You'll be tempted, but don't linger too long - there's a whole day of adventure ahead!
Mural in the Arts District | Photo courtesy of L.A. Art Tours
11 a.m. - Downtown L.A. / Graffiti Tour
One of L.A.'s most exciting neighborhoods, the Arts District in Downtown L.A. is experiencing a boom in street art. L.A. Art Tours will take you on a walking tour of this vibrant area, showcasing huge murals and hidden works that would be missed on a quick car trip. With actual Downtown L.A. muralists and artists as guides, L.A. Art Tours offers access to spots that the public never gets to see. The tour covers about two miles of walking, so bring comfortable shoes.
Bratwurst, duck and bacon, mango jalapeño, Belgian fries | Photo courtesy of Wurstküche, Facebook
Lunch - Wurstküche
A self-described purveyor of exotic grilled sausages, Wurstküche serves up dozens of sausages featuring classic (bratwurst, Italian), gourmet (chicken apple and spices, mango jalapeño) and exotic (rattlesnake and rabbit with jalapeño peppers, pheasant with herbs de Provence) fillings. An extensive menu of draft and bottled American, Belgian and German beers, as well as ciders and non-alcoholic beverages, offers countless twists on the classic sausage and beer pairing.
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3 p.m. - Escape Room L.A.
Located just east of Gallery Row, Escape Room L.A. features real-life escape games where you and up to 11 others must race to beat the clock and escape from a locked room in less than one hour. The four available games are The Detective, The Cavern, The Theatre and The Alchemist.
No special skills are needed for this 90-minute adventure. In all the games, you'll work together to solve puzzles and clues that eventually will lead to your escape from the room. Some clues are fairly easy, while others might have you scratching your head. Communicate with everyone, search the rooms carefully, and if you get stuck, move on to another area or a different puzzle.
Photo courtesy of Clifton’s, Facebook
5 p.m. - Clifton's
Solving an escape room puzzle is thirsty work, so it's on to the next adventure for a pre-dinner drink. Opened in 1935 as Clifton's Brookdale, Clifton's reopened in September 2015 after a five-year, $14-million renovation. Once known as the world's largest public cafeteria, Clifton's now boasts a 40-foot (fake) redwood in its atrium and multiple bars spanning several levels. Order a cocktail at the second-floor Monarch Bar and explore the various spaces - you'll find everything from a 4.75 billion-year-old meteorite to a menagerie of taxidermied animals.
Photo courtesy of Broken Spanish, Facebook
Dinner - Broken Spanish
Chef Ray Garcia’s take on contemporary Mexican cuisine, Broken Spanish is located near L.A. LIVE in a colorful space that is at once modern and homey. Start with the exceptional heirloom corn tortillas, which can be ordered with refried lentils or whipped carnitas fat. Mains include the comforting rabbit mixiote, a stew with nopales, bacon and cherry tomatoes that’s served in a cellophane bag. For adventurous diners, the cabeza (lamb’s head) is a showstopper, served with pickled onion and cabbage. Be sure to save room for desserts like the arroz con leche with arborio rice, roasted pear, blackberry jam, warm tres leches and canela.
Photo courtesy of General Lee's
After dinner, indulge your sense of adventure and end your weekend at one of Downtown L.A.'s hidden bars. Located inside an old power plant, The Edison welcomes guests through an alley off 2nd Street. Descend the staircase and enter this stunning event venue and high-volume craft cocktail bar with an industrial, steampunk design.
Hidden in the back of Cole's French Dip, The Varnish is renowned as one of the original craft cocktail speakeasies in Los Angeles. Once you're inside, you'll enjoy some of the best cocktails in the city in one of its most elegant settings.
Tucked away in historic Chinatown, General Lee's is a lively two-level bar with a stunning Tiki interior. Step inside and you'll feel like you've entered a film noir - the perfect setting to close out your weekend of adventure.
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Did Pelosi cave on impeachment? Depends on who you ask: ANALYSIS
Democrats say she forced a debate on fairness and exposed GOP fault lines.
Anne Flaherty
Benjamin Siegel
News headlines today: Jan. 21, 2020Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Tom Brenner/Reuters
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi waited more than three weeks to deliver the impeachment articles for President Donald Trump -- a seemingly odd move after Democrats spent weeks arguing that removing Trump was urgently needed to protect the integrity of the 2020 election.
Even as some Democrats joined Republicans in calling for the articles to move, Pelosi coolly responded that she would do so only when she was good and ready.
"It cracks me up to see on TV, ‘Oh, the pressure,'" Pelosi told reporters Friday, just moments before telling her colleagues in a letter that she was ready to send the articles -- even without seeing the text of impeachment trial rules from Senate Republicans she had insisted was necessary.
“Where’s the pressure? I have news for them. You don’t have a story,” she said.
In the end, Pelosi’s maneuvering might have some Americans scratching their heads. Democrats insist her delay was about maximizing leverage, and that she got as much as she could. Republicans counter she undercut her own argument of urgency and lost momentum.
Nadeam Elshami, Pelosi’s former chief of staff, said he thinks she got what she wanted. By the time the Republican majority votes to acquit Trump as expected, Democrats will insist it was a “tainted trial,” he said.
“This has been a strategy that essentially shines a bright light on the question of fairness,” Elshami said.
Jim Manley, a former senior aide to Democratic Sens. Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy, agreed.
"Among other things, it drove the president nuts while also forcing Republicans repeatedly to defend their lack of willingness to call witnesses as part of a determined effort to hold a real trial in the Senate," he told ABC News.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi walks off the House floor in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2020.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi walks off the House floor in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2020.Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA via Shutterstock
What Pelosi got: A public debate on trial rules and exposed GOP fault lines
One concern among Democrats was that Trump’s acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate would be swift without allowing for witnesses and documents, essentially flipping headlines from “Trump impeached” to "Trump acquitted" without giving voters time to absorb the details.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had already mocked the House inquiry as “weak” and promised to conduct a Senate trial “in total coordination” with White House lawyers.
“We all know how it’s going to end,” McConnell said in a December interview with Fox News Sean Hannity. “There is no chance the president is going to be removed from office.”
Those comments though triggered GOP moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to speak out, telling a local news affiliate she was "disturbed" by the comment and stirring speculation she might side with Democrats to propose certain rules or subpoena witnesses or documents.
Then came the unsolicited offer by John Bolton – Trump’s former national security adviser -- to testify.
Another witness had already testified in the House that Bolton had privately compared the White House pressure campaign on Ukraine to a “drug deal” cooked up by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
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New evidence surfaced, too. An Aug. 30 email leaked to the public quoted a White House budget official telling the Pentagon that it was “clear direction from POTUS to hold” military assistance for Ukraine despite repeated warnings that doing so was probably illegal.
The result was mounting pressure on moderate or vulnerable Republicans to agree to allow new witnesses and other evidence introduced into the Senate trial.
“I’d like to hear what John Bolton has to say,” said Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.
McConnell ultimately said he would propose rules “similar” to those agreed to by Senate Democrats for President Bill Clinton’s trial. Those rules would allow for new witnesses and documents, but later in the trial if 51 senators agree.
MORE: Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she's 'disturbed' by McConnell's comments on White House coordination
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he wasn't happy with the idea, noting differences in the Clinton and Trump cases. But he seemed pleased with what Pelosi had done.
“If she had sent them (the impeachment articles) right away, McConnell could have well just voted for dismissal the day before or after Christmas," he told ABC's "This Week." "Now, in the last two weeks, where we haven't had the articles, lots of new evidence that bolsters our case for witnesses -- for witnesses and documents has come out.”
Pelosi's caucus fell in line without argument.
“I think her judgment has been uncanny, and I am not about to second-guess her,” Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., a progressive and early impeachment advocate who was critical of her stance on impeachment early last year.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell heads to a briefing by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and other national security officials on the details of the threat that prompted the U.S. to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Jan. 8, 2020 on Capitol Hill.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell heads to a briefing by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and other national security officials on the details of the threat that prompted the U.S. to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Jan. 8, 2020 on Capitol Hill.J. Scott Applewhite/AP
What McConnell got: GOP unity on process and the talking point that Democrats were playing political games
For Republicans, Pelosi’s delay only undercut Democrats’ own argument that they needed to act urgently because Trump’s actions were so dire.
“For months, House Democrats said @realDonaldTrump was a national security threat and that impeachment was urgent,” wrote Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, in a tweet refired by Trump. “Where’s the urgency now?”
The delay also gave McConnell space to assert himself and take control. All eyes were on the GOP leader this month as he delivered blistering floor speeches knocking Democrats for playing politics.
“House Democrats are treating impeachment like a political toy -- a political toy -- treating their own effort to remove the commander like some frivolous game,” McConnell said shortly before Pelosi announced she would transmit the articles. “These bizarre stunts do not serve our Constitution or our national security. They erode both.”
McConnell also was able to cobble together a party agreement to support the Clinton trial rules. While that approach includes an opportunity for Democrats to demand witnesses, it’s not guaranteed and Democrats wouldn’t be able to raise the idea until after opening arguments are made and senators have submitted questions.
“What was good enough for President Clinton is good enough for President Trump,” he said.
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Collins and Romney said they were on board. But on Friday, Collins suggested the matter wasn't over yet and confirmed she was talking with her GOP colleagues on “how we can adhere as closely as practical to the precedent” of Clinton’s trial, including an eventual decision on witnesses.
“I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement on how to proceed with the trial that will allow the opportunity for witnesses for both the House managers and the President’s counsel if they choose to do so,” she said.
“It is important that both sides be treated fairly,” Collins added.
ABC News producer John Parkinson contributed to this report.
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Why a merit-less Rafale buy can’t be justified
Posted on December 29, 2016 by Bharat Karnad
As perhaps his last action as the air force chief, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha did two things to ensure that in retirement he will not face the opprobrium of his colleagues in service. One, he drew back from the position he had taken about ACM SP Tyagi (Retd) despoiling IAF’s reputation to say that as a member of the service the fraternity stood behind him. This may have been prompted by the op-ed pieces by former Chief of Air Staff AY Tipnis and the former navy chief, Admiral Arun Prakash, criticizing the government for, in essence, treating Tyagi in a manner not befitting the high military post he had occupied.
And two, more importantly, Raha revealed the real reason for the IAF enthusiastically backing prime minister Narendra Modi’s unexpected announcement in Paris in April 2015 of the purchase of 36 French Rafale combat aircraft without an iota of technology transfer, which this analyst had deduced then, namely, that this small number of Rafales while useless by itself as a fighting force, would work nicely as leverage with the Modi government to buy an additional 200-250 of the same aircraft.
By way of rationalization, Raha dredged up the spurious notion of the Rafale’s “medium” weight as its main selling point and how this plane in the fleet would “balance out” the force. He expressly ruled out the augmentation of the Su-30 fleet as an alternative, saying India had enough of this latter “heavy” aircraft. The IAF presently has some 272 Su-30MKIs.
As has been pointed out by this analyst, a separate “medium” category of fighter aircraft is uniquely an IAF invention and springs out of the notion of “Hi-Lo” mix of weapons platforms that force designers have cottoned on to ever since the US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt originally conceived it in the early 1970s as the template for a naval force of a small number of expensive, high-value, nuclear-powered boats and the far more numerous, cheaper, lower technology, ships, resulting in a sufficiently large force to maintain a wide, global, naval presence. The “hi-lo” concept was introduced keeping in mind (1) the exponential growth in the price of major weapons platforms, with a direct relationship between unit cost and high-technology content — the more advanced the platform and onboard weapons the costlier the total item, and (2) the rather severe consequences (in terms of force attrition) owing to loss in hostilities of the necessarily fewer high priced platforms in service compared to the loss of the cheaper, more expendable, fighting systems and, the enforced caution therefore in actually deploying the former, thereby rendering them mere showpieces in time of war.
In this context, let’s briefly consider IAF’s hi-medium-lo force mix ideas. Raha has conceded the low end to the indigenous Tejas LCA (presumably the 1A and eventually Mk-II variants), and the high-end to the Su-30MKIs already in the fleet. With defence minister Manohar Parrikar pushing the Tejas, the IAF brass, in its ever fluid, expedient, thinking decided to humour the Modi regime by assigning the air defence role exclusively to the Indian-designed and developed LCA while using its short range to bolster the service’s demand for the medium weight “multi-role” Rafale for extended air defence as also for aerial (including nuclear) strike operations and for air superiority purposes. The Su-30, in the mean time, fills the air dominance need. So, what’s wrong with this solution, especially when Raha deems 200 of additional Rafales (or F-16s or F-18s for which, he said, the competition is still open) a “must have” for IAF? (See http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/india-needs-about-200-250-rafales-to-maintain-edge-iaf-chief-arup-raha/articleshow/56220622.cms)
Great many things. The reason no major air force thinks in other than than “hi-lo” terms is because there’s very little substantive differentiation in capability between the hi-end and medium fighter aircraft. But, cost-wise, as Parrikar himself once stated, India can buy THREE Su-30s of the upgraded “Super Sukhoi” variety (with Active Electronically Scanned Array radar for switching missions mid-flight between Air-to-air and Air-to-ground) for the cost of a single Rafale, which quality-wise is also manifestly inferior. Moreover, Rafale is 4.5 generation, exactly the same as an AESA radar equipped Tejas and no match whatsoever for the 4.75-5 generation ‘super sukhoi’ Su-30. If the threats are taken into consideration, Rafale is viable only against Pakistan but in the quality-quantity matrix, will find itself swamped by huge numbers of low-cost Chinese built J-17s with the PAF. The paper performance of one Rafale taking out three or five J-17s is the kind of nonsense no self-respecting airman believes in (with the Beyond Visual Range ordnance brought into the reckoning, except that the hit rate of the BVR missile averages around 30% in any realistic scenario)!
Further, Su-30 is for air dominance but can pull air superiority (another name for air dominance and air defence) and nuclear strike roles more effectively than Rafale whose only advantage — if it can be called that — is that it is range optimized for Pakistan — a lowly Pakistan for God’s sake. So just to tackle Pakistan IAF is acquiring an entirely new type of fighter aircraft to worsen the already nightmare situation of logistical diversity owing to improbably disparate kinds of aircraft in IAF’s employ. So, Rafale and F-16/F-18 are being added to this melange just so the country’s sources of military supply are diversified, even as the existing logistics and operational problems multiply manifold! Can anyone credibly argue that a Super Sukhoi Su-30 that can reach deep inside China cannot reach the next door Pakistani targets? But such is the IAF’s pitch the Modi government has bought into. Now make sense of that.
And, finally, how about this aspect — the down payment on the deal for 36 Rafales is a whopping Rs 9,700 crores — a sum the Indian government is unable so far to come up with. France will, of course, not countenance a barter arrangement, something Russia may agree to if IAF goes in for another 200 of the Su-30s, with the side benefit of recovering the lost ground in Indo-Russian relations, and regaining the geopolitical leverage prospectively with Trump’s America, which leverage is eroding with New Delhi’s growing tilt to the US and the West.
Have maintained from the start that the Rafale deal in its entirety (costing upwards, inflation- and average weapons price annual increases- indexed, of $70-80 billion) will end up bankrupting the nation. But the IAF will have a fleet of 236 shiny Rafales to show off. GOI and IAF apparently think this is not such a bad trade-off.
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26 Responses to Why a merit-less Rafale buy can’t be justified
Gp Capt TP Srivastava says:
An extremely pertinent point made about Rafale deal bleeding Indian exchequer in near future. Personally I have serious doubts and reservations on further purchase ie after the 36 contracted.
Few submissions:-
Aeroplanes are not purchased keeping in view a particular country.
JF 17 is in terrible shape, both in China and PAF. Aero-engines are a major stumbling block. No authentic record is available on major defence websites about so called PGMs married to JF 17 platgform.
Tejas will be operationally available not before 2021, if at all. My fear is that it might meet the same fate as the HF 24, albeit without being inducted in IAF. Induction ceremony we saw was only cosmetic in nature. My definition of operationalisation of a weapon platform is if it can be flown by a rookie flying officer of a IAF fighter sqn and fire the weapons in anger, if need be.
Your observation on comments by outgoing IAF chief are correct. Too little and too late. If the retired Chiefs had spoken 46 months back when Augusta Westland issue blew up, the nation may not have had to suffer the ignominy of suffering the humiliation of a Service Chief being arrested. By the way what is your take now in view of sessions judge comments about the incompetence of CBI in failing to produce any substantive evidence against ACM Tyagi?
Would you, therefore, like to retract what you said earlier in a rather armature fashion?
Gp Capt TP Srivastava
Gp Cptn Srivastava — I’ll gladly retract my comments re: Tyagi if you can prove that the Tyagi-led IAF brass’ role in changing the “technical specs” of the AW 101 was not critical to the shortlisting of this aircraft for purchase. It was this intervention opportunity that Tyagi, as I have argued, capitalized on.
Firstly let me apologise for two spelling mistakes in my response.
Now the issue; Sir argument is exchange of ignorance, arrogance and unbridled attempt to defend the indefensible. Hence I never argue. I merely discuss. I am nearly certain that you never had the opportunity to find out the ‘goings-on’ at the Price Negotiation Committee meetings. Since I happen to be present at few such meetings nearly two decades back I know what goes on.
Before commenting on platform capability, specially when comparing, intimate knowledge of technical and operational parameters is mandatory and not hearsay as you have while commenting about Masand’s MiG-29 and Alu’s M-2000. Incidentally I too happened to be in a MiG 29 COCKPIT, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE. I am responding as a professional and not as a fairy tale teller.
Our north-west centricity has made us blind to our southern borders. Continued comparison with Pakistan is a slur on our actual capability in all spheres. Pakistani DA in India told me that they need not publicise their capability; Indian military strategists do it for free.
One needs to do digital appreciation rather than base the findings on inaccurate and incomplete analogous appreciation as you seem to do.
@Gp Capt TP Srivastava: In your post you state: “…Our north-west centricity has made us blind to our southern borders.”. The first portion (north west centricity) is readily recognizable – Pakistan. I’d like to add that even at an individual level. the average Indian is obsessed with just 2 countries – the US and Pakistan. The rest of the world does not matter.(sic)! What intrigues me is the second portion of your statement about being blind to southern borders. Could you please expand on this part?. Thanks!
@Gp Capt TP Srivastava: As an Addendum to my above query, there are a couple of queries I wanted to take the liberty of posing to you. As an ex-airman and a soldier, you are certainly aware that two very important words are: war hero and air ace, respectively. I notice in India, these titles are bestowed at the drop of a hat. For example, in the ongoing campaign in support of ACM S. P. Tyagi a Twitter post @supportacmtyagi refers to him as a “war hero”. He is/was clearly never one! Next, I find that every IAF Chief and brass is routinely referred to as an “ace pilot”, or an “ace fighter pilot”, or an “ace”. This is a blanket award given to ACM’s Raha, “Charlie Browne,……… As you are aware, the while the actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an “ace” is usually considered to be 5+ enemy kills in combat. The IAF has never produced an “ace” by definition.
Another “Indian tradition” I find quite unbearable is floppy and unfit politicians and other civilians clumsily saluting in civil clothes, when military drill mandates the soldier be in uniform and wearing a cap to salute. How do you feel about this distortion and do you feel that the IAF and the Services in general should formally educate the Indian people and the largely under-educated Indian press about fundamental military traditions and ethos?
I personally believe that carting an IAF Chief to jail is a very serious matter. This could have been handled in a quieter and more judicious manner, which does not adversely affect the morale of the Indian Armed Services. Anyway. what has happened cannot be undone.
If it can be established in a Court of Law under due process that the Tyagi-led IAF brass did indeed have a vested interest in shortlisting the AW 101, this could NOT have happened without the tacit instructions AND connivance of the leading politicians at that time.
I do not see any of the powers-that-be in the UPA regime (or their family members) being carted off in full view of the press and public to jail for questioning. Why is that so? I still recall the “RSVP” talk in the run-up to the last elections. So why are these people still free? Are politicians more precious than the Armed Services who daily place their lives on the line to defend India’s Honor and Territorial Integrity?
raja says:
Dear cap,
What is that critical factor which separates rafale and the rest? (Technical factors).If not classified info can you share on broad headings?
Re:”Have maintained from the start that the Rafale deal will in its entirety (costing upwards of $70-80 billion) end up bankrupting the nation. But the IAF will have a fleet of 236 Rafales to show off.”
Yes 236 Rafales to show off is right,all lined up in their luxurious airconditioned hangers,since no one in their right mind would want to vector a $250 million aircraft against an infantry column, or logistics convoy ,or even some Al Khalid tanks( that would be like sending a Ferrari for a cross country car rally). Air to Ground strike role is the only one left for the Rafale,air superiority/dominance being taken by the SU30 and air defence by the LCA Tejas.With the Brahmos being integrated on the SU30 the Air to Ground role might be taken as well.
If the IAF must have a A to G strike aircraft and also from a western origin why not ask Uncle Sam to let the IAF have a couple of hundred A10 Warthogs?At $20 million per piece the IAF could get a war proven Air to Ground platform and 200 A10s would cost just about $4 billion.With the $50 odd billions saved by not buying 200 more Rafales,GOI could procure 150 odd FGFAs and 200 Super Sukhoi with some money still left over.
The biggest reason for opting for the Rafale over more SU30 was the poor servicability of the Sukhoi.Well this reasoning has gone for a toss now with reports emerging that the Rafale has a servicability of only 48.5%in the Armee de l’air compared to 60%for the SU30 in the IAF.Talk about a fool and his money being soon parted.
Zainraw says:
A-10 is a low altitude ground attack aircraft ; as soon these cross the pak border can be shot down easily by AA fire
Rafale buy is expensive, but its a potent, capable and proven aircraft; its quality and reliability is definetly ahead of the Su 30mki; during a war these maintenance heavy Russian aircraft will not be available; which
was proven during the kargil war; we won it because of the french mirage 2000
Zainraw@ — The only way this can be truly and easily settled once and for all is to have a Su-30 go up against a Rafale. Recall that in a full-fledged war-exercise Air Marshal Harish Masand’s MiG-29s ran circles around Air Marshal Ahluwalia’s Mirage 2000s, an ecounter from which the latter officer never recovered. And of course he lost the bet (of a bottle of Scotch) to Masand, which Ahluwlia, reportedly, never paid up! This will be the outcome of Su-30 Vs Rafale as well. But let’s make it easier for the French item. Parrikar should pit the Rafale against Rangachari’s “cosmetic” Tejas not only to prove just how agile the Indian LCA is but also how out-matched the Rafale really is. I’d urge the defmin to order such a faceoff/flyoff. Any bets in case this happens?
The smart money is on the SU30MKI.
And the Tejas!
The following is what an American think tank Carnegie endowment paper ‘Air power at 18000 feet’ wrote about the MIG29s role during the Kargil air campaign,lest you might think its from Russian sources.
“Throughout the campaign, whenever IAF reconnaissance or ground attack operations were under way in the immediate combat zone, Western Air Command ensured that MiG-29s or other air-to-air fighters were also airborne on combat air patrol stations over the ground fighting on India’s side of the LoC to provide top cover against any attempt by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to enter the fray in a ground attack role. PAF F-16s to the west typically maintained a safe distance of 10 to 20 miles on the Pakistani side of the LoC, although they occasionally approached as close as 8 miles away from the ongoing ground engagements. The PAF’s director of operations during the Kargil War later reported that there had been isolated instances of IAF and PAF fighters locking on to each other with their onboard fire control radars, but that caution had prevailed on both sides and that “no close [air-to-air] encounters took place.”57
Its quiet clear from this,Mirage and other fighters wouldn’t have been able to carry out their bombing runs without the fearsome MIG29s providing top cover with their combat air patrols
As for the SU30 being maintenance heavy,wonder why the Rafale has a servicability percentage of only 48.5%in the French air force if it is so light on maintenance?
@Zainraw: WRT”…its quality and reliability is definetly ahead of the Su 30mki; during a war these maintenance heavy Russian aircraft will not be available; which was proven during the kargil war; we won it because of the french mirage 2000…”. This is utter nonsense. The Su-30 MKI was nowhere in the picture during Kargil. The IAF had only just recently acquired the Su- 30 K as a stop gap from Russia, and it was not completely inducted into the IAF. BTW, the MiG-23 BN delivered more payload than any other type in the IAF stables in the Drass-Kargil sector Initially, these were inaccurate against point targets because of their rudimentary bomb sights and unguided weapons. However, after fitting GPS in the a/c,the classic manual dive bombing by MiG-23 BNs (and MiG-27’s) were replaced with accurate level bombing from safer altitudes out of reach of Pak MANPADS.
The IAF were limited in what it could use because of the altitude factor. The initial losses because of MANPAD’s forced the IAF to employ high altitude bombing by the M2K, which was the best option then. The IAF M2K’s were also the only a/c capable then of delivering LGB’s in the Kargil sector. The fighters first had to be configured to deliver the LGB’s which was done at Gwalior. Then ASTE fitted Litening pods onto the M2K’s, and configured them to carry Paveway-II’s instead of the French Matra PGM’s. The tactics were validated and fine-tuned by TACDE. The M2K’s went into action with (if I correctly recall) the Remora EW Pod. I believe only 9 LGB’s were dropped during the entire conflict, 8 by M2K’s and one by a Jaguar. Some of the most notable M2K strikes were on the Pak main supply depot at Muntho Dhalo in the Batalik sector (using dumb bombs), the Pak Battalion HQ on Tiger Hill top (2 M2K’s using LGB’s), which was again visited the same day by M2K’s using dumb bombs. If this was to occur today, the Su-30 MKI’s would most certainly be the major part of the Indian strike force.
So kindly get your facts straight before you choose to “enrich” serious forums with your peculiar brand of “natural fertilizer”.
I read some very pertinent observations made by you in response to my comments. As a matter of principle, I respond only to those, whose identity is known and visible. I am afraid your comments do not identify you viz your name etc.
have a great 2017!
Avtar Singh says:
It is so sad that these IAF jet jocks have so little understanding of; money, cost, balance of payments, technology, engineering, development, history.. I could go on with an endless list to describe their vacuous ambitions to buy latest shiny and bright foreign toys.
Let us start with history…
The french, british and germans started with biplanes.. through WW1/2 they have got where they are today. IAF should be told NO NO NO as Thatcher would say.
The GOI should tell all these jet jocks to go to HAL (pun intended) and other Indian industrialists and start working on said biplanes because that is the only way they might get shiny new equipment in the future.. Work up to it with other Indians..just like the british, french and germans have worked up to it.
Much like Demon is moving rapidly towards digital money..
Forget about this old IAF dead wood and fund missiles and UAVs…
Stop them from being another branch of Indian elites taking the food out of the mouths of the poor, ie spend the money elsewhere.
Hopefully the Modi government will see sense…. MAKE IN INDIA
Having been up close and personal with a lot of this shiny foreign aviation stuff, India could do a lot better with great ease.
But there is no hope with these incumbents, not completely their fault, it is all part of that Indian self loathing syndrome. Imbued over 1300 years of subjugation.
All the above is pretty strong stuff for the Indian palate and I can appreciate you may not want it on your blog.
As for the argument that the A10 is a low flying aircraft the following should be an eye opener.
“Today, most A-10 operations are flown at medium to high altitudes, but the “Hawgs” still go low when needed. On the deck, pilots say the airplane is rock steady.”
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a18236/why-the-a-10-warthog-is-such-a-badass-plane/
devraj says:
Chinese trick is to cover its techniqal inferiority with western and russian jets of india by simply engaging three four jets against indian jets in war as we have limted jets avail and in dogfight or any other air collision there numerical advantge cause suffer to india.Only indian cheap fighters in vast numbers cheque them. So we should promote tejas production line in vast number like china to fill up numerical gap.As chinese logic is quantity rather then quality.Indian highly expensive fighters will be harmed by chines huge number less costly jets
Another Raha interview.
http://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/walk-the-talk/walk-the-talk-with-air-chief-marshal-arup-raha-443840
The article focuses on fighter jets alone. The Air Force seems to be ignoring its other arms and is very biased. These are the backbone to support offensive operations on ground and act as force multipliers on ground.
The current light helicopters (Chetak/cheetah) needed replacements 10 years back.
The air transport needs to begin planning AN-32 replacement now. (We are so shameless in stating AN-32 is not the right solution to support Andamans) .
The high altitude attack helicopter force build up should have begun yesterday.
Compared to 1971 wars we have built up,force multipliers like AWACS, refuellers, Brahmos, SAaW, Sudharshan LGB, long range rocker artillery…….
We need cheap single engine fighter bombers to replace around MiG27/23Jaguars.
The nation has only so much money to spend on these jocks. Maybe we need next 2 air chiefs from helicopters & transport wings to ram down a new way of thinking.
Bharat you need to provide an overall analysis, not write an agony aunt column.
The IAF can buy a whole bunch of helicopters,transport planes and force multipliers with the money saved by not procuring 200 more Rafale at a cost of more than $50 billion.If the IAF insists on getting more Rafale theres going to be nothing left for other procurements, its as simple as this.If the demerits of buying more Rafale are pointed out where is the question of being an ‘agony aunt’?
Venkat@ — “over all analysis” on this subject may be found, appropriately, in a book — my latest, Why India is Not a Great Power (Yet).
Security Analyst says:
Reblogged this on securityanalystblog.
Email from Satish Borkar (tulipfl2000@yahoo.com):
As a regular reader of your blog, I am a bit surprised at your dismissive approach to the Pak problem, while solely focusing on India’s rivalry with China. I would appreciate if you could give use some more tips on how to eliminate the Pakistan threat.
Personally, I feel that India has missed another golden opportunity to forge a higher level of strategic partnership with Russia. India should have actively participated in Syria. The times are gone where we can think that we will import the latest technology from Europe or America and sit cosy and meditate on world peace. Today in the name of leverage we are being trapped into just being a market for rival defence blocs. The Russian bloc thinks that we should buy their weapons while the American bloc thinks that we should buy theirs and the jedis of the Indian establishment are just happy to play the safest game ever.
We could still change things around by being a little proactive. The conquest of Aleppo has shown that the Russian gains in Syria still are meagre. Assad has a long way to go before he controls the whole of Syria. Now, if we sent in 10,000 troops as a peacekeeping force, Assad will be able to mobilise his militia for aggressive attacks against the other rebel areas. This would add to Russia’s influence in global politics and Putin would very much appreciate that, but in return we could ask Putin to do a quid pro quo by giving us some S-400 batteries on lease urgently to take down PAF and his submarines to hunt down Pakistani fleet. If he agrees then we can send more troops to Syria so that a surge of upto 1,50,000 troops in six months could stabilize Syria and a rapid withdrawal by 1 year or so provided the Russians honor their part of the deal.
Russia is making some overtures to Pakistan but the China-Pak axis is so strong that ultimately the Russia-Pak relationship cannot be a substitute for Russia-India relationship. With a strong paramour like China, both US and Russia will have to settle for a few coy glances from the Pak prostitute.
On the other hand, raising the level of partnership between Russia and India to a new level can create a Russia-India axis which with the help of Afghanistan and Iran can neutralize Chinese meddling in Central Asia and with a new Trump administration willing to try out new ideas can completely change the anti-terror global model into a cooperative one rather than one of economic competition.
Some may say that Americans will totally oppose this dalliance with Russia. I would say that we also can offer another plan for Trump. Instead of Obama’s Look East approach, the best way to counter China is to split it from its ally Pakistan. The US on the pretext of anti-terror strikes inside Pakistan can enforce a no-fly zone in Pakistan. India would be very much interested in joint naval operations against the Chinese built port of Gwadar. Instead of weak feinting maneuvers in the South China Sea, we would definitely put up a better fireworks display in the Arabian Sea. Declaring a no-fly zone in Pakistan would be the first step to make a bid to defang Pakistan’s nuclear assets. Syphilitic brains in the India bureaucracy still go into orgasms at the mention of global nuclear disarmament. Do these debauches even know which side our butter is on? What we should be aiming for his global jihadi nuclear disarmament. Mr. Trump should know that American troops in Afghanistan could be one of the targets of a nuclear strike by some Pakistani terrorist group with links to the establishment in the foreseeable future. To stabilize Pakistan induction of Indian troops on our own soil is inevitable after the attack on Pakistan’s nuclear assets. This will not be possible without a complete change in mindset which Trump could bring in. Israel can also influence Trump because they know what Pakistani nuclear cowboys are aiming for in the Middle east. So destroying Pakistan’s nuclear weapons is in their interest also.
If the Chinese do not cooperate in reining terror, Mr. Trump who seems to have a relaxed attitude towards nuclear proliferation would not mind if India gives Taiwan a special gift package of ready to fire nuclear missiles up to 10-15 in number with Beijing and other Chinese cities fed into the computer program. That would deter China from intimidating Taiwan and drive a lot of sense into their Confused brains about arming Pakistan or North Korea for that matter.
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Walking Back Delusional Nuclear Policies
Posted on May 22, 2018 by Bharat Karnad
Research article by Bharat Karnad for the Special Issue of the Journal ‘Strategic Analysis’
Pages 181-193 | Published online: 08 May 2018
citation — https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2018.1463955
Volume 42, 2018 – Issue 3: Special Issue: Two Decades of the Pokhran Tests: India and the Global Nuclear Order
By Bharat Karnad
India’s ‘dual use’ nuclear policy has been strung out from the beginning between the peaceful atom and military atom as illustrated in Jawaharlal Nehru’s use of the phrase for the country’s nuclear energy programme—‘Janus-faced’. However, the Indian Government has been too influenced by its own rhetoric of peaceful use to equally emphasise the security aspects that the phrase implied.
While Nehru championed disarmament, he did so in the 1950s in the United Nations’ First Committee as cover for the military capability being developed under Homi Bhabha’s astute leadership. But the myth about disarmament leadership meant that even after Indira Gandhi refrained from signing the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty because it sought to freeze the ‘have and have-not’ divide, Delhi has been pusillanimous about weaponisation but gung-ho about beefing up its non-proliferation credentials by joining or seeking to join the very technology denial regimes (Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenar Arrangement, Australia Group) that have victimised the country. The desire to please the US and the West has to end and national security aspects prioritised as all weapons states are doing.
It is time for India to resume nuclear testing to equip the arsenal with proven, reliable and safe thermonuclear weapons/warheads, and limit damage and recover strategic space by ensuring that neither the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty nor the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty happens.
North Korea conducted a successful underground thermonuclear explosion of a staged device on September 2, 2017, and test-fired three Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on July 4, July 28 and November 29, 2017, emerging in the process as a credible threat to American allies in Asia and for the first time, to continental US. It is a threat made real by the reputation for unpredictability and ruthlessness that its leader, Kim Jong-un, has cultivated over the years. Jong-un burnished his image some more by boldly calling the 72-year-old US President ‘a mentally deranged dotard’, in response to Donald J. Trump mocking him as ‘rocket man’ and vowing to rain down ‘fire and fury’.1 To show his defiance, Jong-un communicated the possibility of implementing his army’s strike plan to take out the mid-Pacific island of Guam, housing a large US military base.2
Pyongyang used irrationality—an old trope in nuclear deterrence literature—to signal readiness for a nuclear rumble, to deter the US. Pakistan is equally vocal in emphasising its tactical nuclear weapons hoard both as means of absolute security and for quelling such conventional military threat as it believes is posed by the Indian Army’s three strike corps, pivot formations and their ‘Cold Start’ strategy. Islamabad has been equally open about developing warheads of various yields, other than the Nasr short-range rocket, for sea-based and air-launched cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.3 Whether the US armed services are cowed by Kim Jong-un’s bluster, or the Indian military impressed by Pakistani warnings of first use is not the point. What is, is the fact that these relatively small and weak states, out of desperation and instinct for survival, grasped the essence of nuclear deterrence which has completely escaped India that has had usable nuclear weapons since 1974 (and formalised by Rajiv Gandhi’s decision in 1988).4 The essence is that an overbearing adversary can be brought to heel if gall is shown, albeit in a declaratory sense, to go first, even if such nuclear initiation would eventually be a suicidal move. Projecting the readiness to give as good as one gets while going down is the obvious way of playing the mind game of strategic deterrence in a weak state–strong state conflict dyad in which nuclear weapons otherwise have no utility.
Twenty years after the Shakti-series of tests in Pokhran, there is little understanding in India about nuclear weapons, and even less about the uses they can be put to. There is no appreciation of the fact that strategic weapons are not for reduction of a tactical-level foe, Pakistan, but for strategically jousting with China and militarily holding off a power superior to India in every respect. As far as Pakistan is concerned, it never was, is not now and can never be a credible conventional or nuclear military threat to India. This much is self-evident, and a point that will not be belaboured here, notwithstanding great amounts of ink expended, metaphorically speaking, on exaggerating a paper-thin threat by think tanks and the academic industry in the West, particularly the US and imitatively, in India. These experts are mostly mis-adapting Cold War notions to the subcontinent and creating more alarm about ‘a nuclear flashpoint’ than clarity.5
India has been on the wrong track from the start, believing that its nuclear reticence is a political virtue that has created diplomatic leverage and somehow elevated the country as a morally ‘responsible’ state, a cut above the North Koreas and Pakistans of the world.6
The truth, however, is that the Indian Government has hobbled the country’s strategic deterrent by:
not actualising a weapons capability when its ‘Janus-faced’ nuclear energy programme reached the weapons threshold in Spring 1964;
not carrying on with open-ending testing, after the first test in May 1974 to obtain fully fledged nuclear weaponisation;
repeating this strategic mistake 25 years later by announcing a ‘voluntary moratorium’ on tests in 1998 despite information available to the government that the weaponised thermonuclear device that was tested was a dud;
fixating politically on minimum deterrence and No First Use;
making public the draft nuclear doctrine and thereby exposing the Indian Government to increased US-directed international pressure to reveal more, be more transparent and to further minimise the nuclear deterrent;
not periodically revising the doctrine in line with the country’s evolving weapons technology and capability;
signing the 2008 civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the US predicated on India not resuming nuclear testing; and
not using the ample provocations offered by China’s aggressive moves (pre- and post-Doklam) and the China-fuelled North Korean fusion test and Pakistani nuclear build-up as political cover for resuming hydrogen weapon tests. These tests are important, especially for the Indian military, to secure proven and tested thermonuclear and fission weapons of varying weight-to-yield ratios for different missions ranging from city-busting strategic to tactical weapons for battlefield use.
Rethinking the basic disarmament-non-proliferation thrust of nuclear policy is a must. To do so requires jettisoning strongly held but historically suspect views, puncturing a few delusional beliefs and walking back some of the less productive notions lovingly held and nurtured by the Indian policy establishment, military and the academe and more realistically reorienting India’s nuclear weapons policy and posture.
Pet delusions
India’s nuclear weapons policy is studded with unsupportable views that need debunking to free it of its disarmament-non-proliferation shackles: First is the view that Jawaharlal Nehru’s advocacy of a ‘standstill’ agreement on nuclear testing was instrumental in obtaining the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) prohibiting atomic testing in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater.7 The disarmament-non-proliferation slant of Indian foreign policy thus got linked to virtuous behaviour and to promoting a universal good that was its own best justification. The truth: it was President John F. Kennedy’s concurring with his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, that restricting the Soviet Union to underground testing would keep its weapons programme lagging behind America’s that did the trick. Russia had out-exploded the US. The 60-megaton ‘Tsar Bomba’ in October 1961 dwarfed the US’ 15 MT ‘Castle Bravo’ shot in the Bikini Atoll in March 1954.8 Second, it is often held that Indira Gandhi’s use of America’s ‘Plowshare programme’ as screen for India’s first nuclear test in 1974 was clever statecraft. After all, labelling the Pokhran explosion as ‘peaceful’ hoist the US with its own petard and retained for the Indian nuclear energy programme its connection to the idea of a ‘peaceful atom’. Western analysts argue that the idea that atomic devices could be used to dig canals, tunnels, etc. had a ‘pernicious’ effect because something so obviously of military utility was passed off as benign.9 Its negative impact on Indian policy was graver still because the nonsense about ‘peaceful nuclear explosion’ got so internalised that it reinforced thereafter the supposed peaceful nature of Indian nuclear activity, undermined the deterrence value of the test and reinforced inhibitions against further testing that took 25 years to overcome. And it spawned nuclear regressivism in the nuclear community, throwing up leaders such as R. Chidambaram, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who as science and technology adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi minimised the need for testing and in effect, has saddled India with the pretensions of a thermonuclear weapon power without proven thermonuclear weapons in the arsenal.
Third is the view that Rajiv Gandhi’s 1988 ‘Action Plan’ for time-bound disarmament created ripples when in reality it was generally ignored in international circles when not dismissed outright as a quixotic attempt at reviving the international movement to eliminate nuclear weapons. Its insistence that the Big Five draw down their nuclear arms stockpiles to zero within a negotiated time frame had as much chance of realisation as Nehru’s campaign for ‘general and complete disarmament’ of the 1950s. It encouraged the unreconstructed disarmers, mainly within the Congress Party, into righteous frenzy, even though ‘Ban the Bomb’, as Harold Macmillan, the British Foreign Secretary, noted in his diary in the early 1950s is ‘a syllogism’—‘If we abolish the nuclear bomb (which has abolished war) shall we not bring back war?’10It inflicted damage in terms of Indian foreign policy that was getting unmoored from an ideological interpretation of Nehruvian moralpolitik becoming schizoid. After all, Rajiv Gandhi that same year formally approved weaponisation.11
And, finally, the extraneous baggage of morality attached to Indian nuclear weapons and the confusion attending on it meant that when the country came out of the nuclear closet, its deterrence rationale was fated to be minimalist. The minimum deterrence trap is particularly insidious because it is premised on the fallacious belief that given the scale of destruction a few nuclear weapons are as effective as many nuclear weapons to deter even a powerful adversary. It permits the political class and government to have a hands-off attitude, leaving it to nuclear scientists, such as Chidambaram, with little knowledge of military deterrence and nuclear deterrence history and literature, to decide the country’s nuclear stance. Moreover, what also gets ignored is the fact that like any other technology, nuclear weapons and nuclear command, control and communications, too, need to be continually modernised to remain relevant. And, for this purpose, the country needs to have technology to refine weapons designs short of explosive testing, such as the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Testing facility, which has so far been deemed unnecessary.
In the new century, the three countries with the largest, most lethal nuclear weapons inventories—the US, Russia and China—are re-legitimating the Bomb as an instrument of military coercion and foreign policy leverage. Alexei Arbatov, the former deputy chairman of the Defence Committee of the Russian Duma, after surveying the international security landscape was the first to announce the ‘end of history for nuclear arms control’.12 The prevailing circumstances constitute a crisis and ‘may quite possibly result’, he concluded glumly, ‘in the total disintegration of the existing framework of treaties and regimes’.13 It is in this context that India’s support for the extant non-proliferation order makes so little sense and needs re-examining.
A brief history of the evolution of India’s nuclear policy and capability
Realpolitik is obviously the propellant of non-proliferation policies, treaties and regimes promoted by the five Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)-legitimated weapons states (P-5). Nothing has transpired and no initiative has succeeded in the non-proliferation realm that hasn’t safeguarded the P-5’s strategic interests. Nehru was on to this big power game before anybody else and accordingly fashioned his approach. While vociferously advocating a testing ban as a step towards nuclear disarmament, which kept the weapons states on the back foot, and muted suspicions about what India was up to in the nuclear field, he laid the foundations for a ‘Janus-faced’ Indian programme capable equally of producing nuclear power plants and bombs. It reached the weapons threshold in March 1964 with the commissioning of the plutonium reprocessing unit in Trombay. It was a remarkably nuanced and sophisticated foreign policy that used disarmament advocacy as political screen for nuclear weapons capacity building and reflected the realist precepts of international affairs mostly missing from Indian foreign and nuclear policy post-Nehru.14
The 1974 atomic test ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for example, instead of leading logically to open-ended testing and speedy weaponisation ended in the follow-on tests she had approved being abruptly cancelled, leaving India to face the worst possible situation—economic and technology sanctions, no nuclear arsenal to fend off politico-military pressure and no means to force an entry into the nuclear weapons club. She took this decision to stave off termination of Western aid. Henry Kissinger later admitted that Washington was in no real position then to prevent India from securing a nuclear arsenal and forcing an entry into the nuclear weapons club had Delhi proceeded with nuclear force build-up.15 But loss of nerve, infirm will and the sheer ignorance about the political utility of nuclear weapons have, ever since, been the constant companions of India’s nuclear policy.
The non-proliferation peril became real during the Janata Party interregnum when, motivated by his Gandhian belief in nonviolence, Prime Minister Morarji Desai seemed intent on signing the 1968 NPT. His muddle-headed External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, inadvertently assisted the prime minister’s moves, expertly orchestrated from the outside by the US Ambassador Robert Goheen, that almost sprang the non-proliferation trap on India. A mixture of luck, Desai’s bullheadedness and plucky rearguard action by M. A. Vellodi, secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), involving inspired bureaucratic flummery pre-empted a denouement the country would, in hindsight, have hugely regretted (on the same scale as Shah Reza Pahlavi’s signing this treaty is hindering present-day Iran’s crossing the nuclear Rubicon to pre-empt US arm-twisting).16
The demise of the Soviet Union and the approaching fin de siècle reignited the cause of a nuclear weapons-free world, this time spurred by the millennial hope that the better angels of our collective nature would dictate national policies. That, of course, didn’t happen. Rather, the hard calculations of advantaging national interest prevailed. However flimsy such a hope, it was reflected in Rajiv Gandhi’s 1988 Action Plan for time-bound disarmament that was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly. It was the last, flickering, attempt by the ruling Congress Party to reconnect India with the public activism for nuclear disarmament by Nehru, whose subsurface strategic purpose was largely missing from Rajiv Gandhi’s thinking. It was only the evidence of Pakistan reaching the weapons threshold seminally helped by Chinese nuclear materials, weapons design and Washington’s deliberate inattention—the price that General Zia ul-Haq extracted for helping the US fight the Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan with the mujahideen—that convinced Rajiv Gandhi to go overt with nuclear arming India.
Another shot in exactly the opposite direction to the Action Plan, the Indefinite Extension of the NPT in 1995 succeeded, however, in legally cementing the unfair and unequal international nuclear order of the haves and have-nots for the new century dominated by the P-5.17 As a non-signatory to the NPT but as observer at the Review Conference (RevCon) in New York, India could have played the spoiler from the sidelines, and roused the non-nuclear weapons states on the issue of the P-5 failure over three decades to be in compliance with Article VI requiring substantive progress towards disarmament. Except a deal was cut with the US—India stood aside as the NPT was indefinitely extended in return for the lifting of the technology sanctions.
Tensions nevertheless increased after the Indefinite Extension agreement when the US and the West began ratcheting up pressure on New Delhi to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Thus, in 1996, India once again came perilously close to permanently shackling its weapons programme by sacrificing the testing option. Pushed by external powers and prodded internally by the leading lights of the Indian strategic policy enclave—the late K. Subrahmanyam, the late Air Commodore Jasjit Singh (Retd.) and Chidambaram, the then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission—the Indian Government inclined towards signing the CTBT.18 Chidambaram’s view that testing was unnecessary, as computer simulation would suffice for fashioning credible warheads/weapons was apparently persuasive. Fortunately, H. D. Deve Gowda, a prime minister with common sense, decided it was a bad idea strategically to hobble the country this way, and nixed the deal.
The contrafactual advocacy of crafting a nuclear arsenal without carrying out any tests disappeared from the public discourse, however, once it became clear that the incoming Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of Vajpayee was bent on resuming nuclear tests. The same opinion leaders who had opposed testing, in the aftermath of the 1998 tests, now tom-tommed ‘minimum deterrence’, the need to keep nuclear forces small and to join the international mainstream by giving up testing—ideas subscribed to by the then National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra. Thereafter history repeated itself, this time as tragedy. Additional underground tests to obtain fully proven and certifiable fission and fusion weapons of various yield-to-weight ratios and for different and distinct missions would have been the reasonable way to proceed. However, to pacify the US and the West and forestall the inevitable economic-technology squeeze, Vajpayee, like Indira Gandhi before him, shut down the testing option by announcing a ‘voluntary moratorium’. This was despite the initial evidence conveyed to the government by K. Santhanam, director (field tests) at the Pokhran test site, that the staged fusion device had fizzled, and that the country needed to test again.19 India’s show of ‘restraint’ resulted in the ‘strategic dialogue’ between Jaswant Singh and the US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, and the Next Steps in the Strategic Partnership (NSSP).20 The NSSP paved the way for the 2008 civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the US promoted by the Congress party government of Manmohan Singh as the means to deliver ‘20,000 MW by 2020’ via imported reactors, and predicated on India’s sticking to its moratorium decision. It left the integrity of the country’s nuclear energy programme in tatters, with the surge production capacity of weapon-grade plutonium (WgPu) eliminated, and all but eight of the pressurised heavy water reactors finding themselves in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards net.
More worryingly, the Indian nuclear energy programme was diverted from the plutonium path promising energy sufficiency envisaged by the 1955 three-stage Bhabha Plan based on India’s thorium reserves—estimated as the world’s largest. This Plan emphasising pressurised heavy water reactors, breeder reactors and thorium reactors in the three stages to achieve energy independence was upended. Several downsides of importing low enriched uranium fuel-run reactors were pointed out in the public campaign against the Indo-US nuclear deal. Chief among them: the country would be converted into an energy dependency; its policies would become hostage to US whims and interests; and the in-built dissuader-mechanism of unaffordable economic costs would keep India from testing again. This last drawback was not fully understood, and has to do with Indian tests triggering (1) the cessation of fuel supply, spares and service support, and rendering waste tens of billions of dollars-worth of imported light water reactors; and (2) bringing the industrial zones dependent on this energy to a grinding halt with thousands of megawatts of electricity going off the grid. Such considerations did not apparently figure in the Manmohan Singh government’s decision to accept the nuclear deal.21
The Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) negotiations meanwhile got stuck in the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (CD) on Pakistan’s insistence, unacceptable to every other country, that the current weapon states disclose the size of, and account for, their total fissile material production. Needing rapidly to enlarge its WgPu holdings to merely stay in place in the context of the rapid nuclear force modernisation/augmentation programmes underway in the P-5 states, Islamabad’s obstructionist tactics served, and continue to serve, India’s interests well, especially as Delhi bears no onus for the works being thus gummed up.22 In case Islamabad is coerced into abandoning its opposition to the FMCT, India should don the mantle and ensure this treaty does not get out of the CD.
The above riff on Indian policy indicates that in the nuclear weapons-related policy fields, balancing national security and the cost of opposing the big powers has too often led New Delhi to err on the side of pacifying the US and the rest of the NPT-ordained nuclear order. Rather than steadfastly advancing the country’s nuclear security and national interest, the Indian Government under alternating BJP and Congress party dispensations has sought to avoid confrontation, curtail the country’s latitude for action, and hew to self-imposed restraint on its nuclear weapons-making capability. This when a more assertive stance would serve the country’s strategic interests better by equipping India to face nuclear crises in which megaton weapons give China marked psychological edge.23
Moreover, the P-5 arms control measures only minimally affect their own weapons capability, and are geared to supporting actions and forging legal instruments to restrain adversary states, non-signatory states and threshold states. This record reveals why New Delhi needs to curb its lingering enthusiasm for nuclear non-proliferation, and adopt the position of shadow-boxing around the issue and agreeing on innocuous steps in lieu of genuine progress towards ‘nuclear zero’ while continually upgrading Indian nuclear weapon designs and production facilities, nuclear forces and associated infrastructure. And why the Indian Government ought to restrict the country’s exposure to imported nuclear reactors and recommit to the Bhabha Plan to restore its energy autonomy. In trying to balance the political and economic costs of importing reactors by approving in mid-2017 the construction of 10 indigenous 700 MWe pressurised reactors to nearly double the nuclear energy production, Prime Minister Modi may ensure that the indigenous stream is underfunded because there simply isn’t enough financial capacity to afford both.24 If the Indian Government still needed to be convinced to be, from here on, no part of any non-proliferation or regional arms control campaign, then the self-serving shenanigans of the P-5 at the 2015 RevCon would have provided proof.
The RevCon scene
The five-yearly NPT RevCon in New York, April 27–May 22, 2015, came and went without creating a stir, which about sums up the prospects for meaningful arms control, leave alone disarmament, in the new century. Predictably, the biggest rift at the meet was caused by two issues—the always contentious Article VI of the NPT and Egypt’s insistence on convening a conference to negotiate a Middle East Nuclear Free Zone within a specified time frame but without a prior conference to agree on a consensus agenda.25 The opposition to it by the US, Canada and other countries led for the first time to the absence of a consensus Final Document at the end of the conference.26 It will be a hard act to live down and may in fact be the beginning of the formal unravelling of the NPT regime.27
In contrast, the so-called ‘Humanitarian Pledge’ submitted by Austria was endorsed by 109 states, supported by another 50 states, and polarised the conference attended by 188 NPT signatory states, as it demanded that the P-5 meet their Article VI obligations.28 The P-5 are unlikely to relent, however, thereby pushing off the prospect of verifiable disarmament to the indeterminate future, but will try and mollify the more technologically capable signatory states by other means, and continue pressing the non-signatory states, such as India, to refrain from testing just so the CTBT does not blow up and the NPT regime does not come tumbling down. In fact, the offline Western disarmament endeavours such as the ‘Canberra Commission’ study propagated just this line of action.29 In its 300-odd pages, it nowhere explains why Ukraine (or Iran, or North Korea or Pakistan) are wrong in believing that possessing nuclear weapons deters military adventures against them.
Weapons state shenanigans
As long as the Islamic State lasted, terrorists as nuclear menace held sway.30 Western nuclear policies began orientating against this presumed threat with missions conceived for precision nuclear weapon strikes to take out Islamic State strongholds and prevent terrorists from capturing and using nuclear devices and credibly mustering ‘dirty bomb’ threats.31 Russia sees value in refurbishing the Russian strategic forces and renewing military rivalry with the US to revive its international standing and status.32 Post-Crimea, the US–Russian tussle has taken a combative turn.33 The two big powers are racing to upgrade their nuclear weaponry under the rubric of disarming themselves, a lead that other nuclear weapons states—China, UK and France—quickly followed. Former US President Barack Obama extolled the world of ‘nuclear zero’ and proposed a decade-long US nuclear modernisation programme costing some $355 billion, and a trillion dollars over the next 30 years. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), conveniently for the US and Russia, does not require them to actually get rid of any nuclear armaments but only to curb the numbers of missiles deployed on land or sea to 1,550 each by 2018. What the two powers actually decommissioned or destroyed in the past decades were old, unreliable weapons/warheads that for safety reasons would have been phased out anyway. The replacements are advanced warheads, missiles, nuclear submarines, new-generation strategic bombers and even nuclear torpedo. Not to be left behind, China has built up its Second Artillery Strategic Forces to the 250 nuclear weapons/warheads level.34 Further, the leading nuclear powers are fusing their nuclear arsenals with cyber warfare capabilities and unsettling notions of deterrence.35
Nearer home, Pakistan’s 130 nuclear weapons-strong and rapidly growing arsenal has for many years outpaced the Indian holdings of some 110-odd nuclear weapons.36 While New Delhi goes out of its way to downplay the danger from China, Beijing justifies the increase in, and modernisation of, its nuclear forces by referring to India’s supposed strengthening of its strategic wherewithal.37 ‘Supposed’ because all India has done is infrequently fire off Agni-5 missiles that the Indian media insists on mislabelling as an ICBM which, at 5,000 km range, it is not. Moreover, all the test launches of this intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) will not guarantee that the warheads with yields above the 20 KT level, which alone is tested and proven, will work. Short of a resumption of testing, doubts will continue to swirl around the thermonuclear warheads on Indian missiles. In the wake of the 1998 tests, Chidambaram had stated that India would need to conduct more tests within a decade. But in 2008, the Indian Government foreclosed the country’s testing option with the signing of the civilian nuclear cooperation deal.
Elsewhere, the pumped-up great power tensions legitimated the nuclear augmentation drives in Pakistan, Israel and North Korea, while other nuclear capable Asian states pondered nuclear weapons as the answer to their security concerns revolving around a relentlessly abrasive China. With Article IX of its ‘peace Constitution’ amended, a nuclear weaponised Japan may emerge, possibly followed by other Asian states.Taken in totality, the international arms control and disarmament scene today does seem like ‘an outdated charade’.39
The hopelessness of arms control
In the wake of the 2015 NPT RevCon it is hard to see any glimmer of light at the end of the disarmament tunnel. ‘The notion that we can abolish nuclear weapons’, noted the late James Schlesinger, former nuclear strategist and US Secretary of Defense, ‘is like the [1929] Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy … It’s not based upon an understanding of reality.’40 This is the big power view, whence no serious effort can be expected by the P-5 to disarm themselves to convince other states to do the same.
By any reckoning, the balance sheet on nuclear arms reduction is bleak with no real progress on the disarmament front but ample proof of P-5 backsliding. It should induce caution in the Indian policy establishment that is always ready to compromise to please the US in the guise of furthering the cause of a nuclear weapons-free world, which is a foolhardy thing to do.41 Prudence dictates that India emulates the P-5—say what they say, and do as they do. This is the way to vigilantly serve, protect and advance the national interest.
India’s path ahead
In hindsight, other than Nehru’s dual-purpose nuclear energy programme, the best decision the Indian Government made was not to sign the NPT, because that would not just have written finis to India’s self-reliant nuclear energy future but, by keeping nuclear weapons out of India’s hands, also ended India’s great power ambitions. It proves that not being part of the herd, going it alone if need be, is not a bad policy to follow. By the same token, the worst thing the Indian Government has done in the last decade is agree short-sightedly to the 2008 nuclear deal with the US. That this deal has, a decade later, not delivered on its basic promise of affording India ‘the rights and privileges of a nuclear weapons state’ should have given the Modi government pause. Instead, it joined the various technology denial regimes—Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the Wassenar Arrangement, and is seeking membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)—thereby giving up the residual leverage that would have accrued from retaining the freedom to sell its indigenously developed nuclear and missile technologies outside the ambit of these accords. We know what is coming down the pike—the decision by the Indian Government to buy six units each of the French Areva light water reactor and of the Westinghouse AP 1000 light water reactor, which last the US Nuclear Regulatory Authority has had trouble certifying for safety reasons and will be a high-risk liability. Worse, Indian consumers will end up having to purchase exorbitantly priced energy from these imported reactors.42
The Indian Government should also make it plain it will not ratify the CTBT under any circumstances short of its own weapons inventory achieving a military-certified status, which will not be possible without open-ended testing, and of the P-5 delivering on the NPT Article VI commitments by zeroing out their nuclear arms inventories on a verifiable basis. And it should recommit to the Bhabha Plan, speedily bringing on stream the breeder and thorium reactors along with the 700 MWe PWRs, while skittering away from buying the French and US reactors. In parallel, it should begin exporting indigenously developed technologies in the three fuel cycles—uranium, plutonium and potentially thorium—it has gained proficiency in. It is incomprehensible that the Indian Government, by imputing too great a value to the NSG membership and seeking acclaim for its restraint, has failed to exercise its inherent right and freedom commercially to sell indigenously produced nuclear materials and locally developed technologies, such as the INDU reactors, which the IAEA has recognised as a new, different and more efficient genus of PWRs, to friendly countries of strategic import to India, such as Vietnam. There is nothing barring such transactions except New Delhi’s pusillanimity.
Indeed, an active programme of exports of nuclear goods will more quickly ease India’s entry into the P-5 club on the principle pithily enunciated by the US President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s that it is better to have a nuclear capable country, such as India, ‘in the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in’! All that India’s submissive attitude and pleadings and supplications have fetched it so far is diplomatic manipulation, finger wagging and counsels of patience by the US and other P-5 states. Why the NSG membership on US terms is so prized is unclear. China’s success in this arena points to success emanating from precisely the opposite policy tack, namely ‘bad boy’ proliferant behaviour. By challenging the existing global nuclear order with policies brazenly transferring nuclear material, technology and expertise especially to the so-called ‘rogue states’ (Pakistan, North Korea, Iran), Beijing has obtained the power to calibrate the resulting turbulence and turmoil, setting itself up thus as an inalienable part of both the problem and of the solution. It has gained enormous diplomatic leverage as mediator with North Korea, and has led to China vaulting into the great power ranks.43 On the issue of new tests to obtain safe and reliable thermonuclear weaponry, the Indian Government has since 1998 been paralysed, unable to summon the courage and the political will to resume testing despite China’s aggressive military posturing and the North Korean tests disrupting the international security situation, providing both strategic provocation and political excuse for such an Indian decision. Lacking boldness and gumption, Delhi can do the next best thing: prepare to resume nuclear testing at an instant’s notice because it is only a matter of time before something gives in the growing US–Russia and US–China military stand-offs, with all these parties racing to upgrade and technologically improve the strategic armaments in their employ. Once India resumes testing, it should be on an open-ended basis to reassure the military end-users that the fission and fusion weapons they fire will in fact work as advertised—confidence the Strategic Forces Command presently lacks!
The danger to the country in the arms control field is the Indian Government’s delusional belief that India is some kind of leader on disarmament issues. In any case, what Delhi decides to do or not do will have no great effect other than crippling India’s own strategic deterrent. Hence, it is foolhardy for the Indian Government to assume either a leadership role or be tempted into conceding more and more to prove its ‘responsible state’ credentials, as it has time and again been lured into doing. It does not strategically or diplomatically pay for a nuclear weapons state with, international law-wise indeterminate status, such as India, to take the lead on any arms control or disarmament issue lest, as the record shows, it redound to the country’s disbenefit. Recall that Nehru’s moralising on nuclear weapons in the 1950s was used to pressure India into joining the NPT and, in the case of the nuclear deal with the US, into accepting IAEA safeguards on most of the dual-use capacity.
The Indian Government should also bear in mind that technological developments relevant to its nuclear weapons have irrevocably changed the policy and negotiating baseline for India. Thus, even interim measures such as de-mating warheads and rockets/missiles are now defunct given the ongoing canisterisation of Indian nuclear missile systems, which requires hermetic sealing of ready-to-fire nuclear warheads. Whether anybody likes it or not, with canisterised nuclear weapons India has attained launch-on-warning (LOW) capability, and a secure, invulnerable second strike capability with the autonomously operating Arihant and Arighat SSBNs joining fleet service.44 The Indian Government’s thinking and the Indian nuclear doctrine stressing only retaliation have still to catch up to these developments.
With canisterised Agni missiles, canvassing for a de-alerting agreement and an international No First Use convention would be to set a trap for ourselves. The 2013 Congress Party government initiative in this regard should, therefore, be quickly and quietly buried.45 India’s qualified support for the draft FMCT is equally problematical. For instance, the Indian representative in the Conference on Disarmament stated that ‘without prejudice to the priority we attach to nuclear disarmament, we support the negotiation in the Conference on Disarmament of an FMCT that meets India’s national security interests’.46 Except, in this construction ‘disarmament’ and ‘national security interests’ undercut each other. It will serve India’s purposes better to issue a statement akin to Pakistan’s—asking only for a global nuclear order that is ‘equitable and non-discriminatory’. Such an anodyne position preserves maximum space to grow and qualitatively improve the Indian nuclear forces, and permits Delhi the freedom to shape the regional and international nuclear orders and agreements to, for a change, suit India’s strategic interests.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
1. Abby Philip, ‘Trump Trades Insults with “Mad Man” North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un’, The Washington Post, September 22, 2017, at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/22/trump-warns-that-madman-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-will-be-tested/?utm_term=.7eae7908b4cb.
2. Katrina Manson and Bryan Harris, ‘North Korea Threatens Guam after Trump “Fire and Fury” Vow’, Financial Times, August 9, 2017, at https://www.ft.com/content/5564982c-7c6c-11e7-9108-edda0bcbc928.
3. ‘Pakistan Developing New Types of Nuclear Weapons, Warns US Intel Chief’, News18.com, February 14, 2014, at http://www.news18.com/news/india/pakistan-developing-new-types-of-nuclear-weapons-warns-us-intel-chief-1660067.html;Urooj Jawed, ‘Pakistan Has Developed Short-range Nuclear Weapons to Counter India’s “Cold Start” Doctrine: PM Abbasi’, Express Tribune, September 21, 2017, at https://tribune.com.pk/story/1512301/pakistan-developed-short-range-nuclear-weapons-counter-indias-cold-start-doctrine-pm-abbasi/.
4. Bharat Karnad, Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy, Second edition, Macmillan, New Delhi, 2005, ch. 3.
5. Bharat Karnad, ‘South Asia: The Irrelevance of Classical Deterrence Theory’, India Review, 4 (2), 2005, at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14736480500225640.
6. For a detailed analysis of the Beijing-primed rogue nuclear triad of China–Pakistan–North Korea, see Bharat Karnad, ‘Countering the Rogue Nuclear Triad of China, Pakistan, and North Korea’, The Wire, July 25, 2016, at https://thewire.in/53338/countering-the-rogue-nuclear-triad-of-china-pakistan-north-korea/.
7. Bharat Karnad, no. 4, pp. 227–228.
8. Ibid., ch. 2.
9. Michael Barletta, ‘Pernicious Ideas in World Politics: “Peaceful Nuclear Explosions” ’, Monterrey Institute of International Studies, 2001, at http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/Miltary%20Geo%20Presentations/Nick%20Nazarko/Swords%20Into%20Plowshares/019013BarlettaMi.pdf.
10. Peter Caterall (ed.), The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–1957, Pan Books, London, 2003, p. 447.
11. Mani Shankar Aiyar, ‘Failing to Take the Lead’, Indian Express, October 27, 2016, at http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/failing-to-take-the-lead-3104485/.
12. Alexei Arbatov, ‘Protecting Nuclear Sanity’, Defense News, June 15, 2015, at www.defensenews.com/story/defense/commentary/2015/06/15/commentary-protecting-nuclear-sanity/71262990/; Alexei Arbatov, An Unnoticed Crisis: The End of History for Nuclear Arms Control?, Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, June 2015.
13. Alexei Arbatov, Unnoticed Crisis, no. 12.
14. Bharat Karnad, no. 4, ch. 3.
15. Ibid., pp. 278–331.
18. Bharat Karnad, ‘The Quality of “Expert” Advice’, Seminar, 444, August 1996.
19. See Ajaz Ashraf and Pranay Sharma, ‘The Myth Bomber: An Interview with K. Santhanam’, Outlook, October 9, 2009, at https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-myth-bomber/262027. And, more importantly, for a refutation on the basis of physics by Dr. P.K. Iyengar, former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), who initiated the thermonuclear programme of R. Chidambaram’s and the Department of Atomic Energy’s claims about the ‘success’ of the fusion test (S1) in 1998, see P.K. Iyengar, ‘Non-fissile Doubts’, Outlook, October 26, 2009, at https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/non-fissile-doubts/262331.
20. Ibid., pp. 92, 151. For an account of the Jaswant–Talbott talks, see Strobe Talbott, Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, And the Bomb, rev. ed., Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2006.
21. P.K. Iyengar, A.N. Prasad, A. Gopalakrishnan and Bharat Karnad, Strategic Sell-out: Indian–US Nuclear Deal, Pentagon Press, New Delhi, 2009.
22. Bharat Karnad, India’s Nuclear Policy, Praeger Security International, Westport and London, 2008, pp. 93, 133.
23. Bharat Karnad, no. 4.
24. Anil Sasi and Amitabh Sinha, ‘Govt Clears 10 New Nuclear Reactors in Big Power Push’, Indian Express, May 18, 2017, at http://indianexpress.com/article/india/govt-clears-10-new-nuclear-reactors-in-big-power-push-4660869/.
25. Paul R. Pillar, ‘A Missed Nonproliferation Opportunity’, National Interest, June 9, 2015, at http://nationalinterest.org/print/blog/paul-pillar/missed-nonproliferation-opportunity-12967.
26. See Rose Gottemoeller, US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, ‘Remarks at the Conclusion of the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference’, United Nations, New York City, May 22, 2015, at https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/us/2015/242778.htm.
27. The London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) called the impasse only a ‘midlife crisis’. See ‘NPT Review: Failure Underlines Challenges ahead’, IISS Strategic Comments, 21 (15), June 04, 2015, at https://www.iiss.org/en/publications/strategic%20comments/sections/2015-1f4d/npt-review-failure-underlines-challenges-ahead-2d2e.
28. See Rose Gottemoeller, no. 27.
29. Gareth Evans, Tanya Ogilvie-White and Ramesh Thakur, Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015, Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, Australian National University, Canberra, 2015, p. ix, at https://cnnd.crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publication/cnnd_crawford_anu_edu_au/2015-02/printer_copy.pdf.
30. James Schlesinger warned in 2009 about ‘the likelihood of a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States’. See Melanie Kirkpatrick, ‘Why We Don’t Want a Nuclear-Free World’, Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2009, at http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124726489588925407; Adam Withnall, ‘Isis’s Dirty Bomb: Jihadists Have Seized Enough Radioactive Material to Build Their First WMD’, Independent, June 10, 2015.
31. The US, British and French governments expressly adduced the terrorist threat as rationale for their nuclear forces. See Bharat Karnad, no. 22, ch. 1.
32. Russia’s National Security Strategy and Military Doctrine and their Implications for the EU, Directorate General for External Policies, Policy Department, European Parliament, February 2017, at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/578016/EXPO_IDA%282017%29578016_EN.pdf.
33. ‘European War Games: Responses to Russian Military Drills’, Stratfor Worldview, May 5, 2015 at https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/european-war-games-responses-russian-military-drills.
34. John Mecklin, ‘Disarm and Modernize’, Foreign Policy, March/April 2015, pp. 54–59. On the modernisation imperative, see ‘Modernizing Nuclear Arsenals: Whether and How’, Development and Disarmament Round Table, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2015, at http://thebulletin.org/modernizing-nuclear-arsenals-whether-and-how7881.
35. Andrew Futter, ‘The Dangers of Using Cyber Attacks to Counter Nuclear Threats’, Arms Control Today, 46, July/August 2016, at https://www.armscontrol.org/ACT/2016_07/Features/The-Dangers-of-Using-Cyberattacks-to-Counter-Nuclear-Threats.
36. Ashley Tellis, ‘China, India, and Pakistan—Growing Capabilities with No End in Sight’, Testimony before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, February 25, 2015, at http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/02/25/china-india-and-pakistan-growing-nuclear-capabilities-with-no-end-in-sight.
37. Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2015, Annual Report to Congress, Office of Secretary of Defence, US Department of Defence, Washington, DC, April 7, 2015, p. 31 at http://www.defense.gov/pubs/2015_China_Military_Power_Report.pdf.
38. Bharat Karnad, no. 22, pp. 29–32. For a belated recognition of the emerging ‘nuclear crowd’ nuclear reality, see the recent National Bureau of Asian Research ‘Round Table’—‘Approaching Critical Mass: Asia’s Multipolar Nuclear Future’, Asian Policy, 19, January 2015.
39. John Mecklin, no. 34, p. 55.
40. See Melanie Kirkpatrick, no. 30.
41. For a fuller exposition of the argument that disarmament has no future, see Bharat Karnad, ‘Banning Nuclear Weapons: A Hollow Exercise’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 10, 2014; Bharat Karnad, ‘Diagnosis: Tlatelolco-itis’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 25, 2014; Bharat Karnad, ‘Riding the Moral Hobbyhorse’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 15, 2014; ‘Ban the Bomb?’, Development and Disarmament Round Table, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July–August 2014, at http://thebulletin.org/ban-bomb7303.
42. Suhasini Haider, ‘Forging a New Nuclear Deal’, The Hindu, February 3, 2018, at http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/forging-a-new-nuclear-deal/article22637628.ece.
43. See Bharat Karnad, no. 6.
44. Sandeep Unnithan, ‘A Peek into India’s Top Secret and Costliest Defence Project, Nuclear Submarines’, India Today, December 10, 2017, at https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/the-big-story/story/20171218-india-ballistic-missile-submarine-k-6-submarine-launched-drdo-1102085-2017-12-10.
45. ‘India Ready to Negotiate Global No-First Use treaty’, Economic Times, September 27, 2013; ‘India Ready for Nuclear No-First Use Agreements’, The Times of India, October 22, 2014.
46. Pakistan’s stand articulated in the United Nations General Assembly is for a non-proliferation system realised ‘through policies that are equitable, criteria-based, and non-discriminatory’. Ibid.
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8 Responses to Walking Back Delusional Nuclear Policies
Does India really need to test if there’s a possibility of buying a tested thermonuclear weapon design from money hungry NK ?
Kim won’t be able to sell it to anyone except the big brother’s nod(China).
Vishnugupt says:
@ Prof. Karnad.
BARC has be sitting on the three stage nuclear programme for more than 5 decades with the first 2nd stage FBR still delayed and the 3rd stage thermal reactor nowhere in sight.
I don’t know why we tend to gloss over the fact that the Indian nuclear scientific community failed to deliver. Just like their counterparts in other sarkari departments.
They are mediocre at best, just like their counterparts in DRDO & HAL. I for one think no one shouldn’t put much faith on these sarkari scientists anyways.
Delhi still hasn’t come to terms with the ‘crucial’ fact that the Soviets & the Chinese have succeeded in extracting the best from their “sarkari” scientists by hanging the sword of “GULAG” over their heads should they “fail” in delivering whatever impossible weapons system Moscow/Beijing demands.
On the other hand Delhi neither rewards them for success nor punishes them for failures. So, is this sorry state of affairs really a surprise?
Making a nuclear device is far less complex than designing and running a FBR & TBR. Which quite frankly i don’t think our scientists have the stomach for. And Modi knows this. There is no way out Unless we outsource these to Indian private players. Then we might see some progress.
Thats why he has to import these reactors to ease the dependency on crude and save the precious dollar outflow in the long run which will be much more should we continue to import crude and keep trusting our scientist to deliver.
This is why NSG membership is so crucial.
Strongly disagree. The budgetary distribution has meant the Bhabha 3-stage plan — the breeder 2nd stage and the thorium 3rd stage have been hugely underfunded, because the money for the last two decades was funneled into NPC which channel became mainstream with the idiotic “20,000MW by 2020” mantra of Manmohan Singh’s and the emphasis on imported reactors. Meanwhile, starting in the mid-90s, the spending on weapons research was reduced to a trickle thanks to that bane of the N-programme — the wretchedly subversive R Chidambaram who believed in computer simulation and minimal weapons inventory to the point of virtually dismantling the weapons unit at BARC. It led to bright prospective weapons designers getting out. And no, India does not need to join NSG coz there are enough states who promised yellow cake for Indian investment, such as Niger — an offer GOI did not take up. And India could have destroyed the nonproliferation NPT regime, NSG and all the other tech-denial schemes by selling INDU reactors, tech, and N-related goods to whosoever wanted it. The world would have come pleading to Delhi to cease and desist and to name its own terms for joining them, rather than joining these cartels on their terms as is the case now. These are themes I have ceaselessly advocated and been writing about for the last three decades and more.
The funding issue, i think stem from Delhi’s overall lack of confidence in the whole 3 stage programme. And the fact that even the Russians are struggling with their FBR, didn’t exactly boost Delhi’s confidence. In short BARC has to be the pioneers in this tech, which is completely new turf.
I don’t think Delhi is comfortable venturing into such high risk fields specially given the magnitude of funding it demands. And if they are distrustful of their “wretchedly subversive” scientists on uncle SAM’s payroll, it further muddies the water.
More over the 2nd stage- Fast Breeder Reactors needs to churn in at least “50GW” for the 3rd stage- Thermal Breeder Reactor(Th) to be sustainable, and it is a huge threshold to be met.
On the topic of procuring Yellow cake from Niger and the likes.
Since Niger signed the NPT as early as 92, and the fact that socialist India was dirt poor and literally going bankrupt, the preposition to spare money for investing in an African nation in return for Uranium is unfathomable. so i think, there wasn’t much scope there either.
It would have been a fair preposition today if Niger or the likes were still open for such negotiations.But i don’t think that’s the case now, is it?
Niger, as many other Ur-rich countries, will deal — NPT or no NPT. Here I recall the Niger foreign minister visiting the National Defence College on the day I was ;lecturing there, telling me this over lunch. And this was around 2004-2005.
“Twenty years after the Shakti-series of tests in Pokhran, there is little understanding in India about nuclear weapons, and even less about the uses they can be put to. There is no appreciation of the fact that strategic weapons are not for reduction of a tactical-level foe, ”
Well sad! I’ll go a few steps further and state that the most Indians do not know strategic from tactical, and that an India with all the N-where with all’s, purposefully built and deployed can get a far better deal in commercial transactions than it gets today,
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Amid Protests, ALEC Launches New Spinoff to Influence Local Governments
by Candice Bernd
This post originally appeared at Truthout.
Two grassroots activists from North Texas locked themselves inside the lobby of the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Thursday morning, as another two dropped a banner from the upper stories of the hotel to greet lawmakers and corporate officials gathered for the 41st annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Joshua Carmona from Dallas locked himself to a tree inside the lobby of the Hilton Anatole as hotel security arrived on the scene. He was removed and released without charges Thursday, July 31, 2014. (Photo: Candice Bernd)
Protesters Whytney Blythe and Joshua Carmona were removed by hotel security, within about an hour after they chained themselves inside, and released without charges.
State legislators and corporate lobbyist members from across the country will sit on task forces designed to review and vote on conservative “model” legislation that will likely travel from the Dallas Hilton Anatole’s luxury conference rooms to official state house chambers, as lawmakers often pass off ALEC model bills as their own.
ALEC has generated legislation that advances the interests of its corporate members throughout state legislatures in the United States, as has been well documented by organizations such as the Center for Media and Democracy. More than 98 percent of the organization’s funding comes from corporations and corporate foundations, with the infamous petrochemical billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, serving as some of the organization’s largest donors.
ALEC media relations staffers refused to issue a credential to this reporter to attend and cover this week’s meeting in Dallas, citing the following specific portion of ALEC’s media relations policy:
ALEC does not allow journalists to register as media for the purpose of writing a personal blog, or for persons whose news outlet is funded by an individual; political candidate or party; nonprofit; or activist/lobbying organization.
Truthout meets this criterion however, as a nonprofit whose classification as a 501(c)(3) was granted because Truthout has not affiliated with any political, lobbying or activist organizations, as opposed to nonprofit organizations that engage in political campaigning, widely classified as 501(c)(4) organizations. It remains unclear why this reporter was not granted access to this week’s meeting.
Task forces are expected to consider model bills that would make Medicaid unobtainable for many across states and broaden the privatization of public education through the expansion of charter schools.
ALEC’s Climate Agenda
ALEC also planned to host panels on topics including teaching its members “How to Think and Talk About Climate and Energy Issues,” and how to bolster exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as on the EPA’s proposed carbon emissions rules and GMO food labeling proposals. Speakers included Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott and Newt Gingrich.
Much of ALEC’s agenda for its meeting returned to the organization’s focus on promoting the extraction, production and exportation of fossil fuels while putting up roadblocks for renewable energy initiatives where it can. LNG exports have come to the forefront as a priority for ALEC during this year’s meeting, according Steve Horn a research fellow with DeSmogBlog.
“The two areas that ALEC is pushing . . . are LNG exports and compressed natural gas vehicle model legislation. Both of these have already passed in some state houses, so it’s kind of a reverse in a way, where ALEC will take bills they like from other states and introduce them to be templates for the 50 states,” Horn said during a press call.
According to ClimateProgress, ALEC has invited a representative from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, a group funded by the Heartland Institute, to deliver the group’s recent report questioning the current scientific consensus on the issue of climate change. The Heartland Institute is well known for openly denying the existence of anthropogenic climate change and questioning the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“We do expect that ALEC will double down this year to try to undermine or even completely undo the EPA’s clean power plan,” said Aliya Haq, who directs climate change special projects for the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), referring to the EPA’s proposal to cut emissions from power plants.
She pointed to a previous meeting last December, in which ALEC members participated in workshops on how to obstruct the EPA’s proposal months before it was released. The NRDC tracked resolutions and bills from ALEC that emerged in state houses after the meeting, designed to obstruct a state’s ability to reduce carbon pollution. ALEC’s environmental task force agenda for this week’s meeting includes a new draft resolution opposing the EPA’s clean power plan.
“That new draft has rhetoric like, ‘the regulation of electricity is a sovereign state function’ . . . there’s a lot of kind of blustery language that they’ll be pushing again once state legislators get back into swing,” Haq said during a press call.
Protesters Greet ALEC in Dallas
As lawmakers schmoozed with corporate officials during the day’s panels and luncheons, hundreds of protesters lined the streets outside the Hilton Anatole to oppose ALEC’s agenda on issues ranging from labor rights, environmental policy, political spending, public education and health care.
Organizers greet ALEC attendees during a rally outside the Hilton Anatole Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (Photo: Candice Bernd)
A coalition of activists, including many union organizers and grassroots groups, under the banner “TEXposeALEC” arranged buses for up to 500 demonstrators, who rendezvoused at the Hilton Anatole for a rally Wednesday afternoon, themed “Don’t Mess With Texas.” Demonstrators also attended ALEC’s welcome reception at Eddie Deen’s Ranch later in the day.
“[ALEC] is going to continue to push an anti-worker narrative,” said Pamela Reséndiz, mobilization coordinator with the Dallas AFL-CIO. “Whether it’s right to work, or whether they’re trying to take away pensions from workers, or whether it is to cut out overtime pay . . . their policies affect everyone, regardless of whether you’re in a union or not.”
But as protesters rallied outside, ALEC officials inside revealed new plans to expand their organization’s reach at the local level.
ALEC Could Be Coming to Your City Soon: The American City County Exchange
On Wednesday, ALEC announced the launch of a new offshoot that will apply ALEC’s modus operandi of courting legislators with corporate lobbyists to draft model bills advancing corporate interests – to the local level.
This new arm of ALEC, the American City County Exchange (ACCE), held its first meeting last Wednesday at the Hilton Anatole. ACCE will work in conjunction with ALEC to influence elected representatives in city and county council positions, while ALEC focuses on state legislatures. The Guardian reported:
IN ACCE’s very first workshop under the simple title: “Privatization” – though in the final version the wording had been sanitized into: “Effective Tools for Promoting Limited Government.”
A later workshop scheduled for Thursday is called: “Releasing Local Governments from the Grip of Collective Bargaining.”
The Guardian also revealed through internal documents last year that ALEC started work on a “prodigal son project” meant to regain corporate donors that fled from ALEC in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. ALEC public image had taken a massive hit for its promotion of “stand-your-ground” laws across the United States.
But as ALEC works toward expanding its reach at all various level of government, progressives are beginning to forge a counterpart to ALEC with their very own legislative policy network, albeit using a different set of tactics entirely.
A Progressive ALEC?
A progressive ALEC could be in the birthing stages with the announcement of a merger of the American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE) and the Progressive States Network. The groups hope to build an organization that would move progressive policies through state legislatures.
“For nearly a generation, conservatives have outpaced us at the business of movement-building in states. They have focused hard on it, poured resources into it, and have been ruthlessly efficient at it. Starting now, we will do the same,” wrote Nick Rathod, executive director of ALICE, and Iowa State Sen. Joe Bolkcom, board chair of Progressive States Network, in a joint statement.
But unlike ALEC, the group hopes to embrace a more democratic decision making process and a transparent approach, by shunning the use of lobbyists and making their model policy publicly available, according to The Washington Post. The group’s database already boasts 1,800 examples of model legislation progressives can get behind.
There’s evidence to suggest the group may be forming at an advantageous time for progressive policy in the states. As Congress stalls in raising the minimum wage, a policy backed by a clear majority of Americans, 10 states and the District of Columbia passed minimum wage hikes just this year, according to the Post. It’s examples like this that ALICE and the Progressive States Network hope will spark momentum for their new group’s initiatives.
But while there may be potential for a progressive counterpart to ALEC on the horizon, progressives should keep in mind that ALEC is far from isolated in its scope and influence.
ALEC’s Extended Family: The State Policy Network
“It’s important to recognize that ALEC is really the center of a network,” said Connor Gibson, a researcher with Greenpeace’s investigation team, during a teach-in panel attended by many ALEC protesters in Dallas Wednesday.
ALEC played a role in founding the State Policy Network (SPN) in November 1991. SPN extends ALEC’s reach far beyond its corporate and legislative members, comprising an ALEC-sponsored family that includes affiliated think tanks and trade associations in every state, as well as national members such as the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity and the Cato Institute.
The groups are well organized in the way they coordinate to support ALEC’s conservative agenda to promote the privatization of the public sector, to attack renewable energy policies, public employee unions and policies ALEC opposes.
Gibson said many of the think tanks and organizations involved in SPN are overwhelmingly funded through dark money groups and that some of these organizations disseminate faux news backed anonymously by corporate interests.
One SPN-affiliated organization is the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which has been focused on pushing ALEC’s agenda in Texas to undermine public education in the state through the expansion of charter schools.
ALEC’s Agenda in Texas
“Texans for Education Reform and some of these other groups are coming at us harder than ever, and ALEC is right in there with them,” said Louis Malfaro, who is secretary-treasurer of the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Jim Hightower on the Rise of Populism
The Texas AFT is working alongside other unions and groups such as the Texas Organizing Project to push back against efforts to create “home-rule” charter schools in the Dallas Independent School District, an effort that has been led by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.
But ALEC’s agenda is Texas, executed through local legislators, goes beyond the privatization of public schools. ALEC’s agenda to eviscerate worker protections in Texas has taken the form of the state’s deceptive “miracle economy,” in which Texas created more minimum wage jobs, with little benefits and no upward social mobility, than any other state in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
“Sure, corporations are doing very well here in Texas,” Jim Hightower, a former Texas agriculture commissioner, told Truthout. “But the working day people are being driven to the ground, rolling over in the ditch, small businessmen and family farmers too. [Perry] hasn’t lifted a finger for them.”
Jim Hightower outside the Community Beer Company brewery after a demonstration against ALEC in Dallas Wednesday, July 31, 2014. (Photo: Candice Bernd)
Hightower drew the connection between the dubious Texas “miracle economy” and this week’s ALEC conference.
“[ALEC] is a direct pipeline from corporate America into our state legislative bodies, and then, right into law,” he told Truthout.
Hightower also spoke about how the ALEC energy agenda greatly impacts oil- and gas-rich Texas, specifically citing a recent announcement by Exxon-Mobil, a long-time member of ALEC, that the company will double the size of its export facilities located at Beaumont and Port Arthur.
“They sell this stuff on the basis that this ‘is going to solve our energy-dependence problem,'” said Hightower. “Except that the energy is not going to stay in America, it’s going to be exported to China, it’s going to be exported to Brazil.”
He also noted that claims by oil giants such as Exxon-Mobil that they help to boost the state economy are false because a great majority of the jobs they offer are temporary construction positions.
“There’s a rebellion that’s building in Texas over this — fracking, the tar sands pipeline, this is mostly happening to people who are a-political, conservative and largely Republican,” he said.
Copyright, Truthout. Reprinted here with permission.
Candice Bernd is an assistant editor/reporter with Truthout. Follow her on Twitter @CandiceBernd.
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Registration of Vitagmal® in Ukraine.
Vitagmal® is included in the List of Scientific Achievements of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Vitagmal® is included in the Guidelines “Prevention and treatment of miscarriage” by the Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology RAMN of. D. O. Otto.
Registration of Vitagmal® and Trifitol® in Uzbekistan.
Company Group was awarded the “European Grand Prix for Quality”, Geneva, Switzerland) in the nomination “Leader in the Application of Innovations in Biotechnology”.
Patent of the Russian Federation No. 2508295 "Synthetic peptides wtih a non-narcotic type of analgesic effect" is obtained.
BioPharmos Group brands entered the TOP-10 most popular in the target audience.
Director of Science of BioPharmos Group A. M. Kotin was awarded the prize “Expert of the Year” (“Science and Innovations” nomination) of the business publication “Expert North-West”.
International PCT WO/2013/141750 "Synthetic peptides with non-narcotic type of analgesic effect".
The BIOFARMOS Research and Development Center became a participant in the Skolkovo Innovation Center creation project.
US Patent US 9,260,482 "Synthetic peptides with a non-narcotic type of analgesic effect” is obtauned.
Experts of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property decided to include the RF patent 2508295 "Synthetic peptides with non-narcotic type of analgesic action" in the List of "100 best inventions of 2015" (p. 44, p. 60).
Canadian Patent CA 2.867.994 "Synthetic peptides with a non-narcotic type of analgesic effect” is obtained.
International PCT/RU2018/000121
Japanese Patent JP 6.118.392 and EU Patent 2.848.629 "Synthetic peptides with a non-narcotic type of analgesic effect” are obtained.
Patent of the Russian Federation RU 2.651.491 "Specific peptide clathrin inhibitors" on mechanism of action of peptides with a nonnarcotic type of analgesic effect.
BioPharmos Group has conducted preclinical specific activity and pharmacokinetics studies of Anodynal® (based of synthetic peptides with a non-narcotic type of analgesic effect) in accordance with GLP in Russia.
Indonesian Patent ID P000053884 "Synthetic peptides with a non-narcotic type of analgesic effect” is obtained.
Article "Low-molecular synthetic peptides with non-narcotic type of analgesia: comparative study and mechanism of analgesic activity." about mechanism of action of peptides with a nonnarcotic type of analgesic effect.
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A nobel property for sale
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A Scottish farmhouse that had to be rebuilt by a 19th century nobleman to appease his English wife has gone on the market for £720,000.
The idyllic Woodhead Farmhouse in Aberdeenshire belonged to Baronet Sir Arthur Grant but his English wife Evelyn was not a fan of Scottish
architecture.
She wanted the home to reflect the houses she grew up seeing in the Cotswolds and as such it was...
She wanted the home to reflect the houses she grew up seeing in the Cotswolds and as such it was completely rebuilt.
The new structure was built in 1889 and mirrors properties more commonly seen in south west England.
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Is the VAR dying a natural death?
New Benedictine Abbot President elected*
We Must Protect Our Children
Published by CN Admin at September 9, 2018
Q: Archbishop J, What is happening to our Church?
The recent publication of the 1300-page grand jury report in the United States, detailing the systemic abuse of over 1000 children in six Pennsylvania dioceses over the past seven decades, was shocking. It has shattered the faithful in the Catholic Church worldwide.
Many members of our community have expressed dismay and felt gut-wrenching anguish for the abused and their families. Disappointment in our Church and its leadership is widespread.
The subsequent disclosures in the letter from Archbishop Viganò, the former nuncio to the United States, plunged the Church into more uncertainty, especially with his allegation of a high-level Vatican cover-up of former Cardinal Theodore Mc Carrick’s abuse.
This is a dark night for our Church. Children have been traumatised, families are in turmoil and lives have been ruined. Let us all commit to deep prayer for all victims—their families. We must also pray for perpetrators of abuse. We need to ensure collaboration at all levels within the Church so its environment is safe for all children.
Lamentation and Anger
As I reflect on the multiple levels of incompetence and cover-up, my reaction is lamentation and anger. How can someone who accepted a vocation to shepherd the children of God, prey on his sheep? But worse, the leaders did not protect the innocent. This Joel passage has become a prayer:
“Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, ‘Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations.’ Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” (Joel 2:17)
We must acknowledge there is a systemic problem. Children were abused; some persons conspired; others covered up or turned a blind eye on the abuse. What is consistent is their action or inaction put innocent, trusting children in harm’s way. These children are now scarred and traumatised. Everyone has to answer for the role they played.
Many of you are angry with the Church because she failed to protect the little ones. Many of you are calling for change in its handling of such incidents. The People of God expect change; they deserve change.
In a courageous and strong letter to the People of God, Pope Francis called the entire Church to prayer, fasting and repentance saying:
“ ‘If one member suffers, all suffer together with it’ (1 Cor 12:26). These words of Saint Paul forcefully echo in my heart as I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons.
Crimes that inflict deep wounds of pain and powerlessness, primarily among the victims, but also in their family members and in the larger community of believers and nonbelievers alike.
Looking back to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient. Looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated.
The pain of the victims and their families is also our pain, and so it is urgent that we once more reaffirm our commitment to ensure the protection of minors and of vulnerable adults.”
Pope Francis invites us to unite in solidarity against this evil. He invites us to end clericalism; to work tirelessly to protect the victims and participate in transformation that makes the Church a safe place for all God’s children.
His call is for deep, sustained conversion, which must impact the Church at all levels. I support this call. There must be open dialogue on the rights of our children and the accountability of priests and Church workers, to ensure a safe environment for our children. The laity must also hold us accountable.
In our Diocese
The last few weeks have been a game changer. Every Catholic priest has been condemned just by virtue of being a Catholic priest. Each of us must be reminded of our responsibility for the safety and protection of God’s children.
Many years ago, the AEC Bishops implemented procedures to address sexual abuse of minors by clergy; seminarians and deacons in formation are required to undergo thorough psychological screening and periodic assessments. We have trained three people to identify ‘at-risk’ behaviour. Priests also complete an internationally approved online course regarding child protection.
We must raise awareness within the Church and in the wider society that child abuse is wrong. Widespread incest in the Caribbean is a significant concern. The Church must become the healing balm for all children who were abused. The real transformation will, however, only take place when we raise the consciousness of our whole community—laity and clergy—to speak up about any acts of abuse, in Church and in society. Do not be silent.
Let us begin open conversations about how to protect our children at home, at school, at Church and in the wider society. While the Family Life, and Youth Commissions will play a pivotal role in organising a laity-led movement, each of us has a responsibility.
I close with the words of Pope Francis: “I invite the entire holy faithful People of God to a penitential exercise of prayer and fasting, following the Lord’s command. This can awaken our conscience and arouse our solidarity and commitment to a culture of care that says ‘never again’ to every form of abuse.”
Key Message: We all have a responsibility to protect our children. Let us collaborate; let us be vigilant.
Action Step: Read Pope Francis’ letter; discuss it with your family and groups. Discuss what needs to change in your parish and family to protect our children.
Scripture: Joel 2:19; Mt 18:5–7.
Receive Communion with reverence
Yennic Cariah. Source: Flickr.com
Youthful Red Force put on a batting performance
Are we inspiring or stifling our children’s learning?
Buckled up for Flight #2020
Recognising the feminine genius
Hope for more dynamic Catholics
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Call of Duty 3 Single Player Levels
Fuel Plant (level)
Fuel Plant
Falaise Road
The Black Baron
Sgt. Doyle
SAS, French Resistance
Autun, France
August 9, 1944, 07:00 hrs
Destroy the Fuel Plant
For the multiplayer map of the same name, see Fuel Plant.
"Your Major... is dead."
— Marcel to Keith
Fuel Plant is the sixth mission in Call of Duty 3. In this level, Sgt. Doyle, Cpl. Keith and Pierre LaRoche start out in the outskirts of a German fuel plant. They move into the fuel plant and fight their way through a train station and a building, where the player open the gate and let Pierre climb to the roof and becomes a sniper.
Doyle (playable)
Pierre LaRoche
Ingram (M.I.A)
Isabelle DuFontaine
Jean Leconte(K.I.A.)
The level begins with Doyle, Cpl. Keith, and Pierre LaRoche fighting their way through the loading station at the outskirts of the fuel plant. After clearing the rail yard of the German forces, they then fight through a nearby building to reach the security gate controls, allowing Major Ingram, Marcel, Isabelle DuFontaine and a Maquis raiding party to enter the facility with one of the SAS jeeps, Vera. Isabelle gives Doyle a satchel of charges to destroy the fuel tanks, before boarding the jeep. Using the jeep and a captured German Horch 1a, the group fight their way through the facility, barely outrunning a German supply train before crashing the jeep into a wall, permanently disabling it. They then fight their way through a small open work yard filled with German reinforcements (including a halftrack) near the fuel tanks, with LaRoche providing sniper fire from a nearby roof. Using the explosives, Doyle manages to plant charges on all the fuel tanks. As he is priming the last one, he is ambushed by a Waffen-SS soldier, who attempts to shoot Doyle before trying to push him off the balcony. Doyle manages to wrestle the German soldier off the fuel tank's balcony, but the falling German manages to pull him over the side as well, with Doyle barely able to grab the railing and pull himself back up as the German falls to his death. Doyle and the others then fight their way to the other side of the facility, either through the admin offices or along the catwalks, before battling their way through the foundry near the edge of the plant. Exiting the plant, Doyle, Keith, and Marcel escape in another captured Horch, with Major Ingram and the remaining Maquis in another behind them, dodging explosions, German troops, and tanks as the facility begins to collapse around them, before successfully jumping to safety over a destroyed bridge. Doyle’s car manages to clear the jump, but Major Ingram’s vehicle is caught by a tank shell from a Panzer IV and crashes through the bridge. Keith, distraught at the apparent death of Ingram, attempts to go after him, but is eventually persuaded by Marcel to leave.
The group later rendezvous with LaRoche and Isabelle, who had left before the rest of the group. Cpl. Keith berates LaRoche, accusing him of being a coward, and believes that Ingram is still alive, despite LaRoche insisting that Ingram is dead, explaining that he would have been executed as a commando if he had survived. This causes Keith to accuse Marcel of being a traitor (specifically reminding him of his earlier wounding by the Germans), leading to a brief standoff between the two, before LaRoche breaks them up, reminding everyone that they must leave the area before the Germans find them.
Weapon Loadout Edit
Starting Loadout
Obtainable
Kar98k
Vehicles Edit
SAS Jeeps:
Horch 1a
Call of Duty 3 - Mission 6 -- Fuel Depot (Part 1 of 2)
When the player gets pinned down by the half-track after their jeep wrecks, one can hear a German soldier yelling "sniper" in plain English when Pierre engages them from the roof.
During the escape scene, its possible to run over the fleeing German soldiers.
Campaign Levels of Call of Duty 3
The Island · Night Drop · Mayenne Bridge · Falaise Road
Fuel Plant · The Black Baron · The Forest · Laison River · The Crossroads
Hostage! · The Corridor of Death · The Mace · Chambois
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Celebrate National Trails Day with One of These NC Hikes
by Joe Miller | Jun 1, 2018 | At Home in NC
The American Hiking Society celebrates National Trails Day on June 2nd. Their website offers resources and community events across the country. We all play a role in leaving our planet in better shape than we found it. In North Carolina, it’s no surprise to see several events planned.
Here’s an interesting fact about the trails you hike: volunteers played a major role in creating the vast majority of them.
Volunteers work together to build NC trails.
Take the statewide Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Of the 680 miles of trail that currently exists, volunteers had a hand in building roughly … 680 of those miles. (In 2017, volunteers put in 36,000 hours on the trail, according to Friends of the MST Outreach Manager Betsy Brown.) When the new trail is added at one of the state’s nature preserves, it may be surveyed and designed by a professional, but the heavy lifting (as well as sawing and raking and clearing) is usually done by volunteers.
The Appalachian Trail, for instance, is maintained by 31 regional hiking clubs on its 2,190-mile run through 14 states. North Carolina clubs among those 31 are the Carolina Mountain Club, Nantahala Hiking Club, and the Piedmont Appalachian Trail Hikers. We love our trails: we must, in order to spend so much time tending to them.
And since its creation 25 years ago, that’s been the rationale behind National Trails Day, a celebration the first June of every year for all things trail. Initially, the goal was to spend the day rolling up your sleeves and building, clearing, rerouting trail. It’s evolved into more of a celebration of trails: there’s still a lot of workday events, but now there are guided hikes, fairs, bike rides and more. In 2017, according to the American Hiking Society, which sponsors and runs the event, 122,000 people registered for 1,492 National Trails Day events.
And this year, this coming Saturday, More than 900 National Trails Day events have been registered through AHS, including 34 in North Carolina.
Here’s a sampling of what’s planned:
Asheboro Area
Uwharrie Trail Hike
Hike in Asheboro at 9 a.m.
Sponsor: Uwharrie Trailblazers hiking club
Six-mile hike that culminates with a climb to the top of Little Long Mountain, a cleared plateau that offers the best views of central North Carolina’s Uwharrie Mountains.
NTD at Durant Nature Preserve
Hike in Raleigh, 9 a.m. to noon
Sponsor: City of Raleigh Parks & Rec.
Get a first-hand look at how a trail is maintained: rakes, pitchforks, and wheelbarrows provided, you bring a water bottle, sturdy boots and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.
Wilmington/Coastal Area
Take a Hike at Brunswick Nature Park
Hike in Winnabow (near Wilmington) at 9 a.m.
Sponsor: NC Coastal Land Trust
North Carolina’s land trusts play an often unsung role in protecting valuable natural areas and providing us with unique places to explore. This 2.5-mile hike lead by the NC Coastal Land Trust takes you through one of them.
Triad/Greensboro Area
Downtown Greenway Stroll
Bike ride in Greensboro at 9 a.m.
Sponsor: Piedmont Legacy Trails
Take a 4.8-mile bike ride on the Downtown Greenway, enjoying live entertainment and food trucks on this family-friendly event.
Cashiers/Mountains Area
Panthertown Valley Picnic and Expo
Hike, and bike ride in Glenville (near Cashiers) at 11 a.m.
Sponsor: Friends of Panthertown Valley
There’s a picnic at Salt Rock Gap (one of the main entrances to Panthertown), followed by a hike. You can also learn more about mountain biking, fishing, rock climbing and more in the area.
NTD on the Carolina Thread Trail
Kid-friendly hikes and more in Cramerton (Charlotte area) at 10 a.m.
Sponsor: Hike It Baby
One day, the work-in-progress Carolina Thread Trail hopes to have continuous trail linking 15 counties in the Charlotte area; this hike is on one of those segments, the 0.7-mile Goat Island Greenway and South Fork River Blueway (a paddle trail running 8.4 miles downstream; it is not part of the day’s adventure).
In 2017, volunteers put in 36,000 hours on the trail, according to Friends of the MST Outreach Manager Betsy Brown.
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Tag: chooks in space
Striking Out – Picture books that challenge
There are times in every small person’s life, when they are faced with taking the plunge, striding into the unknown, and just striking out into that adventure called life. It’s not always easy, sometimes it’s downright wrenching, but who says it can’t be fun. Here are a cluster of recently released picture books that will enlighten and inspire in those darker and daring times.
Crusts by Danny Parker Illustrated by Matt Ottley
I adore the sinuous artistry of this incredible picture book team. A picture book with their names on the cover promises great subtlety and infinite pleasure. Crusts is no exception. One third graphic, two thirds regular, this picture book grabs the most frustrating habit a maker-of-lunchbox-lunches has to contend with – the uneaten crust and flips it on its head.
Jacob is your typical crust-eating refusal expert. His mum is your typical eat-your-crusts enforcer. Neither is willing to give any ground, which is unfortunate because in a galaxy far far away, a tiny planet is crumbling into nonexistence and has had to jettison three explorers to Earth in an attempt to locate and transport planet-saving crusts back to them. At first, it seems the mission is doomed to fail as Jacob squirrels away crusts by the bin load and scribbles away at plans the explorers feel are useless to their cause. Turns out, there is more to Jacob’s distaste in crumbs and ingenuity than meets the eye.
Parker’s narrative is always spot on, poetic and soulful. Ottley’s fanciful illustrations strike the perfect balance between droll fantasy and tragic normality. Crusts is a crowd pleaser even for those unwilling to swallow one physically. It accentuates the values of tenacity, humanity, selflessness, and kindness and comes highly recommended for lovers of invention and space travel.
Little Hare Books imprint HGE August 2016
Zelda’s Big Adventure by Marie Alafaci Illustrated by Shane McG0wan
I love the plucky audacity and determination shown by Zelda the chook. Zelda has a dream, ‘to be the first chook in space.’ However, the road to the Milky Way is long and arduous and none of her coop-mates is willing to lift a primary wing feather to help her achieve her ambitions.
Undaunted, she strikes out alone and finally launches herself into chook history. When she eventually comes home, her fickle-feathered friends agree Zelda’s tenacity and drive are by far the best examples of how to get anywhere interesting they’ve ever encountered. With her appetite for space exploration sated, Zelda concedes adventures are always more fun when shared with friends. This is a fun, easy to read, easy to share picture book encouraging perseverance and courage. Great for pre-schoolers and early primary readers and chook lovers like me.
Allen & Unwin 2016
Like his previous titles, The Story Machine and The Cloudspotter, Up, Up and Away warms the very cockles of your heart and is guaranteed to cheer you. Unlike Zelda who travelled far into space to find her first planet, Orson, a boy who loves to make things, prefers the challenge of making his own. And he does.
At first, the new planet is slow to find its position in Orson’s universe but slowly with a lot of tending loving care from Orson, his planet grows up and even develops its own gravitational pull. That is when Orson realises, that he must let his beloved planet find its true place among the stars. Under five year olds will relate to this on a number of levels; pets growing up, butterflies dying, outgrown shoes and so on. Adults will be reminded that one day their own tiny planets will eventually have to orbit elsewhere, too.
This whimsical picture book describes the sometimes unavoidable necessity of letting go of things you love the most in order to set them free. McLaughlin elevates this difficult life lesson to a place of beautiful reason and logic in spite of the nonsensical notion of mixing up a planet from scratch from ‘a cup full of rocks and a dash of water’.
Powerful and smart, Up, Up and Away is about accepting and recognising challenges and change.
Bloomsbury August 2016
Out by Angela May George Illustrated by Owen Swan
Sometimes taking on new challenges is not always a matter of choice. Out is a stunning debut picture book by George, which tackles the unrelenting struggles of refugees and their emigration attempts. We never learn the real name of the young asylum seeker in this story, but she is recognisable as a girl with much heart and soul and deep pools of courage. Together with her mother, they endure a treacherous journey from their homeland to Australia. Life is very different, and it takes a while for them to assimilate to the music, dancing, and language. Everything is a new challenge for she and her mother and yet throughout their ordeals, she always retains the thinnest, most fragile tendrils of hope, as depicted by a bright yellow ribbon she carries everywhere.
Written with frank solemnity Out resonates with positivity and a belief that good will always prevail. Swan’s gentle muted illustrations convey emotion and compassion and allow the characters of the story to stand out when they are surrounded by so many others that are in exactly the same boat as they, as it were.
Persuasive and compelling, Out will suit readers four and above and help them realise the strength of the human spirit whilst appreciating the various paths they can take (or must make at times) to reach their goals.
Scholastic Press June 2016
Posted on August 30, 2016 August 30, 2016 Author Dimity PowellCategories Book Reviews - Childrens and Young Adult, Dimity Powell, New Book ReleasesTags Anglea May George, children's picture books, chooks in space, Crusts, Danny Parker, emigration, life challenges, Marie Alafaci, matt ottley, Out, owen swan, Refugees, striking out, Tom McLaughlin, Up up and Away, Zelda's Big Adventure
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Posted by Maria Diaz on May 28, 2014 4:51:51 PM
Clothes shopping app to bring customers and retailers closer
A new development in online shopping for clothes which allows customers to upload a description of what they want and have the retailer search it out was launched yesterday. Stylists Brendan Courtney and Sonya Lennon spoke about celebrating what they called “Fashion Independents’ Day’’ with a whirlwind tour taking in 25 stores across the country. They were launching their new online app Frockadvisor.
Insight of the Week: Discount Shopping
Despite a 1.7% rise in retail sales last month, the third largest increase in Ireland in a year, Retail Ireland still calls the sales "very disappointing." It noted that the rise was due to "retailers aggressively discounting prices to increase footfall." As the economy slowly begins to recover, Kantar Media TGI Ireland reveals further insight into retail shoppers pounding the pavement in search of bargains.
29% Of Irish Consumers Buy Wine Once A Week
Over a quarter (29%) of Irish consumers purchase wine at least once a week according to the latest Consumer Insights survey from Empathy Research. Of 1,010 participants, it was mostly older age groups that said they buy wine at least once a week; 18-24 (17%), 25-34 (21%), 35-44 (32%) and 45+ (35%). Interestingly, it was participants from Dublin that were most likely to buy wine once a week (36%), a noticeable increase on other regions surveyed; rest of Leinster (30%), Connacht/Ulster (25%) and Munster (24%).
66% Of Irish Consumers Won’t Let Rain Dampen Their Spirits As BBQ Season Kicks Off
Bord Bia has released new research that indicates that 66% of Irish consumers don’t let the rain dampen their spirits during barbecue season. Over half of those surveyed (56%) choose to cook outdoors but eat indoors when the rain threatens to pour and only 10% have cancelled their barbecue due to the weather.
Trading Up Most Evident In Baby Products Category, B&A Study Finds
A study for Checkout magazine by Behaviour & Attitudes has found that Irish consumers are still resistant to 'trading up' in most grocery categories, except when it comes to Baby Products. The survey of 508 consumers found that 30% were more likely to trade up (i.e. buy more expensive product than in the past) when purchasing Baby Formula, with just 2% saying they are more likely to trade down in the category. 68% said they are likely to spend the same on Baby Formula as in the past.
Global Irish Whiskey Sales Could Be Impacted By Plain Packaging Of Tobacco, Packaging Expert Warns
Packaging industry spokesperson Mike Ridgway has said that the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products could impact sales in other product categories, including Irish whiskey, sooner rather than later.
Price reductions and food shops bring retail sales to 10-year high
Food fans and heavy discounting have driven a 10-year high in retail sales, according to a Northern Ireland expert.Donald McFetridge of the University of Ulster was speaking after new Office for National Statistics figures revealed that retail sales volumes rose at their fastest year-on-year rate for a decade in April amid a squeeze on prices.
Tesco’s totally treat-free tills pile pressure on rivals
Major supermarkets are coming under increased pressure to have sweet-free checkouts after Tesco stole a march on them by removing sugary treats from the tills in all their stores. The supermarket giant made the move after finding that 65% of customers backed confectionery-free checkouts.
M&S is top of the flops as sales fall 5% despite ads splurge
Marks & Spencer suffered a staggering 5 per cent drop in Irish sales over the last year, as shoppers fell out of love with its clothes, despite heavy advertising using pop star Rita Ora, Eurythmic's singer Annie Lennox and Oscar winner Emma Thompson.
Three of big four supermarkets refuse to stock more British beef
Three of the big four supermarkets have no plans to change their policy on stocking British beef, despite farmer anger. Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda said they would continue to sell Irish beef and were satisfied their labelling and pricing policies met customers’ preferences.
Aldi announces it will create 450 jobs throughout Ireland in 2014
Retailer Aldi has announced that it will create 450 new jobs this year. The franchise said it will recruit for the new roles nationwide as it expands its network of stores in Ireland. Aldi is now seeking applicants across several positions including area manager, store manager, assistant store manager and store assistant.
Shore Capital: Tesco Ireland Forecast To Post Further Sales Declines In 2014/15
Tesco's Irish operation is likely to contract in the coming financial year, before returning to growth next year, according to a company update by market analysts Shore Capital Stockbrokers. Tesco posts its results for Q1 of its 2014/15 financial year on March 6th.
Shopper figures hit high point in north
Shops in Northern Ireland have been packing them in faster than at any time in history, a new retail survey shows.
Footfall - that's the measure of people visiting shops over a period of time and is seen as an important barometer of how well they're performing - has soared to its highest level since recent records were kept by the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium (NIRC).
Sweet deals for Glenilen with Tesco and Aer Lingus
Cork-based food producer Glenilen Farm has secured significant contracts with Tesco in the UK and Aer Lingus to supply them with desserts. These deals, believe its family owners, will create five new jobs at its base in Drimoleague. Glenilen has secured a deal with Tesco to supply 138 stores in the UK with three desserts – lemon cheesecake, chocolate mousse, and coconut and passion fruit panna cotta – from the middle of June.
Topics: Insights, Retail
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New Kadampa Tradition, Religion
by tenpel May 12, 201412:03 pm May 12, 2014
New Kadampa Tradition: From Ancient Kadampa to Modern Buddhism
I don’t know if you realized that NKT has a new way of promoting itself by giving itself a new identity. While in the past they reached out to the masses as the inheritor of the ancient pure Kadampa school stressing claimed authenticity, tradition, and being deeply rooted in “pure Dharma” (free from mundane ambitions), the NKT is now giving itself a modern outlook, using the label “Modern Buddhism” and riding on the wave of peoples’ interest in meditation. For the latter purpose they have bought a lot of domains starting with “www.meditatein[town].xxx”.
In UK the NKT has successfully established itself in the National Health System (NHS), Chaplaincy work and schools. For me and former damaged followers of the group it feels like observing Scientology to get access to the most sensitive points of a society. You cannot really be happy watching it because you consider the new recruits who are highly likely going to be damaged by the destructive, cultish group structure …
NKT continue to expand this obvious successful strategy for expansion by offering now classes to reduce
stress from your life at your working place
stress from your life at home
stress from being on the road
stress by following a healthy way of life
The NKT places this new advertisement strategy on a book called “Modern Buddhism” (I assume a copy and paste version from other books) by Kelsang Gyatso, that has its own promotional website. For some new NKT followers, like Kelsang Jangdom – who is one of the two directors of the Norway company International Shugden Community and a New Kadampa Tradition teacher at the Nordic Kadampa Meditation Centre in Oslo –, “Modern Buddhism” and the Anti-Dalai Lama book “The false Dalai Lama” seem to have become the intellectual essence of the spiritual life in the NKT.
The NKT’s Nordic Kadampa Meditation Center rides on the same wave of attracting new people into the group by offering low key stress reducing classes.
Recently I received an email by a concerned woman from the UK who reported that the NHS also sends people with alcohol addiction or disabled people to NKT’s meditation classes. I wonder how mindless the British NHS is … nobody (except Scientology) would consider it as good if the NHS would send people to Scientology classes …
Tagged with: meditation meditation-in Modern Buddhism New Religious Movements reduce stress
lifegoeson on May 12, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Indeed, I have tried to tell various healthcare professionals that sending/taking people to NKT classes is a bad idea, but they shrug it off or treat me like I have some sort of religion-related mental condition. I’ve tried suggesting they Google NKT plus controversy to see for themselves, but the shrug that comes in response strongly suggests they never will.
Mind you for those who keep their involvement to a GP level class it’s probably harmless, even mildly beneficial. It’s those who get more deeply involved, usually very quickly, who tend to suffer most.
I still take down their ads for classes whenever I can, but they’re back up so quickly it’s almost pointless.
tenpel on May 12, 2014 at 12:40 pm
The NHS is totally naive. They would of course not send anybody to Scientology but their naive thinking seems to be: Buddhism is good, meditation is good, so lets save money and send those people to the Buddhists groups out there. And since the missionary drive of the NKT spread the group all over the country and abroad, most people will be send to NKT centres. With this unproven assumptions the NHS treats critics like you as distorted mental beings because their own wrong image is believed to be more accurate than yours or that of other critics. While for Scientology there is a lot of investigation and newspaper articles and public awareness, for NKT most of this – especially public awareness of its potential harm – is missing.
I agree, those only in GP classes or at the periphery of NKT will have rather benefit than harm but it is hard to say if someone at the periphery will not be drawn deeply into the organisation and then finally being damaged …
I agree to remove the posters/ads. I see this like a hunter in a forest who puts there traps to catch animals. Better for both to remove the traps. However, finally it will be more effective and also more fair to have a public discussion and awareness about this like in the case of Scientology.
jigje on May 12, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Yes, I’m stunned at the level of ignorance and stupidity that the NHS is clearly exhibiting by giving the NKT even an atom of credibility. How insidious. I have to mention Orwell’s 1984 here and Newspeak because the NKT seems to share some affinity with Big Brother.
I was also struck by the Nordic Kadampa Meditation Center’s FaceBook page with an image of Dorje Shugden prominently displayed at the top of the page. Wow!
This FB page reminds me so much on my time when I followed NKT: being total narrow minded, putting all aside and seeing KG and his books as the only salvation in this world … uhh, once I was there too …
But, luckily, I got out of it – and I didn’t give up Buddhism (with its vast benefits) as many did after I left NKT.
One can see the parallels between, on the one hand, Geshe Gyatso and the NKT, and on the other, Christian fundamentalism: both are hellbent (pun intended) on “recapturing” an ideological purity that has supposedly been lost by the dominant group of believers of the religion at large. How ironic (and myopic) that they project decadence and corruption onto everyone outside their group that doesn’t share their twisted worldview.
It is no small thing to escape the clutches of such a group, much less hold onto one’s faith generally. I know some Christian Fundamentalists who have been true believers now for thirty or more years and who I simply can’t imagine will ever be capable of taking a critical look at the world they inhabit. On the contrary, they’ve become ever more strident, ever more militant and unbending. And, yes, even MORE narrow-minded and dogmatic.
Joanne on May 13, 2014 at 10:43 pm
One worrisome thing that comes to my mind is that when people are going through a difficult time, they are more vulnerable to abusive relationships and susceptible to becoming involved in cultic situations. It doesn’t sound like this is just about some otherwise stable people discovering how to de-stress in meditation. It sounds rather as if people with deeper troubles are going to find themselves in these centers. Disturbing.
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BuffaloBuckeye
Buckeye’s Men’s Rugby fail to secure Big 10 Championship verses a domineering Hoosiers Squad
(Photo courtesy http://www.iurugby.com)
Okay, okay. I missed reporting the 73-5 shellacking the Buckeyes perpetrated upon the Spartans of *ichigan State last week (November 2nd) at Fred Beekman Field. But in my defense, I was shellacked myself under some table in Westchester County. But that’s for another day….
The Buckeyes made it to the Big Ten Championship played at Fortress Stadium in Obetz, which borders on the Southern end of Columbus (not far from where I grew up). The match up was against the Indiana Hoosiers who had handed the Buckeyes their only loss of the season back on September 27th in a torture-tunnel battle 27-20.
The brutality in this one marched well into the first half with no one scoring, but both sides offering their version(s) of pain-delivery. Finally, Indiana on a “nice” power-push rammed the ball beneath the posts for a try. Their kick wasn’t any good and they took a well-earned lead 5-0.
8-man Nate Heister on a punishing run as Ryan Bradfield finishes off the dazzle is in for the score. Conor Forrestal’s after kick is good. The Buckeyes take the lead 7-5 as the half ends.
The second half is panning into a completely different narrative. Indiana threatens early on their first two possessions following sloppy Buckeye play but wind-up with nothing to show. But their surge would certainly not end without any dividends. Indiana scores in the corner off a 5-meter scrum. Their kick is no good and they take the lead 10-7 over the Buckeyes.
The Hoosiers aren’t throwing in the towel … scoring again on a counter from a Buckeye kick – putting in slam-dunk on the ground between the posts. The conversion kick is good. Indiana takes a 17-7 lead with 32 minutes on the clock.
Indiana scores yet again as the Buckeye’s motivation seemingly sours. The kick is no good. The Hoosiers are now up 22-7.
Wow – yep! Again! Indiana pounds the ball across the goal for a brutal try. The kick again fails. Indiana is now flourishing as their “man-pride” soars. They are up 27-7 with 20 remaining.
Again, with less than 10 to go Indiana runs in a try with a good after kick making it 34-7.
This will be the final score. Indiana wins the Big Ten Men’s Rugby Championship in Columbus (or actually Obetz) in a powerful statement. It would be the Buckeye’s second loss of the season both at the hands of the Hoosiers of Indiana.
Next week in Columbus the Buckeyes will take on Penn State to finish off the season (Yes, Penn State is NOT part of the Big Ten in Rugby). Then it’ll be off to the NCAA D1A Rugby Championship (so we await to see who’ll be matched up against our Scarlet and Gray)…
Off to Beekman Filed next week and the Nittany Lions.
GO BUCKEYES.
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Ken Kohl
Sounds like a lot of shellacking going on, JC 😉
Wow, Hoosiers clearly claimed B1G title. Regardless, on the the NCAAs for the Buckeyes!
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Finance Praseeda Nair · 15 August 2017
Small business owners braced for further 54 Barclays branch closures
Britain’s bank branch network is predicted to halve within ten years
Barclays bank has announced an additional 54 branch closures by the end year, but has been warned its attempt to cut costs and streamline services threatens small business survival in hard-hit areas.
Following the 14 branches already closed by Barclays in 2017, the latest closures will occur in December.
Referencing the capabilities of online banking, a Barclays spokesperson maintained that further branch closures reflected a rebalancing of services, while its network of in-store branches would remain “a vital part of our offering”.
“With customers visiting our branches less and less each year, we must constantly assess how and why our branches are used and make decisions based on that insight,” she added.
However, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned that Britain’s small company owners have continued to lose out most from branch closures, and would face a number of damaging consequences from the latest announcement.
“At a time of unprecedented uncertainty, the last thing small businesses need is loss of in-person bank branch support. When times are tough, there’s no replacement for help from a known and trusted bank branch contact,” said FSB chairman Mike Cherry
Rapid bank closures have seen Britain’s network of branches halve in the last 25 years to just 8,000, and a further 50 per cent is predicted in the next ten years. To access certain banking services, small business owners have been advised to use Post Offices.
The British Bankers’ Association pledged in November 2016 to ensure greater collaboration between banks and local Post Offices to compensate business customers for the loss of in-store services.
However, Cherry said alternatives like the Post Office were “simply not up to scratch”, with services such as cheque clearing facilities and currency exchanges rarely available.
“We need to see substantial improvement and standardisation of the Post Office’s offering if it’s to be considered a viable replacement for bank branches,” he added.
Another threat to small firms has been the possibility of a physical cash shortage – an issue causing particular concern in areas dependent on tourism.
“Our members routinely deal with customers that want to pay in cash,” Cherry said.
“Once a town loses a bank branch it hurts footfall, particularly in tourist hotspots, and means business owners have to spend time travelling out of town to use banking services.
“Card payment terminals can go some way to mitigating these impacts but still carry multiple transaction costs which firms are forced to absorb.”
Barclays’ new branch closures will take place in between September and December, including the below locations.
Birkenhead Higher Tranmere
Bristol Bishopston
Clydach
Combe Down
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Citations: Jobs for the Future. (n.d.). Schools. Retrieved from http://www.jff.org/initiatives/early-college-designs/schools
National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium. (2013). Maryland [Interactive map of state career technical education profiles]. Retrieved from http://www.careertech.org/Maryland
Education Commission of the States. (2015). Dual enrollment – all state profiles. Retrieved from http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/mbprofallRT?Rep=DE14A
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Within these areas, Maryland implements programs of study aligned with the following 15 Career Clusters:
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National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium. (n.d.). Maryland [Interactive map of state CTE profiles]. Retrieved from http://careertech.org/Maryland
Career Exploration and Career Plans:
In 2008, Maryland mandated that all students in Grades 9–12 have an Individual Academic and Career Plan (U.S. Department of Labor, 2013). Individual Academic and Career Plans should include ongoing assessment of students’ personal characteristics and positive traits, learning styles, abilities and motivation, and career aspirations. Students must begin developing their plan before the ninth grade and update it in subsequent years (Maryland State Department of Education, n.d.).
U.S. Department of Labor. (2013). Individualized learning plans across the U.S. Retrieved from http://www.dol.gov/odep/ilp/map/
Maryland Division of State Documents. (n.d.). 13A.04.10.01: Requirement—Career development for instruction in grades prekindergarten–12. Retrieved from http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/comarhtml/13a/13a.04.10.01.htm
Maryland State Department of Education (n.d.). Career development. Retrieved from http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Pages/Career-Tech-Education/careerdevelopment.aspx
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Lifting of moratoria to Haiti and Zimbabwe: practical information for affected persons
! Warning: the information in this resource might not be up to date.
On December 1, 2014, the Canadian government lifted the moratoria on removals to Haiti and Zimbabwe. The federal government has put in place some special measures for affected persons:
Haitian or Zimbabwean refugee claimants whose claim was refused before 1st December 2014 will have until 1st June 2015 to submit an application on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Haitian or Zimbabwean refugee claimants whose claim was pending on 1st December 2014 and whose application is thereafter refused will have six months from the date of their negative decision to submit an application on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
If after the six month period, no H&C application has been submitted, the person could be called in for removal.
On December 1, 2014, the Canadian government lifted the moratoria on removals to Haiti and Zimbabwe. This means that Haitian and Zimbabwean nationals could face deportation, if they do not obtain legal status in Canada.
At the same time the government put in place some special measures for affected Haitians and Zimbabweans.
Who is affected by the special measures?
Haitians and Zimbabweans who:
Were in Canada on December 1, 2014.
Do not have permanent residence in Canada.
Had made a refugee claim before December 1, 2014 OR were benefitting from the Haiti Special Measures (introduced to respond to the 2010 earthquake).
Are not inadmissible to Canada on criminal or certain other grounds.
What are the new special measures?
Persons covered by the new special measures:
Have six months to apply for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) grounds. They will not be deported during those six months.
If they apply for H&C, they cannot face any removal proceeding nor be deported from Canada while awaiting the decision on their H&C application.
In the meantime, those covered are eligible for:
A work permit
Interim Federal Health Program (if they were eligible before 1 December 2014).
When does the 6 month period begin?
For Haitians and Zimbabweans whose refugee claim was rejected before December 1, 2014, and for Haitians benefitting from the Haiti Special Measures:
The 6 month period to apply for H&C begins 1 December 2014 and ends 1 June 2015.
The government estimates that there are approximately 3,500 persons affected (3,200 from Haiti and 300 from Zimbabwe).
For Haitians and Zimbabweans who were in the refugee claim process on December 1, 2014, and whose refugee claim is subsequently rejected:
The 6 month period to apply for H&C begins on the date of the rejection by the Refugee Protection Division of their refugee claim.
For example, if a person receives a negative decision from the Refugee Protection Division on 1 March 2015, they will have until 1 September 2015 to apply for H&C. They cannot apply for H&C while their refugee claim is still before the Refugee Protection Division.
(There were 259 Haitian and Zimbabwean claims pending on 30 November 2014, but not all of them will have their claim rejected).
Applying for H&C
To apply for H&C, affected persons need to:
Carefully complete all the required forms: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/handc.asp
Pay the fees ($550 per adult, $150 per dependent child)
Send the application to CIC – Backlog Reduction Office in Vancouver (mark clearly on the envelope: Haiti/Zimbabwe special measures).
Making an H&C application is complicated and challenging. It is recommended that applicants be assisted by experienced lawyers. If the forms are not correctly filled out, the application may be rejected as incomplete. If the arguments for H&C grounds are not fully presented, the application may be rejected even though there are strong humanitarian grounds.
People who were living in Quebec on 1 December 2014 will also have their case reviewed by the Quebec government. There is an additional form to be completed for Quebec: Demande d’examen de parcours http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/publications/fr/dcs/A-0523-IF-dyn.pdf.
The government will not contact individually the affected Haitians and Zimbabweans to let them know about the measures. Some of the affected people have been in Canada for many years and may have moved to a different region of Canada and lost contact with their lawyer or organizations that support newcomers.
It is therefore very important to spread the word that Haitian or Zimbabwean refugee claimants whose claim was refused before 1st December 2014 have until 1st June 2015 to submit an application on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Download the slides from a presentation on the special measures to review the main points.
Access an audio-visual presentation on the special measures, delivered 17 January 2015 (viewable using Windows media player). You can also access the same presentation given in French.
CIC, Operational Bulletin, Procedures for applications for permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds as a result of lifting the temporary suspension of removals on Haiti and Zimbabwe
Country condition resources
The following resources may be useful in developing H&C submissions:
Haiti – Country conditions for women / minor children
Haiti Research Index 2014
University of Miami School of Law, After-Shocks: The Human Impacts of U.S. Deportations to Post-Earthquake Haiti
Identification of some at-risk groups of Haitians and Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe hardships
Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC), Zimbabwe Country Report (a recent and comprehensive and recent report)
Articles on Zimbabwe country conditions (focus on HIV)
Seeking assistance
For people living in Quebec, the Quebec government has identified five organizations to help affected persons. The organizations will be available to support them as they go through the procedures, answering their questions and helping them with their case. The organizations are :
Maison d'Haïti (Montréal)
Service d'aide et de liaison pour immigrants La Maisonnée (Montréal)
Accueil aux immigrants de l'Est de Montréal (Montréal)
Carrefour d'intercultures de Laval (Laval)
Carrefour le Moutier (Longueuil)
People in the Windsor region can seek help from the Diocese of London Ministry to Refugee Claimants, (519) 256-0506.
For francophones in Toronto: Centre francophone de Toronto, (416) 922-2672 (ext 300 - clinique juridique).
In Hamilton, the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic wil assist. Contacts: Melissa Loizou and Halima Habbal.
In Ottawa, people can seek advice from Community Legal Services Ottawa Centre, (613) 241-7008
I already made an H&C application that was rejected before 1 December 2014. Can I make another H&C application?
Yes, you can make another H&C application, even if you made one or more previously. You should show your lawyer the reasons for your refusal (if you have them – if not the lawyer can obtain them) as well as all the documents that were submitted in your previous H&C application(s), so that your lawyer can see what extra information needs to be added. Even if you have been refused in the past, there may be new information or information that wasn’t previously submitted which might lead to a positive decision.
I already submitted an H&C application before 1 December 2014 and I have not yet received an answer. What should I do?
You do not need to do anything to benefit from the stay of removal. You will not be removed while your H&C application is being reviewed. However, you should consult a lawyer to see if any more information should be added to your application. This is particularly important if you submitted your application without the assistance of a lawyer.
If you were living in Quebec on 1 December 2014, you must submit an additional form so that the Quebec government can also review your case: Demande d’examen de parcours http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/publications/fr/dcs/A-0523-IF-dyn.pdf. We expect that Citizenship and Immigration Canada will write to you to let you know about this additional form to complete.
My refugee claim was rejected but I am appealing it (at the Refugee Appeal Division or at the Federal Court). Can I make an H&C application anyway? When do the six months start?
You can and should make an H&C application even if you are appealing a negative refugee decision. The six months start on 1 December 2014 or the date of the negative Refugee Protection Division decision (whichever is later). http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/laws-policy/pp-ref-haiti-zim.asp?_ga=1.42397280.493482664.1361287877
My spouse /common law partner is sponsoring me under the Spouse or Common-Law Partner in Canada Class. What should I do?
The spousal sponsorshp application does NOT by itself count as an H&C application, so there is no stay of removal accompanying the application. While the spousal sponsorship application is ongoing, you can file an H&C application under the special program in order to benefit from the stay of removal.
However, if you included, in your sponsorship application, an application for a waiver from inadmissibility (e.g. misrepresentation), this counts as an H&C application and you therefore benefit from the stay (unless your inadmissibility excludes you from these special measures).
What happens if I don’t make an H&C application or I make an H&C application and it is refused?
If after the 6 month period no H&C application has been made, you may be called in for removal by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). If, on the date of your appointment at CBSA, more than 12 months have passed since your negative refugee claim, you should be eligible for a Pre-Removal Risk Assessment, which means that you would have an opportunity to submit information showing that you would be at risk if removed to Haiti/ Zimbabwe.
I have made an H&C application within the six-month period, but I am still worried that I might be called in for removal.
Occasionally mistakes are made. If Canada Border Services Agency calls you in for removal proceedings, tell the officer that you are covered by the Haiti/Zimbabwe special measures and have applied for H&C. Show proof that you made the H&C application (acknowledgement letter from CIC or courier proof of delivery). If, after that, the removal officer does not suspend all removal proceedings, contact your lawyer immediately.
I think I might not be eligible for the special measures. What will happen to me? What should I do?
You are not eligible for the special measures if:
You were found ineligible to make a refugee claim;
You are inadmissible on criminal or security grounds;
You were excluded from refugee protection by the Immigration and Refugee Board (i.e. on the basis of the exclusion clauses of the Refugee Convention);
You face an outstanding criminal warrant.
If you are not eligible for the special measures you may be called in for removal proceedings. You will probably be eligible for a Pre-Removal Risk Assessment, which means that you would have an opportunity to submit information showing that you would be at risk if removed to Haiti/ Zimbabwe.
You should consult a lawyer about possible recourses or if you are in doubt about whether you are eligible for the special measures.
We will be updating this page with more information and resources as they become available, so check back later.
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French Open: Nadal's red hot form continues, Muguruza and Williams exit - Daily News Egypt
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French Open: Nadal’s red hot form continues, Muguruza and Williams exit
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Rafael Nadal’s blistering form continued as he beat Roberto Bautista Agut in straight sets. Defeats for Garbine Muguruza and Venus Williams mean there will be a first time Grand Slam champion in the women’s draw.Rafael Nadal continued his near-flawless form in his favorite tournament as he blitzed compatriot Roberto Bautista Agut 6-1 6-2 6-2 in the fourth round on Sunday.
The win means Nadal has dropped just 20 games and not a single set in his four matches in the tournament to date and leaves him on course for a tenth title.
“I’m happy because Roberto is a very good player. It’s very important for me to be in the quarterfinals one more time,” said Nadal, who turned 31 on Saturday. “Probably I didn’t play as well as I did the other day, but I still played well.”
He’ll face 20th-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta in the last eight after the Spaniard knocked off fifth-seeded Milos Raonic 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (6), 6-4, 8-6.
Austrian sixth seed Dominic Thiem also progressed with an impressive straight sets victory over Horacio Zeballos of Argentina. He’ll play defending champion Novak Djokovic in the last eight after the Serbian Defending champion eased past claycourt specialist Alberto Ramos-Vinolas 7-6(5) 6-1 6-3.
Muguruza, Williams exits pave the way for new champion
Despite 16 double faults, Kristina Mladenovic ended defending champion Garbine Muguruza’s hopes of back-to-back titles with a 6-1 3-6 6-3, win that sent the home favorite in to the quarterfinals.
After a nervy opening set, Spanish fourth seed Muguruza rallied but 13th-seeded Frenchwoman Mladenovic made her shots when it mattered to set up a meeting with Timea Bascinszky, who beat Venus Williams.
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Just a final reminder – this is a SPOILER PAGE. What that means is all is fair to discuss openly on this page about this book. We will talk about plots, and yes – we will definitely discuss the ending. This page is for those who have read the book only.
Ok… so all said… wow right? I mean seriously that was intense and I am still reeling a bit. First off by page 111 I thought I was brilliant and that it was Nick’s father who took Amy… I mean, after all Nick’s father did escape on the day of her disappearance and he did keep saying “bitch” a lot and as we know – there was no love lost between those two.
And of course, I thought Nick was an extreme butt-head for his affair with Andie but then again as the story unfolds the great and wonderful Gillian Flynn even makes his affair seem like it is ok because his wife and life were something EXTREME.
I am so curious about what others (YOU!) thought about this book.
Did you see it coming?
Who were you rooting for?
Is Amy a victim here of her parents or extreme wackadoo or both?
Is Nick a victim or a product of his own making?
As for Andie, I don’t care if she is sweet and naive – she did enter into an affair with a married man and that makes her BAD in my eyes. Grow up, get a life, and get over your “daddy” complex.
Did the ending shock you? I guess by that time for me, my loathe of Amy was pretty extreme and that is huge for me who usually falls into camp “Why can’t we all just get along?” I actually turned the page at the very end of the book hoping there was more than just that cryptic ending… and of course there wasn’t which both upset me and I had to admit made sense… where do you really go from here?
BUT since this is my page, here is how I would have liked to see it end – Nick, pretends to destroy his book…. but it has already been sent safely to another computer, probably Go’s or the cop who was still trying to work the case. Crazy Amy has the baby (ugh, hated that the baby was a bargaining tool but really… what else would we expect of Amy?) and then once the baby is safe and Amy is in the hospital Nick takes the child and runs…. really RUN NICK RUN!!!!! Like the wind!!!! GO GO GO GO!!!!
Ok… that’s my ending….LOL 😀
Lets hear from you… I know I am forgetting to mention much so bring it on… lets chat about this book!
399 thoughts on “SPOILER PAGE For Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn”
In the first part of the book I hated Nick. What a smarmy weasel! Then in part 2 I was no longer feeling sorry for Amy. What a conniving witch! By the end, I hated them both (although Nick a little less. I pitied him actually. And the ending really ticked me off!
Yeah, what she said. 🙂 I completely agree with Angie! I also agree with Sheila – the author did an amazing job with this thriller, so complex, so many details. This is a very interesting, excellent read. However, I can’t say it’s the best book I’ve read this year. For me, the fact that I hated both of the main characters disqualifies this story from being ‘the best’ …..
Angie – TRUE THAT! LOL 😀 I I dont know if I ever hated Nick…. I disliked him A LOT – and at first I thought he was the jerk but once Amy’s true colors were shown, I understood Nicks choices a little better. While I do not agree with what he did – not by a long shot, I can imagine he was love starved and the attention of Annie was just what he needed – some self esteem… and loves unconditionally. And yes Angie the ending – OH WOW!!!! Really? I want to hurt Amy…. BAD.
Hi Sheila, I came to this site because I was looking for comments about the movie. I hope it doesn’t offend you that I comment without having read the book. That being said, it seemed to me that Nick was floundering in his life, having given up on the approval that success brings and looking for love in all of the wrong places; mainly because by then he knew his wife was devoid of real love. Amy, like so many people in this world, is more interested in burnishing the image of her ego she’d created and when Nick dinged and damaged that image irreparably, she was compelled towards vengeance. People that are invested so much into their ego image can not serve the other master of real love and therefore are purposely ignorant of the concept of forgiveness, which is the core downfall of all relationships in the world, whether they be in a marriage, community, nation or continent. In the end, with the help of the attorney and the despondency of the police, Nick realized that the only thing that mattered and would keep the peace for the sake of the child was the image of the marriage that they as a family project out to the neighbors and world. Appeasing the ego monster within was the only way to have a psychotic calm in the world he’d become trapped in by the duped world’s view of him. His choice was either work with Amy or walk in the world with the Mark of Cain with everyone despising him. I believe the book/movie was a powerful metaphor about modern marriage’s implied covenant that values the image the couple projects to the world to achieve their highest material goals, instead of the real function of a marriage, which is to help each other achieve their highest spiritual self.
Great thoughts! I did write a review called Gone Girl Book VS. Movie with a spoiler page as well… that gives more insight on the movie.
That is so true. What a great perspective of the film.
Lori Pilla
I felt that the ending was rather anticlimactic. I feel sorry for any child being born into this unholy union. But I also felt that this story had more twists and turns that the Corkscrew Rollercoaster at Valleyfair ! I had no favorite characters accept for Go. She was a very loving and caring sister.
Lori, I liked Go too… I felt there could have been more (a second book…) where they continue the investigation to find out the truth about Amy. They do have one cop who believes them….
I just re-read my comment and it sounds like I didn’t like the book when, as a matter of fact, I LOVED it ! It kept me guessing all the time. Who knows too. Maybe there will be a sequel about Amy. It could be called “REALLY Gone Girl ! ” HAHAHA !
LOL YES! Love that title! There should be a sequel…. hmmmmm… so much left unsaid…
Maryetta Flanagan
I just saw Gone Girl, the movie. I have also read the book. I was HOPING that the ending of the movie would differ from the book. No such luck, had I.
Detective Boney, as depicted by Ms. Flynn, is portrayed as a reasonably sharp individual. She asks very pointed questions of Amy after the latter’s return to the scene of the crime that never happened. But her questions are deftly ignored by our villianess and then never discussed again. At this point, I was imagining real life retired derective, Joe Kenda, of Discovery’s Homicide Hunter, to come in and expose Amazing Amy. It is bad when I was pining for a real life (retired) detective rather than the one portrayed in Gone Girl.
Well, my husband got sick right after the TV interview…..I thought her x boy friend would murder her, and then hubby would be off the grid after the x got caught….WRONG…..happy I found this site…but, do not like the way it ended, she is a SICKO!! No one needs her around….could be her parents next, as they were obnoxious.
Susan Olds
I didn’t mean to be anonymous. 🙂
I’ve never commented on one of these before. Sorry. 🙂
LOL – welcome to the discussion 😀 I really enjoyed the book because it was different than anything I have ever read before and that always seems to impress me. The author also did a great job on keeping me guessing. Often I find I figure out the end before it happens because the book gives too much away – that was not the case this time and I loves trying to guess what was going to happen next and I even loved being wrong 😀
AAACCCKKK!!! I just finished it. and I only have a minute to comment, but HOLY CRAP!!! at first I didn’t like Nick, but I did, then I too thought it was his father, then I thought he was phsyco himself, in not remembering stuff–like the credit card bills, etc.
I wonder how the movie will be? Holy Cow. I can’t wait to share this book. I don’t have spaghetti sauce on mine, but I do have water spots from carrying it into the shower…almost. LOL
Debbie – YEAH!!! And lol to the AAAACCCKKK!!!! I cant wait for the movie – it has to be fantastic… well, I hopw it is anyway 😀
Oh….and I hope that Nick takes the baby and runs too!!
Mike Rush
The baby is Desi’s; she got pregnant while being held. No one faults Amy.
Nick is a sweetie pie for standing by her.
The baby has the legal right to the same lifestyle as his father (Desi)..
Once Desi’s parent’s die, the baby inherits the family’s wealth.
That’s why Nick stayed with Amy. Ridiculous amounts of money can smooth out a troubled relationship.
angeebaby
The baby is the result of Amy using Nicks sperm from the sperm bank. Neither Amy or the baby has any right to Desi’s wealth. Amy used everyone. While Nick was a bastard, Amy was a whack a doo. who plotted to frame Nick for a murder that didn’t happen. She used Desi because she was robbed of the money she was using for her great escape. She set him up. she set up Nick and he is staying with her because of the baby. I think he is afraid Amy will harm the baby if he leaves.
And what is your take on Desi? Was he a creeper too or is that just more lies that Amy told us? Did he really have a tulip room for her?
Desi was…. ummmm….. different for sure. I think he was a big rich mama’s boy (uh yeah…. that was AWKWARD), but I think he was just the right personality creeper type that played right into Amy’s plans…. more than once too… I think she played him all her life and he was too love struck to see it. Why am I not remembering the tulip room? 😯
When Desi took Amy to his house, the room he gave her was painted pink – her favorite color from high school. He also had a special greenhouse room filled with tulips somehow engineered to produce flowers year round, because tulips were Amy’s favorite flower when she was in high school.
I totally forgot about that… wow… Desi was a bit wackadoo himself now…::shock:
I thought of Desi like Gatsby, y’know, the guy who forms his world on the wannabe ideal of getting his dream girl, and that sure didn’t have a happy ending.
Sandra Morrison
How Did she end up in the Ozarks for a week? Did she just make that up while she was tied to Desi’s bed? It seems that part of the story was forgotten about when she came back home.
Alison M
I loved the book, and was sad when it was over. I wanted more, but I don’t know what. I think I kind of wanted Desi’s mom to kill Amy after the baby was born. Not nice, but I felt no one would be free until she was dead. I kind of felt like Desi and his mom had an incestual relationship or something. It was like he loved Amy because she looked like his mom and was crazy like her. In Desi’s defense we knew everything Amy had done to him, but he didn’t. As far as he knew they had a friendship.
I listened to this as an audiobook and it was very well done. I am trying to decide what Gillian Flynn book to read or listen to next.
OOH I like that Alison! That is a good ending! And you are right… she had to die.. can you imagine the future… she will hold the baby over Nick forever…. he has to get the baby and go.
Omg, Alison! That would have been a great ending!!! I was really really disappointed with the way the book ended. I really enjoyed the book, after part 1. I liked Nick’s character throughout the whole book and I couldn’t stand the Amy character. By the time the book ended, I detested her. It would’ve been nice if the Boney could’ve figured out a way to bring Amy down as well. But I’m still hoping there will be a sequel!
Sue Zaidi
I’ve just been reading on line about the things that were omitted from the film. Desi’s mother is not in the film…which seems wrong. Amy’s parents, who play a large part in the book, are only background characters apparently and Nick’s father only appears once at the police station. I really wish they wouldn’t do this when making a film of a book…it takes away some of the main bulk of the story. Spoils it for me.
Ricki Wilson
I wanted the police to find a video camera hidden in Desi’s house (which, due to Desi’s obsession, is plausible) that had recorded Amy, and I wanted the man in the casino to step forward. I find Gone Girl to be an interesting combination of a “who-done-it” written in a rather engaging literary style. There were moments of introspection that I find completely captivating, for example the TV rant: “If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script.” (89-) For me, that’s a “highlight” passage.
Ricki that would have been brilliant – and yes, so like Desi. If I were an author I would enjoy seeing what my readers would come up with for endings that satisfy our thirst for REVENGE!!! 😛
Great passage you recalled too.
I’m hoping they find video footage from the casino…doesn’t she like kiss his cheek or something while in there? And yes, the man that saw her!
Great movie, but was soooo disappointed that basically she got away with murder, deception about the pregnancy, and ALL of her scheming ways!!!
And Nick was STUCK with this psychopath!!! Up until the ending, I thought the plot was quite brilliant, but the ending reminded me of the ending of Alfred Hichcock’s THE BIRDS. That movie ended strangely and abruptly as well.
It didn’t make sense that Amy would just come back, continue to manipulate Nick, and just smile in the TV interview.
Such a brilliant writer, I truly think she could have scheming Amy “found out”.
After all, she deliberately murdered her ex boyfriend, but got away with it.
When the credits started to roll, I was stunned!
Another thought – why didn’t they do a toxicology test on Desi if they were trying to find something on Amy? Wouldn’t that have shown all the sleeping pills in his system?
Good point Alison – it sounded like they just closed the case and it was just the one cop who thought Nick was innocent …. I think there is almost enough there to do a sequel – not a trilogy, but a second book of the cop and Nick and Go….
Amy explained this in her cover story to the police. Every night Desi fed her, raped her, and drank wine with sleeping pills so he could sleep beside her and not be disturbed by her crying. The night she escaped, Desi had dropped the knife onto the bed and didn’t see it. After he fell asleep, Amy used the knife to cut herself free, then killed Desi and left. The amount of forethought and level of detail on Amy’s part is/was unreal — tying twine around her wrists and ankles every day for the month she was with Desi to leave marks indicating she had been tied up, raping herself with a wine bottle everyday to leave evidence of rape before she had sex with Desi and killed him — Literally “Amazing Amy”. And I don’t mean that in a good way. 🙂
NO kidding! Amy is probably going down as one of the scariest characters I have ever known…. GAH…. what a level of insanity!
She covered that base, too. She said he took a sleeping pill with his martini every night so he wouldn’t have to hear her cry…
Carla – that is right! Wow she covered it all….
rmholt
Yeah I wondered that too
Unfortunately, she thought of that, too. When the cops were questioning her, she told them that every night he would rape her, drink a martini, and take sleeping pills to fall asleep next to her so Amy’s sobbing wouldn’t keep him awake.
Katie Richards
I loved the book and all it’s craziness. I listed to it and loved the narrators. I read this for my book club and we all concluded it was a fitting ending for the crazy pair. Although I would have LOVED to see Amy get ruined. But in real life I think the crazy manipulators get their way so I have resigned myself to accept the ending (as much as I hated it). I heard the author’s other books are crazier so I’m going to read some happy books first and then try another dark, twisted tale.
Katie, normally an ending like this would make me mad… I hate endings that aren’t really endings… but in this case, the cat and mouse chase throughout the book.. somehow this was fitting. 🙂
I have another of her books around here somewhere, my friend gave it to me but I have so far yet to find it in my book masses….. perhaps, like you, it is good to take a break first 😀
In the beginning, I thought Nick was one of those one-dimensional kind of men who becomes whoever his partner wants him to be, and goes through the motions, doing his thing; and Amy, from her diaries, seemed like a victim. However, there was something about Amy from the first moments that didn’t feel genuine, so I was happy to find out she was gaming us with that diary. And by the end of the book, I was totally hating on her….and felt sorry for Nick.
I definitely wanted him to somehow escape from Amy (with the baby, of course), but I don’t see that happening. That ending left me feeling very sad and hopeless. Which is kind of appropriate for such an intense story.
I need to go back and reread and highlight some sections, as the language was absolutely brilliant.
I have heard that Sharp Objects is a good one, too.
I keep looking for Sharp Objects Laurel, my friend Heidi gave me that book a while back and I can not find where I put it…. GAH 😀
Gina Morse Beirne (@GinaBeirne)
Loved finding this spoiler thread and reading all of your thoughts about the book. No one that I know had read and enjoyed the book. The one person who has read it found it tedious. I found it to be “edge of my seat” suspense.
I’m going to echo everyone else’s feelings. Thought it was obvious in the first part that Nick was guilty as hell. Then I thought Nick’s ranting father (bitch bitch bitch) had done it. When I finally came to the Amy part, my head was SPINNING! I thought Desi was somewhat of a stalker and had some definite mommy issues which let him fall right into Amy’s trap. Boy, she had him wrapped around her finger. I wish when Nick had visited Desi that they had been able to clarify Desi’s “suicide attempt”–that would have been a game changer. I wish the two people that stole Amy’s money (can’t remember their names) came forward somehow–I was waiting for that. Mark of a good book? Thinking about it a week later! It’s the kind of book that leaves a knot in your stomach.
Gina I am so glad you found this page too… and wow, I cant believe no one you know liked it… I loved it… like you said, it kept you on the edge of your seat! 😀
I kind of wish there was more – like a second book… and Amy’s level of wackadoo hits an all time high when she is willing to have sex with Desi to make her evil plan work… oh wait! Maybe she didn’t peak then… she peaked when she saved some of Nick’s sperm to impregnate herself… holy cats…. what a nut job!
Sarah G
I just turned the last page and all I can say is “wow”, I think the word that I actually muttered out loud that woke the sleeping baby was “WHAT?!?!?” I echo everyone else’s comments here. During the final part I couldn’t believe Nick could sleep in the same house, let alone the same room as Amy. I kept asking myself, is there any way that I could stay in the same house with someone who knowingly confessed a murder to me and was twisted enough to plot my demise and possible execution as a means of revenge. I understood he was playing her game but still, there is no way that I could stay somewhere where I watching my back every second of every day. She obviously proved that she would go to any length to get exactly what she wanted.
I found myself wanting her to get caught, is it really plausible that she was perfect at covering her tracks? It seemed she had every base covered and then some (the long blond hairs in the trunk of Desi’s car? Come on who thinks that far ahead?). I didn’t see the pregnancy coming at all, based on her actions throughout the book I knew she would have a good backup plan to get Nick to stay but I keep thinking about that poor child, growing up in such a strained and twisted environment. I found myself asking what would Amy do to her own child if she perceived them hurting her in any way? Could you imagine the teen years?!? It shutters to make me think of it.
Typically I am not a fan of books that don’t have at least one likable character but I think that this book was so twisted that I couldn’t put it down. I felt almost pity for Go, to be Nick’s other half, but I can’t say that I liked her all that much, there was just something that rubbed me the wrong way. I finished the book wishing for further character development of the detectives, I really wanted Rhonda to find the missing link and almost prove herself as a detective who follows her gut, but maybe that was just me.
I am so glad I picked this one up Sheila! Thanks for the review that finally made me open the cover and start reading.
Sarah, glad to have your voice added to the discussion here! I agree… she was so unbelievably detailed it was believable. I think of some of the biggest sickest minds we have known in history… how careful they were – there minds are so sick – they do over think and get away with their crimes for way longer than one would imagine… look at all the unsolved crimes out there… look at the murders that to this day we say “we believe this person (ie. Bundy, Dahmer…) may have killed this person as well – but they never really know.
I am glad you picked it up too! I agree about no likable characters, I need someone to root for… I had no one, but the twists and turns kept me turning pages thinking something good has to come out of this… but no… I guess not. The child, may wind up as sick as the mother, if the child even has a chance of living since it is born as a pawn.
OMG I am so happy you have a spoiler section for this book! So like most I disliked Nick all the way through part one. I even tossed around the idea that he might have a split personality when he didn’t remember the credit charges. Then I got one paragraph into part 2 and felt like I had been sucker punched. Out of all the scenarios I had toyed with, Amy being behind the whole thing didn’t even cross my mind.
I spent part two systematically reeling at how conniving and deceptively cunning Amy was. I gotta say she played the part well enough that I still get chills when I think of how her character pulled it off.
By the end I almost felt sorry for Nick. I mean was he completely innocent? No way but I’m not sure I’d put him in the same league as Amy. She is a league of her own!
That happened to me too Zia, I thought Nick was the bad guy… in the end, he was the victim… even his affair (which I NEVER condone) I almost understand his need to feel loved, wanted… normal.
I love that you have a spoiler page! So smart. I have been casting this movie (in my head) since finding out they will make one. Remember Hitch with Will Smith? Amber Valetta was the rich girl set up with Kevin James. She would be perfect. I can’t find an age appropriate male tho to play Nick…
Oh yeah…. some one said Jude Law for Nick… is that too old? I dont know. I cant wait though…. what a great read 😀
I think Jude Law comes with too much cinema baggage, but that’s just me. And I didn’t realize Reese might be Amy – only that I heard she wanted to produce it, but again, haven’t checked.
I loved that the Missouri rednecks took all her money and she never quite saw that coming. ha! Also, I was annoyed that her doctor didn’t come forward that she was preggers in the initial investigation. We are talking a SMALL TOWN. and if it was that media circus, you would think they might call the detectives.
And I loved the Desi was whackadoo. I think he thought he knew just enough how to ‘hold’ Amy just in case. I mean he did set up a fortress for her. Another one of those “oops” on Amy’s part that I giggled when she thought she might not be able to control him like she initially thought.But yea, she was a force.
She and Nick deserve each other. Oh, but that poor child…
Whackadoo….lol… such a great word. 😀
Like everyone here, I was riveted by this book, but the end left me dissatisfied, because it essentially left Amy as the winner. I didn’t dislike all the characters — I actually was sort of rooting for Nick from the beginning, and it would have been fun to be more convinced he was guilty before dropping the Amy bombshell, but it was pretty clear there was another explanation all along. And because the author played so much with the unreliable narrator aspect, I was waiting for another stunning turnaround at the end — perhaps revealing the involvement and manipulation of Nick’s father or Go. Or even that Nick had manufactured everything — Amy’s second tale with Desi, etc. — to cast dispursion over her diary accounts of him in order to prove her crazy. (That would’ve been awesome! With all the mind tweaking going on in this book, the greatest mind tweak should’ve been directed toward the reader!)
Alternately, I would’ve liked Nick’s dad to have been instrumental in taking Amy down or for her to have a misscarriage (it was already pointed out that this could be hereditary, with her mother’s problems), so that all her elaborate plans against Nick were foiled. Or even a discovery that the ink in the fake diary entries wasn’t old enough to support seven years worth of entries. Anything so that she didn’t wind up on top!
I also thought Go was a rich character, and I was waiting for some big revelations about her — maybe that she and Nick did have some unholy involvement, or that she was overly attached to him and had her own psycho plan for keeping him to herself. As much as the author emphasized the uncanny connection and understanding between Amy and Nick, there is an underlying connection and understanding between the twins that seemed even greater, and I think that could’ve been used somehow in the resolution… In any case, I feel that Amy’s much-discussed “perfection” should’ve been undermined at the end, rather than enforced, as it was. Because as it stands, she does come out looking like the perfect schemer and the smarter thinker and the ultimate winner… Anyway, I agree that a sequel would be great — this time with Go and Bony as the narrators…
A sequel would make me happy too, I do appreciate that the author didnt write it all up to end easy or even necessarily the way I wanted it too… it left me cold and made me dislike Amy even more and I appreciate a book that shocks me… even if it didnt end the way I had hoped. 😀
ElaineMonkey
I enjoyed the book and all it’s twists. One thing bothered me – who is the father of Amy’s baby? Is it Desi? (also, wouldn’t he have noticed and questioned the rope burns on her ankles and wrists?) Or is Nick really the father? I feel like the only thing that Amy didn’t explain was how did she get the sperm from the sperm bank? It is very hard to get the sperm out. It’s a regulated legal situation. One partner cannot just “withdraw” without consent of the other. It was kind of weird that that step was just ignored, when every other step was so detailed and carefully planned.
I guess I believed it was Nick… but hmm…. you may be on to something. 😀 I know nothing about Sperm banks so I had no idea one person could not have access to it. Interesting. All that you mention here is yet another reason I think there should be another book 😀
PianoGirl
Finally!!! Someone is thinking like I did. I liked the book but I had a couple of issues…the sperm bank was one of those. The other issues were the two at the cabin. I felt that they were loose ends that did to fit the flow of the story. We all know that Greta knew who Ozark Amy was. More could have been added perhaps?? Just seemed dull there.
Also the story never really had closure regarding an alibi for Desi the day Amy went missing. Wouldn’t his mom fight that?? I felt like that detail got missed.
But obviously still a good read.
kristinshafel
Just finished! Read it in 3 days, sick on the couch. I could barely put it down. I love all the different thoughts from everyone here on the spoiler page! No one I know personally has read it (yet) either. I thought Nick was pretty genuine all the way through—just a jerk dude in a unsatisfying life situation. Not that I liked him or thought he was a good husband, I just did believe him that he could be so duped by Amy’s treasure hunt, that he could be so thoughtless and careless about details about her and their life, that he could be so self-centered. Just a dumb, jerky dude. But I guess I was sort of rooting for him since simply being a dumb, jerky dude doesn’t mean you deserve to be framed and convicted of murder and jailed.
I felt like something was weird about Amy from the very start, in Part 1 with her diary. It read like a freshman in college or something, no? Like someone way younger and more immature than a woman in her mid-30s. Sure, sure, she was sheltered her whole life by her parents. But come on. She lived and worked in NYC, she seemed grown-up enough to have more mature thoughts in her diary other than (paraphrasing here!) “omg you guys! I met the CUTEST boy. THE boy. omg.” That’s how it read to me. I was devilishly happy when Part 2 started and the real (“real”) Amy was revealed. Yeah!
I don’t think Desi deserved to be killed, but he WAS holding Amy captive… if she is telling the truth that he didn’t allow her outside the compound, monitored her diet, etc. etc. Totally creepy about the painted bedroom and tulip room. Would he have eventually tried to take Amy anyway, knowing she lived so close now? Was he just biding his time? The numerous letters to Amy over the years is suspicious in itself.
The poor, poor baby. I was not surprised in the least when Amy revealed a real pregnancy at the end. That’s what she does: she has no regard for human life—actual people with feelings, family—so it was no surprise she would use just another life in her game of superiority and control. The baby means nothing to her other than a way to mess with Nick. She does not comprehend this child growing and becoming his own, independent, adult human being. In a sequel, I would hope Nick would take the baby too and Amy would get some sort of punishment.
Small gripe: I hated the names Go and Boney. Liked the characters, though. I kept picturing Debra, Dexter’s sister, from the show “Dexter” (Jennifer Carpenter) as Go.
Great comments here! I think Desi (creeped me out a bit ya know?) was a dispensable character because without Amy he was nothing… it also showed a fine example of how she uses people.
Issue with judging Desi is that we mainly see him through the eyes of Amy – the eyes of a selfish psychopath obsessed with control – so we really don’t know how pathetic he was or how much he was trying to keep her captive. She’s a dismissive paranoid who thought everyone was doing her wrong, remember? (Not saying I like the guy, but just thought it was interesting how he was actually pretty forceful and superior when viewed through Nick’s eyes). Very interesting book.
Truly a great point… see how manipulating Amy is? LOL
That’s hilarious, I also hate the name Go, and she reminded me of Dexter’s sister.
I just finished the book. Loved the book – HATED and am very disappointed by the ending. My IPad showed 25 pages left so I started reading the Acknowledgements page, thinking it was part of Amy’s book. I am so disappointed that that was the ending!!!!!
Normally that ending would have disappointed me but the whole thing was so up and down and all over… it worked 😀
Zinny
I loved the book. The ending for me was shocking. This is how I interpreted it. Remember, Amy was prepared to kill herself at one point in the book. At the end, when Nick said to her, “Because every morning you have to wake up and be you”, that brought her finally to her knees. I can’t think of anything more devastating than someone saying that. When Amy says she has the last word, I took that to mean she would either kill herself AND the baby, or finally kill Nick. That took my breath away!!!!
When Amy said at the end that she was sorry that he said that (about having to wake up as her every day), I clearly felt that she immediately began to plan how to kill Nick and get away with it. Nick is never going to have another restful moment in his life, will always be waiting for her next psychotic move in her obsessive cat and mouse game. She’s crazy, and he has no protection from her. Perfect ending! Remember that this book is a psychological thriller, not just a mystery. The reader should feel unsettled at the end.
Yes!!!!! I agree she liked him herself and the baby!!!!
I am listening to it in my car this very second… The moment nick finds his father at the police station… I knew he took her. I googled “girl gone gillian flynn father took wife” and this came up! I am always that person, but I am super excited to hear how this progresses.
LOL – ooh you read this before you were done – I hope you didnt read all the spoiler… it really is worth the wait 😀
Kathy Fagan
That was the best book I think I have EVER read…I literally could not put it down…love the demented characters lol…I finished almost a week ago and really miss it and the characters…obviously, since I just googled it and that’s how I came to this site…Interesting, I love hearing what everyone thought…I have passed to a friend, she’s really bugging me because she’s not done yet!!! Has anyone read her other books? Are they as good?? Thanks 🙂
It was so amazing. I have a couple of her other books I hope to read soon, but no haven’t tried any yet but I have a friend who says they are fantastic.
Marilyn Cole Erickson
I loved the book, until Amy was forced to call on Desi for help. From that point on, the story was just too “over the top” for me. He was way too ridiculous, creepy and psycho. (Yes, the Tulip Room was so silly that I actually wanted to laugh.) I didn’t want Amy to become an actual murderer. It would have been better of she had figured out a way to escape from Desi, and then accuse him of kidnapping her.
Here’s the ending I was hoping for . . . the two characters from the motel who took her money, would later recognize her from all the press coverage, and come forward and blow her story to pieces.
I hated that she was going to have a baby. It made my flesh crawl. Also, I don’t believe for a moment that the cops would have dropped the case. Too many strange coincidences and weird happenings.
I can’t say I loved the book. I do agree the reaching out to Desi put it over the top and it just got silly in a creepy way. I love well crafted mysteries. This book was more contrived than crafted.
Remember that Desi is mainly viewed through Amy’s eyes – and she is an unreliable narrator. (In the Nick chapters when Nick met him at his house I think Desi made Nick seem the crazier of the two, and when Nick read Desi’s letter (that Amy had thrown away) it was just banal chitchat.) It’s Amy’s point of view that Desi is a crazy control freak who’s obsessed with her, but it’s she who is a crazy control freak who is obsessed with herself.
I just finished listening to the audio book Gone Girl and am disappointed in the ending. One friend began reading the book at the same time I started listening. We texted back and forth as she had a hard time getting into it while I loved it from the start. Her final text was, “Just finished…WOW!” Well, this comment fueled my expectation for an amazing ending given all the twists and turns in the narrative. I am an English major and not only understand but respect the fact that a book’s ending shouldn’t be tied up in a neat little bow; however, the author spent so much time developing Amy’s relationships with Jeff and Greta (I think these were their names. I was listening) that I expected they might return. I also hoped that the inquisitive man at the casino would see the tv coverage of Desi’s murder and come forward to wreck Amy’s story. Maybe these characters were all meant to be red herrings, but perhaps Flynn could have provided an unexpected yet unforeseen ending by having Amy die crossing the street in some random hit and run accident or have Nick watch her choke to death on a piece of food since choking her was his daydream. I also thought a murder/suicide ending would have worked. I just couldn’t decide which character would initiate the plan. Amy was humming the theme from Mash in the kitchen on the morning of her anniversary. The lyrics say that suicide is painless; it brings on many changes, and suicide was Amy’s original plan.
I enjoyed the book but wish the ending gave a few more clues to help the reader have some sort of closure. Regardless, happily ever after is NOT an option for Nick and Amy.
Great comment… I like to hope (hope!) that another book would come and help with all the things you brought up here… while I was satisfied with the ending… I can see it going many different ways… 🙂
Sonya Blair
I loved the book but feel that there should be a sequel (and probably will be) based on the fact that someone like Amy would never, EVER, allow those 2 from the cabin to screw her over and take her money and get by with it. She would see to it they get what’s coming to them. Also she talks about how she has all her bases covered by saying she was held for a time at the lake, but how about the cabin’s proprieter. Dorothy was it? She spokes with Amy many times. I would like to see her be Amy’s undoing in a sequel.
I think Nick is a great character. I mean doesn’t he actually say this is his time to not be like his father and be the best dad he can to a child. Teach his soon to be son what kind of man to actually be. By doing that, he is making a huge sacrifice by staying with Amy since he knows he can’t trip her up right now, but who knows what a hopeful sequel could turn up.
No one mentioned the creepy feeling that I had seeing Nick’s future in his father’s behavior. I clearly see Nick deterioating into the ranting crazy his father became, after living with Amy for decades and raising his son.
The ending makes this story wide open for a sequel. I would be shocked if there isn’t one, not to mention disappointed. Amy is due the next day. Nick and Go can still save the baby from her. The plot continues with…..Amy writes her book Amazing. Jeff and Greta (the thieves) black mail her for money to keep her secret and not ruin her chances of a best seller. Amy once again, has to come up with some brilliant plan to get rid of these pests. There are other possible people who could identify her from her time on the lamb, and Amy becomes paranoid that these poeple will “out” her. (the cabin rental clerk for example) …Detective Boney won’t give up. She convinces authorities to execute a search warrant at Desi’s house. Desi was so obsessed with Amy, he had a hidden camera system in the house. Amy slipped up, and Boney finds video of every second she spent in that house. In the end, Amy’s guilt is proven, but she still insists she’s the victim here. She could be filmed sitting in her jail cell, kind of like Norman Bates, repeating “I wouldn’t hurt a fly”. “I am the Amazing Amy”.
JackieM
I really thought that Amy would meet her end when the trunk of Desi’s car was searched. They found long blonde hairs, intimating that her body had in fact been locked there. But the problem for Amy is that the hair she kept and placed in the trunk had been cut with scissors….a simple microscopic inspection would have shown that they had been planted, not lost by natural means with root intact. Is this a possible oversight? What am I missing?
I was away for the weekend with friends who were insistent I finish the book so we could talk about the ending! I agree with so many of the comments here. But the one line at the end that keeps nagging at me is Nick saying to Amy that he feels sorry for her. I think that was a very deliberate comment that he knew would get under her skin because Amy doesn’t seem like the kind of person who wants anyone’s pity. It struck me that Nick was setting up a situation where he could be trying to beat Amy at her own game and destroy her. I have thought about alternative endings – Amy is too self centered to commit suicide, and at this point she couldn’t kill Nick because she would definitely be found out, and she is too smart to allow that. Nick could kill her, but then in a sick way Amy would win. Nick could never leave, we can only imagine what Amy would do (or better yet, Gillian Flynn would imagine it for us). But Nick thinks he knows Amy so well at this point that he can play at her own game – or as the the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer! I loved the twists in this book – (who didn’t go back and read the diary entries after you realized they were fake?) and I hope the author has a sequel in her!
Giddy Newman
I enjoyed the book until the entirely until the end. There was no closure whatsover , assuming the author has a sequel I am willing to consider only with finite conclusion.
It seems as though part 2 was the intention all along seeming shallow and disappointing.
I enjoyed the book but I have the following questions or confusion:
1. Amy told the detectives that Desi abducted her on her anniversary. Her story was that she fought him, he cut her arm with a pocket knife in the kitchen. She passed out in the kitchen and came to in the family room, hog tied,while he was mopping the blood off the kitchen floor. Was there blood on the family room carpet too? Did she really say she woke up hog tied yet ran back into the kitchen to fight him? The detectives should have picked up on the blood and running while tied up. Perhaps I misread it.
2. She told detectives that she was tied to the bed daily at Desi’s home, which was a lie. She said he dropped the knife on the floor and she used it to cut the ropes and to get free. Question: how did she get the knife off the floor and how did she cut her ropes, if she was tied up? Did she explain this detail to the detectives? Again, perhaps I missed this obvious detail.
3. Wouldn’t an autopsy on Desi show he had THREE sleeping pills in him? While she says he took them, I would think the amount would raise suspicion.
4. How did she get Nicks sperm from the fertility clinic? Was this explained to the reader?
I enjoyed the book and it seems that the author had Amy think if every detail. But I am wondering if anyone else picked up on the details I mentioned above.
(I just realized that she said the knife was left on the BED, not the floor. That would make more sense. That’s the answer to one if my questions above). I still need help with the rest. Thanks.
Agree w your questions. As to #4 though – Nick left the slip of paper about how the fertility clinic would destroy his sperm on the table as a passive aggressive not to Amy to follow up on the fertility treatments but she didn’t say anything so he thought it was all over. In reality she had followed up but hadn’t told him (telling them not to destroy the sperm). The entire thing (she always says she doesn’t want kids, but then she suddenly and abruptly wants fertility treatments but then suddenly and abruptly refuses to do anything once Nick donated his sperm) suggests that she had planned years ago to have his sperm available to inseminate herself if need be. Pretty conniving.
“passive aggressive note” i meant to say – in his chapters he talked about he wanted kids and hoped Amy would follow up on the treatments (pills etc) but she wouldn’t talk about it.
Erika Klein
Just finished reading this book for book club this friday, which I am unfortunately going to miss. I felt frustrated by the ending, (as I am sure we all were), I wanted to see Amy punished. She is such an evil character, that it is hard to imagine that she will get away with it “all”. But alas she does. That is frustrating, but on the other hand, gives the readers much more food for thought. Someone earlier mentioned her disregard for life, and using another human to continue her control, fits with her character completely.
There was a point in the novel where I actually suspected Amy’s father! Desi says to Nick something about “was her father there”. Before the second half, I was trying to imagine that Desi had knowledge that Amy’s supposed perfect father, was really evil. Of course we find out later, that she has lied to Desi, about being raped by her father. I thought the portrayal of the Nick and Amy’s parents was very well done. All inflicting their own brand of damage on their kids. And I think ultimately that is why Nick stays with Amy, to undo in his mind the damage his father caused, and help raise a “healthy” child. Good luck NICK!!!
Bummer you missed book club – I bet this was a pretty great discussion book.
james rocker
Alright. I gotta post this somewhere. Am I the only one who thinks this? The cops should have known something was awry WAY sooner. And here is why. When Nick and the cop went to his professor office and found the 2nd clue, they found the box and the wrong sized panties at the same time. Now, if amy had indeed used the spare key to access the office and leave the clue, she would have seen the panties, and flipped and not left a loving clue. The girlfriend couldn’t have left the panties after the clue had been placed because she didn’t have access. A little game theory there would show that amy couldn’t have, wouldn’t have, left a clue like that if she was in a sane marriage. Anyone else thinking the same thing?
Already my memory is fading on this book 😀 I thought Amy planted the panties…. I could be forgetting…
Right, and the cops should have asked themselves, if Amy put the panties there as part of her clue or playtime with Nick, then why would she put panties there that were not her size? Or maybe they did realize something was off, because they kept asking about Amy’s size 2. Never really explained, but that could be why the cop was never convinced it was Nick.
i agree w you James. Also doesn’t make sense that Amy would leave the present in the shed with all of Nick’s stuff, including the yucky porn. Also I think that Desi’s mom should have been able to prove an alibi for Desi for part of the time that Amy was missing.
If Amy is that “I will Get back to you Hard” kind, Why didn’t she do anything to jeff and greta? I understand she doesn’t want to be caught, but still…. “Amazing” Amy would have made sure she took her revenge good…
That why I think there could be (should be) more…. *fingers crossed*
I agree – that’s when it went off the rails for me; no way would she have let herself be robbed like that, being such an evil genius! I would have expected her to keep the money hidden or in a few different money-belts – especially after Greta saw she had one and started setting off alarm bells. That part felt unresolved – maybe in the sequel…
Sequel! Sequel! Come on everyone – chant with me 😉
sandiroggow
Doesn’t it seem that maybe this book was written as two books, with the abrupt ending being the only way to stop without closure, and a “sequel” (that is actually the second half of a book we have yet to see) would come out that picks back up with lots of new twists and turns.
That is my hope. 🙂
Paige Jennings Phillips
I hated the ending of this book. The only resolution that I got from it, is that both characters are miserable and deserve each other (although I do think that Nick got the worst of it)!
I agree Nick, Nick wasny awesome, but then knowing Amy I could kind of see why….
I question why the writer had Nick say that at the end. He was so willing to please her and then he says that? Knowing there would be consequences he didn’t want to suffer. Seems like the writer needed to end this story quick.
wait so did Nick’s dad take Amy or was it desi??? explain.
OOH you have to read the book. The answer is neither. This is a spoiler page for those who have read the book 🙂
I actually liked the ending, at least I saw it appropriate. The themes in the book of love and power, what drives people to act in crazy ways that dont make sense, the forces that move them to make the decisions they do- a child represents this perfectly. Im not sure if a sequel would work, and the author has Amy have the “last word” which seems so final. I do think the actual ending, meaning Amy’s last words in the book should have been one last final quiz:
It is the eve of the birth of your first child. In anticipation of the big day you feel:
a) Anxious: what if something goes wrong during delivery?, is it going to hurt?, what if I can’t be a good mom?
b) Happy and calm: you are prepared and confident, ready to greet your precious child and finally feel completed in the role you were born to play
c) Triumphant: you have finally won, playing the biggest pawn in the game, and gaining ultimate power.
Answer: c), totally c)
I just finished the book (our December book club selection). I thought it was great. Each new chapter was unexpected, intricate, thoroughly enjoyable.
Amy, I love the quiz – totally appropriate! I have Sharp Objects on my bedside table and I’ll probably read that over the Thanksgiving weekend – if I can wait that long!
I like your thoughts with the quiz!
Brilliant!!! Love the quiz ending idea!
Oh and to the comment about the guy in the casino, I totally thought that too.
But I also thought during Part One that Go was an alter ego of Nick, that she was a twin who died as a chid and didnt really exist. Then, when it was obvious that she did, I was convinced that Go would turn the tables on both Nick and Amy at the end and prove to be the real evil and conniving one (I thought thats who his Dad was looking for when he came in on his final rant towards the end)
So I guess I thought there would be even MORE twists, but Im just crazy like that.
I loved the book and I am so looking forward to the movie. I see Rachel McAdams as a great Amy (with runner up to be Charlize Theron who I loved in her role in Young Adult). For Nick I see someone that looks like Ian Sommerholder, but I think we need a more established actor for the role. i’d like to see what Ryan Gosling could do with the role.
I thought Reece Witherspoon was going to be Amy… now I have to go look for updates 🙂
Ryan would be awesome but not with Rachel McAdams because weren’t they in something together already? I would love to see someone new…
Am I the only one who immediately thought the ending was very intentional and well thought out? It seemed (to me at least) that the conclusion was supposed to leave the reader with the impression that the entire book, Gone Girl, was written by Nick. (Forget that “manuscript” with which he allegedly parted.) Seeing it from this vantage point, that would be a real “gotcha”: Nick finally winning at Amy’s mind games by using a page out of her own book (literally). Her diary ended with the incriminating line about her worrying that Nick was going to kill her. Similarly, Gone Girl ends with the incriminating lines that point to Amy getting upset about something Nick said and wanting the last word (reminiscent to Amy getting upset about the minuscule details with her ex-friend, before framing her for going crazy)… Perhaps the author wants it to look like Nick wrote this book and is planning on using it to frame Amy when something eventually happens to him. Or maybe it’s just late and I’m over-thinking this. 🙂 Does anyone agree/disagree?
OOH – I had not thought of it that way…. now maybe I am tired…LOL 😀
Sort of hard to know what to believe at that point, isn’t it?
Tanya D.
I just finished this book yesterday….WOW! I really enjoyed it. I thought it was so well written with so many layers of details. I really like how not only did Amy fool Nick, but she fooled the reader. As the reader I felt foolish. I disliked Nick in the first half. I knew Amy’s disappearance was her doing, but I only thought it was her leaving him because of how terrible their marriage had gotten, or maybe she had killed herself and her treasure hunt and clues were like a long suicide note….boy was I wrong there.
I did like the ending. This was clearly unhealhty, abusive relationship on both parts and that’s how those types of relationships are. I think in the end they were stuck with each other. I also thought it was interesting how throughout the whole book you keep reading about how “perfect” Amy’s parent’s marriage was….but I get the feeling that Amy and Nick just turned into Amy’s parents. Maybe they didn’t have such a perfect marriage, they were just always pretending, like Nick and Amy ended up, and now they were going to have their kid. Amy’s craziness had to come from somewhere. That’s my take on that. As far as her having the last word, I didn’t take that as her insinuating she was going to kill herself as I have heard some people say. Throughout the book Nick and Amy are both telling the reader their stories, it’s not just us reading a diary and hearing Nick tell his story to the police, it’s them talking to us, and she wanted to have the last word. That’s what I think. Now I have to re-read it from a new perspective. It’s like watching the 6th sense, after it was over, you wanted to watch it again to see all the details you missed.
I cant wait for it to be a movie!!! 😀
emmalikestoread
Is there a movie planned? Would be interesting.
dianneinfrance
I assumed that Amy having the ‘last word’ meant that she would kill herself and so let the baby die inside her dead body because of Nick saying he felt sorry for her etc. I have been telling people who have only seen the film that that is how the book ends!! I have recently met with blank stares from people who read the book so I started to look into it and this is the only comment I have found that thought the same thing!!
Nadeya
I don’t understand why nobody has mentioned that in the first part of book Nick has flashbacks of Amy crawling on floor with bloodied head. In one vision she is calling his name with her head bashed in. No further reference is made to these flashbacks.
I don’t thinkit actually said it was a flashback, I think he was just picturing her like that. I thought it was just thrown in there to make you think he might have had something to do with her disappearance.
I think you are right Tanya. Its been a while since I read this now, but I believe that is what I thought at the time too.
YES!!! I just posted about that earlier because it has been driving me crazy as well. I thought for sure we were going to see him crack her in the head and finish that scene for us. I think he mentioned it twice- how could that not play into the story later on???
I couldn’t read through all the comments, but I did want to put in my two cents! By the end of the book, I was underwhelmed. The book was so fantastical, the set up so crazy, the events leading up to the end so unbelievable, that I was expecting an ending that matched the rest of the book. But you know what? People use kids as pawns every day all around the world. Ho hum. I wanted to see Nick fake his death or kill Amy and get away with it or SOMETHING, anything other than the way it ended. Using a child to manipulate a spouse is so plebian and beneath Amy, ESPECIALLY once she went back to Nick. It would have had more of an impact on me if it had happened before she faked her death, but once she came back and got pregnant, I was like *yawn*. I guess I felt the ending was banal compared to the rest of the book.
The ending certainly annoyed me and yes, there was a whole new level of crazy going on here… but I did really enjoy it, sick and twisted…. all of it…. 😆
I was surprised, but Nick didn’t really bother me that much. Ok, he was lazy, cynical, and had an affair, but still. Amy on the other hand was a conniving witch – shallow, annoying, needy and I couldn’t stand her. I was also underwhelmed by the book as a whole. I had heard so much about it on twitter, but thought it would be more thrillerish and scary. I guess it’s more of a psychological thriller and I did find myself trying to second guess what would happen next. I also didn’t like the ending – I really wanted to see Amy pay for what she had done, but also couldn’t believe that Nick could be so weak as to take her back. I have chosen this for my December book club read so it will be interesting to hear what the girls think on Wednesday night!
I would love it if you would stop back and let me know what your book club thought!
I thought Amy’s diary was not a true representation of the feminist we were first introduced to. I was happy the author took me on this journey (though I had my doubts about Amy’s authentic voice in her diary) I didn’t think she was a psychopath until we found out she was alive. What a pleasant surprise. (Kind of)
The over indulgent parents (Rand, Marybeth, Jacqueline, even Maureen-though at least she isnt as self serving as the others) and abusive parent (Nick’s dad, do we even know his name?) were all disturbing. That Nick and Amy will be parents is sickening. I don’t want to imagine the new level of abuse Amy will inflict on her son, can Nick protect him? Not unless he can out-clever Amy and get her out of the picture some how.
I am going from memory here Hillary (its been a while ow since I read this) but isn’t the diary a “fake Amy”? Didn’t she write that as a decoy so people would think :oh poor Amy! If I remember that right then the diary would not represent the true her. 🙂
I know, right….even I turned d pages hoping there was more…I was like “huh??”….wherez my ultimate showdown….but then I realize this wasn’t about The start, The journey and The end…this was really about The journey…
As I was reading the diary entries I thought ” the author dropped the ball here” I was pleasantly surprised that it was the author’s intent to mislead us and make us question the authenticity of the diary.
janiemary
I thought the book was really good until the whole episode with Jeff and Greta! I thought that a person like Amy would never open herself up to such a situation! Going fishing with Jeff because she thought she would need more money?? I’m sorry… Amy just would not have done that! I know Amy losing all her money was necessary to the plot… to force her to get in contact with Desi but I think the book became very contrived after this.
I kept thinking too, why do the police not check to see if Desi had an alibi for the day that Amy went missing! Seems that would have been something Amy would not have been able to control or set up… Did Amy just “know” that he would be home with only his mother as an alibi? Did I miss that somewhere earlier in the story? Unless, Desi had been her back up plan all along and Amy had engineered a way to have Desi be completely out of touch for that whole day just in case she needed it to be so! But, to me,that is really stretching things!
After Amy came back to Nick, I found myself just wanting the book to be over but then when it came to the the very unsatisfactory ending I laughed and actually said out loud… “Really?” I for one could care less if there is a sequel and I doubt I will see the movie when it comes out. I feel like I have already spent way too much time with this twisted mess!
This is a wonderful discussion
I thought the book was riveting, start to finish, and the ending was perfect. Anything more tied together after Amy’s last entry would have made the intertwined madness a little trite. .
There was no doubt in my mind after the abrupt ending, given Amy’s character, that she would ultimately, and did, murder Nick. A murder so perfect that there was nothing more to be said than by what might be reportage from other’s–not the narrators. If the subsequent dispatching of Nick was done with Amy’s amazing skill, as I suspect, she did have the last word. Truly.
I don’t know if anyone else has stated this already but I think there is a lot in the penultimate paragraph where Amy says she can’t stop thinking about what Nick said. She can’t. This makes me think that after the baby comes she tragically attempts to preserve her nearly “perfect nuclear family” for all eternity by double-murder suicide. Then all three of them are together forever! Sick, I know, but Amy trained me to stretch the limits of my ago nation this way! I kept thinking that maybe Andie created both diaries (Nick’s and Amy’s) as a cover to make them both miserable and kill them both. But that doesn’t explain Desi. I less Andie got to him too. WHO KNOWS? It was crazy and good.
Oops. That should say “imagination” and “Unless Andie got to him too”. Where is my spell checker?
This book obviously sounds like a FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION novel. None of this could happen in REALITY.
However, I’m actually happy to see that Amy survived and this isn’t the typical STORY where the wife dies and is the victim (as I was thinking at first). I don’t like the fact she was scheming all of this all along, it was terrible for the most part, but she is a powerful BOOK/FANTASY character and not a weak one (and survived to tell the tale, not a killed off character like I’ve seen have happen often with these type of strong characters). This is at least one good aspect of the BOOK/FANTASY.
Dametrius Salder
ok im not a book kind of dude. but i got a free book from audible and i loved it. I could not stop listening to it. I loved Amy and did not like Nick. I did not care too much for the ending
I think the baby, to Amy was nothing more than an insurance policy to ensure that Nick would forever be indentured and subservient to her, knowing how important it was to him to have a son.It was kind of like a reverse Rosemary’s Baby, the mother was the devil instead of the father.
I think Nick’s reply to her that he felt sorry for her waking up every morning being herself was kind of a veiled threat in case anything “happened” to the boy.
That meant that they were both holding each other hostage and neither of them had a hope of the storybook ending that was presented so enticingly in the beginning of the book.
The ultimate “Be careful what you wish for” scenario
shep2805
I was in love with this story until the plot threads began to unravel. There were just too many coincidences to accept. To many neatly-wrapped-up events. Too…too…too much. It’s a beautifully written story by an excellent writer, but in the end too many things popped up (how, Nick asked, if she’d been tied up, would she be able to get the knife)? How would Desi not have noticed it as it fell off the plate? Why wouldn’t they do a tox screen on Desi and see more than normal levels of sleeping pills? These bothered me, and there were many more things. While she wrote richly-layered characters, the plot fell apart for me. Boney, who was in Nick’s corner–kind of–let everything go, even when she knew Amy was guilty. I just don’t get building something up to nearly-epic proportions, and then saying ‘it’s all good’. And Nick…would he really challenge Amy at the very end? I dunno…I loved it until the very end, and then I wished I’d gone on a jog this morning instead of finishing the book. Harsh assessment, but it didn’t work for me. On the flip side, I wish I could fully develop characters like Gillian Flynn does…very impressive. They come alive on the page.
We are into 2013!
My take is that the entire novel is a satire on our society and its values. Nick and Amy and the people around them are portrayed in an extreme way that displays how disfunctional much of our doings are.
The town has an economic collapse because its megamall shuts down. So this is almost a second derivative collapse. The town never did anything particularly functional beyond retail sales, and now even that is gone. They live in an almost empty development where most of the homes were never owned, and the few that were have mostly been reposesed. The populous has nothing better to do than follow around celebrities, or make faux celibrities out of dead wives with evil husbands.
Throughout the novel there are references to people only knowing how to act because they have seen the scene on T.V.
Our ending involves a faux celebrity (celbrity through loose attachment to a fictional character) who is a not fake dead wife, who is only interested in maximizing her own enjoyment of life. This “evil” woman is now married to the perfect everyman who pays no real attention to the details that go on around him so long as he can be layed back and relax through life. His primary goal is to be liked by everyone, and sets up a “Cheers!” -like bar in which to inhabit.
Amy and Nick’s new marriage is the marriage in hell that is our society. The authoress spends much of her time taking broad shots at various parts of society, but does it in a way that makes you think she is not talking about you, she is talking about those “other people”. It is hillarious. The ending is perfect.
sharbono
Disciplined Amy and Vengeful Amy would NEVER have succumbed to the grifters at the mountain cabins. Desperation is not a character trait of Amy’s; not the way Ms. Flynn wrote and developed her. First, she would never have had all her money in one place; she’s too smart for that. Second, she would never have gone “fishing” with Jeff. Third, she would have spent her time in her car with her quarter-tank of gas figuring out how to get her revenge and how to get her money back. The whole story started crumbling for me during this chapter. Disappointed. Amy’s parents get off WAY too easy in this whole scenario. Nick is right: they DID create this monster. Desi didn’t have to die; Desi’s mom would NOT have simply disappeared & gone away quietly; she doted on her son and had the resources to hunt Amy down and prove what she did. Instead, this thread is dropped entirely. No doting, wealthy mom would allow themselves to be dismissed like that when they’ve got the resources for an army of private investigators, etc. I’ll admit the character development is complex, but the “daddy” card is too shallow, especially given Nick’s own parental experiences. Gone Girl is not sequel-worthy to me; I was genuinely surprised at how frequently this encouragement is presented to the author in this thread of comments. I wouldn’t read it and I’m bummed that we wasted a monthly book club selection on this title. Oh well.
Carolanne
I was just getting into the story when one of the characters cursed and said Jesus f—ing Christ. Broke one of the commandments. I put the book down and won’t read the author again. Many other curse words could have been used. Shame on an author who resorts to this.
That is often a deal breaker for me too, I must have skipped over it as I do not remember that. Yes, truly something that does not need to be in ANY book.
Stellajean
I was extremely disappointed with the ending, I wanted the crazy AMY to get caught, to put all the other people that she put through hell in her past to rest! But I am very curious, as I have tried to see if anyone else has caught onto this part of the novel, Able Andy her husband, and Andie the girl Nick cheats on Amy with. Do you think the name correlations have anything to do with each other a play that Gillian may have done to mess with our minds. I feel as if there is something to this meaning
OOh nice catch… I hadnt thought of that!
The diary entry dated 17 August confused me. I just don’t see why Amy bothered to write it, what purpose it serves in incriminating Nick, or just what the point of it was really. Any thoughts?
I HATED the way the book ended. Very anticlimactic, but it does shows the injustice in this world we live in.
One thing I found fairly odd was in the beginning of the book, the divorced drunk of a neighbor who called to tell Nick about the door being opened and the cat. Why was he never brought up again? I felt like he could have played a role to catch Amy in her wicked ways.
I hated the ending as well I really wanted Amy to get caught. Ow ever does anyone else think that maybe she kiwis Nick? Retread the last paragraph she says she really wish he hadn’t said that but she always has to have the last word. Sounds to me like she soun another web.
Sorry I should have spell checked. I meant to say however does anyone else think she might have killed Nick? Retread the last paragraph she said I wish he hadn’t said that but she always gets the last word. Sounds to me like she spun another web.
I think Amy makes a real psychopath look good. I did not think Desi needed to be murdered, but it did allow for the weaving of another totally different lie to be set up as the book ended. Wicked, wicked, wicked.
And the lies. Amy is a pathological liar. By the end of the book, who knows what is real and what is not.
Amy wins on top. Nick loses and is used. The title is more than just about her disappearance. What a Gone Girl.
Jo Ella
I really enjoyed this book. It kept me interested the entire way through. I was unsatisfied with the ending though. It may be because I was unsure of the meaning. I would love to hear the authors explaination. I understood what he meant. He was playing along, but he was only “acting the part”. I am afraid Amy was plotting to kill him or did kill him. I am not sure what the “last word” was. I hated Amy by the end. In the beginning, I was so sorry for her. She knew about his infidelity, she witnessed it. Then as she exposed herself to us, I hated her.
You make me want to read this one again…. 😀
I loved the book and dug the ending, even if it left me wanting more. But I feel like I missed something. Janet Maslin writes, in the NY Times:
“And Nick has a secret life that did not involve Amy. On the morning she vanished, he was off doing something that he is deeply ashamed of, and it is not revealed until late in the novel. Ms. Flynn’s idea for Nick’s biggest secret will be, for some readers, the most startling detail in a book that is full of terrific little touches.”
The review mentions Andie several paragraphs earlier so that can’t be the big secret, can it? What else did Nick do on The Day Of?
Shelley Lawrence
oooh, so glad I found your page. I started Gone Girl Sunday evening and finished it today! (I do have a job and 2.5 year old, so it was quite a feat, poor hubby will get some attention tonight after my face has looked like a permanent book cover for 48 hours) 🙂 but I just couldn’t put it down! Anyway… none of my friends have read this yet so I’m so glad I can vent about the ending somewhere!! Like most, I had several theories throughout. 1. It HAD to be Nick, the cheating scumbag who kept mentioning at the start how many lies he had told the cops, but not saying what they all were! Plus, the flashbacks he kept having of Amy on the kitchen floor calling his name! Then my thoughts went to his Dad, like many have said, missing on the evening of her disappearance, this one stayed with me until the end and I thought that maybe if she did return his dad would finish her off. Then, something Desi said when Nick went to see him at the start, something about Amy’s father, was he involved!? That then stuck in my head the whole way through. But ultimately it was Nick’s reference to his father not ‘technically’ hitting his mum which he thought allowed his dad to think that he wasn’t ‘technically’ abusing her – this made me think that the end would see us discover that Nick did do all those things to Amy but ‘blocked’ them out, lying to himself to the point where he believed he was innocent. Not for one second did I think they would stay together. This ending really disappointed me! He hated her, he just would not have been able to to stay! Even as a read the last word I thought I would turn the page to find out that (like her mother) Amy had unfortunately had a still born baby and with that Nick fled, selling his story which he had forwarded to another source (his lawyer) for safekeeping. But nope! One major part where the book lost me for a second was when she went fishing with the guy from the cabins!? Amy, rich girl Amy, whichever character she was wearing that day, wouldn’t have done that – plus she was too smart to leave her money like that!? One last little niggle (I’ve literally finished this a few hours ago so it is on my mind) we didn’t get to find out how much of Amy’s ‘diary’ was true or false. I’m left wondering what her true relationship was like with Mumma Mo? Nick’s mum sounded like a switched on lady, and mums are very intuitive when it comes to their boys – did she not get any bad vibes from Amy? The diaries have us believe that they grew close, with Amy doing a lot for her in Nick’s absence during her treatment, but we never get to find out if that is true or not!? Sorry, I’ve blabbed on. All in all I loved this book, such a page turner, so very very clever, but the end has left me a little underwhelmed!
Sorry – this was a comment not a reply 😦
I think the “touching” secret is that he was reading his old magazines. He knew it was nostalgic and silly, so that is why he hid it. Earlier, I thought he went off to meet with Andie the morning of.
Thro
HI, I still don’t know what Nick’s secret was, perhaps providing a sperm sample?
Loved the book but must have rushed through towards the end because I have missed something…what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
Question about Desi’s alibi. I went back and read the part where Nick was complaining to detectives about Desi and one of them cut him off and said Desi is not a suspect. To me, this means that he has a firm alibi and that would also mean that he could not have abducted Amy so… huge hole right there in her story.
Carole Norman
I really thought the author was setting up Nick’s father to have a more meaningful role in the book. I thought the twist would be that eventually the old and very bitter man (and with all the hints that Amy reminded him of someone) would come to the house and just lose it with Amy and kill her. It certainly seemed he was being primed for a more important role with various hints scattered – didn’t happen. To be honest disappointed in the ending.
Janecriley
I did not like the ending either. I also wanted Nick’s dad to do Amy in. Maybe when she was again plotting a fake poison ing plan by Nick. When Amy would be weak and unable to fight off poor dad. I would love to see a sequel with Jeff and Gretta making a return appearance. Amy had told so many lies that Jeff and Greta with little moral conscience of their own could deny the theft. And Desi’s mom. Very shrewd. She could come back with some evidence. I ffid not have the highest opinion of Nick. But he was human! Unlike Amy. She was diabolical.
oooh, so glad I found your page. I started Gone Girl Sunday evening and finished it today! (I do have a job and 2.5 year old, so it was quite a feat, poor hubby will get some attention tonight after my face has looked like a permanent book cover for 48 hours) but I just couldn’t put it down! Anyway… none of my friends have read this yet so I’m so glad I can vent about the ending somewhere!! Like most, I had several theories throughout. 1. It HAD to be Nick, the cheating scumbag who kept mentioning at the start how many lies he had told the cops, but not saying what they all were! Plus, the flashbacks he kept having of Amy on the kitchen floor calling his name! Then my thoughts went to his Dad, like many have said, missing on the evening of her disappearance, this one stayed with me until the end and I thought that maybe if she did return his dad would finish her off. Then, something Desi said when Nick went to see him at the start, something about Amy’s father, was he involved!? That then stuck in my head the whole way through. But ultimately it was Nick’s reference to his father not ‘technically’ hitting his mum which he thought allowed his dad to think that he wasn’t ‘technically’ abusing her – this made me think that the end would see us discover that Nick did do all those things to Amy but ‘blocked’ them out, lying to himself to the point where he believed he was innocent. Not for one second did I think they would stay together. This ending really disappointed me! He hated her, he just would not have been able to to stay! Even as a read the last word I thought I would turn the page to find out that (like her mother) Amy had unfortunately had a still born baby and with that Nick fled, selling his story which he had forwarded to another source (his lawyer) for safekeeping. But nope! One major part where the book lost me for a second was when she went fishing with the guy from the cabins!? Amy, rich girl Amy, whichever character she was wearing that day, wouldn’t have done that – plus she was too smart to leave her money like that!? One last little niggle (I’ve literally finished this a few hours ago so it is on my mind) we didn’t get to find out how much of Amy’s ‘diary’ was true or false. I’m left wondering what her true relationship was like with Mumma Mo? Nick’s mum sounded like a switched on lady, and mums are very intuitive when it comes to their boys – did she not get any bad vibes from Amy? The diaries have us believe that they grew close, with Amy doing a lot for her in Nick’s absence during her treatment, but we never get to find out if that is true or not!? Sorry, I’ve blabbed on. All in all I loved this book, such a page turner, so very very clever, but the end has left me a little underwhelmed!
Bring on the sequel. Desi’s mother is shrewd and someone. Maybe Boney will listen. Bring back Jeff and Gretta. Amy has told a million lies. And they lack in moral character I thought maybe Nicks dad would kill Amy. That would have fit. It was a great book. Except for the ending. Though I was not surprised. I had a bout with sciatica when I was reading and the book made me forget about my pain. It was that good. Will read more of Gillian’s work
Maybe i just missed this for some odd reason- but can someone pls tell me if teh book actually reveals what’s in teh box in his closet? or is this teh same box that’s later found in the out-house?
I want to know also. I cant remember….what was in the box. It was obviously planted by Amy
Is it not the first clue to the anniversary treasure hunt? The cops present him with it and go with him to his office at the college?
Great Book! Loved it and I’ve read all of your comments above, but I have to disagree with most everyone…Nick deserved what he got (cheating, shallow, pathetic a%&(*#e) and kudos for Amy for being smarter than Nick! Keep in mind how far someone can be pushed too!
The thing that makes me saddest is that Nick CAN’t Take the baby and run- or get out from Amy’s thumb in any other way EVER- because that manipulator would just pull her parent’s witness as her as ever-amazing-and -perfect out of their pocket, vouch for her and court and make another million on the episode with their new book “Amazing Amy and the pyscho husband”.
Nick is stuck for life and he knows it.
I know most of you hate the ending, but I actually kind of liked it. At first, I hated it but then after going over the story in my head, I realized it made sense. Amy is a psychopath, we all know this, but Nick is not a good guy. He is a liar, a cheater, a narcissist, a fake, a
mysoginist, a drunk, and completely selfish. Now I would say he didn’t deserve his fate despite those aforementioned qualities until I read this regarding him picturing himself with another woman “I already know a part of me would be looking at her and thinking: You’ve never murdered for me. You’ve never framed me. You wouldn’t even know how to begin to do what Amy did. You could never possibly care that much.” He was flattered that Amy went to so much trouble for him- that she killed for him. Though he is disgusted and disquieted by her actions, what an ego boost for Nick! How could he possibly go back to a normal life with a normal wife, he can’t (which he says so himself!). Now I am in no way sympathetic to Amy, but she killed for him and he is flattered. What does this say about Nick? I think the ending signifies that they deserve each other as Go said to Nick “You two, you’re $&@!ing addicted to each other.” I don’t think Nick would leave Amy even if he could. They deserve each other.
Dnearo
I never thought Nick was half of what you said. Don’t forget the first half of the book was false about what she said in her Diary about him. We were all conned.
I based what I wrote on what HE said and his actions in the book (during his chapters), not the entries in Amy’s diaries. Nick is not a sympathetic character. I think most people don’t get the theme of this story.
aha! This is the best analysis I have seen yet! I think you may be right, when I consider some of the couples I know. They seem desperately miserable, yet unable to separate themselves from each other. I always shrug and say, “Now THAT’S co-dependency”. I guess this just takes it to a new level. I like it. Now I can like the whole book. Thanks!!
Amy’s damn Diary threw me for a loop. I related to her diary entires, as I tried just as hard to please my man, I was the innocent honest loving wife like her diary portrayed. I’m twenty years older now, but loved Ms. Flynn’s writing about thoughts we women can have. Then to find that Nick was having an affair and the diary was false was very twisted, I liked it. I hated the ending. I would have loved to see Amy giving birth, after life sentence, with one ankle handcuffed to the bed. They hand the baby to Nick as Amy is screaming for her baby. And he walks to his car and Go is waiting for them.
cuffed after her life sentence and Nick walking out of the hospital w
I like the idea of your ending!
Does anyone realize that the first half of the book “Amy’s Diary Entry’s” were false all a lie. We read nothing but lies for the first half of the book. Loved it. Nothing was true or real about Nick.
So what are you saying the theme of this book is? I freely admit the ending left me a little lost so I would love to hear your thoughts!
Lorraine Ruppel
Just finished book!!! All I could think was why did Nick delete his book, he should have sent it to Go. I’m thinking when he said he wanted the last word, it WILL be his last word because she is now planning another way to punish him.
Hi – I’ve already left my comment about the ending but just wanted to ask you about your thoughts on Gillian’s other books Dark Places and Sharp Objects? Have you read them? As good as Gone Girl? I loved Gone Girl – are there any other books you’d recommend to someone who enjoyed this?
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Superb post however I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this subject?
I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit further. Cheers!
Just thought Nick had given up by saying something that would cause Amy to realize he is just pretending that all is back to when they first got together.
Some plot holes: what about the guy in the casino who saw Desi and Amy together and kept staring at them? Desi told him they were from Canada. Much was made about this guy – I was expecting to see him see Desi’s picture on the news and report that he saw him in the casino, then the police would scan the security camera and see him and Amy together.
Also, if Nick and Amy had gone to fertility doctors, there would be a record of them trying to have a baby, which would contradict Amy’s diary that Nick didn’t want kids. Why didn’t Nick bring this up to the attorney?
Also, the cops found the diary and the stuff in the woodshed because of anonymous tips – who would have known to tell the cops to search the father’s house? Seems like this would also have been a question to ask.
I was a bit let down by the sudden ending – I thought one or more of these things would come up and break Amy’s story, or else Nick would engineer some way for Amy to die in childbirth and then he could be free and clear of the sociopath and raise his kid alone.
Has anyone else considered that Nick and Amy needed each other? The baby was just Amy’s way of finding herself back to Nick, because she realized she had nothing left to do once she accomplished her manipulative scheme. I felt like Nick was just as psychologically messed up as Amy was, just in a different way. They fed off of each others weird energy. That is why Nick could never really devote himself to Andie, and why Amy did such out of place things when she was at the motel. The books ending, to me anyways, was perfect. It was a twist that no one really expected.
My complaint is that the ending requires us to care a lot about the characters but they aren’t developed enough (for me) to care about. Also the baby thing was contrived. An action suspense book calls for an action suspense ending. Also what was Go’s purpose? I was sort of hoping Go and Gone would have some relation – now I think it was kind if a jerk move by the author to the reader.
Leanne Johancsik
I thought that Amy saying she had the last word and no further words from Nick that Amy had killed Nick. That was my interpretation of the end. It made me gasp when I read the last paragraph!
Same with me. I thought that he just gave up and she would eventually kill him for something.
I like the ending. I wasn’t surprised.
I would have expected Nick to give in because he has a weak personality and will.
Also~~~~~take away the ‘psycho Amy’ background and I see many marriages in the same situation…pretending to get along because it’s easier and in enabling addiction behavioral situation.
OH…I forgot to add~~~
The ending was a perfect opening to a follow-up book.
Imagine the story to follow!
Right????? I think so too!
I hope she does a follow up to this story.
Did you notice the giant plot hole? Nick’s tv interview took place in St. Louis, but minutes after it was over Go called from Mississippi to say the cops had the search warrant for the shed. Go was at the interview, how did she get back so fast? She even said “See you at HOME” before she left.
My gosh – I did not catch that! Nice catch!
They lived in Missouri. Near the Mississippi River. They were all only about 40 mins away from St. Louis at any given time, except when Nick flew to New York to meet his lawyer and when Amy drove to the Ozarks, which is only about 2 hours from St. Louis.
I would love to ask Flynn what her research and strategies were for character development. Obviously most (if not all) of the characters suffered from psychological problems and I would like to know if they were based on specific disorders or if they were just made up as she went along. I would assume she did her homework, as all of the other scenarios were “by the textbook.” I also wonder what she wanted the reader to get out of the relationships between the parents and their children. Clearly that was a theme throughout the book, as Amy, Nick, and Desi all turned out very differently due to their upbringing. And there were many references to children and parenting in other characters throughout (Noelle, Boney, Hilary) who all treated their children very differently. And to end with another child being brought into it – How do you think the theme ties into the bigger picture?
Kayla, Flynn had a psychology degree, as it says online! So I am assuming that is where she got her extensive background in psych
This was supposed to be a thriller!! The ending was weak. “Amy held the sharp knife to her belly. You wouldn’t want to be a grieving father for the rest of your life Nick, now think about it. Would you?” The End.
I also thought that the ending was weak and ambiguous. I had to phone a friend who had already read the novel and ask her if she thought it was possible that Amy decided to commit suicide and take the baby with her. This is implied by her getting the “last word”. One’s “last word” could be literal here and could be seen as the final thing they ever say. With such a mentally ill individual – it may have been the only way out for this extremist. It was her way of dealing with the fact that she could never truly control Nick and make him love her.
She kills herself and the baby and has the final word. This book is terrible.
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I didn’t hate the ending. It just was a little disappointing At THE MOMENT. (now, a day after, i’m getting ok with the ending)
I was seriously, physically, checking the last page of the book, to see if there is anything else left.
I’ve never expected Amy to be punished. The writer clearly had no intention of being that boring. It would be too movie-like. I think people are drawn to this book because there is no such thing in this story. If there is any hero, Amy is our hero in a sick way.
If anything, i was expecting something crazier and sicker ending.
If there is a sequel, (starting from Nick saying something at the end that HE for sure knows it is gonna bother Amy a lot) it would be fun for part I to be like, who is fooling who, and all the readers just can’t figure it out until the part two. Because now we all want Nick to win and think maybe he could, while, Amy is still so or improved Amy.
Also, even if Nick wins Amy in sequel, I think that they should find a way to be back to each other. They truly fits. That’s what make this story so irresistible.
In some sick way, they really complete each other.
BTW, does anybody have any particular part of the book that made you laugh out loud?
I’d really like to know!!!
me : when Amy said something like : he is kissing parts of my body which has nothing to do with sex. he is making love.
(when she was complaining about desi in bed)
by this part of the book, Amy’s character was just so fun-to-watch for me. Waiting for her to move forward, almost cheering her up.
Schmail
Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel — funniest book also in two voices
December 8, 2013 at 12:33 pm Reply
I like your ending. Maybe Amy comes home one day from the store to find Nick and the baby gone and a copy of Nick’s freshly printed book sitting on the ottoman (and their recently replenished bank acct. empty.)
I agree with you about Andie. At 18 or 19 years old I’d give her a pass but by twenty three you know the deal (or should know). Don’t mess with a married man. He may be more guilty than you, but you’re right on his heels. And don’t be so rediculously naive. Of course he had to cut ties with you, at least temporarily. Actually, if she could have held it together that would have provided another potential ending. Her and Nick kill the monster and run off together with the baby and the money.
And lastly, Amy really was a monster. A fantastic villian. While I too hated Nick initially, he wasn’t all that bad of a guy. A lot of men would have run to someone else if married to that thing. It wasn’t right, but it was easy to understand. I don’t really get those who say they both got what they deserved. Nick was human being who made some mistakes under horrible conditions. Amy was pure, selfish evil.
Overall, I’d call it a good book with a great twist in the middle (when you learn Amy’s true nature.) For me, it didn’t live up to the hype, but it was certainly good and brilliant in some places.
I was unbelievably annoyed by the ending.
No retribution for Jaqueline? No consequences for Amy? And now a baby… Run, Nick, Run! Is right!
I actually found the first third of the book to be really boring and hard to get into. I didn’t like, Nick. I wasn’t sure if he was the killer but I thought he was an ass. But I was told that the halfway point of the book was worth waiting for. I was blown away! Jeff and Greta! Nancy and Lydia! This woman was a nutcase!
My favorite part was when Amy shouted “I killed myself” -what wouldn’t she do? She’s a dangerous woman. A psycho bitch! Part of me wanted Nock and Amy to reconcile but…Amy should have gone to prison.
It was a great book (finally)! I wet from hating, Nick, to feeling sorry for him. Then loving poor, poor, Amy, to wanting, Nick, to keep his hands around her throat… She’s coocoo bananas.
Sherry C.
This is filming in my Missouri town right now,very exciting!
I totally LOVED the book though i think she couldve made a better ending. Like maybe the child was their savior after all maybe one child has the power to manipulate his parents to be good parents. Then maybe they will change gradually for the good of their child.
I feel sorry for amy actually. That she had to punish Nick first before really realizing that she cant go on without him. Nick on the other hand is also annoying because he made a choice to choose young pretty girl over his own wife. I never liked cheating husbands. But dont get me wrong Amy and Nick is perfect for each other. They deserve each other.
I found Nick unbelievably tedious. The weak willed middle-aged man having an affair — what a cliched character.
The novel did get more interesting once you find out Amy has been manipulative all along. However, I am very uncomfortable with furthering the sterotype that women are lying liars who lie about rape.
I didn’t find it startlingly original. There are parallels with Rebecca by Daphne du Marier; both feature seemingly perfect marriages hiding master manipulators.
I don’t really enjoy reading about dislikeable characters. Perhaps I’m still to young to be the target audience, as I think it’s trying to say something about marriage.
I know everyone hates Amy, and she’s hard to sympathize with, but the ass Nick cheated on her. I love how Amy taught him a lesson to never cheat on her. She can teach someone a good lesion. WOW vary powerful book. Loved it.
I loved it too but you give AMy a lot of credit 🙂 I love your opinion!
Gillian Flynn comes across as a real amateur – She is clearly more focused on impressing herself with cutesy, clever words than being able to build an engaging suspenseful story.
Flynn’s mental spin-outs do nothing except interrupt the flow of the story.
I thought the book was God-awful – some of the worst writing I’ve seen in ages. Finally gave it up after page 75. I won’t be trying out any more of her books.
I am shocked – I loved it. I cant wait to read something else by her. 😀
I really hated nick on the first book , so yeah , i wanted amy to revenge from him .
I absolutely loved the brilliant writing, sparkling dialog and wonderful plotting until the plot completely fell apart at the end — extraordinarily disappointed!
a) Boney would’ve checked out Desi’s whereabouts while Amy was “abducted” — he couldn’t have been absent from the planet all that time; also an autopsy would’ve revealed sleeping pills
b) if Nick was so smart and on his game by the time he chose to stay with her, why would he make a comment to Amy (I feel sorry for you. because every day you have to wake up and be you.) that was guaranteed to trigger her obsession with justice and murderous tendencies? the comment felt tacked on, meant as a Hitchcockian twist, but artless.
I cant wait for the movie!
I just finished reading this page turner of a book and like many who posted, I’m very disappointed by the ending. I wanted Nick to exact his revenge! Granted, he wasn’t the greatest guy, but Amy’s manipulation, pathological lying, and sociopathic behavior make Nick seem “not that bad!” I read something where the author felt that this was the only ending that fit. Others have said that these two got what they deserved, each other. But it is unsatisfactory. Are we to believe that they will continue to remain married and raise a child together?
This spoiler page has brought out a lot of emotion. I heard recently that the author changed the ending for the movie so it will be a complete surprise. I am kind of excited to see how it changes 🙂
I just finished the book today and loved it. The twists were really unexpected and the I loved how intricate and intelligent the story. I didn’t dislike Nick but I found him to be too whiney and weak. You guys will probably think I’m a sociopath for saying this but I really loved Amy’s character. Even though she was evil and so vindictive, I still could understand why she did what she did (not that I’m justifying it in anyway) and I kinda loved her for being so crazy.
tarjukii
I’m very curious about what other people (you!) think about this book.
I do not have a favorite character to receive the Go. She is the sister of a very loving and caring. only that I discussed.
Travel Pulau harapan
I just finished the book yesterday; my 20-something daughter gave it to me. I felt sorry for Amy at first, having to move and all, but it didn’t take long for me to dislike her. As she was revealed as being crazier and crazier, I liked her less and less. I hated the way she treated Hilary Hand. Desi was a whack, too, but I figured “he’s a big boy”. Amy did murder him, and that’s pretty unforgivable.
As for spoilers, it seems to me the doctor who performed the rape exam would know that Amy never was pregnant.
Just read these comments and have these thoughts:
Amy was humming M.A.S.H.’s Suicide is Painless…. Because her original plan WAS to commit suicide.
Ending: Nick HAS fallen back in love with her, how else can he feel such pity. And, there’s the miscommunication issue all over again, because Amy does not want to be ‘pitied’ – that is unacceptable… Just as cheating was. Nick has inadvertently given her a new reason to dispose of him. She doesn’t mind his fear, nor his over the top pandering, but she will not take his pity. I believe he is oblivious and she is psychotic beyond belief.
Dr’s exam can’t tell if ever pregnant, just if ever had a child…
The Jeff/Greta/Dorothy incident…. They had no clue. She was even watching the news WITH them. She changed her appearance, heavy, short hair/different color. It wasn’t until she transformed back (over month’s as Desi’s “guest”). also… This episode does open Amy’s eyes to how difficult life can be, as well as letting her hear other people’s opinions…. This is where we can, as the reader, hope she will changer her mind.
Then we have Desi…. who I first think will turn her in, but he ends up being psycho too.
But Desi does give her free reign. He allows her everything but the gate code. Two manipulators. She plays along, while she methodically plans a way to kill him and make it look like she was his prisoner. She was using him to make her “return” to Nick.
The whole book is clever on many, many levels.
Great thoughts here Lily!
kwansuko
Hey I just finished it too!
At first I kind of hated Nick and pitied Amy very much. But eventually, it turns twisted and I pity Nick very much more for being stuck with that psychopath.
Ps. Love your ending plot, indeed. Hahaha
Taylor Barth
I’m a librarian and I always recommend Gone Girl as “The book you’ll love to hate.” I, like many of the previous posts, thought Nick was a jerk in the first half and suspected the missing father right away. I hated the characters passionately, but I really enjoyed the book and I really wanted to know how it ended, in spite of despising the characters. I think that’s what makes Gillian Flynn so successful in this novel. She is able to create these characters she wants you to hate, yet you’re so invested that you have to know how it’s going to end.
I think I am due for a re-read…. so much crazy 😀
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I just finished the book, a real page turner. I thought it might have an ending like the film Double Indeminity, Nick being charged with Amy’s murder and given some prison time and when he gets released actually finding her then murdering her. The ending was not satisfactory.
Hi everyone, I know I’m about two years late, but I finally just got around to reading Gone Girl, and I sincerely hope at least somebody still checks this page because I have a question that is bothering me to the core! Obviously Nick wasn’t guilty of murder like we’d all suspected in part one. Amy was alive all along and she had cut her own arm to leave the blood on the kitchen floor. So why was Nick having those flashbacks/mental images of Amy bloody and dying on the kitchen floor? And why was he worried that he’d been “seen” at the end of the first chapter? I’m so confused!!! Can anyone shed light on this?
Trish.S
To be completely honest, I think it was because once people start putting an idea into an individuals head it sort f becomes like a subconscious and fictional memory. Nick started to believe that maybe he did do it, like manipulation. That’s just my take on it lol 🙂
I think he is worried that he was “seen” cheating.
Great thoughts…. I think Shelley may be right…. I really need to read the book again.
I like your ending. Here’s mine: Amy has the baby and comes home from the hospital to Nick’s loving arms. All seems well. Nick has not deleted his story and has sent it on to Go as well as Officer Boney. Nick slips her a sedative during dinner, kills her, hides her body in a trunk, throws the trunk into the river, calls the police and reports that Amy is missing….again.
Marsha you literally made me laugh out loud! That is awesome! 😛
betsy omara
Am I crazy but no one has mentioned Punch and Judy.I thought she left it up to us what to think.Remember Punch killed the baby and then Judy.Is there anyone that thinks Nick could have done what Punch did
Candyce Rountree
I certainly think it’s possible, Betsy. After all, we can see in the last pages of the book, that Nick is really going mad right along with Amy. They are both caught up in this twisted life, and neither of them really wants to be separate from the other, in my opinion. I think that he could absolutely end up be just as homicidal as his wife.
Yes!!! Great discussion Betsy and Candyce!
Just finished it myself. Hated the ending! Very anticlimactic. And the poor child. What a mess he would be. The next book should be “My Mamma Was A Psycho B”. LOL. On top of that, there were really no characters I could get behind. No hero. No one to really care about. Don’t get me wrong, it was a real page turner, and very well written. Lots of surprises and twists, but I think the ending just killed it for me. It was a missed opportunity for someone (namely Nick) to step up and do the right thing by that child. And I had thought the same thing – either he throws her in prison and raises the child himself, or runs with him. There’s really no other way that poor baby has a chance. 😦
I think I was soooo fired up when it ended 🙂
Disappointing. Kept waiting to get to the suspenseful parts and it just never happened. Come on – the shed – really??? The diary seven years worth of rants and raves so what!!! No surprises here
Sharon Hansen
After I finished the book, I thought of the ending to the novel Ethan Frome. Ethan is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Zeena and is also stuck with crippled, cousin Mattie – once, the girl of his dreams. I wonder if Edith Wharton would have approved of Flynn’s ending for Nick. Both men are trapped, and I keep hearing the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for.”
Interesting comment. Thank you!
Pat Milford
Without going into great detail regarding the inept and extremely naive way in which Ms. Flynn constructs male character dialog, thoughts and responses, I find it particularly interesting that the reviewers at this site also apparently have no clue either as no one seems to have pointed that out previously. Oh well, I suppose mediocre writers bring out mediocre reviewers.
Ah, now Pat – I appreciate comments but certainly do not appreciate people being an ass. Please refrain from your rudeness.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the many twists and turns it took the reader on. There are many things thrown into the first part of the book that served no purpose other than to throw the reader off, Nick keeps seeing Amy bloodied with head bashed in, he keeps mentioning being seen, admits he is an unreliable narrator and he is heavily guilty of the sin of omission, keeps lying to the police, etc. The evidence against Nick was almost a little too strong.
When Nick brings up Desi as a possible suspect for Amy’s disappearance the police immediately dismiss him as a suspect, why? The normal conclusion would be that he had an alibi for when she went missing but suddenly he doesn’t have one at the end when Amy says he took her? What about his movements after Amy is missing? Amy tells the police it takes a few days to get to the lake house he doesn’t have an alibi for any of these days?
Amy letting her guard down and making “friends” after just a few days on the run was another one that really bugged me. She was smart enough to start saving money a year in advance but never did any budgeting to figure out how much money she might actually need? (Where is she buying milk from an unknown person who is just making up a price? I have been to the Ozarks, they have small villages with grocery stores or at least gas stations, not some old bartering system with a guy on a corner.) New York city, rich, spoiled girl goes fishing for $50? Her being robbed and losing all her money after she says she is smart enough not to keep it all in one place? She is this brilliant crime planner able to carry off multiple hard to execute plans perfectly against people all through her life but gets outwitted by the likes of Jeff and Greta? Her not trying to get any sort of revenge after they take her money? None of these are consistent with her smart, plan everything out character.
Nick’s thoughts near the end about not being able to accept a normal life or woman again as he would compare them to what Amy did for him felt off to me. I guess the author wanted us to feel he was also insane, just not as crazy as Amy, but it didn’t ring true to me. I guess if he is really insane that partly explains how he could have actually lived with and slept in the same room as Amy at the end. (There is no way a sane person would have!) And maybe even explains why he would have made the dumb comment about being sorry Amy was who she was to her. Even if you accept the fact that he is insane the ending is unsatisfactory and anticlimactic for a book with so many exciting peaks.
Having said all that, I want to again say that I liked the book overall. The witty dialogue was fun. The commentary on people pretending to be someone else, people using movie characters and plots as a basis for how to act, cool girl/guy expectations, etc. felt spot on. The parent/child relationships throughout the book intrigued me a lot. It had so many great things going for it I am able to overlook the plot issues and weak ending and look back on my time reading it fondly remembering how I couldn’t put it down excited to see where the author would take me next.
Excellent thoughts here Kevin! I have one more book to read of hers and then I will have read them all. I enjoy her style of writing.
Just finished the book. I saw it coming (didn’t know it would be the very end though) once I read about that letter from the hospital I thought Amy will not let pass the opportunity to take those sperm samples. That woman was obsessed with body fluids for goodness sake! The end made me sick. Poor baby!! Imagine having that psicko as your mother?!? That poor baby will be another seriously screwed person. I love your alternate ending. Nick should have taken the kid and run!!
JigSimple
I honestly don’t think that after Gillian foisted that disappointing ending upon us, that there is any way a sequel is in order.
First of all, if someone kills, or jails Amy, where are the diary entries to keep the mystery going?
Beyond that, Nick is obviously some kind of idiot to go along with her blackmail (though in a weird kind of way), and then agree to have a CHILD with her. What was he thinking?
Yeah, that ending was so anti-climactic that now I don’e want to see the movie….
kitobass
And the truth be told…I feel like the author kind of gave up on the great thrilling writing she did in the first 7/8 of the book. After Amy came back and punk’d Nick into her world, for me it all seemed like there was no creativity left? Cops just giving up on political grounds? Nick pretending to be in love all over again…NO!
rick stevens
One thing I haven’t seen discussed was the relationship between Desi and Amy’s father. Her father mentions that Desi always seemed cold and didn’t try to impress him. later Amy reveals that she told Desi she had been sexually abused by her father. it all was very subtle but it explained his coldness.
Holy Chili Cheese Frijoles!
~I loved the story, HATED the amount of cursing…Soooooo much cursing.
~I was reading on the kindle app and was going back and forth and highlighting and towards the end of part 1 I thought I figured it out and that AMYS PARENTS MURDERED HER, so that Amazing Amy would get more sales. I thought I was so clever. I was wrong and I loved that.
~I really think Desi would have had cameras in his home being the creepy captor that he is. I can totally see him watching her moves on his iPhone while out and about with his mum.
~ I was disappointed with the ending and confused. She couldnt get Nicks words out of her head and she wanted the last word…what does that mean? Does she get the last word?
~I would have liked Amy to have a difficult labor and maybe somehow slipped into a coma or was murdered while get a transfusion or something. She didnt get to deserve to die of natural causes because that would make “her story” more Amazing. Then Nick raises the baby and tries to be the best father and the opposite of his with the help of Go…
Also Amy Dunne has a Pinterest page….I LOVE IT!
I heard about the pinterest page – how fun!
Well first loved the book . Each character had a lot to offer the the drama of everything that was happening . Family and friends or so called friends seemed like friends got used a lot in this book. I don’t think I ever disliked Nick but didn’t like the infidelity he should’ve just divorced her. But Amy she is one crazy woman she’d scare me . Did not like the ending like everyone else REALLY ! Please tell me that you will write a part two and lets finish this even if Go takes the baby from both of them and runs to the end of the world and no one but her and the attorney knows where they are !! Nick would never be able to do this with Amy alive it just wouldn’t work, he’s a good guy but weak and she’d always be able to pull his strings. Come on Book 2 gotta have closure of somekind but not like that
Exactly… give us a book 2!!!
M. Stewart
I hated EVERYTHING about this book: the plot….what plot?..the unbelievable characters, the ink, the paper, the spine. Total waste of time; absolute absence of ANY redeeming value. Only wish I could reclaim those empty hours searching for some modicum of purpose and literary value
It is interesting how this is such a love it or hate it book.
Pretty good read! Before I started, I’d heard the movie was coming out sometime this year. That said, the ENTIRE time I’m reading, I’m picturing CHRIS PRATT as the male lead (LOVE him)! I’m a fan of Ben Affleck, & I sure hope he brings *IT*. I very, seriously doubt there’s any actress out there for fitting for Amy’s character than Rosamund Pike. I cannot wait to see this movie!
P.S. HAAAATED!!!! THE ENDING OF THE BOOK! WHO? DOES? THAT?
OMG I needed a better ending. I was so mad at Amy aineyaround the time she was in the motel is when I started having different feelings about her situgation. I hope the movies ending does not match the book.
I read this book when it first came out and now that they are advertising the movie, I can’t remember what the book was about. I don’t want to have to get it from the library again and read it again. Can someone give me a synopsis?
read my reviw
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Josephine Elder
I thought the neighbor who in the beginning let Nick know the house was open and cat was out, took Amy. But then he was never mentioned again. I, too, thought the story would be better without the language used. I didn’t like the ending. I thought Amy should have been punished for the murder and for (like in real life) taking the authority’s time to investigate her disappearance. I also thought Nick should not have taken her back. Seems several of us who read the book would have preferred a different ending.
Oh yeah… Amy needed to get hers for sure.!
Hi is this spoiler page still open?
I guess it is
Oh yes 🙂
wow, i just read this book in the last 2 days and was enthralled. i wondered how the cops could believe that amy would cut desi’s throat when she says she hates blood so much and even swooned at giving plasma when she could have just cut her binds and sneeked out while desi’s was in his sleeping pill slumber. also, there would be forensics teams all over desi’s house and they would find the bottle she abused herself with and get evidence from it. i supposed she would say desi raped her with it. i would have liked to see amy have the baby and then get arrested on some slip up she missed and sent away so then nick and go could have taken care of the baby.
John E. Mack
In a way, it is too bad that this book is in the mystery genre. It would really be fun to revisit this family in five years. One can imagine a follow-up in which Nick strays again and Amy plays Medea with their child. Or Nick takes off with the child and Amy tries to hunt him down. Or Desi’s mother formulates a plot to frame Amy. Or Nick and Amy’s marriage turns so dysfunctional that child welfare brings an action to terminate their parental rights. Or Nick kills Amy and frames Justine.
Many commentators speak to the weakness in the plot. They are usually right, but for me the biggest reason behind those weaknesses is the necessity for the book to fit into the mystery/thriller genre. There is really no good reason for Amy to kill Desi, for example. Drug him and slip away. Desi is not going to “spill the beans,” because he would have to admit to effectively kidnapping her. OF course, she would have to explain away her absence; but a person who could come up with a frame-up this ingenious could figure out a convincing lie to explain her absence as well. And because no one would really have been hurt, the interest in the police or media in digging out the truth would die away. But you can’t have a mystery book without a murder. Furthermore, the need to drive a mystery plot makes it difficult to explore the one aspect of Amy’s personality that is greatly underdeveloped — her extreme hysteria. Unfortunately, millions of wives are cheated on, and many seek revenge. But how many of them are willing to frame their spouse and kill themselves over it? There is a lot of the drama queen in Amy: how could she create the perfect frame-up and not somehow let the world know how brilliant she had been in doing so?
As a mystery, “Gone Girl” is preposterous, though immensely enjoyable. As the family tragedy it probably should have been, it would have been less fun, and sold 100,000 copies rather than 8 million. To Ms. Flynn: You go, girl!
Awesome comment!
Just saw the movie! Wonderful! Now I want to read the book. Loved all the casting of roles except for Desi – what, what! Should have been someone else for that role!
Cant wait! I hope to see the movie yet this week! I have a crazy week ahead 🙂
John E Mack
The parallels between Medeas personality and Amy’s are so they, you have to wonder Flynn used EURIPEDES play as a model.
I wonder if Nick would be happier In jail for murdering her than having to stay with her
It really is the only way he will be free of her.
Barbara Bailey
I saw the movie last night. Never read the book. There was something I did not get…probably didn’t hear at some point….If he didn’t sleep with her since her return during that 6 weeks, how was it HIS baby? What did I miss?
they went to a fertility clinic and he thought his sample had been destroyed because they hadnt tried to use it yet, but amy had gone to the clinic and had it saved and then artificially insiminated (sp) into her. therefore it’s his baby without them having to have been initimate. it was her last trap for him. *she’s totally insane*
Karen T.
I just finished the book last evening. I wanted to read it real quick before I heard any reviews of the movie. Like everyone else, I blamed Nick, then thought it was the father, and then had my mind blown!
I like to think Amy dies in childbirth. I think that would be fitting, since that will be one thing she absolutely cannot control! 😉
I just can’t STAND the idea of someone that sickly manipulative and vengeful being allowed to raise a child. 🙂
I think I need to read it again so I can be prepped to see the movie 😀
Nope she can control that too epidural and Caesarian. Technology has made it very possible for women to control just about everything, including men. Men are satisfied with just comtroling the tv remote and the fridg temp to keep their beer cold.
JessieHenshaw
Well, it’s got a lot of competition in today’s hollywood, for most tortured concept. Are today’s average moviegoers, actors, producers, the whole industry so brain dulled by excess stimulation they need constant extreme distortion of human values for entertainment?
I watched the movie is pathetic. The author of the book wrote the script for it…. If we think big about this I’m scared, probably it means that the road we started as home sapiens is still fairly long. We’re are the good movies of the 8 ‘ gone? Think the author getting rich with this story is ridiculous. … she should go and work …. I mean a serious job to pay the rent of a single bedroom. We should have a fair information from the media …. not just advertising in disguise of interviews and pretending reviews.
For me – in the end – I’m just sadly disappointed in Nick. He had figured it all out. He had discovered the truth. His wife is a sociopath; a maniacal murderer. Truly insane to the core. He seems to be on a path to smoke her out – to reveal the truth to the world!
Then not.
Nope, let’s just forget all about that and just . . . win one for the gipper? Just do it for your newborn son? You gotta protect your son, Nick . . . from her! Great big deflation of the entire plot line in the end for me. I was expecting so much more.
Nevertheless, notwithstanding the odd little plot quirks here and there, it was still a good read. Ozark Amy and how she befriends Jeff and Greta, but then so easily loses all her money to them? Seeking out Desi in desperation as a result? After all of her meticulously careful planning for over a year, the story line seemed to stray a bit on these issues. Much too sloppy for Amazing Amy, the perfectionist. Way too many errors on her part in the Ozarks, although she does admit as much herself on page 284. It just did not fit her M.O. at all! Not plausible. I’d wish that Flynn had tackled those issues with a little more finesse. I mean, if you’re going to write a sociopath, you have to go all the way! No mistakes are allowed!
It was fascinating to read about how Amy’s prefect “public” childhood was carefully crafted and molded by Elliott and Marybeth – all of the objectifying of their daughter through the Amazing Amy Books; how Amy was really nothing more than a business product to them – not a real person – that Rand and Marybeth were so concerned with their own literary empire that they utterly failed to ever form a real bond or meaningful human connection with their daughter. Quite disturbing. Maybe the early roots of what eventually led Amy to become a sociopath in the first place? Parents can sometimes do that to their kids and not even realize it . . .
Your right, Amy dd make a lot of sloppy mistakes.
I know I’m replying to this after months, but do remember that Amy’s original plan was to drown herself in the river. She didn’t really have a plan for staying disappeared so that’s why it unraveled.
OK, now I’m defending a book that really annoyed me. 🙂
77jason
Totally agree Marty, I would have written the same thing had you not.
Lawrence LaBee IV (@LawrenceLaBee)
I was really surprised that the denouement settled with Nick and Amy staying together and what not. I mean, I can appreciate it because it really shines light on how toxic marriage can be, and the ills we are willing to traverse to keep them together. I really wasn’t feeling Amy’s conniving, calculated attempts at deceiving everyone around her- but the reality of the matter is that a woman like Amy (take what you will from that), in both mental and physical appearance, is always granted so many additional societal “get out of jail free cards.” I’m only 28, and I come from the other side of the theoretical track, however I can only surmise that social, economic, and cultural factors all play a major role in her plan’s success just as much as her thorough planning and execution.
The book had me till the part when Amy came back crawling. She said Desi kidnapped,How the hell did she end up in the Ozarks of southern MO IN A CABIN? If Desi took her to his Mansion in St Louis? Also I thought she was going to be arrested for killing Desi. How did she get away with that?
I read the book about 4 months ago, and this seems to be a weird interpretation of the ending. Nick says something mean to her like ‘at least I don’t have to wake up and be you everyday.’ Then she thinks something like, ‘why would he say that? Everything would be perfect if he hadn’t said that. I can’t stop thinking about it.’ I took that as Nick is not going to live up to what she wants and she will eventually kill him. To me, it seemed like an inevitability. We don’t know when or how, but she will kill him for being a disappointing husband and father. The movie ending felt the opposite to me – like he would kill her at some point. I don’t think in either story that they just continue on for 18 years. They will both be binge watching Law & Order for tips on getting away with murder. Somebody’s gonna get got.
A comment on the comments. The comments on this page give a better picture of where the educated American mind is at than and 100 opinion pieces in, e.g., the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. The commentators are generally what I would characterize as “upper middle class readers.” They are literate, intelligent, and engaged. I could spot no “trolls” among the commentators, and only a couple of “self-advertisers.” On the other hand, the commentators are readers of mystery novels. They are not commenting on Proust. These readers are probably among the heart-and-soul of the American electorate, and what they reveal is, ah, revealing:
1. American morality has not changed much in recent years. Almost nobody defends Amy, although a number of commentators have some sympathy for her. Most of the readers don’t like the fact that justice was not done. Those who consider the future of the child fear for it. No commentator I spotted thought Nick was right in having an affair rather than simply divorcing Amy. Readers sympathized with characters holding traditional values (Margo and Bo), booed those who seriously transgressed traditional values (Amy, Desi and the Nancy Grace character) and were ambivalent about those who were flawed but not hopeless (Nick and the Elliots). And marriage is central to both the story and the readers’ reaction to it. Those reactions to marriage are traditional ones, not ones reflecting positive attitudes toward “modern” or “open” marriage.
2. American feminism is a very moderate feminism. The majority of the commentators were female, and I am sure that many would identify themselves as feminists of some stripe or another. Yet there was no radicalism here. None of the comments I read found Amy to be admirable, much less heroic. None attributed her pathologies to the male patriarchy. Many judged her more harshly than most of the male readership. Their comments tended to reflect more traditional female concerns — protection of children, dislike of bad parenting, concern for just retribution, and distain for a certain stereotypically manipulative female behavior.
3. There are virtually no politics in these comments. This suggests that when people are seriously engaged in the moral and social issues raised in Flynn’s book, they make their judgments based on their personal moralities and experiences, not their political tropisms. Perhaps politicians underestimate their constituency. Or perhaps we are not centering our political dialogues around the right things.
4. The extreme interest and engagement reflected in these comments suggest that Flynn’s work has touched a chord. I am not quite sure what that chord is. While she is a great characterizer and a good plotter, she is a mediocre wordsmith. She is also, on a deeper level, somewhat ambivalent about her characters. I suspect it is this ambivalence, and the ambivalence of the plot, that has a lot to do with the readers’ own reactions to the book.
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Linda Hernandez
I, too, didn’t like the ending. Now Gillian Flynn should write a sequel, Gone Baby, where Nick grabs the baby and runs to a country like Brazil where we have no extradition treaty. We would forgive because who wants their baby raised by a psychopath who would use the baby as a bargaining chip in her bizarre, controlling schemes?!
Hi, I clung to every word in the book. The movie was good, but the book explains every action into detail. I believe that this book is sequel worthy. I think that the plot could explode well beyond Nick and Amy. It could take off into another “Flowers In The Attic”
The parents could further be developed
and much more sinister. Amy and Nicks child could have various issues growing up that caries into their own dysfunctional family further down the line. These characters have such potential. It’s almost like Cliffhanger.
FairyMaryBerry
That’s an interesting idea, I wonder if the baby is going to grow up only to be proven to be much worse than his mother. I could imagine him doing the same horrible game that his mother did to his father,and imagine Amy actually falling for it, that would be one juicy read!
I thought, as it turned out, it was a game for both Amy and Nick. He gave her clues during his TV interview and she was totally into it. Didn’t anybody else think they were both psychos. They both loved the crazy part of each other, it fired them up.
Have any of u seen the movie yet?Comparing the film to the book has always been the hardest part for me.. The book has so many details that the film could’ve easily missed. …All I have to say is that the movie pissed me off all over again!!! It made me feel bad for Desi..however…
I think Rosamund Pike may have a difficult time getting good roles in the future. A female who plays that frightening of a character that EVERYONE HATES so brilliantly – could get typecast or avoided completely. After all, Hollywood tends to believe in their own characters. Her next film choice should be of a “good” women. She should NOT choose another “wicked woman” role.
wxdavid
To me it is truly shocking that so many people actually think this is a good book. I will admit that it is well constructed and extremely well written but the ending is sold shatteringly offensive so extreme and so ANTI male that it’s speaks of a bigger issue as to why so many people –and especially women– think this is a good story.
if you have seen or read interviews of Gillian Flynn then it becomes readily apparent that she has some serious issues with men in general.
What is significant is that so many readers and commentators here — mostly women –have complained about the ending the story. What bothers most readers is that the story makes no sense because there is nothing in the Nick’s background as presented by the author that would convince the reader that Nick would take her back and accept the wife’s return so quietly.
The idea that a man/ husband who has been framed for murder by his wife …would take her back .. stay in the same room… with full and certain knowledge that the WIFE is in fact the murderer of another human being… with full in certain knowledge that his wife is actually psychotic … because she CLAIMS to be pregnant with his child… is not only beyond reason it shows a extremely strong anti mail emasculating bias.
In the numerous interviews Gillian Flynn has stated that when she needs to know how a man might thimk or percieve a situation she asks her husband. If so that husband has to be the biggest wimp and loser on the planet .
Ms Flynn actually wants us to believe that this author came with this ending .. Submitted it to her husband… and he thought …”yeah most men would react this way … yes this is if a good ending…”?
A truly awful anti man book
Just because someone thinks a book is good does not mean they agree with everything that has happened in it. 🙂
i am NOT against the ending per se… but to have guy accept his wife’s return like that without the author developing the husband’s character… THAT is the reason so many dont like the ending
The ending set me wrong too… at the time I read this book in 2012 I believed there had to be another book… they left so many ends open that I felt there had to be more. As time went on and it appeared (and appears) to be it… I have come to accept it. I dont have to like it, it would never be my story… but I give the author credit for going with an unpopular ending to this story. Love it, like it, or hate it… this post is the most viewed post on my site with currently over 268,000 views… crazy but this book has fueled something.
I appreciate your take on the book.
I came to the same conclusion. The ending indicated that the entire thing was a power fantasy book. It’s Dexter for girls basically. And yes, the amount of women that liked the book is disturbing, but pretty much expected.
Carol Hinds
Help! Settle this disagreement – did Amy kill Desi because she was truly afraid that Desi would keep her captive forever in his video-surveillance secluded home and as Desi said, “I lost you once, I’ll never let you go again”? OR Did Nick’s television plan to Amy work, cause Amy to see the old Nick, fall in love with him all over again to the point she wanted to return to Nick more than anything and was willing to kill Desi in order to pin the whole crime on him and be able to tell Nick, “Look I killed for you, who else would do that?”.
I think both. IMO, Amy does not like to be a kept woman… I think she feels trapped when someone is making the choices for her life as her parents did with the books, “Amazing Amy”. I think Nick’s words on tv gave her a place to go as she did not know what she would do with no money once she left Desi.
domimoli
Please could somebody tell me the exact ending of the movie?? I had to leave earlier the last part I saw was when Amy came home from hospital…
Katlyn
I did not see the ending come whatso ever!! I didn’t think that Nick would end up loving Amy still even though he denied it, I figured the ending would be Amy is in jail and she would do something stupid to harm herself and the baby! I was rooting for Nick! Amy is completely crazy, something has to be wrong with her to go to that extreme of lengths! BEST BOOK EVER THOUGH *****favorite book I would have to say 🙂
Just seen the movie last night….. wow!!!!! freaken crazy, so much action. I really enjoyed it. Would so love a sequel…. in the sequel she could get psycho on her mom….. LOL!!! :))
My ending involves Amy having the baby but realizing Nick can never get past her crimes. So she reverts to her original plan of drowning herself. She leaves behind a memoir of her life as she sees it including all the inadequatcies of her parents, friends, husband, etc… Of course, she expects them to be consumed by guilt because they forced her to kill herself. She drowns herself in the river. Her body is found. Nick finds the memoir and destroys it to protect their child. The End!!!
why is it I seem to be the only one remembering the guy in the bar with Amy and Dezi who recognized her as one of the ” sisters” (either Dunn sisters or her maiden name – I forgot). Did Amy have a twin herself? Also I believe the ending tells that Nick and his sister (or is it?) are the real lovers. When the actor who plays his sister looks up at Nick in the last scene, she has brown eyes and it looks just like Amy. She didn’t have brown eyes in the earlier scenes in the film. I believe Amy had a twin and it was the character who played Nick’s sister. Remember she was mad saying she’d have to “wait 18 yrs” b/c of the baby? Why would his twin sister be out of her mind over that? I believe that was her twin (as the guy hined at in the bar scene) and not his sister. Whew! Confusing..and want to see it agian.
WOW…. what? Did you read the book or just see the movie? I am confused and intrigued all a the same time. Now I need to watch it again.. The guy at the bar was probably referring to the fact that her picture had been all over tv as she was missing. That is shy he thought he had seen her before.
Hi Sheila..No I did not read the book. The movie was interesting enough where I may pick up a copy of the book. The unknown character in the bar specifically asked Amy if she was “one of the Dunn (or maiden name) SISTER(S). There wouldn’t be any reason to put that in the movie, unless the writers were trying to tell us something. As soon as he said that, I immediately thought she had a twin. But I couldn’t figure out where the twin was or if she had taken Amy’s place at any point in the movie. Then I thought the only other character left that looks similar to Amy (minus the glasses and dark hair) was Margo. At the END of the movie, she looks up at Nick’s character, and obviously had taken out the green or hazal contacts and has brown eyes, and looks like Amy’s twin. Why else would Margo say that she had to “put up with the situation” (Nick has to live with Amy and kiss butt to Amy for 18 yrs till the kid is 18 and he can divorce her)? Her reacton was that of a girlfriend – not a sister. If you watch it again, you may see what I mean. If you read the book, and Amy has no twin, and Margo is really Nick’s sister…then the writer of the movie version were messing with us just for the sake of making us think. I can’t be the only one who picked up on these things. 🙂 Thank you for the reply.
In the book (and the movie), Margo is definitely Nick’s sister. They are very close and she is just upset for her brother (and herself) that if he wants to be with his child, then he will have to be with her for another 18 yrs.
Hi Shelley. Thx for the reminder about posting only for people who have read the book. Last night I was searching for a place to comment about the movie and missed that info. If you check out the link below, there are a few people who think Margo was more than just a caring sister to Nick. Happy Reading!
https://www.tumblr.com/search/Margo%20Dunne
This is an interesting take for sure. I do have a spoiler page for the movie thoughts that I just added to my book vs movie post as I am seeing an interest in chatting up the movie and I love that! Here is the link: https://bookjourney.net/spoiler-alerts/spoiler-page-for-gone-girl-movie/
panchi maal
This was a story about the power of the media and how public opinion shapes the justice system. In the end Amy gets away with murder because the feds and the police did not want to appear hostile to “amazing Amy” the darling of the public. She was a master manipulator who had grown up under the bright lights of celebrity and really knew her way around. She hand-picked Nick from the first time she met him, knowing that he was weak and easy to use. The ending makes perfect sense in that context.
I thought this book was a great read! Really interesting main characters- not likeable but interesting. Amy is an absolute wack job and Nick is an everyday putz. In the end it would have been nice for Nick to man up and work a little harder to prove Amy’s guilt but I tought the ending was right on track with the rest of the story. I think there is no question that the baby is Desi’s and this is how Amy gets the last word. The heading of the last chapter reads ” 10 months, 2 weeks and 6 days after Amy’s return”.
the baby is Nick’s from the sample he left at the fertility clinic. she led him to believe that she hadn’t taken any action after they received the letter saying they would dispose of Nick’s semen, but actually she had had it saved and insiminated as her last resort to force Nick to continue her game.
Is there something with the 10/2/6 reference?
Jeff S
Being in LA, I had already read the screenplay/screen novella “Out of the Blue,” which shares many of the same themes. In contrast, Gone Girl seemed less intuitive and too “written” – as though the characters were placed into the story and not a natural outcome of it, hence, the ending wasn’t as satisfying. The psychology also seemed off: through much of the story, I didn’t buy into these characters being real people. I thought the other story was more clever; the characters were similarly mad but more realistic, and the ending was more satisfying by a long shot.
April P
I was expecting the 2 thieves to come back and maybe change the ending. Thought it could have been a better twist at the end. It bothered me that she is now pregnant and in control again! Is there a part 2?
I just finished the book. I really have no desire to see the movie from the reviews I have read. The ending of the book could have been better, perhaps Amy is telling the whole story from her prison cell?
Sara Riegert
It is truly amazing to me that this book/movie are so highly praised. I went to the movie a few days ago, and after it ended my companion and I burst out laughing because it was so ridiculous. We weren’t the only ones either.
Hahaha that’s cute. Apparently you and your companion didn’t get the message. Which is that, like a lot of couples in the modern world, he stayed with her, a complete psychopath, to help project the image of a happy healthy couple to the outside world. He stayed with her not just for the child, but because he knew the rest of the world would hate him if he left. He chose to be liked rather than to lead an honest life. When she saw him with the other woman she sought to destroy him until the TV interview when she realized he was willing to play her game for society. Look around, she’s not the only one involved in a farce of a relationship for the sake of the image. You should know, superficial people are like that……..
So glad I found this page! Although like some others, I saw the (film) today … maybe it’s good to ask the book readers because many details had to have been left out. This film was *spectacular * but this is driving me crazy: with your bare eyes, you can tell the difference between 5-year-old ink and fresh ink, especially when they are on the same document. How could the detectives missed the obvious step of checking the ink?!
Good point 🙂
Well find an answer for me! It’s driving me insane! 😉
The film was so well crafted it’s hard to imagine how such a gaping hole in logic could be missed. The truth is out there!
Maybe with the “burning” of the diary it was hard to tell how old the ink was? I wonder why Nick and Go didn’t move all the items they found in her shed before the police received the tip… they knew that Amy was using that to make Nick look like an over spender.
I thought that too! There were a lot of holes … but still an excellent film.
Agreed – its the great ones that make you allow a few “huh” here and there 🙂
I thought that Jeff and Greta should have called the police and reported having seen her after she was found. And let them know that she was willingly staying at the cabin by herself. That would’ve provided proof that she was lying.
There is so much about this book that makes me think it was set up for a second book. I still think she could do it… t ends on a note of giving up… condemned… but what if? 😉
Hi; I’m Glenn, a 47-y/o from NJ. I’m a big Agatha Christie fan & fan of surprise endings & well-told stories. Finished this at 12:29 last night & am still W-O-W-ed! I’ll have to reread parts of it. I loved the flip-flopping chapters. After numerous “burns” of surprise endings by the media, I bought this & just started reading it. I did not read the back cover or the praising reviews in the front (which do reveal some of it). I suspected Nick wasn’t what he claimed w/the ringing phone. I loved that Amy was such a sociopath, but did feel bad when she was robbed. Desi was a creep waiting to happen (too controlling). I liked Nick & Amy, & laughed myself silly during Amy’s Q&A w/Det. Boney! So loose w/the facts! I was trying to figure out how it would end and WAS disappointed w/the ending but couldn’t figure how else to end it well….
The book is told very much like some of Agatha Christie’s great mysteries, but there’s some Patricia Highsmith in there, too (“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” who was NOT the Matt Damon character of the movie, but a callous psychopath who kills his way to riches through 5 books!), which is probably why I was OK w/Amy.
Yes, I felt bad for Nick, but he was kinda stupid (w/the sperm, I mean). But the brains of any “girl” (or woman) will trump any man’s any day!
LOL… Amy is one twisted girl that is for sure!
The ending destroyed the book for me. This woman who cries rape so many times and it is always false puts sexual assault out there and not in a good way. How many times are women accused of deceit and are also threatened if they tell it will be a he said/she said and everyone will question her and how she made it happen or that she was never raped. So, this woman never gets prosecuted and has made so many men look horrible in the process. It is woman like this character who perpetuate the idea that victims lie about rape.
The book makes many people mad – I think it is supposed too. There are books that go the other way too making it look like it is always the guy. In fact I think more books portray the guy as the bad one than women… while it may be upsetting… it is a crazy twisted book that has people talking.
albarino97
There are many, many comments disparaging the ending. The ending is perfectly showing why most men stay in their marriage. There is no other viable alternative. If they get out if the marriage they are either slayed emotionally by society and go underground or destroyed financially. So their only option is to stay in a relationship with women driven by burnishing their ego image for the sake of their family friends or community which is exactly what has driven the american economy for the last six decades and why it is also getting ready to tank completely. I though it was a metaphorically genius ending to a bankrupt institution in a bankrupt economy.
Good point. I love the diversity of the comments 😉
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Loved the book the whole way though but the ending…Aww what that’s it?! Anticlimactic. I would have had Nick wait it out till the baby was old enough for him to run off with him and have Amy suffer public humiliation. Of course the ending that Flynn wrote had Amy with last word because that’s just like Amy to have to win!
When I was trying to predict the ending I thought there was going to be some bloody battle in the kitchen between them with Nick killing Amy who wasn’t actually pregnant.
I still hope that Gyllian Flynn will surprise us with a followup book 🙂
Yes me too. It has been a while since that book but maybe she’s waiting till the movie is done at the cinemas. Going to hopefully see it soon. Glad I read the book first 😊
I went for my third time last week – mainly because i have friends who have not seen it yet so I keep going with them 😀
GoneGirlBook
During the first part of the book, I assumed Nick was the killer, owing to his admission of ‘lies’. Of course, these were related to his affair and not the murder.
I was disappointed with the ending because I really felt Nick’s anger towards her and he seemed to change from a guy who really didn’t have a clue, to a guy who was sharp and fixed on his goal of getting Amy to return. I find it VERY hard to believe he would feel an ounce of love towards her after what she’d done to him. Knowing Nick’s character throughout the book, Nick would never have slept in the same house as her, let alone the same room! I feel he would have probably made his excuses and moved in with Go. Yes, Amy is three steps ahead of everyone and can certainly mind f*ck most people, but she is able to make mistakes (the two thieves when she’s on the run and the man who believes he knows her when she meets up with Desi).
I think Nick would have been encouraged even more to uncover Amy’s sociopathic behaviour once she revealed the pregnancy. Once in jail, Nick would be able to look after his son with Amy inflicting more damage.
I believe Nick wants to escape but she has him trapped – between her talent of lies, having his baby (which he wants), and his heartfelt wanting her back on tv… he would be crucified by the world if he left her.
yes but who would believe him?.. the police and parents and public already were believing Amys story and won’t listen to a crazed theory
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I thought it was the Scot Peterson story until she came home
Oh my gosh – right!
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Can someone help me here…? I just finished the book, and I kept waiting for the part where Amy’s perfect head gets bashed in & she is crawling across the kitchen floor crying out to NIck!!! This is referenced in the book a couple of times (by Nick) so up until the last page I was waiting for him to crush her. No luck. Anyone??? Did I miss something?
I think that is in reference to what he is thinking… she has him trapped but if he could… he would.
Yes that’s how I pictured the ending, once I realized Nick didn’t kill Amy in the first place this way but then it didn’t happen
Loved this book, couldn’t put it down! I was hoping that at the very end, Desi’s mother would come through with an alibi or some other proof that Amy lied. I also kept thinking about the meeting at the casino between Amy and Desi. There are cameras everywhere in casinos, that footage would’ve dismantled her story. I think cheaters are scum, but I was rooting for Amy going prison, and Nick living happily ever after. Until Nicks dad died, I was hoping he’d maybe wander into their house and kill that psycho in her sleep! An earlier commenter said something about hating both main characters was what made it not the best book. I disagree. Writing that can make me dislike two people so much, yet still be invested in them– AMAZING (see what I did there? Haha)
I agree.. I think the author did exactly what she had hoped too… created characters that you can either love or hate and leaves it all messy… like life 🙂
Diwas Upadhyay
With so much anticipation being build up i tried to guess so many plot for this. Here are my summaries and things that was going on in my head:
(1) I never thought from the beggining that Nick was killer.
(2) When i saw Nick so cool about his wifes dissapearance i thought there was something fishy between Nick and Amy
(3) By fishy i mean they had financial problem and with hints about insurance and all i seriously was pretty convinced till the end that it was their plan for money or something like that i thought they would scam money from insurance and nick would run away and meet amy later and they would be on a vacation
(4) Then came the twist when they showed Amy a psycopath i thought she would probably kill herself and nick would end up in jail and there would be a cliffhangar in the end when the lady detective i forgot her name has a hint that nick is innocent and the movie ends
(5) Then finally when all the above things were not possible i thought amy would be exposed by Nick and lady police and Amy would end up in Mental Asylum. When she returned after killing her teenage boyfriend and she was in hospital i thiught she is going crazy and would end up in mental asylum.
(6) Then finally i thought that Nick would talk to Amy parents and accuse them of knowing that amy was a psycopath and they did not tell him.
(7) Somewhere in between i even thought she was doing all this for her book that she was writing and wanted to create drama in her life like in the movie “The Secret Window” like a psycopath.
(8) After all hopes died i finally thought Nick with her twin sister would kill Amy and provide evidence that she was a psycopath and get his revenge till the end i thought her parents knew about her beinv a psycopath.
Finally the ending really ruined it for me i expected Nick to take revenge because frm the beginning i never liked amy i always thought that either the bad one is Amy or they both are framing someone. I had so much pity for Nick and the child that is going to br born in that family just imagine how much the child has to go through with such a psycopath Mother.
I hope there is a sequel to it and Amys truth is opened to the world and she suffers in a Mental asylum.
Great thoughts! I had not thought of an insurance scam… good one! I too am hoping from more from Nick and Amy 🙂
Hi. Finally someone besides me who believed Amy had a twin. Again, the guy in the bar asked her if she was one of the “girls”. Remember the close up of his sister at the end? It was Amy’s twin. Just the way I saw it.
I dont see that at all but there is another comment at well that thinks that. 🙂 Sue did you read the book and see the movie?
Where is the casino that amy gets neil p harris to meet her at in Gone Girl?
Brian Petry
How did Amy escape the lake house without the gate code?
Mosheh Ellsion
who did nick have an affair with and how long?
I haven’t read the book or seen the movie. I haven’t read enough of this page to totally spoil it either. From the trailer it feels a little like the Scott Peterson story. But parts from this page tell me different??
That is actually really interesting… I had never thought about that… but yeah… it does sound a bit like that.
A Argy
I saw it coming. Right from the start!
A little late to the party here, and obviously knew via living on planet earth that this book would be twisty, but WOW MAN this is an incredibly well crafted story.
Very often I *rebel* against reading what “everyone else is reading” only to end up reading it anyway and at a point where you would have to live in a cave to not know what’s going to happen. Every so often, having a pretty clear idea of the story’s denouement,I still get blown away by the details and the ability of the author to keep up with their own twists.
I started it at 9pm last night, read til 4, and held the last thirty or so pages for when I woke up (I have Mondays off, this is how I party, ha ha). I’m going to rent the movie this evening. I’ve heard there is something extra at the ending so I’m hopeful, but really bummed to read in these comments that Amy’s parents are downplayed because I think their influence on and treatment of her (as a commodity to be traded) cannot be underestimated…
Although I also see her as the grown up version of Darien (Alicia Silverstone’s character) in The Crush(1993)!
I find Ben Affleck beyond gross and smarmy- looking forward to despising Nick even more. So many deplorable characters in this story and I so enjoy being a hater!
shellseeker99Trisha
I had hoped that Nick would wind up,with Rhonda Boney. She was a strong woman, and he needs one….just not a sociopath.
The one hole in Amy’s plan I kept hoping someone would figure out was her disposable mobile phone. She gave the number to the alarm company for Nick’s Dad’s house. They rang it and she let it ring so it would loosely pinpoint her location at the time, AND she used it to ring in to the police line.
It’s not a plot hole because Nick wasn’t aware that the alarm company rang her first, but I really thought that might be her undoing!!
PS, I don’t get all the hate for Nick and people saying they deserved each other. Sure he was spineless and when I was taking Amy’s diary as true I thought he was a cheating a-hole. However all her past crimes against other people show’d that it wasn’t his cheating that made her this way. She was pretending to be a ‘cool girl’ when they got married. I do not like the idea of cheating at all, but its not surprising he was love starved married to a psycho.
Does it say in the book that she called the alarm company? I read it in 2012 so now I can not recall 🙂 Good points!
Hey Shelia, thanks for replying! It says in one of Amy’s first honest chapters after the twistaroo that she changed the Alarm code 2 weeks before she disappeared and gave them her secret mobile number as the contact number with Nick’s as a backup. She wanted the alarm tripped so it would pinpoint him at his Dad’s place after the murder. (That’s where the cops find her burnt diary). When the phone rings in her cabin she knows he has gone there.
Not a plot hole as I said, but one way to debunk her story!
Nice catch! I remembered the alarm change but could not recall how she made that happen. I forgot about the phone ringing in her hotel too about the alarm…. egad… she was creepy good! 😛
Oh and you asked how I would have liked it to end. I thought Nick should keep a copy of the book and once the baby is born send it to the publisher, send the kid off to the inlaws for babysitting and then shoot Amy, then himself.
Raising a child with her didn’t seem like a good option. Her idea of punishment and justice was so extreme who knows what she’d put the child through!
Wow!!! I would totally be for Amy not raising the baby but Nick I thought could handle it if Amy was out of the picture. Go would help him. Amy can go away, but spare Nick… I think he could make it without AMAZING AMY by his side. 😆
I agree. My drastic ending was just for if he couldn’t find any way to escape her clutches!
Even if it would have given her place at the hotel away, she told the police she was taken to a remote place by Desi. They would have just thought the cabin was that place and that her phone couldn’t be answered because Desi had her tied up.
I still haven’t read this book, but don’t think I will. 🙂
What if desi ‘s alibi that morning has been proved ? Would this ruin the whole story?
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Yes the ending was disappointing, lets go back to the start, oh Nick definitely had something to do with wife’s disappearance right?, he thinks it, all his thoughts are on how he has hit Amy over the head also he is having an affair which gives him a motive , then there is sweet naïve Amy and her diary who would do anything to keep her man happy…. but the truth is Nick is having an affair to have some meaning in is life, his wife who has a brilliant mind can do anything to make it look like she is the victim all along, only in the end I found her manipulative and controlling who has always gotten her way for being pretty and a golden girl star, “from her parents books about her life” Just because you are pretty it doesn’t mean everything has to go your way…. so then I really hate Amy and all her mind games… She has set it up that Nick gets done with her murder only her plan didn’t quite work out so she had to get herself pregnant so Nick wont walk out on her… so Nick is a better man for staying with her then I gave him credit for.. but once he found out I thought Nick would have gone ahead and killed her or some sort of Murder suicide but in the end the police would have gotten the truth some how like a secret copy of Nicks story sent to the police weeks before the final even…… but has this now left it open for a second book????
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Luke C.
I finished the book in less than a day (Gillian Flynn has a definite way with words that sucks me in) and I was just as shocked and disgusted as most of y’all.
I have to admit I liked Amy and felt sorry for her up until she returned pouty lipped, baby voiced to “Poor Nicky”. The sympathy I got for Amy was from her childhood. She felt like a prized possession to her (ironically, child psychologist) parents rather than a human. Loved when they had to borrow the bulk of her trust she was only happy with things and being in utter control. After Jeff and Greta robbed her I was hoping she’d find her way and come to her senses. When she and Nick were reunited is when the lump in my throat wouldn’t go away and I switched from team Amy to team Nick. And in the part where Nick finally snaps and starts to strangle her I was hoping he wouldn’t kill her, but that it would snap Amy out of her manipulative, selfish reality, divorce Nick and he could move on. I was so, so shocked she walked away scotch free, especially after killing Desi! Clearly Boney was on Nick ‘s side, but for professional or personal reasons? Mia, her daughter, is mentioned, but not a partner of her own. And it is (often) mentioned how attractive he is.
I’m glad to have read another post curious about Desi and the eerie relationship he had with his mother (I was thinking it was borderline incestuous myself…so strange how he longed for a younger version of his mom…ick).
By the end I couldn’t stand Nick or Amy and was hoping for a swift, I don’t know, house fire or mysterious car collision to put me out of my mental mind f*** misery. Now all I can think about is their lives as a family with a baby and will Amy get her trust repaid, with interest? How will that affect the family dynamic between her, Nick, and baby Dunne? God, I hope Mrs. Flynn writes a sequel.
I love that this post still brings up such great discussion! I too wold love a sequel.
love Luke C comment yeah strange relationship between Desi and his mum
I was so disappinted in the end . I thought for sure there was another chapter. This book was one that i couldnt put down. I have to think of how i would end it, but your ending sounded great.
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This story just happened to have innumerable similarities (including characters, twists, psychology, plot points, scenes, key points of dialogue, and other elements) to a spec script written four years prior to Gone Girl. The author of the spec script has the experience one would expect if one was to have written such a story. That intimate knowledge of human behavior is what made it compelling. And the ending fit perfectly. It fit perfectly because when someone has the ability to understand not only such characters but also the psychology of readers and has written to that psychology, she also understands how such a story should end. And it’s a double whammy.
I LOVED this book!! Someone told me to read it because of what I am going through with my wife….however, I am NOT a cheater.
Part one made me feel like an ass hole for being that regular guy, like Nick, being dismissive to things my wife feels are important. I feel like my wife is a lot like her, journal Amy, thinking more of the idea of love than actual love…well, i guess the real Amy explains why in the end; there is no unconditional love, according to Amy. I feel my wife believes the same thing.
Then we see how crazy Amy is! I really thought it was an awesome story!!!
I actually thought the two from the cabin were gonna show up again, or Detective Boney was gonna find something. But, I know how Nick feels at the end, kind of…. I kept going back to my wife, even after she tried to ruin my career. However, I now realize how crazy I was for that. I just think this was a GREAT book.
By the way, am I the only one who sees Amazing Amy when I see a picture of Gillian Flynn???
Just realized, WAY too much info of my personal life there. This book just hit me really hard. I just finished it tonight and needed to talk about it, then i saw this page.
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Hi just curious I now this is an old discussion but I’ve just finished the book and I don’t now if I’ve missed somthing what happend to able Andy she refrenced a couple of times “I wonder have the found able Andy yet” which led me to believe that she has murdered him and his body was going to turn up at some stage also implicating Nick did I get this wrong. I loved the book although the first 100 pages didn’t really have me glued to the book like I would usually I put I down for about two months and only picked it back up finsihed it in two days couldn’t put it down did anyone else think the start of the book dragged a little. I loved both characters though and was disappointed by the ending I thought they deserved somthing more explosive. That been said I wonder did it end like this maybe to keep it open for a possible sequel, here’s hoping.
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin
H. Colburn, 1818
He accompanied it with very polite expressions of his esteem for me, having as
he said been long acquainted with my character. After dinner when the company
as was customary at that time, were engaged in drinking, he took me aside into ...
I acquainted the House with what had passed, and presenting them with a set of
resolutions I had drawn up, declaring our rights, that we did not relinquish our
claim to those rights, but only suspended the exercise of them on this occasion, ...
He expressed great pleasure at my coming, and acquainted me in a long
conversation with the outlines of his plan, parts of which he read to me. He said
he had communicated it only to Lord Camden, whose advice he much relied on,
Passy, June 26s, 1784. Mr. Waltersdorff called on me, and acquainted me with a
duel that had been fought yesterday morning, between a French officer,1 and a
Swedish gentleman of that king's suite, in which the latter was killed on the spot, ...
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... Writes for the New England Courant, 14 — Differs with his brother, the printer,
to whom he is apprenticed, 15 — Leaves his brother and proceeds to New York, \
6 — Quits New York for Philadelphia, 16 — Becomes acquainted with Dr. Brown,
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Seite 419 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Seite 72 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Seite lxxiii - Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those .rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests.
Seite 296 - Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And, for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Seite 392 - Constitution, for when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Seite 294 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 88 - I happened, soon after, to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which, I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold ; as he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Seite lxviii - The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Seite lxxii - That it is the opinion of this Convention, that as soon as the Conventions of nine states shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the states which shall have ratified the same...
Seite 73 - I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults to make room for new ones in a new course, became full of holes...
Titel Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
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Band 1 von Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United State of America at the Court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c, William Temple Franklin
Autoren Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin
Verlag H. Colburn, 1818
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Providing workshops and certifications for owners and future employees of the cannabis industry in Missouri. Don’t miss the keynote speakers and panelists who will be discussing Missouri marijuana establishments and how to navigate through the industry for success.
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Trim Ready Certification
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300 East 39th Street, Kansas City, MO
This area is reserved for orientation, keynote speakers and panels with an open floor for questions.
Educators discuss many aspects of cultivation, production/manufacturing, and dispensaries and provide a written curriculum.
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Rachael Dunn
Greenway Magazine, Editor
Rachael Herndon Dunn is the publisher of Greenway Magazine, Missouri’s cannabis industry trade publication. Greenway reaches industry leaders every week in the email newsletter, distributed to thousands. For 2019, Greenway Magazine is distributed statewide every other month. In October, Greenway launched Greenway for Patients to meet increased statewide demand for a trusted and reliable Missouri-based resource.
Prior to co-founding Greenway Magazine, Rachael built her niche publishing career leading the Missouri Times, a hyper-focused state political publication. Through many years of print editing, email newsletter writing, sales, event planning, designing, magazine publishing, and broadcast production, Rachael is a pro at wearing many hats by being a consistent and experienced source for industry news. She has focused on state government and politics for a decade.
Rachael is originally from Kansas City but lives in the state capital with her family. She is constantly on the phone or road reaching every part of the soon-to-be cannabis industry in Missouri.
Jen Solas
TRIM READY, WECAN Compliance
Jen Solas Trim Read, WECAN Compliance: Jennifer Solas is a long-time advocate and educator in the cannabis industry. As an appointed participant in the 2015 governors tax board, she helped craft the recreational cannabis laws in Nevada. In 2012 she wrote the application for the cannabis nonprofit WeCan702 and was awarded a 501 c 3 for education in cannabis. With that nonprofit, she helped over 300 people get their medical cannabis cards at no cost. She has continued with Wecan702 and Trim Ready to educate 25% of Nevada’s current cannabis workforce. She has a veterinary nursing degree and taught that profession for over a decade. Jennifer Has lived in Las Vegas for over 25 years and is excited to use her knowledge and experience to educate and build upcoming markets
Acres Dispensary, Supervisor
Brooke Lewis is a supervisor at Acres cannabis dispensary in Las Vegas, NV with a background in cultivation and production. Brooke loves what she does and knows firsthand the medical benefits that come with using cannabis. Being born with a degenerative disease, She is a major medical advocate for cannabis use. Brooke understands the seriousness of not just treating disease but actually relieving people’s bodies of any suffering without any habit-forming pharmaceuticals. Brooke is always expanding her knowledge in this new emerging legal industry and is working on starting her own cannabis brand soon to help others in similar situations.
Asia Franks
Acres Dispensary, Lead Budtender
Asia Franks is a professional budtender in the Las Vegas cannabis market. She has been in a leadership position at both Show Grow Dispensary and Acres Cannabis, one of the largest operations in Las Vegas. Asia has a deep understanding of the countless medical marijuana strains, their effect, and their effectiveness. She is also an expert in working with patients on dosing and delivery methods. Asia not only works with patients, but she is also an effective trainer for new employees entering the cannabis industry.
Chris McHugh
Joseph, Hollander & Craft
Missouri Cannabis Lawyer
Passion and navigation through new ways of critical thinking in legal representation are the heart of Chris HcHugh’s practice. That’s why after nearly two decades as both criminal defense lawyers and civil litigation attorney, Chris now spends much of his time representing, consulting with and advising entities and individuals on marijuana or hemp projects. This approach to practicing law combined with his array of legal experience gives Chris’ clients an advantage in this relatively new and ever-changing legal landscape. Chris is the head of the Cannabis Practice Group at Joseph Hollander & Craft and helps clients with all aspects of their Cannabis business. He represents some of the largest Missouri Medical Marijuana and Hemp groups in Kansas City. Success for a Cannabis business can greatly depend on the strategy and counsel of their attorney. No two states regulate marijuana the same way, and legal changes can and do happen on a daily basis. The biggest challenge facing businesses in the Cannabis industry is legal compliance. Organizations that deal with marijuana and hemp must have an attorney who not only understands the law but creates real solutions to regulatory issues instead of retreading old ground.
Christi McAdams
Cannabis Community College, Founder
Christi McAdams was born and raised in Kansas and is excited to bring years of her own experience and that of her colleagues to Missouri. She has owned and operated a manufacturing license in California which produced award-winning concentrates since 2013 and the 17th licensed production facility in Nevada. McAdams founded and was CEO of Focus Distribution, Nevada’s leading cannabis distribution company and owns multiple cannabis support licenses including Highlite Staffing, a cannabis staffing company and Highlite Group, a cannabis marketing and sales liaison firm. Most recently McAdams founded Cannabis Community College, a platform for educating owners, operators, and employees in existing and newly legalized markets. Christi is active in the cannabis community belonging to and actively supporting NORML, Women Grow and various other organizations to promote the efforts of the cannabis industry. Christi and her team host monthly events rounding up industry peers and promoting their motto to engage, enjoy and prosper together.
Charla Hearn Pellot
Highlite Staffing, Director of Staffing
Charla was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and cannabis was part of her family’s everyday life. In 2010 I was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer, which further propelled her interest in cannabis as medicine. After surgery and multiple bouts of Radiation therapy along with cannabis use, she is in remission. Charla got into the industry as a receptionist and front desk greeter when Nevada passed medical. She received exceptional reviews on WeedMaps and maintained an impressive and personal connection to all her patients. She worked her way to being a budtender at one of Nevada’s largest fully integrated dispensary groups. She also remained true to her roots in cultivation and worked as a trimmer with Highlite which after being promoted up the ladder there, led her to her dream job as Director of Staffing for Highlite Staffing which utilizes a perfect blend of her knowledge of patient care, scheduling, human resources, staffing, and cannabis cultivation.
Lisa Apodaca
Highlite Group, Sales Representative
With years of experience promoting brands and products for various companies and a background in cultivation, it was an easy transition into sales support and sourcing in the Nevada cannabis space. Lisa understands that being a successful sales representative is about knowing your product and building relationships. As a genuine people person and knowledge seeker, these things come second nature to her. Recently, Lisa has dissolved her position in dispensary sales to pursue becoming a CBD specialist; learning everything from procuring biomass, to product sales.
Lisa is a true plant medicine advocated. You can be sure to find Lisa, along with the rest of the Highlite Group, hosting and supporting cannabis industry events year-round.
Mary Anne Sawser
Mary Anne Sawser has spent her career caring for people with over 20 years in the medical field. She began by earning her degree in Radiology. While practicing, she went further to certify in mammography and computed tomography (CT). Noticing her friends’ involvement in the burgeoning cannabis business, she reached out to a dear friend Christi McAdams to learn more about the health benefits cannabis can bring. Mary Anne joined Focus Distribution over a year ago and started representing a brand that was created by doctors (a pain management specialist and an orthopedic surgeon). Currently, she is working for The Highlight Group, focusing on sales and sourcing between cultivations and production facilities.
Alyssa Gorham
Highlite Group, Managing Partner
Born and raised in Alaska, Alyssa has spent the last 14 years happily calling Las Vegas home and a base for her world travels. After many years in oil, aviation and event production, Alyssa followed longtime friend Christi McAdams into the Nevada cannabis market. She began in sales and represented multiple brands over the course of two years before becoming a managing partner of Highlite Group. Currently, she is proud to conduct sales for Hydrostar as well as manage the Highlite Group team that does sourcing for trim, failed flower, distillate, isolate and more. Alyssa is an active member of the Nevada cannabis community and enjoys bringing people together through the many industry events hosted by Highlite Group. At the root of her daily motivation are a true love for the cannabis plant, the science behind it and the passion to have a positive impact in the lives of others.
Rebecca Perrick
Women Grow, President Las Vegas
Women Grow scholarships & networking events helped Rebecca Perrick launch her career in the Las Vegas cannabis industry over 4 years ago. As the Las Vegas Women Grow Market Leader, she is now able to help others grow and design events that build community and showcase emerging leaders and businesses. Rebecca works with dispensaries throughout the state of Nevada distributing marijuana products of the highest quality for Canabella Kitchen. She has a unique background in health & wellness from her years of experience as an Aerial Yoga instructor & her Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. Rebecca enjoys participating in a variety of educational events & sharing what she’s learned as she grows in this industry.
Nelson Ramirez
WBA Consultants, Business & Media Advisor
US Navy Veteran and founder of production company Morning Coffee Productions, Nelson entered the cannabis industry in 2015 providing multi-media services to cannabis clients including licensed entities, CBD companies, activists, advocates, artists, and Veteran’s Organizations. Nelson’s media experience includes blockbuster films, international films, documentaries, music videos, commercials, live events, as well as photography and graphic design. Nelson has a background in manufacturing, architectural & mechanical design, residential & commercial construction, small business management, privileged license application preparation, and holds a thorough knowledge of the structures that regulate multiple business types, including cannabis.
Currently the General Manager at WBA Consulting, Nelson is responsible for the day to day operations and oversees multi-state business consulting projects for clients in heavily regulated markets and beyond. He utilizes his network and experience to connect clients with services and professionals to fit their needs. WBA boasts a list of cannabis clients in 6 legal states and clients in a range of other industries.
WBA Consultants, Executive Consultant
A U.S. Navy Veteran having served aboard the ballistic missile submarine USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), David White brings 31 years’ business and field experience in heavily regulated industries such as Power Plant, Semiconductor, Construction, Food & Beverage and Cannabis.
Founder of White Services Group LLC which includes WBA Consulting, David provides business development and strategic planning services to micro-enterprise and small businesses, with operations throughout the United States.
Under David’s leadership, WBA provides professional services to cannabis clients including:
• Privileged license application preparation
• Operations and compliance management
• Development and implementation of Policies, Procedures & Manuals
• Business plans
• Financial Projections
• Development and implementation of training & qualification programs
• Development and production of cannabis training videos
• Web and tech development
• Multi-media development and production
For the last five years, David White has been heavily involved in the operations, strategic planning, compliance, and executive management support for established multistate, vertical operators of cannabis cultivation, manufacturing and retail businesses in 6 legal states and growing.
Lillian Wilson
United American Hemp, Pharmacist & Cultivator
Born and raised in St. Joseph, MO., Dr. Lillian Wilson, PharmD., is certified in Cannabis Medicine and Science and is a registered and practicing Pharmacist with Mosaic Healthcare Systems in St. Joseph, MO. Lillian is a licensed cultivator of industrial hemp in Kansas and serves on the board of advisors for United American Hemp – a Kansas based cultivator of Cannabis Sativa L. Lillian focuses her educational research efforts on the effects of cannabinoids on select medicinal conditions as well as the efficacy of medicinal cannabis as a treatment for opioid addiction. Lillian regularly consults with cultivators, infused product companies and dispensaries on the proper dosing, delivery method and interactions of medical marijuana. Lillian is passionate about patient care and dedicates a portion of her time to ensure patients are well educated and well informed. Lillian earned a Doctorate of Pharmacy from The University of Missouri – Kansas City and is Certified in Cannabis Medicine & Science from the University of Vermont.
United American Hemp, Cofounder & Director of R&D
Michael Wilson, Co-Founder, and Director of R&D is responsible for United American Hemp’s scientific research, engineering, and product development initiatives. United American Hemp, a licensed cultivator, and researcher of industrial hemp operate a 140-acre farm in Louisburg, Kansas with 6,000 square feet of year-round industrial hemp seed and clone production. Michael is a Certified Master Grower and has leveraged decades of manufacturing and technology experience to accelerate new developments in industrial hemp cultivation, processing, drying, and harvesting. At United American Hemp, Michael focuses his research on genetics and genomics, precision cultivation methodologies and new extraction technology. In addition to his role at United American Hemp, Michael is also co-owner of TORNA, a regulated-industry consulting firm specializing in legal cannabis markets, True State, a Colorado-based business-to-business cannabis-product development firm and a minority interest owner of YRG – a cultivation and agricultural supply chain provider. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Business Administration from The University of Missouri – Kansas City.
John Mueller
Greenlight & Acres, Cofounder
Born in St. Louis, Mr. Mueller is a serial entrepreneur that co-founded Acres Cannabis, Eureka Cultivation, and Greenlight Dispensary. Acres in Las Vegas operates the award-winning 19,000 sq ft dispensary featuring the first Marijuana Farmer’s Market, open view edibles kitchen, museum and 300-person concert venue. Acres operates the largest cultivation and manufacturing facilities with 37 acres and over 260,000 sq ft of Canopy. Eureka Cultivation operates in Salinas, California with over 200,000 sq ft of canopy and 3 dispensaries under development. Acres and Eureka were sold to Curaleaf in 2019 for $100 million.
Eric Manfredonia
Gold Coast Distribution, Cofounder & CEO
Eric has 20 years of experience in the cannabis industry from owning and operating retail and cultivation facilities to wholesaling across the state. Eric specializes in automated packaging and branding by assisting cultivators and retailers to turn their bulk flower into a packaged product ready for the dispensary shelves. Eric is a logistics, product placement, and bulk wholesale specialist.
Stephanie Till
WBA Consulting, Compliance Specialist
Stephanie Till serves as a Compliance Specialist and the Director of Content Development for WBA Consulting, a business services firm that advises cannabis business clients in six states and growing. She brings over 10 years of research experience to advise on regulatory compliance, builds dynamic operating procedures, creates and develops content, assists in developing branding and marketing strategies, advises on and develops training programs, and assists in privileged license application preparation. She has experience working with state and local agencies to inform the regulatory processes that shape the regulations and enforcement efforts that affect cannabis clients most. Previously she has served as a Public Relations Manager for a cannabis business focused accounting firm and has a background in education as a researcher and part-time instructor.
Stephanie is also the Founder/Director of the Marijuana Industry Research Archive (M.I.R.A.), where she is building a body of resources to catalog the development of the Cannabis industry while cannabis is quasi-legal. Stephanie is among the first Historians to take an interest in the developments of this emerging industry. Stephanie started M.I.R.A. at the end of 2016 and earned her Master of Arts in History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2017.
Ryan Shore
Big Sky Scientific, CBD & Production Specialist
Today, Ryan and his team at Big Sky Scientific are supplying CBD, ingredients, knowledge, education, and formulas to others in the CBD and industrial hemp industries. By bringing them together and providing a reliable, quality supply chain, they’re able to succeed while giving buyers an accessible, reliable, and quality source of CBD products. Prior to launching Big Sky Scientific, he ran his own hemp farm, planting and raising hemp plants to understand the farmers and find improvements that could be made. Using the CBD from this hemp, he learned how CBD products are crafted and picked up many important tips and tricks along the way. Finally, he set up the right network of high-quality partners to make sourcing quality hemp ingredients a seamless experience.
“People will always remember when you did everything in your power to help them, and I owe everything to those people.” – Ryan Shore | Founder & CEO, Big Sky Scientific
Jessica Velazquez, CPA
Indiva Advisors, Partner
Jessica Velazquez is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Illinois & Nevada and Managing Partner of Indiva Advisors LLP. Jessica assists business owners to navigate through unique accounting, tax, and financial industry challenges. She guides c-suite executives to achieve their goals by providing guidance on tax and general business matters. She brings with her a wide array of experience, working with closely-held businesses as well as publicly-traded multinationals, across a variety of industries such as gaming, retail, and manufacturing. Jessica hails from traditional business, having worked for public accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, as well as Zappos.com. In 2013, Jessica started her own practice with an emphasis on income tax planning and strategic business consulting for closely held companies. After identifying a gap for qualified professionals in the cannabis industry, she sought advice from state and federal oversight boards and realized that her past experiences gave her the ability to understand the needs of both large and small, and decided to take the leap. Jessica is Indiva Advisors’ main authority in 280E and general tax matters for individuals, partnerships, and corporations. She is responsible for representing clients in federal audit and collection cases and has a wealth of experience with state and local tax matters. She enjoys problem-solving and working with clients to achieve their tax and business goals. Jessica holds a Master of Science in Taxation degree from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Southern Illinois University. She is actively involved in several professional organizations such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Tax Professionals.
Brenda Gunsallus
Sahara Wellness Managing Partner
Brenda Gunsallus has over 30 years of experience in business management and operations. Brenda has owned and operated a broad range of companies that have included both retail stores and a sporting facility. Brenda holds several licenses for MME establishments and a Master’s degree in Science. This educational background has made her a go-to resource for her staff. Brenda’s business insights and extensive expertise in the medical marijuana industry has gained her the respect of her peers. Brenda is an outgoing and engaging leader in charge of inventory, compliance auditing, and daily operational execution. Understanding the essential process to maximize daily business and manage associate productivity by focusing on the patient as the top priority. Brenda’s keen insight into these areas has set her establishment apart from other competitors.
Josh Mitchem
CEO | Co-Founder Mitchem Companies
CEO | Co-Founder Mitchem Companies + CLOVRPresident, Platinum B Services, 2003-2008CEO, e-Finance Support, 2008-2013CEO/Owner, Revival Management Services, 2013-PresentCEO/Co-founder, Mitchem Companies 2003-PresentCEO/Owner, MoGrow, LLC 2017- present board member, Online Lenders AllianceBoard member, Synergy Services. Josh has more than 15 years of senior-level national business experience in highly regulated and competitive industries along with 5+ years of cannabis investment/ownership experience. His entrepreneurial expertise in creating and growing companies from the ground up combined with his policy regulation knowledge provides an asset to MoCannTrade’s Industry Compliance & Education committee and the future of Missouri Medical Cannabis.
MOCANNTRADE President
MoCannTrade President | Executive DirectorVP and Executive Board Member | AAF-St. Louis Ad Club–2010 to 201720+ years of marketing experience working with RJ Reynolds, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, 5hr Energy, Elsevier, Blu e-cigarettes as well as other notable healthcare and consumer brands after hearing Senator Eric Schmitt’s impassioned speech for CBD on the Missouri Capital floor, It has been Mr. Mullins’ passion to see medical cannabis becomes a reality in the state.
“I recognize the rising tide of cannabis nationally and the positive impact it has on people’s health. I’m excited to be leading our association and look forward to working with the industry to implement a safe, responsible program that more than anything, helps people.”
Stuart Wilcox
Curaleaf COO
Stuart Wilcox is a seasoned operational leader with more than 25 years of experience in the global supply chain, operations start-up, acquisitions, and new product commercialization for market leaders. He joined Curaleaf from Hostess Brands where he was the SVP/COO of Operations. Prior to Hostess, he held global senior operational leadership positions at The Original Cakerie, a private Canadian company, Fresh Express/Chiquita and ConAgra.
Jeremy Cowie
Great Northern Harvest – Founder
Jeremy Cowie is driven by the positive impact that hemp can have on the world through its health and economic benefits. To deliver these benefits, he is building the most advanced and sustainable hemp production and supply chain in the world. He has more than 15 years of experience in the industry after joining a pilot program for medical cannabis with Health Canada in 2003. His interest in the health benefits of hemp was inspired by his father’s battle with leukemia when Cowie began researching the benefits of CBD. He saw the potential with his own eyes as he successfully aided his father using different CBD strains. He acquired a license to produce cannabis from Health Canada, built a legal growing operation and established an infrastructure of co-op gardens across multiple locations. Between 2014-2018, Cowie laid the groundwork for Great Northern Harvest. Cowie’s focus remained on building a business that could deliver CBD products, investing several million dollars of his own money, betting on Canada’s legalization of cannabis and what would become the US Farm Bill. Great Northern Harvest is now positioned as an industry and world leader thanks to proprietary advances in genetics, as well as harvest and extraction techniques. The company is transforming hemp from a high-value crop to a profitable and sustainable business model, building a supply chain that is scalable to meet future demand through top genetics and sustainable processes.
West Plischke
Owner & Head Cultivator HydroStar
With over 23 years of experience in cultivation, West Plischke built the first legal regulated facilities in Maine and Rhode Island which the State of Nevada trained in and then mirrored to create the current set of standard operating procedures. Located in Reno, the Hydrostar cultivation is a closed-loop, fully sealed environment consisting of a recirculating hydroponic system that reclaims all runoff and transpiration. In 2007, West invented the first LED-based light with a graphic user interface that is infinitely networkable, programmable spectrum and Wi-Fi enabled. In all aspects of the Hydrostar cultivation, there is an emphasis on energy and water efficiency while never sacrificing the quality of cannabinoid or terpene content. West provides proof of concepts for energy and water consumption for not only cannabis but all forms of agriculture. Water is the earth’s most valuable fuel source, and Hydrostar is ultimately an energy company.
Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Activist
Ryan Adams is a passionate cannabis entrepreneur, inventor, and activist. In 2000 Ryan invented the Debowler which quickly became a high volume nationally distributed product in headshops before dispensaries existed. Ryan became the first stand-alone production facility in the state of Nevada in 2015 when medical passed. Ryan currently owns and operates marijuana and hemp companies in the US, Canada, Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Jamaica, and Paraguay. He has worked with Ministries of Health and Agriculture in these countries to aid in the development of industry standards for research, production and international research.
James Ocshe
Head Cultivator
Seasoned cannabis industry professional is responsible for the development of cultivation process and standard operating procedures for two of the largest Corporate Cannabis Organizations in the US. Proven track record of assessment and development of cultivation operating systems that are efficient, economical, predictable and that produce high-quality product. Technical expert in commercial agricultural production and control systems in advanced, mixed light greenhouse facilities.
Areas of Specialty include:
– Customizing facility layouts that integrate processes, people and plants.
– Consultation and training on effective, computerized, fully integrated environmental and fertigation control systems
– Propagation planning and cultivar selection for dependable yield projections and the highest quality product
– Structuring highly effective integrated pest management compliant solutions
– Customizing nutrient formulations calculated by tissue analysis
– Tissue culture and clean stock program developed for high-level crop performance, genetic fidelity, and IP protection.
Paris Balaouras
CEO MJ Holdings Inc/MJNE
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Mr. Balaouras has more than ten years of experience in the development and operations of legal cannabis businesses, including license acquisition, facility management, cannabis cultivation, and legislative initiatives. Mr. Balaouras was the founding and managing partner of Acres Medical, LLC (“Acres Medical”) from April 2014 until February 2016. While with Acres Medical, Mr. Balaouras was instrumental in raising investment capital for the acquisition of five Nevada Medical and Recreational Marijuana Establishment Certificates, the development and opening of a 20,000 square foot dispensary in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the opening of a 37-acre cultivation facility in the Amargosa Valley, Nevada, creating one of the the largest cultivation sites in Nevada. Paris attended North Carolina State University, is a graduate of Oaksterdam University, is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves and is a member of the Nevada Dispensary Association, Americans for Safe Access, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
Bret Schott
Owner & Head Cultivator
With over 40 years cultivation experience Bret has owned and operated a multitude of gardens including indoor, outdoor and light deprivation greenhouses from Northern California to Southern California, across the US, and in many different countries. His knowledge is vast and his appreciation and passion for the plant are unparalleled. The photo to the left shows the Clementine strain and on the right is Pineapple Express, both Sativa dominant. These plants each yield an approximately a whopping 15 pounds of high-quality bud testing at an average of 24% THC. More than THC levels, Bret is interested in terpene profiles and the nose of the bud.
Shelby Stanley
Digipath Labs
Shelby has been with Digipath Labs since it’s inception. A commitment to doing anything she can to help growers and producers bring safe, legal cannabis to the market has driven Shelby Stanley’s career with Digipath Labs. Shelby ushers clients through the testing and reporting processes quickly and professionally, delivering on time, every time. Shelby helped with the passage of Question 2, the 2016 initiative that legalized recreational cannabis in Nevada, and she is also an active member of the NCIA, Women Grow Nevada, Vegas Vets, NDA, LVMMA, and Millennials in MJ. Shelby leads the way in customer acquisition and retention as well as marketing, customer service and anything else we need at Digipath.
Michael Sassano
Founder and CEO of www.solarisfarms.org
Michael Sassano is the Founder and CEO of www.solarisfarms.org, a high-tech desert hybrid greenhouse in Nevada boasting yields of 25-31% THC, 35% Cannabinoid counts and over 15mg’s of terpenes. Primarily, Mike has been an early-stage investor and partner in many grow facilities, brands and cannabis companies which were public, later went public or were sold to public companies. Three years ago, he invested, designed, built and continues to manage one of the largest scale hybrid greenhouse projects in Nevada. When fully built out by 2020, Solaris Farms will be approximately 350,000 square feet of an advanced high tech desert hybrid greenhouse. His vision of the industry, inside depth of investment knowledge for companies in the cannabis space, and happiness to share with others has helped him to get worldwide exposure. And he has a deep vision for the pharmaceutical markets of Cannabis in the EU.
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Howard Stern slams Simon Cowell as ‘sleazebag’ and ‘liar’
American Media Inc.More from American Media Inc.
Updated: August 14, 2019 2:50 PM EDT
Howard Stern still hates Simon Cowell.
On The Stern Show Wednesday morning, the always outspoken Shock Jock shared some choice words for his longtime nemesis.
“Personally would I love to see Simon Cowell f—ing suck one up his a–.” Stern sneered. “…In other words, would I love to see him fall flat on his face.”
The bad blood stems from the 2015 Sony email hack, when Cowell was accused of encouraging executives to fire Stern from America’s Got Talent, and hire him to take his place.
Now, four years later, Stern, 65, stills holds a grudge.
“My only beef with him is he had a campaign behind my back, which I wouldn’t have known if the Koreans hadn’t hacked Sony. They exposed these emails he had going, ‘We can get rid of Stern and I’ll work for so much cheaper.’” Stern continued. “And by the way, if I had really wanted that job, then I would’ve been pissed. But I just find him sleazy and he is a liar.”
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Stern then alleged Cowell, 59, called him to claim the emails were fabricated.
“Then he called me up and said, ‘Oh Howard, you know that none of the Sony hack is true. None of that.’…Dude like what am I, an imbecile? And I’m just like ‘Yeah Simon, I’m sure that’s true.’ I didn’t even give a f—. Like really you think I’m so stupid that I wouldn’t think the Sony hack was true…The guy is just a sleazebag.”
Just last year, Stern slammed Cowell as a “douchebag.”
“What a douchebag. He is the douchiest guy on the planet,” Stern said of Cowell.
Stern was a judge on AGT from 2011 to 2015. That year, Cowell took over as judge, and still fills the role alongside Julianne Hough, Gabrielle Union and Howie Mandel.
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Lyme Disease in the Adirondacks: Using Domestic Canines as Sentinels for Human Risk
Abstract: Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) is the most prevalent zoonotic disease in the United States. With an increase of cases every year in new areas, it is crucial that researchers and veterinarians use sentinels, such as canines, to determine the prevalence of Lyme disease in emerging areas where tick density may be low. The main objective of this study was to determine the annual infection rate of Lyme disease in canines in Franklin and Essex County. An immunologic assay was performed to determine percent of canines exposed to Lyme bacteria as well as timing of exposure. Thirty-four random blood samples were collected from a local veterinary office during routine health screenings, and analyzed for Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies. Out of the thirty-four samples, two canines were positive for OspC antibodies (indicator of early infection) and three were positive for OspF (indicator of chronic infection). The annual infection rate for the 2017 year was 5.9%.
Major: Biology
File Attachments: Lyme Disease in the Adirondacks_Final.pdf
Authors: Ashley G. Hodge
Riparian log gardens: examination of vascular plant communities and moss on logs in waterbodies
Abstract: Microsites can play a major part in facilitating plant diversity. Specific physical characteristics of microsites can create favorable conditions for certain species by isolating them from competition or protecting them from herbivory. Plant communities and woody debris can also facilitate the growth of other plants. I examined relationships between moss and vascular plants on log gardens in waterbodies to determine correlations between these organisms. I hypothesized that riparian log gardens, large woody debris in lakes and ponds supporting mats of terrestrial vegetation, serve as sites that may harbor rare species or have high plant species diversity. I also examined the relationship between bryophytes and plant communities based on the idea that bryophytes influence microsite characteristics. Knowing where rare species are harbored and what microsites encourage high diversity are important for preserving species. I surveyed plants on large woody debris in lakes and ponds in the northern Adirondacks and calculated the richness and diversity of the communities in relation to the presence of mosses. I found that logs that supported moss mats had more plants. The mean species richness of the riparian log gardens was 8.6 for all plants and 6.3 for herbaceous species. Some significant positive correlations were found for log area, log hardness, mat area, mat depth, and vascular plant diversity.
File Attachments: F17.SOC462.Lampman.RLG_.docx
Authors: David R. Lampman
A Comparison of Macro-Invertebrate Communities in Different Substrates among Impacted and Minimally-Impacted Sites on Lower St. Regis Lake and Benchmark Sites on Black Pond
Abstract: Many shorelines today have been impacted by human activities which has resulted in changes in macro-aquatic invertebrate communities. Ecological restoration can be used in efforts to bring macro-aquatic invertebrates back into shorelines. However, data is needed to better understand how macro-aquatic invertebrates can be used in these efforts as indicator species to determine community structure health and function. This project compared the macro-aquatic invertebrate communities in impacted and minimally impacted sites located on Lower St. Regis Lake and benchmark sites located on Black Pond. The two objectives to this project were to 1) compare the species richness among impact levels and 2) compare the density among impact levels. Each impacted level has three sites and at each site ten samples were taken in a systematic way which resulted in 90 total samples. Samples were taken to the lab to be sorted and for macro-aquatic invertebrates could be identified to the family level. The macro-aquatic invertebrate community was different among each impact level. The overall family diversity was greater at the benchmark sites than the minimally impacted and impacted sites. Dominate substrate type that had a greater presence of different families were sites that had organic matter. The findings of this study create a more knowledge base which can be useful for future ecological restoration efforts on the impacted and minimally impacted areas located on Lower St. Regis Lake and to educate the public on the impacts on macro-aquatic invertebrates and their communities.
File Attachments: Capstone Final-AmberSt.Andrew Spring 2017.docx
Authors: Amber St. Andrew
A Taste of Tea
Abstract: Originating in Southeast China, tea is one of the most consumed beverages in the world, second only to water with coffee in third. Though tea has many names, they all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. There’s white, yellow, green, oolong, pu-erh, and black or red tea; each has its own variants and processing methods to distinguish them. Tea has spread throughout the world and each culture took these leaves and made it their own in different ways. The journey it has taken is an interesting one with a lot of controversy, conflict, and corruption once introduced to the British Empire.
Major: Culinary Arts, Culinary Arts and Service Management
File Attachments: 1. Cover Page.rtf , 2. Research Paper.docx , 3. Capstone Menu.doc , 4. Recipes.docx , 5. Capstone Ordering and Costing Sheets.xlsx , 6. Production List.rtf , 7. Plating Duties.rtf , 8. Self Analysis.docx , Presentation Poster.pptx
Authors: Darren Sheftic
Assessment of Tree Planting Riparian Management along the Ausable and Boquet Rivers in New York State
Abstract: Ecological restoration is, in part, restoring degraded ecosystems. By adding riparian vegetation along degraded reaches of rivers and streams, ecologists can begin to restore the natural habitat and processes associated with that river or stream. Trees, shrubs and grasses can be very important in retaining stream bank soils, providing shade in the river and habitat for terrestrial species. Two programs called Trees for Tribs and Ausable River Association (AsRA), restore degraded riparian areas in the state of New York, including the Ausable and Bouquet Rivers in the Adirondack State Park. This study compared survival rates of the plantings in nine different locations along the Ausable River and one location along the Boquet River. The tree species, living status (survivorship), and stem density of the understory was recorded. The four AsRA planting sites and one U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service site planted saplings ranging from 6-8 feet in height, and the Trees for Tribs planted seedlings at the other five sites. It was found that there was no significant difference between the survival rates of the saplings in comparison to the survival rates of the seedlings (p-value = 0.37). In addition, there was no significant difference (p-value = 0.05) in the stem density measurements between sapling and seedling plots. It was also observed that records of tree plantings were either missing, incomplete or inaccurate from both Ausable River Association and Trees for Tribs.
Major: Environmental Sciences
File Attachments: Assessment of Tree Planting Riparian Management along the Ausable and Boquet Rivers in New York State.docx
Authors: Austin Tremblay
Living Machine ® Wastewater Treatment in Sólheimar
Abstract: As of 2014, Sólheimar Ecovillage in South Iceland began to experience inadequate sewage treatment. After a large earthquake, the community’s constructed wetland became damaged, freely expelling untreated wastewater into the surrounding watershed. After research, the Living Machine® system became the evident solution to help mitigate this issue. By using a case study of a Living Machine® system in South Burlington, Vermont, I was able to determine output estimates of individuals by gallons per day (GPD) and approximate a price for a Living Machine® with a greenhouse at $1,019, 694 USD. Different approaches Sólheimar could take to help make this project successful would be installing a flowmeter, applying for different grants, charging tourists to use the restrooms, and contacting the engineering company to discuss the current and future piping system in the village.
File Attachments: jsetter_final.pdf
Authors: Jessica Setter
A Comparison of Fall and Spring Minnow (Cyprinidae) Surveys to Assess Overwinter Changes in Community Composition in a Marshland of the Northern Adirondacks, NY
Abstract: Minnows are an integral component of a healthy aquatic ecosystem. However, minnows are very sensitive to habitat destruction and loss, changes in water quality, and over predation. As a result of its integral role, an unhealthy, or absent minnow population can wreak havoc on an ecosystem. The objectives are to compare minnow species richness and composition between spring and fall surveys for different regions in the marsh, compare minnow trap catch rates between fall and spring for each minnow species for different regions of the marsh, compare mean length of minnow species between fall and spring, and compare water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and conductivity in the fall with that of late winter and post ice-out. The study location was Heron Marsh of New York’s Adirondack Park, which supports of variety of fish in the cyprinidae family. Water quality was collected using a YSI meter in all 4 seasons of the year, and minnows were sampled using galvanized steel minnow traps during the fall and spring. Nearly all sites saw an increase in cyprinid biodiversity and abundance. Long term monitoring should be established for more robust data that can in turn justify more solid conclusions.
File Attachments: Capstone Report
Authors: Brenden Blair
Developing A Wildlife Teaching Collection
Abstract: Wildlife specimens hold significant scientific and educational value at Paul Smith’s College through the preservation of essential biological information. Specimens allow for the better understanding of the past and present conditions of a species, and are a valuable teaching tool for all-inclusive wildlife education. However important, it is apparent that the accumulation of wildlife specimens is insufficient due to a lack of education surrounding the preservation of specimens and methods pertaining to the development of a specimen collection. In response, the procedural framework surrounding standard specimen preparation practices was analyzed and adjusted in order meet the specific needs of the institution. A comprehensive procedural manual was created with the intention of making specimen preparation a more approachable task for interested students, as well as to ensure continual growth of the wildlife teaching collection at Paul Smith’s College.
File Attachments: Developing A Wildlife Teaching Collection - Report and Manual
Authors: Jacob McCourt, Benjamin Wrazen
The Effects of pH on the Distribution of the Mink Frog (Lithobates septentrionalis)
Abstract: Amphibian decline is occurring at an alarming rate. The acidification of aquatic systems is contributing to the decline, affecting habitat viability which affects dispersal, breeding success and the mortality of young. Tolerances to the acidic conditions vary amongst species, but are not known for all amphibians. The mink frog (Lithobates septentrionalis) has scattered dispersals throughout the regions in which they are found. The goal of this study was to observe possible effects of pH on the distribution of the mink frog, which is native to the Adirondack Park. A call survey was completed in 40 Adirondack water systems to determine dispersal. The pH of the lakes in which the call survey was conducted were also recorded. This study documents the relationship between pH and distribution of the mink frog along with the variations between the lacustrine and deep water pH values for each water system. The mink frog was not found in lakes with pH <6.5. Evidence also showed that the pH between deep water and lacustrine regions had varying differences that may prove to be significant in regards to studying some species. It is recommended that lacustrine data be examined along with limnologic deep water data when studying lacustrine dwelling species.
File Attachments: final capstone.docx
Authors: Cheylynne Tyrrell
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Tuberculosis can cause anything in the world except pregnancy!
Sambhram Shetty1 &
Nitin T Patil2
Tuberculosis has been reported to cause aortic aneurysms and coronary aneurysms.
To describe a case report with a surprise diagnosis of tuberculosis.
We present a patient with dialysis dependant end stage renal disease for AR with a dilated root and chest wall mass with coronary aneurysms needing aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting whose final diagnosis was tuberculosis.
A 37 year old male patient presented with class III dyspnoea on exertion. He was hypertensive with dialysis dependent end stage renal disease and dialysed using an AV Fistula on the left upper limb. Echocardiography showed severe AR and LV dysfunction. CT Coronary angiography showed aortic root to be 5 cm and saccular aneurysms in the circumflex and the right coronary artery with complete occlusion of RCA. A Bentall procedure was planned. Intraoperatively, there was a mass arising from anterior chest wall measuring 6 cm × 5 cm attached to the Left Internal Mammary artery with multiple enlarged paratracheal and mediastinal lymph nodes. Frozen section from the mass and lymph nodes did not reveal any malignancy. The oncosurgeon felt that the mass was malignant looking at its extent and CT characteristics. Pragmatically a mechanical aortic valve replacement and saphenous vein grafts to the OM and PDA were performed after a discussion between the clinicians instead of a root replacement. The final histopathology showed tuberculosis of the lymph nodes with no malignancy in the mass. The patient underwent dialysis postoperatively and needed inotropes till day 4. He was started on anti-tuberculosis medications and was discharged on postoperative day 10. In retrospect the coronary aneurysms and the root dilatation with aortic regurgitation could have been caused by tuberculosis.
Surprises are still possible in today's world even with the best investigations and as surgeons we have to make difficult decisions on table.
& Sambhram Shetty
Department of Anaesthesia, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India
Nitin T Patil
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Pai, V.B., Kamath, G.S., Shetty, S. et al. Tuberculosis can cause anything in the world except pregnancy!. J Cardiothorac Surg 10, A233 (2015) doi:10.1186/1749-8090-10-S1-A233
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A Year of Rain is Accessible and Brimming With Ingenuity
Alexander Thomas
A Year of Rain Preview
It’s been quite some time since we saw a fresh-faced RTS that blends new, creative features with a sense of nostalgia and familiarity for the classic games of the 90s. Taking the tried and true systems from iconic series’ like StarCraft, A Year of Rain has adapted the formula to make for a more compact and intense experience in a rich world that abandons typical fantasy gaming tropes. It’s shaping up to quickly be a sleeper-hit RTS that deserves your attention.
Daedalic Entertainment both developed and published A Year of Rain, drawing on classic RTS and RPG games to create something wholly new and quite exciting to play. Those familiar with games like StarCraft will find themselves immediately comfortable with the HUD layout and general controls of the game. As soon as the mission began all my memories of galactic domination came flooding back and I knew what to do. The controls and easy-to-use HUD are where the similarities stop, however, but that is a good thing because A Year of Rain finds its own footing and identity in its ingenuity.
The game is built as a 2 vs 2 experience at all times, whether those are human or CPU players. It may seem like an odd choice at first but once you go hands on it makes complete and total sense. After selecting one of three playable races, you’ll pick a hero character that fits the archetype of tank, DPS, or healer. The hero you choose will give your army a corresponding buff, which is already a cool feature to help customize your play style, but I think my favorite addition is when the map begins. Players will have one minute to decide from a list of three possible roles to play on the team: tank, DPS, or support. Picking one will bestow additional bonuses to your forces but it also locks that option out for your teammate, so you need to coordinate HOW you intend to play together.
These two small decisions before the game even begins already makes a huge difference in your odds and play style choices, and after a few more maps with different settings I could definitely notice the differences these choices made. The more your army fights, the faster your hero will level up and unlock additional powers and skills which, again, strengthens your forces. This encourages players to explore the map early with a small raiding party to fight wild enemies for quick leveling to try and gain an early advantage. If a hero character falls in battle they will have a countdown timer before respawning at your base. Did I mention the army is small? Whereas other RTS games encourage huge, epic battles of 200+ units per army, A Year of Rain limits your supply points to 80 as a cap. This makes every decision count. Is your hero better at supporting melee or ranged? Do you want tanky characters or a small army of minions? Everything about A Year of Rain is about minimalistic strategy: what can you do with limited time, resources, and units?
These Bosses Don’t Play Around
I also encountered a map-specific boss which – while tough – dropped a pretty handy buff. During the campaign of the game I noticed six item slots next to my heroes portrait. As the story progresses, you’ll pick up armor, weapons, and consumables that can be equipped for some addition RPG-lite effects which really help bring the game into its own. I didn’t get to see many of these items but I can’t wait to see what we get in the final product.
A Year of Rain features three factions: House Rupah, the Outcasts, and the Undead. House Rupah is where much of the lore and character development seem to come from. These are your standard “human” faction in a lot of high fantasy settings with some magic thrown in for good measure. Where the game takes a stark left turn is its other two factions. The Outcasts are comprised entirely of beasts such as Gnolls and Lizardfolk. Their buildings aren’t typical structures but are instead hovels and towers on the backs of giant lizards which rise up from underground. This faction has some great abilities for adaptability and survival. It was hard not to be blown away watching their movements; I wanted to study each and every character. The third race, the Undead, is not your typical necromatic fare. With floating beast skulls that shoot fireballs and decaying minotaur warriors, the Undead are anything but typical. They also feature the ability to immediately spawn zombies in your base for defense which came in handy more than once.
Keep Your Head on a Swivel
I tried a few matches with just CPU opponents and I will say this: they definitely know what they are doing. Even on normal difficulty, if you aren’t quick to start you will be overrun easily. This is not a game about walling yourself in a fortress. You need to keep moving and it becomes apparent very quickly when your enemies hero appears at level 10 and you haven’t stepped foot outside of your base.
I went into A Year of Rain expecting a rather standard RTS experience and came out of it feeling refreshed and wanting more. As a game built around teamwork, full of ingenuity, and bringing new strategies to the genre, I can’t wait to uncover the story behind each of these factions and see how the community responds to the final product. This is a game accessible to both new and returning players of the RTS genre and for anyone who has felt sorely left out of a truly solid and fresh take on the high fantasy setting, A Year of Rain is set to challenge and delight.
**PC code provided by the publisher**
Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
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Justinian Jessup Derrick Alston RJ Williams Sports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball Men's college basketball College basketball College sports
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Alston, Jessup lead Boise State over BYU in OT 72-68
- Nov. 21, 2019 12:48 AM EST
Boise State guard Marcus Dickinson and BYU guard Alex Barcello get tangled on a loose ball in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Boise. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Derrick Alston had 26 points and 11 rebounds, Justinian Jessup scored seven of his nine points in overtime and Boise State defeated BYU 72-68 on Wednesday night.
Alston scored the Broncos’ first four points in overtime but it was Jessup who gave Boise State (2-2) the lead for good with a 3-pointer. He added a steal and dunk plus two free throws.
Jessup was only 3 of 13 from the floor — 1 of 9 in regulation — and his only 3-pointer was just the third for Boise State on 19 attempts. But the Broncos were 19 of 27 at the free-throw line to BYU’s 5 of 7.
Boise State’s RJ Williams added 18 points on 6-of-6 shooting before fouling out with 1:48 left in regulation, which ended at 58-all after neither team scored in the final 1½ minutes.
Alston, who posted his first career double-double, became the first Bronco ever to score at least 20 points in each of the first four games of a season.
Jake Toolson scored 19 points and TJ Haws, who was 0-for-8 from the arc, and Connor Harding scored 10 each for BYU (3-2).
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