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COA Mammal Collection (Arctos)
Latest version published by George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic on Jan 1, 2020 George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic
The George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic, houses extensive natural history collections that can be used by students, teachers, researchers, and artists. The Dorr Museum features dioramas of coastal Maine wildlife and a tide pool tank that houses a variety of live sea stars, hermit crabs, snails and other marine creatures. Visitors of all ages can touch, smell, listen and create while learning about the natural history of Maine. The Museum is housed in the original headquarters of Acadia National Park. All specimens and exhibits have been prepared by College of the Atlantic students as part of their academic experience.
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The Dorr Museum contains mammal specimens from the United States, primarily Maine.
The Dorr Museum includes representatives from multiple orders of mammals, with rodents and carnivores comprising the largest holdings.
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This Train Passenger’s Tweet Saved 25 Girls from Human Trafficking (28 October 2019)
“If you see something, say something.”
Many of us see this phrase plastered on posters and signs at public transportation stations, but how many of us take the time to actually say something when we do see something sketchy?
More than two dozen Indian girls are safe from human traffickers after a man alerted authorities with just a couple of tweets.
Speaking up with just two tweets
According to recent reports, last summer, an Indian man named Adarsh Shrivastava was traveling through the Northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh last Thursday when he noticed a suspicious situation on his train: 25 girls, all between the ages of 10 and 14, appearing restless and nervous in his cabin.
So he did what he could, and tweeted out a call for help, tagging India’s railway authorities along with a few others in two tweets. And after further inspection of his twitter account, it looks like he created this twitter specifically to alert the authorities:
I am traveling in Avadh express(19040). in s5. in my coach their are 25 girls all are juvenile some of them are crying and all feeling unsecure.@RailMinIndia @PiyushGoyal @PMOIndia @PiyushGoyalOffc @narendramodi @manojsinhabjp @yogi
— Adarsh Shrivastava (@AdarshS74227065) July 5, 2018
Less than a half-hour later, reports say the Ministry of Railways had alerted local rail authorities to the situation. After a few additional stops, plainclothes officers boarded the train and arrested two men and took the young girls into custody, according to a report from the Press Trust of India, citing railway officials.
A classic sign of a trafficking situation, the girls struggled to provide authorities with details on who their parents or guardians were. They were later transferred to state child welfare authorities, who are working with the girls to reconnect them with the rightful guardians. The Indian government’s Indian Railway Protection Force determined that all the girls were from West Champaran in Bihar, which is located in northeast India.
When media outlets and people from all over the world have reached out to Shrivastava, giving him kudos for speaking up, he simply replies, “Thanks, but as a sitizen [sic] of India it’s our responsibility to help people.” What a cool guy.
Uttar Pradesh and the issue of exploitation
Seeing a positive story like this come out of Uttar Pradesh is awesome, considering the rampant issue of sexual exploitation that the region is dealing with.
The Times of India (TOI) reports that shops are selling hundreds, perhaps thousands, of real-life rape videos every day across Uttar Pradesh. Unfortunately, this is happening right under the nose of the police and the government. Depending on the “exclusivity” of the clips, which range from 30 seconds to even five minutes long, they are priced anywhere from 50 to 150 Rupees, which is about $.75 to $2.25.
According to reports, it’s still “under the counter” and dealers will talk only to those who’ve come armed with a trusted customer’s “reference,” but it is open and rampant.
“Porn is passe. These real-life crimes are the rage,” said a shopkeeper at Agra’s market. “Dealers will download videos directly into your smartphone or put them in your pen drive.”
This is unacceptable. We hope that those who are capitalizing off of the actual abuse and torture of real people will be caught and held accountable.
But what does any of this have to do with porn?
As an anti-porn, pro-love, and pro-healthy sex organization, it might seem confusing that we’re talking about “sexual exploitation” and human trafficking. What’s the relevance?
We’re glad you asked.
Of all the millions—likely billions—of porn consumers in the world, not many know this fact: porn, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation are all inextricably linked.
Obviously, human trafficking is an underground business, making firm statistics hard to come by. But the facts in cases that come to light are chilling. For example, in 2011, two Miami men were found guilty of spending five years luring women into a human trafficking trap. They would advertise modeling roles, then when women came to try out, they would drug them, kidnap them, rape them, videotape the violence, and sell it to pornography stores and businesses across the country.
Not to mention that a very popular Japanese porn company was busted a couple of years ago for forcing dozens of unsuspecting women into shooting porn. They advertised the porn shoots as modeling opportunities, made the models sign complicated contracts, and then blackmailed and forced these women into degrading and abusive shoots. One woman was even forced to perform in over 100 pornographic movies. How is that acceptable?
Here is the reality of how porn fuels trafficking and vice versa, as stated by Dr. Karen Countryman-Roswurm:
“Through the cycle of pornography-fueled physical and sexual abuse, pornography perpetuates further perpetration. Many of the individuals photographed or filmed for the use of pornography have a history of sexual abuse. Many still, while being materialized for citizens all across the world, are seemingly accepting such abuse and exploitation under the force, fraud, or coercion of a trafficker…
Pornography is the material means of sexual exploitation. Pornography is the proof, the very evidence that commercial sexual exploitation occurred. Pornography is verification of violence. And pornography is used again and again to prime, promote, and perpetuate the perpetration of boys and girls for the purpose of sex trafficking.”
Bigger industry = more difficult for victims to speak out
Diving even deeper, here’s how it breaks down. The more the mainstream adult entertainment industry flourishes, the bigger the opposing globalized black market for porn will become, and the more difficult it will be for exploited porn performers to speak out and seek support within the industry. So the higher the demand for porn, even porn that was produced in professional studios (which, newsflash, also abuse their performers), the more sex traffickers will want to profit from that porn demand, and the more they’ll exploit vulnerable people to get there.
Not only that, but the bigger the porn industry, the more challenging it will be for performers to step out and speak out without backlash when they’ve been exploited and abused in the name of sexual entertainment. As of now, there is no easily-accessible system of support or reporting for those who have been forced, frauded, and coerced into shooting even one porn scene, and blacklisting outspoken performers is currently the informal industry standard.
Not clicking isn’t always easy, since porn is everywhere and so many people struggle, but it’s an action that we can all take, and it’s an action that matters.
We fight to bring awareness to the fact that porn isn’t harmless entertainment, and the porn industry wouldn’t be where it is today without sex trafficking and exploitation. Now that you know, will you join us in raising awareness?
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“Shape-Up King” Introduces Mobile Barbershop to Nation’s Capital
Emmanuel Azoro’s big storefront window gets comments and gawkers attracted by his colorful display.
Photo by Janelle Berry, HU News Service
WASHINGTON — When people walk past the black cargo truck with the huge storefront window and “SHAPE-UP KING” printed on the front and sides, they stop and stare. They even take pictures.
What has their attention is the man inside, Emmanuel “E-Man” Azoro, also known as the “Shape-Up King” — the charismatic, part-salesman, full-time barber and the man behind what is apparently the first mobile barbershop in the nation’s capital.
Azoro, 37, travels the streets of Washington in his customized vehicle setting up shop and taking on customers wherever he can. Today, Azoro, who also owns a barber shop in Prince George’s County, is set up on the campus of Howard University and passersby are watching him through his display windows.
His first customer today is Marvin Uzoho, 21, a Howard senior from Bowie, Md., who heard about the “Shape-Up King” from a fellow student and decided to give the barber a try. He asked for a $25 haircut and beard shape-up, sat in the chair wearing an all-black sweat suit and a colorful pair of Nike Roshe Runs, and let the “Shape-Up King” get to work.
Marvin Uzoho getting a haircut by the “Shape-Up King”
while his next customer Richard Ryles (left) waits patiently.
As Azoro began work on Uzoho’s hair, he chatted up his first two clients of the day about music and school, while the curious complimented him on the vehicle’s interior. One gawker pulled out his phone, called up a friend and raved about the amazing mobile barbershop.
After Uzoho, Richard Ryles of West Palm Beach, Fla., took a seat in the chair. Ryles, 19, had seen the truck before.
“I saw him outside one day cutting,” he said. “I saw his pictures when he gave me his card. I saw his pictures on Instagram, and it was hot. So I came in here and got one myself.”
After Azoro finished, Ryles checked out his new cut in a hand mirror and gave his approval. Azoro said that is the reaction that makes being a barber enjoyable.
Azoro said he has been a barber for 20 years and two years ago opened a shop in a shopping center across from the Mall at Prince George’s.
When Azoro was young, his parents couldn’t afford getting their children haircuts to the point where he and his brother got teased in school. So, he began cutting his younger brother’s hair and eventually began cutting other kids hair, charging them $3. Soon, the school football team and even teachers were coming to him, he said.
He began working at 15 in a Hyattsville barber shop, and continued at various locations until he could get his own store.
“Having a store, you have to pretty much ride for this one location,” Azoro said, sitting in his barber chair and for the next client. “As a barber, waiting on customers, you miss out on a lot of life.
“With this truck, you can go to fun events; do things; meet new people; go to all kinds of things like homecomings, and you’re enjoying your life while you’re making money and building your clientele and promoting where you work. You can do it as you want, when you want. There’s no real schedule.”
Azoro’s truck is equipped with one barber chair, mirrors ceilings and mirrors with spinning barber poles along each side, a tiny sunroof, tile flooring and even magazines for customers. Hip-hop music blared through the truck while two customers waited for their turn in the chair, and as pedestrians — young and old — walked by, they snapped pictures and took fliers and business cards.
Azoro said he added the storefront window so his potential customers can see him in action.
“With heavy foot traffic, you need to be exposed and displayed,” he said. “A lot of people like the art of how a barber looks cutting hair.”
As he talked, he started in on his last client, a young man whose girlfriend convinced him that he needed to give the Shape-Up King a try.
A client takes a look at his haircut before complimenting
Azoro on his cut. Photo by Janelle Berry, HU News Service
“I’ve never seen anything like this on campus or anywhere in the world,” Amarachi Uzosike, 20, from Ellicott City, Md., said as she was watching Azoro go to work on her boyfriend. “As someone who has a bunch of brothers, I’ve always been in barbershops and around barbershops. So, it was just really interesting to see a mobile barbershop.”
In fact, it was so interesting that Uzosike said was considering using Azoro for herself.
“This is really a cool option for me, because here’s somewhere outside my dorm that I can go,” she said.
And those are the words the Shape-Up King wants to hear.
“Even though I have over 2,000 clients right now,” he said, “I’m still hungry and try to go out and get more clients.”
Not Trick or Treat; Trunk or Treat
College Students, Families to Feel Loss of Perkins Loans
Howard University News Service
Janelle Berry
Ron Harris
Shape-Up King
Young Music Stars Do More than Just Sing and Dance
Brad Wete
Omarion, Bow Wow, and Ne-Yo Talk About Other Projects In an industry that produces popularity beyond imagination but not always equal fortunes, R&B stars Omarion…
Howard University Student Becomes Youngest Elected Official in D.C. History
Daniel White
Howard University student Allyson Carpenter is the youngest elected official in D.C. history. WASHINGTON -- In the sixth grade, Allyson Carpenter, then 10…
Dr. Clint Wilson- Adviser
Clint C. Wilson II, is faculty adviser for BlackCollegeView.com , the online news website produced by the Department of Journalism at Howard University.Dr. Wilson…
Kiera A. Manison
In the evolving world of social media, new social networking sites have been introduced one after the other, and users are taking advantage of the benefits.…
AOL Acquires Blackvoices.com
Arnethia Ellis
Tribune-owned Blackvoices.com had been looking for a partner toassume control of their site and after several months, AmericaOnline (AOL) has stepped up and assumed…
Bringing big Name Jazz to U Street
Jourdan Henry
Entertainment The Bohemian Caverns on U Street in northwest Washington near Howard University was once hosted some of the biggest names in jazz – from Miles…
John McCain Promises to Fight for America in Acceptance Speech
Natelegé Whaley
Sen. John McCain delivered his acceptance speech as the presidential nominee for the Republican Party Thursday night and promised he would fight for America "as…
Mardi Gras…Up Close and Personal
Joi Gilliam
Six months after hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and displaced at least half a million people, some residents of New Orleans have made a brief…
For Some, Ben Ali Served More Than Half-Smokes
Eboni Farmer
Founder's Death Hits Hard at Ben's Chili Bowl Ben Ali, 82, was like a father to Jimmy Hughes, 61. Nine years ago, Hughes said he could be found drunk on U Street.…
Snows Blows In With a Roar
March blew in like a lion on Monday, bringing 4 to 8 inches of snow into the District and surrounding areas, forcing residents to pull out their long johns and…
DC Fire Offers Free Alarms Following Fatal Blaze
Ward 1A, Advisory Neighborhood Commission representatives listen to residences concern. WASHINGTON – The District of Columbia Fire Department and…
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The Transition of a Legend
The lady who became the impetus for the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. died Monday night.…
The Assignment: Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
The danger of global warming is serious but it is far less immediate than the threat of nuclear war, a risk that can be lessened if grassroots organizations, think…
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Black Women Advocate for Change at Women’s March
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9 Story gets equity investment from Court and ZM Capital
Industry veteran Neil Court becomes the new Executive Chairman as the Toronto-based producer/distributor aims to grow.
By Aaron Hutchins
Neil Court (pictured) will become the Executive Chairman of Toronto, Canada-based distributor 9 Story Limited, after the former DHX Media principle and Decode Entertainment co-founder made an equity investment into the company. ZM Capital II, a private equity fund from New York-based investment firm ZelnickMedia, also made an equity investment in 9 Story.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2002, animation specialist 9 Story distributes series such as Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood, Almost Naked Animals and Camp Lakebottom. The company will keep its existing management team, including Vince Commisso, who will continue as President and CEO. He will report to a newly formed board of directors.
The announcement is in line with an expansion strategy that began with 9 Story striking a deal to acquire the children’s and family library from indie producer CCI Entertainment last year.
9 Story Entertainment, Neil Court, Vince Commisso
9 Story rebrands after investment
9 Story acquires CCI library, promotes Osborne
9 Story names VP of production
9 Story appoints new development exec
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Labour administration and inspection
Publications & technical tools
Occupational Safety and Health - A Guide for Labour Inspectors and other stakeholders
Introduction and acknowledgements
How can occupational safety and health be managed?
Organizational matters
Harmful Chemical and Biological agents/substances
Machinery, plant and equipment
Vehicles in the workplace
A Guide to Selected Labour Inspection Systems (with special reference ...
A Guide to Selected Labour Inspection Systems (with special reference to OSH)
This “Guide to Selected Labour Inspection Systems” is part of a research programme in the area of labour administration and labour inspection carried out by the ILO Labour Inspection and Administration Programme (LAB/ADMIN) with a view to better understanding the functioning of the various systems in the world.
9789221246985[ISBN]
Arrigo, Gianni; Casale, Giuseppe; Fasani, Mario
A Guide to Selected Labour Inspection Systems (with special reference to OSH)pdf - 1.5 MB
The Guide would present a useful tool for labour inspectors, workers and employers as well as researchers and academicians with a view to better understanding the implications and complexities of labour inspection from a comparative viewpoint.
Labour inspection has the mission of monitoring compliance with labour legislation and operates as a part of labour administration. Labour inspection systems reflect their own realities, though the implementation of labour legislation remains the key mission whether it is assigned to one single administrative body, or shared across various sections of a labour ministry, or even in some cases, distributed across several specialized ministries and public agencies. The diversity and coverage of labour legislation makes it difficult to comprehend their full scope but, viewed broadly, they cover the employment relationship, pay, working conditions, occupational safety and health, industrial relations, social security, employment. Taking into account that each country organizes its labour administration in its own way, it is sometimes difficult to obtain an exact picture of what labour inspection is, which bodies comprise labour inspection services, what the precise functions of the system are, what the sphere of action is and what its precise powers are.
Tags: future of work, working conditions, labour relations, collective bargaining, social dialogue, tripartism, social protection, inequality, freedom of association, labour administration, labour inspection, occupational safety and health, value chains
Regions and countries covered: Global
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The World Map: Thinking About Boundaries
by dan | How It Works | 0 comments
This is a series about the basic components of a world generated LoreGen.
Updated as of version 0.12
Shapes and Boundaries
A basic assumption that I made when designing the framework of LoreGen: to create visually interesting worlds, you need to have a system for creating interesting shapes.
And having interesting shapes really boils down to having interesting edges and boundaries — or, at least, that’s how LoreGen “thinks” about making interesting shapes.
Reducing the world to a 40×30 grid is insufficient for creating compelling shapes. The rest of this post will discuss how LoreGen uses fractals (i.e. recursion) to store information to create finer levels of detail.
Each world block within the grid can contain a sub-grid of world blocks. Specifically, each block within the main world grid contains its own 10×10 grid of world blocks. And you can repeat that process for each one of those sub blocks, etc. The result of this is that you can “zoom in” on any portion of the world for more detail to any level you’d like.
This notion of each world block being broken down into smaller blocks has important implications for boundaries. Let’s consider how this works for a specific case: determining the shapes of continents. Below is how we left the world map at the end of the previous article, which discussed the first steps in creating continents.
Continent Borders as a Case Study
Each continent has a border that is one world block thick, represented by yellow on the screenshot. For a continent, “border” is synonymous with “coastline.” Remember that each block is supposed to represent 1000k by 1000k. Obviously, there are no coastlines in the world that are perfectly straight for thousands of kilometers at a time.
So let’s consider what those massive squares of “coastline” actually represent. First contrast it with the land and ocean world blocks: If a world block is colored green here, it means that it’s fully inland, and all of its sub-blocks are also land. Meanwhile, the blue blocks are fully out at sea; all of their sub blocks are water.
The definition of a border block becomes obvious, then: its sub-blocks are some land, some ocean, and some are coastline, which is maintained as a one-block barrier between water and land, though this border is now one order of magnitude smaller.
Zoomed In Coastline
Let’s see what the map looks like once we create sub-grids of blocks for all of the coastline world blocks. This is effectively zooming in one further level, just on the coastline:
What’s actually happening here?
It still looks essentially the same, but here’s what’s different: The coastline is now being represented at finer detail, even if it’s difficult to tell in this rendering. This is why the yellow coastline appearing much thinner than in the previous screenshots. We can’t really tell because of how blocks are drawn, but the land and water blocks are drawn at the previous magnitude, while the coastline is drawn at “a more zoomed in resolution”.
Each world block of coastline that had been one large yellow block is now 100 smaller blocks, most of which are green, some of which are yellow.
Here’s a demonstration of how it looks “under the hood”.
Before we start creating a “zoomed in” coastline, here are the world blocks:
But once we generate and render the sub-grid for the coastline, here’s what it looks like:
The squares that appear almost solid green around the border are each a 10 by 10 grid replacing the yellow squares. Here’s a screenshot of just a continent’s corner showing this in greater detail:
This will allow us to prepare more detailed and interesting coastlines.
There are two important implications about this that are hopefully not too difficult to see: First, this process of creating sub-grids of blocks to represent detailed borders can be used for simulating any kind of border or shape, not just continental coastlines. Second, you can repeat this with a fractal-style approach: the smaller blocks can each have their own sub-grid of 10 by 10 of blocks, as can each of those 100 blocks, etc. LoreGen can represent a world with as much detail as you’d like.
Of course, we haven’t actually generated interesting borders yet, but we’re on our way there.
The next post introduces the “erosion” algorithm for randomizing shapes of continents.
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The role of connexin36 gap junctions in modulating the hypnotic effects of isoflurane and propofol in mice
Jacobson, G M
University of Waikato.
Voss, L J
Melin, Sara
Linköping University, Faculty of Health Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Medical Microbiology.
Cursons, R T M
Sleigh, J W
2011 (English)In: ANAESTHESIA, ISSN 0003-2409, Vol. 66, no 5, p. 361-367Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Pandgt;Gap junction blockade is a possible mechanism by which general anaesthetic drugs cause unconsciousness. We measured the sensitivity of connexin36 knockout mice to the hypnotic effects of isoflurane and propofol. The experimental endpoint was recovery of the righting reflex of the anaesthetised animals during 0.2% step-reductions in isoflurane concentration, or following intraperitoneal injection of propofol (100 mg.kg-1). Connexin36 knockout animals were more sensitive to the hypnotic effects of isoflurane than normal wild-type animals. The half maximal effective concentration (EC50) for recovery of righting reflex was 0.37% for connexin36 knockout vs 0.49% for wild-type animals (p andlt; 0.001). For propofol, connnexin36 knockout animals showed more rapid loss of righting reflex than wild-type animals (mean (SD) 2.8 (0.13) vs 3.8 (0.27) min); and young (andlt; 60 days) connexin36 knockout animals remained anaesthetised for longer than young wild-type mice (47.2 (2.9) vs 30.5 (1.7) min; p andlt; 0.00001). These findings suggest that the hypnotic effects of anaesthetic drugs may be moderately enhanced by gap junction blockade.
Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2011. Vol. 66, no 5, p. 361-367
Faculty of Health SciencesMedical Microbiology
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Tag Archives: tecmo superbowl
CFL, NFL, WLAF
Humphery, Bobby (2)
Cards: Topps 1985, Topps 1987, Pro Set WLAF 1991 Update
Acquired: TTM 2017, C/o Home
Sent: 5/31 Received: 6/14 (15 days)
See Also: Bobby Humphery
Bobby Humphery was an enforcer for the San Antonio Riders during their 1992 season. Selected in the 11th round of the WLAF draft, he really provided veteran leadership to the young defensive backs. The Riders pass defense was ranked first in the league that year, and they were one of the few teams that could go toe to toe with the eventual World League Champion Sacramento Surge and a key reason for that was Bobby.
It was a shame that Pro Set pulled the plug on their WLAF set for the 1992 season. While Ultimate and Wild Card filled the vacancy as best as they could peppering their sets with veterans and rookies, for some reason they both omitted the highly decorated Humphery. I had to look hard to find any photography of Hump from his days in the WLAF.
Apparently he noticed that too, so when Bobby received the custom card I created he wrote me an extremely nice thank-you note.
Thank you Lee, for the Rider cards. I always wanted these cards but I could never find them. I will honor these.” – Bobby Humphery
The custom WLAF 1991 entry that I made of him was based off of a Gameday Magazine I had from that 1992 that was sold during the season finale. In the team notes, frequently they’d have a photo or small blurb about a player who has really made a difference on the team. The last one had this grainy black and white shot of Bobby. Although I have found other images on the web, I have not been able to find a suitable enough image, so I decided to go ahead and work with this image in Photoshop. It came out decently enough for a colorized and fuzz adjusted image. While I wasn’t entirely happy with my printer, it was satisfactory enough that I thought Bobby would appreciate it. He also included a signed copy of his Topps 1985 rookie card as well as thanks for the additional copies of the Riders cards I gave him.
Among Bobby’s greatest NFL accomplishments is that he led the NFL in 1984 with 22 kick returns for 675 yards and a 97 yard touchdown. He also had 8 kick returns for 234 yards and a touchdown against the Bengals during the season finale in 1986.
bobby humpherycfl usalos angeles ramsnew mexico stateNew York Jetsproset 1991 final updatesan antonio goldminersSan Antonio Riderstecmo superbowltopps 1985topps 1987
College Football HoF, NFL
Novacek, Jay (2)
Cards: Skybox 1992, GameDay 1992, Photo Memorabilia, Score Supplemental 1990
Acquired: IP, Bass Pro Shop Grand Opening 6/10/15
See Also: Jay Novacek
As far as tight ends go, Jay Novacek was one of the best to play for the Cowboys. He continues to draw decent crowds to autograph signings he attends. I had not been able to get Jay since early in- I guess 1992 training camp. I heard he was appearing at the Bass Pro Shops Grand Opening with Tony Stewart and a few other rodeo and outdoors/ firearms specialists. It was an absolute zoo. I got there about an hour early and it was a hassle just to park. From there, we were all herded into the hot parking lot- with no water, and promises from an annoying woman that the store opening was at 6PM. Beyond that we were told that the autograph signing was on the right as we entered the front door. Well when we finally got in, it wasn’t until after the grand opening ceremony that ended at 630. None of us were perepared for the ensuing chaos. I got directed not once- but three times to different lines, before I actually got in the right one. It then took 2 hours to get to Jay.
He was nice enough to sign three cards and throw in a photo. When I asked him if he was ever going to grow back his mustache, he looked at me like I was a crazy person and said, “Why would I ever do that?”
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Cards: Gameday 1993 Gamebreakers, Gameday 1993, Action Packed 1991, Score 1992.
Acquired: IP 7/11/15, Houston Oilers 25th Anniversary Party
See Also: Haywood Jeffires, Freakwood, Haywood Jeffires (3), Haywood Jeffires (4)
Well the Houston Oilers 25th Anniversary Party got off to a slow start. I expected to be able to recognize a lot of them, but to be kind, it has been a long time. The first guy I was able to nab was Jeffires. True to form he wore his staple long shirt, and sported an epic grizzly Kimbo Slice beard. He was in an incredibly good mood, and signed these cards for me. Sure I am slowly running out of cards for him to sign, as I won’t pursue the Saints or ‘Tennessee Oilers’ cards of him, but still, he remains one of my favorite players in a bizarre footnote of my otaku-like obsession. I shot the breeze a bit with him and shook his hand. I stopped him and said, “I can’t believe your hands are so baby smooth after all these years!” We both laughed heartily about it for a minute. I later told him that if he needed to leave, I could stand in for him and tell people that I was Haywood Jeffires.
Still I am hitting some pretty nice cards here. Somehow this Action Packed 1991 gem slipped through the cracks up to this point. Otherwise, by 1992 I had stopped collecting many of the brands of cards, and in 1993 I was done with the hobby for a while. I did not pick up Score 1992 or Gameday 1993. While Gameday seemed to respect the evolutionary process- Score’s 1992 effort was looking more and more like a children’s activity book. The redeeming quality of this particular Jeffires card is the great action shot, something that as the manufacturers’ solidified their desperate hold on the soft market- began to slide off a precipice and into the sideline/ warmup gutter.
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An Antibiotic Alternative? Using a Virus to Fight Bacteria
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Viruses and bacteria are the culprits behind the infectious diseases that plague humans. Researchers recently turned one against the other, using viruses to wipe out a potentially life-threatening bacterium in a 15-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis.
This old-time approach to battling bacterial infections might be worth another look in these days of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new paper argues.
Genetically engineered bacteriophages -- viruses that infect and kill bacteria -- successfully cleared up a severe antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection in the critically ill teenager, researchers said in a new study.
"This is the first use of 'phages' to treat this kind of infection with this kind of bacterium, and it's the first time that anyone's used 'phages' that have been genetically engineered to be more effective," said study co-author Graham Hatfull. He's a professor of biotechnology at the University of Pittsburgh.
The idea of using bacteriophages to battle human disease has been around for about a century. But it fell out of favor in the 1940s with the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics, according to the BioTherapeutics Education & Research Foundation.
The notion of bacteriophage therapy is getting a second look now that some dangerous bacteria are developing resistance to widely used antibiotics.
In this case, a cocktail of three phages wiped out an infection of Mycobacterium abscessus that had plagued the young girl for eight years, then flared up after she underwent a double lung transplant as a result of cystic fibrosis.
"Mycobacterium abscessus -- a bacterium that is one of the most daunting to treat -- is in desperate need of effective therapies," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore.
"That this patient had a very positive response to intravenous phage therapies is an important milestone and hopefully will lead to more use of phages for this specific infection and for others," said Adalja, who was not involved in the study.
"The antibiotic pipeline is rapidly running dry and the use of bacteriophages is increasingly proving to be one important solution to the looming infectious disease crisis the world faces," he added.
The lung transplant occurred without any immediate problems, but afterward the patient was put on immunosuppressive drugs to help the body adapt to the new lungs, researchers said.
That gave the long-standing bacterial infection a chance to become widespread, despite treatment with multiple intravenous antibiotics.
The girl's surgical wound site became infected, the liver became inflamed, and sores erupted on more than 20 locations on her legs, arms and buttocks, researchers said.
"The patient was not responding to antibiotics," Hatfull said. "Our expertise is in the study of the bacteriophages, so we sought to try to find phages in our collection which would infect and kill this particular bacterial strain."
Researchers wound up identifying three different phages that might effectively kill off the bacteria. They genetically improved the viruses to make them better able to tackle the infection.
They administered the phages intravenously and topically to the infected skin lesions. Within six months, the surgical wound and skin lesions healed, with no adverse effects, researchers said.
Bacteriophage therapy holds huge promise because it only attacks the specific bacteria it considers the enemy, Hatfull said.
"That specificity is in marked contrast to antibiotics, which often just blast away any of the bacteria in your body," Hatfull said.
But that specificity is a drawback as well.
"They're often so specific that even though they may infect and be useful for the strain that infects one patient, they may not attack very similar bacteria that infect other patients," Hatfull said. "That's really the conundrum with the use of the phages more broadly."
Genetic research into phages and how they choose their targets could help open up bacteriophage therapy as an alternative to antibiotics, Hatfull said.
"If we could understand that at a basic research level, perhaps then we would be able to extend what appears to be a good outcome for one patient into a treatment that would be more broadly useful for more patients," Hatfull said.
The study results appear online May 8 in the journal Nature Medicine.
The BioTherapeutics Education & Research Foundation has more about bacteriophage therapy.
SOURCES: Graham Hatfull, Ph.D., professor, biotechnology, University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences; Amesh Adalja, M.D., senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore; Nature Medicine, May 8, 2019
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EFA reverses Son Heung-min red card and lifts suspension
Tottenham’s Son Heung-min will not be suspended for the challenge which led to a serious injury for Everton’s Andre Gomes after his red card was overturned.
The Korean forward left the field in tears when he was sent off during Sunday’s 1-1 draw after the challenge left Portuguese midfielder Gomes with a broken and dislocated ankle.
Tottenham appealed the decision to send off Son, who was facing a three-game ban for serious foul play. The English Football Association says “an independent Regulatory Commission upheld a claim of wrongful dismissal.”
Son has traveled with Spurs for Wednesday’s Champions League game at Red Star Belgrade, while striker Harry Kane also returns after missing the Everton game with a virus.
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Peace on Earth, Peace in Space: A Rally against Raytheon at the JFK Space Summit
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Join us in protesting War Profiteers at the JFK Space Summit
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Columbia Point next to UMASS Boston Campus on Boston Harbor (shuttle from
JFK station on red line; limited paid parking on campus)
Is President Kennedy’s vision for Space Peaceful or Warlike?
Why are Raytheon, Boeing, and Draper Labs sponsoring this celebration?
Raytheon technology is playing a major role in militarizing space and turning space into still another base from which the President can launch war.
Meanwhile here on Earth:
-Raytheon and Boeing are selling bombs and other weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The Saudis and UAE are using these weapons to turn Yemen into a living hell.
-The Trump Administration and the Saudis are threatening war against Iran. If there is war, Raytheon and Boeing weapons will play a major role. Raytheon’s Tomahawk missiles will be used to initiate it.
-Draper Labs and Raytheon are major contractors for nuclear weapons. They will play a major role in the President’s $1.7 billion plan for new and upgraded nuclear weapons.
Is Raytheon’s sponsorship of this celebration consistent with President Kennedy’s vision of world peace about which he spoke at American University during the last months of his life?
“I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived–yet it is the most important topic on Earth: world peace.
What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children–not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women–not merely peace in our time but peace for all time…..
……So, let us not be blind to our differences–but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”
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Blackfoot Confederacy Leaders Call US Government Grizzly Delisting an Act of “Cultural Genocide”
by Native News Online Staff / Currents / 27 Jul 2015
Chief Stanley Grier
STANDOFF, ALBERTA– Demonstrating the strength and conviction that enabled their ancestors to defend a territory that once stretched over two US states and two Canadian provinces, leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy are mounting a vigorous challenge to the US government’s proposed removal of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections from the grizzly bear.
“Here in Blackfoot Country the grizzly is revered as a very spiritual part of our ceremonies, especially the Medicine Pipe bundles,” explains Blood Tribe Councilman, Mike Bruised Head.
In a letter to US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Chief Vincent Yellow Old Woman, Chief of the Siksika Nation, emphasized the significance of the grizzly bear in Blackfoot culture.
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“The grizzly bear is central to some of our oldest and most sacred narratives, accounts that speak to the creation of constellations and the coming of sacred bundles. The circumstances do not exist that would make us, the stewards of this land, turn on our relative, the grizzly bear, to satisfy the US government, state game agencies, and affluent white trophy hunters,” Chief Yellow Old Woman impresses upon the Secretary.
“The grizzly bear has been significant to the Blackfoot people since the time of our Creation,” says Chief Stanley Grier of the Piikani Nation.
Chief Grier describes the grizzly as “a fundamental part of our existence,” and for that reason he categorizes the US government’s intent to delist the Great Bear and enable the states of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho to open trophy hunts on them as an act of cultural genocide.
“It is cultural genocide,” he states. “But more than that, I believe it’s right out genocide, because it really attacks our whole identity as a people.”
Chief Charles Weasel Head of the Blood Tribe and Chief Yellow Old Woman “fully concur” with Chief Grier’s assessment.
“It is cultural genocide. I wouldn’t put it any other way,” agrees Blackfeet Councilwoman Cheryl Little Dog. “To delist and allow trophy hunting of the grizzly bear is the government again saying to our people, ‘Forget how sacred the grizzly bear is. Forget your sacred ways,’” she says.
The Blackfeet Nation is now in the eye of the grizzly delisting storm. Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suggest that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) intended to target the Blackfeet Nation as the key to facilitating the delisting of the grizzly population in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) if the government and states were again thwarted in Greater Yellowstone.
“The Region has the horses to focus on only one grizzly delisting effort at a time,” FWS Assistant Director, Gary Frazer, cautioned FWS Director Ashe in a communication dated 3/19/12. Frazer then advised Ashe that FWS grizzly coordinator Chris Servheen would take, “other necessary steps for delisting the bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.”
“The documents expose their intentions,” says David Bearshield, Chairman of GOAL Tribal Coalition’s Advisory Council. “Their policy has nothing to do with seeking ‘the best available science,’ it is all about answering the court on the issue of whitebark pine and just rehashing and reinterpreting the data they already had to get their way.”
Judge Donald Molloy ruled against FWS in US District Court in 2009, finding that in removing the Yellowstone grizzly from the ESA on April 30, 2007, FWS had failed to adequately address what impact the diminishment of that critical food source would have on the bears. In November 2011, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld the ruling pertaining to the potential threat from declining whitebark pine, and vacated FWS’s delisting Rule.
“In the FOIA documents even Director Ashe questions his agency’s own integrity,” contends Bearshield.
In an email to Frazer on 3/19/12, Ashe writes: “I may be missing something, but this recommendation seems at odds with the ‘best available science’ standard of ESA.”
“Nowhere in these documents will you find mention of the tribes or FWS’s mandated obligation to consult with affected tribes, but, in my opinion, you can read between the lines on how they set their sights on the Blackfeet and the age-old practice of divide and conquer,” insists Bearshield.
“I believe our ancestors would roll over in their graves if they learned that even one Blackfeet leader would consider siding with the federal government and the states over delisting the grizzly bear in our country,” says Councilwoman Little Dog. “If they were to do this, and go against their own people, it would affect our elders terribly because of the sacredness of the grizzly.”
In their respective letters to Secretary Jewell, Chiefs Yellow Old Woman, Weasel Head and Grier cite the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council (RMTLC) resolution in opposition to delisting the grizzly bear.
“We unequivocally support the RMTLC resolution. This is a powerful document that honors our ancestors and defends our future generations by rejecting the delisting and trophy hunting of this sacred being,” asserts Chief Yellow Old Woman.
Chief Weasel Head credits Blackfeet Councilman, Bill Old Chief, with securing the resolution’s passage, and considers it an affront to the Blackfoot Confederacy and an infringement of sovereignty that FWS appears to be ignoring the resolution by attempting to influence the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council (BTBC) to separate from the Blackfoot Confederacy on delisting the grizzly.
“In order for us to challenge what the US government is trying to introduce with delisting we must stand together,” implores Chief Weasel Head. “We are the caretakers of this land and we must take up that responsibility. This is an infringement of our sovereignty, and an attack on the very identity of who we are as the original people of this country.”
“If they take the grizzly bear off the ESA that opens the protected lands the grizzly bear occupies, be that Indian reservations or public lands,” warns Blood Councilman, Mike Bruised Head. “Delisting the grizzly will take that protected area away and open it for big industry to dictate the usage of the land. Without the grizzly bear being protected, big industry will have free access to the last protected areas in both Canada and the US,” he predicts.
All of the Blackfoot Confederacy Chiefs detail how delisting the grizzly bear will “directly impact and undermine” the Blackfeet Nation’s efforts to protect the sacred Badger-Two Medicine area.
“The grizzly will no longer be able to protect our lands if it, itself, is no longer protected. Without the grizzly, what will become of our lands and water? Fracking will not feed our children. Gas cannot be our oxygen. Petroleum will not quench our thirst,” cautions Chief Yellow Old Woman.
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Sandi Billington 4 years ago
Again the Government is trying to wrangle their way forward with respect only to BIG OIL, BIG CORPORATIONS, LOGGING, HUNTERS and their like. This must be stopped!
Marcia Kading 4 years ago
They did this to the wolf a few years ago and opened it to hunting. Folks in Northern Minnesota fought against it and it became evident that it was not going to work. The hunting broke up the packs and there started to be more lone wolf attacks toward people, which had never happened before. And of course, the wolf is scared to Native people. People protested and now there is no hunting them, the hunters were quite upset. Keep up the good fight!
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US Muslim woman fired from work for wearing hijab
In a case of alleged discrimination in the US, a young Muslim woman was fired from her job at a dental clinic for wearing a hijab as her employer wanted to keep a "neutral environment" in office.
Najaf Khan, who was hired as a dental assistant at Fair Oaks Dental Care in Fairfax County, Virginia, said she was fired from the new job because she wore a Muslim head scarf to work.
"I was really upset. The day that it happened, I was devastated," Najaf said.
She did not wear the hijab for her interview or on the first two days of employment. On the third day, she chose to wear it because Najaf felt that she would stay at the job and wearing it was part of her spiritual journey.
At work that day, she said the owner of Fair Oaks Dental Care, Dr Chuck Joo, told her to take off the hijab.
Joo told her that they wanted to keep a "neutral environment" in office. The employer asked her to remove it because the Islamic head scarf would offend patients and he wanted to keep religion out of the office.
Khan said Joo gave her an ultimatum -- she could continue wearing the scarf and be fired or work without it.
"When I said that I would not compromise my religion for that, he held the door open for me and I walked out," Khan said.
Joo was quoted as saying that open displays of religion are not allowed at his business because he wants to keep it neutral. If his employees want to wear a hat, it must be a surgical hat for sanitary reasons, Joo said.
Reacting to the case, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said, "No employee should face termination because of his or her faith or religious practices. We call on Fair Oaks Dental Care to reinstate the Muslim employee and to offer her reasonable religious accommodation as mandated by law."
Najaf said she would likely refuse an offer to return to the dental office.
"I was astonished because he (boss) had been saying I had been doing so well. I received an email Friday morning (July 29) saying how much positive enthusiasm I was bringing into the dental office," she said.
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synopsis: Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the acquisition of Amirsys, a leading provider of innovative healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy.
buyer parent: Reed Elsevier
buyer: Elsevier B.V.
Elsevier is a provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. "
target: Amirsys, Inc.
Amirsys, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative healthcare information solutions in radiology, pathology, and anatomy. Amirsys delivers medical expertise with powerful technology to provide life-saving, vital information to healthcare professionals.
closed 1/9/2013 via PR Web
EBSCO Publishing, Inc., acquired PEMSoft
synopsis: EBSCO Publishing has expanded its evidence-based healthcare content with the acquisition of PEMSoft, a premiere pediatric point-of-care clinical information resource. PEMSoft is an online clinical library and multimedia decision support system that addresses acute and chronic illness and injury conditions in children from newborn to young adult.
buyer parent: EBSCO Industries, Inc.
buyer: EBSCO Publishing, Inc.
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases. EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). "
target: PEMSoft
PEMSoft is an online clinical information system specializing in acute and chronic illness and injury conditions in children and adolescents. PEMSoft is constantly updated by a team of over fifty editors and hundreds of contributors worldwide.
closed 4/13/2005 via Company Press Release
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., acquired Whurr Publishers Ltd.
synopsis: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Whurr Publishers Limited, a London-based publisher of books and journals in Health Sciences and Special Education. The shareholders of Whurr Publishers Limited were represented by The van Tulleken Company. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed.
buyer: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JW.A:$1,830.28)
John Wiley & Sons is a global publisher of print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, and medical books and journals; professional and consumer books and subscription services; and textbooks and other educational materials for students as well as lifelong learners. "
target: Whurr Publishers Ltd.
Whurr is a leading publisher of academic and professional books in the "niche" areas of Audiology, Speech and Language Therapy, Nursing, Psychology and Special Education. Whurr Publishers has been acquired by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Physicians Interactive, acquired Quantia Inc
synopsis: Physicians Interactive (PI), the leading provider of insight-driven, digital engagement solutions for healthcare professionals and consumers, announced that it has acquired Quantia, Inc., whose award-winning web and mobile community, QuantiaMD, reaches more than one-third of U.S. physicians.
buyer parent: Merck & Co., Inc.
buyer: Physicians Interactive
Physicians Interactive is a provider of online and mobile clinical resources and solutions for healthcare professionals. PI uses the power of networks of healthcare professionals and life sciences companies together in ways that will change the practice and business of medicine for the better. "
target: Quantia Inc
QuantiaMD is bringing physicians together to reshape medicine. Through its medical learning network, physicians connect with expert faculty and colleagues they know and trust to better manage their practices, support their patients, and take care of themselves.
closed 4/5/2016 via BusinessWire
Swervepay Health, acquired StatPayMD
synopsis: SwervePay, LLC, an innovative patient-centric payment solution in healthcare, announced its acquisition of StatPayMD. StatPayMD is an easy to use solution that helps practices educate patients of their out of pocket responsibility and offer payment solutions improving patient payments and delivering a consumer focused patient experience.
buyer: Swervepay Health
SwervePay is leading the patient-provider revolution by reducing the complexity of interacting with patient-facing technologies and eliminating mobile apps and repetitive paper statements. SwervePay eliminates statement cost, improves hospital staff efficiency and collects patient balances faster. "
target: StatPayMD
StatPayMD is a easy to use solution that helps practices educate patients of their out of pocket responsibility and offer payment solutions improving patient payments and delivering a consumer focused patient experience.
closed 5/15/2019 via BNC Analysis
MHA Co., Ltd, acquired Shirobon.net
synopsis: MHA, a Japanese staffing firm focused on medical institutions and nursing homes, acquired Shirobon.net, a Japanese medical staff support site.
buyer: MHA Co., Ltd
Headquartered in Japan, MHA provides staffing solutions to the various issues and difficulties that medical institutions and nursing homes encounter daily. They aim to improve the management capabilities of medical institutions. "
target: Shirobon.net
Shirobon.net is a Japanese medical staff support site. They not only provide a question forum but they also have research material that includes insurance medical care score guides.
closed 5/4/2016 via PE Hub
HealthLine, Inc., acquired MediLexicon International
synopsis: Healthline Media, which is backed by Summit Partners, has acquired MedicalNewsToday.com (MNT) and MediLexicon.com. MediLexicon International Ltd was the seller. MNT is a leading website in the medical news category while MediLexicon.com is an online database of medical abbreviations with over 200,000 definitions that are constantly updated.
buyer: HealthLine, Inc.
HealthLine, Inc. is a leading provider of intelligent health information and technology solutions. The company's proprietary health taxonomy platform powers a suite of marketing, health search, data and text-mining, and content solutions for global enterprises and advertisers. "
target: MediLexicon International
MedicalNewsToday.com is a leading website in the medical news category, boasting over 132 therapy areas. MediLexicon.com is an online database of medical abbreviations with over 200,000 definitions that are constantly updated.
announced 8/5/2015 via Company Press Release
Springer Media, will purchase Dutch Health Portfolio from Reed Business Netherlands
synopsis: The board of Springer Media announced the intended acquisition of the Dutch healthcare publishing activities of Reed Business Netherlands. The portfolio consists of Dutch language books, events and magazines for healthcare professionals.
buyer parent: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
buyer: Springer Media
Springer Media, part of Springer Nature, is a dynamic media company that focuses on healthcare, with a long history as a medical publisher, serving students, healthcare professionals and health care management. "
seller parent: RELX Group plc
seller: Reed Business Netherlands
Reed Business Netherlands' healthcare publishing activities consists of Dutch language books, events and magazines for healthcare professionals. Reed Business Netherlands is part of Reed Business Information, which provides information and online data services to business professionals worldwide.
Healio, acquired LearntheHeart
synopsis: Healio.com, the online home of CARDIOLOGY TODAY, published by SLACK Incorporated, has acquired LearntheHeart.com in an agreement that will bolster the content and reach of an innovative, online educational resource for medical students, residents, and practicing physicians in cardiology.
buyer parent: The Wyanoke Group
buyer: Healio
Healio.com is an in-depth medical website that enables health care specialists to select and tailor news, information and education to their daily practice of medicine. "
target: LearntheHeart
LearntheHeart.com is a free online cardiology resource for students seeking to increase ECG interpretation and cardiovascular disease knowledge. The site has since grown to over 5,000 pages of cardiology content containing educational quizzes, games, activities and more.
closed 5/9/2011 via PR Newswire
Elsevier B.V., acquired Fisterra.com
synopsis: Elsevier has announced the acquisition of Fisterra.com, an award winning, widely used e-clinical reference solution in Spain. Fisterra was launched in 2002 by two primary care doctors and a medical librarian in response to the need for an online short answer Spanish language reference solution to help primary care physicians.
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals and close to 20,000 book titles. "
target: Fisterra.com
Fisterra.com provides access to Fisterrae, an advanced e-clinical reference solution that integrates support resources for health professionals in a local language platform.
Ebix, Inc., acquired A.D.A.M., Inc.
synopsis: Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, has announced the closing of the merger of Atlanta based A.D.A.M., Inc., a leading provider of health information and benefits technology solutions in the United States.
buyer: Ebix, Inc. (EBIX:$570.76)
Ebix, Inc., provides end-to-end solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges, carrier systems, agency systems and BPO services to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry. "
target: A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is a leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions to healthcare organizations, benefits brokers, employers, consumers, and educational institutions.
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Brightsquid Dental Link Inc., acquired SCS Card Technology
synopsis: Brightsquid Dental Ltd. announced that it has acquired SCS Card Technology Inc. The company develops smart card-based solutions for healthcare. This process involves assembling and integrating their proprietary IP products that can best serve those clients' needs.
buyer: Brightsquid Dental Link Inc.
Brightsquid Dental Link is a web-based dental collaboration platform that centralizes communication between dentists, office managers, specialists and dental labs. The secure, award-winning software ensures everyone can safely stay informed while working with the same data. "
target: SCS Card Technology
SCS develops smart card-based solutions for healthcare. This process involves assembling and integrating their proprietary IP products that can best serve those clients' needs, and aggregating the partnerships that will make each program work for the maximum benefit of SCS and their clients.
closed 12/4/2015 via PE Hub
Genstar Capital LLC, acquired PDR Network
synopsis: Lee Equity Partners, LLC a growth oriented middle market buyout firm has closed the sale of PDR Network, LLC (“PDR”) to an affiliate of San Francisco based private equity firm Genstar Capital. PDR has built the largest network to engage physicians, pharmacists, and patients with clinically relevant content in a targeted and measurable way.
buyer: Genstar Capital LLC
Genstar Capital is a leading private equity firm that has been actively investing in high quality companies. Genstar works in partnership with its management teams and its network of operating executives and strategic advisors to transform its portfolio companies into industry-leading businesses. "
target parent: Lee Equity Partners, LLC
target: PDR Network
PDR delivers innovative health knowledge products and services that support prescribing decisions and patient adherence to improve health. PDR provides event-driven and clinically relevant healthcare messaging through its process that improves patient compliance and outcomes.
closed 11/3/2014 via BusinessWire
LDM Group merged with PDR Network,
synopsis: PDR Network, the foremost provider of drug information and prescriber communications, has merged with LDM Group, a leading provider of behavior-based patient and consumer health information.
buyer parent: Lee Equity Partners, LLC
buyer: PDR Network
PDR delivers innovative health knowledge products and services that support prescribing decisions and patient adherence to improve health. PDR provides event-driven and clinically relevant healthcare messaging through its process that improves patient compliance and outcomes. "
target: LDM Group
LDM Group is a Health Care Communication Company That Connects Prescribers, Pharmacists and Patients to Improve Health Outcomes, Through Targeted Communications. LDM was founded in 2003 on the principle that educating patients on their medication drives behavior changing communication.
Vestar Capital Partners, acquired Health Grades, Inc.
synopsis: Affiliates of Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P. formed for the purpose of acquiring Health Grades, Inc., and HealthGrades announced the successful completion of the cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of HealthGrades at a purchase price of $8.20 per share in cash.
buyer: Vestar Capital Partners
Vestar Capital Partners is a leading global private equity firm. For 20 years, Vestar has been seeking out talented management teams and supporting their entrepreneurial dreams, allowing them to run their companies as owners, with an eye toward long-term value creation. "
target: Health Grades, Inc. (HGRD:$58.17)
HealthGrades is the leading independent healthcare ratings organization, providing quality ratings, profiles and cost information on the nation’s hospitals, physicians, nursing homes and prescription drugs.
$250 [$226]
closed 1/31/2019 via BusinessWire
MJH Associates, acquired UBM Life Sciences
synopsis: MJH Associates‚ Inc., (MJH) a leading independent full-service health care education, market research and multichannel medical communications company, has acquired media assets from the UBM Life Sciences Group (part of Informa PLC). The assets includes iconic multimedia platforms in the health care, animal care, pharma sciences and dental fields.
buyer: MJH Associates
MJH is the largest full-service medical media company in the U.S. dedicated to delivering trusted health care news across multiple channels. Over 600 MJH associates are dedicated to providing health care professionals with the information and resources they need to optimize patient outcomes. "
target parent: Informa plc
target: UBM Life Sciences
UBM Life Sciences, part of UBM Americas, is a US-based event, information, and marketing services business serving professional communities in human healthcare, veterinary medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry with an unmatched portfolio of in-person, print, and digital products.
WebMD Corporation, acquired Jobson Healthcare Information
synopsis: WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company and the leader in health information services for consumers and physicians, announced that it has acquired Jobson Healthcare Information (JHI), a leading provider of information, education and marketing services in key healthcare markets.
buyer parent: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
buyer: WebMD Corporation (WBMD:$700.55)
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands Company, is the leading provider of health information services, serving patients, physicians, health care professionals, employers, and health plans through their public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications. "
target: Jobson Healthcare Information
Jobson Healthcare Information LLC is a leading healthcare information, education and marketing services company that can reach over one million physicians, pharmacists and eye care professionals with a diversified portfolio of leading multi-channel brands.
Informa plc, acquired Radcliffe Publishing
synopsis: Electric Word, the media and training group, has sold the trade assets of its loss-making subsidiary Radcliffe Publishing to Informa. Radcliffe Publishing is part of the firm’s health division and publishes products to support the education and professional development of doctors, managers and professionals in health.
buyer: Informa plc (LSE:INF:$3,694.29)
Informa provides academics, businesses and individuals with unparalleled knowledge, up-to-the minute information and highly specialist skills and services. With around 7,000 employees working in some 150 offices in over 40 countries, its global reach and breadth of offer is unique. "
target parent: Electric Word Plc
target: Radcliffe Publishing
Radcliffe is a U.K.-based specialist publisher focused on professional development and compliance in primary healthcare. The Radcliffe portfolio extends to professional and academic books, journals, software and open-learning packages covering child health, health education, pharmacy and more.
UBM French Medical Print Business, acquired UBM French Medical Print Business
synopsis: United Business Media Limited has announces that it has sold its French medical newspaper and magazine business to a management buyout team led by Gérard Kouchner, the business’s Chief Executive since 2005. UBM has sold the business on behalf of its UBM Medica division.
buyer: UBM French Medical Print Business
UBM's French medical print business publishes weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and other subscription and controlled circulation titles for the French healthcare professional community. It also has a number of smaller print media and customised marketing products for the French medical community. "
target parent: United Business Media Limited
target: UBM French Medical Print Business
UBM's French medical print business publishes weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and other subscription and controlled circulation titles for the French healthcare professional community. It also has a number of smaller print media and customised marketing products for the French medical community.
closed 11/16/2010 via BNC Analysis
Electric Word Plc, acquired Radcliffe Publishing
synopsis: Electric Word PLC, a specialist information publisher, will acquire Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. Radcliffe is a U.K.-based specialist publisher founded in 1987, focused on professional development and compliance in primary healthcare.
buyer: Electric Word Plc (AIM:ELE:$3.47)
Electric Word is a specialist information business that serves the sport, education and healthcare sectors. Electric Word products and services include newsletters, magazines, websites, events, books, special reports and bespoke research. "
Ticker: AIM:MED
MedaPhor
MedaPhor is a global provider of advanced ultrasound training simulators for medical professionals. Founded in 2004, they have headquarters in Cardiff, UK and San Diego, USA, and our customers are some of the world's leading medical institutions.
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Ben Azelart Gets PRANKED 🚪 Backstage With Ben Azelart | America's Most Musical Family
Ben Azelart Gets PRANKED 🚪 Backstage With Ben Azelart
Don't be fooled by these talented families, they've got some tricks up their sleeves! Watch as Ben Azelart goes backstage and gets pranked...and also catches up with the families after their latest final round performances!
Who was your favorite family band from America's Most Musical Family Episode 11, "Finals, Part 2"? Vote in the poll here!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-did-you-think-of-americas-most_11.html
America’s Most Musical Family is a one-of-a-kind music competition series that will see 30 talented and diverse family bands performing in all genres take center stage in front of celebrity judges Grammy Award-winning global superstar Ciara, digital media sensation David Dobrik, pop icon and Broadway star Debbie Gibson and show host, singer and television personality Nick Lachey to compete for a recording contract with Republic Records and the chance to win a $250,000 cash prize in partnership with Capri Sun 100% Juice. Bands taking part range from a father/daughter duo, sibling groups and a 12-member multigenerational brass ensemble. The bands will battle it out over the course of 12 hour-long episodes and one half-hour special.
Follow America’s Most Musical Family: nickammf.com | Instagram | YouTube | Audition for Season 2 | #AMMF
More Nick: Comedian/Writer Adam Conover Tapped to Host Nickelodeon's 'The Crystal Maze', Premiering Friday, Jan. 24, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT)!
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Labels: America's Most Musical Family, Behind The Scenes, Nickelodeon Highlights, Nickelodeon News, Nickelodeon Reality Shows, Nickelodeon Shows, Nickelodeon Stars, Nickelodeon USA, Nickelodeon Video Clips
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Zombie Gore a Bore in Shaun of the Dead
Directed by Edgar Wright
British, 99 mins, R (zombie gore, drool, guts, and violence)
I’m officially bored with zombies. I don’t want to read books about zombies and Jane Austen, don’t need any video games that allow me to put them out of commission, and sure as hell don’t want to see any more movies about them. In fact, I’d rather take a shovel to the head—apparently a good way to killing zombies—than sit through a second showing of Shaun of the Dead.
Against my better judgment, I allowed myself to be seduced into watching this lame “comedy.” I had been assured by numerous people that it was a “cult classic,” was “screamingly funny,” and a film “you’ve got to see.” When I looked it up I found out that it took in a mere $4 million at the box office. After seeing it I can assure you, gentle readers, that this has nothing to do with the fact that it’s an English film or that an independent studio made it. It has everything to do with the fact that it’s lame, shoddily made, and singularly devoid of either horror or humor. I know it's Halloween season and that this film looks tempting as a Netflix offering, but you be better off gorging yourself on candy corn than ingesting this bit of zombie porn.
Shaun is British comedian Simon Pegg, who co-wrote this mess. He plays a loser among losers—a guy in a dead end job who can’t even hold onto his vacuous girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield). Shaun shares a flat with Ed (Nick Frost), a fat, unemployed, video-game-playing slob and the only man in London who’s a bigger loser than he. Shaun is so clueless, in fact, that it takes him an entire day to notice that most of London has turned into flesh-eating zombies. Hah, hah—that’s one of the funny jokes in the film. So too is Shaun’s effort to rescue Liz, his mother, his despicable father-in-law (Bill Nighy—the best thing in the film), and a small circle of friends by leading them to a supposed safe refuge in a down-market pub. Of course! Where else would you hole up until a zombie craze died down? As you would expect—and there’s nothing in this fill-in-the-clichés-script that you wouldn’t expect—things go very wrong, though Shaun’s impulsive-but-decisive leadership helps him win the gal in the end.
Sorry if I’ve given too much away, but if I dissuade you from renting this film…well… let’s just say that Nobel Prizes have been given for less. The movie is Jim Carrey-like in its broad humor, Jackass-like in its crudity, and as cheesy as Borat. This is definitely not a film you “need” to see. It’s a yawner not a yowler, and it could only be considered a “classic” by those brain-damaged enough to qualify as zombies. As for the latter, enough already; zombies have been so overdone that it’s time to drop the “done” and just let zombies be “over.”
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Shannon Heaton Flute Album Fits Many Moods
SHANNON HEATON
The Blue Dress
Eatsrecords 009
How do you like your Irish flute music? Cool and contemplative, or hot and jaunty? Something that makes you wistful, or something that makes you boogie? Tunes you can turn down low for tasteful background music, or ones you can crank and pretend you’re a competitive step dancer? Shannon Heaton’s got you covered. Her delightful twelve-track solo flute album puts one in mind of Matt Molloy projects for its blend of precision and passion. Like most “solo” projects, Heaton enlists some help—in her case, guests include husband Matt on stringed instruments and Maeve Gilchrist on harp—but she is indeed front and center in ways she’s generally not when performing as a duo or in an ensemble. She showcases her considerable wares on sets of reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, and airs. If you want to get a quick sense of the album’s many moods, cue tracks three and four. The first is the album’s eponymous tune—it’s the only waltz on the album is as delicate as lace. It’s followed by the bouncy “Dennis Watson’s” set of reels that command great breath control to keep pace with Paddy League’s crisp bodhran thumps. Listen for the skillful transition about 2:30 in and you’ll also appreciate Heaton’s craft. And if you think you know what polkas are all about, check out “99 High;” it sounds like Irish music entangled in a tango. This album is a pure delight. And, yes, there really is a blue dress, which she models on the cover in glorious contrast to her red mane. I know, an Irish-American woman with red hair—who could imagine?
Click here for a clip of Shannon and Matt Heaton in concert.
Movie Madness, Celtic Corner, Cranky Notions Celtic Corner
Peter Rowan Legacy a Timeless Treasure
PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND
Compass 7-45432
Peter Rowan is about as close as one can get to the origins of bluegrass. He showed up in Nashville in 1965 as a fresh-faced lad of 23 and became the lead vocalist in founder Bill Monroe’s band. He also apprenticed himself to Monroe, learned a few things abut flat-picking, and embarked on a career that did his mentor proud. Rowan’s also played folk music, some psychedelic electric guitar, Tex-Mex, and a few other things, but his stock-and-trade has always been Appalachian music, especially mountain gospel. Autumn is a good time to feel spiritual about the great outdoors and a person could do worse than to load Legacy on the old MP3 player, head for the colorful groves, and harmonize to “God’s Own Child” and “Let Me Walk Lord By Your Side.” Like all the best bluegrass, though, there’s lot of pain to balance the wholesomeness. “Jailer, Jailer” is a bad boy’s plea that we might as well “throw away the key” because reform ain’t in the offing, “The Family Demon” reminds us that not all families are the Waltons, and “Turn the Other Cheek” that there are some things forgiveness won’t solve. Rowan’s voice is dry as dust, but with emotive catches. A song like “So Good” could have easily fit in the repertoire of the Jerry Garcia’s Old and in the Wayd—an outfit with which Rowan logged some time. This is a fine, fine album and Rowan enlists topnotch talent to help him out: Jody Steicher, Keith Little, Paul Knight and guests as luminous as Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and Tim O’Brien. Bow get yourself into the hills and contemplate your place in the Grand Order.
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Don't Tell Me How I Must Vote
I'm voting for Jill and shame on you for trying to talk me out of it!
It was not a pleasant encounter. We were walking by the town courthouse today when we were accosted—right word—by someone we know who asked us if we intended to vote for the reelection of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Nope. We intend to vote for someone we like for a change—Green Party candidate Jill Stein. The questioner turned inquisitor and became livid and indignant. At one point she literally yelled at us, “This isn’t the primary anymore. You can’t vote for who you want. If you intend to vote for Jill Stein you should just go ahead and vote for [Republican candidate] Charlie Baker.” Phoenix walked away and I should have done likewise, but I couldn’t resist a parting shot: “I’d shoot myself before I voted for an idiot like Baker, but I’m done voting for Democrats I can’t stand. For once I intend to vote for the person who shares my values, and until more of us have the courage to do so, we’re not going to change society.”
The more I considered the encounter, the angrier it made me. Lets forget the specifics of Massachusetts politics and dissect this a different way. I “can’t” vote for the candidate I “want?” Excuse me! As Americans we have the right to debate politics, but when someone starts telling us how we must vote, that person has crossed more than a civility line. It is our fundamental right to exercise our franchise as we see fit. One may me engage me in disputation, but when this becomes coercion and harassment, my rights are being trampled. Frankly, this encounter destroyed even the slightest thought I entertained of voting for Patrick.
I have a thick skin and I’ll get over my anger. The Democratic Party might not. Encapsulated in the unpleasantry is a deeper problem: the Democratic strategy of late has been to define itself by way of negation. One should cast a vote for something and if all you have for me is “We’re not the Other Guy,” count me out. I’m a left progressive and the Democratic Party has systematically ignored me, my values, and my causes. What’s the Other Guy going to do to me that that the Dems haven’t already done? They remind me of the moocher who pretends to be your friend—at some point you get sick of him and never again invite him to your parties.
I’m also tired of people telling me that the people whose values I share can’t win so I must settle for the lesser of two evils. That’s gutless garbage. I’ve seen good people win who didn’t have a D or an R after their name. Check out what Burlington, Vermont did (and keeps on doing). It didn’t happen overnight, but it can only happen when we say “no” to those who betray us daily and seek to befriend us when it's convenient. I won’t speak for Phoenix, but I’m voting for Jill Stein. If the polls are correct, she’ll get about 4% of the vote. It’s very possible that Deval Patrick will lose by 2% or less. If that happens, I will feel not the slightest pang of guilt—he gave me no positive reason to vote for him.
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Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity | June 1
CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
Students brainstorm a list of modern news sources and from previous centuries. Groups then research one of these sources and create a timeline showing the evolution of news.
Commercial ice cream is first sold in the U.S. in 1786.
After finding advertisements from the past, students evaluate them and discuss how ads have changed over the years. Students then create an advertisement for a new flavor of ice cream.
June 14 is Flag Day in the U.S.
Students consider how America, Americans, and the flag are represented in different patriotic songs and hypothesize about the reasons for their differences.
The first typewriter patent was awarded in 1868.
Students take part in an inquiry-based study that compares typewriters to computers.
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Mara wildlife in serious decline
By James Morgan
Numbers of giraffe in the Masai Mara fell by more than 80%
Wild grazing animals in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve are steadily disappearing, a study has found.
Numbers of giraffe, warthog, impala, topi and hartebeest fell by 50% or more between 1979 and 2002.
The falls are linked to rapid growth of Maasai settlements around the reserve, say scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).
Their analysis is published in the British Journal of Zoology.
"The situation we documented paints a bleak picture and requires urgent and decisive action if we want to save this treasure from disaster," said Joseph Ogutu, the lead author of the study and a statistical ecologist at ILRI.
The carnivores are the first casualties. Lion numbers are going down
Dr Joseph Ogutu, ILRI, Kenya
"Our study offers the best evidence to date that wildlife losses in the reserve are widespread and substantial.
"These trends are clearly linked to the increase in human settlements on lands adjacent to the reserve."
The loss of grazing animals is already having an impact on lions, cheetahs, and other predators, according to researchers.
"The carnivores which depend on these wildlife are the first casualties," said Dr Ogutu.
"The numbers of lions are going down. The cheetah numbers are declining. The wild dogs in the Mara system have become extinct."
Increasing threat
The Masai Mara and the neighbouring Serengeti are world-famous for their exceptional wildlife population - including an annual migration of nearly two million wildebeest.
Lion numbers are declining in the Mara as their prey disappear
The Mara itself was recently voted one of the "seven modern wonders of the world".
But during recent decades, many species have come under threat from severe droughts, increased poaching, and more intensive grazing by Maasai pastoralists in the "ranchlands" at the fringes of the reserve.
Between 1989 and 2003 the ILRI scientists carried out monthly ground counts of seven ungulate species - giraffe, hartebeest, impala, warthog, topi, waterbuck, and zebra.
They found significant declines in giraffe, impala and topi, and even greater declines in warthog and hartebeest.
The trends they observed are backed up by a separate, aerial count of wildlife undertaken between 1979 and 2002, by the Kenyan government Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing.
By 2002, numbers of giraffe in the reserve had fallen to 20% of their 1979 levels, the bulk of those losses occurring before 1989.
Topi and hartebeest in the reserve fell to less than half their 1979 levels, and almost disappeared in some of the neighbouring ranchlands where they once grazed.
Impala fell by 70% in the Mara itself, while warthog fell by more than 80%, although their numbers appeared steady since 1989.
Habitat erosion
The wildlife losses were most pronounced in the areas where human settlement has increased, even after factoring out the influence of drought.
Maasai have traditionally lived in harmony with wild animals
"Wildlife are constantly moving between the reserve and ranchlands, and they are increasingly competing for habitat with livestock," said Dr Ogutu.
"In particular, more and more people in the ranchlands are allowing their livestock to graze in the reserve - an illegal activity the impoverished Maasai resort to when faced with prolonged drought and other problems.
"The steady erosion of wildlife habitat caused by this intrusion is a key factor in the declines we observed.
"And since 2002 [when the survey ended] the number of settlements, human population and agriculture have continued to expand, so the declines can only be expected to accelerate."
Traditionally, most Maasai were semi-nomadic herders who co-existed easily with the wildlife in the region.
In the right circumstances, Maasai settlements can actually benefit populations of wild grazing animals, the researchers have found.
This is because human settlements can act as safe havens for wild grazing animals because human activity repels lions and other predators.
Safe havens
"The traditional livestock livelihoods of the Maasai, who do not consume wild animals, actually helped maintain the abundance of grazing animals in East Africa," said co-author Robin Reid, of Colorado State University in the US.
Maasai do not always benefit from the revenue the Mara wildlife tourism brings
"And where a pastoral approach to livestock grazing is still practiced, it continues to benefit wild populations."
But the growing communities of pastoralists and their exclusion from development of land policies have made their traditional way of life difficult to maintain.
Over the last few decades, many Maasai have left their traditional mud-and-wattle homesteads, known as bomas, and gravitated to more permanent settlements - a large number of which now crowd the "ranchlands" at the border of the reserve.
In just one of these ranchlands, the Koyiaki ranch, the number of bomas surged from 44 in 1950 to 368 in 2003, while huts increased from 44 to 2,735 in number.
As these permanent settlements increased, the abundance of wildlife decreased significantly, researchers note.
The ILRI scientists are helping to promote schemes where Maasai living next to game reserves receive rent payments from private game lodges in return for allowing wildlife to continue to roam on their property.
In one such conservancy, at Olare Orok, the numbers of lions "increased almost immediately", said Dr Ogutu.
"We know from thousands of years of history that pastoral livestock-keeping can co-exist with East Africa's renowned concentrations of big mammals. And we should look to these pastoralists for solutions to the current conflicts," said Carlos Seré, ILRI's Director General.
"With their help and the significant tourism revenue that the Mara wildlife generates, it should be possible to invest in evidence-based approaches that can protect this region's iconic pastoral peoples as well as its wildlife populations."
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Home > Germany takes important step to support bio-based packaging
Germany takes important step to support bio-based packaging
New packaging law (Verpackungsgesetz) aiming to boost recycling of packaging waste
Earlier this month, Germany’s Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, approved a new packaging law (Verpackungsgesetz) aimed at boosting recycling of packaging waste. It also stipulates that the systems collecting the waste fees are obliged to create incentives that encourage the use of recycled material or material from renewable sources for the production of packaging. This is an important signal for the bioplastics industry as for the first time bio-based and recycled materials are recognised as equally viable solutions to make packaging more sustainable and reduce our dependency on finite fossil resources.
The new law, which was approved by the lower house in March, takes effect in 2019. It sets higher recycling targets for packaging waste by 2022: 63 percent for plastic packaging, 90 percent for metal, glass, and paper.
Germany already supports the use of certified bio-based and compostable biowaste plastic bags for the collection of biowaste in the Biowaste Ordinance. Since 2015, the separate collection of biowaste is mandatory in Germany.
The laws reflect a legislative trend to support innovative plastic solutions that help to strengthen mechanic and organic recycling and by this establishing the ground for a circular economy. This is a trend also happening in other European Members States. Last year, France adopted its ‘Green Growth and Energy Transition law’ and stipulated that bio-based, home-compostable packaging was mandatory for certain applications (e.g. thin veggie bags in the super market, mail order wrappings). A decree specified percentages of bio-based content to be reached by defined dates.
In March this year, the European Parliament put forward an ambitious and forward-looking proposal to revise the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive that supports the use of bio-based materials for the production of packaging based on life cycle assessment. At the same time, however, the proposal leaves ample room for Member States to decide flexibly on how to create such legislation.
In line with its ambitious goals to increase recycling targets and waste management efficiency, the Parliament furthermore proposes in the revised Waste Framework Directive a definition of recycling that includes organic recycling in order to use biowaste as the valuable resource it is. It is important that selected packaging applications, such as certified compostable bio-waste bags are supported to ensure a separate collection of biowaste across Europe.
European Bioplastics urges the Members States to acknowledge the environmental, economic and social potentials of innovative bio-based materials and to support these amendments in the forthcoming trilogue on the waste legislative proposals.
Source: European Bioplastics Bulletin, press release, 2017-05-29.
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VTT expands its bio and circular economy pilot centre
New report out on China’s market for biodegradable plastics
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Left to right: PhD student Fadel Adib, PhD student Mingmin Zhao, and Professor Dina Katabi pose with their EQ-Radio device, which can detect emotion using wireless signals.
Photo: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL
Professor Dina Katabi (center) explains how PhD student Fadel Adib's (right) face is neutral but that EQ-Radio's analysis of his heartbeat and breathing show that he is sad.
Detecting emotions with wireless signals
Measuring your heartbeat and breath, CSAIL device can tell if you’re excited, happy, angry, or sad. Watch Video
Adam Conner-Simons | Rachel Gordon | CSAIL
Adam Conner-Simons
Email: aconner@csail.mit.edu
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
As many a relationship book can tell you, understanding someone else’s emotions can be a difficult task. Facial expressions aren’t always reliable: A smile can conceal frustration, while a poker face might mask a winning hand.
But what if technology could tell us how someone is really feeling?
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed “EQ-Radio,” a device that can detect a person’s emotions using wireless signals.
By measuring subtle changes in breathing and heart rhythms, EQ-Radio is 87 percent accurate at detecting if a person is excited, happy, angry or sad — and can do so without on-body sensors.
MIT professor and project lead Dina Katabi envisions the system being used in entertainment, consumer behavior, and health care. Film studios and ad agencies could test viewers’ reactions in real-time, while smart homes could use information about your mood to adjust the heating or suggest that you get some fresh air.
“Our work shows that wireless signals can capture information about human behavior that is not always visible to the naked eye,” says Katabi, who co-wrote a paper on the topic with PhD students Mingmin Zhao and Fadel Adib. “We believe that our results could pave the way for future technologies that could help monitor and diagnose conditions like depression and anxiety.”
EQ-Radio builds on Katabi’s continued efforts to use wireless technology for measuring human behaviors such as breathing and falling. She says that she will incorporate emotion-detection into her spinoff company Emerald, which makes a device that is aimed at detecting and predicting falls among the elderly.
Using wireless signals reflected off people’s bodies, the device measures heartbeats as accurately as an ECG monitor, with a margin of error of approximately 0.3 percent. It then studies the waveforms within each heartbeat to match a person’s behavior to how they previously acted in one of the four emotion-states.
The team will present the work next month at the Association of Computing Machinery’s International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).
Existing emotion-detection methods rely on audiovisual cues or on-body sensors, but there are downsides to both techniques. Facial expressions are famously unreliable, while on-body sensors such as chest bands and ECG monitors are inconvenient to wear and become inaccurate if they change position over time.
EQ-Radio instead sends wireless signals that reflect off of a person’s body and back to the device. Its beat-extraction algorithms break the reflections into individual heartbeats and analyze the small variations in heartbeat intervals to determine their levels of arousal and positive affect.
These measurements are what allow EQ-Radio to detect emotion. For example, a person whose signals correlate to low arousal and negative affect is more likely to tagged as sad, while someone whose signals correlate to high arousal and positive affect would likely be tagged as excited.
The exact correlations vary from person to person, but are consistent enough that EQ-Radio could detect emotions with 70 percent accuracy even when it hadn’t previously measured the target person’s heartbeat.
“Just by knowing how people breathe and how their hearts beat in different emotional states, we can look at a random person’s heartbeat and reliably detect their emotions,” says Zhao.
For the experiments, subjects used videos or music to recall a series of memories that each evoked one the four emotions, as well as a no-emotion baseline. Trained just on those five sets of two-minute videos, EQ-Radio could then accurately classify the person’s behavior among the four emotions 87 percent of the time.
Compared with Microsoft’s vision-based “Emotion API”, which focuses on facial expressions, EQ-Radio was found to be significantly more accurate in detecting joy, sadness, and anger. The two systems performed similarly with neutral emotions, since a face’s absence of emotion is generally easier to detect than its presence.
One of the CSAIL team’s toughest challenges was to tune out irrelevant data. In order to get individual heartbeats, for example, the team had to dampen the breathing, since the distance that a person’s chest moves from breathing is much greater than the distance that their heart moves to beat.
To do so, the team focused on wireless signals that are based on acceleration rather than distance traveled, since the rise and fall of the chest with each breath tends to be much more consistent — and, therefore, have a lower acceleration — than the motion of the heartbeat.
Although the focus on emotion-detection meant analyzing the time between heartbeats, the team says that the algorithm’s ability to captured the heartbeat’s entire waveform means that in the future it could be used for non-invasive health monitoring and diagnostic settings.
“By recovering measurements of the heart valves actually opening and closing at a millisecond time-scale, this system can literally detect if someone’s heart skips a beat,” says Adib. “This opens up the possibility of learning more about conditions like arrhythmia, and potentially exploring other medical applications that we haven’t even thought of yet.”
Topics: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), School of Engineering, Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Startups, Mental health, Health, Behavior, Sensors, Computer science and technology
In an article for Scientific American about the future of robotics, Prof. Emeritus Rodney Brooks highlights Prof. Dina Katabi’s work developing devices that use wireless signals to detect a person’s emotions.
CSAIL researchers have a developed a system that can predict human emotions by using wireless signals to monitor breathing and heartbeats, writes Edd Gent in a Scientific American article. "The idea is that you can enable machines to recognize our emotions so they can interact with us at much deeper levels," says graduate student Fadel Adib.
CSAIL researcher have created a device that uses changes in heart beat and breathing to detect emotions, writes Forbes’ Kevin Murnane. The heart of the system,” writes Murnane, “is the algorithm that extracts the heartbeat from the RF signal. It’s an impressive achievement that solves a difficult problem.”
A device created by CSAIL researchers can detect emotions by wirelessly measuring heartbeats, according to the Associated Press. The device is “87 percent accurate in using heartrate and what it’s already learned about a person to recognize joy, pleasure, sadness or anger.”
CSAIL researchers have developed a device that can determine emotion by analyzing reflections from wireless signals bounced off the human body, writes Mary Beth Griggs for Popular Science. “Because it can measure heart rate, it might also be a less invasive way for doctors to monitor patient's heartbeats, potentially watching for conditions like arrhythmias,” writes Griggs.
CSAIL researchers have developed a device that can determine a person’s mood using wireless signals, write Jordan Graham and Donna Goodison for The Boston Herald. “We view this work as the next step in helping develop computers that can better understand us at an emotional level,” explains Mingmin Zhao.
Matt McFarland writes for CNN that CSAIL researchers have developed a non-invasive device that uses radio waves to detect human emotion. "Imagine if the machines around you can understand when you are stressed or your emotional state is negative,” explains Prof. Dina Katabi."[It could] try to detect depression."
Paper: "Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals"
EQ-Radio
Mingmin Zhao
Dina Katabi
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Valley Gardens. 04.06.13
The Valley Gardens in Windsor Great Park have been developed in a number of phases, starting in the early 1700's when the first Scots Pines were planted. The current arrangement of large collections of shrubs grouped in the valleys leading down to Virginia Water dates from work done in the 1940's by Sir Eric Savill and Hope Findlay.
The open woodland slowly evolves into more intensive plantings as the ground starts to undulate.The tree cover becomes denser and the sense of drama increases.
This Rhododendron 'Fuselier' is a strident scarlet that glows under the woodland. The name Rhododendron means 'red tree' and so it is surprising that there aren't a great many more hybrids in these shocking shades rather than the purples and pastels we are so familiar with as a consequence of the monster, Rhododendron ponticum.
This is the first time I have visited this corner of the gardens. The winter garden nestles at the top of a shallow valley and is surrounded by a horseshoe of Hamamelis that would be a delightful destination during a winter visit. At this season it was wonderfully tranquil. Complete and self-contained without being irritatingly perfect. The lawn undulates, the Rhododendron are irregular and the seat is off centre. Wonderfully not perfect.
Enkianthus campanulatus growing as large as I have ever seen it, making large shrubs and small trees throughout the gardens. It flowers here with an enthusiasm that detracts from its delicate charm. It has come to resemble the beautiful dance of a Prima Ballerina at the end of a long tour of the provinces. Technically exact but heavy and pained and joyless, relentlessly night after night.
The azalea Punch Bowl was designed to be a spectacle of painted colour through May but a slow, cold spring and a sudden leap to summer has left it both coming and going at the same time. It has possibly matured beyond the point that it can be saved by a splash of bright colour and kindly lighting.
The great wonder of the visit was this Davidia involucrata. A Handkerchief Tree flowering with the full power and majesty of maturity. I was transported with rapture and Gloria stumbled about under the branches for several minutes with her camera muttering '...little balls of darkness, little balls of darkness...". She sees things with a quite unique eye.
As the evening light faded and the colours started to chill, we were happy to make our way down the hill. On the journey home we stopped for supper at a country inn that promised 'pie and chips' without the need to specify the inner identity of the pie in question. It was a heavy but tasty affair which I almost ate and Gloria almost didn't but we both enjoyed the whimsical courage of the chef that led to it being presented on a plate with a paper doily.
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The Timeless Ones (A Timless Story, #1)
[PDF / Epub] ☀ The Timeless Ones (A Timless Story, #1) By Susan Catalano – Pikavippi-ilman-luottotietoja.us
A Legend AwakenedA Race Against HistoryA Bond That Is TimelessMerry Chalmers, Accused Witch, Has A Secret So Hidden That She S Nearly Forgotten What She Really Is All She Desires Is For The Witch Hunts To End And To Marry Her Secret Love, William Darling But Hysteria Has Taken Hold In Salem Village, And The Tall Man, Spawned By Tales Of His Existence, Is Born To Fulfill His Dark Purpose.Soon Merry And William Find Their Lives Taking Unthinkable Paths For When Merry Leaps From The 17th Century Into Modern Day Salem, She Must Accept That Unlike Others Who Were Accused And Hanged For Being A Witch, She Truly Is One.
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I received my copy of The Timeless Ones by Susan Catalano from the author, through the Lovers of Paranormal group on Goodreads, in exchange for an honest review.The hardest part of writing this review is trying to keep it spoiler free I loved this book, from the first chapter I was captivated, not only by the story line, but by the writing itself Set in Salem, Massachusetts during both the 1692 witch trials as well as modern day 2010, The Timeless Ones is not just a time travel romance, nor is I received my copy of The Timeless Ones by Susan Catalano from the author, through the Lovers of Paranormal group on Goodreads, in exchange for an honest review.The hardest part of writing this review is trying to keep it spoiler free I loved this book, from the first chapter I was captivated, not only by the story line, but by the writing itself Set in Salem, Massachusetts during both the 1692 witch trials as well as modern day 2010, The Timeless Ones is not just a time travel romance, nor is it just a story about witches My take on the story is that is about good and evil, learning who you are, what you are capable of, and the decisions that you make to call upon darkness or light There is a love story at the heart of the novel, that endearing connection between William and Merry These are two young, innocent characters trying to forge their relationship in a society that is determined to keep them apart Despite being promised to...
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This is a GREAT book that I could not put down from page 1 Honestly, I read it in less than a week only because I had to go to work and I was bitter each time something called me away from it Nearly right from page 1, I was immediately invested in the characters and as each chapter ended, I was compelled to start the next The writing and story were simply captivating and the facts about Salem and the witch trials made me want to plan a trip to downtown Salem to re visit history I really li This is a GREAT book that I co...
Larissa Brown Larissa Brown says:
Since this is in the book blurb, it s not a spoiler to say that Susan Catalano made the interesting and very cool move of writing about the Salem Witch Trials as if two of the victims really were witches I didn t know this when I started reading, and when it dawned on me I was so pleased Catalano handled writing two characters who are sweet, innocent and optimistic in the midst of an unthinkably horrible situation Meredith Chalmers is an upbeat girl who is head over heels in love with the cha Since this is in the book blurb, it s not a spoiler to say that Susan Catalano made the interesting and very cool move of writing about the Salem Witch Trials as if two of the victims really were witches I didn t know this when I started reading, and when it dawned on me I was so pleased Catalano handled writing two characters who are sweet, innocent and optimistic in the midst of an unthinkably horrible situation Meredith Chalmers is an upbeat girl who is head over heels in love with the charming and cute William Darling The first scene in this book after the prologue involves the two sne...
Angel Angel says:
Received this book in exchange for an honest review Lovers of ParanormalOur lives have become a fairytale, she whispered. In the words of Adam Levine, Oh My G This book was a perfect fit for me I have always had an interest in the Salem Witch Trials and I want to read books with Salem as a setting Susan Catalano has delightfully blended fiction and history to produce an engaging story.There was not a dull moment to be found in The Timeless Ones I flew through this book Whether Received this book in exchange for an honest review Lovers of ParanormalOur lives have become a fairytale, she whispered. In the words of Adam Levine, Oh My G This book was a perfect fit for me I have always had an interest in the Salem Witch Trials and I want to read books with Salem as a setting Susan Catalano has delightfully blended fiction and history to produce an engaging story.There was not a dull moment to be found in The Timeless Ones I flew through this book Whether it was the time travel, or the easy relationships, or the glimpse into the seventeenth century, it had me hooked The love story between Merry and William was enchanting They didn t see anyone else in that way and they couldn t survive with...
Sharon Crowley Sharon Crowley says:
Excellent book Love time travel and witchcraft mixed together The author is amazing The Timeless Ones
Barb Snedeker-schultz Barb Snedeker-schultz says:
I loved this book It was very hard to put it down I was so caught up in Merry s life Only problem with the whole book is I have to wait for Susan to finish number two
Marie Williams Marie Williams says:
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review, through the Lovers of Paranormal group.I love books set among the witch hunts in America and Europe, but I have a special preference for Salem The Salem Witch Trials are a hook which will draw me in like few others but, barring non fiction, it so often falls flat of expectation, barely skimming the surface This boo...
Rossana Rossana says:
I received a copy of this book from the author in an exchange for an honest review First, I d really like to add that I would rate this book 3.5 stars, but since we are not allowed to, I ll justify my position This great book has it s plot shared in two parts, so when this book ends, you have no idea on the destiny of the characters, and that is something I really hate But this is a matter r...
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The Timeless Ones A Timeless Story Book 1 I received a free copy, through LoP on Goodreads, in exchange for a review.Timeless an easy concept to understand, but imagine that you have this power the power to be timeless Merry has always felt different, but maybe that s because she has grown up in Salem, during one of the bloodiest times, the Witch Trails Kind hearted, she just wants an end to these vicious lies senseless deaths, so she can marry her secret love, William Events are sta The Timeless Ones A Timeless Story Book 1 I received a free copy, through LoP on Goodreads, in exchange for a review.Timeless an easy concept to understand, but imagine that you have this power the power to be timeless Merry has always felt different, but maybe that s because she has grown up in Salem, during one of the bloodiest times, the Witch Trails Kind hearted, she just wan...
Lisa Foster Lisa Foster says:
Time Travel to the Witch City Salem, Ma is known as the Witch City and the month of October is the 5th season known as Haunted Happenings, where being witches is celebrated However, this story being a witch is still a crime as the heroine, Merry travels from now back to 1692 and has traveled in time before She just wants a life with her boyfriend, William Darling from 1692.Since I just visited Salem 2 weeks ago, this story really intrigued me with the Witch Hysteria of 1692 Names were mention Time Travel to the Witch City Salem, Ma is known as the Witch City and the month of October is the 5th season known as Haunted Happenings, where being witches is celebrated However, this story being a witch is still a crime as the heroine, Merry travels from now back to 1692 and has traveled in time before She just wants a life with her boyfriend, William Darling from 1692.Since I just visited Salem 2 weeks ago, this story really intrigued me with the Witch Hysteria of 1692 Names were mentioned that I saw in Salem at the Witches Trial Memorial that made the storyrealistic for me to relate with and understand as I actually took a tour and the author described scenes and the housing ju...
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Transitional fossil
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“”So many intermediate forms have been discovered between fish and amphibians, between amphibians and reptiles, between reptiles and mammals, and along the primate lines of descent that it often is difficult to identify categorically when the transition occurs from one to another particular species.
—National Academy of Sciences [1]
A transitional fossil (incoherently[note 1] misnamed "missing link" by Creationists) is a fossil of an organism that has traits from multiple evolutionary stages.
1 Creationist denialism
1.1 Impossible standard of evidence
2 The misconception of "missing links"
3 Examples of transitional fossils
Creationist denialism[edit]
See the main article on this topic: One single proof
“”Science has NEVER found a genuine transitional form that is one kind of animal crossing over into another kind — either living or in the fossil record — and there's supposed to be BILLIONS of them!
—Kirk Cameron, mere moments before going full idiot[2]
Proponents of creationism claim that "evolutionists" have had "over 140 years to find a transitional fossil and that nothing approaching a conclusive transitional form has ever been found" — despite the discovery of Archaeopteryx (a transitional form between maniraptoran dinosaurs and basal (primitive) birds, and among the best examples of evolution) only two years after Darwin published The Origin of Species.
Creationists say that we "never saw evolution happen". This is not just false, but since they brought it up, we should probably address that we never saw any of the bullshit mentioned in the Bible happen, either. Oops.
Impossible standard of evidence[edit]
See the main article on this topic: Moving the goalposts
Finding transitional forms never impresses creationists, and for a very simple reason.
If transitional form B — fitting snugly between known species A & C — is found, creationists will suddenly demand that "actual" transitional forms — now between A & B and B & C — be located, lest (they declare) the existence of transitional forms to begin with is to be considered bunk.
Apparently, the only thing that would satisfy them is a complete, unbroken set of generation-by-generation fossils of every organism that ever lived in a direct line of descent from the first bacterium to Charles Darwin's grandfather.[3]
But no matter how many fossils are found, this demand is perpetually extended by the creationists all the way down to the individual level, looping us back around from the geological timespans that formation of species require to the shortsighted comparison of parent-child differences, where obviously no "transitional form" occurs (since we can safety assume that no further lines of descent exist between your own parents and yourself).
While this clearly absurd and impossible standard of positive evidence will never be met — nor could it be — creationists struggle to find even a single paleozoic panda as negative evidence against evilution. Oops.
The misconception of "missing links"[edit]
The missing link between Google 1.0 and Google 2.0.
The term "missing link" is just an obsolete (and rather weasely) synonym for "transitional form". It is generally avoided in scientific discussions as it is suggestive of several misunderstandings about evolution — many of which Creationists subscribe to, of course. These include:
The old idea of a Great Chain of Being, in which there is a linear progression "upward" presumably ending with mankind, just underneath gods and other divine beings. Concepts of evolution since Darwin recognize, to the contrary, that evolutionary change often involves branching, and that unguided evolution has no preferred "direction".
The idea that the fossil record is the only type of evidence which can establish a connection between different life forms. The preponderance of the evidence for evolutionary connections always has been found in living things from the present ("neontology") rather than solely in the fossil record ("palaeontology"). Comparative study of DNA since the elucidation of its structure is just one of the remarkable new lines of investigation.
Another mistaken idea is that there is a scandalous gap in the fossil record especially with regard to human evolutionary history. While a hundred years or more ago, there were very few fossils of human precursors, even as early as the 19th century, there were famous fossils such as Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) and Java man (Homo erectus), and the number has dramatically increased as explorations have concentrated on productive regions in Africa (as suggested by Darwin, but largely ignored at first) since the mid-20th century.
The final mistaken idea is that there is precisely one form: the missing link, which makes the connection between the past and the present. Evolution is understood ever since Darwin as an ongoing process in which one can expect many changes, sometimes very small, which can be fully appreciated only in their places in a web of relationships over stretches of time.
Another problem is that evolution denialists will simply claim that there is another missing link even when a missing link was found. Let's just say that modern humans are Human 2.0 and some early form of "humans" is called Human 1.0. Evolution denialists would claim that we need to find the missing link of Human 1.5. If Human 1.5 is discovered, that creates two new missing links, Human 1.25 and Human 1.75 that evolution denialists would say need to be discovered. If those two missing links are discovered, then the four new missing links Human 1.125, Human 1.375, Human 1.625 and Human 1.875 would need to be discovered. And so on. The only way to satisfy evolution denialists would be to have a record of all "humans" or even all life that has ever existed. Even if every fossil organism were discovered and categorized, there would still be "missing links" because likelihood that bones become fossilized is very rare since fossilization requires a very specific set of geological conditions.[4]
Examples of transitional fossils[edit]
Main article: List of transitional forms
Since then, many other transitional forms, such as Ambulocetus and Pakicetus[5][6] (land mammals to marine cetaceans), and Tiktaalik[7] and Acanthostega[8] (fish to tetrapods) have been found.
The incontrovertible evidence of common descent
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Missing link — a less-than-preferable term used by both creationists and the media for transitional fossils
There is an overview of many of these at talk.origins
See the Wikipedia article on Transitional fossil. for the truth
Futurama's Professor Farnsworth shows lots of transitionals, which of course does no good, and leads to this, which we can all appreciate.
↑ As this article discusses, the very suggestion of a "missing link" necessitates a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution even works (willfully or otherwise).
↑ "Evidence Supporting Biological Evolution"
↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0DdgSDan9c&feature=youtu.be&t=222
↑ Erasmus Darwin, only the rockingest 18th century doctor ever!
↑ What are the odds of a dead dinosaur becoming fossilized? Paleontologist Gregory M. Erickson of Florida State University explains. (September 16, 2002) Scientific American.
↑ Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Aquatic Locomotion in Archaeocete Whales, in Science 14 January 1994
↑ Ambulocetus as a Fossil Transitional, Lenny Flank, 1995
↑ A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan, in Nature 6 April 2006.
↑ Acanthostega: TOL
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A bit of Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C.
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View from downtown Vancouver north across Burrard Inlet to the North Shore
A portion of the wholesale district, Vancouver, B.C.
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Aerial view of Vancouver, B.C.
Aerial view of the northern part of downtown, Burrard Inlet and North Vancouver
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Views from around Vancouver including English Bay, Stanley Park, Robson Street, and Granville Street.
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Aerial view of Burrard Street in Vancouver, B.C.
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View of Vancouver buildings at night.
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View of Gastown looking east along Water St., with the Kelly, Douglas & Co. Ltd. Building in the foreground.
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Aerial view of Gastown in Vancouver. Postcard no. 60.
Corner of Hastings and Cambie
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View from the courthouse at the corner of Hastings and Cambie.
Corner of Hastings and Cambie Streets, Vancouver, B.C.
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Courthouse, hotel district, and Georgia Street, Vancouver, Canada
View west from Georgia St. and Granville St.
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Get in line for your ticket to Bowen Island B.C.
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Government Street, Victoria, B.C.
Granville St, looking South, Vancouver, B.C.
Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C.
View of the Winch Building and Vancouver Block.
Granville Street, looking North
View of the Vancouver Block, located near the busy intersection of Georgia and Granville Streets.
Granville Street, looking towards mountains
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Greetings from Vancouver
Views from around Vancouver including English Bay, Stanley Park, World Building (now known as Sun Tower), the Narrows Lighthouse, and Hastings Street.
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Hastings Street, Standard Bank to Marine Building
Caption from the book reads, "Vancouver's newer business blocks are among the finest in the Dominion."
Hastings Street, looking East, Vancouver, B.C.
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Looking Across the Harbour
Bird's-eye-view of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and Vancouver Habour with ships in the background.
Marine Building from Hotel Vancouver Roof Garden, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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FLAG ON THE PLAY
Published by thegreatone on August 16, 2019. Filed under Articles, Opinion
by Lowman S. Henry
Were Betsy Ross to return to life she would undoubtedly be astounded to find herself one of the most talked about historical figures over the recent Independence Day holiday. She owes it all to an attention-starved washed up former NFL quarterback and a shoe company without a soul.
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell once penned a book entitled A Nation of Wusses. He could write a sequel about Nike, a company of wusses, so under the thrall of perceived political correctness it actually pulled a sneaker imprinted with the nation’s first flag just because said mediocre football player objected.
As if Colin Kaepernick and Nike had not already done enough to contribute to the deep divisions that already afflict our nation, the historically inaccurate branding of the USA’s first flag – believed to have been sewn by Betsy Ross – as racist created yet another storm of controversy. The ridiculousness of the claim, and Nike’s knee-jerk reaction, cast a pall over the mid-summer holiday.
Within hours of Nike’s announcement that it was pulling the flag themed sneaker off the shelves Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced the Arizona Commerce Authority was cancelling incentives it had awarded to Nike to build a new manufacturing plant in the state. In making the announcement Ducey stated “Nike has made its decision, and now we’re making ours.” He went on to say Arizona’s economy would do “just fine” without Nike.
All of this brings to the fore a larger issue: why would any state offer incentives for a highly profitable multi-national corporation like Nike to locate within its borders? Nike is perfectly capable of building manufacturing facilities without state aide or incentives. In fact some officials in Arizona were questioning the effectiveness of the Commerce Authority even before the Nike kerfuffle. Ducey himself had already begun to reduce funding for the agency.
Government picking winners and losers by offering corporate welfare to politically well-connected companies is at epidemic levels all across the country. Every state, and even counties and municipalities within states, want the jobs and tax revenue such companies generate. But, as Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs pointed out “How are we going to quantify whether this agency is successful.”
Amazon raised to an art form pitting states and cities against each other with its recent competition for siting of its second national headquarters. Known as HQ2 Amazon finally decided to divide the offices between Northern Virginia and New York City. An uproar, lead in part by Democratic/Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in whose district the headquarters would have been located, caused Amazon to scuttle its plans to co-locate there. Virginia taxpayers, however, are still stuck with the bill.
Pennsylvania also engages in politically-driven corporate welfare. Both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia vied for Amazon’s HQ2. Local officials even refused to make public the amount of taxpayer dollars they were willing to spend to entice the company. In the end, Pennsylvania’s overall poor business climate and regulatory burden out-weighed the taxpayer goodies promised by those cities.
Over the years the Lincoln Institute’s Keystone Business Climate Survey has periodically asked the owners and Chief Executive Officers of businesses whether they favor targeted incentives or a general easing of the business tax burden. Consistently and by wide margins those who actually run businesses in Penn’s Woods say they would prefer to see such programs eliminated along with implementing tax cuts and regulatory relief to make the state more competitive.
At the end of the day the winners are Arizona taxpayers who don’t have to subsidize Nike and its feckless embrace of Leftwing sensibilities, and Betsy Ross whose fame for producing the first American flag shines even brighter. All things for Colin Kaepernick to ponder this Fall as he watches another season of NFL football from the comfort of his own living room.
Lowman S. Henry is Chairman & CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly Lincoln Radio Journal. His e-mail address is lhenry@lincolninstitute.org.
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Get moving by getting unstuck with author Fredrick Bussey?
January 21, 2020 Planet Noun
So…who ARE you?
I can’t help but think of Alice in Wonderland—the Disney movie…and the caterpillar with the hookah…asking Alice this question while blowing smokey designs in her face.
No smoke here…but the question remains the same.
What are you here to do?
What’s your gift?
No, I’m not talking about something you got for a birthday or holiday—if you celebrate those.
I’m talking about something that’s special about YOU…something that you were BORN with—that no one else can do just like you.
I’m not talking about a skill like playing an music instrument.
I’m not talking about talents either…but gifts.
But what’s the difference, you ask? That’s what today’s guest on Planet Noun is discussing in this episode. Fredrick Bussey also wrote a book about it.
So let’s get right into it…he’s a dad…a speaker and entrepreneur…founder of marketing and branding consultancy IconStatus…his work? Helping brands and individuals to convey their stories with more power.
More from Fredrick Bussey author of the book “Breaking Orbit: Rip Out of the Regular by Unearthing the Power Within” on Planet Noun.
Learn more about Bussey via his social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram:
See it for what it is. When you step back and look at what you’re afraid of, you realize that it’s probably not true, it’s probably not real. And even if it was, you can’t through it, over it, or past it. When you see it for what it is. So… what are you afraid of?
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Junkanoo in the Bahamas
January 16, 2020 LeLe LoveJones
In August of 2019 I had the opportunity to attend a wedding in the Bahamas. The Bahamas is such a beautiful vacation spot, I could not pass up the opportunity to visit this lovely island again.
I stayed at the Atlantis on Paradise Island. I wish I had more time to experience what they had to offer, but my time spent there was very enjoyable and fun.
As it turned out, Junkanoo was also being celebrated. Oh the joy! I’d told myself that I wanted to start attending Carnival and Junkanoo celebrations in the Caribbean, and look what happened.
Early morning at the Atlantis after the rain.
Junkanoo
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What is Junkanoo?
“Junkanoo, a Bahamian national festival, is a kaleidoscope of colours and sound,” states this excerpt from the Bahamas Government website, which also summarizes the festival’s traceable origins, and evolution of its costumes.
“The rhythmic sounds of cowbells, goat skin drums and whistles, accompanied by an array of brass instruments, create a sweet musical beat that will move you; while brilliantly coloured costumes capture your eye, and bring much visual delight. This bi-annual cultural highlight takes place on Bay Street in New Providence and other Family Islands during the early morning hours, from 1:00a.m. – 9:00a.m. on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) and New Year’s Morning. Junkanoo can also be experienced on many celebrated occasions such as independence Day (July 10th). There is also a Junior Junkanoo Parade in December, held in New Providence.”
Parade route in front of the Fish Fry.
I was told by several locals that the parade in December is much bigger and that I should come back. Putting that on my bucket list. Have you ever been to any Carnival or Junkanoo celebrations in the Caribbean? Tell me about them.
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Astronomy Club aims for the stars, but they’re already there
December 17, 2019 Planet Noun
To be black in America?
One thing is for sure—it doesn’t automatically mean the exact same thing across any boards. That’s what the new Netflix comedy series, “Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show,” appears to explore through clever comedy vignettes which are stitched together amid a reality show backdrop. They take the reality show format and hijinks and transform them into utter hilarity!
Each sketch is part of the thematic lattice that, as individual segments and as a whole, challenges what it means to be black and, in a not so low-key way, asserts the oh-so-true notion that black folks in America (and anywhere) are not a monolith.
The show takes on a range of topics through a comedic lens—from world geography to Ice Cube Day, the lunacy of some olden-day nostalgia, and the oft repeated notion that ‘black don’t crack,’ — until it does.
There’s even a nod to a Mary Poppins who’s looking for a nanny job with a wealthy black family…and another nod to an original Twilight Zone episode–that one where a man was in a tizzy on a flight during a bad thunderstorm because every time he glanced out the window, he saw a demon on the wing…But the Astronomy Club puts a chocolate twist and some stank on it—and a little booty poppin’, too.
Each episode is roughly 20 minutes long, so the six-episode season is bingeable without decimating weekend or even weeknight plans.
Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show was launched on December 6, 2019, and is executive produced by Kenya Barris—the creator of the hit ABC show ‘Blackish.’
The Astronomy Club is an improv sketch comedy group that was founded in 2014. Its members are Shawtane Bowen, Jon Braylock, Raymond Cordova, Caroline Martin, Jerah Milligan, Monique Moses, James III & Keisha Zollar. Read more about them on the Astronomy Club website.
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Episode 25: A skin problem + healthy solution = a skincare biz
November 19, 2019 Planet Noun
So my sister and I met up for Essence Fest during the summer…it was the event’s 25th anniversary. And we had a BALL! We mainly went there this year for the music and the marketplace that showcased all of these black-owned and produced product.
So we were meandering through one aisle…and a gentleman approached us and started talking to us about our skin. We were both satisfied with our current products but wanted to learn more about this brand. Then he introduced us to the product line creator…who is today’s guest on Planet Noun…
So we tried the moisturizer on our hands…and were impressed with how our skin felt…supple-soft…and the product had no heavy scent…another plus for us.
Now sis and are loving Three Notes Skincare!
But how did this business get started?
Simple…It started with an issue that needed a solution.
Take a listen to Tanzania Crew—founder of Three Notes Skincare—on Planet Noun.
00:00—A skin problem needs a solution
24:38—The meaning of Three Notes
35:30—Good news for the company
Today’s guest—Tanzania Crew—founder of Three Notes Skincare. She joined me from the Memphis area. We met at Essence Fest where there were LOTS of quality products for sale in their marketplace at the convention center in New Orleans.
Learn more about Three Note Skincare and purchase products on the Three Notes website.
And on social media:
Here are some other products and sites Tanzania mentioned during out chat:
Doughful website: An online marketplace for folks who create doughful deserts to those who plan events where such artfully crafted treats are served up and eaten. Learn more on the Doughful website: https://www.doughful.com
The Pupp Cleanse
This book sparked from the time when Tanzania got a rash after the birth of one of her children. She developed an intense rash and chronicles the process she used to eradicate hers.
http://www.pupppcleanse.com
Three Notes on Essence.com
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Helper’s heart + determination w/ Deia Davis-Williams of ExquisteM PR
November 5, 2019 Planet Noun
Life can abound with various challenges, but it’s up to us to take that stuff and make it into something better.
There are some folks in this universe who, despite challenges, imagine how they’d like life to look. Then they plan and move boldly in the direction of those dreams.
My next guest is one of those beautiful humans.
Deia Davis-Williams and I go way back to college. We’ve been connected on social media, but and saw each other in person for the first time in YEARS in New Orleans as Essence Fest was wrapping up. It was the first time at Essence Fest for either of us. Shoutout to Essence for such an awesome, affirming event!
Deia is a publicist…and founder of ExquisteM Public Relations. She’s also in law school and is very specific about her goals and the impact she wants to have in the African-American community.
Take a listen to this driven sister’s story…On Planet Noun.
00:00—Deia’s organic road to becoming a publicist.
04:35—The role family plays in the ExquisteM brand
10:20—How she knows the law path is right for her and for giving back to her community
38:15—So who are some of her clients? You know I TRIED to find out…
39:02—How Deia rolls when she walks into a room when there aren’t many people like her present
Read more at https://planetnoun.com
Learn more about Deia—on social media:
On IG you can follow her hashtag #exquistlyhandled
And connect via Facebook
Thanks for listening to this episode featuring Deia Davis-Williams of public relations firm ExquisteM! Quite a few nuggets to remember in each episode… A key from this one to remember: Set clear goals, and if you want to reach them, figure out a way do so with persistence, honest hard work and integrity.
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Episode 23: Single, childless aunties—a family staple
October 31, 2019 Planet Noun
It’s always exciting when a new episode drops…this one is no exception. It’s the second of two collaboration episodes with Liliana and Tamara of Barely Bougie Mamas—a podcast that was released during the summer.
If you haven’t heard last week’s episode, take a listen after you get through with this one.
So Barely Bougie Mamas is a podcast featuring Liliana and Tamara—two moms who grew up in poverty—but have crafted lives for themselves and their kids that are totally different from their own upbringings…and all of the funnies and concerns that stem from those differences.
My sister Lea and I joined them at Liliana’s home in Southern California for some kiki-ing and questions.
Last week, we talked about some of their experiences growing up vs. how their kids are growing up.
And this week, Liliana, Tamara, My sister Lea and I talk about something Le-Le and I know…being single, childless aunties….And the role all aunties play in the family fabric. Whether they’re linked by bloodlines or play aunties that are for real-real with their care, concern and involvement.
So let’s get to it with the Barely Bougie Mamas and Planet Noun:
Topics and timecodes:
03:13—Dealing with annoying comments like “You’re not married? You don’t have kids? And you’re HAPPY?” (Answer: Hell to the yes! Contented, single and childless women do exist, they’re real people)
08:55—Aunties to O.P.K.-Other People’s Kids
10:19—The Sister-in-Law Co-Parent (Tamara says don’t skip your visitations) & the Auntie Posse
14:15—Unmarried Aunties, do you realize your importance (and not just for babysitting)?
17:30—Liliana’s experience as a single, childless auntie
21:28—The fun auntie
24:10—Deadbeat godmamas
29:32—An auntie’s listening ear
35:05—Forging the relationship with a potential auntie in your life
If this is the first time you’ve heard of them, they have several episodes already released…12 of them…13 including this one.
Listen to Barely Bougie Mamas on Anchor FM.
They’re also on Apple Podcasts.
And Spotify
Find them on Instagram
And Auntie Lea, my special guest on Instagram.
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Episode 22: A chat (& many laughs) with Barely Bougie Mamas
I’m always excited when a new episode comes out…this one is no exception. It’s one of two back-to-back collaboration episodes we’re dropping today and next Thursday. Planet Noun’s first collaboration ever—and it’s with Liliana and Tamara of Barely Bougie Mamas—a podcast that was released during the summer..
A capsule-sized explanation of their show—it’s about two moms who grew up in poverty—but have crafted lives for themselves and their kids that are totally different from their own upbringings…and all of the funnies and concerns that stem from those differences.
My sister Lea and I joined them at Liliana’s home in Southern California for some ki-ki-ing and questions.
A little background…Tamara and I met the afternoon this was recorded…But she’s listened to some Planet Noun episodes, and I’ve listened to Barely Bougie Mamas shows.
Liliana and I grew up together. My sis and I have known her for years. Matter of fact, we go so far back, I don’t remember WHEN we met. My mom says it was at church when we were wee children who were sat in the class for babies, toddlers and under fivers. We used to sit next to each other and suck our thumbs, mom said.
That’s enough intro! There’s cussing in this episode. You’ve been warned…now listen in!
1:32 — How Tamara and Liliana met, then learned they had things in common
20:22—Dealing with bullies
21:03—Snitching then and now
30:09—Street sense
41:55—Whose kids are more bougie? Tear-jerking experiences with their children
51:13—What to expect from Barely Bougie Mamas podcast
Listen to Liliana and Tamara, the Barely Bougie Mamas, on Anchor FM
They’re also on Apple Podcasts
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Ghosted? Mourn @ a Funeral with author Lenina Mortimer
Sometimes romantic relationships SUCK.
Especially when they run off the rails…whether it be from growing differences between relatants or if someone just up and decides they don’t want you anymore, but they don’t bother to tell you about it.
Basically—when someone ghosts you.
Today’s guest experienced ghosting…she was the ghostee—if you will. Old boy turned her loose, but didn’t verbally communicate that to her—and wouldn’t communicate with her as she tried to get to the bottom of things.
So Lenina Mortimer wrote a book about it—to help someone else along the ghastly breakup recovery path.
Take a listen to Lenina Mortimer, author of the book “I Ain’t Thinking About You…The 8 Step Guide to Finally Letting Him Go Using the Breakup Funeral Method.”
Let’s get this mourning in motion…On Planet Noun.
1:50—Getting the un-holy ghost(ting)
3:09—Discovering the root of dysfunctional relationships
6:24—Creating the Breakup Funeral
14:51—Timing: When is it best to hold a breakup funeral?
19:20—Why separation is healthy after a breakup/Why the Breakup Funeral is a communal experience
25:54—Running into the ghosted
30:09—A love letter to black women
35:32—Self-care is crucial to breakup recovery
38:50—Steering clear of breakup traps
41:31—To forgive or not to forgive? And when?
Get your e-book copy
Find out more about Lenina Mortimer and her work! Let’s start with a link to her e-book “I Ain’t Thinking About You…The 8 Step Guide to Finally Letting Him Go Using the Breakup Funeral Method.”
Lenina’s also on social media. You can learn more about her coaching services there.
And one thing she mentioned during the show—the Via Character Strengths Survey. Listen to learn how and why she uses this survey in her work.
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QFBR: Trail Of Echoes by Rachel Howzell Hall
September 10, 2019 Planet Noun
There’s a neighborhood in the dusty corners of the ‘hood, not terribly far from where the rich people live, where too many young teen girls have gone missing lately.
Then it happens—again.
This time, it’s 13-year-old Chanita Lords who has vanished from a neighborhood in Los Angeles known as The Jungle.
It’s another case that strikes Detective Elouise “Lou” Norton in the heart and gut because she grew up in that neighborhood. Norton also recently solved the case of her long-missing older sister Tori, whose bones had finally been discovered at a shopping plaza not far from where she was last seen all those years ago–part of the scant remnants of her last living day. Tori had been literally under their noses, yet just beyond reach.
So Lou takes another trip down memory lane to The Jungle, and to a family that still lives in the same apartments where Lou and her family used to reside.
Part of her walk includes revisiting and reuniting with families whose members were problematic on the bullying front back in the day. Now, it appears that foul attitudes and bullying jackassery were passed down to the next generation.
Lou manages to balance, though not always seamlessly, her unwavering dedication to police and detective work to keep other girls like Chanita from being snatched–while knowing how folks in her old neighborhood feel about the police and understanding why they do.
As part of the murder mystery backdrop, Rachel Howzell Hall continues to weave in relational dynamics between the characters in Lou’s life. From the ultra-tense sentiments she harbors toward her dad who ditched their family and is trying to make amends, to the tensions that arise based on cultural and environmental differences between the way Lou was raised and how her partner, Colin Taggert, grew up in Colorado.
But they still work well together as partners in crime solving, along with the other members of the homicide team. Part of the relational story includes a coming out and its aftermath between two longtime friends, and Lou’s attempts to juggle work and kind-sorta-but-not-really-but-still-kinda-sorta blossoming relationship with an Assistant District Attorney who seems like a great guy.
As for the murder mystery, Howzell Hall‘s writing, as always, keeps me guessing. Who are the main suspects? What’s up with the three mean hood chicks who lived in the same apartment complex as Chanita? Did they carry out one of those Lifetime-esque jealous cheerleader-type of murders and dump the body in a nearby park? What about the mom who had a roughneck boyfriend? The convicted pedophile who lived nearby? The girl’s counselor at school? Some of her schoolmates? Who, what-the-what, when, where, how and why?
Who killed Chanita and tried to deter investigators by injecting bug repellent into her thighs?
Who’s sending the ciphers and other mysterious notes? Who killed AGAIN? Is this a serial killer? What about the other missing girls? Who, when, where, what-the-what? How and WHY?
Well, that’s about all I can say without saying too much. But yes, is a page-turner! And I’m so gratified that I guessed the right killer! But the detectives thinning the field did make it easier, though.
To find out more, check out this read— Trail of Echoes. It was published in 2016.
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EPISODE 20: If We Could Only Talk—a chat with singer- songwriter, a cappella arranger N’Namdi O. Bryant
August 27, 2019 Planet Noun
When you know what you do best, sticking to your guns—as singer-songwriter PJ Morton writes and sings—is how to get your life’s work done.
Today’s podcast guest is N’Namdi Olufemi Bryant, a singer-songwriter and host of the podcast “For the Love of A Cappella.” We get into some themes of his latest album during this episode. It’s titled “If We Could Only Talk.”
So N’Namdi and I had been talking about doing a podcast together for MONTHS, but as usual, life takes on its own plans. We were going to have him on before an album release earlier this year, then tech difficulties took over his project.
But the idea was still in both of our orbits. So—lookie here—I saw on Instagram that N’Namdi was in Washington, D.C. I said to myself—GIRL…..let’s make this happen! If you don’t ask him if he’ll have time for an interview—it’s an automatic no!
I asked if he had an time to chat. He said yes, and here it is! It all worked out.
So we met up at the Mansion on O Street. It’s a tourist destination located just off the bustling Dupont Circle, and has a fascinating trove of history tied to it. It’s also where N’Namdi sometimes performs.
There are so many themes to this podcast, and to preserve the integrity of the conversation flow, I tried not to do too much lifting and pasting of interview parts. We talk about negative self-talk, and what N’Namdi does to overcome that hurdle. Also—a discussion on imperfection and about the different ways he stretched his vocal range.
During our talk I learned some things I didn’t know in the decades since we last saw each other.
So let’s get right to the conversation, where we start talking about his podcast “For the Love of A Capella,”and where he got the idea for his program.
07:55-Why it took him more than 10 years to complete one particular song arrangement
11:05—The makings and stories behind his current project “If We Could Only Talk”
21:30—How Kermit the Frog came up in our conversation
26:06—The road to vocal range
31:51—The time we talked about skylines and smog
33:39—Homeless in Huntsville, Ala. and Nashville
49:59—The part about albums, hilarious singing telegram and touching ride-share driver stories
That was N’Namdi Bryant…singer, songwriter, musical arranger…lover of a cappella! His new project “If We Could Only Talk” and his other albums are available on various online platforms–including iTunes.
Learn more about his projects on his website—The Acappellian.
You can also connect with him via social media:
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Thanks for the love and support of my new album ‘If We Could Only Talk’
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Dermatomyositis and Polymyositis
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (SJS/TEN)
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Lichen Sclerosis
Contributed by: Eman Bahrani, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, Tx 77030
Dermatomyositis (DM) and Polymyositis (PM) are rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Both manifest with proximal skeletal muscle weakness, though DM has associated cutaneous findings. They display a two fold female predominance and affect all ages with peak incidence after 40; however, DM displays a second peak in a juvenile population, termed Juvenile DM.
Etiology and Pathogenesis
The etiologies of DM and PM are unknown, though they are believed to represent autoimmune responses to outside triggers (e.g. malignancy, drugs, infection) in genetically susceptible individuals. In adult patients with DM, the presence of an occult malignancy is an especial concern.
While previously thought to represent a spectrum of disease, new evidence shows that DM and PM likely have distinct pathogeneses. DM appears to involve humoral generation of autoantibodies that promote complement deposition and injury of vasculature within muscles. In contrast, PM appears to involve production of autoreactive CD8+ T-cells that directly injure myocytes.
Muscle biopsies in DM show perivascular and perimysial lymphocytic infiltrates as well as perifascicular atrophy. Skin biopsies show subtle changes including epidermal atrophy, damage to keratinocytes of the basal layer, and a sparse dermal lymphocytic infiltrate.
Muscle biopsies in PM show endomysial infiltration of muscle fibers with CD8+ T-cells. A mix of necrotic and regenerating muscle fibers can be seen. In contrast to DM, there is no vascular inflammation and no perifascicular atrophy.
Clinical Manifestations
DM and PM share a virtually indistinguishable proximal muscles weakness whereas skin involvement is limited to DM. In some patients these diseases are associated with systemic sequelae which we briefly discuss.
Weakness develops subacutely, over weeks to months, is symmetric and primarily involves the proximal muscles of the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle. Myalgias are also often present with involved muscles tender to palpation.
The striated muscles of the oropharyx and esophagus can also be affected, causing dysphagia.
Skin Manifestations
Cutaneous changes are only found in DM and are characterized by �poikiloderma� a term referring to a pink-violet color change to the skin with small mixed areas of hyper- and hypo-pigmentation as well as telangiectasis. Poikilodermatous changes in different characteristic areas of skin have developed specific names.
Heliotrope Rash: Seen around the eyes, which can be accompanied by eyelid edema
V-sign and Shawl Sign: Rash around the photo-exposed chest (V-sign) and upper back (Shawl Sign).
Gottron�s Papules: Raised lesions seen overlying the knuckles, highly characteristic of DM
Patient�s with DM also often have ragged cuticles with characteristic telangiectasias at the nail folds.
Patients with juvenile DM can develop �calcinosis cutis� or painful depositions of calcium within their skin.
Systemic Disease
A minority of patients develop interstitial pulmonary disease characterized by fibrosis. These diseases can also affect the heart, typically causing conduction abnormalities, and thus arrhythmias. Finally, polyarthritis is also sometimes seen.
As mentioned, adult DM is often associated with an occult malignancy and thus the presence of a visceral cancer should be considered.
A variety of tests can aid in the diagnosis of DM and PM when clinically suspected. Skin and muscle biopsies provide confirmation.
Muscle Enzymes
Myositis yields leakage of muscle enzymes which can be detected by elevated levels of creatinine kinase (CK), aldolase, AST, and LDH.
Auto-antibodies
A variety of auto-antibodies are associated with the disease and include Antinuclear Autoantibodies (ANA), Rheumatoid Factor (RF), and more specific myositis-associated antibodies (e.g. anti-Jo-1, anti-Mi-2, anti-SRP).
EMGs are often positive although these studies, along with muscle biopsies, are increasingly being replaced by MRIs.
The mainstay of therapy for both DM and PM is systemic corticosteroids with very slow tapers. Further immunosupressants or immunomodulators can be considered for resistant cases.
Adult patients with DM should have screening for occult malignancy.
Dimachkie MM, Barohn RJ, Amato AA. Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. Neurol Clin. 2014;32(3):595-628.
Femia AN, Vleugels RA, Callen JP. Cutaneous dermatomyositis: an updated review of treatment options and internal associations. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2013;14(4):291-313.
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RADIO MOSCOW TO RELEASE THEIR NEW DOUBLE LP “LIVE! IN CALIFORNIA” JULY 8, 2016 THROUGH ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS!
Radio Moscow’s new double LP Live! In California was recorded absolutely live (no overdubs) over two nights at The Satellite club in Los Angeles in December 2015. The album features 76 minutes of the trio’s unique brand of high-energy psychedelic rock’n’roll. The material is pulled from all their studio albums and the songs feature new arrangements.
Live! In California also includes the previously unreleased song “Chance Of Fate,” a cover of the ’70s band Sainte Anthony’s Fyre.
Radio Moscow is Parker Griggs on guitar and vocals, Anthony Meier on bass and Paul Marrone on drums. Now based in San Diego, CA, the band has five albums out, all on Alive Records, including their self-titled debut produced by Dan Auerbach (2007); Brain Cycles (2009); The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz (2011); 3&3 Quarters – early demos (2012) and Magical Dirt (2014). The trio have toured the U.S. and Europe with acts like Graveyard, Witchcraft, Joe Bonamassa, Pentagram, Sheepdogs and Nebula, and have shared the main stage at the Psycho California festival with Kylesa and Earth, along with performing in Europe, South America and Australia. Following their upcoming U.S. tour dates (which includes a headlining slot at Denver’s Electric Funeral Fest in June, and playing at the Ride Festival with Pearl Jam in July), they’ll also be touring extensively in Europe this summer.
Radio Moscow’s Live! In California will be available July 8, 2016 on limited edition colored vinyl, CD and digital formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.
RADIO MOSCOW LIVE! IN CALIFORNIA TRACKLISTING:
01 I Just Don’t Know
02 Death Of A Queen
03 Broke Down
04 I Don’t Need Anybody
05 250 Miles/Brain Cycles
06 Before It Burns
07 The Escape
08 City Lights
09 Chance Of Fate
10 Deep Blue Sea
11 These Days
12 Rancho Tahoma Airport
13 No Good Woman
14 So Alone
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PRESS RELEASE FOR RADIO MOSCOW’S 2014 ALBUM “MAGICAL DIRT”
RADIO MOSCOW ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM “MAGICAL DIRT” JUNE 17TH THROUGH ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS!
On June 17th Radio Moscow will release their fourth studio album, aptly entitled Magical Dirt. The band’s fountainhead Parker Griggs, along with partners-in-crime Anthony Meier (bass) and Paul Marrone (drums), have cultivated yet another blues-rock masterpiece that crossbreeds late ’60s psych-rock and face-melting guitar histrionics with the foundation-crumbling rhythms from early ’70s hard-rock, and even includes a couple of harrowing tracks built from the bedrock of rural Delta blues. But more than merely digging up fossils from rock’s revered past, Griggs & Co. manage to translate the myths of rock-n-roll’s golden age into modern day truths for a new, younger generation.
Radio Moscow’s Magical Dirt will be available June 17 on CD, mp3 and limited edition hand-mixed starburst vinyl via Alive Naturalsound Records.
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PRESS RELEASE FOR RADIO MOSCOW’S 2011 ALBUM “THE GREAT ESCAPE OF LESLIE MAGNAFUZZ”
RADIO MOSCOW TO RELEASE THEIR THIRD LP “THE GREAT ESCAPE OF LESLIE MAGNAFUZZ” OCT. 11, 2011 VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS
Indeed. If the less than loud, keep it steady ethos of today is getting a bit boring and polite, think again. The essence… heck, the very drugged-out, red-eyed heart and soul… of the dirty, loud, heavy power-trio is not dead. In fact, in the case of Radio Moscow it is literally brimming with rude health.
THE GREAT ESCAPE OF LESLIE MAGNAFUZZ is the Californian-based band’s third album for the highly regarded Alive Naturalsound Records. It’s also a genuinely thrilling follow up to their previous releases, brimming with toe curling Hendrixified guitar soloing and the marijuana and acid laced caterwauling of Blue Cheer, not to mention some seriously impressive blues guitar work (‘Deep Down Below’) that would make Seasick Stevie green with envy!
Yes, they have long hair. Yes they may be stoned. Yes this is the kinda music that caused a stir 40 years ago. And so what? It’s the music of the gods. They know it, we know it and Dan Auberbach (he of The Black Keys, who not only discovered the trio as pot-infused miscreant teens, but also produced their debut) is fully aware of this too.
Today’s “new is old philosophy” works well for Radio Moscow. In an era when The White Stripes and The Black Keys have become unlikely stars, Amy Winehouse (RIP) proved that real soul was where it’s at and youngsters are at last generally open to everything, here we have a band who are ploughing their very own corner of the field in time honoured fashion, unafraid of retrogressive accusations.
The wild card and golden boy of the group Parker Griggs grew up in Story City, Iowa. As a young basement-dwelling cave teen obsessed with mid-60s garage-punk he home recorded a slew of songs in that vein which saw fruition as Radio Moscow (the moniker having been lifted from Nikiita The “K”’s ‘Go Go Radio Moscow’ from the garage comp Ya Gotta Have Moxie Vol. 2). However, although never tiring of garage-punk, Parker Grigg’s was excelling at the guitar (and drums – which he plays on all of the albums), progressing musically towards the proto-metal blues of Cream, Hendrix, Sabbath and Blue Cheer. This was apparent on the debut on which Parker played everything bar bass. A demo handed to Dan Auberbach after a Black Keys gig impressed the musician so much he landed Radio Moscow a deal with Alive and produced their startling power-trio infused debut. A further album followed the 2007 debut in 2009. Brain Cycles adhered to the old adage of “if it ain’t broke don’t mend it” and saw the teenage guitar assassins smelt gold from their vintage heavy, psychedelic blues licks. After numerous gigs and fun 2010 saw the band leave Iowa for the liberally minded California after Parker was busted for hash and imprisoned (yep, that happens in the good ole US of A!!!)
Being lucky enough to have one of their songs used in a Radio Shack/Lance Armstrong commercial gave the group enough money to rent a ranch in Northern California. Here was a place that they could rehearse without fearing the neighbours wrath and conceive their third release THE GREAT ESCAPE OF LESLIE MAGNAFUZZ. Zach Anderson plays bass, Cory Berry handles the drums on stage, and Parker plays drums on the album. The wah-and-phased-delirium of an opener ‘Little Eyes’ (which could have so easily graced Blue Cheer’s triumvirate third album Outsideinside) to the funky Grand Funk Railroad vibe of ‘Speedfreak’, the heavy UK blues-rock vibe of ‘Creepin’’ (a tune as good as Free at their best) and the amazing guitar driven rattlesnake raga that echoes Peter Green’s finest moments with Fleetwood Mac, all add up to a wildly pulsating affair, full of energy, passion and psychedelic electricity!
The album art is a throwback to the psychedelic covers of the late sixties/early seventies, and instead of being minimalist, as is the norm these days, the album is a super-sized, gatefold edition that’s a trip in itself. The first pressing is on Blue Vinyl, ltd. to 500 copies (exclusive to Bomp! mailorder, not sold in stores) and is also be available in CD and Digital formats today through Alive Naturalsound.
Radio Moscow photographed in Hollywood by Robert Matheu on January 28, 2012
HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT RADIO MOSCOW’S ALBUM “THE GREAT ESCAPE OF LESLIE MAGNAFUZZ”:
“Californian based band lovingly concoct a Cream/Hendrix inspired album of cosmic blues. Mainman Parker Griggs is a great guitarist and he’s clearly having a ball…. exhilarating stuff.” – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH – UK
“Psychedelic, acid-laced guitar-based rock that will shake you to your soul.” – MUSIC SAVAGE
“A bona fide blues-meets-psych-rock staple.”- SALT LAKE CITY WEEKLY
“Radio Moscow is as close as you can get to the dirty, growling and honest heart of power trio rock without a DeLorean. The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz is a victory for Radio Moscow in general and Parker Griggs in particular. The Story City, IA front man is possibly the most singularly gifted guitarist working today. This is your father’s rock, in all the best ways.” – CITYVIEW
“Radio Moscow has released three albums blending blues and hard stoner rock on Alive Natural Sound Records, but in contrast with label-mates The Black Keys and Left Lane Cruiser, they add a potent psychedelic sound to the mix, bringing to mind late ‘60s/early ‘70s bands such as Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, Flower Travellin’ Band and Cream.” – SSG MUSIC
“The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz is a piping hot batch of overdriven, wah-wah and THC-soaked jams and is Paker Grigg’s homage to the heavier sounds of the Age of Aquarius. Radio Moscow’s music is a bottom-heavy blues-bomb, with grooves that recall MC 5 and the contemporary Black Mountain, and shredding like a more structurally minded Jack White, with each note bleeding into the next under a sea of overdrive.” – GOOD TIMES WEEKLY
“Parker Griggs and his band take it to the next level of power-trio psychedelic blues-rock with their third album, The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz. The album opens in full hypersonic stride, with the bass and drums threatening to run away from the ear-clearing wails of Parker’s fuzzed guitar, and the bombast doesn’t let up until disc’s end. There are a few production touches – stereo pans, phase effects and feedback – but the bulk of the album is straightforward, take-no-prisoners hard rock.” – HYPERBOLIUM
“A solid collection of blues-metal-psych-boogie for your buck. Not much for pondering their navels or gazing at their shoelaces, Parker Griggs and company pound out rock and roll with chops, foot firmly on the fuzz/wah pedal and stop-on-a-dime dynamics… the results are gratifying.” – LOS GRILLOS
“Radio Moscow bleeds Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. They are not a normal blues group. They are not a normal psychedelic stoner-rock group. They are Radio Moscow, and this album cements their sound and place as an eclectic group in today’s music scene.” – ALL CAMPUS RADIO NETWORK
“A hard rocking, blues heavy, growling rock masterpiece. This is the third Radio Moscow album and it is easily their most adventurous, most precise and most unique album. It is also their best.” – DES MOINES IS NOT BORING
“If you’re into blues, classic rock, Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix then this record is about to send you to heaven. The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz is just another gem to add to the amazing collection of this band.” – DR. DOOM’S LAIR
“Radio Moscow are aficionados of the golden age of dusty rock, and clearly proud to admit it. There’s no hint of any of that sad-sack ‘ironic’ nostalgia at work here; this is the real deal, delivered with due reverence and plenty of enthusiasm. The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz starts off with a hiss and a roar and never really lets up. It reverberates with stacks of thunderous fundamental riffs that have been twisted into some hard-rockin’, good-times, prehistoric metal. Do yourself a big favour and seek this one out immediately. I’m off to invest in their first few albums; you best do the same, brother.” – MANUAL MAGAZINE / NEW ZEALAND
“A muscular combination of effects, feedback, and sound-towers that makes for a bracing listen next to Hendrix, Blue Cheer and Robin Trower.” – DAGGERZINE
“The band has a style and rhythm reminiscent of Blue Cheer and MC5, but with—believe it or not—more impressive guitar work. For those desiring music with layers, Radio Moscow is every bit as bluesy as it is early garage.” – SANTA FE REPORTER
“If you’re fond of classic grooves from acts like 10 Years After, Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, these guys are definitely worth checking out.” – IDAHO STATESMAN
“Radio Moscow have the perfect chemistry between percussion, vocals, and guitar…oh the guitar. It just shreds. I don’t even know how to begin to explain.” – SURROPA
“Do you pine for psychedelic blues rock in the vein of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Blue Cheer, and the MC5? Ames, Iowa’s Radio Moscow possess big, fuzzy riffs, a drummer who makes the full use of his toms, and a vocalist who may or may not have time traveled here from the Summer of Love. This is some sprawling stuff and all expertly executed. A rock blowout.” – THE STRANGER WEEKLY
“This album comes on like an unholy mix of Blue Cheer and The Black Keys.” – ELECTRIC GHOST / UK
“For a band that’s had over three decades worth of sub-genres to get influences from (and lots of drugs too, I’m sure) their sound remains true to their late-‘60s/mid-‘70s core, but Radio Moscow is just so damn good that they manage to sound refreshing.” – FABRIKA
“An eclectic mix of head-banging hard rock and psychedelic soulful vocals that with will creep through your headphones to your earholes’ delight.” – THE WASTER
“The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz may be the best album released this year.” – THE SODA SHOP
“If you don’t find yourself banging your head at the 2:00 minute mark into this album, I’m fairly certain you’re clinically dead.” – MUSIC THAT ISN’T BAD
“Filled with delicious, heavy and spacy guitar solos. It rocks, hard, but is plenty psychedelic. These guys are completely and unapologetically committed to a heavy rock sound. I could throw enticing influences (Blue Cheer, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath) at you all day, and continue to play the Black Keys card, if that would induce you to give a listen. If you’re not familiar with their previous records, and you like this sound at all, you’re in for a treat.” – WHEN YOU MOTOR AWAY
“Cream would be proud. And if Hendrix were alive, he’d be honored. This power-trio created by two children of the corn, and a Colorado add-on create some of the most energetic music I’ve heard in a while. With a mix of traditional blues rhythms, upbeat boogie, psychedelic pedal effects, and cataclysmic solos that can peel the paint off the walls, the music that Radio Moscow produces is truly a jaw-dropping experience.” – TYMPANOGRAM
“From note one [at their recent SLC show], Radio Moscow killed. Parker Griggs’ guitar playing was unearthly groovy, his funky flourishes and hoarse, soulful vocals combined to make him a powerful stage presence throughout the show. His body rocked back and forth with the power of his mighty guitar, while Zach Anderson and Cory Berry backed him up with an unflinching, nonstop rhythm. Wild melodies spurred some truly crazy crowd antics as fans pushed eagerly towards the front, turning the stagefront into a wildly waving frenzy of scrambling, dancing fans as they moved to some deeper beat in the music – that classic psychedelic rock vibe that gives Griggs’ music its cycling, hypnotic quality.” – SLUG MAGAZINE
HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT RADIO MOSCOW:
“I would be lying if I did not say I have been completely taken with this, the fourth album from lovingly/freakishly retro combo Radio Moscow—a fabulous trio from Iowa including the amazing guitarist/singer Parker Griggs, bassist Anthony Meier and drummer Paul Marrone. The band actively evokes all that was great about hard-rock trios of the ‘60s, the Blue Cheers, the Creams, etc., but does it with such gleeful abandon you’ve got to admire both their spirit and whatever time capsule they rode in on. Great fun.”
Dave DiMartino / ROLLING STONE
"Radio Moscow has made its name on the touring circuit, bringing the lineage of the power trio around the world, so it makes sense that their live album displays the band at full strength, featuring them at their psychedelic, groovy best."
“[9 out of 10 stars] A true masterpiece.”
"Radio Moscow have clearly remembered that people play music as much for enjoyment as they do for self-expression and the result is simply stunning."
"Drummer Paul Marrone and bassist Anthony Meier kick-start things like a V-twin engine from a ’69 shovelhead chopper. The melodies squeezed from Griggs’ fretboard tangle and unravel with the tension and intensity of hyperventilation. Over choppy rhythm-section stops and starts, Griggs’ guitar solo somehow manages to flow upward and outward, ascending into a lysergic-laced cacophony. Never before has a bad trip sounded so good."
"Tempering scathing hard-rock jams with narcotic mantras and borrowed blues, this ambitious set has a loose, opus-like schematic. Combining fast and slow tempos, and soft and loud timbres with the greatest of ease, Griggs' limber outfit (also featuring newcomer Anthony Meier on bass and Paul Marrone on drums) never gets caught in a rut. But it's the raucous moments that sizzle best, dominating and ultimately galvanizing the frantic head rush."
CELEB STONER
"Griggs' masterful guitar work is spellbinding… we recommend multiple listens at high volume.”
AUSTIN EXAMINER
“The air guitar record of the year comes from this Iowa power trio who drag ’70s rock at its most bombastic and overblown kicking and screaming into the present.”
“One of the best modern purveyors of retrograde psychedelic blues-rock.”
SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY
"Californian based band lovingly concoct a Cream/Hendrix inspired album of cosmic blues. Mainman Parker Griggs is a great guitarist and he’s clearly having a ball.... exhilarating stuff."
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - UK
"Not even Jimi Hendrix got this juicy of a guitar tone. Soaked in wah, fuzz and a touch of reverb, Griggs has dialed in the perfect sound for psychedelia."
GLACIALLY MUSICAL
“Ames, Iowa's Radio Moscow possess big, fuzzy riffs, a drummer who makes the full use of his toms, and a vocalist who may or may not have time traveled here from the Summer of Love. This is some sprawling stuff and all expertly executed. A rock blowout.”
THE STRANGER: SEATTLE
“[4 out of 5 stars] Rippingly badass.”
PREMIERE GUITAR
“A bona fide blues-meets-psych-rock staple.”
“The band has a style and rhythm reminiscent of Blue Cheer and MC5, but with—believe it or not—more impressive guitar work. For those desiring music with layers, Radio Moscow is every bit as bluesy as it is early garage.”
SANTA FE REPORTER
"Psychedelic, acid-laced guitar-based rock that will shake you to your soul."
MUSIC SAVAGE
"Fifty minutes of psyche-rock fireworks…. like spending an evening with Jimi Hendrix, Cream, ZZ Top, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and The Black Keys."
Xavier Bonnet / ROLLING STONE
“Over the course of two records (their self-titled debut and their superb stoner rock knockout Brain Cycles), Parker Griggs and Zach Anderson have forged a tripped-out landscape that has taken them to mainstream, if not hipster, appeal. The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz firmly feeds from the teat of late sixties and seventies Nuggets comp forefathers, vocal effects and hallucinogens dripping from the speakers and the psychedelic, heavy, effects-driven guitar of Griggs will either win new converts to the Radio Moscow love-in or make some super stoned fans very happy. Either way, the platter's a winner.”
“Rock music as the gods intended.”
“With the release of the third LP, The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz, Radio Moscow bring their original brand of hard blues rock with a psychedelic tinge and take it to new heights.”
GHETTOBLASTER MAGAZINE
“Few bands can compete with the fury of Parker Grigg’s agile, furious funk guitar, and with each Radio Moscow release, it seems he becomes an even more charismatic performer. The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz ditches the high-fidelity sound of Brain Cycles and instead focuses on Grigg’s impressive improvisational skills. The compositions on this album are wild and ambitious, breaking out into hysterical jamming that never sounds forced, because everything the man plays sounds so damn smooth. Keep an eye out for these guys… they put on a killer show.”
SLUG MAGAZINE
"The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz pulls deeply from the well of the bluesy psych-rock of the late 60s and early 70s. Griggs' masterful guitar work is spellbinding… we recommend multiple listens at high volume.”
“Radio Moscow clearly channel the glory days of the power trio (à la Blue Cheer, Cream and Hendrix). These three bump the energy and tempos up to match modern tastes and shred extensively on over-the-top, marathon bluesy freak-outs with first-class precision and a cohesion tighter than the lid on your granny's jar of pickled eggs.”
“Radio Moscow - one of the cooler young bands to pop up in this scene in the last few years - should be a household name soon.”
RIVER CITY RAPIDS
“Superb third album from Akron, Ohio-based blues rock band Radio Moscow, who take the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Cream and completely refresh them.”
PENNY BLACK MUSIC / UK
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MG Hughes
Name: Hughes, Mervyn Gregory
Career: 1979/80 - 1999/2000
Teams: Footscray
Matches: 158
Batting Style: RHB
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
This giant and popular fast bowler made a huge impact on Premier, Victorian and international cricket. And to show their appreciation, Footscray Edgewater honoured him by naming their home ground the Mervyn G Hughes Oval.
“It was a huge honour, a shock and a surprise when they asked if they could use my name. When you think of the calibre of player to come out of Footscray over all those years, it was a really humbling feeling.”
However that was a just reward for Hughes, the most recognisable player the club has produced at all levels of cricket. The highlight for Hughes was the 1979/80 premiership, the only success in the club’s Premier cricket history.
He joined Footscray as a 17 year old fast bowler from Werribee the previous season and began with 8/35 to move up from the thirds to the seconds. He spearheaded the club’s attack in its premiership season, when the Dogs defeated St Kilda.
“They were great days. It was just an honour to play with Ray Bright, who was an Australian player, and Ken Eastwood and Lindsay James and Ron Gaunt, who convinced me to cut down my long run-up.
“The premiership year was so special. Barry Watson won the Ryder Medal and we won the premiership. We certainly celebrated.
“It is interesting that I played only 158 games for the club over a 21 year period, but that is how it pans out when you begin first-class cricket. I always enjoyed it. It was tough, uncompromising. Players fought hard for their teams and there were some intense rivalries. Certainly there was between us and Melbourne. We didn’t have much joy at the Albert Ground but we gave them a pasting whenever they came to the Whitten Oval.
“One of the great things was the friendships you made. I was lucky in that I was in the state squad at an early age, so I got to meet and know a lot of the players. It was far easier to have a beer and chat with them after a game if you knew them.
“And there were some great characters. Ian Callen of Carlton had a wicked sense of humour. Every club had a character.”
Despite his prolonged absences from Premier cricket between 1979/80 and 1999/2000 because of his first-class escapades, Hughes still took 306 wickets at the excellent average of 18.86, with 6/20 the best of his 16 five wicket hauls. He also scored 1287 runs with two half centuries.
Hughes began his first-class career at 20, replacing Max Walker in the team that played South Australia at Geelong in January 1982. He was an outstanding personality and character of the scene, with his broad moustache and warm-up exercises that made him a folk hero.
He enjoyed a fine opening four games in 1985/86 and made his Test debut against India at Adelaide Oval. He was an outstanding contributor to Australia regaining the Ashes in 1989 in England.
Hughes played two seasons with Footscray Edgewater seconds as skipper after his retirement to help develop youngsters until 2000/01. He now is a national selector.
In first-class cricket Hughes played 165 games, taking 593 wickets at 29.39 with 8/87 the best of his hauls of 10 wickets in a match five times and five wickets in an innings 21 times.
He played at Test level 53 times, capturing 212 wickets at 28.38. He captured 8/87 against the West Indies, including a hat-trick, in match figures of 13/217. That was the only occasion he captured 10 or more wickets in a Test, but he also captured five or more in an innings on seven occasions.
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Breaking News! MLK, Posthumously, Pardons McCain
It's absolutely astounding the the McCain Campaign was able to keep the lid on such breathtaking news.
I mean, with all the media digging (wink, wink), the 24/7 news cycles, the rocking-and-rolling biography tour, and no one, not one single McCain worker even hinted such a blockbuster was forthcoming.
Yesterday, ol' Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain spoke at the ceremonies commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, giving his mea culpa for, originally, dissing, and voting against, the MLK Holiday.
"We can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing, and Dr. King understood this about his fellow Americans. But he knew as well that in the long term, confidence in the reasonability and good heart of America is always well placed. And always, that was his method in word and action—to remind us of who we are and what we believe. ...
King, and many, many others, were being beaten, some even murdered, in the fight for equality, the battle for civil rights, the call for the country to live up to it's pledge, its' Constitution and McCain does a paint-by-numbers Norman Rockwell tribute, as if everyone listening to it was going to cheer such a distortion.
I am not an MLK scholar, however, from readings and viewings of program on Dr. King, I harbor serious doubts that Dr. King was so rosily upbeat about the "confidence in the reasonability and good heart of America is always well placed".
It was, this "good heart of America" who was, with bullhorns and angry red-faces, attempting to put Dr. King down, looking to silence him, marginalize him.
And that was just our own government.
"The FBI's interest in King intensified after the March on Washington in August 1963, when King delivered his "I have a dream speech," which many historians consider the most important speech of the 20th century. After the speech, an FBI memo called King the "most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.
The bureau convened a meeting of department heads to "explore how best to carry on our investigation [of King] to produce the desired results without embarrassment to the Bureau," which included "a complete analysis of the avenues of approach aimed at neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader."
No, I don't believe Dr. King understood, nor accepted, the lateness, for his fellow Americans.
If McCain bothered to look, or assigned someone in his staff to check, I think he would find that Dr. Kings' body of work was directly aimed at not accepting, or understanding such lateness from his fellow Americans.
All McCain would have had to look at was Dr. King's final day, in Memphis, to support the garbage men's strike, who protested and marched wearing signs that read "I Am A Man".
McCain was just toting the party line, engaging in the standard the "Santa Clausification of MLK" (H/T to Andrew Golis/TPMCafe).
Cornell West, speaking with Tavis Smiley;
West: I mean, I think it's very important because you see a lot of chit-chat about Martin every year and Martin has been so domesticated and tamed and defamed, you know, what we call the Santa Clausification of the brother.
Tavis: Wait a minute. Hold the phone, hold the phone. The Santa Clausification of Dr. King, which means what, Dr. West?
West: He just becomes a nice little old man with a smile with toys in his bag, not a threat to anybody, as if his fundamental commitment to unconditional love and unarmed truth does not bring to bear certain kinds of pressure to a status quo. So the status quo feels so comfortable as though it's a convenient thing to do rather than acknowledge him as to what he was, what the FBI said, "The most dangerous man in America." Why? Because of his fundamental commitment to love and to justice and trying to keep track of the humanity of each and every one of us.
McCain is not a nice, little old man, and he often sneers and snorts, and it's not toys in his bag, but wars, and more wars, and he is threat to everybody.
Too bad he didn't have Lieberman with him for his Make-Up Mitt Speech, though I doubt Lieberman would have been able to whisper the correct answer in his ear on this day.
Then again, it's a bit surprising that McCain didn't tie things together, and say Kings' killer was trained by Iran.
You're slipping there, Fly Boy ...
Labels: 40th Anniversary of King Assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John McCain Gaffe, McCain Mea Culpa, McCain MLK Speech, MLK Holiday, Stumblin Bumblin John McCain
No, Wait A Minute ... I Think It Was The Hospital That Was Under Sniper Fire ...
Oops, she did it again!
No, not Britney Spears, but the other diva, Queen of the campaign trail, the intrepid candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If Hillary was inflicted with the same curse as Pinocchio, you could line her up to measure a couple of football fields, with her schnauz by now.
Geez, don't their people check anything?
Hillary's been bouncing around the campaign trail, attempting to put the Fear-of-God into people, over healthcare (as you know, only HRC has the de facto, guaranteed, absolutely successful healthcare plans), telling a tale (that has gotten taller-and-taller) about a woman - a pregnant woman - who was said to have no insurance, and was denied treatment (because she didn't have the $100), and both she and her baby died as a result.
Only, much like the Where's Waldo Snipers, it didn't quite happen that way.
And Hillary has been spinning this so much, the hospital has gone public, in an attempt to get her to stop.
The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.
Linda M. Weiss, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had never contacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story, which Mrs. Clinton had first heard from a Meigs County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy in late February.
A Clinton spokesman, Mo Elleithee, said candidates would frequently retell stories relayed to them, vetting them when possible. “In this case, we did try but were not able to fully vet it,” Mr. Elleithee said. “If the hospital claims it did not happen that way, we respect that.”
I wonder if the Clinton spokesman shrugged their shoulders and muttered under their breath "Well, if that's what you want to believe, but we know what we know".
Karen Tumulty;
What is astounding here is that for all the research that the Clinton campaign has done, scouring and scrubbing the opposition, they didn't put a bit more effort into looking at what their own candidate is saying.
John Cole, over on Balloon Juice;
What this all boils down to is a question of competence. It has become increasingly clear that despite their claims about passing the CinC threshold and despite their claims of superior judgment, the Clinton crew cares little about actually getting things right. Loyalty, however, is a cherished value. Competence, not so much.
Where have I seen that poisonous combination over the past eight years? Does the country need four more years of rule from an arrogant and incompetent administration that places a priority on loyalty and secrecy?
And And Pam, from Pam's House Blend, is equally perplexed;
"I simply do not understand this. With all the true health care nightmares out there to use to illustrate why the system is broken, why does the Hillary Clinton and her staff let her tell complete fables on the campaign trail?
The Clinton camp is throwing some local sheriff under-the-bus, saying he told Hillary the story.
When did that conversation take place?
At 3AM?
Yeah, tested, vetted and ready on Day One...
Right ...
The Hillary Death Watch is now down to 8.8% of a chance she'll win the nomination.
Labels: Another Hillary Clinton Lie, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 3AM Ad, Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip, Hillary Clinton Death Watch, Hillary Clinton Hospital Story, Hillary's Hospital Story
Pass The Word ... Mukasey Lies!
Ed.Note: This was intended to be posted yesterday, however, homefront difficulties surfaced and pulled me away, squashing my writing time)
There is something fun, almost liberating, about calling the Crony General of the United States a liar.
Mukasy's a liar! ... Mukasey's a liar! ... Mukasey's a liar!
Go ahead try it, it's fun, isn't it?
Okay, not exactly earth-shaking news, but certainly, a most significant revelation.
And that is was water-carrying, for the Bush Grindhouse's egregious fearmongering, over Telcom Immunity, warrants multiple poxes to be placed on the new Crony General.
I mean, let loose ... Conjure up as many as you can! ... Empty out the cupboard! ... Just keep firing pox, after pox, after pox ... No pox will be too large, or too small ... We can take shifts, but keep the poxes coming!
Last week, at a speech given at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, the Crony General for the United States, Michael Mukasey, puckered up, and tearfully added his voice to the chorus of lies the Bush Regime has thrown against the wall, in their pursuit of absolute power.
Glenn Greenwald is all over this, big time, first noting the speech last Saturday, and on Thursday, calling for action
The Crony General, in his speech;
"Officials "shouldn't need a warrant when somebody with a phone in Iraq picks up a phone and calls somebody in the United States because that's the call that we may really want to know about. And before 9/11, that's the call that we didn't know about. We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."
At that point in his answer, Mr. Mukasey grimaced, swallowed hard, and seemed to tear up as he reflected on the weaknesses in America's anti-terrorism strategy prior to the 2001 attacks. "We got three thousand. . . . We've got three thousand people who went to work that day and didn't come home to show for that," he said, struggling to maintain his composure.
Think Progress has a video of it here.
The Raw Story also covers it, and has a video of Keith Olbermann, in his "Bushed" segment (Olbermann, nightly, hightlights three of the Bush Grindhouse's numberable, and still climbing, scandals)
More from Greenwald;
"This isn't just a matter of academic and historical interest about the 9/11 attacks, although it is that. One of two things almost certainly happened here, each of which is of great importance. Either Mukasey is lying about the 9/11 attacks in order to manipulate Americans into believing that FISA's warrant requirements are what prevented discovery of the 9/11 attacks and caused 3,000 American deaths -- a completely disgusting act by the Attorney General which obviously cannot be ignored. Or, Mukasey has just revealed the most damning fact yet about the Bush's administration's ability and failure to have prevented the attacks -- facts that, until now, were apparently concealed from the 9/11 Commission and the public.
Now, the Crony General is a former judge (Greenwald: "Mike Mukasey was a long-time federal judge and so I feel perfectly comfortable calling that what it is: a brazen lie.") so it's not like he's merely a Bush Grindhouse political hack ...
Wait a minute, what am I saying? ... He's the Crony General ...With the shit train that was on the tracks at the time he was offered the position, no way he didn't agree to play inside the alternate reality, and climb aboard the shit train that is the Bush Grindhouse.
Sooooo ....
He's either lying, playing politics (not to mention exploiting the horror of Sept. 11th) within the long-running Bush policy of lies and fearmongering.
Or, he let slip just how deep an REM snooze the Bush Grindhouse was in when they hijacked the office.
And this would have come before the infamous blow-off of the now infamous August 2001 PDB - "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US".
Oh man, either way, this sucks and we can't do enough, can't get them out fast enough, can't heap enough criminal and moral charges on these dwarfs, finks, phonies and frauds!
So, let off the steam ....
Mukasey's a liar! ... Mukasey's a liar ... Mukasey's a liar!
Bonus Mukasey Mish-Mash
Digby/Hullabaloo: Clever Gaffes
EmptyWheel/Firedoglake: Snowball
Glenn Greenwald: The DOJ comments on the Mukasey controversy
Labels: August 2001 PDB, Bush Lied, Bush Terror Threat, Crony General Michael Mukasey, Illegal NSA Wiretaps, Muskasey Lies, September 11th, Telcom Amnesty
Garlic History - On This Day
5 April 2006 .. On The Garlic
Look What They're Saying!
Google Ups Ante In Email Wars; Now 2-Gig, plus Cars, Chickens and Pots
Washington Monument Reopened After Trim; 500-Feet Chopped Off For Security Precautions
Bewitched Tune Writer Dies; Third of Show To Fall From Spell Cast in 1964
Top Ten Cloves: New Changes At CBS Evening News
Labels: Garlic History, On This Day
In Your Land, There Was A King ...
In your land there was a King,
Who once said, "I have a dream",
Now there's a man who knew,
The Secret ...
A verse, sung by the incredibly-voiced Esther Satterfield, on Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe"
Big doings today, the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Should Barack Obama prevail, win the nomination and general election, than the 41st anniversary will be huge doings, with President Obama presiding over a memorial ceremony.
That's certainly a dream worth dreaming.
We tip our cap today, with a Good Post Alert, to Barry Crimmins, who bullseyes' the day with his "The Giant Triplets"
And today as EVERYONE bemoans the assassination of Martin Luther King, we remain largely silent as a mob of defenders of a hateful status quo, that's imposed and enforced by the still greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - the US government, gang-character assassinates Rev Jeremiah Wright for daring to say "Goddamn America!" America, a country where the poor continue to grow more desperate and hopeless. America, a country with over two million people in jail, including 900,000 African-Americans and a vast number of Latinos. America, a country that spends more on militarism than the next 46 highest spending countries combined.
There's more, including YouTube and links to King's "Why I am opposed to the Vietnam War" and "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" so go check out Barry Crimmins' "The Giant Triplets"
And when you finished there, Truthout has a pair of good ones up;.
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III's, "It's Not the Dream; It's Our Nightmare"
The best way to pay tribute to Dr. King and his total sacrifice is to understand what he stood for. Start by reading two speeches. First, read "I Have a Dream." Second, read "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence." Don't allow others to selectively define Dr. King for you. Read these two speeches for yourself.
Dr. King the strict constructionist referred to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. He stated, "It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned ... Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check - a check which has come back marked insufficient funds." Again, a clear indictment of America!
It's Jeff Cohen's "Forty Years Later, (The Late) Martin Luther King Still Silenced"
Last night, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams enthused over new color footage of King that adorned its coverage of the 40th anniversary of the assassination. The report focused on the last phase of King's life. But the same old blinders were in place.
NBC showed young working class whites in Chicago taunting King. But there was no mention of how elite media had taunted King in his last year. In 1967 and 1968, mainstream media saw Reverend King a bit like they now see Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Back then, they denounced King's critical comments; today they simply silence them.
Before you click over to read these great posts, click here, and let Bill Evans be your reading soundtrack, his haunting "Peace Piece"
Labels: 40th Anniversary of King Assassination, Civil Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I Had A Dream, MLK, MLK Day, Peace
4 April 2006... On The Garlic
DeLay Resignation Clears Way For Medal of Freedom Award
Top Ten Cloves: Things To Look Forward To When Katie Couric Takes Over As CBS News Anchor
April 04 2005... On The Garlic - Special Pope Coverage
Who Gets Nod For Next Pope? Conclave Wide Open; Third World, Koppel, Buchanan, Schwarzenegger On Short List
Special Pope-Cam Gives Round-The-Clock Coverage
Frist Concurs With Vatican Diagnosis; Viewed Videotape of Papal Apartment For Hours
Top Ten Cloves: Things Overheard At The Red Sox-Yankee Opener
No Doubt, Lou Dobbs Will Go Absolut-ely Apocalyptic
If I were in the predictions game, I might go out, on a very short limb, and say Lou Dobbs will soon be calling for a boycott of Absolut Vodka.
The Right Wing Freakshow is all atwitter today, with an ad campaign that conjures up the image of the mythical land of Aztlan, apparently found on, or tipped off to, a blog of a Latin American Editor and Journalist.
In a perfect world, our loved ones wouldn’t die leaving us terribly saddened and alone. But in an “Absolut World,” wonderful things can happen, including getting the U.S.-Mexico border straight once and for all. (This print ad was taken from the current issue of Quién magazine, in Mexico City.)
Hmmm ... Think I'll have to whip up a batch of Vodka-and-Tonics tonight, kick back and watch Lou Dobbs meltdown
Ahh, screw Lou Dobbs ...
Better to fire up some Ruben Blades
Pedro Navaja. Ruben Blades & Seis del Solar
Azucar!, Laura Martinez!
Labels: Absolut Vodka, Aztlan, Bush Immigration Plan, Immigration, In An Absolut World Ad, Los Estados Unidos, Lou Dobbs, Pedro Navaja, Ruben Blades y Seis del Solar
The Hillary Deathwatch
Oh, those scamps over at Slate Magazine.
A most amusing series they are running - The Hillary Deathwatch.
Here's today's offering;
The Hillary Deathwatch: Strong head winds put the Clinton camp back in irons
Lastly: Less money, more problems. Early estimates put Obama's March fundraising total north of $30 million. Not as hot as his $55 million February haul, but enough to dwarf Clinton's estimated $20 million for March. This despite what many consider Obama's worst news month yet. Meanwhile, Clinton's debts are reportedly as high as $9 million, not including her $5 million self-loan. Obama is already outspending her 3-to-1 in Pennsylvania—and he can afford to continue. There's a saying that candidates never drop out; they just run out of cash.
You can go here, to Deathwatch 2008: Down and on the way out, to catch up from the beginning.
(And you can click on the 2007, to review the last throes and fall of former Crony General Alberto Gonzales)
They also offer you the opportunity to send in your own prognostications
I don't know ... We might see those striking Daily Kos diarists start picketing Slate ...
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race, Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 3AM Ad, Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip, Hillary Clinton Monster, Hillary Deathwatch
April 03 2006... On The Garlic
White House Chides Media Again; Calls For “Better Daylight Saving Time” Stories
A Little Yoo Wop
Something this big needs some music.
It's not every day, we finally get documents released, that detail the war criminality of the Bush Grindhouse, and one of their star players, John "Torture Sounds Good To Me" Yoo.
Just in case, you're still playing the video over-and-over, in slow-motion, trying to find the snipers that Hillary Clinton had to avoid in Bosnia, or, you're scouring through the IMBD site, looking for Hillary Clinton in the credits of any one of the hundreds of Rocky films, blockbuster news dropped yesterday;
The March 2003 Yoo Memo Emerges! (not an April Fool's Joke): The Torture Memo to Top All Torture Memos
Subhead: The Big Kahuna: The Torture Memo that Makes the August 2002 Memo Look Like Objective and Thoughtful Legal Analysis
"On Friday, March 13, 2003, Jay Bybee resigned from his Office as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The very next day -- a Saturday, mind you -- John Yoo, merely a Deputy AAG in the Office, issued his notorious memo to the Pentagon, on behalf of OLC, which effectively gave the Pentagon the green light to disregard statutory limits on torture, cruelty and maltreatment in the treatment of detainees. This is the version of the 2002 Torture memo, which was addressed only to the CIA and the torture statute, as applied to the numerous statutes restricting the conduct of the armed forces. None of those statues, you see, limits the conduct of war if the President says so. It is, in effect, the blueprint that led to Abu Ghraib and the other abuses within the armed forces in 2003 and early 2004 ..."
Yoo's memo was, The Green Light, as Phillippe Sands writes in Vanity Fair;
"We talked about the methods of interrogation. “In terms of their effects,” she said, “I suspect that the individual techniques are less important than the fact that they were used over an extended period of time, and that several appear to be used together: in other words, the cumulative effect.” Detainee 063 was subjected to systematic sleep deprivation. He was shackled and cuffed; at times, head restraints were used. He was compelled to listen to threats to his family. The interrogation leveraged his sensitivities as a Muslim: he was shown pictures of scantily clad models, was touched by a female interrogator, was made to stand naked, and was forcibly shaved. He was denied the right to pray. A psychiatrist who witnessed the interrogation of Detainee 063 reported the use of dogs, intended to intimidate “by getting the dogs close to him and then having the dogs bark or act aggressively on command.” The temperature was changed, and 063 was subjected to extreme cold. Intravenous tubes were forced into his body, to provide nourishment when he would not eat or drink."
If you want to prime your scorecards, you can start adding the names of, well, The Commander Guy, and his distrustful sidekick, Vice President Darth Vader, and his home boy, David Addington.
There's lots more that the "War Criminal" placard should hang on, and there'll be a YooMemoPalooza of links below.
But we gotta get to the music, the fanfare for this occasion
And we turn to the legendary Sam Cooke, to provide us the tune.
You know it, so sing, or hum along ...
Yoo Tortured Me
Dammit, Yoo tortured me
I know Yoo tortured me
Dammit You tortured me
Dishonest John Yoo, dishonest John Yoo
Dishonest John Yoo, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Yoo beat me
I know Yoo, Yoo, Yoo beat me
Dammit Yoo, Yoo, Yoo, beat me
Dishonest John Yoo
At first I thought it was interrogation
But Yoo, it's lasted so long
Now I find myself wanting
To query Yoo and break Yoo alone
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh, whenever I'm with Yoo
I know, I know, I know when I'm near Yoo
Mmm hmm, mmm hmm, dishonest John Yoo, dishonest John Yoo
Whoa-oh-oh, I know-oh-oh-oh
I know, I know, I know, Yoo tortured me
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, Yoo Yoo Yoo Yoo tortured me
Bonus YooMemoPalooza Links
Sam Cooke - You Send Me 1958
Glenn Greenwald: John Yoo's war crimes
emptywheel/Firedoglake: Acting Counsels and Torture
Jack Balkin/Balkinization : The Legality of Evil: The Torture Memos and the Living Constitution
Christy Hardin Smith: Yoo Torture Memo: I’ll Take Addington At Cheney’s Behest For $1,000, Alex…
Space Cowboy/Shakesville: Bush: Legacy of S&M
emptywheel/Firedoglake: The “John Yoo, Let’s Pretend We’re Lawyers” Game
Paul Kiel/TPM: The Timeline Behind Yoo's Memo
Labels: Abu Ghraib, Bush Grindhouse, Bush Iraq Policy, Bush Torture Policy, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, John Yoo, The Commander Guy, Yoo Torture Memo, Youngstown
I Missed Home Ec For This!
Quick, somebody get Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain some GPS for his trip down Memory Lane!
No doubt, as the the Sometime Straight Talk Express pulled into his old High School yesterday, lounging back in one of its' seats, SB John must have had a smile on his face, dreamily recalling his youthful exploits.
While SB John may have been pleasantly ensconced in the somniferous sounds of a Victrola tune long gone, he stepped off the bus into an iPod-MySpace-YouTube-World Wide Web-24/7 kind-of-life and, it looks like he's gonna have a tough time with it.
Student calls McCain out for political motivations of school appearance
Today Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) stopped at his alma mater, Episcopal High School in Virginia, to lecture on the importance of teaching and the honor code. McCain’s toughest question came from student Katelyn Halldorson, who called the senator out for the political motivations of his appearance:
“I think judging by the amount of press representatives here and also by the integration of your previous political endorsements in your earlier personal narrative, we can see that this isn’t completely absent – er political motivation isn’t completely absent,” she said. “Yet we were told that this isn’t a political event. So what exactly is your purpose in being here – not that I don’t appreciate the opportunity, but I’d just like some clarification.”
“I knew I should have cut this thing off. This meeting is over,” McCain joked, before launching into a long description of his biography tour…
McCain concluded the visit by saying, “I hope that attendance here was not compulsory…I apologize if you were unwillingly in attendance here.”
According to one EHS staff member, attendance was required.
Space Cowboy, over on Shakesville, offered that "I don't remember any classmates whatsoever that were as cool as the student quoted above, Katelyn Halldorson. Maybe there's hope after all."
Wonkette gave Halldorson their "High Schooler Who Harasses John McCain Of The Day", for calling out McCain's "bullshit".
Looks like SB John, if he's going to called out and dumped on by teenagers, is going to have to adopt something else from The Commander Guy
Invitation-Only, Military audiences.
Labels: Katelyn Halldorson, Little Jerk, McCain Biography Tour, Straight Talk Express, Stumblin Bumblin John McCain, Teeanger Calling Out McCain, Victrola
Look No Further, Your Handy Baseball Primer
Special Essay - Play Ball! ... Batter Up! Could You Please Tell Me, What Is This Thing Called Baseball?
Garlic Poll Results: Most People Think The PNAC Is ...
Don't Tell The Lincoln Group About This ...
Oh boy, I smell trouble ...
The Wired's Danger Room had this yesterday;
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."
This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning.
Information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence…to pass the U.S. message. … On the other hand, such operations can have a blowback effect, as witnessed by the public reaction following revelations that the U.S. military had paid journalists to publish stories in the Iraqi press under their own names. People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.
An alternative strategy is to “make” a blog and blogger. The process of boosting the blog to a position of influence could take some time, however, and depending on the person running the blog, may impose a significant educational burden, in terms of cultural and linguistic training before the blog could be put online to any useful effect. Still, there are people in the military today who like to blog.
Don't the different branches of the Bush Grindhouse talk to each other?
Someone ought to wake up these military people, as what they are proposing is already in place.
It's called Fox News.
Along with those like Matt Sludge, Michelle "Stalkin" Malkin, Dennis Miller, Ann Coulter and a whole bevy of other Right Wing, Freakshow bloggers and pundits who echo Fox News, simply recite the Bush Grindhouse talking points, or just make up their own stories.
And there's The Lincoln Group.
You remember them, don't you? ... The propaganda company the Pentagon hired to plant pro-USA stories in the Iraqi newspapers and media?
Is this a turf fight in-the-making?
Will the propaganda pro's have to compete against the pajama-clad, basement dwellers?
Holy Baghdad Bob, what a bubbling bruhaha, Batman!
How do we know this story, this study, isn't a planted piece?
They're trying to flush something out .... Or maybe, its to see how many of the previously-referenced Right Wing, Freakshow bloggers and pundits raise their hands, salivating at the opportunity to start shoveling it for the government.
Cuts down on the recruiting costs, I suppose.
Bonus Spiked Media Riffs
The Carpetbagger Report: The military plan to ‘clandestinely’ put bloggers on the payroll
Jeff Fecke/Shakesville: Working Undercover for the Man
When A Michelle Malkin Quits The O'Reilly Factor, And No One is Around To Hear it, Does It Make A Sound?
White House "Embarrassed"; Bush Victory Strategy Speech Written By PR Agency; Gave President Wrong Folder; Iraqi Newspaper Prints Slams Against Murtha, Kerry, Pelosi
Rumsfeld Blames Contractor, If Media Plant Stories True, But Defends Outsourcing Program; Says "Still Gathering Facts"; If It Turns Out Positive, Will Be Adopted Into New 'National Victory Strategy' Plan
Secretary Says No Reflection That We Don't Know What's Going On; More Bush Troubles As Rice Backtracks, Corrects Comments, Blames Lincoln Group; Meant To Say Was Surprised Levees Breached, Not By Hamas Election Victory; Backs Pace That There's No Civil War
Labels: Bush Grindhouse, Iraq, Iraq Invasion and Occupation, Military Payng Bloggers, Propaganda, Propaganda Agency, Spiked Media, The Lincoln Group
Rififi Director, Jules Dassin, Blacklisted, Dies at 96
I may have only paid glancing notice to this obit, based on the element of it being a blacklisted director.
But the name, "Jules Dassin" carried my full attention to it, for Dassin made, IMHO (and a a lot of others) the greatest crime caper film of all time.
Jules Dassin directed "Rififi".
Rififi is classic Film Noir, tense, pulsating and with an unbelievable nerve-shattering segment of the heist.
Jules Dassin, 96; blacklisted director was master of film noir
Mr. Dassin, considered one of the leading American filmmakers of the postwar era, directed his most influential film, "Rififi," while living in France after being blacklisted as a communist in the early 1950s. "Rififi" earned him a best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955. Turan noted that "Rififi's" influence "is hard to overstate." The critic wrote that one section of the film is "a model of tension and precision." In the sequence, Mr. Dassin spends "a full 30 minutes on the actual robbery, a completely wordless half-hour (though it makes good use of sound effects) that racks the nerves and provides a master class in breaking and entering, as well as filmmaking."
Rififi is based on a novel by Auguste le Breton; le Breton assisted in adapting it to film. However, Dassin expanded the safe-cracking job, which is negligible in the book, into a 32-minute sequence that occupies a fourth of the running time and is played entirely without dialogue or music, intensifying the suspense. So meticulous is the construction and so specific the detail of this scene that the Mexican interior ministry banned the movie because there were a series of robberies mimicking it.
From an essay, by James Hook;
And yet, even in a film of such generous superlatives, something does stand out, towering over it all. For Rififi is that most hallowed of films, a film that contains a monument within. Like the Grand Hall ball in The Magnificent Ambersons or the pickpocketing sequence in Pickpocket or the crop-duster chase in North by Northwest, the virtually silent, gleefully long heist scene at the center of Rififi is a tingling, ecstatic, sustained act of brilliance—a sacrament of the cinema. For an astounding 33 minutes, Dassin removes all dialogue, hushing the soundtrack to the mere sounds of breath—the accidental note from a piano is enough to stop your heart—as we observe the criminal team at work, breaking through the floor, silencing alarms, cracking safes, checking watches, and signaling each other. It is a scene you’ve seen before (shameless imitators have been cannibalizing it for decades), but you will never see it so purely, respectfully done as here.
Rififi (1954) Roger Ebert / September 1, 2002
I highly recommend, the next film rental you make, or purchase, check out Rififi, you will not, repeat, you will not be disappointed.
Labels: Crime Caper, Film Noir, Hollywood Blacklist, Jules Dassin, Obituaries, Rififi
Hey, Wait A Minute ... We're Not Falling For That One Again ... The Results - The Garlic Weekly Poll
Weekend Special - Sautéed Cloves 1 April 2006
Happy April Fools Day! Entire World Clicks Onto The Garlic Sets New Web/Blog Record
Top Ten Cloves: Special April Fools Headlines We'll Never See
Labels: April Fools Day, Garlic History, On This Day
Top Ten Cloves: Excuses Hillary Clinton Is Giving For Not Paying Her Campaign Bills
News Item: Clinton's new campaign motto: BYO
10. "Some would say, let's get everybody together, let's get unified ... The sky will open ... The light will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing ... And everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect ... And we won't have to pay any bills ... "
9. It's not the pledged bills that matter, but the popular bills that count
8. Thought that once she crossed the Commander-in-Chief Threshold, she didn't have to pay the bills anymore
7. “I know there are some people who want to shut this down and I think they are wrong,” Clinton said in an interview during a campaign stop here Saturday. “I have no intention of paying any bills until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan ..."
6. She's been sleep deprived
5. Holding off paying bills, to put pressure on the striking Daily Kos diarists to get them to start writing about her again
4. "We tried to go to the accountants' office, but we came in in an evasive maneuver... I remember arriving under sniper fire... there was no greeting ceremony... we ran with our heads down, we basically were told to run to our cars... there was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the accountants' office, we basically were told to run to our cars, and not pay the bills
3. Checkbook was in kitchen sink thrown at Obama
2. She didn't have any plans, after Super Tuesday, to pay any bills
1. “It’s not easy, it’s not easy,” Clinton said shaking her head. Her eyes began to get watery as she finished answering the question, “I couldn’t do it if I didn’t passionately believe it was the right thing to do. This is very personal for me. I have so many ideas for paying the bills and I just don’t want to see us fall backwards. It’s about our bills, it’s about our kids’ bills,” she said softly crying, her voice breaking.
Bonus Hillary Riffs
Kenneth Vogel: Clinton didn't pay health insurance bills
Mark Murray: Clinton: Not paying the bills?
Prairie Weather: Clinton sustaining damage on two fronts
What About On Day Two?
Top Ten Cloves: If Hillary Clinton Is A Monster, The Movies That Would Be Made About Her
"Oh ... THAT Conspiracy ..."
Labels: Campaign Bills, Clinton Campaign Not Paying Bills, Health Insurance Bills, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Not Paying Bills, Paying Bills, Top Ten Cloves
We Bring You The Head of Alphonso Jackson
Well, he went out, a little bit off-form.
"Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced his resignation today, citing "personal and family matters." He has come under pressure from Congress for his refusal to answer questions about a federal lawsuit and whether he tried to steer land to a business friend."
For the first time in awhile, a politico, either knowing what a shit-train the Bush Grindhouse is, or, under the glare of possible criminal charges, didn't cite "wanting to spend more time with family", for their hasty departure.
That may not be a option available to Jackson in the not-too-distant future.
The "personal and family matters" are Jackson facing a grand jury, on his cronyism, so, possibly, Daddy won't be coming home some day soon.
Chalk up another one for the Bush Regime.
Meanwhile, Alfredo Garcia can stay at rest.
Think Progress: Jackson Gets Evicted: White House Officials Questioned His ‘Ability To Continue To Lead The Agency’
And just last month, the now former HUD Secretary was featured in one of our Retro Garlic
Retro Garlic: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall ...
Labels: Alphonso Jackson Resignation, Bush Crony, Bush Grindhouse, HUD, Mirror Mirror, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
It's Now Dirt Nap Time In America
Legendary Ad Man Hal Riney died last week.
One of the more celebrated creatives that made his mark, helping to create, and coming out of, the boon of the 1960's, to usher in a new mode of operation for Ad Agencies.
Included in his highlights was creating an ad for Crocker Bank, and with it a song that, a few years later, became a #1 hit for The Carpenters;
"We've Only Just Begun" is The Carpenters' signature song. Although it was recorded in early 1970 it is still much in demand as a wedding anthem. [1] Written by the songwriting team of Roger Nichols (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics), the song originally debuted in a commercial for Crocker Citizens Bank in California in 1970, with Williams providing the vocals.[1] It is ranked #405 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
Riney was also behind foisting on us Wine Coolers, through the, interpreted by some, whimsical, folksy wit and humor of fictional Bartle and Jaymes, fronting for fat wine cats Ernest and Julio Gallo.
Perhaps, more famously, Riney is the one that created the Republican's rallying cry during the resurgence of the 1980's, that being Ronald Reagan's "Morning In America" campaign ad.
Full text of the ad:
It's morning again in America. Today more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history. With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than at any time in the past four years. This afternoon 6,500 young men and women will be married, and with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future. It's morning again in America, and under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better. Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?
The Career Thumbnail - The Carpenters, Ronald Reagan and a Wine Cooler
Yeah, I suppose, if you work at it, suspend certain tenets and beliefs, you can sell anything.
Ad Age has a piece today - Hal Riney Explains His Own Best Commercials - and a video to go with it.
Hal Riney Explains His Own Best Commercials: Video Excerpts From His 2002 San Francisco Presentation
(Note: This was not professionally recorded, and, at least on my computer, the audio is not so great)
Labels: Bartle and Jaymes, Ernest and Julio Gallo, Hal Riney, Morning In America, Obituaries, Ronald Reagan, The Carpenters, We Only Just Begun, Wine Coolers
Yankee's Have More Than The Unit For Sox Opener; Tensions High As Many On Team Bringing Big Brothers For Retribution
Media Hunts For Next Med Case; Looking For High Tensions, Legal and Rights Extras
NIST Warns Of Caution In 'Springing Forward'; Cites Annual Deaths, Injuries Climbing
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It's Here! ... Baseball and The Garlic's Infamous Essay!
The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd ...
Oh, sorry, wrong medium ...
It's Batter Up! and Play Ball!
The 2008 Major League Baseball season, technically, started last week (Red Sox and Oakland A's played in Japan), but, for all intents-and-purpose, Opening Day is today.
And regular, longtime readers of The Garlic knows what that means ... It's time for the growing-infamous-by-the-minute (we may have to put one of those counter clocks up) baseball essay;
"Could You Please Tell Me, What Is This Thing Called Baseball?"
Some pitchers (remember, he can be a starter or reliever, long or short) will wind up before they pitch. Other will deliver it from a stretch. They can throw sinkers, sliders, spitters, knucklers, curves, screwballs and change-ups. Some are plain fastballers, others sneaky lowballers. A few are outright screwballs, but we digress.
A hitter can hang in there by fouling one off or fouling it upstairs. He can also foul it out of play, foul it back, chop it foul or pop it foul. Sometimes the ball just drops foul. There are times when a hitter will foul out. If a pitcher (starter or reliever, long or short) throws a spitter, you’ll see the hitter cry foul. The umpires, the men in dark suits who stand behind the bases and enforce the rules, take a lot of foul abuse from players and fans, who holler foul when they don’t agree with the umpire’s decision. Foul weather will cancel a game, putting everybody in a foul mood.
Thousands, perhaps, tens-of-thousands have had their understanding of baseball greatly enhanced by this essay!
Including Presidential Candidates;
Great piece! I’d like to ask if I can record ‘Could You Please Tell Me, What Is This Thing Called Baseball?’ for my next Spoken Word project?”
Barack Obama, Senator, U.S. Senate
“I took some time off from spying on K.T. McFarland and read ‘Could You Please Tell Me, What Is This Thing Called Baseball?’ – Great stuff!”
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator
And World Leaders;
Since I’ve been in a letter-writing mode lately, thought I’d drop you a note to say how much I enjoyed the baseball essay and how much I learned from it. Perhaps, someday, we’ll have the game over here (and with the stadium lights powered by our new nuclear energy!)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
I so much liked your story on American Baseball, I am going have copies printed and make it mandatory for passengers of our new Himalayan train service to read it (sorry I can’t let them go out on the Internet and look it up for themselves)
President Hu Jintao, China
Don't go through the 2008 Baseball Season scratching your head ... Wondering ... Feeling left out ...Don't miss out ... Get all the 411 on baseball you'll need, so you can jump in with the gang at the water cooler and sound like a pro ..
Read "Could You Please Tell Me, What Is This Thing Called Baseball?"
Bonus Shameless Pitch
Visit the Savvy Girls of Summer and order their new book "It Takes More Than Balls - The Savvy Girls' Guide To Understanding and Enjoying Baseball"
Labels: Baseball Lingo, Baseball Primer, Baseball Season Opener, Garlic Baseball Essay
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Some Slaps For His Taps
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Download "A Philosophical Guide to Chance"
Maud Greer
1 A Philosophical Guide to Chance It is a commonplace that scientific inquiry makes extensive use of probabilities, many of which seem to be objective chances, describing features of reality that are independent of our minds. Such chances appear to have a number of paradoxical or puzzling features: they appear to be mind-independent facts, but they are intimately connected with rational psychology; they display a temporal asymmetry, but they are supposed to be grounded in physical laws that are timesymmetric; and chances are used to explain and predict frequencies of events, although they cannot be reduced to those frequencies. This book offers an accessible and non-technical introduction to these and other puzzles. engages with traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science, drawing upon recent work in the foundations of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics to provide a novel account of objective probability that is empirically informed without requiring specialist scientific knowledge. toby handfield is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Monash University. He is the editor of Dispositions and Causes (2009).
3 A Philosophical Guide to Chance toby handfield Monash University
4 cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi,Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: / C 2012 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2012 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Handfield, Toby. A philosophical guide to chance : physical probability /. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn (hardback) isbn (pbk.) 1.Chance. 2. Probabilities. I. Title. bc141.h dc isbn Hardback isbn Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
5 Contents Preface [page vii] 1 The concept of chance [1] 1 An unlucky gamble [1] 2 The hallmarks of chance [2] 3 Beliefs and probabilities [8] 4 Characterising chance [15] 5 What makes a fact of chance? [30] 2 The classical picture: What is the world made of? [34] 6 Matter is made of particles [35] 7 Particles have properties [36] 8 The laws are deterministic [39] 9 And that s all there is [41] 10 Do the laws heed the direction of time? [43] 3 Waystheworldmightbe [47] 11 A multitude of lists [47] 12 Possibilities that differ spatially [50] 13 Pushing the limits of possibility [52] 14 Creating a space of possibilities [55] 15 Possible histories [59] 4 Possibilities of thought [62] 16 Propositions in phase space [62] 17 Troublesome thoughts [63] 18 Counterfactual possibility [67] 19 Macroscopic states [69] 20 Phase space and epistemic possibility [71] 5 Chance in phase space [72] 21 The leaking tyre [72] 22 Counting possibilities [73] 23 Measuring volumes in phase space [75] 6 Possibilist theories of chance [78] 24 Possibilism [78] 25 Chances and determinism [83] v
6 vi Contents 26 Sceptical responses [87] 27 How do we initially grasp the measure over possibilities? [89] 28 How do we make better estimates of chances? [94] 29 Weaker versions of possibilism [96] 7 Actualist theories of chance [104] 30 Actualist interpretations of chance [104] 31 Simple actualist proposals [106] 32 Sophisticated actualist proposals [110] 33 Can actualism explain the normative role of chance? [119] 8 Anti-realist theories of chance [123] 34 Varieties of anti-realism [123] 35 An error theory of chance [124] 36 Subjectivist interpretations of chance [127] 37 The subjective psychology of objective chance [131] 38 Non-cognitivism [142] 9 Chance in quantum physics [146] 39 The quantum mechanical world [146] 40 Weird quantum phenomena [147] 41 The formalism of quantum mechanics [151] 42 Chance in quantum mechanics [153] 10 Chance in branching worlds [162] 43 Uncertainty in an Everett universe [162] 44 Indifference and branches [176] 45 Bayesian learning about branches [182] 46 Evaluating the Greaves Myrvold account [187] 11 Time and evidence [192] 47 The time asymmetry of chance [192] 48 Explaining the asymmetry of evidence [197] 49 Statistical mechanics and the temporal asymmetry of evidence [208] 50 The roles of evidence, availability, and context [214] 12 Debunking chance [218] 51 Norms and vindication [219] 52 The natural history of moral norms [224] 53 Chance compared to morals [227] 54 The natural history of chance [231] References [246] Index [254]
7 Preface When I began writing this book, I believed that I had identified a realist theory of chance which though not entirely novel had not been defended as well as it might have been. My book was to have been the definitive presentation and defence of a realist account. Roughly six years later, I have come to appreciate much better the enormous difficulties facing not only that theory, but all realist accounts of chance, and I find myself in the mildly embarrassing position of writing the preface to a book in which I defend a modest form of anti-realism. In some sense, I now believe, Hume was correct to say that chance has no real being in nature (Hume 1902 [1777]: 8,partI). During this gradual conversion, becoming better acquainted with the literature, I frequently found the going rather difficult. Much of the literature is very technical, to the point of being inaccessible to many readers, including myself. This is unfortunate. Our best physical theories strongly suggest that chances are a fundamental part of reality. If we are to understand and evaluate these claims, we need to understand philosophical and scientific debates about chance. In consequence, I have written this book, not merely as a vehicle for my own ideas, but also to introduce the philosophy of chance to the broadest possible audience. While I don t pretend that the material is always easy, I expect it should at least be accessible to any tertiary-level reader. To keep the main line of argument as uncluttered as possible, I have set more technical material and asides which pursue debates of more narrow interest in text boxes. The reader can omit these without fear of losing the main plot. Suggestions for further reading can be found in the footnotes. I have been fortunate in my friends and colleagues, who have provided invaluable assistance throughout this project. My greatest thanks go to John Bigelow, Antony Eagle, Patrick Emerton, Lloyd Humberstone, Barry Loewer, and Alastair Wilson, each of whom has read drafts of more than one chapter and provided extremely thoughtful comments and suggestions. I also received some very helpful guidance from an anonymous reader for Cambridge University Press. vii
8 viii Preface Individual chapters benefited from the comments of Stephen Barker, Rachael Briggs, Daniel Cohen, Nina Emery, Steve Gardner, Hilary Greaves, Carl Hoefer, Jenann Ismael, Aidan Lyon, Harry Perlman, Huw Price, and Paul Tappenden. In 2009, a reading group at Monash discussed what was destined to become roughly Chapters 2 7. I am grateful to all the participants, but especially to Alexander Bird, Joshua Luczak, Bryan Paton, and Joel Reicher. Earlier versions of the material were presented to audiences at MIT, Monash, Rutgers, the University of Sydney, Kyung Hee University, and ANU. A sabbatical at MIT in the fall of 2009 was a marvellous environment in which to consolidate my work on the later chapters. And finally, I m grateful to many people for stimulating conversations about chance while I have been working on the topic, but most especially to David Albert, John Bigelow, Barry Loewer, Huw Price, Jonathan Schaffer, and Alastair Wilson.
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Cover of the 1983 edition
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Japanese American internment history
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Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston.[1][2] The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during and following their imprisonment at the Manzanar concentration camp due to the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 1976 starring Yuki Shimoda, Nobu McCarthy, James Saito, Pat Morita and Mako.[3]
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See also: Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki (the book's narrator) is a Nisei (child of a Japanese immigrant). At age seven, Wakatsuki—a native-born American citizen—and her family were living on Terminal Island (near San Pedro, California). Her father, a fisherman who owned two boats, was arrested by the FBI following the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
Soon after, she and the rest of her family were imprisoned at Manzanar (an American internment camp), where 11,070 Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents—who were prevented from becoming American citizens by law—were confined during the Japanese American internment during World War II.[4] The book describes the Wakatsukis' experiences during their imprisonment and events concerning the family before and after the war.
Ko Wakatsuki (Jeanne's father) emigrated from Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii and then to Idaho, running away with his wife and abandoning his family. Stubborn and proud, he did not cope well with his isolation: he drank, and abused his family. Woody (Jeanne's brother) wants to preserve his family's honor by joining the U.S. Army. After joining (and fighting in the Pacific theater) he visits his father's Aunt Toyo, who gave his father money for the trip to Hawaii. After the visit, Woody feels a new pride in his ancestry. He becomes the man of the family, leading them early in their internment.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Jeanne Wakatsuki says farewell to her father’s sardine fleet at San Pedro Harbor. By the time the boats return, news reaches the family that the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Jeanne's father burns his Japanese flag and identity papers, but is arrested by the FBI and beaten when taken to the jail. Jeanne's mother moves the family to the Japanese ghetto on Terminal Island, and then to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 giving the military authority to relocate those posing a potential threat to national security. Americans of Japanese descent await their final destination; “their common sentiment is shikata ga nai” ("it cannot be helped”). A month later the government orders the Wakatsukis to move to Manzanar Relocation Center, in the desert 225 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
At the camp the Japanese Americans find cramped living conditions, badly prepared food, unfinished barracks and dust blowing in through every crack and knothole. There is not enough warm clothing to go around; many fall ill from immunizations and poorly preserved food, and they face the indignity of non-partitioned camp toilets (which particularly upsets Jeanne's mother). The Wakatsukis stop eating together in the camp mess hall, and the family begins to disintegrate. Jeanne, virtually abandoned by her family, takes an interest in the other people in camp and studies religion with two nuns. However, after she suffers sunstroke when imagining herself a suffering saint, her father orders Jeanne to stop.
He is arrested, and returns a year later from the Fort Lincoln Internment Camp. The family is unsure how to greet him; only Jeanne welcomes him openly. She has always admired her father (who left his samurai family in Japan to protest the declining social status of the samurai), and fondly remembers how he conducts himself—from his courtship of Jeanne's mother to his virtuoso pig-carving. Something happened, however, during his time at the detention camp (where government interrogators accused him of disloyalty and espionage); he is now in a downward emotional spiral. He becomes violent and drinks heavily, nearly striking Jeanne's mother with his cane before Kiyo (Jeanne's youngest brother) punches their father in the face.
The men's frustration eventually results in the December Riot, which breaks out after three men are arrested for beating a man suspected of helping the government. The rioters roam the camp searching for inu (both “dog” and “traitor” in Japanese). The military police try to stop the riot; in the chaos they shoot into the crowd, killing two Japanese and wounding ten others. That night, a patrol group accosts Jeanne’s brother-in-law, Kaz, and his fellow workers and accuses them of sabotage. The mess-hall bells ring until noon the following day, as a memorial to the dead. Soon after, the government requires a loyalty oath to distinguish loyal Japanese from potential enemies. Opinion about whether to take the oath is divided. Answering “no” to the loyalty questions will result in deportation, but answering “yes” will result in being drafted. Jeanne's father and Woody answer “yes”, and Papa attacks a man for calling him an inu. That night Jeanne overhears her father singing the Japanese national anthem, "Kimi ga yo", whose lyrics speak of the endurance of stones.
After the riot, camp life calms down; the Wakatsuki family moves to a nicer barracks near a pear orchard, where Jeanne's father takes up gardening. Manzanar begins to resemble a typical American town: schools open, residents are allowed short trips outside the camp and Jeanne’s oldest brother Bill forms a dance band called the Jive Bombers. She explores the world inside the camp, trying out Japanese and American hobbies before taking up baton twirling. Jeanne returns to her religious studies, and is about to be baptized when her father intervenes. She begins to distance herself from him, but the birth of a grandchild draws her parents closer together than ever.
By the end of 1944, the number of people at Manzanar dwindles; men are drafted, and families take advantage of the government’s new policy of relocating families away from the west coast. Woody is drafted and, despite his father’s protests, leaves in November to join the all-Nisei 442nd Combat Regiment. While in the military, Woody visits his father's family in Hiroshima. He meets Toyo, his father’s aunt, and finally understands his father’s pride. In December, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the internment policy is illegal and the War Department prepares to close the camps. The remaining residents, fearing the future, postpone their departure but eventually are ordered to leave. Jeanne's father decides to leave in style, buying a broken-down blue sedan to ferry his family back to Long Beach.
In Long Beach the Wakatsukis move into public housing, Cabrillo Homes. Although they fear public hatred, they see little sign of it. On the first day of sixth grade, however, a girl in Jeanne’s class is amazed at Jeanne’s ability to speak English; this makes Jeanne realize that prejudice is not always open and direct. She later becomes close friends with the girl (Radine, who lives in the same housing project). The two share the same activities and tastes, but when they reach high school subtle prejudice keeps Jeanne from the social and extracurricular success available to Radine.
Jeanne retreats into herself, and nearly drops out of school; however, when her father moves the family to a berry farm in San Jose she decides to make another attempt at school life. Her homeroom nominates her queen of the school’s annual spring carnival, and for the election assembly she leaves her hair loose and wears an exotic sarong. Although the teachers try to prevent her from winning, her friend Leonard Rodriguez exposes the teachers’ plot and ensures her victory. Jeanne's father, however, is furious that she won the election by flaunting her sexuality before American boys. He forces her to take Japanese dance lessons, but she soon quits. As a compromise, Jeanne wears a conservative dress to the coronation ceremony; however, the crowd’s muttering makes her realize that neither the exotic sarong nor the conservative dress represents her true self.
In April 1972, Jeanne revisits Manzanar with her husband and three children. She needs to remind herself that the camp actually existed; over the years, she began to think she imagined the whole thing. Walking through the ruins, the sounds and sights of the camp come back to her. Seeing her eleven-year-old daughter, Jeanne realizes that her life began at the camp (as her father’s life ended there). She remembers him driving crazily through camp before leaving with his family, and finally understands his stubborn pride.
The non-fiction book has become a curriculum staple in schools and universities across the United States.[citation needed] In an effort to educate Californians about the experiences of Japanese Americans who were confined in American internment camps during World War II, the book and the movie were distributed in 2002 as a part of a kit to approximately 8,500 public elementary and secondary schools and 1,500 public libraries in the state.[5] The kit included study guides tailored to the book and a video teaching guide.[5]
On October 7, 2011 the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) announced that it had negotiated the rights for the 1976 NBC-produced film directed by John Korty;[3][6] it was made available for purchase from JANM.[6][7]
^ Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki (1983) [1973]. Farewell To Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment. Laurel Leaf. ISBN 0-553-27258-6.
^ "Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston". Japanese American National Museum. 2006-11-25. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
^ a b "Farewell to Manzanar (1976) (TV)". National Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
^ "Manzanar National Historic Site - Japanese Americans at Manzanar (U.S. National Park Service)". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
^ a b Hudson, Sigrid (2010-07-26). "The Legacy Of Farewell To Manzanar". Japanese American National Museum. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
^ a b Newman, Esther (2011-10-07). "Farewell to Manzanar on DVD—Timeless and Timely". Japanese American National Museum. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
^ Yamamoto, J.K. (2011-10-27). "A New Beginning for "Farewell to Manzanar"". Rafu Shimpo. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
(from the MLA database, March 2008)
Davis, Rocio G (2006). "National and Ethnic Affiliation in Internment Autobiographies of Childhood by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and George Takei". erikastudien/American Studies 51 (3): 355–368.
Chappell, Virginia A. (1997). "But Isn't This the Land of the Free?': Resistance and Discovery in Student Responses to Farewell to Manzanar". Writing In Multicultural Settings (New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America): 172–188.
Sakurai, Patricia A. (1995). "The Politics of Possession: The Negotiation of Identity in American in Disguise, Homebase, and Farewell to Manzanar". Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies (Pullman, Washington: Washington University Press): 157–170.
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Steve Seabrook: Better Than You Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $15-50. Thu/16, 8pm; Sat/18, 8:30pm. Self-awareness, self-actualization, self-aggrandizement — for these things we turn to the professionals: the self-empowerment coaches, the self-help authors and motivational speakers. What’s the good of having a “self” unless someone shows you how to use it? Writer-performer Kurt Bodden’s Steve Seabrook wants to sell you on a better you, but his “Better Than You” weekend seminar (and tie-in book series, assorted CDs, and other paraphernalia) belies a certain divided loyalty in its own self-flattering title. The bitter fruit of the personal growth industry may sound overly ripe for the picking, but Bodden’s deftly executed “seminar” and its behind-the-scenes reveals, directed by Mark Kenward, explore the terrain with panache, cool wit, and shrewd characterization. As both writer and performer, Bodden keeps his Steve Seabrook just this side of overly sensational or maudlin, a believable figure, finally, whose all-too-ordinary life ends up something of a modest model of its own. (Avila)
Talk Radio Actors Theatre of San Francisco, 855 Bush, SF; www.actorstheatresf.org. $26-38. Wed-Sat, 8pm. Through June 15. Actors Theatre of San Francisco performs Eric Bogosian’s breakthrough 1987 drama.
Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma: The Next Cockettes Musical Hypnodrome, 575 10th St, SF; www.thrillpeddlers.com. $30-35. Thu-Sat, 8pm. Extended through June 29. Thrillpeddlers and director Russell Blackwood continue their Theatre of the Ridiculous series with this 1971 musical from San Francisco’s famed glitter-bearded acid queens, the Cockettes, revamped with a slew of new musical material by original member Scrumbly Koldewyn, and a freshly re-minted book co-written by Koldewyn and “Sweet Pam” Tent — both of whom join the large rotating cast of Thrillpeddler favorites alongside a third original Cockette, Rumi Missabu (playing diner waitress Brenda Breakfast like a deliciously unhinged scramble of Lucille Ball and Bette Davis). This is Thrillpeddlers’ third Cockettes revival, a winning streak that started with Pearls Over Shanghai. While not quite as frisky or imaginative as the production of Pearls, it easily charms with its fine songs, nifty routines, exquisite costumes, steady flashes of wit, less consistent flashes of flesh, and de rigueur irreverence. The plot may not be very easy to follow, but then, except perhaps for the bubbly accounting of the notorious New York flop of the same show 42 years ago by Tent (as poisoned-pen gossip columnist Vedda Viper), it hardly matters. (Avila)
The Waiting Period Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $25-50. Fri/17, 8pm; Sat/18, 5pm. Brian Copeland (comedian, TV and radio personality, and creator-performer of the long-running solo play Not a Genuine Black Man) returns to the Marsh with a new solo, this one based on more recent and messier events` in Copeland’s life. The play concerns an episode of severe depression in which he considered suicide, going so far as to purchase a handgun — the title coming from the legally mandatory 10-day period between purchasing and picking up the weapon, which leaves time for reflections and circumstances that ultimately prevent Copeland from pulling the trigger. A grim subject, but Copeland (with co-developer and director David Ford) ensures there’s plenty of humor as well as frank sentiment along the way. The actor peoples the opening scene in the gun store with a comically if somewhat stereotypically rugged representative of the Second Amendment, for instance, as well as an equally familiar “doood” dude at the service counter. Afterward, we follow Copeland, a just barely coping dad, home to the house recently abandoned by his wife, and through the ordinary routines that become unbearable to the clinically depressed. Copeland also recreates interviews he’s made with other survivors of suicidal depression. Telling someone about such things is vital to preventing their worst outcomes, says Copeland, and telling his own story is meant to encourage others. It’s a worthy aim but only a fitfully engaging piece, since as drama it remains thin, standing at perhaps too respectful a distance from the convoluted torment and alienation at its center. Note: review from an earlier run of the same production. (Avila)
Vital Signs: The Pulse of an American Nurse Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $15-50. Sun, 7pm. Through June 16. Registered nurse Alison Whittaker returns to the Marsh with her behind-the-scenes show about working in a hospital.
The World’s Funniest Bubble Show Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $8-50. Sun, 11am. Through July 21. Louis “The Amazing Bubble Man” Pearl returns after a month-long hiatus with his popular, kid-friendly bubble show.
The Dead Girl Avant Garde, 1328 Fourth St, San Rafael; www.altertheater.org. $25. Wed/15, 7:30pm; Fri/17-Sat/18, 8pm; Sun/19, 3pm. AlterTheater performs 90-year-old playwright Ann Brebner’s new family drama.
A Killer Story Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. $20-50. Thu/16-Sat/18, 8pm (pre-show cabaret at 7:15pm). Dan Harder’s film noir-inspired detective tale premieres at the Marsh Berkeley.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison, Berk; www.berkeleyrep.org. $29-77. Tue, Thu-Sat, 8pm (also Sat and May 23, 2pm; no show May 24); Wed and Sun, 7pm (also Sun, 2). Through May 26. Mark Wing-Davey directs Berkeley Rep’s take on the Bard.
PERFORMANCE/DANCE
ACT Master of Fine Arts Program performances ACT’s Hastings Studio Theater, 77 Geary, SF, and ACT’s Costume Shop Theater, 1117 Market, SF; www.act-sf.org. $30 (two shows for $40; three shows for $50). American Conservatory Theater’s acclaimed grad program presents Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 (Wed/15 and Fri/17, 7:30pm; Sat/18, 2pm); Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo (Thu/16-Sat/18, 7:30pm); and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Thu/16 and Sat/18, 7:30pm; Sun/19, 2pm) in repertory.
Ananta Project Z Space, 450 Florida, SF; www.theanantaproject.org. Fri/17-Sat/18, 8pm. $20. The dance company presents its spring season performances, including two world premieres: The Hush Hush Chronicles and Kittleslip.
“Asia on Stage” SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan, SF; gapashow@yahoo.com. Sat/18, 7pm. $20. Performance program featuring LIKHA Pilipino Folk Ensemble’s Pilgrim, a dance theater work about gay Asian immigrants.
Sandra Bernhard Bimbo’s 365 Club, 1025 Columbus, SF; www.bimbos365club.com. Thu/16-Fri/17, 8pm. $45. The comedian performs her latest show, I Love Being Me, Don’t You?
Caroline Lugo and Carolé Acuña’s Ballet Flamenco Peña Pachamama, 1630 Powell, SF; www.carolinalugo.com. Sat/18, 6:15pm. $15-19. Flamenco performance by the mother-daughter dance company, featuring live musicians.
“Cirque de l’Arc” Arc San Francisco, 1500 Howard, SF; cirque2013.eventbrite.com. Thu/16, 6-9pm. $100. Help raise money for the Arc San Francisco, serving adults with developmental disabilities, at this circus-themed party featuring an all-star drag performance and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
“The Fantasticks” Mission Dolores Academy Auditorium, 3371 16th St, SF; www.16thstreetplayers.org. Sat/18, 7:30pm; Sun/19, 3pm. Free. The 16th Street Players perform the classic musical.
“The Gospel of Mary Magdalene” Kanbar Hall, JCCSF, 3200 California, SF; www.jccsf.org. Sun/19, 7pm. $25. Live musical excerpts from a San Francisco Opera world premiere by Mark Adamo.
“Improvised Murder Mystery” Bayfront Theater, B350 Fort Mason Center, SF; www.improv.org. Sat/18 and May 25, 8pm. $20. BATS Improv performs one of its most popular shows.
“Kunst-Stoff Arts Fest 2013” Kunst-Stoff Arts, One Grove, SF; www.kunst-stoff.org. May 15-June 7. Most events $10-15. Morning classes, afternoon workshops, and evening performances are the focus of this festival of dance, film, music, and more.
Lenora Lee Koret Auditorium, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, SF; www.deyoungmuseum.org. Fri/17, 7pm. Museum admission $6-10.The multi-disciplinary dance artist and de Young Artist fellow presents a live performance by composer Frances Wong (Miyoshi Sketches) and an excerpt from her own The Escape.
Liss Fain Dance Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission, SF; www.lissfaindance.org. Thu/16-Sat/18, 8pm; Sun/19, 5pm. $15-30. The company presents an encore showing of The Water is Clear and Still, a performance installation that combines dance, music, and spoken text from stories by Jamaica Kincaid.
Ross Matthews Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness, SF; www.theregencyballroom.com. Thu/16, 8pm. $32.50. The TV personality performs stand-up and celebrates the launch of his new book, Man Up! Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence.
“Mission Position Live” Cinecave, 1034 Valencia, SF; www.missionpositionlive.com. Thu, 8pm. Ongoing. $10. Stand-up comedy with rotating performers.
“Mutant Creatures and Unlikely Teachers: Short Plays by Short People” Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St, SF; www.stagewright.org. Thu/16, 6:30pm, $10; and Fri/17, 7pm, $50 (fundraiser for StageWright program). StageWright presents plays by fifth graders at Starr King Elementary School, performed by professional actors and museums.
Red Hots Burlesque El Rio, 3158 Mission, SF; www.redhotsburlesque.com. Wed, 7:30-9pm. Ongoing. $5-10. Come for the burlesque show, stay for OMG! Karaoke starting at 8pm (no cover for karaoke).
“San Francisco Magic Parlor” Chancellor Hotel Union Square, 433 Powell, SF; www.sfmagicparlor.com. Thu-Sat, 8pm. Ongoing. $40. Magic vignettes with conjurer and storyteller Walt Anthony.
Smuin Ballet Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission, SF; www.smuinballet.org. Thu/16-Sat/18, 8pm (also Sat/18, 2pm); Sun/19, 2pm. $24-65. Also May 22-25, 8pm (also May 25, 2pm); May 26, 2pm. $52-68. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro, Mtn View. Also May 31-June 1, 8pm (also June 1, 2pm). $54-70. Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic, Walnut Creek. The company presents the West Coast premiere of Helen Pickett’s Petal and Darrell Grand Moultrie’s JAZZIN’, among other works.
“Union Square Live” Union Square, between Post, Geary, Powell, and Stockton, SF; www.unionsquarelive.org. Through Oct 9. Free. Music, dance, circus arts, film, and more; dates and times vary, so check website for the latest.
“Yerba Buena Gardens Festival” Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission between 3rd and 4th Sts, SF; www.ybgfestival.org. Through Oct 15. Free. This week: “Let’s Go Salsa@Jessie” with Anthony Blea y su Charanga (Thu/16, 6-7:30pm); Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Sat/18, 1-2pm).
“Swearing in English: Tall Tales at Shotgun” Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby, Berk; www.shotgunplayers.org. June 3 and 17, 8pm. $15. Shotgun Cabaret presents John Mercer in a series of three stranger-than-fiction dramatic readings.
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Sex advice message boards
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Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. Shannon Ethridge, author of the book The Sexually Confident Wife , says that sex is reserved for monogamous and consenting husbands and wives. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. In addition to print self-help books, there are dozens of popular websites created by and for evangelical Christians who love sex. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. There are blogs for Christian wives to learn strategies to optimize their own pleasure vibrators! These online conversations take on a decidedly queer tone as users counter sexual shame, encourage sexual exploration, validate unique sexual desires and celebrate pleasure as a key feature of a sexual life. In Sheet Music: It was an exchange in which users offered reviews and recommendations for men who liked to use dildos for prostate stimulation. But they are on tenuous grounds when they admonish and exclude gay couples and gender non-binary folks. Evangelicals tout their conservative religious beliefs and use them as a jumping-off point to enjoy the sexual possibilities made visible and popular by the LGBTQ community. Evangelicals love pegging. Users post links to relevant content in different forums called "subreddits" for example: Memes, discussions about various pop culture events, etc. This applies in the bedroom and outside it. To some, this all may seem hypocritical.
Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. When a post receives a certain number of upvotes, it reaches the homepage, which is currently considered the Holy Grail of the Internet. The Internet allows for freedom of education. The best way to be comfortable with sex and sexuality is to be exposed to it. There are blogs for Christian wives to learn strategies to optimize their own pleasure vibrators! A short comment on a blog post is an illustrative example of this accomplishment: Not all of them, of course, or even most, but many more than you might expect. Sexual freedom is a key assumption. But, at the same time, this comment suggests to me that not all evangelical men do, in fact, care if the dildos they use resemble penises. Evangelicals love pegging. Evangelicals tout their conservative religious beliefs and use them as a jumping-off point to enjoy the sexual possibilities made visible and popular by the LGBTQ community. But on the Christian sex advice websites I studied, even those who disapprove of pegging are reluctant to cast judgment on the practice. As I found while doing research for my book Christians Under Covers , many of the everyday posters on Christian sex advice message boards and blogs rave about pegging, the anal penetration of a man by woman. Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. To some, this all may seem hypocritical. The Bible is amazingly free in what it allows and even encourages a married couple to do in bed. All subreddits are manned by moderators, who are supposed to stop trolls users that post nasty comments or images and maintain the focus of the forum. There are a lot of subreddits, though, and some of them are surprisingly good resources for those questions you have that you may not feel comfortable asking anyone else. I was a high school teacher for four years and I saw how bad it was. It is no coincidence that Christian sex advice as a genre emerged in the s at the height of the gay rights and sexual liberation movements. Users post links to relevant content in different forums called "subreddits" for example: In total, I analyzed 50 blog posts or message board threads that discussed pegging. In fact, website users justify their sexual interests by describing how their spouses, and God, affirm that they are cisgender and straight. In addition to print self-help books, there are dozens of popular websites created by and for evangelical Christians who love sex. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. Each justified the act by drawing from a broader evangelical logic that emphasizes the vast sexual possibilities available to straight married couples. The irony, of course, is that evangelicals who embrace the gender-subversive sex act of pegging rely on their normative and privileged identities to do so. This applies in the bedroom and outside it. A lot of the content is fluff:
Shannon Ethridge, author of the book The Sexually Confident Wife , says that sex is reserved for monogamous and consenting husbands and wives. I was a high school teacher for four years and I saw how bad it was. The Bible is amazingly free in what it allows and even encourages a married couple to do in bed. It is no coincidence that Christian sex advice as a genre emerged in the s at the height of the gay rights and sexual liberation movements. A lot of the content is fluff: But over the course my research, I have learned that the relationship between evangelicals and queerness is more complicated than their political attitudes suggest. It was an exchange in which users offered reviews and recommendations for men who liked to use dildos for prostate stimulation. In this candid thread , a year-old husband fears that his wife is not attracted to him anymore, which lead to a really interesting discussion about men who feel like they're always the ones looking online for how to fix sexual problems in their marriage, and here we were thinking it was the exact opposite! When a post receives a certain number of upvotes, it reaches the homepage, which is currently considered the Holy Grail of the Internet. The irony, of course, is that evangelicals who embrace the gender-subversive sex act of pegging rely on their normative and privileged identities to do so. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. To some, this all may seem hypocritical. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. Sexual freedom is a key assumption. There are blogs for Christian wives to learn strategies to optimize their own pleasure vibrators! Not all evangelicals would approve of pegging, of course. A short comment on a blog post is an illustrative example of this accomplishment: Not all of them, of course, or even most, but many more than you might expect. Christian author Kevin Leman Online, bloggers and message board users take the logic presented in these mainstream books and run with it. This post has an interesting discussion about maintaining eye contact during sex. The first pegging thread I came across was as boring as it was astonishing. In Sheet Music: Memes, discussions about various pop culture events, etc. Evangelicals tout their conservative religious beliefs and use them as a jumping-off point to enjoy the sexual possibilities made visible and popular by the LGBTQ community. Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. All subreddits are manned by moderators, who are supposed to stop trolls users that post nasty comments or images and maintain the focus of the forum. These online conversations take on a decidedly queer tone as users counter sexual shame, encourage sexual exploration, validate unique sexual desires and celebrate pleasure as a key feature of a sexual life. And these moderators take their roles seriously, as evidenced by this extremely interesting interview on Nerve. Evangelicals love pegging.
The irony, of course, is that evangelicals who embrace the gender-subversive sex act of pegging rely on their normative and privileged identities to do so. Evangelicals love pegging. You're not going to get told you're gross or slutty or bad. This applies in the bedroom and outside it. There are a lot of subreddits, though, and some of them are surprisingly good resources for those questions you have that you may not feel comfortable asking anyone else. In total, I analyzed 50 blog posts or message board threads that discussed pegging. Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. In Sheet Music: But, at the same time, this comment suggests to me that not all evangelical men do, in fact, care if the dildos they use resemble penises. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition to print self-help books, there are dozens of popular websites created by and for evangelical Christians who love sex. And these moderators take their roles seriously, as evidenced by this extremely interesting interview on Nerve. Users post links to relevant content in different forums called "subreddits" for example: Christian author Kevin Leman Online, bloggers and message board users take the logic presented in these mainstream books and run with it. Shannon Ethridge, author of the book The Sexually Confident Wife , says that sex is reserved for monogamous and consenting husbands and wives. The first pegging thread I came across was as boring as it was astonishing. When a post receives a certain number of upvotes, it reaches the homepage, which is currently considered the Holy Grail of the Internet. But over the course my research, I have learned that the relationship between evangelicals and queerness is more complicated than their political attitudes suggest. All subreddits are manned by moderators, who are supposed to stop trolls users that post nasty comments or images and maintain the focus of the forum. The Internet allows for freedom of education. In this candid thread , a year-old husband fears that his wife is not attracted to him anymore, which lead to a really interesting discussion about men who feel like they're always the ones looking online for how to fix sexual problems in their marriage, and here we were thinking it was the exact opposite! Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. There are a lot of subreddits, though, and some of them are surprisingly good resources for those questions you have that you may not feel comfortable asking anyone else. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. Not all evangelicals would approve of pegging, of course. The best way to be comfortable with sex and sexuality is to be exposed to it. The irony, of course, is that evangelicals who embrace the gender-subversive sex act of pegging rely on their normative and privileged identities to do so. But on the Christian sex advice websites I studied, even those who disapprove of pegging are reluctant to cast judgment on the practice. To some, this all may seem hypocritical.
Not all evangelicals would approve of pegging, of course. Shannon Ethridge, author of the book The Sexually Confident Wife , says that sex is reserved for monogamous and consenting husbands and wives. Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. Each justified the act by drawing from a broader evangelical logic that emphasizes the vast sexual possibilities available to straight married couples. But they are on tenuous grounds when they admonish and exclude gay couples and gender non-binary folks. Not all of them, of course, or even most, but many more than you might expect. Evangelicals love pegging. In Sheet Music: You're not going to get told you're gross or slutty or bad. A short comment on a blog post is an illustrative example of this accomplishment: Evangelicals tout their conservative religious beliefs and use them as a jumping-off point to enjoy the sexual possibilities made visible and popular by the LGBTQ community. Users post links to relevant content in different forums called "subreddits" for example: The Bible is amazingly free in what it allows and even encourages a married couple to do in bed. In addition to print self-help books, there are dozens of popular websites created by and for evangelical Christians who love sex. Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Focus on the Family, one of the largest evangelical organizations in the U. The best way to be comfortable with sex and sexuality is to be exposed to it. Memes, discussions about various pop culture events, etc. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. But over the course my research, I have learned that the relationship between evangelicals and queerness is more complicated than their political attitudes suggest. But on the Christian sex advice websites I studied, even those who disapprove of pegging are reluctant to cast judgment on the practice. But, at the same time, this comment suggests to me that not all evangelical men do, in fact, care if the dildos they use resemble penises. Christian author Kevin Leman Online, bloggers and message board users take the logic presented in these mainstream books and run with it. This applies in the bedroom and outside it. It is no coincidence that Christian sex advice as a genre emerged in the s at the height of the gay rights and sexual liberation movements. To some, this all may seem hypocritical.
Not all of them, of course, or even most, but many more than you might expect. As I found while doing research for my book Christians Under Covers , many of the everyday posters on Christian sex advice message boards and blogs rave about pegging, the anal penetration of a man by woman. But, at the same time, this comment suggests to me that not all evangelical men do, in fact, care if the dildos they use resemble penises. But on the Christian sex advice websites I studied, even those who disapprove of pegging are reluctant to cast judgment on the practice. And these moderators take their roles seriously, as evidenced by this extremely interesting interview on Nerve. The Internet allows for freedom of education. All subreddits are manned by moderators, who are supposed to stop trolls users that post nasty comments or images and maintain the focus of the forum. Users post links to relevant content in different forums called "subreddits" for example: This applies in the bedroom and outside it. It is no coincidence that Christian sex advice as a genre emerged in the s at the height of the gay rights and sexual liberation movements. Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. Sexual freedom is a key assumption. But they are on tenuous grounds when they admonish and exclude gay couples and gender non-binary folks. Not all evangelicals would approve of pegging, of course. This post has an interesting discussion about maintaining eye contact during sex. In this candid thread , a year-old husband fears that his wife is not attracted to him anymore, which lead to a really interesting discussion about men who feel like they're always the ones looking online for how to fix sexual problems in their marriage, and here we were thinking it was the exact opposite! Shannon Ethridge, author of the book The Sexually Confident Wife , says that sex is reserved for monogamous and consenting husbands and wives. These online conversations take on a decidedly queer tone as users counter sexual shame, encourage sexual exploration, validate unique sexual desires and celebrate pleasure as a key feature of a sexual life. Evangelicals tout their conservative religious beliefs and use them as a jumping-off point to enjoy the sexual possibilities made visible and popular by the LGBTQ community. There are blogs for Christian wives to learn strategies to optimize their own pleasure vibrators! The Bible is amazingly free in what it allows and even encourages a married couple to do in bed. A short comment on a blog post is an illustrative example of this accomplishment: The first pegging thread I came across was as boring as it was astonishing. You're not going to get told you're gross or slutty or bad. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. Evangelicals love pegging. When a post receives a certain number of upvotes, it reaches the homepage, which is currently considered the Holy Grail of the Internet.
Evangelical Christians describe themselves as 'in the world but not of the world,' and the same could be said of their sex advice. Kelsy Burke is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Users post links to relevant content in different forums called "subreddits" for example: To some, this all may seem hypocritical. A lot of the content is fluff: It is no coincidence that Christian sex advice as a genre emerged in the s at the height of the gay rights and sexual liberation movements. But they are on tenuous grounds when they admonish and exclude gay couples and gender non-binary folks. Evangelicals tout their conservative religious beliefs and use them as a jumping-off point to enjoy the sexual possibilities made visible and popular by the LGBTQ community. Sexual freedom is a key assumption. The Bible is amazingly free in what it allows and even encourages a married couple to do in bed. This post has an interesting discussion about maintaining eye contact during sex. In total, I analyzed 50 blog posts or message board threads that discussed pegging. In fact, website users justify their sexual interests by describing how their spouses, and God, affirm that they are cisgender and straight. The Internet allows for freedom of education. The best way to be comfortable with sex and sexuality is to be exposed to it. When a post receives a certain number of upvotes, it reaches the homepage, which is currently considered the Holy Grail of the Internet. Contemporary authors are more encouraging. Not all of them, of course, or even most, but many more than you might expect. Christian author Kevin Leman Online, bloggers and message board users take the logic presented in these mainstream books and run with it. In Sheet Music: But over the course my research, I have learned that the relationship between evangelicals and queerness is more complicated than their political attitudes suggest. The irony, of course, is that evangelicals who embrace the gender-subversive sex act of pegging rely on their normative and privileged identities to do so. Actual queer people may be married and practice monogamy the way Christian sex guides demand, but they lack the core foundations of heterosexuality and cisgender identity that make subversive sex acceptable to evangelicals. The first pegging thread I came across was as boring as it was astonishing. As I found while doing research for my book Christians Under Covers , many of the everyday posters on Christian sex advice message boards and blogs rave about pegging, the anal penetration of a man by woman. In this candid thread , a year-old husband fears that his wife is not attracted to him anymore, which lead to a really interesting discussion about men who feel like they're always the ones looking online for how to fix sexual problems in their marriage, and here we were thinking it was the exact opposite! Shannon Ethridge, author of the book The Sexually Confident Wife , says that sex is reserved for monogamous and consenting husbands and wives. These online conversations take on a decidedly queer tone as users counter sexual shame, encourage sexual exploration, validate unique sexual desires and celebrate pleasure as a key feature of a sexual life. Not all evangelicals would approve of pegging, of course.
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The Skeptic Zone #294 - 8.June.2014
Richard Saunders
A Grain of Salt with Eran Segev
This week Eran address the crowd in Manchester and talks about Australian Skeptics.
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And as in the great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a distance will sometimes pass on the plains recumbent elephants without knowing them to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil; even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species of the leviathans of the sea. And even when recognised at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
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Spring in the Pamirs
May 31, 2017 The EditorAmu Darya, Badakhshan, Khorog, Oxus, Pamirs, Panj 1 Comment
Jonathan Hibbert-Hingston and his wife Beth work for Operation Mercy in Khorog, Tajikistan. Jonathan will be giving a lunch-time lecture for the RSAA about some of their experiences in September.
It was a slightly hazy afternoon when Nemat and I left our village on the outskirts of Khorog to go and look for his cows. Khorog is the principle town of the Gorno-Badakshan region of Tajikistan and our village sits at the base of the mountain range that divides the Ghund and Shogdara valleys. Everyday Nemat takes his cows across the Ghund river and lets them graze freely on the other side. In the late afternoon he goes back over the river to collect them.
I have been living next door to Nemat for the last three years and he has been wanting to take me on this daily outing for a while. We walked through our neighbours’ gardens with the last of the apple blossom falling from the trees. The Indian Golden Oriols, a bright yellow bird the size of a large thrush, called to each other from the poplars that line the edge of the village before the path descends down a steep bank to the river. In the last week it has turned from a bright aqua-marine to more of a gun-metal grey as the snow and glaciers higher up have been melting in the early summer sun. We crossed the rickety bridge and headed straight up the mountain.
We followed a stream flowing in gully vertically down the mountain. The snowfall this winter was very heavy and this stream has not flowed for many years. The surface we walked on was very loose from the multiple avalanches that we had watched tumble down the same gully only three months previously. Already, though, mountain herbs had started to sprout out of the debris.
Having climbed for about thirty minutes we stopped by a little dry stone wall. Already a good 300m above the village one of our enterprising neighbours had enclosed some land, terraced it and was growing alfalfa and grass for his cattle. He had even brought up cement and made a cistern to keep it all watered. From that point we had a fantastic view over the village and the rest of Khorog.
Immediately below us was the village and then, raised slightly above and beyond it, was the massive construction site for the new University of Central Asia (UCA) campus. Nemat explained that when he was growing up there were only ten or so households in the village, but when the Aga Khan got permission to start the UCA project many people were relocated. Now the aerial view of the village is a jumble of blue, red and metallic rooves. The UCA initiative touches many lives in Khorog. Nemat works as a security guard for the German government and UCA car mechanic’s school in another part of the town.
Beyond the UCA lies Khorog which lines the river for about half a mile either side of it for about six miles until the Ghund empties into the Panj, which later becomes the Amu Darya (Oxus of old). The late afternoon light was reflecting off the confluence and the mountains of Afghan Badakshan, still covered in snow, towered majestically behind. Through the haze it was as though we were looking at a reflection in an ancient mirror.
We carried on climbing, stopping occasionally to look through the binoculars for the cows or to check wild rhubarb of ripeness. All around us now was wild sage and thyme, dwarf grasses and bubbling streams. For six to eight weeks of the years, these brown and barren mountains become shaded in green and life breaks forth in the wilderness.
Eventually a wall of rock indicated that we could climb up the stream no further so we descended a little way to pick up a canal path. For centuries Pamiris have been building canals for staggering distances at dizzying heights. For most of the summer these canals show up as green strips running along the mountain sides. They bring much needed irrigation to fields and houses. This canal was either built or renovated by Nemat’s grandfather and traverses the mountain for at least ten miles. The stretch that we walked along was in bad need of repair should it hold water again but provided us a welcome break from walking on scree and debris.
We continued along the path for half an hour, or so, and still no sign of his cows. Now we could see up the Shogdara valley which has a relentless wall of snow-capped peaks heading south east from Khorog. Below these was the Botanical Garden of Khorog. A beautiful park which, when established, was the highest such garden in the world.
Nemat was now in regular communication on his phone to see if any of the neighbours had seen his cows. In between these conversations Nemat explained to me that when he finished his new house he wanted it to be a homestay for tourists and help organise transport for them around the Pamirs. He also shared a dream for his two-year-old son to one day attend the UCA as a student.
The shadows were getting significantly longer when, eventually, Nemat decided it was time to drop down a level. We descended to a flatter area that, in Soviet times, had been used to collect rocks for building at the Botanical Gardens a little way beyond it. It was grassy and had huge boulders scattered around. Hiding behind these boulders were his cows.
They obediently walked in-front of us as we made our way back down toward the river knowing that, after dark, this mountain side would be visited by wolves. When we arrived at the bridge a man came toward us holding a wicker bird cage. He stopped at the far end of the bridge and let out a mountain partridge which promptly ran under the bridge. The man then crossed the bridge and waited on the river bank whistling. The party trick would have worked like a charm had the partridge, wanting to re-find his mate, landed and re-entered the cage. Unfortunately, took off, circled the unfortunate owner and continued down the river. Nemat and I left the man wandering up and down the river bank whistling for his lost partridge.
We walked back through the village with the cows and shut them in the shed at the back of Nemat’s house. As with so many communities in the world, modernisation casts its shadow in terms of dress, schooling and even paid employment but separating people from their roots in nature and the mountains does not happen so quickly. Nemat’s understanding of the herbs of the mountains might not be what his father’s was but still, beneath the venire of cell phones and western sports brands, is a mountain man – a true Pamiri.
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Michael Fergus, Sandakerveien 101 D, 0484 Oslo, NORWAY says:
Interesting informaion about Khorog. For your information the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee has been working on the other side of your border in Afghan Badakhshan for the past 26 years, based in Faizabad but with projects all over. Integrated rural development, midwife training, forestry and erosion control and disaster risk reduction. We have specialists on landslides, mudslides, earthquakes etc. Our people do come through Khorog from time to time. (via Ishkashim). They might be a useful contact for you in Afghanistan (see http://www.afghanistan.no). Our man in Kabul is Terje Watterdal (t.watterdal@nacaf.org)
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MERZ Gallery Artist-in-Residence
Posted on 15 January 2020 15 January 2020 by krasner
In January and February 2020, I am the Artist-in-Residence at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland. The residency and film documentation are supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
About MERZ Gallery
Located in the former lemonade factory in Sanquhar, MERZ is the project of artist and filmmaker David Rushton, who is developing once derelict and neglected sites into art spaces. In addition to MERZ, he has turned a former abattoir into ZIPStudio and the Museum of Model Art and began manifesting a village of caravans that can house artists during the summer. Future additions include a second small studio with accommodation (Tadpole), a pop up cinema/further exhibition or studio space (кино), an unheated studio (FURTH), and sculpture green in addition to the work-shed and yard around the MERZ gallery and Bothy. Learn more at merz.gallery.
At the Residency
At this residency, I will activate as an artist, a writer, and a culture worker through a series of projects.
I will create a body of work that reflects my experience in Sanquhar. John Enderfield observed of Kurt Schwitters, “He used paper of virtually every possible origin and description that was available to him.” The art made while in residence will be exhibited at MERZ Gallery and shared online via social media.
My writing will focus on the idea of collage as a 21st century art movement. The writing will deconstruct the idea of an art movement and make the argument that collage, as a 21st century art movement, redefines how artists relate to one another and how art functions in society. I will also maintain a journal of thoughts and observations while in residency.
As a way of demonstrating collage as a 21st century art movement, I will build an international collection of collage. The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art at MERZ Gallery will be a permanent collection, a survey of art by collage artists, alive and active in 2020, who responded to a call to artists and shipped, via post, a single collage to MERZ Gallery. Components will include a Finding Aid, a website, and a book of collage in the collection. Learn more at the Schwitters’ Army website HERE.
Methodology & Values
I will build the Schwitters’ Army Collection in a transparent and open manner. The collection will be open to any artist who sends a collage. The Finding Aid will be live so that each day, anybody can access the document to follow the process.
I will communicate via social media (Instagram and Facebook) on a daily basis. Instagram @kasini will share personal experiences of being at the residency in Sanquhar. Instagram @kolajmagazine will share collage registered to the collection. On Instagram @merz.gallery, I will post reports on work I am doing while in residence, pictures of the gallery and installation of artwork, process work, and events.
I will maintain public hours at MERZ Gallery: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from Noon to 3PM when anyone can stop in for a visit. I will make and post a sign that reads “The Artist Is In” and I will be available for visits by appointment to those who email.
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Schwitters’ Army
Posted on 12 November 2019 19 January 2020 by kasini
For Kurt Schwitters, MERZ was his manifesto. He explained it as “the combination of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes, and technically the principle of equal evaluation of the individual materials.” His intention was to give anything from a used bus ticket to a piece of wire found on the street “equal rights with paint.” MERZ liberated artists by declaring anything potential material for their art making and, to illustrate this concept, he made hundreds of collages which he called MERZ pictures. Such forward thinking led art historian Isabelle Ewig to call him the “Father of the fathers of Pop.” Really, any collage artist working today owes a debt of gratitude to Schwitters, who not only legitimized the medium, but also established a working practice and aesthetic that is the basis of many artists’ contemporary practice.
Schwitters’ liberation of material was revolutionary to a world who thought of art as canvas, paint, and stone. In my work, however, I think very little of material. A child of the late 20th century, I grew up in a world where anything could be art and the true material of art was the idea. I think of Yves Klein having a spat with his gallery and declaring all of his paintings invisible. Or his Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility (1959–62) in which the artist traded empty spaces in Paris for pieces of gold. If the buyer agreed to burn the certificate, Klein would throw half the gold into the Seine to restore the natural order. These are forms of ritual play, gestures no different than Malevich’s Black Square or any work of art that asks the viewer to consider more than what they can literally see.
I speak about my work as an artist, as a writer, and as a culture worker, but I think of my work as contiguous parts whose gestalt, I hope, makes a grander point about the liberation of humanity. People tend to get what I mean when I say I am a writer or an artist, but culture worker is trickier. If my art uses paint and fragments of paper and my writing uses words, the material of culture work is the people you engage: other writers, academics, arts administrators, press agents, gallerists, and, of course, viewers and artists. My projects would be nothing without the communities of people involved…and there would be no point to any of it without those communities. Like Erykah Badu said, “We’re just emerging into a new state of being altogether.”
2019 was a transformative year for me. I’ve worked harder than I ever had and got farther than I’ve ever gone. As we start a new decade, and as I push on into middle age, the urgency to make some statements before I move on to another life becomes heightened. I think this is a normal part of aging, particularly when one has been lucky enough to spend much of their life engaged in vocational work. I will spend the first two months of 2020 in residency at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland where I plan to finish some texts that have been building up in me for a few years now. I am grateful for the privilege and want you to be part of it.
Since 2009, fellow Schwitterite David Rushton has been turning an old lemonade factory in rural Sanquhar into MERZ Gallery. He describes where he started, “Imagine a quarter acre plot of rubbish-strewn scrub-land in the centre of a small town. Something discarded and abandoned. It is divided by two rights of way to allow access to gardens serving two cottages along the eastern edge of the plot.” From this he has built a mixed gallery and studio space, a bothy for housing visiting artists, and a residency program to support their work at the site.” In parallel to Schwitters’ assembly of text on paper and his name ‘MERZ’ for a body of work, I thought there were resonances in adapting his approach and providing description to a small abandoned landscape imprinted with industrial and domestic histories, and that’s why I thought to call the site ‘MERZ’.” Schwitters took “the combination of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes” seriously and twice built immersive environments out of structures: MERZbau in Hanover and, later, the Elterwater MERZ Barn two-and-a-half hours south of Sanquhar in Langdale, Ambleside.
In preparing for the residency, I’ve been thinking how if Rushton could apply Schwitters’ philosophy to an old factory, I could apply it to my culture work. I often write about collage as a medium, a genre, and a community. More recently, I have been thinking of collage as a 21st century art movement. This is the idea I plan to explore while at MERZ Gallery. I invite you to join me and be part of the manifestation of the international collage community by sending a collage to MERZ Gallery. The collage will be documented and exhibited at the gallery in January and February. I will select one collage each day and share it online and via social media with a few words about how it connects to the work I am doing. And after the exhibition, the collage will become part of MERZ Gallery’s permanent collection, a forever stash of art marking the occasion that artists from all over the world manifested in Sanquhar. MERZ Gallery has agreed to maintain and care for the collection and to exhibit the collection in ten years, 2030, or give it to an organization that will do so.
Why? Because this is what we do in the collage community: we engage, we exchange, we manifest with one another. We emerge into a new state of being together. That is what makes art powerful. It connects us and takes us into the future.
Ric Kasini Kadour invites collage artists to submit a two-dimensional collage for inclusion in the Schwitters Army.
There is no theme. If you’re a ripper, send him a ripped collage. If you’re a digital artist, print and send a digital work. If you’re a collaborator, send a collaboration. Send a collage that shows what kind of collage artist you are.
The preferred size is 8″x10″ (20.3cm x 25.4cm) or smaller. The collage may not be larger than 14″x11″ (35.6cm x 21.6cm). Note: If you send something larger, Kadour will cut it in half. If you send something that isn’t collage, Kadour is going to cut it up and turn it into a collage. Mail Art with collage is welcome. Do not send framed work.
Once the collage is mailed, please send an EMAIL with an image of the collage and title. Also include the artist’s name, mailing address and website. If you want, you may also answer some questions, but it is optional.
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NOTE TO ARTISTS OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION: Upon arrival in the United Kingdom, items valued at more than $100 US may be subject to customs fees, charges, and value-added taxes. Those charges are ultimately the responsibility of the artist. Should we be assessed custom fees, charges, and value-added taxes, we will contact the artist for reimbursement of these fees or the work will be returned.
The collage may arrive at any time, but collages should arrive before January 31st, 2020. Any that arrive after February 15th will not be processed. Consider the time it takes to mail art from your country to the United Kingdom.
Upon receipt (beginning January 8th), collages will be documented and registered. The collage will be exhibited at MERZ Gallery through February 20th and then the work will become part of MERZ Gallery’s permanent collection. MERZ Gallery has agreed to maintain and care for the collection and to exhibit the collection in ten years, 2030, or give it to an organization that will do so.
During the exhibition, selected collages will be shared on Kolaj Magazine’s website and via social media.
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The Past Is Now
Posted on 9 September 2018 9 September 2018 by krasner
KASINI HOUSE EVENT
The Past Is Now: Historic Sites as Venues for Contemporary Art
Lecture & Slideshow by Ric Kasini Kadour
at the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, Vermont
Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 3PM
Historic sites are important threads in the fabric of culture and society. These time capsules hold for us, in land and architecture, memories of our past and the stories of the people who lived there. Contemporary art is the art of today and speaks to 21st century society. What happens when the two mix? Artist and writer Ric Kasini Kadour will present examples of historic sites that have used contemporary art to bring ideas of the past into the present. He will share how contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson referenced the optical illusions and interactive sensual experience of the 17th century landscaped gardens at Palace of Versailles to reframe the sites and their historical narrative within the contemporary visitor’s experiences. He will speak about how an annual art fair at Governors Island National Monument reinterprets the former army post and how the annual exhibition at Kents’ Corners in Calais, Vermont provides an opportunity for artists to bring the past into the present. The talk will present research from the American Alliance of Museums, the London-based Elizabeth Xi Bauer Art Consultancy, and Lowell, Massachusetts researcher and curator Kate Laurel Burgess-MacIntosh, who is the author of the blog Revitalizing Historic Sites Through Contemporary Art. The slideshow will be followed by a lively discussion about what we want from contemporary art and our historic sites.
The American Alliance of Museums writes, the marriage of contemporary art and historic sites “is a chance to discover new revenue and funding possibilities, and expand partnership and collaboration opportunities, while enlarging the reach and visibility of historic house museums. Most importantly, it gives us the opportunity to change public opinion, uncover new research and information, and breathe new life into old spaces, while seeing the past in different ways. Contemporary art introduced at historic sites can do all this and more; art is the new mode of interpretation, and artists are the new interpreters.”
Lecture attendees will also be able to view “The Fabric of Emancipation: The Lens of American History through Contemporary Fiber Arts” curated by Harlem Needle Arts. The exhibit includes pieced quilts, representational and abstract, made by African American fabric artists Ife Cummings and Michael A. Cummings, as well as a layered, pieced assemblage by L’Merchie Frazier.
This lecture is open to the general public. We want your thoughts and ideas about historic sites and contemporary art. Artists interested in interacting with historic sites are encouraged to attend, as are members of historic societies interested in strategies for bringing their work to new audiences.
A Quaker family farm for nearly two centuries, this National Historic Landmark served as a safe haven for 19th century fugitives from slavery. Exhibits and programs highlight the noted accomplishments of family members who were ardent Abolitionists and talented artists, writers, and naturalists. Explore award-winning exhibits, guided house tours, more than ten historic farm buildings and agricultural features, and 50 acres of interpreted nature trails. www.rokeby.org
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by Ric Kasini Kadour
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Antenna::Signals No. 7: Paper
Posted on 28 January 2018 3 August 2018 by krasner
Ric Kasini Kadour at Antenna::Signals
at Antenna’s Paper Machine in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
January 24, 2018, 6-8:30PM
In celebration of the opening of Antenna’s Paper Machine print center, Signals presentations and performances examine the theme “Papers”. “Papers” explores the myriad uses of paper–a medium at once literal and symbolic, malleable and dogmatic, portable and burdensome–to translate and regulate life. The event explores the connotations of the theme from a number of specific angles, including immigration papers, The Green Book (guide to safe road tripping for African Americans in Jim Crow America), Storyville blue books (catalogues for New Orleans’ famed red light district), and rolling and hemp papers.
Kolaj Magazine‘s editor, Ric Kasini Kadour, is one of the featured presenters. Other presenters and performances include: Katrina Andry; Vanessa Centeno and John Lawrence; The Historic New Orleans Collection; Lydia Y. Nichols; Rodrigo Toscano; and Mr. Kush from Weed World Candies.
About Antenna::Signals
Conceived as a “live arts magazine,” Antenna::Signals is a variety show-styled event from the artists and writers of Antenna. Each “issue” of Antenna::Signals features a spread of 6-8 local artists, writers, musicians, scientists, activists and scholars whose practices relate thematically. The live magazine drops four times each year, accompanied by the release of a two-dimensional print publication.
Antenna is a New Orleans-based non-profit organization committed to being a vital participant in the life of the city by creating and supporting artist- and writer-driven programs.
(adapted from Antenna’s press materials)
Antenna’s Paper Machine
6330 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana USA 70117
6-8:30PM
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paper assemblage
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Kolaj Magazine
Posted on 2 December 2017 2 October 2018 by kasini
Print Magazine and Community Organizing Project
2011 to present | www.kolajmagazine.com
Kolaj Magazine is an internationally-oriented, printed, quarterly magazine about contemporary collage. We are interested in how collage is made, how collage is exhibited, and how collage is collected. We are interested in the role collage plays in contemporary visual culture. We provide quality exposure for contemporary collage art.
In 2012, Ric Kasini Kadour co-founded Kolaj Magazine with Benoit Depelteau. At a time when printed publications are under duress, Kolaj Magazine is thriving. Its growing subscriber base comes from thirty-six countries, on every continent except Antarctica. This full colour, internationally-oriented art magazine retails for $12.00. Ric Kasini Kadour serves as the Publisher and Editor.
“Five Years” Editorial in Kolaj #20
“How Do We Talk About Collage?” Editorial in Kolaj #14
“Something New” Editorial in Kolaj #13
“Collage is the Moment” Essay in Kolaj Pre-Issue
EDITORIAL APPROACH
We approach collage broadly and, as such, we have included in our territory of inquiry such media as traditional cut-and-paste collage, digital collage, assemblage, photomontage, fibre art when it has an element of juxtaposition, and painting when it appears as if multiple visual languages are in use or cut paper fragments are used as a compositional tool of the painter in a manner that is evident in the final work. This approach has afforded us a unique position to observe contemporary collage and make connections between the historic and the current practice of artists, gallerists, museums, curators, historians, and critics.
The magazine operates with a unique publishing model that is driven by its subscribers, has limited advertising, caters to a ’boutique audience’, and takes advantage of on-demand printing. Kolaj uses an editorial approach that makes content relevant in the long-term, so that the articles in Kolaj #1 are as relevant as the most recent issue. As a result, the project does a significant trade in back issues and the archive of magazines remains a relevant source of ideas and information.
In addition to a printed magazine, the effort has expanded into a number of key subprojects.
Collage Taxonomy
The Collage Taxonomy Project is an ongoing survey of the wider collage community that attempts to define the language we use to talk about collage.
Collage has a problem with taxonomy. Because collage is both a medium and a genre, an approach to artmaking that involves lots of different media, its definition is vague. While the wide-view editorial approach of the magazine has broadened our understanding to include both the genre of collage, the method, and the medium, it becomes problematic when we engage in critical and curatorial matters.
Collage is an enormous tree and its branches are as widespread and diverse as its roots. If we are truly going to celebrate all things collage (and more importantly, advance a critical and curatorial understanding of collage), we need to develop a collage taxonomy. To that end, Kolaj Magazine actively solicits suggests from its readers and publishes articles that seek to define terms and concepts. The purpose is to give the community a common language to talk about collage.
Collage Books
Collage Books takes an inclusive approach to documenting collage-related publishing efforts and is open to trade editions, ‘zines, artist books, catalogues, and literary endeavours. “So much of collage these days is experienced in printed, published form,” said Kolaj editor and publisher Ric Kasini Kadour. “Collage Books is Kolaj Magazine’s tool for organizing, documenting, and cataloguing books in which collage plays an important role.”
The audience for the site includes readers and collectors of collage books and printed ephemera as well as curators, art venues, and writers. “We aim to create a historical record of books about collage and raise awareness of new titles as they become available,” said Kadour. The directory includes books in and out of print.
Collage Books contains listings for all collage-related titles, and like the magazine, the site takes a broad view. Trade editions, art criticism, and coffee table books are featured side by side with artist books, gallery-published catalogues, and self-published ‘zines. The site is also open to literary endeavours that feature collage. When possible, the directory links titles to reviews of books in the magazine and places where the book can be purchased.
Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory
Kolaj Magazine‘s Artist Directory is a tool for organizing and cataloguing artists who work in the medium of collage. Its audience includes the general public as well as independent curators, art venues, and writers. The editorial staff uses the Artist Directory to select artists to feature in the publication and to select artists for various curatorial projects. Not all artists featured in the publication are in the database and there is no guarantee that listing in the database will result in being featured in the magazine. The Artist Directory exists as a public resource for those interested in collage as a medium and is designed to put interested parties in direct contact with artists.
Exhibitions-in-Print
Kolaj Magazine presents Exhibitions-in-Print as a means of exploring critical ideas about collage. We examine work related to a curatorial premise, identify themes and ideas. The purpose is to develop and share an understanding of collage as a medium and a genre.
Collage Artist Trading Cards
Kasini House Artshop works with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory to produce curated packs of the Collage Artist Trading Cards. Each card is a full colour, 5.5″ x 3.5″ postcard with rounded corners. An example of an artist’s work is on the front of the card and the artist’s public contact information is on the back. Collage Artist Trading Cards come in packs of 15.
After five years of publishing and editing the magazine, we have come to five key observations: 1) Collage is a poorly curated, archived, and understood medium in the art world. 2) The Collage Community is enthusiastic and passionately devoted to the medium. 3) Collage repeatedly shows up at key moments of artistic advancement, regardless of whether or not the final artwork is collage. 4) Collage manifests new thinking and continues the work of Modernism. A collage-centric view of art history redefines both cannon and art history’s narrative. 5) A historic shift is taking place where the lessons of early-Modernist collage are being employed in contemporary artworks. Ric Kasini Kadour actively seeks opportunities to share these observations with art professionals through meetings and public talks.
Posted in Cultural Work, Ongoing Projects
Posted on 7 October 2017 by kasini
How does an object have meaning? Why do we own objects? How do we consume, acquire, or collect objects? How does art become or maintain its relevance? These questions are central to my practice.
I started ARTSHOP in 2004 as a way of organizing, exhibiting, and sharing art products: those things made by artists which are not necessarily fine art, not simply reproductions of fine art, and not craft; the by-products, ephemera, and small objects of contemporary visual artists. Art Product is a family that includes the following genera: ephemera, publications, multiples, and small art. I often explain it as the things artists make that are not their primary work, but that do embody their vision, aesthetic, and ideas.
The project is informed by Claes Oldenburg 1961’s The Store, in which the artist converted his workshop in New York’s Lower East Side into a retail storefront and stocked it with painted pop sculptures made out of muslin and plaster. From 2002 to 2005, the concept was re-interpreted by Joyce Yahouda, a gallerist in Montreal. The Store explored the inherent tension of art presented as commodity. ARTSHOP is also informed by Toronto’s Art Metropole, a project started in 1974 by General Idea that documented the conceptual art movement in Canada by collecting (and sometimes selling) contemporary art multiples and ephemera; and by Printed Matter in New York, which was founded in 1976 by a collective of artists and art workers seeking to examine the role of artists’ publications in the landscape of contemporary art.
ARTSHOP has three parts: a collection of approximately 200 art products that have been permanently acquired; collaborations with artists whose work is for sale through ARTSHOP; and art products that I have made. Since 2004, ARTSHOP has been presented as an online magazine and shop; as a time-limited exhibition in an art gallery context; as part of larger art events and fairs; and in ongoing installation at two commercial art galleries. While most contemporary art employs luxury marketing strategies in its sale and presentation, ARTSHOP uses the vernacular of retail to present art to the viewer. North Americans are fluent in the visual language of retail and as a result, interact with art presented in this manner differently. Online, ARTSHOP has explore a variety of models from using social media to promote and sell art products to a subscription model that engages the audience for a year at a time.
An art product is not complete until it is sold. This is not unprecedented in contemporary art. Yves Klein’s Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (1959-1962) divorced art from object and placed art in the milieu of ritual by selling empty space. The sale of the space was the art. I would argue that the sale of Damien Hirst’s work is as important as the work itself. For the Love of God transforms $24 million in diamonds into a $100 million piece of art, but the work was not completed until it was sold on August 30th, 2008.
The sale of the art products in ARTSHOP completes the objects and a significant component to this project is devoted to the selling of art products. To date, ARTSHOP has existed primarily in the context of art (galleries, art fairs, events, etc.) where the audience has engaged the project prepared to have an experience of art. The introduction of retail theory into space primarily using luxury marketing strategies is profound. Some patrons reject the idea outright and walk out of the gallery. Others transform completely. They remove their hands from behind their back and begin touching objects and looking at them differently. The exchange of money for product is a performative act that completes the work.
In 2013, I started doing INSTANT ARTSHOP, a version of the project as an intervention outside of an art context: flea markets, grocery stores, malls, and other public spaces that are separate from contemporary art spaces. I built a self-contained kiosk on which art products can be displayed.
While ARTSHOP is a vehicle for showing and selling my own projects, most of the objects in ARTSHOP are produced by other people. With most of those objects, the artist was not necessarily thinking about how the consumer would relate to, acquire, or own the object. Artists often only make work only for themselves; to express their own ideas and feelings. ARTSHOP works as a bridge between the artist and the viewer by shepherding a design and marketing process that results in a greater connection between the viewer and the artwork.
ARTSHOP ONLINE
Magazine | Online Shop
ARTISTS INVOLVED IN ARTSHOP
Aagoo Records | Alan Alejo | Alan Ganev | Alex Manley | Alexander Costantino | Alice Jarry | Anna Bayles Arthur | Anteism | Art Network | Ashley Opheim | Ashley Roark | Becky Johnson | Ben Spencer | Benoit Depelteau | Beth Robinson | Billy Mavreas | Carl David Ruttan | Carol MacDonald | Catherine Hall | Cathy Ward | Celia Spenard-Ko | Charles Orme | Christine Hale | Christopher Eric Olson | Christopher Schulz | Christy Mitchell | Ciaran Brennan | Cody Hicks | Colin-Patrick Charles | Craig Stephens | Daniel Heyman | Daryl Vocat | Dave Todaro | David Sokol | Denise Surprenant | Dimitry Vasilyev | Dragon’s Eye Recordings | Drew Nelles | Elizabeth Mostowski | Frankie Barnet | Frédéric Mahieu | George Breisch-Gonzalez | Gillian Klein | Guillaume Morissette | Harley Smart | Hasemeister | Heather Bischoff & Geoff Bennington | Ira Cummings | Jackie Mangione | Janet Van Fleet | Jason Galligan-Baldwin | JC Nusbaum | Jenny Blair | Jeremy Colangelo | Jessica Hagy | Jimmy Vogler | Jimmy! | John Brickels | Jolene Garanzha | Jp King | Justin Atherton | Karen M. Geiger | Kasini House Art Cards | Katie Dyer | Kirsten McCrea | Leslie Fry | Lois Eby | Luis London | Lynn Rupe | Marc Awodey | Marie-Maude Polychuck | Mark Ambrose Harris | Mark Gonyea | Matt Hovey | Miguel Sorto | Misanthrope Specialty Company | Monochrome Vision | Mr. Oblivious | Nicolas Dion | Nina Gaby | Nini Crane | P J De Villiers | Paedra Bramhall | Papirmasse | Paul Bowen | Pinups | Printed Matter | Px(C) | Rachel Trooper | Ribbon Pig | Ric Kasini Kadour | Riki Moss | Rita Godlevskis | Rob Christopher | rob mclennan | Roland Pemberton | Rosa Aiello | Rowan Cornell-Brown | Sarah Cole | Scott Einsig | Shotbox | Sophie Eisner | Sophie Joubarne | Stacey Carnell | Steph Wong Ken | Stephen M. Schaub | Steve Scicluna | Suckadelic | Susan Larkin | Sweetie Pie Press | Terry Hauptman | Tick Tick | Tonya Ferraro | Torrey Valyou | Trevor Barton | University of Vermont Press | Veronique Perron | Versal: Words In Here | Waking Windows | Waves of Adrenaline | XRAY | Yann Novak | Young Writers Project | Yvon Goulet
Puces POP, Montreal, Quebec
22nd South End Art Hop, Burlington, Vermont
Wall to Canvas 5, South Burlington, Vermont
July 25-27 & August 1-3, 2014
Marché des Possibles, Montreal, Quebec
February 6 & February 9, 2014
Frenchmen Art Market, New Orleans, Louisiana
November 23-December 28, 2013
Pop-up Art Market at Burlington Town Center, Burlington, Vermont
Expozine 2013, Montreal, Quebec
New Hope Flea Market, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Saturdays Market, Middletown, Pennsylvania
The Green Dragon, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Providence Flea, Providence, Rhode Island
21st South End Art Hop, Burlington, Vermont
Queer Between the Covers, Montreal, Quebec
July 2009-April 2013
ARTSHOP at Galerie Maison Kasini, Montreal, Quebec
Ottawa Small Press Book Fair, Ottawa, Ontario
Papier 12, Contemporary Art Fair of Works on Paper, Montreal, Quebec
March-December 2012
ARTSHOP at the Winooski Welcome Center & Gallery, Winooski, Vermont
ARTSHOP as part of “Montreal Contemporary Art” at the 19th South End Art Hop, Burlington, Vermont
June 24-July 31, 2011
ARTSHOP at the 2011 Winooski Pop-Up Gallery District, Winooski, Vermont
Puces Pop, Pop Montréal, Montreal, Quebec
February 2007-December 2008
ARTSHOP at Kasini House Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
ARTSHOP as part of Art Portico at the 14th South End Art Hop, Burlington, Vermont
Fall 2005-December 2006
ARTSHOP at Studio STK, Burlington, Vermont
Connection: the Art of Coming Together
Posted on 6 June 2017 27 November 2017 by kasini
Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery
June 5-October 6, 2017
Curated by Ric Kasini Kadour
The exhibition, “Connection: the Art of Coming Together”, presents a survey of contemporary Vermont art organized by artist networks rather than aesthetics or media. As an experiment, curator Ric Kasini Kadour, editor and publisher of Vermont Art Guide, asked four artists or art professionals from different corners of the state to submit the name of an artist they feel is part of their community or network. He then went to those people and so on until he had enough people to fill the exhibition. The results of this experiment, as well as Kadour’s extensive commentary on the artists’ relationships and artwork, are on view through October 6th at the Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. A version of the exhibition appears in print in Vermont Art Guide #5.
Kadour explained the thinking behind the exhibition: “In my role as editor of the Vermont Art Guide and in my writing about regionalism in a modernist context, I am interested in communities and the art they produce. ‘Connection: the Art of Coming Together’ is an extension of that work, but where my focus tends to be on works of art, this exhibition is focused on the artist as an individual participating in a network of artists.”
“In old art traditions, artists organized themselves by aesthetic tradition, in workshops and studios. In modernism, every artist is an island. Relationships are not limited to master and apprentice or peer in a rival studio. Two artists may collaborate extensively on projects or exhibitions, share styles, and teach each other or they may have entirely different approaches to artmaking. Nevertheless, these relationships form an unseen web of connections that bring people together in a spirit of fellowship and support. To know these connections is to know more of the story of contemporary art.”
Participating artists: Susan Abbott (Marshfield); George Bouret (West Pawlet); Linda Bryan (Newbury); Keith Chamberlin (St. Johnsbury); Charlie Hunter (Bellows Falls); Linda E. Jones (Burlington); Erika Lawlor Schmidt (Pawlet); Mary McKay Lower (Middlebury); Carol MacDonald (Colchester); Gabrielle McDermit (North Chittenden); Matthew Monk (Montpelier); Neil Riley (Marshfield); Joseph Salerno (Johnson); Gail Salzman (Fairfield); Jessica Scriver (Charlotte); Meri Stiles (St. Johnsbury); Thea Storz (Kirby).
“In a time when there seems to be so much polarization, we wanted to focus on how art can be a powerful catalyst to bring people together,” said Vermont Arts Council Communications Manager Kira Bacon. “In the expert curation of this show, Ric Kadour has demonstrated exactly that.”
ESSAY: “Artists and Their Communities”
ESSAY: “Who Knows Who: How Connections Came Together”
ESSAY: “The Role of Organizations in Artist Communities”
EDITORIAL: “Art in Troubled Times”
EXHIBITION IN PRINT: Vermont Art Guide #5 (print)
Winooski Pop-Up Gallery District
The Winooski Pop-up Gallery District transformed downtown Winooski, Vermont into a vibrant hub of contemporary art for six weeks in the summers of 2011 and 2012. Holiday Art Markets took place in November and December of 2011 and 2012. The events included art exhibitions; music and other cultural events; activities for children; and showcased the community of Winooski–its shops, restaurants, and history. The project worked with over 100 artists, brought thousands of people to downtown Winooski, and sold approximately $20,000 worth of art.
The Winooski Pop-up Gallery District changed how people thought about the town. People said things like, “Winooski is Burlington’s Brooklyn.” To which we responded, Brooklyn is New York’s Winooski.
By presenting contemporary art in vacant spaces, we converted potential urban blight into an asset that raises the profile and desirability of the community. The Pop-Up Gallery District leveraged the creative economy and presented Winooski as the place where people want to eat, shop, live, work, and enjoy.
Posted in Cultural Work
Montreal Contemporary Art
Posted on 9 September 2011 7 October 2017 by kasini
Maison Kasini presents
Montreal Contemporary Art during the South End Art Hop
September 9th & 10th,2011 in Burlington, Vermont
The South End Art Hop is Vermont’s largest visual art event. In its 19th year, the two-day event occurs on the weekend following the Labour Day holiday and attracts over 30,000 visitors and hosts more than 500 participating artists.
During the South End Art Hop, Galerie Maison Kasini (Kasini House’s Canadian sister company) presents “Montreal Contemporary Art,” an exhibition of artwork from Montreal.
The purpose of the exhibition is to generate enthusiasm for Quebec art, to promote Montreal as an art destination, and to foster dialogue and connection between the two communities. The exhibition is presented with support from L’Association des galeries d’art contemporain (AGAC) and Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC).
The two-day event will take place on Friday, September 9th and Saturday, September 10th.
VISIT EXHIBITION WEBSITE
LOCATION: The exhibition is located 266 South Champlain Street. The building is accessible from South Champlain Street and from Pine Street. To access the building from Pine Street, go to 277 Pine Street (Black Horse Fine Art Supply) and go behind the building. 277 Pine Street is across the street from The Soda Plant (SPACE, BACKSPACE, Brickels Studio Gallery, ReSource, etc).
Shovel Method by Sylvain Bouthillette (courtesy of Galerie Trois Points)
Participating Galleries
Galerie Maison Kasini | Galerie Trois Points | Galerie d’Este | Galerie Bernard
Max Wyse | Sylvain Bouthillette | Aislinn Leggett | André Boucher | Jean-François Girard | Michael-Thomas Poulin | Dave Todaro | Yvon Goulet | Alice Jarry | Carl David Ruttan
Also On View
ArtShop sells small artist products. This includes books, folios, catalogues, monographs, chapbooks, ‘zines, small one-of-a-kind works, multiples, and other creative endeavours by contemporary working artists. ARTSHOP at the South End Art Hop will focus on Canadian Artists.
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South China Sea: Is Beijing making a new ‘strategic strait’?
April 19, 2016 | Politics & Government
The South China Sea doesn’t appear at first glance to be a geographical bottleneck. China can, however, effectively create a strait by locating sufficient military assets on two sets of land it controls.
By Everett Rosenfeld
A major test for the future of Asia is on the horizon, and it’s centered on the South China Sea.
Within the next three months, a tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague is expected to rule on China’s expansive and somewhat ambiguous territorial claims in the South China Sea, which the Philippines contends are invalid under international law.
That decision is important for a number of reasons, but among them, experts say, is that China’s island-grabbing campaign may be designed to give Beijing a strategic headlock on one of the planet’s most critical waterways.
Experts tell CNBC that China will likely lose some elements of the Hague case, “Philippines v. China.” The world’s most populous nation has already denounced the process, and opted not to participate, but the tribunal’s decision will technically still be binding under international law.
Beyond the geographical claims themselves, the tribunal is also looking into whether Beijing is overstating the types of territory it controls — the air and maritime rights associated with rocks are different than those of reefs or islands — and the legality of other Chinese actions near the Philippines.
Experts who closely watch developments in the South China Sea tell CNBC that they expect China to lose at least some of the elements of the case, but the real test will come in how Beijing reacts to a ruling. It’s possible that China will back off from its broadest claims, but it may also demonstrate a willingness to buck the international legal system.
“My speculation would be that China has basically calculated that it will take some near-term, rather assertive actions in the South China Sea, and pay short-term reputation costs in exchange for what it believes to be longer-term strategic gains,” Mira Rapp-Hooper, a senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for New American Security, said.
Beijing’s real rationale for risking its global reputation over a handful of tiny islands remains open for debate. Most agree that China truly believes it has a historic right to the region — but the South China Sea’s relatively paltry energy resources (especially with oil now so cheap) hardly justify such an assertive grab on a realpolitik basis.
Rather, many point to the geostrategic value of the South China Sea.
“The logical conclusion drawn from China’s adding … islands in the southern part of the South China Sea with military-sized runways, substantial port facilities, radar platforms and space to accommodate military forces is that China’s objective is to dominate the waters of the South China Sea at will,” Peter Dutton, professor and director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College, said in a February speech at London’s Chatham House.
“Building the islands is therefore, in my view, a significant strategic event,” he said. “They leave the potential for the South China Sea to become a Chinese strait, rather than an open component of the global maritime commons.”
Speaking with CNBC, Dutton explained that there are few circumstances where China would want to restrict commercial movement in the area, but “the real problem” is that Beijing could readily exercise that capacity in times of crisis or conflict.
And that’s where the United States comes into play: The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates the United States exported $79 billion in goods to the countries around the South China Sea in 2013, and imported $127 billion from them during that period. Navy Adm. Robert Willard estimated that the region accounted in 2011 for $5.3 trillion in bilateral annual trade — $1.2 trillion of which is tied to the U.S.
“Free access for commercial trade is a vital interest of the United States, so we have to consider what it means when one country has the capability to shut other countries off” when it chooses, Dutton said.
In his Chatham House speech, Dutton likens such a Chinese “strategic strait” to the Strait of Hormuz — a critical choke point for global trade. A full 90 percent of East Asian energy imports travel through the South China Sea, he said.
The South China Sea, several hundred nautical miles wide, doesn’t appear at first glance to be a geographical bottleneck. China can, however, effectively create a strait by locating sufficient military assets on two sets of land it controls: the Paracel Islands in the north and the Spratly Islands in the south.
Rapp-Hooper said she did not think the situation in the South China Sea was close to reaching the level of a strategic strait. China’s current outposts could “greatly complicate U.S. operational planning” in the region, but it’s “hard to see” the country locking down the region with the island bases it now operates.
In fact, she said, part of the Chinese buildup in the area may come from Beijing’s own fears that other powers may attempt to shut down commerce in the South China Sea.
But whatever the rationale for China’s island-building, the tribunal’s coming ruling is “a real trigger” for the future of the region, Dutton said, and it may be causing China to build up its capabilities in the region faster.
“China realizes the pickle that they’re in, so they’re taking actions at sea to emphasize their physical control,” he said. “It’s operational coercion to change the power dynamics in their favor — in response to a peaceful dispute resolution process.”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/06/south-china-sea-is-beijing-making-a-new-strategic-strait.html
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Tips & Fares
Piazzas & Fountains
Capitoline Museum
Rome Through the Ages
Underground Rome
Rome & Vatican City from Above
One Day in Rome
Vatican Museums & St Peter’s
St Peter’s & Vatican City from Above
On the Outskirts
Castel Gandolfo & the Halban Hills
Castel Gandolfo & Ariccia Palaces
Kids-Friendly Tours
Food Tour & Pasta Making Class
Rome’s multifaceted history can be easily experienced with this tour, totally out from the beaten-paths!
Princess Costanza, daughter of Emperor Constantine the Great, decided to built her impressive tomb by the grave of the martyr Agnes, to whom she was particularly devout (361 AD).
When entering the mausoleum you’ll be easily mesmerized: the dim light filtering through the above windows and the impressive mosaics endow the circular room with a unique atmosphere. A second imposing church was built in the 600s AD just above the catacomb where St Agnes was buried. That’s the reason why Agnes’ Catacombs have been well preserved over the centuries and nowadays you can explore them at your own pace. A truly unexpected underground world, made out of tunnels and tombs, where humble people left a carved slab or a simple sign to remember their passed away, will be disclosing before you.
A further hidden wonder is still waiting for you: the celebrated St Clement’s Basilica. The 12th century church was built upon a 4th century church, which was built upon two Roman buildings. Plus, one of these houses a temple to the Eastern God Mithras. We walk down to all the levels and, again and again, your time-machine is asked to go back and forth to feel a bit of Ancient Rome, through Early Christian times to the core of the Middle Ages.
Rome’s multilayered essence has been captured at best now.
ASK FOR THE UPGRADE! A PRIVATE CAR CAN BE BOOKED UPON REQUEST
Extras: entrance fees to St Clement Basilica and to St Agnes’ catacombs; taxi ride from St. Agnes’ Catacombs to St Clement Basilica.
Designed for: everybody – Kids-Friendly Tour
For this guided tour contact me at alessia@romanjourneys.com
Copyright © 2020 Roman Journeys Private Walking Tours. All published photographs are copyright of the authors.
P.I. 11716611006, Alessia Adriana Aletta - info@romanjourneys.com - ph. +39.347.166.177.2
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CITEC > RATIO > Projects > ReCAP
OpenArgMining
RecomRatio
ReMLAV
ReCAP – Information Retrieval and Case-Based Reasoning for Robust Deliberation and Synthesis of Arguments in the Political Discourse
The ReCAP proposal follows the vision of future argumentation machines that support researchers, journalistic writers, as well as human decision makers to obtain a comprehensive overview of current arguments and opinions related to a certain topic, as well as to develop personal, well-founded opinions justified by convincing arguments. Such argumentation machines automatically explore and process available information sources on the web, particularly argumentative texts and factual content relevant for the specific topic under discussion. Unlike existing search engines, which primarily operate on the textual level, such argumentation machines will reason on a knowledge level formed by arguments and argumentation structures. For a given particular context, such reasoning will actively support the deliberation of arguments and counter-arguments for the issue under consideration, based on present opinions and facts on the Web. In addition, it will support the synthesis of new contributions to the deliberation process, based on analogical transfer of arguments and argumentation structures from similar related contexts and topics.
The ReCAP project aims at significantly contributing to the realisation of this vision by a research program, linked with the other projects in the Priority Programme RATIO. The focus is on the novel contributions to and confluence of methods from information retrieval (IR) and knowledge representation and reasoning (RI), in particular case-based reasoning. The aim is to develop methods that are able to capture arguments in a robust and scalable manner, in particular representing, contextualizing, and aggregating arguments and making them available to a user. To develop a comprehensive understanding of the potential future uses of argumentation machines already in the early phase of the project and to focus the methodological and experimental research work we include application partners who are experts in political debates. We will develop professionally annotated corpora and elaborate several use cases for deliberation and synthesis as gold standard, which will also be shared with the other projects in the Priority Programme for benchmarking purposes.
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Cassie Ballard
No man, it’s called inbreeding. So something more closely related to white people. You sound about as smart as a man who married his sister.
Look at Muslim culture they see nothing wrong with marrying their first cousins, they do it all the time in arranged marriages.
Yeah, and you’re allowed to marry your sibling in the Netherlands and Russia.
So says the low IQ welfare queen.
Thank you for paying my welfare check Mr. Grumpy Incel.
Blarg Blarg
You are not smart enough to make it without it.
It will end soon enough for you though.
You bore me. The lack of wit is pathetic.
Don’t forget to tell your mother, sister, cousin, aunt wife you love her. She is obviously a big role in your life…
At this point y’all just overusing incel. I thought it meant involuntary celibacy. Now just some rando disagree with you and he’s an incel.
“Don’t forget to tell your mother, sister, cousin, aunt wife you love her. She is obviously a big role in your life…”. But that’s a good thing. How is this an insult? If anything is good advice. Do tell your family including your mom and your sister that you love them. What a horrible thought.
Except studies show that almost HALF of all Muslims are inbred. (Cousin Marriage being legal) No other group compares.
Allison Kaas
lol seething nigger
HelloThere777
Ashkenazi are the most inbred race/ethnicity on the planet. All of them are cousins.
The funniest thing about this comic is that you can tell it was made by an American. Only Americans seem to believe that their internal racial politics is true everywhere in the world.
Justin Vest
I must have missed the part of the comic where it was implicated to be relevant anywhere else BUT America
Europe is such a bastion of tolerance that they just accept millions of akbars into the country to rape their women.
You mean Eurabia? Where all of those countries that end with “-istan” are? Like Germanistan where more than 1000 native women where raped on New Year’s Eve back in 2015?
Mexican Shitposting
[citaton needed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaults_in_Germany
“Following the attacks, Germany updated its laws, making it easier to deport immigrants convicted of sex crimes and broadening the definition of sexual assault to include any sexual act that a victim declines through verbal or physical cues. ”
Progress is being made, its not like immigrants can do whatever the fuck they want.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-crime/violent-crime-rises-in-germany-and-is-attributed-to-refugees-idUSKBN1ES16J
https://www.heritage.org/europe/commentary/trump-more-right-wrong-about-migrant-crime-germany
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8663/germany-migrants-rape
“Suppression of data about migrant rapes is ‘a Germany-wide phenomenon.'”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-03/germany-must-come-to-terms-with-refugee-crime
“…police services and statistical agencies have been reluctant to track this aspect of criminality so as not to increase tension in societies….70 percent of robberies and 58.6 percent of rape and sexual assault cases, the victims are German.”
Hm, indeed, this makes me think, i think some of the fears associated with immigration are completely justified, but the fearmongering that stormniggers and poltards are spreading is dumb
“It noted, however, that migrants settling from war-torn countries such as Syria were much less likely to commit violent crimes that those from other places who were unlikely to be given asylum.”
Migration is not the problem, uncontrolled migration is.
America, the least white first world country* doesn’t understand racial politics…European liberals are the worst, most mentally enslaved people in the in the world.
*Except for the Asians of course, but they hate immigrants way more than any white country.
Johnny B
Just replace blacks with gypsies in Eastern Europe and arabs in central/west Europe and it’s pretty accurate.
“Only Americans seem to believe that their internal racial politics is true everywhere in the world.”
Because Europeans are too retarded to understand the world. You have a pointless whinefest after the regularly scheduled terrorist attacks and then go back to offering up your daughters and sons to your conquerors and voting for the same evil overlords. You’re lower than insects.
Chrisitan Ries
Haha I get it because black people are like dogs kek
Nik Edmiidz
Most of the comics on this site are ignorant and based on logical fallacies.
But this one is good!
Good job for recognizing superior Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence. As for the other ones, you need to take a trip out of the US and open your mind.
Eh, I went to Mexico. It was a total shithole.
onepiecem7
Depende de la ciudad, puto
Lionhearte
You can smell TJ from Canada.
alexg4711
complete bs. jewish higher intellect seems to be somewhat manifacutred, but even if we take that they are about 3-5 iq points higher doesnt explain their extreme overrepresentation.
and even if it did, which it doesnt, it wouldnt matter, or are you in favour of colonialism? whites have a higher iq than blacks, so it is only meritocratic that we would rule over africa.
Colonialism is tough. It was good when it involved escaping religious persecution in Europe. But bad when it involved apartheid or worse, genocide.
But I do think that European anti-semitism, including the Pogroms of Russia and the concentration camps of Nazi Germany were directly related to our envy of Jewish intelligence. (Recently did a DNA test and I have 0% Ashkenazi roots)
You deserve to be persecuted.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a953c367483299575be8378604c22cbba529e9ff68a175f3ec7b0dea3384b8cd.jpg
That’s False equivalence, a typical logical fallacy of this website. Superior IQ does not mean superior race.
Does not stop them from calling themselves the “Chosen People”.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1869fac456e864db2d03814e127a3d72b5e91f1249301abfd5536aa2a5bb2521.jpg
yes it does faggot.
Ashkenazi baby rapers are not superior to anybody.
Your kind needs to be purged.
Because they were forcibly bred to be more docile. What a goddamn idiot father as if economic factors would have any effect.
Wrong, certain dogs are smarter than other dogs. It’s not all nurture it’s also nature.
Yes, and some were bred to be bigger or smaller. That doesn’t disprove the difference itself, it just explains why it exists. It’s still genes in the end.
I LOVE THIS ARGUMENT! I LOVE WHEN RACE REALIST MAKE THIS ARGUMENT! Because it makes no fucking sense! If you wanna make an argument that some races are smarter than others, go on ahead, but please for the love of god don’t use dogs as an example. It just makes you look so fucking dumb
Jayden Coyle
So… did you think at any point in your rant that it was pertinent to actually point out what was wrong with the comic/arguement? You think it’s dumb, great, but why?
The reason why this argument can’t work is because most species of dogs in today’s time were or are selectively bred to create a specific type of dog, sometimes even inbreeding with their siblings or parents to keep that breed pure.
You cannot equate this to humans because humans were not selective bred by some outside force.
They were bred, by the environment in which they evolved. Evolving in Africa is a lot different than evolving in Asia, which is different that evolving in Europe, which is different than America.
It’s clearly obvious that races are different physically; it’s naive to think they would not be different in thought or manner.
I’m not saying that environment doesn’t play a role in your intelligence, i’m just saying that using dogs as an example is really dumb because it’s a completely different situation. It’s different when a group of ancient humans separate and adapt to their environment than dogs breeding with certain breeds to create a specific one.
The base comparison is that humans and dogs are the same species but vary greatly. The question isn’t why members of a species can vary so much isn’t the point, it’s simply that they are. Whatever causes the degree of difference isn’t what the comparison is about.
If the question of why still bothers you, remember that humans are still part of nature. Other animals can directly effect the development of others in the wild, whether they are intelligent or not. An invasive species can radically alter the wildlife of an environment and directly be responsible for the continued development of all life in that environment; the only difference between this and the humans/dogs comparison is that we consciously breed dogs as we see fit, while the invasive species is just going by instinct. But, we are still animals and part of nature, and we are changing the development of other species; we are an outside force, just like the environment. The fact that we are sapient doesn’t change the comparison much in my opinion.
“humans and dogs are the same species”
I meant to say all different humans are the same species, while different dogs are the same species.
evilsandmich
I read that as “It’s different when humans voluntarily adapt to their environment versus when dogs are forced to adapt to their environment.” Okee-Dokee.
LarioMopez
[caste system intensifies]
betainthesheets
AwilAn
Majority of purebred dogs are incredibly unhealthy, and a lot of the time inbred. The same goes for humans.
Best we just, you know, become healthy and not completely fucking inbred rather than whining about how a black dude got a white girlfriend.
Your false equivalencies are actually ultra special retarded, even among the other cuck-leftists retards that post here.
Lol no they are not, racial purity only leads to degeneracy (incest), race mixing is needed in any society to strenghten the gene pool, even if your stormnigger friends told you otherwise
This is retarded. The problem with inbred dogs is that often, they are made to have children in the same family tree. To not have any inbreeding, a sample group of 300 people randomly breeding with each other is more than enough, going on indefinitely. We are talking about MILLIONS of people here. Inbreeding, outside of the Muslim world, is not a problem
Peter Smythe
Dogs have way, way more diversity than human groups, and were bred far more deliberately.
Human group size differences after nutritional differences are eliminated are probably under a 5% by mass if a couple of specific outliers are ignored. Dogs? For dogs, two breeds might well be 5000% different in size.
So.. this is actually kind of proof humans should have very small differences in average intelligence between groups. Dogs are extraordinarily diverse and they go through generations quickly. This isn’t to say rapid evolution under intense selection pressure doesn’t occur, just that it often pingpongs back and forth and doesn’t get anywhere in the long run without consistent pressure to evolve the same way.
So, humans have had agriculture in the old world for ~10000 years. Average generation time is 30 years. That gives history 333 generations to mess with. Enough to change people? Sure. A bit. But that’s only equivalent to 167 years of dog breeding once every 6 months. That’s enough to make people become lactose tolerant in a few places. Regulate the level of skin and eye pigmentation, etc.
But let’s keep in mind that this is not 333 generations of selective breeding, where elections advantages are huge and new desireable traits that show up become fixed in a couple generations of giving those with the traits aggressive 2000% selective advantages.
No. This is natural selection, Darwinian evolution. Where a trait that grants a 5% selective advantage has a 90% chance of being ignored by evolution every time it arises and will on average take a whopping ~400 generations to become fixed in the population! Indeed, for anything not absolutely survival-critical we can confidently say natural evolution is MUCH slower than selective breeding. Various studies indicate that adaptive skin pigmentation changes in humans often take 100 generations or so. Gigantism in animals often takes about 2000! For things that aren’t survival-critical, 333 generations is barely a measurable unit of evolutionary time. The only reason we can make even modest progress on dog breeding in that time is that deliberate effort is made!
TL;DR: dog breeds aren’t like human populations, they reproduce 60 times faster, and natural selection is much slower than artificial selection as a mechanism of evolution most of the time. This comic is pure nonsense.
Just watch Alternative Hypothesis/People’s Veto, everything in this debunked. TLDR Humans lived 50-100000 years apart in vastly different societies (or lack thereof) demanding different phenotypes.
Dog breeds all come from one species of wolf. Dogs are dumb because humans inbred them for hundreds of years. What’s your excuse for being so dumb? Oh wait, that is the same answer.
Rich coming from a sub 85 IQ wellfare queen. I bet none of your seven kids have the same father.
You’re right! They do all have different father’s, and each child is smarter than you, Oedipus.
Good lord you niggers are dumb as fuck!
By the way sweetie. I’m probably more white than you, I just have more class. This is a testament to how dumb white trash can get.
Doomer
BIOLOGY IS LITERALLY A NAZI
Swiggyty
Mariana Ortiz
Dude, the reason why some dogs are smarter than others is because they’re inbred. If you still want to use that argument go ahead, but I’m just letting you know, white people feverishly inbred so much as if it was a trend. It wasn’t until Charles Darwin realized that he and his cousin’s offspring were pretty fucked up because of inbreeding that white people slowly stopped. (by slowly I meant reaaaaally slowly, they were so used to it they didn’t know life without french kissing your sister)
What the fuck is this bullshit “inbred” argument you beaners and niggers are using? Is this what your leftists overlords are telling you morons to use?
Damn yo asses be STUPID!
Mikee Daherr
yeah cause humans were bred by aliens!
Twilk9
A great argument if you want to use genetics to espouse racism, but don’t actually want to do all the boring work and research that it takes to actually UNDERSTAND genetics. Which would show why this argument is so flawed and dumb.
Armchair science, the only science that racists like
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Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit websites. We use cookies to help identify you once you have logged in, and also to remember any parameter settings that you might have changed in STRING. You can delete/disable cookies already stored on your computer at any time (here's how); this will simply restore all settings to default and the STRING website will continue working.
How we count usage
We allow Google to count, anonymously and in aggregated form, how many users are visiting the STRING pages. This is required by our funders, who need to make sure that STRING is actually used by real users. The tracking is done via the Google Analytics framework. Note: we do not use the "UserId" feature offered by GoogleAnalytics; hence, we do not track users across different devices or websites.
What the server stores
• The server stores standard web-logs, including IP numbers, for technical purposes and debugging.
• The server allows you to login, using credentials that you already have elsewhere ('Social Login', via auth0.com)
• Once logged in, the server will store the pages you visited, and also allows you to upload gene sets and other data.
• We will not share any of the above information with third parties, apart from confidential reporting to our funders.
Q: How can I obtain the complete data set?
STRING has recently changed its licensing model, at the request of the ELIXIR initiative. This means that all its data is now freely available, from the Download section. The licensing model is CC BY 4.0, requesting proper attribution as the only condition for usage.
Q: How are scores computed?
The 'combined scores' are computed by integrating the probabilities from the various different types of evidence ('evidence channels'), while correcting for the probability of randomly observing an interaction. For a more detailed description, please refer to von Mering et al., NAR 2005.
Q: I am interested in downloading a limited set of interactions, for one or a few proteins only. How can I do that?
There are basically two options for this:
a) enter the protein(s) as usual into STRING and proceed to the network, then select the 'Tables / Exports' button below the network. From there, you can download the interactions in your current network, in a number of formats.
b) alternatively, you can use one of our Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), especially if this might become a recurring task in the future. Using the APIs, you can create a small script/program that will download the interactions for you. For more details, see here.
Q: How can I save a certain network?
Below any given STRING network in the browser window, there is always a button labeled 'Tables/Exports'. There, you can save your current network in a variety of formats. (Bitmap Images, Scalable Vector Graphics, XML Summary (Proteomics Standards Initiative), Graph Layout Coordinates, Protein sequences in FASTA format, and Textual Summaries of interaction scores).
Q: For my latest manuscript, I would like to use a network image produced by STRING. Must I ask for permission?
No, permission is not required. But do we appreciate if you could cite us; please choose from among any of our published references (see here).
Q: How can I trace the origin of the different evidences for a given interaction?
Most of this information is available upon clicking on an edge of the graph in the network view. Furthermore, below each network you will find the button 'Evidence'; from there you can proceed to evidence views that each summarize evidence of a single type, for your current network.
Q: How can I cite STRING?
We do appreciate citations very much — as for many other online databases, citations are the main benchmark by which our funders decide whether we are 'worth the money'. So, yes, please cite us ... using any of the references here.
Q: Which databases does STRING extract experimental/biochemical data from?
Currently, these are: DIP, BioGRID, HPRD, IntAct, MINT, and PDB.
Q: From which databases does STRING extract curated data?
Currently, these are: Biocarta, BioCyc, Gene Ontology, KEGG, and Reactome.
Q: How do I extract purely experimental data?
Below each network, there is a button labeled 'Data Settings'. There, you can specify which type of evidence you want to contribute to your network. By un-checking all boxes except 'Experiments', you would get a network based purely on experimental evidence.
Q: I need PPIs for a given species, but only from experimental data and not transferred from other species.
For that, you will need to download a file with the full score details, and parse out the information you need. First, you should sign the license agreement, wait for the password and then download the file: 'protein.links.full.v10.txt.gz'. Use the file to get the direct experimental evidence, for example by, printing the columns for protein1 protein2 and experiments (i.e., columns 1,2,10) and grep for the 'species_id' (e.g., 9606 for human).
zgrep ^"9606." protein.links.full.v10.txt.gz | awk '($10 != 0) { print $1, $2, $10 }' > ~/result.txt
Q: I want to differentiate physical interactions from functional ones within STRING.
For this, you would have to use the database dumps (after academic licensing). You can use the table 'network.actions' to query for records that have a direct physical interaction annotated in their 'mode' column. If this is 'binding' then you can be fairly sure there is a direct physical interactions. If it is something other than 'binding' it could still be direct, physical but more likely is an indirect, functional interaction. Note that the 'actions' annotations in STRING are work in progress; there will likely be a fairly large fraction of interactions missing (false negatives).
SELECT * FROM network.actions WHERE mode = 'binding';
Q: STRING is said to be 'locus-based' and only a single translated protein per locus is stored. What does this mean?
STRING represents each protein-coding gene locus by only a single, representative protein. If there is more than one isoform per gene annotated, we usually select the longest isoform, unless we have information to suggest that another isoform is better supported (e.g., proteins selected in the CCDS database).
Q: Does STRING contain any pathway or Gene Ontology information? I see that there is a table called 'funcats' ... ?
The 'funcats' database table contains the functional categories as defined for the COG database. We do import the Gene Ontology annotations and use these for inferring interactions and for reporting enrichments. However, they are not yet represented in a database table — this will likely come in a future version.
Q: Is there any phenotype or disease information contained in STRING?
Not directly, but the fulltext-search capabilities at the start page will often turn up proteins which have already been annotated for a certain function, phenotype or disease. For example, searching for the word "wing" in Drosophila will return proteins that have been annotated/described as having a functional role in the wing.
Q: Does the database provide a PubMed Reference ID for each interaction?
Interactions that stem only from computational predictions do not have a PMID. Text-mining evidence may also stem from other sources, such as OMIM. Apart from the above exceptions, interactions mostly do come with at least one pubmed reference id. Some cases have several different PMIDs, and yet others share the same PMID (e.g., for external repositories, the interactions share the PMID of the publication of the database).
Q: Regarding the 'sets', pathways and complexes ... what is the difference between a "set" and a "collection"?
The different types of "sets" in STRING describe annotated pathways, complexes, and PDB structures having more than one protein. The "sets_items" describe memberships in the evidence sets. An interaction exists if two proteins share at least one set_id. The "sets" contain information about the set_ids, for example, from which "collection" they originate from. The "collections" are the different resources of data from which STRING imports data (for the channels 'experiments' and 'databases').
Scientific Use Scenarios
Below is a selection of published examples of large-scale scientific use of STRING network data. Apart from the ad-hoc use of the website (in order to learn about individual proteins or to find out about functional enrichments), the large-scale use cases below signify another important benefit of STRING: the availability of unified, scored, genome-wide interaction data, for a number of organisms.
1.) Researching protein-networks in the context of early immune system establishment
In this study, the impact of post-natal colonization of the body with microbes is researched by transiently colonizing pregnant female mice. It is shown that the maternal microbiota shapes the immune system of the offspring. After performing RNA-seq of whole small intestinal mucosal RNA from neonates at day 14 (control and gestation-only colonized dams) and identification of differentially expressed genes, the authors use STRING to deduce involved protein networks. (Ganal-vonArburg, SC et al. Science. 2017: "The maternal microbiota drives early postnatal innate immune development.")PubMed
2.) Highly connected proteins have stable steady-state distribution of gene expression
This study develops a thermodynamic-like theoretical framework to analyze protein networks and gene expression patterns. Using this methodology, they find a dependence of the steady-state stability of transcript levels and the connectivity in STRING networks. The findings agree with the observation that essential genes have a low variability of expression and emphasize the role of stochasticity and robustness in the control of expression. The authors suggest that genes can be grouped into two categories, high and low expression, which are stable, versus adaptable to biological stimuli. (Kravchenko-Balasha, N et al. PNAS. 2012: "On a fundamental structure of gene networks in living cells")PubMed
3.) Searching for candidate genes involved in the immune response to gluten
Celiac disease (CD) is an auto-immune condition which may cause gastrointestinal and nutritional problems. The authors of this review article use STRING to look for interactions of genes that are known to be involved in CD. This results in 40 candidate genes that are likely to be involved in the progression of the disease. Since the levels the marker genes of CD is heterogeneous, several different genes may be the cause of the condition. (Abadie, V et al. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 2011: "Integration of genetic and immunological insights into a model of celiac disease pathogenesis")PubMed
4.) Identifying candidates for unknown enzyme in a pathway
Bacillithiol (BSH) is a low-molecular-weight thiol in bacteria (Bacilli family). It is synthesized by a not fully characterized pathway. The authors used STRING to identify candidates for an unknown enzyme using known components of the pathway as input query. The co-occurence and the fusion channel revealed a potential candidate for the enzyme. Experiments could then confirm that the functionality indeed was essential for the pathway. (Gaballa, A et al. PNAS. 2010: "Biosynthesis and functions of bacillithiol, a major low-molecular-weight thiol in Bacilli")PubMed
5.) Using STRING to narrow the search space for two-locus epistatis
The aim of this study was to search for combinations of pairs of SNPs that cause disease (two-locus epistatis). Testing all combinations is computationally expensive. By limiting the number of search possibilities to known protein-protein interactions from STRING the search space was drastically reduced. Furthermore, by only accessing likely candidates of protein interactions, low significance of interaction due to correcting for multiple comparisons is alleviated. (Emily, M et al. Eur J Hum Genet. 2009: "Using biological networks to search for interacting loci in genome-wide association studies")PubMed
6.) Using STRING to show network connectivity
Lysine acetylation is a post-translational modification that regulate gene expression. This study show that lysine acetylation preferentially targets large macro-molecular complexes and has a broad regulatory scope comparable with other post-translational modifications. By using STRING the authors show that the acetylome has significantly higher network connectivity than random: namely roughly six interactions per node, whereas the random expectation would be less than three. (Choudhary, C et al. Science. 2009: "Lysine acetylation targets protein complexes and co-regulates major cellular functions")PubMed
7.) STRING as a general purpose database
In this study the evolutionary history of CDC25 homology domain was investigated. The STRING database was used to acquire the sequence information for a number of genomes, showing how STRING can be used as a as general database. This is particularly useful if the user downloads the entire dataset by signing the academic license agreement. (van Dam, TJ et al. Cell Signal. 2009: "Phylogeny of the CDC25 homology domain reveals rapid differentiation of Ras pathways between early animals and fungi")PubMed
8.) STRING to guide experiments
This study is a characterization of the Rod-derived Cone Viability Factor (RdCVFL) signaling pathway involved in neuronal cell death mediated by oxidative stress. STRING was used to identify 90 proteins interacting with RdCVFL. These were examined for interactions using a cell-based assay. The authors show that RdCVFL inhibits the phosphorylation of the microtubule binding protein Tau. In vitro, RdCVFL protects Tau from oxidative damage, which is implicated in retinal degeneration. (Fridlich, R et al. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2009: "The thioredoxin-like protein rod-derived cone viability factor (RdCVFL) interacts with TAU and inhibits its phosphorylation in the retina")PubMed
9.) Prioritizing functional assignments in RNAi screens using interaction network data
RNA interference (RNAi) screening can be used to infer the functionally of genes in an organism. The results from such screens often contain errors. Wang et al. suggest a method based on a scoring function for integrating STRING network information to indicate false positives and false negatives associated with RNAi screens. Thereby, suggesting optimal candidates for follow-up experimental validation. (Wang, L et al. BMC Genomics. 2009: "A network-based integrative approach to prioritize reliable hits from multiple genome-wide RNAi screens in Drosophila")PubMed
Interaction Scores
The basic principle
In STRING, each protein-protein interaction is annotated with one or more 'scores'.
Importantly, these scores do not indicate the strength or the specificity of the interaction. Instead, they are indicators of confidence, i.e. how likely STRING judges an interaction to be true, given the available evidence. All scores rank from 0 to 1, with 1 being the highest possible confidence. A score of 0.5 would indicate that roughly every second interaction might be erroneous (i.e., a false positive).
Transfer scores
For most types of evidence, there are two types of scores: the 'normal' score, and the 'transferred' score. The latter is computed from data that is not originally observed in the organism of interest, but instead in some other organism and then transferred via homology/orthology. All potential source organisms are searched for evidence, but the actual transfers to the receiving organism are made non-redundant (according to 'clades' of closely related organisms in the tree of life).
A typical organism
As an example, the model organism 'Escherichia coli K12 MG1655' is shown below — indicating the number of interactions per score type, at a confidence of 'medium' or better (score >= 0.400);
gene neighborhood, normal: 7851 interactions
gene neighborhood, transferred: 11177 interactions
gene fusion: 514 interactions
gene cooccurrence: 35497 interactions
gene coexpression, normal: 12376 interactions
gene coexpression, transferred: 3154 interactions
experiments/biochemistry, normal: 5301 interactions
experiments/biochemistry, transferred: 4113 interactions
annotated pathways, normal: 6726 interactions
annotated pathways, transferred: 1727 interactions
textmining, normal: 27445 interactions
textmining, transferred: 7119 interactions
combined-score, total: 210914 interactions
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Lyon – Nantes Match Prediction | 28-09-2019 07:30
Les Gones are eager to book their place in the Champions League, but they will have to be at their sharpest in each of their last four league fixtures if they are to book their place in the Champions League. Lyon proved their worth in the 5-2 win over Dijon and seeing that their next rivals Nantes are not regarded as good travelers, we predict the hosts are going to emerge triumphant in Saturday's football game. Thanks to a 5-2 win over Dijon Olympique Lyon extended their winning run in La Liga to six games, but Olympique Marseille are still breathing down their neck. Les Canaris are on a five-game winless run in the national championship ahead of the trip to Lyon, meaning that there is no big value in betting on the visitors. A man to watch in the home team will be Memphis Depay, who scored his 15th goal of the season at the weekend.
Les Gones are determined to book their place in the Champions League and we predict that they will stick to their attacking style of play against Nantes. Olympique Lyon will be aiming to make amends for an embarrassing 3-1 loss to Dijon when they take on Nantes at Stade de la Beaujoire Louis Fonteneau on Matchday 32. Olympique Lyon failed to impress in the defeat to the Mustards, but they are definitely capable of beating Nantes on Matchday 32 as les Canaris suffered a dip in form.
Lyon has a great opportunity this weekend to make strides towards the runner-up spot, which would guarantee them a spot in the Champions League next season, rather than go through the playoffs. With the second-placed Lille taking on PSG, who is trying to secure their league title as early as possible, Lyon will absolutely go after Nantes for the three points.
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A man to watch in the away team will be aforementioned attacker Depay. Memphis Depay is likely to return to the starting line-up for the visitors. Vahid Halilhodzics troops are on a four-game losing run in all competitions and we are tempted to put our money on Bruno Genesios troops as they are eyeing a place in the elite competition.
Lyon is in the third spot in the league table and has safely in their custody the Champions League Qualification spot. But they can avoid the added responsibility of going through the playoffs, if the team is able to overcome a deficit of five points and overpower Lille from the second position, in the next seven games. It helps that Lille next takes on PSG.
Vahid Halilhodzics men struggled to find the net on the regular and saw league losses to Reims (1-0), Lille (2-3), and Toulouse (1-0) since mid-March as well as a Coupe de France exit in the hands of PSG (3-0) despite a tough challenge. Nantes have seen troubles of their own, though, and the visitors hope to capitalize as well.
Olympique Lyon vs Nantes PREDICTION & BETTING TIPS - 28/04/2018
Olympique Lyon failed to impress in the defeat to the Mustards, but they are definitely capable of beating Nantes on Matchday 32 as les Canaris suffered a dip in form. Olympique Lyon will be aiming to make amends for an embarrassing 3-1 loss to Dijon when they take on Nantes at Stade de la Beaujoire Louis Fonteneau on Matchday 32. Les Gones are determined to book their place in the Champions League and we predict that they will stick to their attacking style of play against Nantes.
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A man to watch in the home team will be Memphis Depay, who scored his 15th goal of the season at the weekend. Les Gones are eager to book their place in the Champions League, but they will have to be at their sharpest in each of their last four league fixtures if they are to book their place in the Champions League. Lyon proved their worth in the 5-2 win over Dijon and seeing that their next rivals Nantes are not regarded as good travelers, we predict the hosts are going to emerge triumphant in Saturday's football game. Les Canaris are on a five-game winless run in the national championship ahead of the trip to Lyon, meaning that there is no big value in betting on the visitors. Thanks to a 5-2 win over Dijon Olympique Lyon extended their winning run in La Liga to six games, but Olympique Marseille are still breathing down their neck.
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17 Less known facts about Ladakh you may not know
by AYON TALUKDAR January 24, 2019 December 28, 2019
written by AYON TALUKDAR January 24, 2019 December 28, 2019
Leh Ladakh is in the Northernmost a part of India situated in Jammu and Kashmir. The scenic magnificence of entire Greater Himalayas is unparalleled, but the mystical sensation of the cold desert lends an ethereal charm to the rocky mountain ranges of Leh Ladakh. The varied topography surrounding towering mountains and swelling valleys have no comparison. The immobility of the barren brownish gray mountains gives a mystic appeal to the environment that surpasses the visual grandeur of the most enchanting landscapes. Here are some interesting facts about Leh Ladakh; Ladakh is known for its magnificent scenic beauty and spectacular views Settled between the Himalayas and Karakoram mountain ranges, its beauty lies in its snow-capped mountains, tranquil lakes with crystal clear water, green patches of land, bright blue skies and inconceivable terrains. It’s a place that can make you forget the rest of the world. The entire landscape of Ladakh presents the sensation of being a part of another world. It shows how colorful a rocky mountain surface could be and how captivating a dry valley could look. It hypnotizes its visitors by its panoramic views. Before you visit let us share a few facts about Ladakh.
1. Highest plateau in Northern India
Ladakh is the highest tableland of Northern India with abundant of it being over 3,000 meters. It extends from the Himalayas to the Kunlun Ranges and includes the upper Indus River valley.
2. Situated between two great mountains
Though Ladakh range has no major peaks, it is situated between the Great Himalayas and the Karakoram, which are the world’s highest mountain ranges.
3. Nature’s Paradise
The village of Lamayuru in Ladakh is a nature’s paradise, which is also known as Moon land and situated about 127 km away from Leh. The soil of this place appears like the color of the soil on Moon. You can climb up a nearby hill to enjoy the outstanding view of this unusual looking landscape. Along with enjoying this panoramic view, you can also visit here the revered monastery of the ancient Buddha, called as the Lamayuru monastery. This superb religious residence is taken into account together of the fascinating places that one should visit. If you’re reaching to visit Ladakh then you need to enlist this place in your listing as this monastery is claimed to be the oldest additionally as the largest in Ladakh. Lamayuru monastery may be a place wherever several legends were related to. Within the earlier days, this immense construction was a group of 5 mammoth building out of that just one survives currently. But still, this remains the biggest religious residence and homes close to concerning one hundred fifty Buddhist monks for good, in earlier days the quantity was four hundred. The world of the monastery continues to be very massive even supposing solely a small portion of the Lamayuru monastery remains alive. The travelers to the current Buddhist monastery will solely access the prayer hall that is just the key part of the total religious residence. This place features a distinctive attractiveness. From the religious residence, tourists will expertise the barren mountains together with the scenes of traditional village life below.
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4. Largest High altitude lakes
Tsomoriri Lake which measures 28 km long with 7 – 8 km at the widest points is a major lake observed here. The lake is heaven for wild animals like cranes, wild ducks, and some other small birds and marmots. Tso Moriri additionally spoke as “Lake Moriri” or “Mountain Lake”, and is located in Changthang Plateau of Ladakh at an altitude of 4,522 m (14,836 ft). Pangong Tso is bigger in size than Tso Moriri but is divided between India and China, but Tso Moriri situated entirely within India and which is also largest in an area among high altitude lakes in India. (Source: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Atlas-High-Altitude-Lakes-of-India.pdf). The lake and encompassing area are protected as the Tso Moriri wetland Conservation Reserve.
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5. Highest elevation Baily Bridge in the world
A Bailey bridge is thirty meters long and was inbuilt 1982 by the Indian Army between the Dras and Suru rivers within the Himalayan Mountains. Bailey bridge is a temporary bridge of lattice steel designed for fast assembly from prefabricated components. The design is famous for its military application.
6. Bactrian camel
The Bactrian camel (two-humped) is a large, even-toed native. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back, in compare to the single-humped camel; they are rare compared to single hump camels. These camels are one of the main attractions of the Nubra valley in Ladakh. Ladakh is the only place in India wherever twin humped camel can be found. This camel has nice toleration for cold, droughts and high altitudes. You can relish the ride in this camel in Nubra valley. It forms one of the main attractions in Nubra valley.
To know more click Nubra
7. Magnetic Hill
The supernatural Magnetic Hill which is also known as the “gravity hill”, is located near Leh. The “Hill” is found on the Leh-Kargil-Srinagar national highway, regarding thirty kilometers from Leh, at the peak of 11,000 feet above sea level. The alignment of the road with the slope of the background will offer the illusion that cars will drift upwards. Magnet Hill is a “gravity hill situated close to Leh in Ladakh, India. The layout of the world and encompassing slopes creates an optical phenomenon that the downhill road is truly an uphill road. Objects and cars on the hill may appear to roll “uphill” in non-cooperation of gravity when they are, in fact, rolling downhill.
8. A rare place of birds
Ladakh is a desert, but it is still over 225 species of birds such as finches, robins, redstarts, and Hoopoe are found here in plenty. It never ceases to amaze the tourists who venture this way up that the region may retain most of its natural beauty. Ladakh has a nice diversity of birds, both resident and migratory birds. Some 225 totally different species of birds are recorded in Ladakh. Here one will notice Chukor Patridge, Kestrel, Himalayan griffin Vultures, Golden Eagle, and Himalayan Snowcock. Many birds migrate from hotter parts of India to spend the summer in Ladakh. The Black-necked Crane is rare species found nesting in summer in parts of Ladakh. So does one likable this truth it’s one in every of my personal favorite facts regarding the place.
9. Highest Saltwater lake in India
Pangong Tso means that “high grassland lake” within the Tibetan language. Commonly referred to as Pangong Lake, it is a lake in the Himalayas situated at the height of about 4,350 meters. Pangong Lake is the highest salt lake in India. Pangong Tso lake is located at a height of regarding 14,270 feet from sea level. It is 134 km long and extends from India to Tibet.60% of the length of the lake lies in Tibet. Despite being a saltwater lake, in winter it freezes completely. The lake acts as a breeding ground for a variety of birds including many migratory birds. This reality regarding the Pangong lake is that the most wonderful truth regarding Leh – Ladakh region.
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10. Second highest observatory in World
Due to its high altitude and clear skies, the region is in style as a very important astronomy center. Perched at virtually 15,000 feet, the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle (in Ladakh) has always made Indian scientists proud. Distantly operated by the astronomers from Indian Institute of astronomy (IIA) in Bangalore, it is the second-highest observatory in the world and has the 2m class Chandra telescope. No surprise the outputs of this observatory are utilized by Indian scientists to publish over one hundred twenty papers that have helped astronomers everywhere the globe.
11. Land of Monasteries
Most of this Buddhist monasteries are ancient and world-renowned. They draw both local and international followers of Buddhism in large numbers, every year. Visiting these divine spiritual centers helps you to experience the quiet strength of devotion. Most of the monasteries in Ladakh are located on the crown. The design and layout could be a good mixture of Buddhist and Tibetan designs. The rich assortment of Buddhist relics like thankas, murals, sculptures; scriptures, etc. is treasured here. Typically, the monasteries in Ladakh are situated in isolated areas, away from the hustle bustle of the routine life. This lends an air of peace and serenity to them. Of the virtually twenty monasteries in Ladakh, the foremost celebrated monasteries in Ladakh are Hemis monastery, Diskit monastery, Thiksey monastery, Likir monastery, etc. Matho Gompa, Sankar Gompa, Shey Gompa and Alchi monastery are also worth visiting.
12. Land of feminist Buddhism
You can see a large group of girls, under the age of 25 practicing the art of Kung-Fu in the Drukpa nunnery in Ladakh. The place is home to a self-empowered branch of feminist Buddhism that not solely encourages nuns to coach in Kung-Fu however conjointly lets them study and look for enlightenment on par with monks. Their name comes from the order’s proficiency in Chinese martial arts, which they began learning in 2008 after the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa authorized a training program for them despite centuries-old Buddhist laws banning exercise for nuns. The Druk nuns are best known for their social involvement and charitable work. They additionally occupy leadership roles in their nunneries, performing basic trades and management skills that have long been prohibited for Buddhist girls.
13. Highest inhabited region
Rangdum is the highest settled region within the Suru valley, after which the valley rises to 4,400 m at Pensi-la, the gateway to Zanskar. The extreme limit of farming is at Korzok, on the Tso-moriri Lake, at 4,600 meters are extensively considered to be the highest fields in the world. On one side are the vibrant hills whereas on the opposite side are stony mountains and glaciers, particularly Drang-drung. Rangdum is located midway between Kargil and Padum. It is about 100 kilometers from Kargil. The road conditions are very bad near Rangdum. A JKTDC bungalow is available at Rangdum. Restaurants and hotels are also available here. There is no access to electricity, phone or net.
13. World’s one of the highest motor able roads
Khardung La in Ladakh is claimed to be the highest motorable road within the world (???). It is located at an altitude of 5359 meters. The Khardung La Pass in Ladakh is known as the highest motor in a position road within the world. This pass on the Ladakh range lies north of Leh and is the entrance to the Shyok and Nubra valleys. The elevation of Khardung La is 5,359 meters. One will relish the gorgeous views of Ladakh surroundings whereas going through this road. It makes a memorable experience.
14. Leh Royal Palace
One of the key attractions of Leh is its former Royal Palace.The Place was designed by King Senegge Namgyal in the seventeenth century AD. It was shapely on the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It is nine stories high; the upper floor housed the royal family while the lower floor held stables and storerooms. This superbly created palace was abandoned once the Dogra forces took management of Ladakh within the mid-19th century and made the royalty to move to stoke palace. Later the palace was fixed by the archaeological survey of India. The palace museum has a vast assortment of jewelry, ornaments, ceremonial dresses, and crowns. The palace is now open to the public. The roof of the palace provides gorgeous views of Leh and its close surroundings.
15. Ladakhi festivals
Ladakhi festivals are all about traditional dance, singing, and colorful masks. The sturdy influence of Buddhism can be seen in its fairs and festivals. People who are inquisitive about Ladakh’s culture and method of life, it is a great opportunity to be part of these festivals and experience the rich and unique culture of Ladakh. Most of these festivals take place in winters. They usually take place in varieties of dance and drama. Lamas dressed in colorful garments and wearing masks performs Mimes representing various aspects of Buddhist Religion. Some of its famous festivals are Losar festival, Ladakh festival, Hemis Tsechu festival, Sindhu Darshan festival.
16. Ladakhi Dishes
Ladakh along with its scenic beauty also offers delicious and mouthwatering food. The lifestyle and food culture of this place are heavily impressed by Tibetan culture. The Ladakhi cuisine has its own unique taste and flavor. Thupka is that the most favorite dish of Ladakhi individuals. This delicious dish is a noodle soup with poached vegetables, chunks of chicken, pork etc. Butter tea was one of the signature dishes of Ladakh. This pink color tea has a distinctive style and fragrance. It is created from tea leaves, butter, salt, and water. Momos are the yummiest food of Ladakh. Momos are created with a simple flour and water dough. Crushed meat, vegetables or cheese are stuffed in flour dough’s and dumplings are made. In Momos, we are able to stuff any ingredients of our selection. Momos may be veg or non-veg .depending on our preference. After stuffing Momos can be steamed or fried.
Also read LADAKH RESTAURANT
17. Biker’s Paradise
Ladakh may be a biker’s paradise and most bikers of India crave for reaching to this place. However, only a few individuals recognize that Ladakh is additionally a perfect destination for active athletics all-terrain bike enthusiasts. Well, the activity isn’t meant for weak individuals.
So these are some amazing and less known facts about Leh- Ladakh. There are more surprises that Ladakh offers that you may recognize after you will return here and experience its wonders. If you want to comment you can do that in the comment box below.
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Last updated on 28.12.19
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Nigeria Says Ex-President And His Oil Minister Took Bribes – Court Filing
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ABUJA, May 10 (Reuters) – The Nigerian government has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan and his then oil minister of accepting bribes and breaking the country’s laws to broker a $1.3 billion oil deal eight years ago, a London court filing shows.
The deal, in which Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell and Italian peer Eni jointly acquired the rights to the OPL 245 offshore oilfield, has spawned legal cases spanning several countries.
In papers advancing a London commercial court suit against Shell and Eni, lawyers for the Nigerian government said Jonathan and former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke conspired to “receive bribes and make a secret profit”, keeping the government from getting what it was owed from the deal.
“Bribes were paid,” the filing, reviewed by Reuters, states. It says “the receipt of those bribes and the participation in the scheme of said officials was in breach of their fiduciary duties and Nigerian criminal law.”
A spokesman for Jonathan declined to comment and said the former president was in South Africa as part of an election monitoring team. A London-based lawyer for Madueke did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nigerian attorney general Abubakar Malami did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The 2011 deal is also the subject of a corruption trial in Milan in which two middlemen have been convicted and former and current Shell and Eni officials are also on trial.
An Eni spokesman said the Italian firm was assessing whether UK courts had jurisdiction on a case of “such duplication” to the Milan proceedings and repeated its view on “the correctness and compliance of every aspect of the transaction.”
Shell did not immediately comment, but has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to OPL 245.
The London lawsuit relates to payments that Shell and Eni made to acquire the licence.
The companies transferred more than $1 billion to the Nigerian government, according to the filing. Milan prosecutors have argued in their case that the bulk of that money was sent on to Malabu Oil and Gas, which was controlled by another former oil minister, Dan Etete.
Eni and Shell retain the rights to develop the field, which has yet to enter production but is one of the biggest untapped oil resources in Africa, with reserves estimated at 9 billion barrels.
In the London court filing, the Nigerian government said it only received a $209 million signature bonus in relation to the deal, and that it estimates the value of the oilfield to have been “at least $3.5 billion”. It said it would seek to calculate damages on that basis.
The Nigerian government has also filed a London case against U.S. bank JPMorgan for its role in transferring over $800 million of government funds to Etete, who has been convicted of money laundering. JPMorgan has denied any wrongdoing.
Dutch prosecutors are also preparing criminal charges against Shell.
Despite the international cases, only Nigerian officials can rescind the rights to the block. Oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has said the case should not hinder development of the field. His office did not immediately reply to a further request for comment.
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is pursuing a criminal case against other former officials in relation to OPL 245.
President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected in February, campaigning on the same anti-corruption message that helped him defeat Jonathan in 2015. But opinions within the cabinet differ over how to handle OPL 245.
Some have cited what they view as a lack of evidence, while others point to concerns that taking away the rights could hinder the field’s development in a nation where oil accounts for around 90 percent of foreign exchange earnings.
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Israel election: Netanyahu and rival headed for deadlock
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Exit polls suggest no clear route to government for Benjamin Netanyahu or Benny Gantz
Unofficial results in Israel’s second election in five months suggest it is too close to call, Israeli media say.
Incumbent PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s party and that of his main challenger, Benny Gantz, are neck and neck with 32 seats each, the Kan public broadcaster says.
A prime minister needs to command a 61-seat majority in parliament. The smaller Yisrael Beiteinu party appears to hold the balance of power.
Official partial results are expected on Wednesday morning.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader, is vying to win a record fifth term in office.
Mr Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party, has pledged to annex Jewish settlements and a swathe of other territory in the occupied West Bank if he is returned to power.
Media captionNetanyahu’s situation is “dire”, says biographer Anshel Pfeffer
Palestinians, who seek a state in the West Bank and Gaza, with its capital in occupied East Jerusalem, have warned such a move will kill any hopes for peace.
Mr Gantz, who leads the centrist Blue and White party, has not advocated any form of annexation though his position on the creation of a Palestinian state is unclear.
Like Mr Netanyahu, he has ruled out ever dividing Jerusalem, which Israel considers its capital.
On Wednesday morning, Yisrael Beiteinu’s leader Avigdor Lieberman, reiterated that he would only support a government comprising both Likud and Blue and White.
However, Blue and White has ruled out sitting with Mr Netanyahu in a coalition.
What are the latest results?
Official results have been slow to be released, with only 30% of votes counted by 09:15 (06:15 GMT).
They put Likud slightly ahead of Blue and White, with the ultra-Orthodox Shas party third and Yisrael Beiteinu fourth, but without indicating how this translates into seats in the knesset (parliament).
According to the Times of Israel, Kan is reporting unofficial results based on what it says is 96.9% of votes counted.
It puts Likud and Blue and White both on 32 seats; the Israeli Arab Joint List second on 12 seats; Yisrael Beiteinu on nine; the ultra-Orthodox parties on 17 between them; the right-wing Yamina alliance on seven; Labour-Gesher on 6 and the centre-left Democratic Camp on 5.
Based on these reported results, neither Mr Netanyahu nor Mr Gantz can form a majority coalition without support from Yisrael Beiteinu.
Exit polls earlier presented a similar picture.
There was a muted response at Likud’s election night headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Hundreds of chairs for party supporters remained empty, as activists were kept outside the hall and leaders digested the numbers.
Likud’s foreign affairs director noted that Israeli exit polls had got things wrong in the past. Last time, they underestimated the number of votes for Likud and also for some of the religious parties allied to Mr Netanyahu.
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“There is no point starting to work out a coalition based on these numbers as they will change,” Eli Hazan said.
But Blue and White was “cautiously optimistic” that Israel would get new leadership, spokeswoman Melody Sucharewicz told the Times of Israel.
The election has been a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu’s last 10 years in office. In opposition strongholds in Tel Aviv I saw queues of voters were waiting and hoping to end his political career.
Mr Netanyahu was, as usual, a formidable campaigner, even starring in his own commercials. His message was that he’s the only one – with his powerful friends like Donald Trump – to protect Israelis from Iran and the Palestinians.
On walkabout in Tel Aviv, I saw Avigdor Lieberman, who could be the politician the prime minister fears most once the coalition negotiations start. His Yisrael Beiteinu party could hold the balance of power.
One important factor is that although he used to be a major ally of the prime minister, now they’re opponents, even enemies.
After the exit polls Mr Lieberman’s supporters were the only ones who were celebrating. If the results back that up – polls aren’t always accurate – then the Netanyahu era in Israeli politics is ending.
Once the votes are counted, it could take weeks of coalition horse-trading before the next government and prime minister emerge.
What could happen next?
The BBC’s Tom Bateman says that if the projections are correct Mr Netanyahu has no simple route to government.
In fact, the figures put him in an even weaker position than after April’s election, when coalition talks collapsed, he adds.
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Mr Lieberman prevented Mr Netanyahu from forming a coalition after that vote because he refused to back down over a longstanding dispute with religious parties over exempting ultra-Orthodox young men from military service.
Mr Gantz could have an even more complex job to form a government, because of differences between left-wing parties.
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ICC defend India-Pakistan finish as pundits slam ‘farce’
MANCHESTER: The International Cricket Council defended the farcical finish to India’s World Cup win over Pakistan after rain left Sarfaraz Ahmed’s side with a seemingly impossible task on Sunday. Pakistan were 166 for six, chasing an initial target of 337, when rain stopped play after 35 overs. Had the match ...
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MANCHESTER: India extended their unbeaten record against Pakistan in World Cups to seven matches, with Rohit Sharma’s second century of the tournament setting up an 89-run (DLS) win at Old Trafford. With the threat of rain looming and on a pitch that had spent time under covers in the lead ...
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MANCHESTER: India’s captain Virat Kohli on Sunday became the fastest batsman to reach the milestone of 11,000 ODI runs, surpassing the record previously held by his countryman Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli reached the milestone in the World Cup match against Pakistan when he smashed Hassan Ali for a boundary. By reaching ...
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SOUTHAMPTON: After a convincing 106-run victory over Bangladesh, England will be up against a vibrant West Indies unit in their fourth match of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019. After a shocking defeat to Pakistan, England aced every department against Bangladesh, as they first put up 386/6 on board ...
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Ciara celebrated her 30th birthday over the weekend with a superhero-themed birthday party in Los Angeles. Ciara's boyfriend, Russell Wilson, organized the surprise party. He even rented a Batmobile to chauffeur Ciara to the event. Ciara and friends, including Russell Wilson, Serena Williams, Kelly Rowland, Lala, and Beyoncé, went all out for the affair with incredible costumes.
People got the exclusive details on the event.
On Saturday, the singer got glam with her team for what she thought was a movie premiere. But when she arrived at the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank, she was met by her boyfriend Russell Wilson, who was dressed in a Batman costume and standing by a Batmobile from the upcoming film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
According to a source, Ciara was given a list of “carefully planned instructions, a Catwoman suit and a mask to quickly change into” before the Seattle Seahawks quarterback whisked her off in the car to the Batman exhibit on the lot, where around 100 of her closest family and friends were waiting for her.
One very special guest was her 17-month-old son Future Zahir, who was dressed as Superman. Famous pals in attendance included Serena Williams,Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé, Jeff Dye and Lily Collins.
“They screamed ‘Surprise!’ as Ciara and Russell exited the sleek black car,” says the source. “Ciara was overwhelmed with emotion and began to cry tears of joy.”
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Her boyfriend, Russell Wilson, rented a real Batmobile to take them to the festivities. It's great to see Ciara moving on.
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Valparaiso (11-7, 2-2) at Western Illinois (7-10, 3-0) | October 06, 2006
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Angie Porche - 23
Kills Ashley Baker - 23
Sara Hughes - 78
Assists Sarah Trimpe - 55
Tiffany Meikle - 2
Brittany Marks - 2
Aces Ashley Baker - 4
Digs Jennifer Alexander - 19
Allison Sears - 4
Blocks Erin Frick - 9
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Angie Porché (Lynwood, Ill./Thornton-Fractional South) had more kills than any Crusader this season and Sara Hughes (San Antonio, Texas/Perrysburg, Ohio, H.S.) had the second best passing night in program history, but the Brown and Gold dropped a heartbreaking 25-30, 30-28, 21-30, 30-27, 18-16 decision Friday night at Western Illinois.
The loss was Valpo's second Mid-Con defeat in as many Fridays, and secured the first two-loss conference season for the Crusaders since 2002. The Brown and Gold have lost only four times in Mid-Con play since the start of the 2003 season, and all four defeats have come in five games.
Friday, Valpo burst out strong in search of their 13th win in a row over the Westerwinds, taking game one 30-25 on the strength of a .500 hitting percentage, highlighted by six kills each from Tiffany Meikle (Cottage Grove, Wis./Monona Grove) and Nicole Schulz (Kewaskum, Wis./Kettle Moraine Lutheran). Hughes, en route to 78 assists on the night, had 23 in game one assisted on all but one of Valpo's 24 kills in the game.
After dropping a tight game two, the Crusaders closed game three on a 16-6 run to move within one game of taking the match, but again in game four Western Illinois squeaked out a win to force a fifth game.
In the decisive game, Valpo raced out quickly to an 11-6 lead behind three quick Porché kills. But the Westerwinds scored the next five points on four consecutive Valpo attack errors, and eventually went ahead 15-14 on an Ashley Baker kill. The Crusaders, however, would not relent, staving off three match points before Patty Melinauskas sent the over 700 fans home happy from Western Hall with the winning kill.
Hughes, who had set a career-high with 69 assists earlier this season, finished the match with an astounding 78 assists, the second highest total in Crusader history. Only Jenny Rohren, who had 81 on Halloween of 1998, has had more assists in a single match.
The beneficiaries of all those assists, of course, were the Valpo hitters, five of whom racked up double-digit kills. The freshman Porché led that charge with a career-high 23 kills and a .306 hitting percentage. Jessie Fox (Granger, Ind./Penn) was next with 17 kills, the sixth straight match the senior has reached double-figures.
Miekle, who had been battling for playing time before a strong performance against Oral Roberts last weekend, had a career-high 16 kills to go along with 17 digs and two aces. Schulz, with 14, and Allison Sears (Elkhart, Ind./Memorial), who had 13, also reached the double-figure mark. Valpo had 86 kills as a team, the fourth highest single-match total in program history.
Ashley Baker led Western Illinois (7-10, 3-0 Mid-Con) with 23 kills, hitting .386. The Crusaders had a higher hitting percentage than the Westerwinds, but the hosts had 11 blocks to only six for Valpo.
The Brown and Gold (11-7, 2-2 Mid-Con) will look to right the ship Saturday night when they take on UMKC at 7:00 p.m. in Kansas City, Mo. Valpo will be back at home next Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m., taking on IUPUI and Chicago State respectively.
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Greetings, I’m Sergei Burkatovskiy, I’m the lead game designer for Wargaming.
Many people already know who I am, and those who don’t, will get to know me soon.
In the 8.3 update, several artillery parameters were changed. What caused these changes?
The short answer is that artillery was not balanced within the current scope of the game.
We try to balance each tank with respect to their win-loss ratio. Artillery is balanced separately -- in relation to other SPGs -- so it makes things a little tricky.
This practice eventually caught up with us and created an imbalance. SPGs had too much influence in every match, so we had to scale back their abilities.
Does this decision result from plans to introduce tier 10 SPGs?
On one hand, artillery currently influences the outcome of games more than necessary.
On the other hand, introducing tier 10 artillery will correct some of the issues surrounding this subject.
Currently, artillery only has 8 tiers, and this results in an odd distribution of SPGs in different levels of battles.
Having tier 10 SPGs will likely smooth out the distribution, but shouldn’t make artillery too powerful.
Could you tell us more about the changes in the tech tree? Do you plan to introduce new vehicles for tiers 9 and 10, or do you plan to buff the existing ones?
We plan to stretch the existing line, I mean, currently we have tier 2 and tier 8 artillery.
What we’ll do is move the tier 8 artillery to tier 10, and add some new vehicles in the middle tiers.
I want to stress the fact that we are not increasing SPG characteristics when we change its tier.
I say that we won’t buff it, but we may make slight adjustments. Though we hope that will be unnecessary.
So if you already have tier 8 SPGs in your Garage, you’ll have to research it again at tier 10?
No, you won’t need to do that. The vehicle has already been researched.
I mean, if you have tier 8 artillery researched or in your Garage, it will turn into the tier 10 artillery.
You’ll have the same vehicle, with the same characteristics, with only this small number at the corner changed from 8 to 10, that’s all.
Do you think that the overall gameplay will change when you introduce tier 10 SPGs? Will it be more difficult?
I think everything will stay the same. At present, tier 8 SPGs already go into top-tier battles.
After we make the changes, they’ll just be marked as tier 10 SPGs.
In truth, these are minor changes, nothing really serious, it’s barely worth mentioning.
When do you plan to introduce tier 10 SPGs?
C’mon, you know the answer: …as soon as possible, a.s.a.p.
Let’s discuss the changes in detail. Why did you nerf view range and hit points? How will this affect gameplay?
In an attempt to decrease the number of SPGs more naturally, we changed some of their overall effectiveness.
But we aren’t bad guys, so we try to do this in tiny increments.
In an ideal situation artillery shoots from a distance, behind cover, and no one sees you. These changes don’t affect that. It simply makes those times when you
are spotted a little more uncomfortable.
Artillery relies heavily on their team, you can’t play by yourself.
The idea is that we want them to be vulnerable in close combat.
Fundamentally, its role stays the same, and only its weaknesses have been modified. Keeping it closer to the original idea for artillery.
What happened to the SU-26? It’s a favorite among the players.
You see, the players have the option to choose their favorite tank. We don’t.
And when a vehicle -- a tank or an SPG -- becomes imbalanced, we need to take action.
That’s precisely what happened to the SU-26.
C’est la vie, guys, с’est la vie!
We don’t make World of SU-26, we make World of Tanks.
Why did you nerf French artillery so significantly?
That falls under the same heading as ‘artillery balance in general’. The French SPGs are just a good example of over-performance that needed to be brought
back into equilibrium with the rest of the vehicles.
They benefited from this imbalance while we’ve been collecting the data, but it’s time to make the correction.
The statistical information has been analyzed and we’ve spotted which attributes need to be adjusted. So it’s time.
The players are curious about the new limitation on artillery. Why are there five units allowed? Is it possible to make it three?
There were simply too many high-tier games with massive amounts of artillery. Artillery is imbalanced, so many people have been playing it.
That’s part of the reason why we need a maximum cap on artillery.
If the limit is three SPGs per battle, the result is awful queue times. It messes with the matchmaker too much, so until we move to tier 10 artillery, this is a
temporary arrangement.
We’re partly addressing the problem through rebalancing. Once we have the rebalancing and other changes in, it’ll even out.
Are you going to introduce battles without artillery?
Such battles may appear occasionally, when there are no SPGs waiting in the queue.
We don’t plan to make battles without SPGs, or TDs, or without light tanks or medium tanks, no.
Why are there so many light tanks in some battles? Do you plan to fix it somehow?
The same as before, in some battles you see too many light tanks, and that’s simply because so many people are waiting to play in those particular tanks. More
light tanks in the queue will mean more battles with more light tanks.
We can’t keep them waiting, and light tanks are not as specific as artillery, so we don’t plan to remove them from the queue or put restrictions on them, for now.
Not so long ago you introduced the British line of tanks, now we are waiting for the Chinese tanks, but they don’t feature artillery.
There are always many reasons, and they are different in each case.
In regard to the British, we haven’t had the time resources to build a quality artillery line yet.
In regard to the Chinese tanks, we haven’t formed their complete SPG list yet.
Historically, China has not revealed much information about their defense programs during the era we’re interested in.
The fact that we received information about their engineering projects and formed two lines of medium and heavy tanks is a real miracle -- that means they
respect our company.
We will be able to form these lines when our Chinese colleagues have completed their research of the Chinese TDs and SPGs.
And the British vehicles?… they are next in line.
They will appear soon — as soon as possible.
I can understand why players are anxious to see them, and it’s something we’re excited about too. We’re going to get there, but some people will still worry.
Other people will just play the game and won’t worry about rumors or updates, or when or if something will happen.
Guys, everything is gonna be alright. �
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A side-effect of radiation therapy in the head and neck region is injury to surrounding healthy tissues such as irreversible impaired function of the salivary glands. irradiated salivary glands. This study highlights the potential of HBOT to inhibit the TGF-pathway in irradiated salivary glands and to restrain consequential radiation induced tissue injury. INTRODUCTION Treatment of head and neck cancer routinely involves radiation therapy (RT), which not only affects tumor tissue, but also the surrounding healthy tissues. Because of their position, salivary glands are often in the radiation portal. Radiation-induced damage to salivary glands is irreversible and results in chronic hyposalivation and a change in saliva composition, leading to a subjective feeling of a dry mouth called xerostomia which greatly affects quality of life. Despite salivary gland GSK1120212 sparing techniques such GSK1120212 as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), the surgical transfer of major salivary glands outside the radiation field and the use of cytoprotectants, xerostomia remains a significant problem after radiotherapeutic treatment of malignancies in the head and neck area (1). Unlike other slowly dividing tissues, salivary glands respond acutely to radiation treatment. Whereas acinar cell number remains unaltered, salivary flow GSK1120212 rates drop dramatically at early time points after RT (~0C10 d). It has been proposed that this is due to radiation-induced damage to the plasma membranes, since no cell loss is visible yet (2,3). In the chronic stage of radiation damage (~120C240 d), a lack of functional acinar cells and replacement by connective tissue and fibrosis causes the diminished salivary flow (4). In this phase, some generation of acinar cells does take place, nonetheless it can be suggested that the brand new cells cannot function correctly due to harm of ducts, arteries and nerves (5). Hyperbaric air therapy (HBOT), where patients inhale 100% air under raised pressure, continues to be used for nearly 40 years to take care of rays injuries. Increased air concentration in conjunction with raised pressure raises cells oxygen tension as much as ten moments. As oxygen under great pressure can be dissolved in plasma, it could reach in any other case hypoxic areas with obstructed blood circulation, like radiation-injured cells. Regarding the avoidance or treatment of xerostomia, some medical trials report results of HBOT (6C8), mainly measured by standard of living questionnaires. Experimental proof on the helpful ramifications of HBOT on irradiated salivary glands can be nevertheless scarce (9). Inside a earlier research we showed an elevated blood vessel denseness in irradiated mouse salivary glands in response to HBOT (10). In additional cells and cells, it’s been demonstrated that vascular Mouse monoclonal to CD15.DW3 reacts with CD15 (3-FAL ), a 220 kDa carbohydrate structure, also called X-hapten. CD15 is expressed on greater than 95% of granulocytes including neutrophils and eosinophils and to a varying degree on monodytes, but not on lymphocytes or basophils. CD15 antigen is important for direct carbohydrate-carbohydrate interaction and plays a role in mediating phagocytosis, bactericidal activity and chemotaxis endothelial development factor (VEGF) amounts can rise in reaction to HBOT (11,12), and angiogenesis could be advertised (13,14). Besides influencing angiogenesis, air also is involved with other key procedures connected with wound curing, such as for example modulating cytokine launch, accelerating microbial oxidative eliminating, modulating leukocyte activation and adhesion, and reducing apoptosis (15). The consequences of HBOT on gene manifestation have already been analyzed in neurons, osteoblasts and endothelial cells, maximally 24 h following a solitary HBO treatment (16C18). In every three cell types, an upregulation from the oxidative tension response was reported. Within an style of rat ischemic mind, genes from GSK1120212 the neurotrophin program and inflammatory immune response were affected after five consecutive HBO treatments (19). In patients with nonhealing wounds, an upregulation of genes involved in extracellular matrix remodeling and angiogenesis was reported after HBOT (19,20). Thus far, the effects of HBOT on gene expression in irradiated tissues have not been studied in an model. In this study, we explore the molecular pathways that are influenced by HBOT in irradiated salivary glands of mice by means of microarray analysis. By understanding basic HBOT mechanisms, the clinical implementation of HBOT for accepted indications can be improved. MATERIALS AND METHODS Animals Female C3H mice, 7C9 wks old, were treated with radiotherapy (RT) and/or hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as described before (21). The experimental protocol was approved by the Animal Care Committee of Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (protocol IDs.
Mitochondria play a key function in aerobic ATP creation and redox
Mitochondria play a key function in aerobic ATP creation and redox control. porphyrin band. Increasing along the aliphatic string in one carbon (methyl) to six carbons (hexyl) elevated mitochondrial uptake from the substances. Such adjustments also affected sub-mitochondrial distribution from the Zn-porphyrins. The amphiphilic hexyl derivative (ZnTnHex-2-PyP) localized near cytochrome c oxidase complicated, leading to its inactivation during lighting. Photoinactivation of important cellular targets points out the superior performance from the hexyl derivative in leading to mitochondrial photodamage, and suppressing mobile respiration and success. Design of powerful photosensitizers and redox-active 878419-78-4 scavengers of free of charge radicals should consider not merely selective organelle uptake and localization, but additionally selective concentrating on 878419-78-4 of important macromolecular structures. Launch The function of mitochondria in aerobic energy creation, redox control, and different exclusive metabolic pathways, makes these organelles needed for survival of all eukaryotic cells. Mitochondria play an integral function in cell loss of life mechanisms, and cancers development is connected with suppression of apoptotic pathways [1]. Although tumor cell fat burning capacity is seen as a a change towards elevated need for glycolysis [2], mitochondria stay very important to cell survival. Provided their metabolic importance and particular characteristics (specially the transmembrane electrochemical potential from the mitochondrial internal membrane), developing mitochondria-directed chemotherapy through concentrating on mitochondrial buildings and functions is now an attractive method of tumor cell control [3], [4]. Photosensitizers are substances with the capacity of absorbing light energy and by transferring it to various other, non-absorbing substances, have the ability to induce chemical substance reactions. The photodynamic reactions focus on absorption of the photon with the photosensitizer increasing it for an thrilled state. Responding with air, the thrilled photosensitizer molecule Rabbit polyclonal to SP3 can generate either singlet 878419-78-4 air (1O2) or superoxide anion radical (O2 .?) [5]. For factors discussed at length somewhere else [6], singlet air is definitely the main reason behind phototoxicity in photodynamic therapy. It really is a robust oxidant that may react using a multiplicity of biomolecules, including lipids, protein, and nucleic acids [7]. The speed constants for the result of 1O2 with different biomolecules vary over a variety, which outcomes in selective harm to particular substances and buildings [8]. Singlet air life time in cells is certainly significantly less than 4.0 s, limiting its diffusion length to no more than 150 nm [9], meaning the initial harm due to singlet air produced at a specific intracellular location is going to be small in space. As a result, cell damage and its own implications, including induction and execution of cell loss of life pathways, depends on the location 878419-78-4 from the photosensitizer [10], [11]. Consequently, photodynamic therapy efficacy is dependent not only around the selective accumulation but also in the subcellular localization of the photosensitizer. Photosensitizers that localize to mitochondria tend to be more effective in eliminating cells than the ones that localize at various other mobile sites [12]. Rational style of mitochondria-targeting agencies requires detailed knowledge of molecular features that instruction and immediate the molecule to particular buildings. Generally, two principles have already been used to provide a molecule mitochondria-targeting capability: (1) Connection of the mitochondria-targeting peptide series; and (2) Mix of lipophilic residues with cationic groupings, hence exploiting the high membrane potential over the internal mitochondrial membrane [13], [14]. Using porphyrin as a simple structure, in today’s study we looked into molecular adjustments that immediate the substance to mitochondria. Our outcomes demonstrate that connection of positively billed pyridyl nitrogens at positions and six-carbon aliphatic stores on the porphyrin band periphery, directs the molecule to mitochondria. The Zn(II)was dissolved in 50 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.5 to provide your final concentration of just one 1.2 mM. A pinch of Na2S2O4 was utilized to reduce the answer of cytochrome oxidase was assayed in unchanged cells and in unchanged and permeabilized isolated mitochondria. Mitochondria had been permeabilized by sonication (Soniprep 150, MSE, UK, sonicator) for.
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One of the important function of Rho-dependent transcription termination in bacterias would be to prevent gene expressions in the bacteriophage DNA. the elongation complicated moves from the site. In the unusual NusA-dependence real estate of the Rho mutant E134K, a suppressor of N, we deduced which the N-NusA complex within the anti-termination equipment reduces the performance of Rho by detatching NusA in the termination pathway. We suggest that NusA-remodelling can be among the mechanisms utilized by N to get over the termination indicators. Launch The factor-dependent transcription termination in bacterias is normally buy Troxerutin carried out by way of a homo-hexameric RNA-dependent ATPase, known as Rho (1C3). Within this termination procedure, Rho initially identifies 70C80 buy Troxerutin nt of unstructured C-rich series referred to as rho usage (site (9). It really is envisioned which the Rho-dependent termination in bacterias has evolved not merely to enforce a early termination of RNA synthesis in case there is the failing of ribosome-loading onto the mRNA but additionally to play a significant function in avoiding the deleterious ramifications of transcription from the international DNA injected with the bacteriophages (3). The anti-termination strategies of the bacteriophages had been primarily made to fight Rho-dependent termination procedure (10,11). Generally, these strategies involve the adjustments from the EC by phage-coded elements (proteins or RNA) so that it could go through the terminator indicators without obtaining dislodged in the template DNA. N proteins coded with the lambdoid phages is really a well-known anti-terminator that modifies the web host RNA polymerase (RNAP) during the transcription elongation process together with the Nus factors (NusA, NusG, NusB and NusE) of the host transcription machinery. This modification helps the EC to express the middle and late genes of lambdoid phages by suppressing many Rho-dependent and -independent terminators present on the phage DNA (10,11). N is a small RNA-binding protein that interacts with a RNA-hairpin structure (region of the site (14), and subsequently this N-NusA-RNA complex works as a platform to recruit other Nus factors (15; also see the cartoons in Figure 1). The C-terminal regions of N binds to the RNAP (13) near the RNA exit channel of the latter (16), which may involve penetration of part of this region of N into the active centre of the EC (17). This configuration of N-Nus-EC complex makes the transcription elongation process on the phage DNA highly processive over a long distance (10). Open in a separate window Figure 1. buy Troxerutin Cartoons showing the possible hypotheses for overcoming Rho-dependent termination by N. (A) When the EC is near the site, Rho action can be inhibited by N either by a direct competition mechanism for the same site on the nascent RNA (left panel) or N and Rho can co-occupy the same site, and this configuration delays the Rho activation step(s) (ring-closure and initiation Rabbit polyclonal to ZNF182 of ATP hydrolysis; right panel). (B) When the EC moves away from the site, Rho can be excluded by N modification of the RNA exit channel through which Rho is likely to approach the RNAP. (C) N functionally removes NusA and NusG from the Rho-dependent termination buy Troxerutin pathway by remodelling the interactions. The mechanism of N-mediated suppression of RNA hairpin-dependent termination has been studied in detail (16,18,19). However, the mechanism of anti-termination of the Rho-dependent termination by N is not known. In this report, we have provided genetic and biochemical evidence for a multipronged strategy used by N to overcome the Rho function. We showed that N (i) inactivates Rho at the site by forming a N-NusA-Rho ternary complex, which renders slow rate of ATP hydrolysis of the former; (ii) exerts anti-termination most likely by modifying the RNA exit channel of the EC, which is operational even far away from the site; and finally (iii) removes NusA from the Rho-dependent termination path. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bacterial strains, phages and plasmids Bacterial strains, plasmids and phages used in this study are listed in Supplementary Table S4. All the anti-termination assays were performed in different derivatives of racstrain MC4100. The strains GJ5147 and RS445 used buy Troxerutin in -galactosidase assays consist of single-copy P(GJ5147) or P(RS445) reporter cassettes as RS45 lysogen. Stress RS1017 was built by shifting PH-19B reporter cassette by RS45 mediated transduction from pRS992 in to the stress RS257. This create offers two terminators and attached sequentially. Stress RS1018 and RS1019 had been also built by shifting Pand Prespectivelyin the same manner into RS257. Temperature-sensitive (ts) allele of [(ts)] was shifted to RS445, RS734 and RS1017, leading to.
Our prior paper (Wilkinson RecBCD complex, which functions in both the
Our prior paper (Wilkinson RecBCD complex, which functions in both the restoration of double-stranded DNA breaks and the degradation of bacteriophage DNA. For example, phage Gam is a potent inhibitor of the RecBCD complex that helps to protect the phage DNA from degradation (Sakaki et al., 1973; Murphy, 1991). With this work, we present the structure of Gam bound to RecBCD unveiling an inhibition mechanism based on protein mimicry of a DSB. We also display that and cells expressing Gam are hypersensitive to ciprofloxacin. Moreover, inhibition of RecBCD can restore susceptibility to laboratory-selected mutants and medical isolates of that are fluoroquinolone resistant. More generally, we argue that the study of additional phage-encoded DNA mimics will help to identify novel antibiotic focuses on and new mechanisms for target inhibition. Results Gam interacts with the DNA-binding site of RecBCD The Gam protein is present in two isoforms called GamL and GamS which differ in length (Sakaki et al., 1973). Earlier work has shown that GamS inhibits RecBCD by competing with DNA binding (Court et al., 2007; Murphy, 2007). The structure we present here, of the GamS dimer complexed with RecBCD, was determined by cryo-electron microscopy at 3.8 ? resolution (Number 1, Number 1source data 1, Number 1figure health supplements 1 and ?and2,2, Video 1). It reveals the GamS protein does indeed act as a steric block to the binding of DNA (Number 1). The connection with the duplex DNA-binding arm of the RecB subunit is definitely considerable and overlaps completely with that of the duplex DNA binding site (Number 1 and Video 2). buy Calcitriol (Rocaltrol) Furthermore, one of the long N-terminal helical extensions of GamS buy Calcitriol (Rocaltrol) inserts deeply into RecBCD. It occupies a channel that normally accommodates the nascent 3-ssDNA tail bound to the RecB helicase subunit, increasing the extent of the steric block (Number 1). Although the structure buy Calcitriol (Rocaltrol) of the RecBCD complex is definitely closest to that of the initiation complex (Singleton et al., 2004) it responds to the?binding of Gam by small changes in conformation. The 2B and C-terminal domains of the RecC subunit together with the 2B website of RecB move like a unit away from the RecB helicase domains. The RecD subunit can be much more versatile. Video 1. cells expressing Gam are hypersensitive to ciprofloxacin Quinolone antibacterials focus on DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV and destroy cells by stabilising covalent topoisomerase-DNA adducts to create DSBs. In line with the level of sensitivity of cells to quinolones (Henderson and Kreuzer, 2015; Gonzlez-Soltero et al., 2015; Tamae et al., 2008; McDaniel et al., 1978) as well as the well-characterised part of RecBCD within the restoration of DSBs (Dillingham and Kowalczykowski, 2008), we hypothesised that manifestation of Gam would potentiate the getting rid of ramifications of ciprofloxacin. To check this hypothesis, we manufactured pBAD plasmids expressing both isoforms of Gam (GamL and GamS) from an arabinose-inducible promoter. Within the lack of ciprofloxacin, manifestation of Gam got no apparent influence on the viability of (Shape 3figure health supplement 1). We following likened the ciprofloxacin minimum amount inhibitory focus (MIC) against cells either expressing Gam or including a clear buy Calcitriol (Rocaltrol) vector create. In broth tradition, manifestation of either GamS or GamL decreased the MIC by around four-fold set alongside the control, and equal results were acquired using spot testing on agar plates (Shape 3A ITGAV and Shape 3figure health supplement 1). The MIC potentiation impact was reliant on arabinose (Shape 3figure health supplement 1) and specific for quinolone-induced DSBs; equivalent experiments measuring the MIC for ampicillin showed no effect of Gam (data not shown). These experiments demonstrate, at the biochemical level, the synthetic lethality observed between topoisomerase malfunction and RecBCD in gene knockout studies (Tamae et al., 2008). Open in a separate window Figure 3. Inhibition of bacterial DSB repair potentiates fluoroquinolone antibiotics.(A) Ciprofloxacin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) assay against MG1655 cells in the presence or absence of Gam isoforms as indicated. Experiments were performed as described in the Materials?and?methods in the presence of arabinose to induce expression of the small or large isoforms of Gam. Control experiments were performed under identical conditions with the empty pBADK expression vector. (B) Disc susceptibility assays are standardised tests that quantify.
Chagas disease is a neglected disease due to the protozoan and
Chagas disease is a neglected disease due to the protozoan and affects 8 million people worldwide. thiol transporter is vital to reveal fresh molecular systems for therapeutic techniques within the Chagas disease. on the planet, mainly in Latin America, where in fact the disease can be endemic (WHO, 2012). Notwithstanding, many cases have already been reported in non-endemic areas such as for example European countries, THE UNITED STATES, Japan and Australia as consequence of migratory procedures (Bern and Montgomery, 2009). Chagas disease happens in two stages: severe and chronic. Acute Chagas disease can be seen as a high parasitemia, becoming identified in few individuals due to lack or non-specificity of medical symptoms (Bern, 2015). Chronic Chagas disease starts about two or three three months after disease and it has been divided within the determinate and indeterminate forms. About 70% of individuals present positive serology for without detectable anatomic-physiological changes, being classified in the indeterminate form (Coura, 2007). The other amount may develop the cardiac, digestive or cardiodigestive forms (Rassi et al., 2012) along the years (determinate form). Chronic cardiac form is the most expressive manifestation of Chagas disease because of its frequency and severity (Rassi et al., CCND1 2009). Chagas’ disease chemotherapy is performed with benznidazole or nifurtimox, drugs that not only are genotoxic but also present severe side effects that might lead to treatment interruption (Rassi et al., 2012). Successful chemotherapy depends on several factors: the stage of disease, patient’s age, and biochemical characteristics of the strain. A critical feature related to failure in chemotherapy relies on resistance mechanisms, observed in na?ve or in selected strains during the treatment. Resistance to benznidazole and nifurtimox have been reported in a study evaluating 26 strains (Filardi and Brener, 1987). Additionally, the treatment with both drugs can induce resistance in distinct strains and spp. genome, four ABCB subfamily genes were identified. Two genes are ABCB1 homologs, encoding typical ABCB2 and ABCB4 proteins (Sauvage et al., 2009). Parasites transfected with the ABCB2 gene showed a reduction in the accumulation of the anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil, suggesting a role in the efflux of xenobiotics (Katakura et al., 2004). ABCB4 transporter contributed in cross-resistance to the leishmanicidal drugs miltefosine and edelfosine (Perez-Victoria et al., 2001). The two other genes from show atypical structures and unknown functions (Sauvage et al., 2009). From ABCC subfamily, ABCC3 (MRPA or PGPA) protein was the first identified in spp. and participates in the transport of metal-thiol conjugates to vesicles (Legare et al., 2001). Additional ABCC subfamily genes referred to up to now are ABCC2 (also called PGPB), ABCC1 (PGPC), ABCC5 (PGPD), and ABCC4 (PGPE), neither linked to the MDR phenotype (Sauvage et al., 2009). The final described person in subfamily ABCC may be the ABCC7 transporter, also called PRP1 (pentamidine level of resistance SGI-1776 protein-1), due to its capability to confer level of resistance to pentamidine (Coelho et al., 2003). In genome, 27 ABC genes had been determined (Leprohon et al., 2006), including tcpgp1 (Dallagiovanna et al., 1994) and tcpgp2 (Dallagiovanna et al., 1996) the first ever to be referred to. Although they participate in the ABC family members, their tasks in medication level of resistance are still questionable (Dallagiovanna et al., 1996; Murta et al., 2001; Campos et al., 2013). In 2003, Peelman et al. (2003) determined an ABCA-like transporter (called ABCA3). ABCA3 can be a single duplicate gene expressed across the SGI-1776 parasite existence routine, except in infective trypomastigote forms. This proteins was situated in the plasma membrane, flagellar pocket, and intracellular vesicles, probably involved with vesicular trafficking (Torres et al., 2004). Lately, an ABCG-like transporter, SGI-1776 called ABCG1, was discovered to become overexpressed in strains normally resistant to benznidazole. Furthermore, the transfection of the transporter in CL Brener stress increased medication level of resistance (Zingales et al., 2015). Due to the fact, medication level of resistance can be an obstacle to the treating Chagas disease, ABC protein could SGI-1776 be regarded as.
Fear renewal, the context-specific relapse of fear following fear extinction, is
Fear renewal, the context-specific relapse of fear following fear extinction, is a leading animal model of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) and fear-related disorders. become elucidated. Here, we found that both the excitatory synaptic effectiveness and GluA2-lacking AMPAR activity at thalamic input synapses onto the LA (T-LA synapses) were enhanced upon ABA renewal. GluA2-lacking AMPAR activity was also 1352066-68-2 manufacture improved during low-threshold potentiation, a potential mobile substrate of renewal, at T-LA synapses. The microinjection of 1-naphtylacetyl-spermine (NASPM), a selective blocker of GluA2-missing AMPARs, in to the LA attenuated ABA renewal, recommending a critical function of GluA2-missing AMPARs in ABA renewal. We also discovered that Ser831 phosphorylation of GluA1 within the LA was elevated upon ABA renewal. We created a brief peptide mimicking the Ser831-filled with C-tail area of GluA1, which may be phosphorylated upon renewal (GluA1S); hence, the phosphorylated GluA1S may contend with Ser831-phosphorylated GluA1. This GluA1S peptide obstructed the low-threshold potentiation when dialyzed right into a documented neuron. The microinjection of the cell-permeable type of GluA1S peptide in to the LA attenuated ABA renewal. To get the GluA1S tests, a GluA1D peptide (where the serine at 831 is normally changed with a 1352066-68-2 manufacture phosphomimetic amino acidity, aspartate) attenuated ABA renewal when microinjected in to the LA. These results suggest that improvements in both GluA2-missing AMPAR activity and GluA1 phosphorylation at Ser831 are necessary for ABA renewal. Mouse monoclonal to CD25.4A776 reacts with CD25 antigen, a chain of low-affinity interleukin-2 receptor ( IL-2Ra ), which is expressed on activated cells including T, B, NK cells and monocytes. The antigen also prsent on subset of thymocytes, HTLV-1 transformed T cell lines, EBV transformed B cells, myeloid precursors and oligodendrocytes. The high affinity IL-2 receptor is formed by the noncovalent association of of a ( 55 kDa, CD25 ), b ( 75 kDa, CD122 ), and g subunit ( 70 kDa, CD132 ). The interaction of IL-2 with IL-2R induces the activation and proliferation of T, B, NK cells and macrophages. CD4+/CD25+ cells might directly regulate the function of responsive T cells Launch Fear-related psychological disorders, such as for example PTSD and phobia, are medically challenging to take care of as the symptoms highly relapse also after comprehensive exposure-based therapy [1], [2]. Dread renewal is among the most appealing animal types of dread relapse, wherein pre-acquired dread is normally attenuated by extinction but afterwards relapses without explicit relearning [3]. As well as other animal versions, such as for example reinstatement and 1352066-68-2 manufacture spontaneous recovery, renewal continues to be widely 1352066-68-2 manufacture investigated on the systems and behavioral amounts [4]C[7]. In order to avoid contextual affects, extinction is frequently carried out within a different context from the original fear conditioning. The extinguished fear can relapse when the subject is definitely presented with a conditioned stimulus (CS) in the same context in which the fear conditioning was performed (ABA renewal) or in a third context distinct from your context where the fear conditioning or extinction was carried out (ABC renewal). Although both ABA and ABC renewal demonstrate the context-dependency of extinction learning, their mechanisms and manifestations have been shown to differ clearly in several elements [8]C[14]. The dorsal hippocampus takes on a critical part in ABC renewal [15], [16], but not ABA renewal [4], [17]. In addition, blockade of kappa opioid receptor in the ventral hippocampus has a significant effect on ABA renewal, but not ABC renewal [7], [8]. Therefore, it is important to study these two forms of fear renewal individually. Clinically, ABA renewal can be particularly important because it is definitely well defined in humans [11], and PTSD individuals often encounter flashbacks that are induced by exposure to the contextual aspects of traumatic remembrances [18]. The LA is known to be an important brain structure where CSs and unconditioned stimuli are connected during the acquisition of fear memory space [19]. Lesions or inactivation of the LA result in attenuation in fear conditioning [20], [21]. The thalamic input synapses onto the lateral amygdala (T-LA synapses); the T-LA synapse is known to transmit acoustic CS info to the whole amygdaloid complex, is definitely potentiated upon fear learning [22], [23], and is depotentiated by fear extinction [24], [25] in concert with a change in the neural network between the basolateral amygdala, the ventral hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex [5], [6], [26]C[28]. Although the mechanisms underlying fear acquisition and extinction have been well defined, the synaptic and molecular mechanisms underlying fear renewal remain relatively unknown. In our recent study on ABC renewal [29], we have demonstrated that Ser831 phosphorylation of GluA1 in the LA is required for renewal and that the activity of GluA2-lacking AMPARs is definitely enhanced upon renewal. Since ABA renewal offers been shown to differ from ABC renewal in several aspects, it is critical to determine whether Ser831 phosphorylation of GluA1 in the LA is also required for ABA renewal. It also remains to be elucidated whether the activity of GluA2-lacking AMPARs is required for.
The fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides (SP) from brown algae exhibit a wide
The fucose-containing sulfated polysaccharides (SP) from brown algae exhibit a wide range of bioactivities and so are, therefore, considered promising candidates for health-supporting and medicinal applications. S.l.-SP than S.l. in the Baltic Ocean and S.l. harvested in spring, respectively. In conclusion, Dovitinib this study exhibited that habitat and harvest time of brown algae should be considered as factors influencing the yield as well as the composition and thus also the bioactivity of their SP. (S.l.). Whereas there are hundreds of publications concerning the fucoidan of and some other species, the SP of S.l. (S.l.-SP) have as of yet only been described by the group of Usov, who isolated them from S.l. growing in the Atlantic Ocean [18], as well as in the White and Barents Seas [19]. In pharmacological studies, they displayed a encouraging activity profile [20,21,22]. Amazingly, in a comparative study of nine different fucoidans isolated from nine species of brown algae, the fucoidan from (syn. about 35 psu) and its very small tidal amplitude. Further differences concern e.g., waves, sea current, availability of hard substrate, diversity of species and occurrence of epibionts. To investigate whether these features have any impact on the S.l.-SP, additionally S.l. from your Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic was used for extraction. Since previous investigations showed that this harvest time influenced yield and purity of the sulfated xylogalactans (D.s.-SP) extracted from your reddish alga (D.s.) [14], extractions were also performed with S.l. batches harvested at different months. The obtained S.l.-SP batches and fractions were structurally analyzed and tested for two exemplary pharmacological effects, namely the inhibition of human polymorphonuclear neutrophil elastase and the anticoagulant activity. These activities were selected, as the applied fluorimetric elastase assay Dovitinib and the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) were simple and validated methods and thus useful for comparative screening [23,24]. 2. Results 2.1. Extraction of Crude Sulfated Polysaccharides of Saccharina latissima (S.l.-SP) from Four S.l. Batches In the run-up to this project, the most appropriate extraction and purification procedure for S.l. was established and standardized. By targeted modifications Rabbit Polyclonal to GATA4 of the process, overall 28 S.l. extracts were produced and compared. The standardized process that was ultimately used led to Dovitinib S.l. extracts mainly consisting of sulfated polysaccharides (crude S.l.-SP). Since the applied standardized isolation process turned out to be still associated with certain variability of yield and structure of crude S.l.-SP, every S.l. batch gathered in the Baltic Ocean was extracted six situations and each S.l. batch gathered in the Atlantic Sea was extracted eight situations, respectively. 2.1.1. Structure of Crude S.l.-SPThe composition from the crude S.l.-SP based on elemental analysis revealed significant differences in dependence of both habitat and harvest period of S.l. (Desk 1). Desk 1 Basic Features from the Crude S.l.-SP Extracted from 4 S.l. Batches a. 0.017n.s.0.020B05 v. A05 0.0010.012n.s.0.0030.010B05 Dovitinib v. A090.008 0.0010.0190.002 0.001B06 v. A05 0.001n.s.0.0050.0210.041B06 v. A090.0020.003n.s.0.002 0.001A05 v. A09n.s.0.016.0.0030.0400.013 Open up in another window a Data are presented as means SD of a minimum of six crude S.l.-SP extracts extracted from each one of the 4 S.l. batches; b The items of glycans, sulfate (indicated as ?Thus3Na) and proteins (0.037n.s.n.s.B05 v. A050.0250.0250.0020.003n.s.B05 v. A090.004 0.0010.0020.002n.s.B06 v. A050.0190.012 0.0010.021n.s.B06 v. A090.004 0.001 0.0010.002n.s.A05 v. A09n.s.n.s.0.0040.0400.011 Open up in another window a Data are presented because the mean SD of a minimum of six crude S.l.-SP extracts extracted from each one of the 4 S.l. batches; b Amount from the produces (%) of fucose, galactose and sodium sulfate; c Produce (%) of blood sugar; d DS computed as ?SO3Na residues per monosaccharide linked to this content of total glycans; e DS computed as ?SO3Na residues per monosaccharide linked to this content of fucose and galactose. Fractionation and additional analyses from the crude S.l.-SP revealed that virtually all sulfate groupings were bound to fucose and galactose residues so the matching polymers (FGSP) Dovitinib were likely to represent the bioactive the different parts of crude S.l.-SP. As a result, the produces (%, linked to dried out mass) had been recalculated for the FGSP percentage and also for the blood sugar percentage being a tough signal for laminarin. As proven in Desk 3, the FGSP produces from A-S.l. had been about three situations greater than those from B-S.l., whereas those of blood sugar were around three situations lower. Because the co-extracted laminarin is certainly unsulfated, it could be regarded as a diluent from the FGSP percentage as well as the charge thickness from the sulfated polymers is certainly higher than shown with the DS from the crude S.l.-SP. This is confirmed with the DS computed.
A 29-year-old female offered intermittent nausea, vomiting, fevers, abdominal pain and
A 29-year-old female offered intermittent nausea, vomiting, fevers, abdominal pain and fatigue. The part of tumour necrosis element (TNF) in the pathogenesis of sclerosing mesenteritis is definitely unknown; however, it is HCAP known that TNF is an important pro-inflammatory mediator of the systemic immune response. Specifically, TNF has been identified as an important regulator of chronic swelling in several additional related disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.1 In a small open-label pilot study, five individuals with symptomatic mesenteric panniculitis were treated with thalidomide and showed a development toward improvement of symptoms, including a reduced erythrocyte sedimentation price.2 Among various other effects, thalidomide may suppress TNF, which might play a substantial function in therapy. Therefore, we hypothesised that anti-TNF therapy will be a great choice because of this individual and safer than thalidomide. Post-treatment initiation, the individual has had nearly complete quality of her abdominal discomfort, her lab markers of disease possess considerably improved and she no more uses chronic prednisone or narcotics for discomfort management. She also offers improvement within the CT appearance of her disorder, that is not really typically noticed with various other therapies.2C5 To conclude, this case highlights a fascinating presentation of the rare and elusive disease and introduces a fresh potential therapy that could suggest a job for TNF within the underlying disease pathogenesis. Case display A 29-year-old feminine offered recurrent, intermittent, non-localising stomach pain. The discomfort was frequent, however, not always, connected with consuming and coincided with subjective fever, nausea, throwing up, early satiety and exhaustion. During the period of a year, weight reduction (9 kg) and meals avoidance were noticed without diarrhoea, bloodstream per rectum or melena. While usually healthy, the individual experienced these painful episodes lasting a long time with increasing regularity and duration. Various other pertinent medical ailments included youth asthma in remission, hypersensitive rhinitis, hypertension, a confident purified proteins derivative that were treated with isoniazid, and normocytic anaemia related to -thalassemia characteristic. The individual was a nonsmoker, who didn’t drink excessive alcoholic beverages and was neither obese buy 19408-84-5 nor pregnant. She acquired a prior cholecystectomy for presumed biliary colic in just a year ahead of this display. Physical evaluation revealed an tummy that was gentle, non-distended, without public palpable and diffuse tenderness. Unusual lab assessments included an increased erythrocyte sedimentation price in excess of 100 on two split events. Occult malignancy, vasculitis or chronic mesenteric ischaemia was regarded as of this juncture. To judge additional, a CT scan and an endoscopy from the tummy were obtained. The individual had a standard colonoscopy and barium enema. Top endoscopy was grossly regular; however, histopathology recommended Barrett’s oesophagitis. The individual was treated with omeprazole without scientific improvement. A CT check of the tummy buy 19408-84-5 revealed nonspecific inflammatory changes inside the mesentery and little colon thickening (amount 1A). A following CT scan demonstrated interval development of inflammation furthermore to two peripheral portal vein thromboses within the still left and correct hepatic lobe. Abdominal, mesenteric, bilateral renal and ileocolic arteriograms demonstrated no vasculitis or renal arterial stenosis. Her hypercoagulable analysis uncovered heterozygosity for aspect V Leiden along with a somewhat reduced antithrombin III (ATIII) level. The individual started anticoagulation with warfarin. Open up in another window Amount 1 Inflammatory radiographic adjustments improve after initiation of infliximab (A) Three buy 19408-84-5 transverse CT images show extensive small bowel wall thickening (*) in multiple loops of bowel. Diffuse infiltration and stranding of adjacent mesentery (solid arrows) is also present. Intraperitoneal.
Onchocerciasis (river blindness), due to the filarial nematode contains an obligatory
Onchocerciasis (river blindness), due to the filarial nematode contains an obligatory bacterial symbiont ((density in worm tissues were assessed. sub-Saharan Africa, despite 4 decades of concerted control efforts (1). The etiological agent, (a species of filarial worm endemic to Central Africa) (7), continued transmission of onchocerciasis in perennial-transmission zones despite 15 to 18 years of MDA (8, 9), evidence of decreased ivermectin susceptibility in some worm populations (10, 11), variable compliance with MDA within affected communities (12), and a lack of adulticidal efficacy against the parasite (13). Until relatively recently, no safe adulticidal drug for onchocerciasis existed. This changed with the identification of endobacteria (order symbionts (16, 19). Clinical Oglemilast supplier trials of doxycycline (DOX) for human onchocerciasis were applied rapidly, which achieved sterilization of female worms using a regimen of 200 mg/day for 4 weeks (20) or 100 mg/day for 5 weeks (21). However, significant adulticidal activity (killing of 60 to 70% of female worms) required a regimen of 200 mg/day for 6 weeks (20). This relatively protracted course of treatment, coupled with contraindications in children below 8 years of age and in pregnant or lactating Oglemilast supplier women, have prevented approval of DOX for MDA to date; this is despite the very high rates of compliance evident in a clinical trial that was conducted in a region of Cameroon where loiasis is usually endemic (22). Nevertheless, DOX has been applied in a small onchocerciasis focus in Venezuela to expedite removal efforts (23). Experiments performed using isolated worms or trials in rodent models (27, 28), have indicated that rifampin (RIF) is at least as effective as the tetracyclines for symbiont depletion and, indeed, may be superior. However, two human trials of RIF for onchocerciasis failed to demonstrate that this bactericide could truncate the therapeutic duration significantly, as a 5-day regimen had no effect on either adult worms or Oglemilast supplier microfilarial densities (29), whereas 2-week and 4-week regimens induced a partial embryostatic effect but were not adulticidal (30). Although these data were equivocal, there remains the possibility that a combination of a tetracycline and RIF substantially shortens the regimen required to accomplish potent adulticidal effects. A major challenge in onchocerciasis research is the failure of spp. to complete their life cycles in rodent models. However, in cattle, (31), has been used extensively to investigate drug efficacy for onchocerciasis, and numerous bovine research have displayed strong concordance with data obtained from human chemotherapeutic trials (18, 32, 33). Importantly, adult worms of reside in intradermal nodules with a histological structure highly similar to that of nodules per animal, were bought from markets over the Adamawa Area of Cameroon (Vina Department) and set up on the Institut de Recherche Agricole put le Dveloppement (IRAD), Regional Center of Wakwa, where transmitting of NOTCH1 is normally negligible. The pretreatment documenting of nodule placement as well as the randomization of pets into treatment groupings had been performed as previously defined (35). Assessments of antibiotic efficiency were executed in two consecutive tests (Desk 1); the very first likened constant 3-week or 6-week OXY monotherapy (OXY3 and OXY6, respectively) with an extended intermittent OXY regimen (PIR) (36), whereas the next was made to determine whether a 3-week RIF-plus-OXY mixture regimen (COM) was more advanced than 3 weeks of RIF or OXY monotherapy. These tests utilized different pets, apart from two cows in the initial control (CON-1) group, that have been reused in the next control (CON-2) group. Four pets from test 1 and something animal from test 2 died prior to the research were finished (Desks 1 and ?and2)2) from causes unrelated to either onchocerciasis or the prescription drugs. TABLE 1 Test sizes and treatment regimens for tests 1 and 2 in normally contaminated cattle nodules normally include a one female worm along with a variable amount of men (0 to 10). cMotility was have scored on the 3-point range after incubation of worms for 30 Oglemilast supplier min.
Band 3 is the most abundant protein in the erythrocyte membrane
Band 3 is the most abundant protein in the erythrocyte membrane and forms the core of a major multiprotein complex. of band 3 and of its associated dependent proteins within the reticulocyte membrane during the process of erythroblast enucleation. Introduction The bicarbonate/chloride exchanger band 3 is the most abundant membrane protein in the erythrocyte membrane where, alongside its transport function, it performs a critical role in maintaining red cell structural integrity. Band 3 is an important component of at least two major multiprotein complexes, the ankyrin Calcipotriol monohydrate and junctional membrane complexes that serve as sites of vertical association between the plasma membrane and the underlying spectrin-based cytoskeleton.1,2 The N-terminal domain name (1C359 amino acids) is responsible for the association with the cytoskeleton, possessing binding sites for ankyrin,3 protein 4.2,4 adducin2 and protein 4.15 in addition to glycolytic enzymes6,7 and hemoglobin.8 The remaining C-terminal membrane domain (B3mem; 360C911 amino acids) possesses 12C14 transmembrane helices and performs a key role in regulating erythrocyte gas exchange Calcipotriol monohydrate by exchanging chloride and bicarbonate ions across the plasma membrane. The B3mem domain name alone traffics efficiently to the plasma membrane when expressed in multiple cell types9C12 but is not expressed endogenously in this form culture Calcipotriol monohydrate of the music group 3 Coimbra sufferers cells presents a distinctive opportunity to research membrane proteins complex set up during erythroid membrane biogenesis within the absence of music group 3, Rabbit Polyclonal to Cytochrome P450 2A6 uncover the foundation of secondary proteins loss within this most definitive of HS situations and therefore probe its function being a hub for building and maintaining connections with reliant proteins. Strategies Antibodies The antibodies used in this study are outlined in the shows circulation cytometry data demonstrating surface expression of GFPB3 in band 3 Coimbra reticulocytes. The transduction efficiency achieved using the lentiviral GFPB3 vector was up to 97%. The rescue of band 3 surface expression in the patients reticulocytes varied between transductions and within the GFP-positive populace, displaying an average of 54% (BRIC71) or 41% (BRIC200) of healthy donor reticulocyte band 3 levels (and Physique 5B). Open in a separate window Physique 5. The N-terminal cytoskeletal binding domain name of band 3 is required for rescue of band 3-associated protein expression in band 3 Coimbra reticulocytes. (A) Bar chart illustrating reticulocyte surface expression level of indicated proteins relative to healthy donor control for untransduced band 3 Coimbra patients reticulocytes and GFP-positive patients reticulocytes derived from erythroblasts rescued with GFP tagged band 3, band 3 membrane domain name and kidney band 3. Means ( standard error) are derived from three impartial cultures using common mean fluorescent intensities (MFI) of reticulocyte populations from multiple timepoints where possible. For GFPkB3 rescue experiments, data are derived from two impartial cultures. Values used are provided as a table in shows that BRIC6 immunoprecipitates the ~135kDa GFPB3 from the surface of these cells but fails to precipitate any 95kDa V488M mutant band 3 protein, indicating that the V488M mutant cannot be rescued by heterodimerization with wild-type protein. GFP-tagged V488M band 3 could not be immunoprecipitated by BRIC6 when transduced into healthy donor erythroblasts (cultures of erythroblasts derived from the unique homozygous V488M band 3 null patient and reproduced by shRNA-mediated depletion of band 3 in erythroblasts of healthy donors, we have demonstrated the importance of band 3 for stable surface expression of multiple dependent proteins (glycophorin A, CD47, Rh, protein 4.2) throughout erythropoiesis. Reductions in the relative plasma membrane expression of these proteins are conspicuous from your onset of erythropoiesis, accrue predominantly throughout the remainder of terminal differentiation and are compounded by additional reduction during enucleation. Oddly enough, throughout erythropoiesis, RhAG appearance, while reduced in accordance with that in healthful donors, was preserved at considerably higher amounts than those previously reported for older music group 3 Coimbra erythrocytes. On the other hand, the appearance of Rh, which affiliates carefully with RhAG, Calcipotriol monohydrate was despondent to a very much greater level throughout terminal differentiation. We can not exclude the chance that a larger decrease in RhAG appearance was partly masked by elevated option of the LA1818 epitope, although an alternative solution explanation is the fact that within the absence of music group 3, RhAG could be stabilized within the erythroblast plasma membrane by immediate binding towards the cytoskeleton or indirectly through the forming of alternative sub-complexes which may be eventually disrupted because the reticulocyte matures. Actually, it’s very most likely Calcipotriol monohydrate that within the absence of music group 3, further lack of music group 3-reliant proteins takes place during remodeling from the reticulocyte to create mature erythrocytes because the comparative.
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Craig Morgan’s “The Father, My Son & the Holy Ghost” Goes to No. 1 on iTunes With Some Help From Blake Shelton, Ellen DeGeneres & More
Mission accomplished, Blake Shelton.
Country music’s most powerful social media influencer implored his 20.6 million Twitter followers to help Craig Morgan’s touching new song, “The Father, My Son & the Holy Ghost” reach No. 1 on the iTunes Country chart. And it worked.
From Sept. 9—the date of Blake’s first tweet referencing the tune—to Sept. 12, the song moved from No. 75 on the iTunes Country Songs chart to No. 1.
The tune also reached No. 1 on the all-genre iTunes Top Songs chart.
Blake mentioned Craig’s song in more than 20 tweets. He also got some of his famous friends involved via Twitter, including Ellen DeGeneres, Carson Daly, Meghan Trainor and more.
The new tune, which Craig penned and produced, honors his late son, Jerry Greer, who passed away after a boating accident in July 2016 at the age of 19.
“Come on everybody this song deserves to be number 1 at least on iTunes,” said Blake via Twitter on Sept. 9. “Tweet your friends, tag the song. All people need to do is hear it once. They will want to own it. This song deserves to be recognized.@cmorganmusic“
“Ahhhhh!!!!!!! Y’all did it!!!!! Y’all did!!!” said Blake via Twitter on Sept. 12. “You gave @cmorganmusic and this song the shot it deserves! It’s a #1 Country song on @AppleMusic!!!”
Come on everybody this song deserves to be number 1 atleast on iTunes. Tweet your friends, tag the song. All people need to do is hear it once. They will want to own it. This song deserves to be recognized. @cmorganmusic https://t.co/QXJ2wjgF4g
— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) September 10, 2019
Lets go everyone.. Tweet your favorite artist to retweet.. 74 spots to go.. We can do this. This is what country music is all about!!! https://t.co/7Xkfmkz3wy
Holy moly we’re really doing it!!!! 45 more spots to go!!!! Let’s do this y’all!! “The Father, My Son and The Holy Ghost”! @cmorganmusic pic.twitter.com/AkLcA1WbRZ
This is really happening y’all!!! 30 more to go!!!!!! “The Father, My Son and The Holy Ghost” deserves to be heard! pic.twitter.com/duyfZIEMcn
Are y’all kidding me?!!! “The Father, My Son and Holy Ghost” is up to 18?!!!!! We’re getting close!!!! Lets keep sharing the song everybody!! @cmorganmusic pic.twitter.com/UniM7CUxea
Ladies and gentlemen this is getting exciting…. It’s up to 15!!!! “The Father, My Son and The Holy Ghost” is only 14 spots away!!!!! Keep tagging people! Beg your favorite artists to tweet about it! @cmorganmusic https://t.co/QXJ2wjgF4g pic.twitter.com/sXizrHK2kS
People!!!! We are knocking on top 10!!!!! Lets get around that “God’s Country” song and get this thing up there!!!! We are almost there!!! This is a great moment for country music fans. The power is in yalls hands! @cmorganmusic pic.twitter.com/LutrwZpWZi
#9! #9! #9! This is not just exciting it’s beautiful. 8 spots to go everyone. Keep spreading the word.. “The Father, My Son and The Holy Ghost”. @cmorganmusic pic.twitter.com/rDWQrLOtos
Getting around this morning and just saw this.. #5!!! We got 4 spots to go everybody. This can actually happen!! We can do this so keep talking about it! Keep tweeting and in words of @GitRDoneLarry Git-R-Done!!! pic.twitter.com/qE3mKuDoGJ
Ahhhhh!!!!!!! Y’all did it!!!!! Y’all did!!! You gave @cmorganmusic and this song the shot it deserves! It’s a #1 Country song on @AppleMusic!!! pic.twitter.com/04iuFUVdGY
photos: Craig Morgan by NCD; Blake Shelton by AFF-USA.com
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The Totally Official Logo
a note from the webmaster
As most AUE readers probably know, AUE has a totally official logo. This logo adorns the breast of the AUEers who have managed to acquire a Totally Official AUE tee shirt. (If you want to be among the breast adorners, watch AUE postings for the announcement of a boink. Instructions for obtaining a tee shirt will be included in the announcement.) The logo image is also scaled down and used as a banner for the home page of this AUE Web site, and a rather larger version adorns this page. But these reductions don't do it justice - if you can stand a 750 Kb download and an image that probably won't fit on your screen, feast your eyes on the details of the full-size logo.
The history of the logo is shrouded in mystery. I've been told that it came to us from an earlier generation of AUE contributors - dates as early as 1992 have been mentioned. My informant chose not to tell me their names, just that they were amateurs and hobbyists who created something for AUE.
Part of the lore associated with the logo has to do with conditions for its use that have also been handed down from our logo-fathers. Here is a statement by a present-day AUE member who prefers to remain anonymous and who is much more knowledgeable about logo lore than I am:
Usage Conventions
Our logo may be used freely on any 'on-topic' page or article mounted by
an aue contributor. It may also be used freely by webmasters and page
designers to contain a hyper-link that points to [this site's home page], or
by other media for articles that pertain directly to alt.usage.english;
and we encourage its use in this context because it promotes
recognizability. Use of this logo for profit, or in a context that
embarrasses alt.usage.english is prohibited. Further questions on the
use of the Totally Official aue Logo can be answered by posting an inquiry
at <news:alt.usage.english>.
The logo has aesthetic appeal, but just what its original creators meant it to represent is unknown to me. I asked an AUE contributor who also prefers to remain anonymous to give me a summary of his impressions as he looked at the logo. Here is his response:
The logo shows three galaxies. The OED defines galaxy as 'independent systems of stars held together by gravitational attraction', 'a brilliant company or gathering'. Three galaxies might be taken as a metaphor for the three major English speaking land masses. I count six instances of lens flare in the logo. They are more or less equally distributed throughout the image. I would take this to represent technology, such as that offered by Usenet.
The lettering appears to be taken from a traditional engraver's font, which evokes the sense of 'Old English', while still retaining clarity. This lettering style, combined with the lens flare, provides a striking juxtaposition of traditional and technical.
Finally, there is a border around the scene that uses an agate texture. The highly variegated texture might suggest the diversified nature of the English language.
This webmaster particularly likes the border.
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#cybersecurity | hacker | Church’s Chicken hit by cyber thieves
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Church’s Chicken suffered a cyberattack
that penetrated the payment processing system at some of the chain’s corporate
locations compromising payment card information.
The company operates 941 locations
across the United States, but in a statement
noted only 165
of those, all owned and operated by the corporation, were impacted. Payment
card numbers, names and expiration dates were exposed.
Church’s does not know
exactly when the breach occurred or when the individual locations were exposed
other than noting it was some time in 2019.
“We believe the incident may
involve the payment processing system that services our company-owned
restaurants. We are working hard to
determine specific locations and dates for each restaurant that may have been
involved in the attack. Church’s will
provide updates to guests once we have completed our investigation and know
more about any payment cards that may have been impacted,” Church’s said.
The restaurants impacted are
located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri,
Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas were involved.
No franchise locations were
hit and those customers who used a delivery app such as Uber Eats or Door Dash
were not compromised.
Original Source link
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#school | #ransomware | Ryuk Ransomware Is Making Victims Left and Right
While doing some open-source intelligence (OSINT), a security researcher discovered that a provider of end-to-end solutions for emergency care facilities in the U.S. fell victim to Ryuk ransomware.
The company hit by the malware is T-System based in Dallas, Texas, and it is currently working to recover from the attack. At the moment of writing, company systems are offline.
The attack occurred at the end of November, a month that has seen multiple incidents related to this particular strain of file-encrypting malware, most of them being in Spain.
Urgent care solutions provider falls to Ryuk
Security researcher Germán Fernández from CronUp was doing OSINT for Ryuk indicators and found that many of the platforms managed by T-System were down, suggesting that the recovery from the incident is in full swing.
By the looks of it, the ransomware infection spread to public segments such as DMZ, extranet, and helpdesk, Fernández told BleepingComputer.
A screenshot of the company site index caught by the researcher shows that files were added the .RYK extension specific to Ryuk as well as the ransom note in HTML.
As expected from this ransomware, the note offers the minimum information the victim needs to contact the attacker to learn how much they have to pay for the decryption key.
It also includes the phrase “balance of shadow universe,” which indicates that the Ryuk sample used in the attack is a recent one, discovered by MalwareHunterTeam in June.
The contact email address provided in the note for getting payment instructions is “[email protected]” T-System has not announced the attack.
According to information on its website, the company provides services “for more than 1,900 emergency care facilities and counting,” and boasts that “more than 40 percent of the nation’s hospitals rely on T-System.”
This is not the only U.S. entity hit by Ryuk in November. At the beginning of the month, the malware encrypted data from the Lincoln School District, an attack that was reported at the time.
Ryuk hits Spanish companies
According to some reports, Ryuk is responsible for the attack against Cadena SER (Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión), Spain’s largest radio station, at the beginning of November. Evidence of this is lacking in public reports, though.
Using OSINT, Fernández found another Ryuk incident that happened around the same period. The target was TECNOL, a manufacturer of products for waterproofing, insulating, cleaning, biotechnology, and more.
The researcher found that Ryuk encrypted data from the company on November 1, the date when the ransom note was also dropped.
ASD Audit, a provider of software for financial auditing and analysis, is another Ryuk victim Fernández discovered during his research.
Finding Ryuk-encrypted data from this company was possible by querying public search engines, as shown in the image below.
The date of the ransom note from the ASD Audit incident was from early September. It had the same marks of the recently discovered Ryuk sample and the email addresses provided were “[email protected]” and “[email protected],” accompanied by the same mysterious phrase.
A Ryuk ransom note was created on the same date on the systems of Imperdeco, another Spanish company based in Menorca and offering solutions for construction, protection, and decoration of buildings.
On November 27, Prosegur private security company offering manned guarding, logistics, and alarms services, shut down its systems to prevent Ryuk from spreading to internal and external hosts.
Six days after acknowledging the attack and the malware used by the cybercriminals, some sources say that the company was still dealing with the after-effects of the incidents.
Some customers complained that they were not able to connect the alarm because the app was down; they also had trouble checking if the alarm was armed or not. They were cut from the service for at least four days.
In some cases, the security systems sent off the images from protected properties with huge delays, sometimes taking hours to do it. Under normal circumstances, this would happen immediately.
Customers fear that burglary attempts would increase when word comes out that Prosegur alarms are failing.
Indeed, customer service confirmed that on the day of the Ryuk attack there was no robbery reported, but this changed the next day.
The post #school | #ransomware | Ryuk Ransomware Is Making Victims Left and Right appeared first on National Cyber Security.
Category: Breaking News Tags: Left, making, Ransomware, Right, Ryuk, school, victims
infrastructure is the foundation of more companies than ever. As with any
foundation, any crack can lead to significant damage to the infrastructure. One
potential crack is a trusted identity with unnecessary and excessive
identity” is invariably associated with people — employees, contractors or
other insiders. But identity in the cloud is no longer just about humans. The
proliferation of modern infrastructure driven by accelerated levels of
automation and innovation have led to an exponential rise in machine
identities, such as service accounts, bots, API keys, servers and applications,
and cloud resources.
In the case
of Capital One, the identity that ultimately played a key role in the breach
was a machine identity in the form of an EC2 instance. Because the EC2 instance
had an over-provisioned identity and access management (IAM) role attached to
it (and many do), once the credentials were compromised, so were all the
privileges assigned to it.
That’s why
it’s so important to implement least privilege policies for all identities, but
especially for machine identities. Human identities can adapt their behaviors
to changing scenarios, but machine identities are not designed to do so and any
deviation in their behavior could indicate
privileged credential misuse.
Hard Lessons from Capital One
As laid out
in an FBI indictment, the Capital One hacker accessed an EC2 instance (the
identity) via a misconfigured firewall and gained the ability to assume a role
on the machine. That role had the privileges to enumerate and download over 100
million customer records. Without those privileges, the damage would have had a
marginal impact.
How did the
EC2 instance become over-provisioned? Why did the assumed role have so many
high-risk privileges? It is pretty clear that Capital One’s authorization model
failed. The reason for this is twofold:
1. The Fear of Under-Provisioning
Roles are
created with a broad set of assumed privileges based on a job description or
function within an organization. The problem is that it is almost impossible to
know or predict what privileges an identity actually needs, so most enterprises
err on the side of over-provisioning because they are afraid of negatively
impacting productivity. The problem is compounded as organizations change but
seldom update roles properly. The temptation is always to add a little more
into an existing role, rather than redesign the role completely. That is how we
end up with grossly over-provisioned machine and human identities.
2. One to Many
When one
role is assigned to many identities (e.g. multiple EC2 instances), it almost
always implies over-provisioning. This happens because most identities will
only need a few privileges to perform their day-to-job. However, every time a
new identity is assigned that role, new privileges are added as well to
accommodate its function. The problem is that roles are seldom monitored and
reviewed and therefore privileges are rarely deleted. Without continuous
oversight, over time, a role will become massively over-provisioned.
between the privileges that identities need to successfully perform their day-to-day
jobs and the privileges they are granted is what we refer to as an avoidable
risk.
just a Capital One problem. Companies around the world are vulnerable to the
same threats, but we’ll use this example to illustrate how companies are
exposing their cloud infrastructure to excessive risk from insider threats.
So what can we learn from Capital One and similar incidents?
1. Every machine identity in your
environment needs to be carefully examined to assess its potential risk to your
organization. How many high-risk privileges are assigned to the identity? What
privileges have they used over the last 90 days? What resources are they
accessing? Has the identity performed an unusual action on a new resource?
It’s also not
enough to assess once and move on. It must be continuous. If at any time there
is evidence that the machine identity is over-provisioned or is displaying
unusual behavior, take immediate action to prune or right size those
privileges. Continuously implementing and enforcing the principle of least
privilege across your cloud environment is the best way to keep it safe.
2. When designing roles, don’t make
assumptions on what the identity might need to perform their day-to-day job.
Look for actual data to support your decisions such as identity activity
attributes. If an identity has not used a privilege for 90 days, there is a
good chance it doesn’t need it. In the Capital One case, two of the commands
that led to the exfiltration of data had never been used by the machine
identity (the EC2 instance). A data-driven approach gives security IT teams an
infinitely better picture of how to set up and maintain least privilege
policies.
3. When creating a new role for an existing
identity, provision the set of privileges based on past usage. If it is a new
identity, start with just enough privileges of a similar identity or start with
a minimal set of privileges and gradually adjust. Review and right-size the
privileges continuously.
with this approach, the EC2 instance would not have had unfettered access to
the S3 buckets, preventing the hacker from downloading so many files at once.
Even if she had the ability to download a few files, the magnitude of the
incident would have been significantly smaller. To contain privilege creep with
roles, we need to either break down roles with a minimal common set of
privileges or create a unique role for each identity based on past usage.
these best practices will help improve your cloud security risk posture and
significantly limit the blast radius of an attempted breach such as what
Capital One experienced. Prevention is paramount, especially with cloud
infrastructure and it all starts with properly managing identity activity.
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#hacking | Accel’s new India fund, Slowing growth of AePS & more, Technology News, ETtech
Accel’s new India fund
What’s the news?
Accel India, backer of leading technology startups such as Flipkart, Freshworks and Swiggy, has raised about $550 million for its sixth India fund, taking its assets under management to $1.5 billion. This makes Accel VI among the largest corpuses for an India-focused venture capital fund, which last raised $450 million three years ago.
Where will the money go?
Accel said it would continue to scout for early-stage deals across consumer internet, enterprise, financial services, healthcare, and Software as a Services (SaaS) startups.
The firm’s previous fund saw 80% of its investments in the range of $2 million or less. Of its 120 active portfolio companies, the venture fund has 44 firms valued at more than $100 million. Read more.
Aditya Ghosh joins Oyo board
Aditya Ghosh, the India and South Asia head of hospitality chain Oyo Hotels & Homes, has stepped down from his role, and will join its board of directors, a little over a year after the 44-year-old joined the SoftBank-backed company.
Ghosh will be succeeded by Rohit Kapoor, who was heading Oyo’s new real estate business, the Gurugram-based company announced in a prepared statement. Kapoor’s new role will be effective from January.
Ghosh said he will now focus on governance, profitability, communications, consumer experience and security and safety at the seven-year-old company, which has emerged as one of the most richly valued startups from India.
Ghosh is the second new director appointed in less than a month, after Oyo announced that it had inducted Betsy Atkins, chief executive of investment firm Baja Corporation, as an independent director last month. The development comes at a time when Oyo has stated its intention to go publicly trade on the bourses, but is yet to share a date on when that might take place. Read more.
Slowing growth of AePS
The rate of growth in transactions through Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AePS) in the April-October period of the current financial year has dropped by more than two-thirds from the year-ago period, data from National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) shows.
According to NPCI, which runs the platform, biometric-based transactions grew by 10% to 208 million transactions in October 2019 from 189 million in April. Further, the transactions dropped in November to 196 million
The transaction count on AePS has not grown aggressively, given many large public sector banks have introduced limits on the number of transactions their customers can do on other terminals, a senior banker told ET.
Large public sector banks such as State Bank of India and Bank of Baroda had limited the number of transactions their customers can do on other bank micro ATMs, ET reported on October 3.
Among other reasons, bankers said some agents were splitting single transactions into multiple small ones to earn more commission, which is why such limits were imposed. Read more.
Google may get relief in phishing probe
India is not likely to act against Google after the search giant said last week that nearly 12,000 users may have been targeted in state-backed cyber attacks globally, which included around 500 users in the country, according to a top government official. The government is nevertheless planning to issue a notice to Google asking why it had not informed the authorities about the attack.
Why the relief?
Google may not be treated the same way as WhatsApp as the attack was not due to any vulnerability on its platform that hackers could exploit, unlike the Facebook-owned instant messaging app, where a flaw was used to inject malware, affecting 121 users in India, including activists, lawyers and journalists.
In the case of Google, cyber hacking techniques such as phishing were employed, with users being responsible if they fell prey to the phishing attempt, the government official said. Read more.
TikTok & politics
Political agencies, campaigners and strategists are weighing how to ramp up their presence and content on TikTok for the future elections as the Chinese video-sharing app gains popularity in India.
Although Bytedance-owned TikTok has stated that it would not allow political ads on the platform because there’s a mismatch with the experience, digital agencies and marketers said there are ways of promoting the desired political content on the app. TikTok currently has 200 million users in India. Read more.
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Category: Breaking News Tags: Accel’s, AePS, ETtech, Fund, growth, hacking, India, more, News, Slowing, technology
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The following information is based on our vulnerability test, which may differ from other vulnerability scanners. Please note, websites are not hosted on the same server as the email server or the home/office network. What this scan does show, is the level of experience of the individuals hired by the company to protect their website. A persons level of education in website design or computer science, does not suggest they are computer hackers. Most computer hackers do not have college degrees.
Some people believe that because they do not have any personal, financial or client information at their website, they are not vulnerable to being hacked. Here are some reasons that disprove this idea:
A hacker can redirect your website to your competitors website.
A hacker can change or delete your SEO information. SEO is how search engines like Google and Bing rank your website. This can make a difference in your website being number 1 in a search or number 1million.
If you collect email addresses at your website, so you can send out news letters, press releases or information about product or services, a hacker can add 2 lines of code that will forward all email addresses to another site.
A hacker can add malicious code to your website so that anyone who clicks on any link at your site could get marleware, spyware or even a virus downloaded to their computer.
If a website allows visitors to register, a hacker could download your entire user database including their names, emails addresses as well as the users passwords.
You can have your website defaced. A hacker can deface it by posting your competitions products or services on your home page.
A hacker could change your phone number or address on your websites so that your customers cannot call or find your business.
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Maria Martinez
Undoubtedly the world's most famous Native American potter, Maria Montoya Martinez was born in the Tewa pueblo of San Ildefonso around 1887 (her baptism certificate says 1887, she herself thought she might have been 7 at the time). As she grew up, Maria observed her aunt, Nicolasa, and learned the basics of the traditional art of pottery making from her. In the early years of her career, Maria produced the traditional polychrome pottery of her village, generally black and terra cotta decorations painted on a background of white or tan. She shaped her pots the age-old way, by carefully hand-coiling and pinching the clay, then smoothing the inner and outer surfaces with gourd scrapers. Early on her pots were recognized as the thinnest, most beautifully shaped pots being made at San Ildefonso. Her husband, Julian, an accomplished painter of hides, paper and walls, decorated the pots for her, then worked with her in the firing of them.
Maria and Julian were married in 1904 and almost from the beginning of their relationship they were traveling to demonstrate their craft at various fairs and expositions. They spent their honeymoon in 1904 demonstrating pottery making at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at the St. Louis Worlds Fair. They demonstrated again at the Panama California Expo in San Diego in 1915, the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1934, and the Golden Gate International Expo in 1939. Native American craft fairs provided other marketing opportunities, and by signing her work Maria both heightened her visibility and commanded higher prices. In 1954, she won the Craftsmanship Medal, the nation’s highest honor, from the American Institute of Architects.
Contrary to legend implying that Maria "discovered" the black pottery process, Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett, Professor of Archaeology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and Director of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, found shards of prehistoric black-on-black pottery while excavating in the ruins at Bandelier National Monument in 1908. To preserve and showcase that ancient product Hewett sought a skilled pueblo potter who could re-create that ancient pottery style for him. Everyone he asked referred him to Maria. Together they worked out a deal and he pre-ordered a series of black-on-black pots from her. That led to more than a decade of experimentation, until Maria and Julian were satisfied with their results in recreating that style of black ware. Their method required smothering the fire with manure during the firing process, effectively creating an "oxygen-reduction process" that turned the red pots black. Julian worked out the other half of the "black-on-black" process when he began painting his designs "in the negative," using a matte black slip on the polished pot surface to create his decorations. Once fired, that demonstrated the technique that has become so famous today. Still, Maria wasn't really happy with those first black-on-black pots until Hewett came to visit with some friends and students of his. Those visitors bought virtually every pot Maria had on hand and they encouraged her to make more. Maria responded by refining her process and technique with the clay and the fire. Julian responded by refining his designs and decorations. Together they elevated their art to a level not approached anywhere else for at least 10 years.
According to Susan Peterson in The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez, the six distinct steps involved in the creation of blackware pottery include, "finding and collecting the clay, forming a pot, scraping and sanding the pot to remove surface irregularities, applying the iron-bearing slip and burnishing it to a high sheen with a smooth stone, decorating the pot with another slip, and firing the pot."
Julian faced a challenge in attempting to decorate Maria's pots. The process he finally settled on involved polishing the background first and then applying the matte slip decoration. In 1918, Julian finished the first decorated black ware pot with a matte background and a polished avanyu (horned water serpent) design. Many of Julian's decorations were patterns adopted from ancient vessels of the Pueblos. Some of the patterns consisted of feathers, birds, road runner tracks, rain, clouds, mountains, and zigzags or kiva steps.
As her pots attracted more and more attention for their unique beauty, Maria began to charge modest prices. With the demand for her pots growing, she realized that her work could enrich the lives of the people of her pueblo, artistically and economically. In the ages-old tribal manner, she generously shared her techniques with others. Martinez was the matriarch of a "craft lineage" that continues today. In a career that spanned seven decades, her pottery brought honors and acclaim, revitalizing the art and the economy of San Ildefonso Pueblo.
Even though Julian decorated the pots, Maria claimed all the work in the early years because pottery was still considered a woman's job in the Pueblo. Maria left Julian's signature off their pieces to respect the Pueblo culture until 1925. After that, "Marie + Julian" was the official signature on their decorated pottery until Julian's death in 1943 (and she used "Marie" because Chester Faris, Director of the Santa Fe Indian School, had convinced her that was a name more familiar to the Anglo buying public). Undecorated pots during those years were signed simply "Marie." Maria's family began helping more with the pottery business after Julian's death. From 1943 to 1956 Maria's son Adam took over collecting clay while his wife Santana took over painting decorations. "Marie + Santana" was the signature on their pots. Popovi Da began learning to paint with Santana in 1950 and in 1956 he took over doing most of Maria's painting. The signature became "Maria/Popovi" until 1971 when Popovi passed on. He'd also often been busy with tribal politics during those years and, at times, couldn't keep up with painting Maria's pots. As Maria almost never painted a pot, those pots are plain and signed "Maria Poveka" (Poveka being her Tewa name, meaning: "pond lily"). Today, values on Maria's work vary based on the signature on the bottom, those with "Maria + Popovi" being valued highest.
After making pots for almost 80 years, Maria passed on in 1980.
San Ildefonso Pueblo
Black Mesa at San Ildefonso Pueblo
San Ildefonso Pueblo is located about twenty miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, mostly on the eastern bank of the Rio Grande. Although their ancestry has been traced as far back as abandoned pueblos in the Mesa Verde area in southwestern Colorado, the most recent ancestral home of the people of San Ildefonso is in the area of Bandelier National Monument, the prehistoric villages of Tyuonyi, Otowi, Navawi and Tsankawi specifically. The area of Tsankawi abuts the reservation on its northwest side.
The San Ildefonso name was given to the village in 1617 when a mission church was established. Before then the village was called Powhoge, "where the water cuts through" (in Tewa). Today's pueblo was established as long ago as the 1300's and when the Spanish arrived in 1540 they estimated the village population at about 2,000.
That village mission was destroyed during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and when Don Diego de Vargas returned to reclaim the San Ildefonso area in 1694, he found virtually the entire tribe on top of nearby Black Mesa. After an extended siege the two sides negotiated a treaty and the people returned to their village. However, the next 250 years were not good for them. Finally, the Spanish swine flu pandemic of 1918 reduced the tribe's population to about 90. The tribe's population has increased to more than 600 today but the only economic activity available for most on the pueblo involves the creation of art in one form or another. The only other jobs are off-pueblo. San Ildefonso's population is small compared to neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo, but the pueblo maintains its own religious traditions and ceremonial feast days.
San Ildefonso has produced fine ceramic art since early pre-Columbian times. The pueblo is most known for being the home of the most famous Pueblo Indian potter, Maria Martinez. Many other excellent potters have produced quality pottery from this pueblo, too, among them: Blue Corn, Tonita and Juan Roybal, Dora Tse Pe and Rose Gonzales. Of course the descendants of Maria Martinez are still important pillars of San Ildefonso's pottery tradition. Maria's influence reached far and wide, so far and wide that even Juan Quezada, founder of the Mata Ortiz pottery renaissance in Chihuahua, Mexico, came to San Ildefonso to learn from her.
San Ildefonso Pueblo at Wikipedia
Pueblo of San Ildefonso official website
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, by Daniel Gibson
Photo is in the public domain
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Black on black bowl with an avanyu design
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Signature: Marie Santana
Maria Martinez Family Tree
Disclaimer: This "family tree" is a best effort on our part to determine who the potters are in this family and arrange them in a generational order. The general information available is questionable so we have tried to show each of these diagrams to living members of each family to get their input and approval, too. This diagram is subject to change should we get better info.
Santiago Peña (b. 1846) & Antonio Domingo Peña (b. 1841)
Family members who became potters:
Nicolasa Peña Montoya (1863-1904) & Juan Cruz Montoya
Tonita Martinez Roybal (1892-1945) & Alfredo Montoya
Isabel Montoya (1898-1996) & Benjamin Atencio
Angelita Atencio Sanchez (1927-1993) & Santiago Sanchez
Sandra Sanchez Chaparro
Gilbert Atencio (1930-1995)
Tony Atencio (b. 1928)
Helen Gutierrez (1935-1993) & Frank Gutierrez (Santa Clara)
Carol & James Gutierrez
Katherine Gutierrez & Ernest J. Naranjo
Rose Gutierrez
Rayita Montoya
Santana Montoya & Antonio Vigil
Lupita Vigil Martinez (b. 1918) & Anselmo Martinez (1909-1965)
Reyes Peña (d. 1909) & Tomas Montoya (d. 1914)
Desideria Montoya (1889-1982)
Maria Montoya Martinez (1887-1980) & Julian Martinez (1884-1943)
Adam Martinez (1903-2000) and Santana Martinez (1909-2002)
George Martinez (b. 1943) & Pauline Martinez (Santa Clara, b. 1950)
Anita Martinez (d. 1992) & Pino Martinez
Barbara Tahn-Moo-Whe Gonzales (b. 1947) & Robert Gonzales
Aaron Gonzales (b. 1971)
Brandon Gonzales (b. 1983)
Cavan Gonzales (b. 1970)
Derek Gonzales (b. 1986)
Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez (b. 1950) & Gilbert Sanchez
Wayland Sanchez
Evelyn Than-Povi Garcia
Peter Pino
Viola Martinez/Sunset Cruz
Beverly Martinez (1960-1987)
Marvin Martinez (b. 1964) and Frances Martinez
Johnny Cruz Jr. (b. 1975)
Popovi Da (1921-1971)
Tony Da (1940-2008)
Maximiliana Montoya (1885-1955) & Cresencio Martinez (1879-1918)
Juanita Vigil (1898-1933) & Romando Vigil (1902-1978)
Carmelita Vigil (1925-1999) & Nicholas Cata
Martha Apple Leaf (b. 1950)
Eric Fender (b. 1970)
Gloria Maxey (d. 1999)
Angelina Maxey (b. 1970)
Jessie Maxey (b. 1972)
Carmelita Vigil (Dunlap) (1925-1999) & Carlos Dunlap (d. 1971)
Carlos Sunrise Dunlap (1958-1981)
Cynthia Star Flower Dunlap (b. 1959)
Jeannie Mountain Flower Dunlap (b. 1953)
Linda Dunlap (b. 1955)
Albert Vigil (1927-2009) & Josephine Cordova (1927-2001, Taos)
Philomena Peña & Juan Gonzales & Ramona Sanchez (Robert's mother)
Robert Gonzales & Rose (Cata) Gonzales (San Juan)
Tse-Pe & Dora Tse-Pe
Candace Tse-Pe
Gerri Tse-Pe
Irene Tse-Pe
Tse-Pe (1940-2000) & Jennifer Tse-Pe (second wife, Santa Clara)
Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez)(1899-1971) & Tomasena (Cata) Sanchez (1903-1985, Rose Gonzales' sister)
Russell Sanchez (b. 1966)
Louis Wo-Peen Gonzales & Juanita Wo-Peen Gonzales (1909-1988)
Adelphia Martinez
Lorenzo Gonzales (adopted) (1922-1995)
Blue Corn (Lorenzo's sister) (1921-1999)
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Versatile & Imaginative Fiddler with Deep Traditional Roots
On the Porch
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A Grammy nominee, recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, and winner of Washington Area Music Awards “Best Traditional Folk Instrumentalist,” Andrea Hoag is a legendary performer of Swedish folk fiddling in America. Her music has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, at the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, and at numerous venues around the U.S. and in Sweden. With a particular interest in in-depth musical conversations, Andrea has collaborated across genres with many respected artists, from pianist Jacqueline Schwab to blues master Phil Wiggins.
For more than 40 years, Andrea Hoag has devoted herself to traditional fiddling. Immersing herself first in southern Appalachian music and culture in the early 1980s, she was overtaken by a love of Swedish fiddling’s unusual scales and rhythms. Awarded a fellowship from the Skandia Music Foundation, she studied at Sweden’s respected Malungs Folkhögskola, earning the certificate in Folk Violin Pedagogy in 1984. She also studied in-depth with elder tradition-bearers Pekkos Gustaf and Nils Agenmark, masters of the complex, demanding Bingsjö fiddling dialect. Andrea has taught Swedish music in many settings, including The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Weeks, Swannanoa Gathering, and Värmland Folk Music School.
Adventurousness and curiosity are hallmarks of Andrea’s career: she’s delved into and performed musical styles from Irish to Klezmer, from country rock to swing. A natural on the concert stage, she also revels in playing for dance. Throughout the 80s and 90s, she toured with bands known for their improvisation and rich arrangements, including Footloose and Future Geezers. Since 2000, Andrea has focused on collaborations and studio work with a variety of performers, including recording the Grammy-nominated album Hambo in the Snow with Hardanger-fiddle virtuoso Loretta Kelley and innovative bassist Charlie Pilzer; two recordings with The Berntsons, a tradition-bearing family from Wisconsin; a CD/DVD with the cross-cultural Dovetail Ensemble; and a new Celtic Christmas recording with dulcimist Maggie Sansone, Irish singer Patrick Egan, and Scottish harpist Sharon Knowles.
Andrea is the founder and program director of Freyda’s Hands, a non-profit organization devoted to collaborations between performing artists of diverse backgrounds and to character education through collaborative arts. Freyda’s Hands projects includes a documentary film about the collaborative process; the public workshop/concert SoundCrossing/World on a String, now going into its fourth year; and school and after-school programs.
www.andreahoag.com
© 2010–2020 Andrea Hoag .:. www.andreahoag.com site by infoTamers
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Shaukat Siddiqui's 'Khuda Ki Basti': An epic Urdu novel that depicts human suffering and the spirit to survive against all odds
It was a strange feeling. I had just started reading one of the greatest Urdu novels ever written, 'Khuda ki Basti' and finished a few chapters of it but the next morning I got the news that Shaukat Siddiqui, the author, had passed away in Pakistan.
I had always heard names of three great post-partition novels 'Aag ka Daryaa' by Qurratul Ain Hyder, Udas Naslein by Abdullah Husain and Shaukat Siddiqui's Khuda ki Basti, ever since my childhood.
Hyder's Aag ka Darya was readily available and I also got its English transliteration 'River of Fire', in order to lend it to friends.
I could not find Udaas Naslen but I bought its translation that was published in India a couple of years back under the title 'Weary Generations' I got from Hazratganj [Lucknow].
The third novel Khuda ki Basti [The Blessed City/God's Own Land] eluded me for long. All efforts to get it were in vain for years.
A library where I found it in index, had refused to lend it to me as it was in two volumes and the first part had been missing. Recently they somehow got the first volume and hence I issued the whole book comprising two volumes.
I had not read Shaukat Siddiqui, though he belonged to Lucknow, my birthplace. An Urdu novel that has seen over 50 editions would surely have some unique quality, I knew, but I regret that I could read it so late. It is a very dark novel and while reading it, I, for once, had to review my opinion about the critics of Qurratul Ain Hyder.
Yes, I staunchly felt that those who termed Hyder as a 'bourgeoise writer' and charge her of 'writing for the upper/upper-middle class and romanticising the past', were nothing but a frustrated lot. But as I read Shaukat Siddiqui's masterful story, I could see the real Lucknow, the real Lahore and the real Karachi.
The life of ordinary people in the aftermath of partition, the large number of real people who suffered and who are always on the brink--trying their best to prevail upon their misfortune but whose every effort is thwarted.
The dreams of the teenaged boys and street kids and their language could never have been written by somebody else with such perfection. Siddiqui never returned to Lucknow but his portrayal of the life of the City's [Lahore-Karachi have the reflection of Lucknow also in the novel] poor and under-privileged class is unmatched [and scary].
The story of teenaged Sultana, whose dreams die young and poverty forces her mother to ask her to elope with a suitor but even he doesn't turn up and her mother has to marry the person who had his eye on the daughter.
Sultana's brother who works at a mechanic's workshop is fired. He runs away but lands up in a juvenile home from where he goes to a pickpocket's school. One of his friend, who earned a few paisas by pushing the cart of a leper beggar also has a tragic fate.
Other characters of the novel including Sultana's younger brother and her suitor also struggle to survive. Though the noel is terribly gloomy but the characters keep you spellbound. In their struggle for survival, some characters find peace though it is short-lived.
However, Shaukat Siddiqui has succeeded in writing an exceptional novel that looks like an insider's account of the world where the word 'people' doesn't mean just the businessmen, politicians and bureaucrats or the occasional teacher.
Rather, they are eunuchs, thieves, sodomites, catamites, pickpockets, beggars, streetchildren, activists, zealots, mechanics, junk-dealers and so many others move along side you, forcefully making their presence felt and capturing your imagination.
And once again, the novel speaks their language and lives their hopes and failures, not the author's. It's tragic, yes. It's gloomy, yes but you need to read it. It's damn good! Wish to read more of his works soon.
For news about his demise. Click. As far the novel is concerned, it's a must-read book that will leave a strong impression on you. It will help us understand human suffering, the extent of exploitation of the poor children, particularly, the street urchins, and in process help us become more evolved and more sensitive persons.
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Arizona Prison Watch
A community resource for monitoring, navigating, surviving, and dismantling the prison industrial complex in Arizona.
ABOLISH THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX! (video by Sallydarity)
Retiring Arizona Prison Watch...
This site was originally started in July 2009 as an independent endeavor to monitor conditions in Arizona's criminal justice system, as well as offer some critical analysis of the prison industrial complex from a prison abolitionist/anarchist's perspective. It was begun in the aftermath of the death of Marcia Powell, a 48 year old AZ state prisoner who was left in an outdoor cage in the desert sun for over four hours while on a 10-minute suicide watch. That was at ASPC-Perryville, in Goodyear, AZ, in May 2009.
Marcia, a seriously mentally ill woman with a meth habit sentenced to the minimum mandatory 27 months in prison for prostitution was already deemed by society as disposable. She was therefore easily ignored by numerous prison officers as she pleaded for water and relief from the sun for four hours. She was ultimately found collapsed in her own feces, with second degree burns on her body, her organs failing, and her body exceeding the 108 degrees the thermometer would record. 16 officers and staff were disciplined for her death, but no one was ever prosecuted for her homicide. Her story is here.
Marcia's death and this blog compelled me to work for the next 5 1/2 years to document and challenge the prison industrial complex in AZ, most specifically as manifested in the Arizona Department of Corrections. I corresponded with over 1,000 prisoners in that time, as well as many of their loved ones, offering all what resources I could find for fighting the AZ DOC themselves - most regarding their health or matters of personal safety.
I also began to work with the survivors of prison violence, as I often heard from the loved ones of the dead, and learned their stories. During that time I memorialized the Ghosts of Jan Brewer - state prisoners under her regime who were lost to neglect, suicide or violence - across the city's sidewalks in large chalk murals. Some of that art is here.
In November 2014 I left Phoenix abruptly to care for my family. By early 2015 I was no longer keeping up this blog site, save occasional posts about a young prisoner in solitary confinement in Arpaio's jail, Jessie B.
I'm deeply grateful to the prisoners who educated, confided in, and encouraged me throughout the years I did this work. My life has been made all the more rich and meaningful by their engagement.
I've linked to some posts about advocating for state prisoner health and safety to the right, as well as other resources for families and friends. If you are in need of additional assistance fighting the prison industrial complex in Arizona - or if you care to offer some aid to the cause - please contact the Phoenix Anarchist Black Cross at PO Box 7241 / Tempe, AZ 85281. collective@phoenixabc.org
until all are free -
MARGARET J PLEWS (June 1, 2015)
arizonaprisonwatch@gmail.com
AZ Prison Watch BLOG POSTS:
The Shadow Prison Industry and Its Government Enablers
Americas Policy Brief: Shadow Prison Industry
Americas Program, Center for International Policy
Tom Barry | January 29, 2010
Outsourcing governmental responsibilities to private contractors is routine and alarming. The Blackwater, Wackenhut, CACI, and Halliburton scandals have highlighted the damage to our foreign affairs resulting from the reliance on private contractors to perform essential foreign policy missions. However, it is at home—in our domestic system of crime and punishment—where government outsourcing and private contracting may be causing the most damage to our system of democratic governance.
Elements of our criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems are spinning dangerously out of public control. Increasingly, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are outsourcing their imprisonment and detention responsibilities to hundreds of contractors and subcontractors—with scant oversight, little transparency, and often tragic consequences. As a result, human rights abuses, squandering of public revenues, and unscrupulous profiteering pervade and pervert the U.S. system of crime and punishment.
A shadow prison industry has spread to all parts of the federal detention and prison system. It is, with a few exceptions, in complete charge of all immigrant imprisonment and detention at both DOJ and DHS. Because the shadow industry has evolved without a plan or strategy, it has become a bizarre, labyrinthine complex of public and private players that is little understood and frighteningly out of control.
The Main Players in the Shadow Prison Industry
The Outsourcers:
DOJ: USMS, BOP, OFDT
Within DOJ, since the mid-1990s, the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) have increasingly contracted private prison firms and local governments to assume responsibility for the custody of federal detainees and prisoners. The largest USMS detention centers and most of its immigrant detention centers are operated by private corporations. Since 1998 the BOP has created 10 large prisons solely for immigrants that are managed by private firms.
The other DOJ player in detainee outsourcing is the Office of Federal Detention Trustee (OFDT), created in 2000 to coordinate and provide oversight to a woefully uncoordinated and unmonitored patchwork of detention centers and jails variously operated by local governments, state governments, private companies, and federal agencies. In part because of the creation of DHS in 2003 and in part due to diminished White House concern about the detention center crisis, OFDT currently functions not as a central oversight and coordinating office for federal detention but rather as small DOJ agency that caters to private contractors seeking detention business with the USMS.
DHS: ICE
DHS now surpasses DOJ as the leading federal custodian of detainees. The DHS agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subsumed the legacy of the Immigration and Naturalization Services, taking charge of the criminal detention and deportation of immigrants. Currently ICE holds about 33,000 immigrants on any given day in its network of 350 detention centers—some 400,000 annually.
Prison and Detention Center Owners:
Prisons and detention centers with federal prisoners and detainees are owned variously by: 1) federal agencies (of both DOJ and DHS), 2) private prison companies, and 3) local governments that have agreements and contracts with both federal agencies and private prison firms. Generally, when either owned directly by the federal government or owned by local governments that have custodial agreements with the federal government, the actual operators and managers of the facilities are private prison companies.
Three private prison companies—Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group, and Cornell Companies—are the largest firms holding federal prisoners and detainees, which constitute the source of about 40% of their revenues. Others include Management & Training Corporation, Emerald Corrections, and Community Education Centers. The prison contractors contract either directly with BOP, USMS, and ICE, or indirectly through contracts with local government intermediaries that have custodial agreements with these three federal agencies.
Subcontractors:
In addition to supplying private prison firms with an increasing stream of federal prisoners and detainees (along with associated per diem payments for "man days"), federal prison outsourcers also have created an adjunct prison services industry of subcontractors. These service subcontractors include private security firms such as Akal Security and Wackenhut Corporation (division of G4S) and correctional healthcare firms such as Physicians Network Association and Correctional Healthcare Management. This network of prison-services companies contracts or subcontracts with all the main actors in the prisoner outsourcing complex: federal agencies, local government intermediaries, and private prison firms.
A federal prisoner can, for example, legally be under BOP custody, but held in a local government prison that is operated by a private prison firm where his or her medical care is provided under a subcontract between the local government and a correctional healthcare firm. As another example of this complicated web of outsourcers, contractors, and subcontractors, a detainee held in one of the several detention centers owned by ICE may actually not be under ICE care but rather under the actual custody of a private security firm.
Local Government Intermediaries:
Federal government outsourcers routinely sign inter-governmental agreements (IGAs) with local and state governments (mostly county governments) that authorize the cooperating government to hold federal detainees or prisoners. In many such cases, the local government then turns around and contracts out the management and operation of the prison or detention center to private prison companies and to prison services subcontractors. USMS or ICE will then typically pay the local government a per-diem stipend for each prisoner. In practice, only a small portion (a couple of dollars) of this per diem goes to the local government, with the balance being transferred to the contractors, subcontractors, and investors who provide the capital to build prisons. Local governments that have signed prison IGAs often subcontract medical care responsibilities to correctional healthcare firms. In practice, the local government intermediaries exercise no oversight of their contractors and subcontractors.
The Main Problems in the Shadow Prison Industry
The federal government has proved increasingly unwilling to take direct responsibility for the human products of its vast criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Instead, it has outsourced this thankless, costly task. In doing so, the federal government has: 1) largely avoided its responsibilities for contract management and oversight; 2) ignored its continuing responsibility to monitor conditions inside these federally financed prisons; and 3) created a shadow industry that has, in practice, near-absolute control over more than a half-million prisoners and detainees.
Problems with the shadow prison industry mostly fall under the following issues of concern:
1. Lack of Coordination: Federal government outsourcers rely largely on the same patchwork system of hundreds of contractors and subcontractors. Both ICE and USMS depend exclusively on this contracting network to hold the rapidly expanding number of federal detainees, largely legal and illegal immigrants. Described by congressional studies as a crisis in the late 1990s, the now bifurcated (DHS and DOJ) federal detention system, overwhelmed in both departments by the surge of immigrant prisoners and detainees, has recently become vastly more complicated and problematic.
DHS's new promise to overhaul its own part of the federal detention system ignores the recent history of attempts to reform the system, and illustrates the bureaucratic tension between DOJ and DHS. What is more, DHS has failed to acknowledge its own role—by increasing criminalization of immigration violations and launching new criminal alien programs—in driving the surge of immigrant prisoners in the BOP and USMS facilities.
2. Lack of Effective Oversight: While the prison industry and its supporters argue that the chief motivation for prisoner outsourcing is to improve efficiency and reduce costs, little evidence exists to support this conclusion. Instead, the operative factors driving this booming shadow prison industry include intense prison-industry lobbying, the spread of the government downsizing ideology, and the eagerness of federal justice and immigration agencies to rid themselves of the burden of incarceration.
Rather than providing effective oversight and contract monitoring, federal outsourcers function mostly as expeditors of contracts and per diem payments. In the absence of due diligence at DOJ and DHS, federal prisoner/detainee outsourcing has led to gross abuses of prisoner/detainee rights, a pattern of financial irregularities, and the emergence of a virtually uncharted archipelago of private/public prisons.
3. Lack of Transparency: A near-total absence of committed oversight has allowed the prison industry to flourish in the shadows. Requests for the most basic information about the functioning of these prisons and detention centers routinely lead nowhere.
Private operators like GEO Group bounce back media requests and questions from advocacy organizations to local government prison owners and to the federal outsourcers. In turn, local government entities with IGAs refer inquiries to their contractors and subcontractors, knowing that this will lead to another dead end. For their part, the federal outsourcers refer inquiries to their local government and private partners and demand that requests for the even the most basic information be channeled through FOIA submission, and then belatedly reply with denials or heavily redacted documents, citing trade secrets and proprietary information.
It is a revolving pass-the-buck system in which all the main players deflect questions to the other players. The outsourcing system permits them to evade their own responsibility and to contend that the problems and failings of the prison outsourcing systems belong to their contract partners. The result is a convoluted system of incarceration that is little understood. However, more importantly, there are no effective pathways to seek understanding and clarity about the functioning of the heavily outsourced prison system. It is a system that thrives in the absence of systematic governance—a system that daily consigns thousands of U.S. residents to this shadow world.
Recommended Solutions
Reforms to address the lack of accountability and transparency that is endemic to the prison outsourcing system include:
Support H.R. 2450 to extend the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to all federally contracted prisons and detention centers. The details and reports of operations of prisons and detention centers that rely totally on federal contracts should be open to FOIA requests. If these firms find that onerous or intrusive, they can decide not to renew their contracts.
Insist that the Office of Inspector General of DOJ undertake an examination of the transparency problem—generalized congressional, public, and media inability to secure nonproprietary information about the management, operations, and conditions of the BOP and USMS prisons and detention centers.
Promulgate binding minimum standards for federal detention facilities, and immediately ensure that USMS and ICE detention centers comply with the existing and nonbinding standards.
Eliminate the federal tax-exempt provision for municipal bonds financing prison construction that are not reviewed and approved by voters.
The DOJ's Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office should study the rationale and the legality of the BOP prisons and USMS detention centers designed solely for immigrants. This segregation of immigrants within the criminal justice system raises serious issues of unequal treatment, including grossly inadequate medical care, routine solitary confinement, difficult access to lawyers and family, and little federal oversight.
End the current practice of continuing and renewing prison contracts with irresponsible, negligent, and abusive contractors. Instead, BOP, ICE, and USMS should immediately terminate federal contracts and IGAs with private firms and government entities that intentionally overcharge the government or that grossly or repeatedly fail to meet the conditions of these federal contracts and agreements for prison and detention services.
Given new revelations about the continuing pattern of deaths and the absence of proper medical care of immigrant detainees in privately operated ICE detention centers, Congress and the administration should launch investigations to review the number of possibly wrongful deaths of legal and illegal immigrants held in the immigrant-only USMS and BOP correctional facilities.
Such reforms would constitute important first steps in improving accountability and transparency in federally contracted private prisons. However, the underlying, causal problem is the federal government's unwillingness to assume full and direct responsibility for the consequences of its enforcement and sentencing policies. The criminal justice and immigration systems are both badly broken and immensely costly, having resulted in the mass incarceration of nonviolent citizen and noncitizens.
Structural reforms are urgently needed that will substantially reduce the numbers of citizens and immigrants that are relegated to expensive and ineffective lock-ups and that will give more consideration to alternatives to detention, community supervision, and the termination of prison sentences for many nonviolent offenses, particularly drug law and immigration violations.
Our country cannot afford the high financial, social, and moral price of mass incarceration and mass detention. What is more, imprisonment and detention are inherently governmental responsibilities, which should not be outsourced to private firms and local governments that view criminal and immigration law violators primarily as a source of profit and revenue.
Presented by Tom Barry, director of the Transborder Project of the Center for International Policy, at Congressional Briefing, January 25, 2009, on H.R. 2450, a bill sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, among others, to ensure fiscal accountability and reduce fraud and waste by extending FOIA to include all correctional facilities that hold federal prisoners and detainees. Private Corrections Institute (a prison reform advocacy group) was pivotal in organizing the briefing.
A Death in Texas: Profits, Poverty, and Immigration Converge
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6522
The New Political Economy of Immigration
ICE Detention Reforms Hide Abusive Practices
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Labels: BOP, center for international policy, DHS, DOJ, federal detention, ICE, private prison, shadow prison industry, tom barry
CCA Diamondback closure devastates Watonga community...
The following commentary and op-ed were forwarded to us by Frank Smith of Private Corrections Working Group. Awesome guy - he's been in this fight for awhile...
I hope Diamondback doesn't re-open; not as a prison, anyway. I hope instead some brilliant, creative young people there share and articulate a better vision and dream - something better than a prison - that the town is willing to invest in for them. There are so many possible futures out there to explore.
- prisonabolitionist@gmail.com
"This is the third CCA prison to close this year, after Appleton, Minnesota and Huerfano county at Walsenburg Colorado. The prison in California City, CA is expected to have no inmates by September and CCA is losing contracts right and left. Its competitors are in similar dire straits, such as GEO Group with a long-closed prison in Baldwin, Michigan.
But prisoner counts are down all over the country and every corporation is feeling the pinch. Most prisons with over 100 empty beds are probably losing money and they're walking away from contracts to operate, often leaving towns that funded construction of the prisons or substantial infrastructure economically devastated.
I'm figuring that the size of the Watonga payroll was greatly overstated in the editorial and in an article in the Oklahoman as well. I expect the info would have been from a CCA press release. I'm guessing that CCA may have inflated it by 40%. The deficits in revenues are not confined to the city of Watonga, but include the six-figure shortfall to Blaine county as well.
I predicted this decline in population over two years ago, but officials in towns such as Pahrump, Nevada, ignored my warnings and rushed to accommodate CCA where they're building an unfillable prison.
Sometimes I think these corporations must have hired Dr. Kevorkian as their CEO."
--------------------------from the Tulsa World 5/29/2010----------------------
Watonga's woes: A private prison closes up shop
By Tulsa World's Editorial Writers
The closing of the 12-year-old Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga is a cautionary tale about what can happen when a community puts too many eggs in one basket, when a state becomes the penal colony to the nation and when an overabundance of private prisons is encouraged.
Diamondback closed on Thursday, leaving 300 employees jobless unless they can find work at another facility. The city is losing the benefits of an $11 million prison payroll, the annual sale of $400,000 of water and sewer services to the facility, and sales tax revenues from purchases made by 2,000 inmates.
The inmates are gone, most shipped back to Arizona, which no longer will house inmates in out-of-state facilities.
Watonga has a population of 5,600 and a city budget of $2.4 million. The loss is devastating, even if it's temporary. Diamondback's owner, Correction Corp of America, claims that it hopes to reopen the facility. But will that happen? Every state has budget woes and is cutting back. Housing inmates in private prisons might be too pricey an option.
The private prison proliferation here began under Gov. Frank Keating in the 1990s. It was a "Field of Dreams" philosophy: Build it and they will come. And, inmates did, shipped by the thousands to new private prisons. Oklahoma itself houses some of its own inmates in private prisons and there's been an unrelenting push by some legislators to use private prisons even more rather than reforming this state's sentencing system.
Private prisons are a double-edged sword. They put people to work in small towns but they don't always last forever. And inmates seldom receive the programming they need to break addictions or the retraining for new jobs on the outside. Like it or not, for-profit prisons are more about warehousing and less about rehabilitation. And states pay a pretty penny for housing their overflow inmates in private facilities.
We hope for Watonga's sake that Diamondback reopens. In the meantime, this is a lose-lose situation all the way around.
Labels: CCA, corrections corporation of america, diamondback, prison privatization, private prisons, watonga
What CCA Gets from SB 1070, et al.
These are the folks who have helped dupe this whole state into hysteria about us being invaded by hordes of criminal aliens...and ALEC helped, no doubt - see how compounding the criminal justice systems' mission and duty with the profit motive can actually harm a community, or a state, or a country - much less a people.
This will probably tell you a lot about the corporate devils wining and dining your politicians and "economic leaders" into a deal on a new detention center (or prison) to enhance your community...bringing with them all their lobbyists to make sure that enough people remain criminalized to justify keeping those detention centers open - don't think that if they need bodies to fill those cell bunks they won't criminalize your kids next...
Private Prison Firm Exploiting Broken Immigration System
Progressive States Network.org
As a Service and Employees International Union (SEIU) campaign highlights, one key player profiting off the nation's broken immigration system is the private prison firm, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). CCA operates and profits significantly from private prisons across the country, many of which house immigrants in detention, a kind of legal limbo in which immigrants are imprisoned while their cases are being considered, or who are in the process of being deported.
Roughly 40 percent of CCA's profits stem from operating jails that house immigrants. In fact, the corporation earned over $1.7 billion in revenue in 2009 alone -- much of it from contracts with the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the US Marshals Office, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to cope with the influx of nonviolent immigrants in the nation's prison system. CCA has also been a long-time funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and member of its Private Sector Executive Committee, which advocates on behalf of CCA to push prison privatization as a model for states.
While most believe prisons are operated by state or federal governments, they are increasingly privatized. As the number of immigration prosecutions continue to skyrocket and comprehensive immigration reform languishes in Washington, DC, this makes the business of operating prisons all the more lucrative for private firms. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), immigration prosecutions reached record levels in federal fiscal year 2009. The Department of Homeland Security initiated 67,994 immigration prosecutions that year alone, a 459 percent increase from 2000 and a 973 percent increase from 1990.
Filling Up Prisons with Non-Violent Immigrants: In addition, federal immigration authorities are increasingly targeting nonviolent immigrants, whose only offense is attempting to unlawfully cross the border, via efforts such as Operation Streamline, which focuses on apprehending nonviolent border-crossers. According to a May 2010 study by the Warren Institute at the University of California, Berkeley Law School, projects such as Operation Streamline that focus on immigrants who haven't committed any crime in the US divert precious federal resources from apprehending drug cartels and human traffickers that frequently operate with impunity along stretches of the US-Mexico border and are responsible for much of the violence in the region. These record numbers of nonviolent immigrants are, in turn, filling jails and immigration detention centers to capacity: contributing to growing costs to states and higher profits for private prison companies like CCA.
The Failures of Prison Privatization: Both federal and state governments have utilized private firms to operate prisons, despite evidence of systematic failures. Privatization only exacerbates the challenges faced by states, communities, and families dealing with the broken immigration system. For example, the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy finds that there is no compelling evidence that prison privatization has led to savings, while the Private Corrections Institute analyzes several issues with privatization, which include “major riots, sex abuse scandals… improper billing by private prison companies… employment law violations, higher employer turnover rates, increased levels of prisoner-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff violence, lack of transparency and public accountability, and higher recidivism rates for inmates released from privately-operated prisons.”
When privatization involves prisons and detention centers, the profiteering comes at the expense of constitutional safeguards, democratic oversight, and public trust. In this case, it also undermines legislative efforts to promote progressive immigration reform. Lawmakers should take action to prevent such debacles from occurring by either halting failed privatization schemes. For example, Indiana Rep. Gail Riecken's introduced a bill to end privatization of social services in her state. Legislators can also consider requiring augmented transparency of state contracting, much like initiatives in Alabama, Hawaii, and Vermont.
Immigration Policy Center - US Border Enforcement Prioritizes Non-Violent Migrants Over Dangerous Criminals
Immigration Policy Center - New Data on Federal Court Prosecutions Reveal Non-Violent Immigration Prosecutions Up
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse - Immigration Prosecutions at Record Levels in FY 2009
Immigration Policy Center - Throwing Good Money After Bad: Immigration Enforcement Without Immigration Reform Doesn't Work
University of California, Berkeley Law School Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity - Assembly-Line Justice: A Review of Operation Streamline
Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy – Are Florida’s Private Prisons Keeping Their Promise
Private Corrections Institute – Quick Facts About Prison Privatization
Private Corrections Institute – Report on Prison Privatization Plagued with Conflicts of Interest, Faulty Data, Political Connections
Progressive States Network - Privatization During an Economic Downturn: Still Inefficient and Problematic
OneAmerica - Voices from Detention: A Report on Human Rights Violations at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington
AFSCME - Prison Privatization Resources
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Contact info: AZ Adobe Mountain School
the only real news from another story by fox news:
Adobe Mountain School
2800 W. Pinnacle Peak Road
www.juvenile.state.az.us
school's hotline: 623-869-9050 with concerns if you have a family member there.
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Youth Dies at State Adobe Mountain juvenile facility.
ADDENDUM: Some troubling comments about Adobe Mountain School were left at the end of this Fox News article about the young boy's death...
If there are folks out there who have information to share about their kids' experiences in the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, now would be a good time to share, and I think this is a good place to share it. Let other families know they aren't alone, let your kids know they've got someone watching their back out here, and let the state know you expect every single child home safe someday.
If this is a place you can feel safe doing that- anonymously or otherwise let me know (Peggy: prisonabolitionist@gmail.com ). In the meantime, as devastating as this news is, I have no information other than this. Try Middle Ground mid-day; I'm sure that if they don't demand an investigation by then they'll know who will.
Teenager found dead at Phoenix juvenile facility
May. 25, 2010 10:37 AM
via Azcentral.com
Police are investigating a teen's death at the Adobe Mountain juvenile correctional facility.
Police and fire crews responded to the north Phoenix school near Interstate 17 and Pinnacle Peak Road Tuesday morning for a report of a male teenager who was unresponsive.
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Jacobs told KNXV-TV the teen died in his sleep and had been there for a while.
Jacobs said he was discovered while people were waking up Tuesday.
A call into the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections School District has not been returned.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/25/20100525phoenix-teen-found-dead-at-juvenile-facility.html#ixzz0p1GVh8Xa
Labels: adobe mountain, arizona department of juvenile corrections, juvenile deaths in cusody, juvenile detention, Middle Ground
Lima, Peru: Lori is Free!
That post below was shared by my friend from Nevada Prison Watch. She's "covering my back" since I'm having a rough time this week. I get the sentiment there, but folks shouldn't expect to send me all their pissed off letters so I can post them verbatim, now. This will only happen on occasion.
Anyway, I am posting the following email verbatim - it's joyful, long-awaited news on Lori Berenson. Blessings to her and her family tonight...
berenson@freelori.org
reply-toberenson@freelori.org
announcements-list@freelori.org
dateTue, May 25, 2010 at 4:35 PM
subject: LORI IS FREE
Lori and Salvador are Granted Parole!
Dear Friends and Supporters of Lori,
On May 25, 2010 a Peruvian judge, after carefully studying Lori's application for what in Peru is termed "conditional liberty" (parole), determined that Lori has earned her freedom. Lori and her son Salvador will be leaving prison in a few days and moving to an apartment in Lima.
Parole requires individuals to live within the city in which they were incarcerated (Lima, in Lori's case) - we do not know if there are exceptions for foreigners or whether Lori will be permitted to travel to the US while on parole. Parole in Peru is based on good behavior, work and study. In September 2009 Lori officially filed her application under a Peruvian law which established eligibility after serving 75% of her 20-sentence, less time off for work and study.
Lori appeared before the judge in court on Monday, May 17th, for a hearing, defended by her husband, Anibal Apari Sanchez, a Lima lawyer and candidate for Mayor of Villa El Salvador, a suburb of Lima with over a half million inhabitants. Lori will be a single mom - Anibal and Lori are legally separated but remain friends and both share concerns for Salvador's proper upbringing.
Salvador, now an active one-year old boy, will certainly enjoy the opportunity to run around outside the confines of the prison. He is learning both English and Spanish but babbles continuously in "unknown tongue." He is a very happy child and loves to be with people.
We want to express our gratitude to all of you for your expressions of love and support all these years. You have truly sustained us through some very dark hours and the dawn of a new sunny day has arrived.
With appreciation, always.
Rhoda and Mark B.
English Website: http://www.freelori.org/
Spanish Website: http://www.lorilibre.org/
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Latinos, Blacks join fight for civil rights in Arizona
This is from the SF Bay View.
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by Valeria Fernández, New America Media News Report
Phoenix, Ariz. – A united front of Black and Latino Arizonans mobilized against a state law that they see as a threat to their civil rights on Sunday, April 25, at the First Institutional Baptist Church in downtown Phoenix. Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law on Friday, making Arizona the first state in the nation to make it a crime for a person to be undocumented.
More than 3,000 people demonstrated outside the state capitol and hundreds gathered at the church to protest the law. Human rights activists, religious leaders and congressmen called for peaceful mobilizations, boycotts and, if necessary, civil disobedience to stop the legislation they believe would lead to racial profiling, unsafe communities and economic turmoil.
Several voices from the African-American community and other ethnic minorities joined the fight, sending a message of unity at a time when the state faces a divisive immigration debate.
“We here in Arizona are witnessing the historic and necessary 21st century awakening of the spirit of the civil rights movement,” said Rev. Warren Stewart, to an audience of 300 people at the First Institutional Baptist Church. Other speakers included Mayor Phil Gordon and Congressman Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill.
“Where do we go from here – chaos or community?” Stewart asked, citing the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “I offer this to be our response: non-violent direct action.”
Stewart presented a battle plan to the audience that mirrored the strategy the Black community in Phoenix used successfully in 1989 to force an unwilling legislature to create a legal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This included an economic boycott.
And history might repeat itself.
One of the leading voices for a boycott is Congressman Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz.
“There have to be consequences to this,” Grijalva told New America Media. He is calling for out-of-state organizations to refrain from holding conventions and events in Arizona. “With her signature, Gov. Brewer effectively sunk this state into an economic downturn that one convention not coming to Phoenix is miniscule.”
But before considering a boycott, Congressmen Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., and Luis Gutiérrez, D- Ill., say they want to see direct action from the Obama administration to block enforcement of the new law that would take effect in August.
“We need to stop this type of legislation from going to other states,” Pastor told New America Media.
The congressman said President Obama can ask U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to seek a temporary injunction of the Arizona law through the courts. He is also calling on Obama to suspend the use of a national program known as 287(g) that allows local police to enforce federal immigration law and has led to lawsuits related to racial profiling.
Congressman Gutiérrez said he is hopeful that Obama will take action to stop the enforcement of SB 1070 given the president’s recent statements.
On Friday, Obama said federal inaction in passing immigration reform had led to “irresponsibility by others,” a reference to the Arizona law.
Only two days after passage of Arizona’s racist SB 1070, Blacks and Latinos joined forces to protest. – Photo: Jose Muñoz
Gutiérrez called for immigration reform during a passionate speech in front of the Arizona Capitol, but stressed that even if reform does not pass, that is no excuse not to stop the Arizona legislation in its tracks. He called on the administration to issue a statement to affirm that “the police do not have an inherent right to carry out immigration policy,” and that that is the responsibility of the federal government. But, he said, agreements between local police and immigration authorities across the country may have paved the way for the Arizona law.
“Every time the federal government said that you can carry out 287(g) and sanctioned it, you gave Arizona an excuse to do 1070,” he said in a speech Sunday at the Arizona Capitol.
Sunday’s protest was the culmination of a week of actions in Phoenix, including an act of civil disobedience on Tuesday by nine students who chained themselves to the doors of the state capitol. People gathered to the beat of ranchera music in a rally that had a cheerful tone to it, despite the nature of the protest. T-shirts with the message “Legalize Arizona” were distributed in the crowd, which was made up mostly of young people and families with children.
The peaceful rally contrasted with the presence of hundreds of officers from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) who surrounded the premises of the Capitol grounds. Another rally is expected on May 1, when communities across the country will call for immigration reform.
“This had the unintended result of bringing people together who are vulnerable and live this vulnerability day in an day out. The African-American community, the Native American community, the gay American community,” said Roberto Reveles, former president of Somos America, a human rights coalition in the state.
Reveles, who participated in the 1960s civil rights movement, believes the passage of the controversial law will lead to more civic involvement and voter registration.
“We feel this is our fight also,” said Robert Tindall, director of Equal Means Equal, a campaign to bring awareness to gay rights issues. “It’s about equal rights and civil rights.” Tyndall said his group used social networking sites like Twitter to inform about 6,000 people about the rally on Sunday.
While communities are planning actions on the ground, others are looking to challenge the new law in the courts. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund (MALDEF) are looking into an immediate legal challenge. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said the city also will consider a lawsuit.
But there is a question of timing. One of the most immediate challenges to stop the law from taking effect is based on the argument that the federal authority is supreme when it comes to enforcing immigration law and states can’t regulate that area.
Another challenge, which would have to take place after the law has gone into effect, could investigate whether the law has resulted in the use of racial profiling.
Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, the author of the legislation, argues that his bill is not any different from what the federal government already does.
But legal observers say the fact that federal law supersedes state law could be the crux of the case against SB 1070.
“The law is very likely to be overturned because it is preempted by federal law,” said Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer who monitors state and local immigration laws for the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI). “Congress has reserved enforcement of immigration law for the federal government, with very few explicit areas for a role for states or localities. This is not one of them.”
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The Great State of California is being Scammed by Private Prisons and Tea Partiers
How can California still really wonder why they're in such deep debt when the only sources of information they listen to come from are places like the Reason Foundation and the "Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association?" They don't want to "save" California money - they want to take California's money and usurp the people's political power...it's pretty transparent once you read the report below.
PRESS RELEASE / STATEMENT REVISED
Report on Prison Privatization Plagued with Conflicts of Interest, Faulty Data, Political Connections
May 21, 2010 – Private Corrections Institute
Sacramento, CA – The Private Corrections Institute, a non-profit citizen watchdog group that opposes prison privatization, issued the following statement today sharply criticizing a joint report by the Reason Foundation, a Los Angeles-based libertarian think-tank that promotes the privatization of government services, and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA). The HJTA advocates for the rights of California taxpayers and is also supportive of the “Tea Party” movement.
The Reason-HJTA report was released on the heels of Governor Schwarzenegger’s comments in favor of prison privatization in his State of the State address last January. California already contracts with for-profit private prison companies to house up to 10,468 inmates in out-of-state facilities, and according to the governor’s recent May Revise the state is likely to increase its reliance on private prison contracts.
The Reason Foundation has long been a proponent of prison privatization and has received funding from private prison companies – although that apparent conflict of interest is not mentioned in the Reason-HJTA report. Further, the report provides political cover for gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who has expressed support for prison privatization. The HJTA has endorsed Whitman and produced commercials supporting her candidacy. Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, has donated $5,000 to Whitman’s campaign.
California represents an enormous market for private prison companies, which have been spending political capital for the state’s business. In 2009, CCA donated $15,000 to the CA Republican Party, $7,500 to the CA Democratic Party, and $100,000 to Gov. Schwarzenegger's Budget Reform Now coalition. In 2008, CCA gave $45,000 to the CA Republican Party and $20,000 to the CA Democratic party. The nation's second-largest private prison firm, GEO Group, gave $25,000 to the CA Republican Party in 2008.*
The Reason-HJTA report advocates sending 25,000 California inmates to out-of-state for-profit prisons, claiming that would save the state up to $1.8 billion over a five-year period. The report purports to offer a solution to California’s prison overcrowding crisis, which has led a panel of federal judges to order a major reduction in the state’s prison population following almost a decade of litigation.
The Reason-HJTA study alleges that California spends $162 per prisoner per diem – the highest in the nation – based on data from the American Correctional Association (ACA). The report fails to mention that the ACA – a private, self-regulated organization composed of former and current corrections officials – receives revenue from private prison companies, which also sponsor the ACA’s biannual conferences.
The $162 per diem rate cited in the report, which was obtained by simply dividing the state’s corrections budget by its prison population, grossly misrepresents the actual cost of incarceration. For example, the inflated per diem rate in the Reason-HJTA report inaccurately includes parole supervision and administrative costs, which are part of the prison system’s budget; medical and mental health care expenses, which are under the control of the federally-appointed receiver; and central office administrative overhead. The report’s exaggerated per diem rate also apparently includes prison design and construction expenses, which are not factored into private prison cost analyses.
The report fails to consider that privately-run prisons do not house maximum-security California prisoners, death row prisoners, female prisoners, juveniles or prisoners with serious mental health or medical conditions, all of whom are more expensive to incar-cerate. In the latter regard, medical costs for California inmates held in private prisons are capped at $2,500 per prisoner; the state must pay medical expenses above that amount, plus all treatment costs for inmates who are HIV-positive.
According to Ken Kopczynski, executive director of the Private Corrections Institute, “Contrasting the inaccurate per diem rate in the [Reason-HJTA] report with the cost of housing inmates in out-of-state private prisons cannot even be considered an apples- to-oranges comparison. It’s more like an apples-to-fish comparison.”
In a 2007 letter to state Senator Gloria Romero, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) reported that “the state now budgets on average about $56 per inmate per day for each additional prison inmate – often referred to as overcrowding costs per inmate. By comparison, the contracted rate for ... new out of state prison beds is higher, about $63 per inmate per day.” The LAO also noted that the per diem rate for prisoners in out-of-state private prisons did not include transportation costs, the cost of oversight by state officials, or medical expenses above the $2,500 cap.
The Reason-HJTA report acknowledges that California’s “recent contracts to house state inmates in out-of-state [CCA] facilities spell out costs that vary from $63-72 per bed per day ....” Thus it is evidently more expensive to house inmates in private prisons, based on the LAO’s average in-state per diem rate of $56, despite the Reason-HJTA report’s claims that prison privatization can result in cost savings of up to 28%.
Such alleged savings cited in the report are based in part on research by discredited former University of Florida professor Charles Thomas. Thomas operated a University project that studied the private prison industry and produced research promoting the benefits of privatization. It was subsequently discovered that Thomas owned stock in the private prison companies he was studying, sat on the board of Prison Realty Trust, a spin-off of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), and had been paid $3 million by Prison Realty / CCA. Thomas retired from his University position after these conflicts became known and was fined $20,000 by the Florida Commission on Ethics. The report fails to mention this tainted history underlying Thomas’ research.
Further, the Reason-HJTA report incestuously cites Reason’s own in-house research in support of its position that private prisons are less costly than those operated by the government, and does not address other studies that have found deficiencies in prison privatization in terms of both cost savings and quality of service. The report also relies
on a Vanderbilt University study funded by both CCA and the Association of Private Correctional and Treatment Organizations – an industry group that exists to advance the interests of companies that profit from corrections-related services. The funding source of the Vanderbilt study is not stated in the report.
Additionally, the Reason-HJTA report cites research from Avondale Partners, Inc., an investment banking firm that has issued a favorable market rating for CCA. Avondale hosted a private prison conference in New York City on May 19, 2010 that included a presentation by CCA CEO Damon Hininger. Other presenters included the Reason Foundation, the CEO of the GEO Group, and California private prison lobbyist Mark Nobili. These connections between Avondale and the private prison industry are not mentioned in the report.
“The joint Reason-HJTA report is based on sources that are so plagued with conflicts of interest that the results would be laughable if they weren’t masquerading as credible research,” stated Private Corrections Institute president Alex Friedmann. “This is far beyond the fox guarding the henhouse. This is the fox outsourcing security for the hen house to a pack of wolves.” Friedmann, a former prisoner, served time in a CCA prison in the 1990s; he was released in 1999 and is now an authority on private prisons.
The report also fails to mention the significant problems that other states have had with prison privatization, including major riots, sex abuse scandals, escapes, improper billing by private prison companies, and employment law violations. The Reason-HJTA report glosses over other deleterious aspects of prison privatization, such as higher employee turnover rates, increased levels of prisoner-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff violence, lack of transparency and public accountability, and higher recidivism rates for inmates released from privately-operated prisons.
For example, the report claims that rates of violence are lower at private prisons than at state facilities, but fails to disclose that the research supporting that statement, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, only addresses a narrow category of “sexual violence” – not overall institutional violence. Leonard C. Gilroy, director of government reform for the Reason Foundation and co-author of the Reason-HJTA report, acknowledged that deficiency on May 21 and stated the report would be updated accordingly.
Rather than addressing the shortcomings of private prisons, the Reason Foundation and HJTA recommend that California engage in wholesale privatization – including con-tracting out existing state prisons built with taxpayer funds; outsourcing food services, transportation, medical and mental health care, and education and treatment programs; and privatizing probation and parole services. While this would be a windfall for private prison firms, including those that have given money to the Reason Foundation, whether it would benefit taxpayers financially or in terms of public safety is less certain.
Although the Reason-HJTA report raises serious issues, such as high recidivism rates among California prisoners and the state’s prison overcrowding crisis, according to the Private Corrections Institute that does not justify the wholesale transfer of inmates to for-profit prison companies as proposed by the Reason Foundation and HJTA.
The Private Corrections Institute (PCI), www.privateci.org, is a non-profit citizen watch-dog group that educates the public about the significant dangers and pitfalls associated with the privatization of correctional services. PCI maintains an online collection of news reports and other resources related to the private prison industry, and holds the position that for-profit prisons have no place in a free and democratic society.
Ken Kopczynski, Executive Director Alex Friedmann, President
Private Corrections Institute Private Corrections Institute
1114 Brandt Drive 5331 Mt. View Road #130
Tallahassee, FL 32308 Antioch, TN 37013
(850) 980-0887 (802) 257-1342 / (615) 495-6568
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* According to the Institute for Money in State Politics, www.followthemoney.org
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The Long Road Ahead: The National Criminal Justice Commission.
While I fear this means that the system will be "fixed", as opposed to being scratched completely and replaced with neighborhood-based models of community problem-solving and restorative justice, I do hope the process exposes the serious flaws in how we implement "justice" via "law and order" in this nation.
Besides, we've been hearing about this commission in the wings so long, that it's good to finally have a place to get things out on the table - like the ethics of privatizing prisons, racial disparities in arrests and sentencing, the horrendous health care prisoners receive, the damage done by the PRLA to the overall cause of prisoner rights and protections in this country, and the outrage that innocent people continue to languish for years in prison - as their families suffer their absence - while smug or lazy DA's sit on the very evidence that could and should set them free immediately. Any county attorney (or underling) who fails to act on new evidence in such a case is in grievous violation of their own ethical standards, and perhaps the law.Perhaps they'll even address how the feds can deal with rogue sheriffs and prosecutors abusing their power a little more promptly than they have of late (it's been over a year, now, dear DOJ. What's the hold up?)
That's just to name a few of the things on my list tonight...
Dare I say "at least" Rick Romley has taken back the County Attorney's office from Thomas? He had the guts to admit he'd been wrong himself when it was Ray Krone, one of his own convictions, who needed to be exonerated. Will he show the same courage and sense of urgency to helping to free Courtney Bisbee?
U.S.: Overflowing Prisons Spur Call for Reform Commission
NEW YORK, May 16 (IPS) - Despite the lacklustre performance of so-called "blue ribbon commissions" in the United States over the years, sponsors of the latest proposal - the National
Criminal Justice Commission - are optimistic that it will become a reality and that its recommendations will be taken seriously by the president, Congress and the U.S. public.
The reason, says its sponsor, Senator Jim Webb, a Democrat from Virginia, is that "America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace".
He added, "We are wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives. We need to fix the system. Doing so will require a major nationwide recalculation of who goes to prison and for how long and of how we address the long-term consequences of incarceration."
Given the chequered history of blue ribbon commissions in the nation's capital, a spokesman for Sen. Webb told IPS that "with nearly 40 Democratic and Republican cosponsors, there is a strong
likelihood of success".
In the past, Congressionally-appointed commissions are typically set up, staffed, complete their investigative and analytical work, make recommendations that are received by a senior official, a press release is issued, and then the commission's report is consigned to a shelf where it gathers dust.
Throughout U.S. history, there have been relatively few bodies that have gained the notoriety, media coverage, and attention from Congress and the president as the 9/11 Commission,
established in the wake of the terrorist attacks if Sep. 11, 2001.
Over time, most of its recommendations were implemented. One reason was the severity of the issue - almost 3,000 deaths. Another was ongoing, well-organised, effective support from the
families of the 9/11 victims.
A prison commission has none of those attributes - and prisoners can't vote. So the political inventive appears minimal.
But the issue is not. Statistics compiled by the Congressional Research Service begin to tell the story.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate on the planet - five times the world's average. A total of 2,380,000 people are now in prison. The U.S. has five percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prison population.
Minorities make up a disproportionately large share of inmates. Black males have a 32 percent chance of serving time in prison at some point in their lives; Hispanic males have a 17 percent
chance; white males have a six percent chance.
African American men and boys are grossly over-represented at every stage of the judicial process. Although African Americans make up just over 12 percent of the national population, 42
percent of those currently on death row are African American.
African American women have the highest rate of incarceration among women in the U.S. - four times higher than that of white women.
Initial contacts with police officers are often driven by racial profiling and other racially tainted practices, and the disparities exist through the sentencing phase: African Americans routinely receive more jail time and harsher punishments.
Cocaine laws in particular disproportionately affect African Americans, who account for 25 percent of total crack cocaine users, yet who comprised 81 percent of those convicted of federal
crack cocaine offences in 2007.
Drug offenders in prisons and jails have increased 1200 percent since 1980. Nearly a half million persons are in federal or state prison or local jail for a drug offence, compared to an estimated 41,100 in 1980. A significant percentage of these offenders have no history of violence or high-level drug selling activity.
As a result, spending on corrections rose 127 percent at the state level while higher education expenditures rose just 21 percent.
Prisons and jails have also become holding facilities for the mentally ill. There are an estimated 350,000 men and women prisoners with serious mental disorders - four times the number in mental health hospitals.
It is against this background that Sen. Webb introduced the National Criminal Justice Act, authorising the Commission. There has been no in-depth or comprehensive study of the entire
criminal justice system since The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration and Justice, impaneled in 1965.
A companion to the Webb bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives with bipartisan sponsorship. The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the proposal with strong
bipartisan support. The legislation is now awaiting action by the full Senate and is pending in the House.
The Commission would carry out a comprehensive review of the criminal justice system, and make reform recommendations to improve public safety, cost-effectiveness, overall prison administration, and fairness in the implementation of the criminal justice system.
It "would also be charged with looking at how we have arrived at this convoluted mess, how many of our problems are interrelated and often feed off of one another, and how we can correct a system that is badly in need of a new course," Sen. Webb said.
Other powerful actors agree. Among them is Hilary O. Shelton, director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).
In a telephone interview, Shelton told IPS, "At every stage of the criminal justice process serious problems undermine basic tenets of fairness and equity, as well as the public's expectations for safety."
"Perhaps the most glaring problem inherent in today's system is the number of racial and ethnic minorities who are disproportionately treated more harshly and more often by our nation's criminal justice system," he noted. "From initial contact to sentencing to the challenges facing those reentering the community after incarceration, racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented in the number of people stopped, arrested, tried, convicted and incarcerated."
The Commission would include members appointed by the president and by federal and state politicians, as well as private sector specialists in law enforcement, criminal justice, national
security, prison administration, prisoner reentry, public health, including drug addiction and mental health, victims' rights, and social services.
The bill has also been endorsed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the largest organisation of police executives.
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Labels: jim webb, mass incarceration, mental illness, national criminal justice act, National Criminal Justice commission, racial disparities, war on drugs, wrongful convictions
Whose voice counts more than the people's?
CCA's, of course. They always do. That's the danger of private prisons: the industry is invested in perpetuating "crime", not protecting communities. They feed off of desperate people whose voices are never heard by those in power.
So, it's fitting that this from Stephen Lemon's blog this week. The only thing I find surprising about this is that it involves so little money - I think there's a whole hell of a lot of more CCA money than this floating around the capitol these days - and into chambers of commerce and city halls of all those little towns they keep pushing their prisons in...and of course those folks are invested in SB 1070.
As should every American citizen in this state, now. If they aren't locking up immigrants, they're going to have to start locking up the rest of us - or those fine little communities will go under, and we can't let that happen. Then, of course, there are also all the folks (council members, senators, etc.) who have bought CCA's stock expecting more immigrant detention to drive it up. They place a value on the head of every brown body they can collect - and do whatever they can to keep them as long as the feds will pay them to do so - just like Sheriff Joe. That's what all these laws and the hysteria are about - not crime or public safety, just turning a buck on these folks backs. It's okay for them to be here as long as we can profit from their misery - and that of their children.
Jan Brewer's CCA Money and Her Possible Conflict of Interest Over SB 1070
Feathered Bastard
Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in "seed money" for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona's "papers please" legislation becoming law.
In all, seven executives with the Tennessee-based private prisons giant Corrections Corporation of America contributed $980 for the governor's start-up fund with Arizona's clean elections system. A warden for one of CCA's Arizona prisons gave $100. A CCA shareholder gave $140.
Lobbyists listed with the state of Arizona as having CCA as a client gave another $560, for a total of $1,780. In addition, CCA has contributed a whopping $10,000 to the campaign for Prop 100, the one cent sales tax heavily promoted by Brewer, which is up for approval by voters today. The success of Prop 100 is considered by many to be the linchpin for a Brewer victory in November.
How does CCA stand to gain from SB 1070? CCA, which houses 75,000 offenders and detainees in more than 60 facilities nationwide, operates six prisons in Arizona, three of which list U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a client: Florence, Eloy, and the Central Arizona Detention Center.
If SB 1070 is not stopped by a federal court injunction before it goes into effect late July, as a recently filed ACLU lawsuit aims to accomplish, all Arizona law enforcement will be required to check the immigration status of those they have "reasonable suspicion" of being in the country illegally. This, during any lawful stop, detention, or arrest.
So the law could potentially mean a boon in warm bodies for CCA prisons, as those aliens turned over to ICE might find themselves in CCA facilities, even if for a short stay.
"The more folks that get pulled over and detained, the more money CCA makes," said Monica Sandschafer, executive director of the Phoenix immigrant rights group LUCHA, which stands for Living United for Change in Arizona. "It's a pretty disturbing connection between Brewer and this company."
But Brewer campaign flack Doug Cole scoffed at the suggestion that there was anything nefarious about the connection between Brewer and CCA, referring to CCA as a "good corporate citizen" and denying that CCA's contributions to Brewer in any way affected her decision to sign the controversial law...
(finish the Feathered Bastard's blog on this here, then peruse the rest of the PHX New Times..)
Labels: campaign financing, CCA, corrections corporation of america, governor brewer, immigrant detention, Proposition 100, SB 1070
O'odham Solidarity Across Borders: Resisting militarization
Activists Lockdown & Occupy US Border Patrol Headquarters Demanding End to Border Militarization, Protesters Cited and Released
High resolution pictures and B-roll available at: www.oodhamsolidarity.blogspot.com
Tucson, AZ – At approximately 1:00PM Friday, May 21, 2010 more than a dozen people occupied the Tucson Headquarters of the US Border Patrol to draw attention to impacts of border militarization in Indigenous Communities. Six people, including Alex Soto a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation and a volunteer with the group O’odham Solidarity Across Borders, locked themselves together for up to 3 and 1/2 hours. “Indigenous voices have been ignored. In our action today we say NO MORE!” Said Soto.
Banners were hung, including one placed over the reception window that read, “Stop Militarization of Indigenous Lands Now”, traditional songs were sung and the group chanted, “Border militarization destroys Indigenous communities!” and “No raids, no deportations! No SB1070, no racist laws!” Approximately 30 Border Patrol agents flooded the lobby of the headquarters and scrambled to react. Roads to the headquarters and adjacent air force base were shut down. Tucson City Police were eventually called and began preparing an extraction of the peaceful resisters.
A diverse crowd of up to 70 people quickly gathered outside the Border Patrol headquarters to support those locked down inside. Ofelia Rivas of O’odham Voices Against The Wall, an elder in support of the action stated, “It was a historical and powerful moment for people of all color to unite with O’odham to stand in solidarity for human rights and to see the next generation take a stand”.
At approximately 4 o’clock the peaceful resisters negotiated the conditions of their release on their terms. Their requests to consult with Tohono O’odham elders to negotiate terms of release were denied by Tucson Police. The protesters decided to unlock and were cited for two misdemeanors each of trespassing and disorderly conduct. The resisters were released just outside the premises to join supporters where they gathered in traditional prayer and rallied against border militarization for another hour. Community members including members of the Pasqual Yaqui, Tohono O'odham, and Dine' Nations reacted emotionally when two Wackenhut Corp. buses left the Border Patrol compound filled with undocumented people. The detainees responded with returning the symbol of resistance - a raised fist.
“This is just one action of many that makes visible the invisible crimes against humanity that occur every day on the colonial border,” stated one of the peaceful resisters. “We commit to honoring the prayers and call for support of the people most impacted by border militarization, the Indigenous Peoples who’s lands we are on and migrants who seek a better life for their families. We cannot not allow government agencies, border patrol, ICE or reformist agendas to further their suffering. We will continue our actions of peaceful resistance for human dignity and respect for all peoples.”
The action also denounced SB1070 and HB2281 as racist laws that are a part of an ongoing system of genocidal policies against Indigenous Peoples and migrant communities.
For previous Press Statement, please see attachment.
Note to editors, high resolution photos attached; Photo credits: O'odham Solidarity Across Borders Collective
Alex Soto (602) 881-6027
Leilani Clark (520) 982-5687
stopbordermilitarization@gmail.com
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DREAM Activists Sit-in, Arrested at McCain's Tucson Office.
This email floored me when I got it last night. These kids have more courage than most American citizens. They've put everything on the line for the DREAM Act. The least the rest f us can do is can McCain and tell him we want these kids free and legal. How can anyone think they'd be anything but a blessing to our nation? They already are.
Here are McCain's Senate office numbers:
Phoenix Office: (602) 952-2410
Prescott Office: (928) 445-0833
Tempe Office: (480) 897-6289
Tucson Office: (520) 670-6334
Washington Office: (202) 224-2235
And here are his campaign office numbers.
Phoenix Office: 602-604-2010 Tucson Office: 520-327-2773
Boy is his campaign site looking scary...he's really turned anti-immigrant - and didn't mention a thing in his news releases about having those Dream Activists arrested, of course. I don't see how he can keep all his promises to the Latino community when he's so busy sucking up to the far right...
Made my call, and registered my voice to free those youth and push the DREAM act through. It'll only take you two or three minutes to do the same - just pick an office and dial.
---------------------------The Dream is Coming--------------------------
Media Contacts: Juan (407) 602-8675,
Flavia de la Fuente (949) 910-6362
media@thedreamiscoming.com
DETAINED in Arizona: Four Student Immigrant Leaders
Peacefully Resist Current Immigration Law, Urge Passage of DREAM Act
As of 6:00 PM PST Monday May 17, Mohammad, Yahaira, Lizbeth and Raul, an Arizona Resident, have been arrested and detained after their day long sit-in at Senator John McCains Office in Tucson, AZ. Tania, who was not detained, has been designated as spokesperson and will be relating the experiences/thoughts of the group during the action.
Senator John McCain offered the students a meeting in order to discuss the Dream Act, however, the students recognize that this is insufficient and that immediate action is needed to pass the DREAM Act!
Tucson, Arizona. May 17th, on the anniversary of landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education, Arizona law enforcement arrested four undocumented leaders of the immigrant student movement in addition to Arizona native Raul Alcaraz. Lizbeth Mateo of Los Angeles, California; Tania Unzueta of Chicago, Illinois; Mohammad Abdollahi of Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Yahaira Carrillo of Kansas City, Missouri; were detained Tucson, Arizona, after staging a sit-in at Senator John McCain’s office. With this challenge to local and federal law, these youth hope to highlight the urgency of legislative action in Congress, and catalyze mass grassroots mobilization to pass the DREAM Act before June 15th.
These four leaders are risking deportation from the United States in the hope that this action will make a significant contribution to the fight for immigrant rights. In response to the onslaught of enforcement-based immigration law, they staged a sit-in at Senator McCain’s office, and urged congressional leadership to champion the DREAM Act and the values it represents: hard work, education, and fairness.
Lizbeth, 25, an organizer with DREAM Team Los Angeles, states, "There are already ten other states across the country considering immigration legislation similar to Arizona’s: legislation that is anti-family, anti-democratic, and anti-freedom. Police states and enforcement are quickly becoming the standard, and we are running out of time. We are going to pass the DREAM Act because it is based on freedom and equality."
Mohammad, 24, co-founder of DreamActivist.Org, a resource web portal for undocumented students, said in a statement: "Never in our history has it been American to deny people their civil rights. We have decided to peacefully resist to encourage our leaders to pass the DREAM Act and create a new standard for immigration reform based on education, hard work, equality, and fairness."
At least 65,000 undocumented immigrant youth graduate from high schools every year, and many of them struggle to attend institutes of higher education and the military. The DREAM Act will grant youth who traveled to the United States before the age of 16 a path to citizenship contingent on continuous presence in the country, good behavior, and the attainment of at least a two-year university degree or a two-year commitment to the armed forces.
"During the civil rights movement, African-American students were arrested for sitting down at lunch counters. We’ve been detained for standing on a sidewalk. We can't wait any longer for the DREAM Act to pass," said Tania, 26, co-founder of the Immigrant Youth Justice League, and immigrant rights organizer in Chicago.
All four are leaders in their own communities and have dedicated years to work for immigrant rights, legalization for undocumented immigrants, and the DREAM Act. “Dr. King spoke of a dream of equality overcoming fear. Well, the fierce urgency of our dreams has overcome any kind of fear we may have had before. We can’t wait,” concluded Yahaira, 25, a founder of the Kansas Missouri Dream Alliance.
National Press Conference
Tuesday May 18th
9 AM Pacific, 11 PM Central, Noon EST
In front of Senator John McCain’s office:
407 West Congress Street
Labels: civil disobedience, dream act, immigration, John McCain, lizbeth mateo, mohammad Abdollahi Yahaira Carrillo, raul alcaraz, resistance, tania unzueta
Scott Watch: Unconstitutional Living Conditions
Unconstitutional Living Condition ~ Unedited ~By Jamie Scott ~ Please Forward to Media Outlets
Jamie Scott # 19197
CMCF/2A-B-Zone
Pearl, MS 39288-8850
The living condition in quickbed area is not fit for any human to live in. I have been incarcerated for 15 years 6 months now and this is the worst I have ever experience. When it rain out side it rain inside. The zone flood like a river. The rain comes down on our heads and we have to try to get sheets and blankets to try to stop it from wetting our beds and personnel property. Because the floors are concrete and it have paint on it, it makes it very slippery when it rain and there have been numerous of inmates that have broke their arms and hurt there self do to this. Above our heads there are rows and rows of spiders as if we live in the jungle. There are inmates that have holds in there bodies left from spider bites, because once they are bitten it take forever to get to the clinic for any help. There are mold in the bathroom ceiling and around the walls and toilets. The toilets leak sewage from under them and they have the inmate men to come in and patch them up occasionally. The smell is awful. The showers are two circular poles with five shower heads on each pole. The floor in the shower is also concrete and slippery. There is nothing to hold on to when you exit the shower so there have been many inmates that have hurt there self in the process. Outside the building there is debirs where the unit is falling apart. Each day we are force to live in these conditions. The staph infection is so high and we are force to wave in toilet and sewage water when we have to go to the bathroom. I have witness to many inmates die at the hands of this second rate medical care. I do not want to be one of them. When this is brought to the health department or anyone attention. The MDOC tries to get the inmate to try to pamper it up so if someone comes in it want look as bad as the inmates said it did. I am fully aware that we are in prison, but no one should have to live in such harsh condition. I am paranoid of catching anything because of what I have been going throw with my medical condition. We are living in these harsh conditions, but if you go to the administration offices, they are nice and clean and smell nice because they make sure the inmates clean their offices each day. They tell us to clean the walls. Cleaning the walls will not help anything. Cleaning the walls will not stop the rain from pouring in. it will not stop the mold from growing inside the walls and around us. It will not stop the spiders from mating. They have 116 inmates on each wing, and we live not five feet from each other in order to pack us in. We have the blowers on the ceiling and if the inmates are acting crazy or the staff come in mad they use the blowers as a form of punishment. The taxes payers really are lead to believe we are been rehabilitated. That is a joke. All we do is sit in this infected unit and build up more hate. Rehabilitated starts within you. If you want to change you will change. One thing about MDOC, they know how to fix the paper work up to make it seen as if they are doing their job. You can get more drugs and anything else right here. I have witness a lot in my time here. Do I sound angry, I am not I am hurt and sick. Because they have allowed my kidney to progress to stage five which been the highest. They told me years ago I had protein in my urine, but I went years without any help. Now, it seen the eyes are on me because my family are on their case. Every inmate is not without family. Yes, you do have many inmates that family have giving up on, but my sister and I are not them. I do not want special attention; I want to treat, and to live how the state says on paper we are living. The same way when it is time for the big inspection we are promised certain food if we please clean up to pass this inspection. So I beg of anyone to please understand Mississippi Department of Correction is a joke. They will let you die or even kill yourself. We are told when visitors come into the prison do not talk to them. Well I have the right to talk to anyone and if the health department or anyone comes I will talk to him or her, because this is my life and I should or anyone else should be force to live like this. They use unlawful punishments to try to shut us up. I need help. I need a inmate to help me, but for some reason they will not allow me to move with my sister, so she can help me. There are mother and daughter, aunties, and nieces housed together and also there are a total of 12 inmates acting as orally for others inmates. I have all the names of the inmates acting as a orally if need to be giving. However, the subject of my sister is been danced around. A form of discrimination. My sister (Gladys Scott) and I were housed together for over ten years and not once have we ever caused any problem. We were spit up because in 2003 the Commissioner came with the order to separate all family members. Because its payback because my family is holding them accountable to do what they are paid to do. Also, do to the fact Mr. Daniels on it’s a New Day & Grassroots are keeping the supports inform that is been pointed out to me in a negative way. Now that I am sitting everyday because of my sickness I have time to use my typewriter. MDOC have gotten away with to much. In addition, some of the things that go on here I truly believe that Mr. Epps do not know.
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“I love working for KNBR because it’s been my dream since freshman year of high school,” said James Kincaid, a producer for the station.
Those are the first words you hear in a two-minute video titled “Support KNBR Employees: Stand Up for a Living Wage.” The video was uploaded on May 26 by the SAG-AFTRA union, and it starts with these two slides:
Several other KNBR employees (Joe Hughes, Tim Webb, Eamonn Sweeney, Patrick Connor and Tony Rhein) describe how passionate they are about what they do for the station, as well as the difficult nature of working in one of the most expensive cities in the world for a company that pays such low wages to its employees. Well, some employees, anyway. Certain KNBR hosts make well more than the average salary in the Bay Area, never mind minimum wage.
SAG-AFTRA has been campaigning for Cumulus to increase compensation for a while. They protested outside AT&T Park a year ago before a game between the Giants and Dodgers. They handed out fliers that evening, and they distributed similar ones during Giants FanFest in February.
“You know, I just want to be paid what’s fair,” Connor said in the video.
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List of NIFTY 50 Stocks with Sector & Market Cap Info
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What is covered in this article?
Meaning of Nifty 50
Companies in Nifty 50
Sectoral Distribution of Nifty 50 companies
Market Capitalization of Nifty 50 stocks
The NIFTY 50 Index is a well-diversified portfolio of 50 of India’s largest and most liquid companies on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). These 50 companies in the Nifty 50 capture 66.8% of the float-adjusted market capitalization from a universe of 1,600+ companies that are listed on the NSE. The market capitalization of Nifty 50 stocks on May 7, 2019 was ₹83,07,175 crores (or USD 1.18 trillion).
The Nifty 50 was launched on April 22, 1996 with 50 stocks. The Index is used for benchmarking fund portfolios, launching index funds and index-based derivatives. Since inception, the Nifty 50 index has delivered annual price returns of 11.05% and annual total returns of 13.04%.
Related article: Why you should measure a stock’s total return and not just the price gain?
The Nifty 50 Index is reconstituted twice a year based on the last six months data ending January and July. In the last update earlier this year (Feb 2019), Britannia Industries entered into Nifty 50 by replacing Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. HPCL moves to Nifty Next 50.
The companies forming the Nifty 50 in May 2019 are available in the table below.
S.No. Company Name Industry
1 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. Services
2 Asian Paints Ltd. Consumer goods
3 Axis Bank Ltd. Financial services
4 Bajaj Auto Ltd. Automobile
5 Bajaj Finance Ltd. Financial services
6 Bajaj Finserv Ltd. Financial services
7 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. Energy
8 Bharti Airtel Ltd. Telecom
9 Bharti Infratel Ltd. Telecom
10 Britannia Industries Ltd. Consumer goods
11 Cipla Ltd. Pharma
12 Coal India Ltd. Metals
13 Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. Pharma
14 Eicher Motors Ltd. Automobile
15 GAIL (India) Ltd. Energy
16 Grasim Industries Ltd. Cement & cement products
17 HCL Technologies Ltd. Information Technology
18 HDFC Bank Ltd. Financial services
19 Hero MotoCorp Ltd. Automobile
20 Hindalco Industries Ltd. Metals
21 Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Consumer goods
22 Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. Financial services
23 ICICI Bank Ltd. Financial services
24 ITC Ltd. Consumer goods
25 Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. Financial services
26 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Energy
27 IndusInd Bank Ltd. Financial services
28 Infosys Ltd. Information Technology
29 JSW Steel Ltd. Metals
30 Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. Financial services
31 Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Construction
32 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Automobile
33 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Automobile
34 NTPC Ltd. Energy
35 Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. Energy
36 Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Energy
37 Reliance Industries Ltd. Energy
38 State Bank of India Financial services
39 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Pharma
40 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Information Technology
41 Tata Motors Ltd. Automobile
42 Tata Steel Ltd. Metals
43 Tech Mahindra Ltd. Information Technology
44 Titan Company Ltd. Consumer goods
45 UPL Ltd. Fertilisers & pesticides
46 UltraTech Cement Ltd. Cement & cement products
47 Vedanta Ltd. Metals
48 Wipro Ltd. Information Technology
49 Yes Bank Ltd. Financial services
50 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. Media & entertainment
One can say that the Nifty 50 is a true reflection of the state of the general economy as it covers the major sectors of the Indian economy. India’s market capitalization is USD 2.12 trillion (which is bigger than Germany – Europe’s biggest economy) of which the Nifty 50 constitutes over half. The Nifty 50 includes leading Indian companies in Reliance Industries, Infosys, HDFC Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Coal India and others.
As of May 2019, the Nifty 50 composition of sectors is –
Financial Services (11 companies; 22% of Nifty 50 stocks)
Energy (7 companies; 14% of Nifty 50 stocks)
Automobile (6 companies; 12% of Nifty 50 stocks)
Consumer Goods (5 companies)
Information Technology (5 companies)
Metals (5 companies)
Pharma (3 companies)
Telecom (2 companies)
Cement (2 companies)
Construction (1 company in Nifty 50)
Fertilizers (1 company in Nifty 50)
Services (1 company in Nifty 50)
Media (1 company in Nifty 50)
The composition from a % of market capitalization shows a skewness towards financial services companies where 22% of companies representing the financial sector hold over 37% of the Nifty 50 capitalization. Other notable sectors are Energy, IT and Consumer Goods.
Rank Company Name Free Float Market Capitalization* (in ₹ crores) Contribution %
1 HDFC Bank Ltd. 502,989 9.7%
2 Reliance Industries Ltd. 453,040 8.7%
3 Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. 332,367 6.4%
4 Infosys Ltd. 266,697 5.1%
5 ITC Ltd. 257,989 5.0%
6 ICICI Bank Ltd. 246,429 4.8%
7 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 242,350 4.7%
8 Larsen & Toubro Ltd. 171,738 3.3%
9 Bajaj Finance Ltd. 168,842 3.3%
10 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. 143,284 2.8%
11 Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. 133,828 2.6%
12 Axis Bank Ltd. 132,442 2.6%
13 Hindustan Unilever Ltd. 127,944 2.5%
14 State Bank of India 119,779 2.3%
15 Bajaj Finserv Ltd. 116,897 2.3%
16 Titan Company Ltd. 96,653 1.9%
17 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. 90,400 1.7%
18 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 77,283 1.5%
19 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. 76,584 1.5%
20 IndusInd Bank Ltd. 76,295 1.5%
21 JSW Steel Ltd. 69,918 1.3%
22 Asian Paints Ltd. 66,458 1.3%
23 Britannia Industries Ltd. 63,672 1.2%
24 HCL Technologies Ltd. 61,445 1.2%
25 Vedanta Ltd. 59,252 1.1%
26 Grasim Industries Ltd. 57,274 1.1%
27 Eicher Motors Ltd. 55,485 1.1%
28 Tata Motors Ltd. 53,445 1.0%
29 Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. 53,120 1.0%
30 Wipro Ltd. 52,655 1.0%
31 Tech Mahindra Ltd. 51,320 1.0%
32 Bharti Airtel Ltd. 49,950 1.0%
33 UltraTech Cement Ltd. 49,520 1.0%
34 Bharti Infratel Ltd. 49,329 1.0%
35 UPL Ltd. 48,981 0.9%
36 Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. 44,730 0.9%
37 Tata Steel Ltd. 44,054 0.8%
38 Bajaj Auto Ltd. 42,794 0.8%
39 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. 42,147 0.8%
40 Yes Bank Ltd. 37,237 0.7%
41 Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. 36,126 0.7%
42 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. 32,955 0.6%
43 Hero MotoCorp Ltd. 32,452 0.6%
44 NTPC Ltd. 32,355 0.6%
45 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. 31,850 0.6%
46 GAIL (India) Ltd. 30,704 0.6%
47 Cipla Ltd. 29,223 0.6%
48 Hindalco Industries Ltd. 29,193 0.6%
49 Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. 28,764 0.6%
50 Coal India Ltd. 15,351 0.3%
Note that the market capitalization used here is the free-float market capitalization and not the total market capitalization which is based on all outstanding shares. Read about the difference between free float and total market capitalization by clicking on the article below.
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Portmeirion is a fairy tale Italianate village on the coast of Snowdonia with gardens, beaches, shops, restaurants and hotels. Open daily all year.
Portmeirion village and gardens are near Porthmadog on a private peninsula off the Snowdonia coast. There are shops, restaurants, gardens and beaches and 70 acres of woodland walks. The village was built by Welsh architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis from 1925 to 1972. The village was used as the location for the 1960s cult television series The Prisoner.
The village has many colourful shops and restaurants including Castell Deudraeth (lunch includes free village entry), The Hotel Portmeirion (table d'hote menu), The Terrace Self-Service Restaurant, Cadwalader's Ice Cream Cafe and Caffi Glas pizza restaurant. All the cottages in the village are let as suites and rooms as part of the Hotel Portmeirion.
Surrounding the village are 70 acres of sub-tropical woodland gardens containing 5,000 species including unusual rhododendrons and camellias, Californian coast redwoods, a New Zealand 'dancing tree', and the tallest Chilean maiten tree in the UK.
The Prisoner cult television series was filmed at Portmeirion in 1967. In it Patrick McGoohan stars as a man who resigns from his top secret job and is held captive in the village, where he is known only as no. 6. To mark the 40th anniversary a boxed set of DVDs of the 17 episodes is available in the Prisoner Shop at Portmeirion.
Portmeirion has eight shops: The Seconds Warehouse has a good slection of Portmeirion Pottery seconds, Y Llong has Best Quality Portmeirion Pottery and design led gifts, other shops are the Golden Dragon Bookshop, Pot Jam, Papur a Phensal, Siop Bach, Oriel y Gromen and the Prisoner Shop. Some of the smaller shops close during the Winter months.
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Amy Martino: graphic art & fashion oddity
The fluid-cubist works of Amy Martino have the staying power of a brilliant logo. A Bachelor graduate of Sociology, this freelance art director and graphic designer brings her knowledge of visual branding into surreal digital fashion illustrations.
Amy Martino fashion illustration for Andrea Crews
modern cubism
US artist
Painting limericks: Duy Huynh
For Duy Huynh (pronounced Yee Wun) drawing was his way of settling in a strange world as a youngster immigrant. Years passed and the Vietnamese-born artist kept his childhood passion as a means of living after graduating from UNC Charlotte, North Carolina with a degree in painting and illustration.
Duy Huynh, Flightless Birds Of A Feather
Dadu Shin - illustrating with a point
A young American artist with an ice-cream company name (in his own words) Dadu Shin does highly original illustration with strong concepts. Some of them are images of written ideas, collaborating with financial issue PLANSPONSOR being one of the proudest moments for the artist. A fresh graduate from Rhode Island Institute of Design, Dadu Shin experiments with various techniques and trains his drawing skills with fashion illustration. For his commissioned works he uses or mixes painting with digital rendering tehnology, admittedly for the beauty of firm lines and shapes.
Dadu Shin, Re-culture
digital rendering
magazine illustration
Heather Mattoon's fashionable cats
"We should be more like cats: soulful, stylish, and entirely unconcerned with others’ opinions" says artist Heather Mattoon, motivating her lovely Cats in Clothes series of paintings. Each portrait shows a unique character, each cat having a distinct personality and an outfit to match. Also every art piece comes with a brief description, a teaser to a fun possible story.
Savannah by Heather Mattoon, Cats in Clothes
acrylic on masonite
cats portraits
Melancholic vision of desire
Audrey Kawasaki’s artworks are based on splendid contradictions. Her painted heroines and heroes are erotic and innocent, young but wise, disturbingly beautiful, intentionally ambiguous. Audrey’s style is influenced by both Manga comics and Art Nouveau, her ideas being brought to life with unique, flawless painting techniques.
Audrey Kawasaki, My Dishonest Heart
Submitted by pavelina on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 14:20
graphite on wood
manga style
Spring solo shows at London Miles
If you happen to be in London at the second half of March you must make a stop at the London Miles contemporary art gallery. UK's top venue for surrealist, pop, lowbrow, comic book and illustration art will put on show the works of two amazing American artists Stella Im Hultberg and Scott Belcastro.
"Fragmented is the highly anticipated solo show from Stella Im Hultberg. Her paintings are conceived in varying combinations of ink, watercolor, and oils on paper, wood and canvas. Her portraits of women are rendered in easy, flowing lines with soft hues that transcend the typical critiques of feminine beauty, inherent in today's self conscious society."
Fragmented, by Stella Im Hultberg
Artist submission: Ash Lethal
Ashleigh Fedo from Ash Lethal likes our modern art blog and we couldn’t be more honored to feature the works of this young American artist. Born in sunny Palm Beach, Florida, Ashleigh is a self-taught illustrator with a keen interest in music and a big love for animals (she is a SPCA volunteer). She began her artist career in April 2007 and since then she added in her portfolio notable group and solo art shows around Atlanta and at the Hive Gallery in L.A. as well as great artwork for music album covers, band t-shirts prints, advertising logos and other design projects.
Ash Lethal, The Dalia
Submitted by pavelina on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 16:18
Forceful feminine visions
I am very fond of surrealistic art, as a form of expressing pure, genuine emotions. That is probably why these otherworldly girls, painted by Lori Earley, gained my full interest. Born and raised in New York, Lori studied at School of Visual Arts from NY City and from 2004 began exhibiting her works all over USA and in Europe.
Lori Earley, Ms V
Submitted by pavelina on Sun, 10/17/2010 - 12:01
oil portrait
Fragile girls in ink
Ashley Goldberg's characters seem very fragile, looking for true friendship and protection. She draws shy little girls, with plush bears in their arms, hiding in trees and in most cases being accompanied by cute kittens or elves.
Ashley Goldberg, Why So Blue
Submitted by pavelina on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 09:48
digital coloring
Dienzo's cute & creepy adolescents
I find Rick "Dienzo" Blanco's characters are delightfully charming. Creepy & Cute is what defines Dienzo's style in fine art, this American artist being inspired in creating his acrylic characters by his work for Disney, Mattel and Cartoon Network. His dark and odd young things are meant to intrigue and cause anxiety, also suggesting that we all have a darker side coming to the surface when we are expecting the least.
Dienzo, Bella Regretting
Submitted by pavelina on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 07:07
Wayne Levin and his monochromatic oceans
Underwater world photographed in black and white? You could think that such an approach minimizes the beauty of seascapes and marine animals. But in fact, Wayne Levin photographs enhance their uniqueness, and give a more fictional look to the underwater world.
Wayne Levin, Floating
Submitted by pavelina on Sat, 08/28/2010 - 03:42
wildlife depiction
Sylvia Ji and her sad fairies
Sylvia Ji constantly surprises us with her beautiful paintings. Focusing especially on feminine figures (perhaps her own alter-egos), Sylvia explores beauty, sensuality, social notions in provocative captivating artworks. Some of her heroines are, as I said before, symbolic reflections of her, others are fictional figures, juxtaposed with mystical landscapes, all bursting into passion and decay.
Sylvia Ji, Worm Wood
Among dreams and monster tales
Dan May's gentle, furry monsters have always maintained a level of humanity. And, surprisingly or not, May's recent collection, called "Into the wild" expands this humanity into a deeper emotional level. Living in Jacksonville, FL, Dan May has exhibited his haunting surreal visions in galleries throughout the US and abroad.
Dan May, Curious Dreamers Wander Thy Solitude
Feminine icons and mythical symbolism
Kris Lewis grew up in a family that gathered seven brothers and one sister, and, although his father provided the artistic genes, it was his mother who actually influenced his work as a painter. She taught him about the importance of working hard, as he watched her raise an entirely family, after his parents' separation.
She encouraged him to cherish her Latvian heritage and that is until today a major influence in his work. Her mother's struggle has had a great meaning for him, and is probably the reason why women are a constant theme in his paintings. Both strength and fragility of them inspire and influence him in his quest of being a better human being.
Kris Lewis, Baltic Sea
Snapshots of everlasting nature
For her Human Nature art project Debbie Carlos took stunning nature-like photography with wild-life scene exhibits at Chicago's Field Museum. Debbie's photographs of taxidermied animals give the illusion that a quiet life goes on inside those glass showcases. It's because of the obscure light she explores in her photos, those desaturated tones that makes the images romantic but dark, with a mystical atmosphere.
Debbie Carlos, Human Nature
mystic photography
romantic photography
Caia Koopman's beautiful universe
She wanted to graduate in math but reconsidered and became fine arts major instead. And that was a really wise decision as Caia Koopman is nowadays one of the most appreciated young American artists. Born in Livermore, USA, Caia earned a BA at UC Santa Cruz, a place that also lured her to the local skateboarding scene.
Caia Koopman, The White Rabbit
Passionate about painting and life itself
Melissa Moss has a very interesting tale. In the past she worked in publishing, but a full-time job in that field didn't exactly trill her. Every day she felt more depressed for having to go over and over again to that job she didn't feel comfortable with. So one day she followed her husband's advice and quitted that job. And guess what? Afterwards, she founded her true passion in painting!
Melissa Moss, Too Happy
Submitted by pavelina on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 10:36
gouache on wood
True passion for fairytales
Michelle "Mia" Araujo is only 24 years old and has already astonished critics with her acrylic on wood paintings. Born in Los Angeles, Mia graduated Otis College of Art & Design and her works are being submitted in well-known art shows and galleries including Roq la Rue, Ad Hoc Art or Corey Helford Gallery. She also has a twin sister which is both her harshest critic and closest friend.
Mia Araujo, Persephone
Exploring mind's fears and obsessions
Jonathan Viner's "Harem" collection explores themes of intimacy and vulnerability, control and voyeurism with its captivating, realistic representations of sensual girls listening to headphones; which, reminding me of John Fowles' s novel The Collector, are altered from independent individuals to vivid artifacts.
Jonathan Viner, Irina
realistic manner
The magical world of sheepies and misos
If you're wondering what is Miso's art all about, I will tell you that her imagination is fascinated and stirred by ecocatastrophe, biology and evolution. Her strange creatures, subjects of her paintings, graphite artworks, ink drawings and sculptures, may be considered part of a new species, living here on Earth after an imminent catastrophe.
Miso, Teardrop 2
Fashion cards and gothic queens
Californian (LA) designer and illustrator Connie Lim places glamorous, dark yet playful girls on playing cards, proving that fashion creativity really has no limits. At the present she is a student of renowned Central Saint Martins and much in love with the city of London.
Connie Lim, Fashion Playing Cards
pen on paper
Can morbid be cute?
I would never have thought that creepy and cute could go together in a sentence. That was until I saw Kristen Tercek's incredible acrylic on wood paintings signed Cuddly Rigor Mortis. Jersey based artist, trained at NYU Film School lives in the woods with beloved husband and two chihuahuas, painting small pictures of "thoughts had in the dead of night".
Cuddly Rigor Mortis, Mulligan
morbid art
Sisters, farms and supernatural forces
Rural scenes, sad brides, strange sisters, crows, fire, superstitions and supernatural forces. These are what Andrea Kowch captures in her beautiful, mysterious paintings, shown all over in the United States and Canada.
Andrea Kowch, No Turning Back
book illustrator
The new face of reality
Gage Opdenbrouw aims at painting "the exterior world in such a way as to evoke the mysterious richness & vastness of the interior world each of us carries within". Working especially with oil paints, this talented artist gets his inspiration from real life, but after studying and sketching his subjects he focuses on something not entirely visible. Because nothing seems to be what you thought, the second time you give it a glimpse.
Gage Opdenbrouw, Dead Couple, Dia de Los Muertos
Focus on Uncertain Times
Amy Casey's paintings recreate, with acrylic on panel, on canvas or on paper, her nightmares concerning the end of the world. "Inspired by natural and unnatural disasters, personal fiascos and never-ending stream of bad news coming from the media, the world inside my paintings has been turned (sometimes literally) upside down. The ground has crumbled underneath them and the sky is falling", says Amy.
Amy Casey, Keeping it Together, 2009
I simply love the world that Seth Armstrong depicts through his paintings. He mixes realism with a touch of fictional; he knows how to be ironic without crossing the line, and funny without diminishing the message of his artworks. Plus, if the subject of his works is violence or sensuality, he delivers a powerful message, in a subtle way, without underestimating the viewer’s intelligence.
Seth Armstrong, A view of Budapest from the trekkie deekie
Magic world, magic paintings
Kelly Vivanco admits she enjoys painting without planning, just letting her imagination run free and see where it takes her. To people who ask what are her artworks about she encourages them to find their own meanings. The artist depicts a late childhood’s fantasy world where animal talk (and wear hats) and young girls are the heroines of great adventures which imply magic wildlife, treasures, fairies, epic tests and a secret reward.
Kelly Vivanco, Offshore
Benjamin Anderson's artistic "soup"
Benjamin Anderson's biggest passions are portraits. That's because this type of art work provokes him to find a representation that reflects the many different characteristics of an individual.
Benjamin Anderson, self-portrait
Art among skeletons
Joe Vollan's art seems inspired by nightmares, fears, menaces, by nature and its cruel rules. And most of all, Joe Vollan's paintings are without exception author's mind processes. Through his surrealistic pieces of art, painted in their majority with acrylic on panel and acrylic on canvas, he creates bizarre worlds. He creates fantastic tales, where skeletons, giant whales, humanized birds and other terrifying creatures live their adventures like people in the real world do; they die, they suffer and most of all, they are willing to escape their own monsters.
The imaginarium of Maggie Taylor
Surreal ambiguity, haunting faces, otherworldly hybrid characters, and the mix of familiar with the menace; an unsettling mood and an irreproachable painterly technique describe the fascinating digital art of Maggie Taylor.
The Florida based artist began her career as a still-life photographer after studying philosophy at Yale and photography at the University of Florida. In 1996 she started to use computer techniques to create her imaginary worlds and fell in love with the result. Maggie says she is forever bound to her parallel universe: “Making images for me is a way of life. I can't imagine not doing it. I guess in terms of what motivates me, the best answer would be, if I don't make images I'm unhappy."
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Verdant Skies News
Developing Rosie’s Art Style
By andykorth | Development
Character portraits in Verdant Skies have changed a lot through the development process. Each character begins with a biography, which plays a major role in every decision on the character’s design- clothing, attitude, pose, and more.
Once the basics have been nailed down in the sketch, Lizzy begins to refine the details of the character and render the character in more detail.
At this point, the design of Rosie is pretty nailed down. We’ve continued to change the art style for the in-game portraits.. so Lizzy creates the final portrait.
Once this final version of Rosie is finished, new versions are made to show Rosie laughing, embarrassed, concerned, and whatever other expressions are required for the narrative.
Usability Study
We participated in a usability study by a local user experience expert. She played an alpha version of Verdant Skies for about two hours and wrote up a heuristic analysis. We’re working on fixing some of the usability issues she found. Check out her report!
Summer Modding Update and Sale! June 26, 2019
Verdant Skies is out now! February 12, 2018
For press inquiries, support questions, or suggestions, contact us at support (at) verdantskies.com
To reach one of the team members directly, check out the team page.
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Problems of Human Physiology
A.D. Tsikunib
Zoological museum of Adyghe State University: 10 years of educational and scientific activity
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S.A. Liaoucheva, A.A. Shaov
History of evolution of the usurious capital
The paper discusses the basic stages of history of evolution of the usurious capital in the West European civilization. Rudiments of economic theories in the Western Europe are mainly encountered in compositions of fathers of church, seminary students and jurists - canonists of the 14-16th centuries. Trade in them was admitted only at observance of honesty, justice and conscientiousness and at condemnation of usury (giving money on loan under percent.). The church leaned to a certain degree on samples of the Roman Right. However, primarily the church influenced the debt right and a commercial law as a whole through the doctrine about the fair price. A church nonparticipation in development of market relations in the Middle Ages was in its basis. Medieval patristic didn't regulate economic views in system of independent scientific knowledge. Views and the ideas concerning the economic theory were an integral part of system of moral theology. The ethical aspect of the economic theory appeared to be self-sufficing. And only in the Education epoch the ban for growth was lifted everywhere. Similar changes mean that “the market” manufacturer is focused now on a manufacture economic gain.
liaoucheva2012_2.pdf (267 Kb)
A.A. Shaov
Methodological problems of legal system in the Middle Ages
The paper discusses the basic stages of formation and evolution of the law in West Europe during the Medieval times. Historically, owing to the specificity, the law acts as an effective means of a society governing. Accordingly legal regulation is often considered as an establishment of legal instructions and their ensuring by the state. The secular world of “the economic person” demanded a legal substantiation of occurring changes. Here ontologic, axiological, gnoseological and intrinsic aspects of the law, stages of its formation and development is the law genesis as the progressing evolution of the content, volume, scale and measure of freedom, equality and justice. The research is focused on stages of formation and development of the law in historical measurement when, since an epoch of Medieval Christian Europe, the legal vector has changed the orientation towards secular law comprehension. This was directly related to the Renaissance and Education epochs.
shaov2012_2.pdf (224 Kb)
L.U. Kurbanova
Procedural and structural aspects of gender identification
This paper provides an analysis of a number of theoretical concepts concerning the discourse structure of gender identity. Also it touches upon the procedural parameters of personal self-identification in temporal duration during lifetime. The author arrives at a conclusion that not only socialization leads to certain identification features of a person but also the individualization of the objective reality of a person plays an important role in this process.
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A.O. Sleptsova, N.V. Zhilkina
Fantasy as a nonmoral field of creative activity
The paper conceives of fantasy as a tool of creativity which cannot be ethical reflection. Using the examples of scientific and artistic creativity the author proves the presence of such common peculiarity as escapism in both spheres. This allows the author to conclude that the degree of preoccupation of the individual with his own world of desire is so high that all public and personal interests are lost for the creator.
sleptsova2012_2.pdf (196 Kb)
I.A. Yakovenko
Tendencies in development of religious consciousness in modern Russia
On the basis of the analysis of the domestic and foreign literature on the given theme the author investigates tendencies in development of religiousness in modern Russia. The reasons of revival of religiousness and clericalism in Russia nowadays are considered in this paper. The author comes to a conclusion that in sociocultural measurement religion as the tradition is the major mechanism of reproduction and translation of moral standards and cultural wealth without which it is impossible to imagine any culture. The object of research is a condition of modern religious consciousness of Russians.
yakovenko2012_2.pdf (271 Kb)
Zh.O. Abregova, N.A. Pocheshkhov
The Soviet historiography of the Civil War in the Kuban region (1917-1921)
An analysis is made of the Soviet historiography of the period of civil war in the Kuban region. The authors determine the role and significance of the Soviet period in scientific studying the civil war in Russia.
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E.A. Sheudzhen
“Memory places”: a fashionable definition or historiography practice?
An attempt is undertaken to answer a question: in what historiography situation the notions about token places of historical memory have arisen and developed.
sheudzhen2012_2.pdf (247 Kb)
E.M. Malysheva, E.E. Korchemkina
Activity of Adygheya authorities on reorganization of a forestry management in the 1920-1940s
The paper analyzes a historical experience in formation of a regional forestry management system related to the all-Russian development of this process. The basic stages of reorganization of the forestry in Adygheya are discussed.
D.A. Panarin
Mobilization mechanisms in activity of state farms in the Kuban and Stavropol territory in days of the Great Patriotic War
The paper shows possibilities of using experience obtained by state farms in days of the Great Patriotic War for the decision of contemporary agriculture problems. The author analyzes mobilization mechanisms in activity of state farms in the Kuban and Stavropol Territory and discusses the basic directions of reorganization of work of state farms in the conditions of war. Influence of mobilization mechanisms on activity of state farms in days of war is examined. As a result of study importance of use of mobilization mechanisms in state-farm manufacture with a view of rational and effective utilization of material and personnel resources is proved.
A.B. Alieva
On history of resettlement movement in the Republic of Daghestan (1924-1966)
This paper discusses the problematic aspects of the resettlement policy in the Republic of Daghestan during 1924-1966. The author shows the main stages of the mountaineers’ movement to the plain, the value of the land-water reform, which allowed mountaineers to cultivate the land, as well as the difficulties of this process, associated with the natural disasters that occurred in a number of the settlement areas. The positive results of the mountaineers’ resettlement and the role of the Soviet government in this historical process are marked.
alieva2012_2.pdf (235 Kb)
N.B. Akaeva
Creativity of Kumyksky theatre in the second half of the 1940-s to the beginning of the 1960-s
On the basis of diverse and historiographic base the author of this paper analyzes activity of Kumyksky theatre from the second half of the 1940-s to the beginning of the 1960-s. This work examines the performances which have defined a new step of creative growth of Kumyksky theatre. The assessment of work of actors and directors in the certain period of time is given.
akaeva2012_2.pdf (227 Kb)
M.V. Yanova (Lenkova)
Problematic aspects of historiography of science development in Kalmykia in the post-Soviet period
The paper highlights the complex of problems concerning Kalmykia historiography in the post-Soviet period. The author aims at researching the science development in the Kalmyk State University and the contribution of the Kalmyk State University scientists to the Russian science development. The work shows the peculiarities of historiography situation through time.
System of democratic institutes of the power in the North Caucasus: history and features (1918 – 1930s)
The author investigates the process of formation of democratic institutes of the power in the North Caucasus beginning from 1918 to 1930s. The focus is made on distinction between the regions of the North Caucasus. The author shows the role of revolutionary-military committees, the situation in this or that region and their influence on the formation of authorities in regions.
D.S. Kidirniyazov, A.U. Rabadanova
Social relations of the people of Daghestan and Chechnya in the second half of the 18th – the beginning of the 19th centuries
The paper discusses the social relations of the people of Daghestan and Chechnya in the second half of the 18th - the beginning of the 19th century. In many respects, these property legal relations had similar features: a strongly pronounced social inequality and different forms of ownership of land. Daghestan and Chechnya were not uniform and politically and economically complete territory yet. Simultaneously, both Daghestan and Chechnya had the isolated political unities and the unions of rural communities as a special form of a political system.
M.B. Bedzhanov
Ethnic occurrences and international relations
This work examines problematic aspects of search for new ways of formation of the international relations, development of their culture and national consciousness of the people in new historical conditions in our country. In the paper, the author pays attention to need of a new approach to existing definitions of the concepts of “the people”, “nation” and “nationality”.
bedzhanov2012_2.pdf (176 Kb)
S.V. Makeev
Social modernization of Russia
The paper provides a comparative analysis of Christian modernization and modernizations of the New and Soviet times. Their ideological and world outlook components are examined. The authors show the basic difference in types of modernizations by a priority of public and individual values. Basic restrictions in modernization development of a civilization with a priority of individual values are considered.
makeev2012_2.pdf (186 Kb)
V.A. Kotlyarov, A.P. Mikhaylov
Legal behaviour of youth as a subject of the sociological analysis
The paper discusses the legitimation of legal behavior in the subculture of modern youth. The authors investigate the determination of deviant behavior of the youth demographic group, as well as features of its sense of justice.
kotlyarov2012_2.pdf (232 Kb)
R.A. Khanakhu, O.M. Tsvetkov
Islamic community in Adygheya: internal dynamics and evolution prospects (as shown by the results of sociological research)
The paper discusses the situation in an Islamic community of Adygheya Republic and internal pressure in it. Also this work forecasts the evolution of this community. The basic problem under study is stratification of an Islamic community into supporters of the “traditional Islam” and “pure Islam”, as well as a certain radicalization of a small part of Moslems. An attempt is undertaken for the first time to investigate in detail preconditions of its distribution in republic territory. The reasons and ways of distribution of radical versions of Islam, as well as scales of their influence on local population are analyzed.
khanakhu2012_2.pdf (232 Kb)
T.I. Afasizhev, V.N. Nekhay
Globalization in the perception of the Circassian ethnic group: experience in sociological research
This paper analyzes the features of perception by the Circassian ethnic group of the globalization process, transforming the economic and sociocultural spheres. Based on data of the conducted sociological survey the author reveals the consequences of mondialisation for the mechanisms of social and cultural dynamics of the Circassians.
afasizhev1_2012_2.pdf (295 Kb)
Yu.Yu. Lomp
Features of group interaction of youth in traditional culture of the Adyghes
The paper discusses features of group interaction of youth in regional society. Features of a life and culture of the Adyghes are examined. The basic forms and social essence of interaction of youth in a traditional society are distinguished on the basis of the analysis of historical evidences.
lomp2012_2.pdf (213 Kb)
D.V. Simon
Social and economic assessment of the competitive environment in Russia
The paper deals with the social and economic analysis of competition in Russia. The author considers the macroeconomic factors that influence the dynamics of competitive relations, as well as the results of realization of the state competitive policy. The paper provides a generalized assessment and the problematic aspects of the further development of competitive relations in Russia.
simon2012_2.pdf (189 Kb)
Yu.Yu. Volkov
Present conditions and prospects of implementing IT financial management of Rostov region
The paper discusses the key points of developing financial management of Rostov region. The author underlines the main problems of implementing IT in this sphere and the ways they can be solved.
volkov2012_2.pdf (175 Kb)
M.E. Zubkov
The defining conditions of managerial behavior in the field of labor safety at small construction enterprises
The sociological research was implemented to reveal features of the determination approaches to safety management and labor safety at small construction enterprises. It is inferred that there is a conflict between systems of labor efficiency management and labor safety at small construction enterprises. The cause of conflict is the change of worldview and axiological principles of workers and the low maturity of the management culture.
zubkov2012_2.pdf (198 Kb)
G.V. Shapovalov
The basic stages of development of social advertising in Russia
An analysis is made of the basic stages of development of social advertising in Russia. The author proves that modern social advertising reflects a historical way of its formation and development. This is manifested, first of all, in preservation of the leading positions of the state in regulating and implementing social and promotional activities.
shapovalov2012_2.pdf (184 Kb)
O.V. Leonova
The spiritual culture of the region: current situation and trends of changes
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the estimates and opinions of the population of Astrakhan region about the state, basic tendencies and problems in the sphere of spiritual culture obtained on the basis of the results of sociological researches in 2005 and 2010. There are some changes in the respondents' opinions concerning the Russian spiritual culture, the extent of realization of spiritual demands and the attitude to the activity of the state and regional government in the sphere of culture.
leonova2012_2.pdf (254 Kb)
M.V. Averyanov
Corruption as the crisis factor of sociocultural mentality of youth
This paper addresses the phenomenon of corruption as a crisis factor of sociocultural mentality of youth. The author defines the mechanisms of minimization of its destructive impact and examines the problematics of sociological researches in sphere of counteraction against corruption.
averyanov2012_2.pdf (215 Kb)
M.E. Grigoryan
Definition of subject domain of social management and functions of social management of the modern organization
This paper analyzes the definition of subject domain of social management. The author identifies and analyzes the functions of social management of enterprises. It is inferred that the social form of management is based on the social paradigm of the organization development. The solution of problems concerning application of the categorial apparatus of social management is related to basic elaboration or critical revision of a number of bases and categories of both sociology and management.
grigoryan2012_2.pdf (184 Kb)
N.S. Lyubavin
The analysis of the organization of information-analytical maintenance of activity of the law-enforcement bodies of the Russian Federation
The paper analyzes the organization of information-analytical maintenance of activity of law-enforcement bodies of Russia. Information-analytical maintenance is included organizationally into a control system of law-enforcement body, providing in its activity of achievement of the purposes its creation. The author discloses system properties of the given kind of administrative activity, as well as the characteristic problems to be solved within the limits of maintenance of law-enforcement activity of the state.
lyubavin2012_2.pdf (206 Kb)
F.R. Azashikova
Bases of strategy of sustainable social and economic development of the region
The paper discusses the problematic aspects of sustainable social and economic development of the region, its essence and factors. The author examines transition to a sustainable development of the region and resources required for the solution of its tasks.
azashikova2012_2.pdf (256 Kb)
A.I. Trakhov
Features of bringing to criminal liability and punishment of minors at the present stage of development of Russia
This paper addresses the maintenance of the rights and freedom of minors, as well as features of the modern legislation in the Russian Federation about a criminal liability and punishment of minors. Justice concerning minor offenders means that measures of influence applied to them provided as much as possible an individual approach to research of circumstances of the made act and were commensurable both with features of their person and with circumstances of the made act, promoted the prevention of crimes among minors and provided them resocialization and protection of legitimate interests of victims.
trakhov2012_2.pdf (210 Kb)
Z.A. Mamisheva
Legal bases ensuring national security of Russia
The paper discusses legal and political aspects of ensuring security of the Russian state and society. These aspects provide an opportunity of revealing a number of the factors which influence intensely reserves of the state in the solution of problems of ensuring national interests. The main concepts, including security, national interests, national security, state security, are analyzed.
mamisheva2012_2.pdf (209 Kb)
Z.Kh. Lovpache
Interpretation of norms of criminally-procedural law as the necessary precondition and a condition of their correct application
The paper addresses the problems arising at interpretation of norms of criminally-procedural law. The reasons of “collisions of norms of the law” are investigated. The author develops a vector which is the precondition and a condition of correct application of the norms of criminally-procedural law in practical life. Importance of the question under study which is related, at times, to destiny and well-being of the person is discussed.
lovpache2012_2.pdf (233 Kb)
A.M. Siyukhova
Lunar symbols in dreams and mythic-epic creativity of the Adyghes
The paper provides a list of the most significant symbols of dreams of representatives of the Adyghe ethnos. The dependence of mythology of ethnos on symbolical system of dreams is substantiated. Symbols of the dreams related to the lunar nature are analyzed in detail: ‘water’, ‘snake”, “fish”, “child” and “blood”. The way of realization of the given symbolics in the epos of the Adyghes is investigated. The principle of nonlinear dependence of the archetypical symbolics realized in dreams, epos and in ceremonial practice is marked.
siyukhova2012_2.pdf (288 Kb)
N.V. Tertyshnik
The national and international in arts and crafts of Adygheya artists
The paper discusses principles of interaction of the national and international in arts and crafts of artists of Adygheya. The author considers this theme still urgent, but suggests its study in a plane of sociology and culture psychology. The national and international are correlated as the ethnic-marker, information (style and temporal), esthetic and spiritual signs-codes rather than a form and the content.
tertyshnik2012_2.pdf (190 Kb)
Z.E. Abdulaeva
Specificity of regional ethnoculture in anthropological space of the Russian society
The paper deals with the regional ethnoculture as an integral part of anthropological space of Russian modern culture. Specific features of ethnoculture as an anthropological constant in contemporary Russian society are analyzed.
abdulaeva2012_2.pdf (210 Kb)
H.M. Mirsoev
A name as the most important sign means of self-identification
The paper discloses the essence and social and psychological value of a name. The consciousness of toponymy of his name often sets special purposes and tasks before the person that are altered with his growth. Questions of the theistic plan are discussed. The most important sign means of a name is prefaced with the social and cultural self-determination of the personality. Some rituals which are traditionally chosen by a society in modern real life are revealed.
mirsoev2012_2.pdf (265 Kb)
B.S. Khotko
National belief of the Abkhazes: traditions and the present (As shown by a sanctuary of the Ampar family)
Nowadays there is an active revival of the traditional religion in the Abkhazes environment. Its value grows steadily in life of society during the past years. It is necessary to underline that for a long time the national belief of the Abkhazes has been the object of steadfast attention in the scientific environment. The available data about traditional religion of the Abkhazian people treat a ceremony of sacrifice as means of uniting and strengthening related links between representatives of the given family rather than only as the form of dialogue of members of the family with a deity.
khotko2012_2.pdf (209 Kb)
V.G. Shustov
The first municipal reform as an object of political study
This paper discusses the primary period of municipal reform in the period of 1989-1991. Separately the first municipal reform was distinguished and studied. The author gives a definition of the municipal reform, defines its objectives and components. A political and legal analysis of legislation of municipal reform is undertaken. The main purpose of this publication is a study of the role and place of the local authorities in the political process in conditions of transformation of the entire political system.
shustov2012_2.pdf (270 Kb)
T.A. Shalyugina
Imitation phenomenon in the Soviet social reality
The paper reveals how a variety of imitation strategies were imposed on the new social reality in the conditions of totalitarianism formation: “installing style” of life, symbolic engineering, mythologization and primitivization and ideological indoctrination. The basic components of the imitation are: social action as the introduction of the principles of “vision” in the mass consciousness, a departure from rationality, which includes the distortion or even destruction of the fixeed sense of the social reality in a communicative dialogue and social perception, factor of the engineering of the symbolic reality, pragmatism of imitation as a practice.
shalyugina2012_2.pdf (208 Kb)
E.B. Lebedeva
Experience in associating subjects in the Russian Federation: problems and preliminary results
The paper analyzes five cases of association of subjects in the Russian Federation in the 2000s and identifies the key features and the main consequences of the reforms in the administrative-territorial division. The study demonstrates the low interest of the population and regional elites in the unification processes, the high relevance of issues related to national identity and very contradictory effects of the reforms.
lebedeva2012_2.pdf (326 Kb)
Yu.V. Chub
Scientific and methodical aspects of a cost assessment of the human capital
The paper discusses approaches to estimation of the human capital cost. The basic components of this estimate are the educational level of the individual, an investment in health, investments into information support of the worker, expenses for improvement of professional skill or training for a new profession, provided there is a change of technics and work content in a workplace, and expenses for mobility at structural changes of employment.
chub2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
S.A. Roshchektaev
Integrated approach to the formation of the local financial market of the Russian modern megalopolis
The paper substantiates the application of integrated approach to the formation of the local financial market of the modern Russian megalopolis. From this approach the market under study is a product of market integration interaction of the subjects of financial relations, interlacing in the economic space of megalopolis as an integrated entity, producing intensively the new knowledge. It is shown that an integrator of this market is the megalopolis itself as a system subject of the local financial market.
roshchektaev2012_2.pdf (687 Kb)
Zh.D. Darmilova
The choice of investment strategy for an enterprise working in competing emvironment
The paper describes scientific methods of strategic management in investment activity of enterprises. The author determines its investment substrategies, the main stages of the process of formation of investment strategy, levels of accepting strategic solutions and the more optimal investment strategies in post-crisis conditions.
darmilova2012_2.pdf (497 Kb)
O.A. Okorokova
Foreign experience in investment activity of the insurance companies
The paper examines state regulation and practical aspects of investment activity of the insurance companies abroad. The author determines the directions of development of their investment activity and the basic tools of investment.
okorokova2012_2.pdf (954 Kb)
А.А. Dzharimov
Some thoughts on the federation and federal relations. 20 years later
The present research focuses upon the formation and development of the federal relations underlying a state system of Russia. The condition of the federal relations in a political sphere influences an economic component of the relations of the federal center and subjects of Federation. Federalism principles and the main restrictions of their realization in modern Russia are disclosed. Special attention is given to a diversity of status of subjects of the Russian Federation underlying an asymmetric nature of federation and structural disorganization of economic space. The author provides an assessment of expediency of federal district allocation, cancellations of direct elections of heads of Russian regions and the electoral system which has developed in the country. Need of conducting elections in regions and in subjects of the Russian Federation in accordance with the majority system is proved.
dzharimov2012_2.pdf (573 Kb)
E.B. Ermishina
Principles and tools to diversify the mining industry of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
This work discusses principles of a diversification and tools of its realization. The efficiency of a diversification of mining branch is estimated. It is inferred that the directions of mountain branch diversification in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania should rest upon the use of secondary resources and capacities.
ermishina2012_2.pdf (436 Kb)
E.N. Zakharova, T.G. Gurnovich, M.M. Dolgiyev
Conceptual bases of ensuring power safety of the region in the conditions of formation of innovative economy
This paper reports upon various approaches to concepts of security and power safety. The authors discuss the main problematic aspects of development of technical base in power engineering; describe key principles of ensuring power safety in the conditions of innovative development and the complex of actions providing implementation of the concept of sustainable power , as well as propose the control system of power safety of the region.
zakharova1_2012_2.pdf (733 Kb)
А.V. Kravchenko
Relationship of structural elements in the monitoring system of foreign economic sector of the region
The basic structural elements necessary for the efficient functioning of foreign trade complex in the region are defined on the basis of a systematic approach to the construction of its monitoring. The basic methodological requirements for its construction are formulated.
kravchenko2012_2.pdf (552 Kb)
Competitiveness and competitive advantages of regions of Southern Russia
This paper discusses some aspects related to the study on the relationship of competitiveness and competitive advantages of regions, as well as to the methodological problems related to rating assessment of the competitiveness in regions of Southern Russia with application of complex socio-economic indicators.
kuzin2012_2.pdf (149 Kb)
N.M. Makarchouk
Structural transformation of the internal environment in the economic system of the region
The process of structural transformation during the past years has become a priority component of regional economic policy of Russia. Problems, which regions experience under the influence of the factors of global competition, are negatively reflected on parameters of their evolution. The present paper discovers essential issues of structural transformation and gives recommendations for their solution.
makarchouk2012_2.pdf (400 Kb)
R.A. Popov, А.А. Dzharimov
Prospects for increasing competitiveness of industrial sector of Russia in the conditions of development of globalization and economy regionalization processes
The current state of industrial sector of Russia is characterized by considerable unevenness of development in both branch and territorial aspects. On the one hand, the producing enterprises of a petroleum and gas complex which have developed in the past decades provided the main proceeds in budget revenues, dampening expenses of market reforms. On the other hand, they created a situation when development of processing enterprises has become ineffective. The paper provides the assessment of the modern processes in industrial sector of Russia and substantiates proposals on giving innovative character to the process of its development.
popov2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
L.T. Tlekhuray-Berzegova, T.G. Gurnovich
Contemporary integration managing subjects and functions of interaction of regional systems
The essence of integration of managing subjects is defined as steady and developing cooperation of managing subjects consistently approaching and binding their reproduction processes. Proceeding from a correspondence principle between requirements and functions of regional systems, it is possible to define the functional content of their integration interaction. A study of process of integration interaction of regions in contemporary Russia allows distinguishing a number of specific needs and functions of integration interaction of regional systems.
tlekhuray-berzegova2012_2.pdf (481 Kb)
R.D. Khunagov, R.A. Popov
Clusters as a form of the organization and construction technology in the conditions of volatility: a regional aspect
In the conditions of requirements to increase volumes and rates of industrial and cultural - domestic construction, a system of territorial construction clusters can act as one of the effective forms of contract activity in regions. Flexible forms of the organization, immanent to cluster structures, allow uniting technology-collocated construction organizations on a commercial basis and reaching as a result a synergetic effect in high-quality measurements and a cumulative effect in construction technology. The paper describes promising forms of a territorial and production association of separate construction organizations and the building industry enterprises with a view of increasing the efficiency of construction processes and developing a personnel component of this branch on a new organizational basis.
khunagov1_2012_2.pdf (583 Kb)
R.D. Khunagov, I.V. Sugaipova
Tools of debureaucratization and overcoming a corruption component in regional social and economic policy
The paper examines problematic aspects of corruption on the basis of materials of the Krasnodar Territory and the work of the Audit Chamber, one of the most effective bodies of fight against corruption, which has effective tools of tracking and prevention of this negative phenomenon. The optimum ways of fight against corruption are presented.
Development of the relations of a corporate property in the internal environment of regional economic systems
The paper describes the levels of the organization of a corporate property. The authors distinguish two aspects of social participation of the performing personnel in profit of corporation and two types of structure – object and subject.
A.A. Kerashev, M.M. Shekultirova
Promising forms of interaction between small-scale agrarian business and corporate structures in regional agricultural sector
The paper discusses the topical problem of development of small-scale business in agricultural sector in terms of capital concentration and economic subject consolidation. Great attention is paid to prospects of effective regulation of interaction between small-scale agrarian business and large corporate structures in agricultural sector of modern Russia. The key forms of development of interaction between small-scale business and corporate business groups, that dominate in agricultural sector of regions of modern Russia, are presented.
kerashev2012_2.pdf (758 Kb)
A.A. Mokrushin, A.I. Suslov
Corporative potential of structural modernization of regional agro-industrial systems of contemporary Russia
The paper is devoted to identifying the corporative potential of structural modernization and innovative transformation in regional agro-industrial system. The possibilities and restrictions of vertically integrated corporations (VIC) in structural transformation of economic connections and relations of subjects of regional agro-industrial systems have been established. The dominant mode of structural organization of interaction between VIC and agro-industrial systems of contemporary Russia has been revealed. The possibilities of the PPP in the development of regional agro-industrial systems (with the participation of VIC) have been specified. The promising strategy of interaction between VIC and agro-industrial systems of contemporary Russia has been revealed.
mokrushin2012_2.pdf (902 Kb)
A.Z. Rysmyatov, S.A. Dyakov, A.O. Kirichenko
Theoretical bases of economy and the organization of reproduction processes in fruit growing
The paper discusses the problems of theoretical and practical character characterizing reproduction processes in industrial fruit growing. An analysis is made of the modern determinants defining efficiency of reproduction processes in this branch.
rysmyatov2012_2.pdf (459 Kb)
I.V. Sugaipova, I.N. Voblaya
Formation of innovative and investment policy of the regional agrarian and industrial complex
The paper discusses the problematic aspects of reduction of investments into the agrarian sphere, as well as the questions of intensification of regional investment policy on the basis of development of its innovative component.
sugaipova2012_2.pdf (484 Kb)
A.A. Tamov, A.A. Apishev
Methodological aspects of proving strategic priorities for the development of agro-industrial complex in the problem region in post-crisis conditions
This paper discusses a number of unexplored methodological aspects related to the justification of the priorities of development of regional agro-industrial complex, taking into account peculiarities of the problem region.
tamov2012_2.pdf (481 Kb)
M.M. Shekultirova
The system of corporative management of integrating interaction between economic subjects of regional agricultural sector
The paper discusses the major problems of corporative management of integrating interaction between subjects of regional agricultural sector. The author examines the structural elements of executive system of interaction between economic subjects of agricultural sector on the basis of corporate integration, as well as the prospects of its development.
shekultirova2012_2.pdf (562 Kb)
V.D. Selyutin
Mathematical models of economic risk management based on the conception of risk as a resource
This work proposes the models of risk management based on the use of the risk conception as a resource. It is pointed out that if risk is resource-similar, then taking a cost-benefit criterion into account, its management will be related to the reduction of its level to optimal value.
selyutin2012_2.pdf (560 Kb)
N.P. Ketova
Regional marketing in system of tools and principles of management of territorial development
The paper discloses the essence, features, functions and principles of regional marketing. The structure of the markets and companies in the South of Russia is presented. The author formulates methodical approaches to stimulation and regulation of their activity by methods of regional marketing and shows advantages of this tool in the general control system of territorial development.
ketova2012_2.pdf (814 Kb)
V.N. Ostrovskaya, S.V. Mayer
Constructive approach to marketing management at the petrochemical enterprise
In this paper, we propose a new approach to the marketing management in petrochemical companies, based on the use of the principles of constructivism. The authors describe the features of this approach, as well as its relationship to other approaches. A role of the constructive approach in improvement of strategic marketing management is determined.
ostrovskaya2012_2.pdf (649 Kb)
T.I. Afasizhev, B.M. Zhukov, V.S. Novikov
The virtual relations in a service sector: factors and prospects of globalization
At present, we understand that the virtual economy comes up to take the “real” economy’s place. Of particular note is the service sector, which in its philosophical sense has all the characteristics and components of the virtual economy. The article is devoted to the formation and development of the theoretical foundations of service virtualization.
T.I. Afasizhev, A.S. Tyutyunnikov
Directions of modernization of the Russian hotel business aimed at increasing its competitiveness
This work substantiates the main directions of modernization of the Russian hotel business aimed at increasing its competitiveness on the basis of researches carried out by the author. The authors define the interrelation of modernization of hotel business organizations with increase of their competitiveness through ensuring strategic sustainability as ability to create, develop and keep for a long time the competitive advantages in the market of hotel services in the conditions of environment changes.
S.A. Baranova, Yu.M. Belyaev
Consulting services in the sphere of innovations
This paper describes trends, types and functions of a number of consulting firms that must belong to a single infrastructure necessary for continuous sustainable innovative development. Attention is given to the need for Russia to create new types of consulting services in the sphere of innovations to provide venture capital for banks and funds, as well as the safety and protection of intellectual property.
Yu.M. Belyayev, E.M. Chernenko
Organizational-economic provision of modern standards of medical services in foreign countries
This article contains a model of medical services in foreign countries, a comparative socio-economic analysis, which allows you to choose the most appropriate model for use in domestic practice.
belyayev1_2012_2.pdf (662 Kb)
Yu.M. Belyaev, E.М. Chernenko
Increases in effectiveness and quality of medical services on the basis of the organizational-economic guarantee of observance of the contemporary standards
The paper examines the methods of management of the quality of medical services, ensuring the social protection of population in the sphere of health protection. An assessment is made of basic indices characterizing the quality of medical services. The basic directions of the solution of the problems related to the quality of the medical services are determined.
belyaev2_2012_2.pdf (733 Kb)
N.A. Breslavtseva
Tendencies and problematic aspects of management in service sphere
At present the economic system undergoes considerable changes related to both structural shifts and various social factors. Therefore, the major area of public life is the sphere of services which makes appreciable impact on all sides of our activity. This paper deals with the creation of new management methods in sphere of services.
breslavtseva2012_2.pdf (649 Kb)
L.V. Vermennikova, A.S.Tyutyunnikov
System of the estimation of enterprise competitiveness in the recreation-tourist sphere in the adaptivity context
This paper proposes a system of the estimation of enterprise competitiveness in the recreation-tourist sphere in the adaptivity context made on the basis of the researches conducted by the author. This system includes two-level indicators (at level of the enterprise and external environment), consisting of both financial and non-financial indicators. This approach provides the balanced estimation of efficiency of functioning and the level of the enterprise competitiveness against the background of the changes occurring in an outer environment.
vermennikova2012_2.pdf (701 Kb)
А.А. Ermolenko, S.V. Lazovskaya
Mechanisms of formation of competing advantages in the service sphere
An analysis is made of the main group of competitiveness factors. The principal directions of formation of competing advantages in the sphere of tourist services are determined.
ermolenko2012_2.pdf (520 Kb)
A.Kh. Zhankaziev
Strategic priorities for financing higher education
The paper discusses the primary goals of reforming an education system, namely: the search for additional financial resources. Specific attention is given to the analysis of possibilities and consumer priorities of the population. The author substantiates the expediency of expansion of the use of population’s money within the limits of socially-private co-financing.
zhankaziev2012_2.pdf (356 Kb)
B.M. Zhukov, O.V. Belitskaya
Perfection of development of the transport-information infrastructure in recreational territories
An analysis is made of the current condition of a transport-information infrastructure of Krasnodar territory as one of the key factors of development of the recreation and tourism industry. The authors examine problematic aspects and prospects of its development and define modernization ways of its perfection in the period of preparation for Olympic Games of 2014 in Sochi.
zhukov1_2012_2.pdf (630 Kb)
B.M. Zhukov, S.A. Lyausheva
Modernization of the enterprises of hotel sphere on the basis of flexible management
The paper discusses the concept of modernization of a hotel economy developed on the basis of formation of system of the flexible management. This concept is used to provide dynamical development of the service enterprises in the conditions of unstable external and internal environment. The authors define the modernization ways of development of hotel business and propose a modernization toolkit of flexible management in hotel service (business communications, flexible budgeting, competitiveness monitoring).
E.N. Zakharova, T.I. Afasizhev, S.A. Lyausheva
The analysis of a state of domestic trade in the conditions of intensive development of a service sector
The paper discusses tendencies in development of the domestic trading sphere. The authors examine the structure of a turn of retail distribution networks and a tendency of formation of new store formats. It has been established that a turn of retail trade decreased in connection with financial crisis and that a share of foodstuff increased. The wholesale trade in Russia and its specificity are characterized. Special attention is given to the development of electronic trade in the country.
E.N. Zakharova, S.A. Lyausheva
Evolution of the economic nature of trade in “the economy based on knowledge”
This work discusses the principle features of “the economy based on knowledge” and various approaches to the content and essence of the concept “trade”. The authors examine the most important aspect of information revolution – the electronic business – and the basic principles of electronic trade regulation.
S.V. Lazovskaya, N.Yu. Ermolenko
Key competences of human factor as a core of integration mechanism in the service sphere
The paper examines the main preconditions of creating the centre of formation of key competences the purpose of which is increasing quality of services presented to consumer on the basis of integration of education and presented services.
S.A. Mikhaylov
Modernization of hotel service management as a tool of sustainable development of resort hotel complex
The aggravation of competitions between the producers of hotel services has led to the necessity of modernization and sustainable development of the hotel business in conditions of decreasing population’s solvent demand. It has also been confirmed that in the market conditions the leading role is given to the economic units which meet the requirements and upgrade the quality of service most effectively.
mikhaylov2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
I.A. Nikitina, N.Yu. Ermolenko
Scientific-educational center as a promising form of innovational development of higher professional school
The paper examines institutional conditions and preconditions of creation of scientific-educational centers in system of higher school, which will play the role of a form of innovative development of a market of educational services adequate to the main tasks of modernization. Functions and structural organization of a scientific-educational center are defined.
nikitina2012_2.pdf (681 Kb)
V.N. Ovchinnikov, N.P. Korolyova
Employers in the structure of subjects of the educational service market
The paper considers the functional role of the employers in the structure of the demand subjects on the educational service market, generalizes the experience of their cooperation with the institutions of manpower development system in the process of formation of the competent specialist model and of the social order on their graduation from the educational institutions of the professional educational system.
ovchinnikov1_2012_2.pdf (880 Kb)
A.A. Tatuev, A.Kh. Zhankaziev
The main directions of increasing expenditure efficiency for higher education
Households from the economic point of view consistently turn to the main consumer of educational services. In this context, the need for new organizational and economic tools, including cost, allowing more responsible consumers and increasing their financial capacities.
tatuev2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
O.A. Zelenskaya, S.K. Eshugova
Cluster initiatives in the Russian modern industry
The paper describes examples of cooperation of the enterprises and business groups with competitors that is a distinctive feature of a cluster. Despite the competition for factors of production and end products in the market, the company finds possibilities for the mutually advantageous cooperation increasing efficiency of all participants of the relations – co-competition.
zelenskaya2012_2.pdf (950 Kb)
T.A. Martynova, N.O. Sisel
Review of the state and problems of wine-making industry in the Krasnodar Territory
Wine-making industry is currently evolving. At the same time, the production of wine in the country is a risky business. Enterprises of this branch are faced with many problems in their work. In this regard, this paper provides an overview of the state of the industry, identifying strong and weak points and substantiates the necessity of risk assessments of wineries and taking into account them in the development of strategic plans.
martynova2012_2.pdf (779 Kb)
Z.M. Khasheva
Management of key competences of interorganizational network participants
Now there is an expansion of a spectrum of organizational alternatives, first of all at the expense of intensive development of various forms of network interaction of economic agents. The paper examines concepts of “an interorganizational network” and “the key competence”, stages of managerial process of key competences in interorganizational networks are elaborated.
khasheva2012_2.pdf (667 Kb)
Taxes and the Taxation
V.N. Ovchinnikov, Z.A. Klyukovich
Development of the tax theory as the reflection of the taxation system evolution
The paper considers the origin of the conceptions and tax theory development in the context of practice and tax system evolution in the retrospective historical aspect. Theory development phases are singled out and principles of the optimum tax system construction in Russia are determined.
A.V. Babayan
The concept of moral education of М.I Demkov
The paper analyzes the concept of moral education of a prominent national educator, Demkov Mikhail Ivanovich (1859-1939) who made a contribution to the actual problems of moral education. His views on the purpose, problems, the maintenance and the basic directions of moral education of rising generation are revealed here. The paper is of interest to university professors, teachers, post-graduate students and the students studying the theory and the history of pedagogical thought and education.
babayan2012_2.pdf (251 Kb)
Acmeology determinants of professional formation of the personality
The paper considers acmeology determinants of professional formation of the identity of the expert. The main acmeology determinant is the created acmeology culture which contents make humanistic outlook, spiritual and moral perfection, innovation, vocational guidance on creative self-development, professional competence, professional mentality. The formation of the allocated components provides professional development and formation of the personality.
begidova2012_2.pdf (251 Kb)
Psychological and pedagogical conditions of complex work with the family and child from «a group of risk»
The paper establishes the main lines of activities of persons in prevention of children's neglect and psychological and pedagogical conditions of their interaction in complex work with a family and child from «a group of risk».
Development of national education in Adygheya (The 2-nd half of the XVIII century – The 1-st half of the XX century)
The paper analyzes problems of genesis and development of educational system in Adygheya from the XVIII century up to the second half of the XX century. This stage of development of the education system is the most significant in the history of development of Adygheya (Circassia) since the known historical events occurring in this region during this period could not but affect not only the national education system both positively and negatively but also all culture of the Adyghe people.
R.A. Galustov
Formation of design culture of a future teacher of technology and business
The paper considers questions of shaping design culture of a future teacher of technology and business. Pedagogical conditions, substantial and procedural making technologies of formation of design culture including three basic forms are defined. Separate components of design culture of the identity of a future teacher of technology and business are presented.
galustov2012_2.pdf (192 Kb)
M.V. Dikalova, V.I. Spirina
Possibility of the remote-controlled teaching of children with limited possibilities of health
The paper defines the contents of the remote-controlled teaching on the whole and outlines its possibilities as means of rehabilitation of children with violations of development, the model of organization of remote-controlled teaching is suggested.
dikalova2012_2.pdf (201 Kb)
E.N. Zakharova
Competence approach to quality management of educational services
The paper considers requirements of economics based on knowledge to an education system; concepts «quality of training» and «quality of education», "competences" and "competency" are defined; the strategic map of key competences of the graduate is given; the necessary element of a competence approach to quality management of educational services is defined.
I.V. Kryuchkova
Educational environment as condition of development of self-reliance and personal self-determination of a school student
The paper specifies the educational environment of innovative private educational institution of high comprehensive school "Razvitiye" in the town of Armavir where the author of the paper is the director. For 10 years the school works successfully on the system of developing education by D.B. Elkonin - V.V. Davidov. The main objective of school is formation of self-reliance of a pupil as major quality and condition for successful training and preparation for personality socialization.
kryuchkova1_2012_2.pdf (226 Kb)
I.V. Kryuchkova, K.I. Buzarov
Peculiarities of the organization of educational process at private innovative secondary comprehensive school «Razvitiye»
The paper shows peculiarities of structure of educational process at innovative school "Razvitiye", defines educational stages and development of universal educational actions of pupils at each stage, establishes the urgency of realization of innovative technologies in educational practice.
E.G. Marchuk
Increase of intellectual competence of the schoolboy as condition of his self-development
The paper presents the results of the experimental research of the process of formation of intellectual competence of schoolboys in educational process. It is established by the author that formation of intellectual competence of pupils depends on consecutive formation of the components of the process. The purpose of the paper is to draw attention of the pedagogical public to the necessity of use of the intellectual-focused tasks, pedagogical approaches, the principles defining the forms, methods of forming intellectual competence of schoolboys in educational process.
marchuk2012_2.pdf (233 Kb)
Z.K. Meretukova
Didactic questioning in lectures and seminars as a means of developing potential of problem training in the course of preparation of the expert
The paper discloses the essence of the concept "didactic questioning", the author of the paper offers its definition and substantial filling; difference between this concept and the concept «question statement» is revealed; the paper substantiates the interrelation of culture of didactic questioning and realization of the developing potential of problem training, thereby the author offers the definition of the concept «problem training», establishes its substantial characteristics and correlation of methods of problem training and questioning in terms of « purpose – value – creative thinking».
meretukova2012_2.pdf (312 Kb)
V.G. Mozgot
Problems of music education of student’s youth in the polyethnic region
In the paper problems of music education of students in the polyethnic region of the North Caucasus are considered. One of the main problems lies in divergence of the requirements to the theory and practice of musical and pedagogical activity and readiness of students to it. In the conditions of national originality of the region it is necessary to develop receptions and ways of introduction in educational process of concrete samples of folklore and the works of professional music reflecting national and ethnic originality of musical culture.
mozgot2012_2.pdf (223 Kb)
O.A. Mudrakova
Problems of development of IKT- competence of computer science teachers by use of electronic resources for educational purposes in improvement of professional skills
The paper considers the questions connected with the analysis of the concept the [IKT]-competence of the teacher of information theory and the ways of raising the level of this competence.
mudrakova2012_2.pdf (215 Kb)
M.E. Paatova, S.N. Begidova, N.Kh. Khakunov
Theoretical-Methodical analysis of social and pedagogical phenomena «deviant behaviour of teenagers», «delinquent behaviour of teenagers»
The paper is devoted to theoretical-methodological analysis of the concepts «deviant behavior» and «delinquent behavior» of teenagers in the context of a personal approach and bringing to light reasons for emergence of these social and pedagogical phenomena, substantiating the author's view on this problem.
paatova2012_2.pdf (280 Kb)
V.A. Petkov, S.I. Andryushchenko
Organization of the innovative environment of the educational establishments
The paper is devoted to consideration of bases of the organization of the innovative environment in educational institution. The author opens essence of the environment approach and typology of innovative processes, technology of their design, ways of diagnostics and forms of the effective organization of the innovative environment. The material is of interest for students, teachers and teachers of secondary and higher educational institutions.
T.N. Poddubnaya, O.Yu. Krynina
Innovative Competence Model of the Graduate of the Higher School (on the example of the Bachelor)
The paper considers specifics of the development and maintenance of competence model of the graduate bachelor in specialization «Tourism»; discloses groups of competences (common cultural and professional) meeting the requirements of the academic and professional readiness of the bachelor of tourism.
poddubnaya2012_2.pdf (282 Kb)
E.T. Rubtsova
On the issue of technological culture in higher pedagogical education
Modern education implies high quality of teachers’ training which includes technological culture. To master technological culture is important for a teacher of any speciality. Technological culture in education is closely connected with pedagogical culture; it includes the ability to use pedagogical technologies, definite knowledge and skills, process of thinking, worldview and active professional pedagogical position.
rubtsova2012_2.pdf (255 Kb)
N.M. Sazhina, M.S. Golub
Prevention of pedagogical risks of victimization of the teenager
The paper reveals main approaches to the concept «the victimization of personality»; phases of the investigation are displayed; some ways of preventing pedagogical risks in victimization of the teenager in modern conditions are suggested.
sazhina2012_2.pdf (217 Kb)
Acmeology approach in psychological-pedagogical education
The paper presents acmeology system of training specialists in psychological- pedagogical education. It reveals the role of courses of «Social designing», «Pedagogical acmeology» in the formation of acmeology culture of specialists of social sphere in conditions of psychological-pedagogical education.
A.P. Stukanov
Realities of synergetic management of additional professional education
The paper deals with the methodological bases of efficiency of a synergetic approach to management of additional professional perfection of pedagogical staff.
stukanov2012_2.pdf (208 Kb)
M.H. Tuguz, L.N. Kubashicheva
Dialogic activities as a communicative disposition of pedagogical cooperation in a rural national school
The paper discusses dialogic activities as a communicative disposition of pedagogical cooperation in a rural national school which ensures readiness of pupils for life in polyethnic and multicultural society.
tuguz_m_2012_2.pdf (182 Kb)
А.А. Ushakov
Professionalism of the teacher as a determinant of improvement of the quality of educational services in the conditions of competitiveness of the system of secondary vocational training
The paper considers the interrelation of the problem of maintenance of quality of average vocational training and professionalism of the teacher. The result of the research made it possible to prove value of professionally important qualities of the teacher in improvement of quality of educational services in the conditions of competitiveness of system of vocational training.
ushakov2012_2.pdf (269 Kb)
F.P. Khakunova
The problem of organization of independent work of school and university students at the present stage of education
The author of the paper discloses an urgency of the organization of independent work of subjects of educational process, characterizes levels and types of independent work and peculiarities of independent work of school and university students, classifies them according to types, proceeding from the private and didactic purposes, informative tasks and specifics of educational and informative activity.
K.D. Chermit, G.Z. Kharkovskaya, N.K. Kuprina
Organizational and pedagogical conditions of use of the resourse of parents for development of the municipal education system
The analysis of structure of addresses of citizens of Krasnodar Territory and the city of Krasnodar to various municipal and regional bodies concerning development of the general education, questionnaire of parents and experts in the field of education (more than 1400 respondents at 42 schools) made it possible to substantiate organizational and pedagogical conditions, realization of which will allow to use the resource of parents for development of the municipal education system.
chermit1_2012_2.pdf (300 Kb)
K.M. Shikov, E.I. Dvornikova
Formation of the professional ideal of the teacher of Russian at the turn of XIX-XX centuries
The paper studies the ideal image of the teacher of Russian at the turn of XIX - XX centuries and specificity of vocational training through a prism of priorities of language education of the school student and axsiological categories of pedagogical activity of the teacher of language and literature.
shikov1_2012_2.pdf (277 Kb)
D.E. Em
Foreign language as a tool for formation of communicative competence of students, future managers of hotel industry
This paper raises a very important and actual for Russia problem that managers of hotel industry - graduates of higher education do not meet modern requirements of the industry of hospitality. On an example of the town-resort Anapa of Krasnodar territory the concept of the communicative competence is disclosed. Groups of background knowledge are singled out, the concept of the foreign language competence is specified and its structure is described.The paper underlines that it is necessary for the modern manager of a hotel industry to study a foreign language during training in a higher educational institution.
em2012_2.pdf (215 Kb)
T.P. Avanesova
Educational module computer support
The paper describes possibilities of computer support in the course of modular training.
avanesova2012_2.pdf (369 Kb)
Bilingual thinking and the process of teaching a native language
Bilingual and polilingual situation in the Adyghe language space affected formation of the Adyghe language picture of the world in the Russian Federation, caused strengthening of communicative interactions and led to a community of basic knowledge about the world with Adyghe-Russian lingual- cultural core.
Z.U. Blyagoz, A.N. Blyagoz
Stylistic mistakes in Russian Speech of Adyghes and work on them
In the paper stylistic mistakes in speech of pupils – Adyghes are considered. Main of them are the outcome of influence of structure and system of the native language on Russian speech of Adyghes and weak knowledge of laws and rules of lexical, grammatical word compabinality, their stylistic use.
blyagoz2012_2.pdf (170 Kb)
Text as the basis for formation of oral coherent speech
The paper considers the problem of formation of foreign communicative competence on the basis of the text. A support on data of modern linguistics concerning the text allows to define the contents of system of work on development of coherent foreign speech.
dzhandar2012_2.pdf (233 Kb)
A.Kh. Zagashtokov
Questions of comparative analysis of languages for lingua didactic purposes
The comparative method is widely used not only in the theory of language but also in practical studies. The aims and tasks of teaching a non- native language determine the comparative analysis of languages for linguadidactic purposes. Therefore the linguadidactic appendix of results of comparative description of the Russian and Kabardian-Circassian languages is disclosed in the paper, as well as the main concepts of linguadidactic typology, elaborated by the author, are stated.
Comparative typological description of basic units of the text in the Russian and Adyghe languages with teaching aims
Comparative analysis of syntactic units of Russian and Adyghe languages showed likeness and distinction of these two languages on the syntactic level. It gives the opportunity to develop connected speech of the pupils of national schools and overcome difficulties of interference. It also creates the opportunities for supporting at the elements of transposition, for using all skills and experience of the pupils at the lessons of the Russian language and for developing Russian speech.
Formation of the language personality in the conditions of school modernization: problems and prospects
The paper discloses the main problems of modern language education, the prospects of its development directed at the solution of the most urgent problems of philological education, allowing to mobilize all resources for increase of productivity of teaching the languages, meeting modern national and international requirements.
Z.R. Khachmafova
Formation of Lingua cultural competence of foreign students when teaching Russian as a foreign language on the basis of the concept «woman»
The main objective is creation of a technique of formation of lingua cultural competence of foreign students studying Russian at the initial stage of training on the basis of lexical representation of the concept "woman", rendering a key fragment of national concept sphere. The training model of the organization of the corresponding nominative field is developed.
A.B. Rogozyan
Properties of social adaptivity in the structure of individual style of stress-resistence of the person
The paper discloses the interrelation of psychodinamic properties of a person and specific display of sense of stress. Presumption is made that a person possesses social adaptivity in the individual style of stress resistance (ISSR). Irrespective of psychodinamic properties of a person, in difficult life situations constructive ISSR includes adaptiveness-conformity, an invariant of productive ISSR. Persons with good adaptivity are capable of establishing new rules of interaction in a group. Persons with weak neuropsychic stability get stress resistance by including adaptivity-lability in the complex of psychological components of ISSR, which in the first place prevents perception of the factors of organizational stress.
rogozyan2012_2.pdf (421 Kb)
Z.I. Tsiku
Orientation in the system of psychological factors of professionalism of the teacher of preschool educational establishment of the combined type
The paper studies the empirical data characterizing manifestations of a personal orientation of the teacher of preschool educational institution of the combined type at different stages of a professional cycle. It is proved that it has invariant (typological) and specific components. To invariant components the author refers a personal orientation to business (a production task) and socially focused professional preferences which are closely interconnected. Specific components are defined as quality indicators of motives of the pedagogical activity, expressed at certain stages of a professional cycle. For beginning teachers specific components are an orientation on themselves and on creative types of work. Teachers with long experience have an orientation to communication, collective activity, desire and ability to work in a profession of subsidiary type. For the teacher-master the most important is an orientation to business, aspiration to see direct results of socially focused work.
tsiku2012_2.pdf (265 Kb)
R.M. Magomedov, I.V. Makrushina
System of socially oriented sports and sports work in the city of Derbent
The paper produces the characteristic of the author's system of socially oriented sports and sports activity directed at the solution of actual social and pedagogical problems of the youth of Dagestan; it describes effective, subject, methodological and rich in content aspects of socially oriented sports and sports activity and its results.
magomedov2012_2.pdf (346 Kb)
A.E. Mitin, A.B. Bguashev
Research of the problem of regulation by the teacher of behaviour engaged in physical education and sports in Russia and abroad
The paper analyzes the researches devoted to the problem of formation of motivation of doing some physical activity and sports at various groups of the population. It considers possibility of regulation of students’ behavior by the teacher taking into consideration their interests, requirements and motives. The attention is focused on the necessity of formation of teacher’s abilities of constructive interaction with the students, which provides increase of efficiency of physical-sports activity. Special attention is paid to the results of investigation of this problem presented in foreign publications.
mitin2012_2.pdf (283 Kb)
Chan Nayn Dik, G.D. Aleksanyants, Yu.A. Kudryashova
The analysis of variability of the heart rhythm of athletes – badminton players in the transition period of a year training cycle
Cardiovascular system is the indicator of adaptive reactions in reply to physical activity. Optimization of its functioning is a necessary condition for achievement of high sports results. The author carried out the comparative analysis of variability of a heart rhythm of athletes-badminton players and persons of the same age who do not do sports. 59 athletes were examined (first-rank sportsmen, candidates for the master and masters of sports) at the age of 17-21 years at the beginning and at the end of a transition period of a year training cycle and 35 young men from the control group. The athletes who are engaged in badminton, show reduction of tension of the central type of regulation and increase in activity of a contour of regulation of heart activity, with prevalence of a parasympathetic component.
chan_nayn_dik2012_2.pdf (274 Kb)
K.D. Chermit, A.O. Isakov, S.N. Begidova
Subject role-playing games as means of physical training and minimization of influence of deprivation on orphan children of the advanced preschool age
The paper considers the reasons and conditions the performance of which provides positive influence of subject role-playing games on physical condition of orphan children of the advanced preschool age; the bases of a technique of their application for physical training and socialization of this group of children are defined. The procedural model of application of subject role-playing games is developed to minimize the influence of a deprivation on development of children, which was positively estimated by experts.
D.A. Akhmetova
Spiritual and intellectual range of representation of national life in N. Kuyok’s novel «Wine of Dead»
The paper discusses spiritual and moral sides in representation of national life. The author shows that philosophization in the novel “Wine of Dead” is strengthened, which can be considered as manifestation of a tendency of the epic concept transformation which affected the genre and style parameters of work. Consequences of innovative aspects of interaction with folklore and the myth were the polyphonic nature, the historic-philosophical contents, art elucidation of the historical past in a planetary context, updating of the ideological and moral contents and novelty of development of characters.
akhmetova2012_2.pdf (297 Kb)
F.B. Beshukova, B.M. Tadzhiyeva
The art concept of the central image-character in I. Mashbash’s novel «Aisse Countess»
The paper discusses literary correlations of an image of the heroine of Aisse in I. Mashbash’s novel with female images in sentimental, educational and romantic novels. The moral problems caused by mentality of the heroine, in particular, solution variants of a choice between “a duty and feeling” become the main aspect of consideration.
T.Kh. Gorchkhanova
Art originality of stories by Shamil Akhushkov
The figure of Shamil Zaurbekovich Akhushkov’s (1907-1944) is famous in a pleiad of the Ingush writers of the 1920 - 1930s who have made an essential contribution to development of specific and genre diversity of national literature. The versatile, gifted person, he entered the history of the Ingush culture as the large prose writer, one of the original authors in a genre of the short story, as well as the film expert, the film critic and the cinematographer. He had a good command of the Russian, French and Ukrainian languages in addition to his native Ingush language.
gorchkhanova2012_2.pdf (354 Kb)
A.M. Gutov
Research of the Narts’ epos at the present stage
The paper discusses the accumulation of a phenomenon of traditional national culture in the conditions of a modern civilization and sums up the history of studying the heroic epos of the people of the Caucasus. Ethnocentric tendencies within several decades take down the Nart epos studies to low-perspective disputes on genesis and ethnolanguage belonging of the main core of the epos. Attention is paid to development of methods of the complex, centralized studying the epos in all national versions.
Z.Zh. Kudaeva
The bee in the mythoepic views of the Adyghes
The folklore texts were analyzed to study mythopoetic views of the Adyghes, in particular, how insects show the code character. The author demonstrates how the bee is allocated with prognostic functions and how it is related to life revival, to a rain and to fertility.
kudaeva2012_2.pdf (257 Kb)
A.S. Kuek
Cult of Mountain and Stone
Globalization sweeps off most bases of nationalities, their notion about good and evil and their world outlook. That is why keeping all meaningful values of nationality is of great importance. This article takes into consideration one of the cults in the Adyghean mythology - the cult of mountain and stone. It’s remarkable that the object of research is “ispyun”, which is thousands of years old and exists nowadays. It testifies to high level of nationality culture. Unique historical monuments are neglected and unprotected, and this shouldn’t be so.
kuek2012_2.pdf (316 Kb)
I.V. Lozovoy
Beginnings as «common places» (loci communes) of Russian bylinas
The paper examines the beginnings of Russian bylinas and their functional role in texts. Three groups of beginnings as “common places” are defined: geographical, chronological and subject, their similarities, distinctions, contents and change of structure in different schools of epic singers. Comparison is carried out of beginnings at representatives of two different epic schools.
lozovoy2012_2.pdf (291 Kb)
R.G. Mamiy
Typology and esthetics of the Adyghean novelistics (genres of small prose)
The paper describes the formation and development of small genres in the Adyghean prose. An analysis is made of features of the short story, its parallels and crossings, distinctions and similarities with the story and the great story. An attempt is undertaken to answer a question whether a short story, unlike the story, is an independent genre. The author proposes to introduce such genre forms as «the novelistic story» and «the novelistic great story».
mamiy2012_2.pdf (337 Kb)
L.Kh. Mukhametzyanova
Book dastans (stories) of the Volga region Tatars: «boundaries» of genre names in national creativity
For the first time heterogeneity of the genre name of epic works of the Volga region Tatars is specially investigated. The author examines functioning and evolution of the terms of “dastan”, “khikayat”, “kyssa” and “kitab” in national creativity. Areas of the use of each term are studied and their compliance with the semantic meaning is revealed.
mukhametzyanova2012_2.pdf (317 Kb)
B.R. Naptsok
References and reminiscences in S. Li’s «Gothic» novel «A Shelter or the Story of Other Times»
References and reminiscences in S. Li’s “Gothic” novel “A shelter or the story of other times” are investigated. On the basis of the analysis of epigraphs, quotes and reminiscences from works of English and French writers - W. Shakespeare, S. Richardson, A. Prevost d’Exiles, F.-T. Marie de Baculard d’Arnaud, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - their literary influence on S. Li’s novel is established. The place and value of references in subject development, in a philosophical perspective and in a system of images of the “Gothic” work under investigation are defined.
naptsok2012_2.pdf (351 Kb)
E.V. Nikolsky
Semantic role of motive of a native home in novels - family chronicles
The paper discusses the role of motive of a native home in a novelistic subgenre of the family chronicle. The author uses creativity of writers, whose heritage is not connected with each other (Vsevolod Solovyev (1849-1903) and Joyce Carol Oates (1938) to show that the native home is an external display of internal state of a family. Such motives are characteristic of the Russian and foreign literatures. At the end of the paper, further prospects of researches are designated.
nikolsky2012_2.pdf (308 Kb)
U.M. Panesh, S.R. Panesh
Structural and style features of poems of I. Mashbash («A thunder in mountains» and «Memory»)
The present research focuses upon a new art interpretation of a subject of war by the Adyghean poets within a traditional socio-historical problematics in poems on a military subject. The authors show strengthening of art problematical character and psychologism of a plot of poems, a withdrawal from heroic-epic intonation, accuracy of descriptions, aspiration to open critical situations, the truth of the heroic act and difficult situations in life of heroes. The main thing is a conclusion that the Adyghean poetry about the war could express the main typological directions in art searches of the Adyghean writers.
panesh1_2012_2.pdf (301 Kb)
U.M. Panesh, V.T. Sosnovsky
On significance of traditions and new approaches to studying literature of the 20th century
The paper discusses a traditional concept of the history of national literature of the 20th century which leans on “a historicism principle”. The authors show the new approaches, including formalistic, when studying art creativity. A periodization and structural and typological classification of national literature are considered.
K.N. Paranuk
Mythic-poetic context of great stories of Adyghean writer Nalbiy Kuyek «Bechkan’s excellent horse» and «Loneliness Wood»
The paper shows how mythic poetics influences an art basis of stories of N. Kuyek “Bechkan’s excellent horse” and “The Loneliness Wood”. The author reveals features of a space-time continuum of the great story, temporal plans and degree of a mythologization of images. During the analysis, the conceptual character of leading mythologemes – the wood and loneliness – are defined in narrative. Results of research testify to considerable influence of poetics and myth ontology on semantics and art structure of great stories of N. Kuyek.
V.T. Sosnovsky
Ideological and art originality of N. Zinovyev’s poetry
This paper examines the poetic creativity of Nikolay Zinovyev, the author of 12 poetic collections, the winner of the Great literary award of Russia and of the international competition of poetry “Gold Feather”, Secretary of Board of the Union of writers of Russia. Analyzing N. Zinovyev’s verses, the author marks their high civil pathos, high art advantages, the urgent problematics, simplicity and the lapidarity of style. Addressing the past and reproducing familiar pictures of modern life, N. Zinovyev stands up for careful attitude to the morally high that there was at various times, believing that only fidelity to centure-old traditions will help people to overcome the evil which has taken roots in our society and to deduce Russia from the dangerous social and moral bog.
T.M. Stepanova, S.L. Zukhba
D.S. Likhachev about the folklore model of the world in the Old Russian literature
The paper examines the leading tendencies in Academician D.S. Likhachev’s analysis of features of the folklore model of the world using a material of works of the Old Russian literature in a context of an ethno-mental and historical world outlook. The folklore elements of structure and poetics of a number of monuments of the Old Russian literature are analyzed. The authors come to a conclusion about efficiency of interaction of literature and folklore in this period.
stepanova2012_2.pdf (222 Kb)
A.A. Skhalyakho, R.G. Mamiy
Interpenetration of national and non-national as a dialectic way of development of literature
The paper examines the interpenetration and interconversion of the national and universal as the only right dialectic way of development of literature. The authors show how the innovative phenomena, incorporating to the national experience, become traditional and the non-national becomes national, gaining new qualities.
skhalyakho1_2012_2.pdf (325 Kb)
A.A. Skhalyakho
About features of creativity of Bitlostan Koble
The literary heritage and the tragic biography of Bitlostan Hadzhiretovich Koble, the known poet, the playwright and the public figure of the 1920-1930s are examined.
R.B. Unarokova, R.S. Daurova
Folklore of the Adyghes of Turkey: from experience of creation of an electronic database
The paper addresses the questions related to development of principles of an archiving and storage of folklore texts, in particular, to creation of multilevel information system – an electronic database on the basis of folklore of the Adyghes of Turkey. The Center of Adyghe Studies at Adyghe State University carried out theoretical and technological support of an electronic resource and elaborated the form of the unified description of a storage unit that will allow the solution of both educational and research tasks.
Zefeuse (poetic debate) in the Adyghe folklore
The paper examines the poor-studied problems of poetics zefeuse – one of the unique ancient genres of the Adyghe folklore. An analysis is made of the features of composition and the sound organization of a verse, as well as of typology of the cliche formulas used in the texts of debate.
Post-Soviet Kabardian-Circassian great story
The paper provides the general characteristic of a genre of the Kabardian-Circassian great story of the last three decades. The response to social and cultural crisis or reaction becomes the main task of a part of modern works. Similar motives, having a clear folklore basis, at the same time are inconceivable without the composite process of a symbolization and semiosis. The plot fragmentariness and strengthening pre-apocalyptic motives are specific features of the Adyghean modern literature. The new, profoundly drama vision of the historical past and future of the people, a personality role in the new world, a new scale of ethical and esthetic values and considerable strengthening the existential perception are more often is defined in this genre.
M.N. Khachemizova
Features of folklore of the Circassian diaspora abroad in a context of the Adyghean general culture (on the basis of a material of expedition to Jordan and Syria)
The paper examines the folklore of the Adyghean diaspora living in Jordan and Syria. The author demonstrates the texts expressing ethno-mental bases of the Adyghean people, testifying to a continuity of mythic-epic traditions at the present time. It is proved that the folklore of the Circassian diaspora abroad is the major component of humanitarian (intellectual and esthetic) history of the whole ethnos.
khachemizova2012_2.pdf (292 Kb)
F.N. Khuako, T.B. Djambekova
On philosophical implication of prose of A.A. Khagurov
The paper deals with the style and composition specifics of art prose of A.A. Khagurov, the Adyghean modern writer, whose last collection of works was issued in 2011. On the basis of the analysis of prose the author of this paper arrives at a conclusion that the modern national prose as a whole is specific.
khuako2012_2.pdf (299 Kb)
Tembot Kerashev and folklore of the Adyghes
The paper discusses the role of the Adyghean folklore in creativity of Tembot Kerashev, who addressed constantly the national sources to reproduce the historical time, typical images, national features and psychology of heroes. Transformation of folklore traditions to the course of realistic style, as a steady esthetic law, occurs in all genres of prose of the writer. It is inferred that creative reconsideration of folklore promotes development of socio-historical and esthetic experience of the people by T. Kerashev.
chamokov1_2012_2.pdf (337 Kb)
T.N. Chamokov
On some features of poetics of the Adyghean Nart epos
This research focuses upon the originality of poetics of the Adyghean Nart songs and legends reflecting forward evolution of national art consciousness of the Adyghes from a mythic creativity to heroic-epic images and motives. The author examines the “mechanism” of interrelation of tradition and improvisation and an originality of poetic tropes (comparisons, metaphors, epithets and hyperboles), promoting steady preservation of the archaic Nart poetic texts and archetypes.
P.K. Chekalov
Elucidation of a genre of the art autobiography in scientific literature
The author of this paper shows characteristic features of a genre of the art autobiography. On the basis of the sudied scientific literature twelve characteristic indications of this genre are distinguished after estabkishing related forms of autiobiography.
chekalov2012_2.pdf (294 Kb)
Sh.E. Shazzo
Features of Russian vanguard in N. Kuyek’s lyrics (on question statement)
The paper discusses the esthetic-philosophical aspects of lyrics of Nalby Kuyek in a context of spiritual creative searches of Russian vanguardists of the 1920s – the beginning of the 1930s. Principles of poetic, figurative and language system in structure of art thinking of the poet are shown.
shazzo2012_2.pdf (410 Kb)
Innovative nature of the creative person of Mikael Chikatuyev
The paper discloses the innovative essence of creativity of M.Kh. Chikatuyev. Specific attention is given to his contribution to formation of national landscape, love lyrics and satire. Spheres in which the poet acted as the innovator are defined.
K.M. Shikov
On formation of creative identity of the writer in the Circassian literatures
The paper examines the ethnocultural features and specifics of formation of creative identity of the Adyghean writers who have created the literary works that are unique in art form and content. An attempt is undertaken to disclose the features and the reasons of a fenomenal nature of creativity of national writers issuing works in the Russian language. The main research interest is concentrated on literary process of the 19th – the first half of the 20th century.
V.V. Sheremet
The media convergence typology
The paper discusses the essence of concept of the convergence which has become a characteristic of functioning of modern mass media and the reasons of a transfer of the studied phenomenon from other areas of a science and fields of activity to the theory and practice of journalism. The author describes various approaches to studying the media convergence and its typological features.
sheremet2012_2.pdf (293 Kb)
A.V. Shishkina
Information genres of periodicals as means of information openness of judicial system in Adygheya
An analysis is undertaken of information genre priorities of press service in the Judicial Department of the Adygheya Republic. The author shows the role of regional mass media in providing the atmosphere of openness and the publicity in Adygheya aimed at expansion of possibilities of control by society of management processes and self-government in the state.
shishkina2012_2.pdf (281 Kb)
Intercultural bases in text aspect of modern linguistics
The paper discusses the unique structure of culture of the people or ethnic group which contains universal properties and qualities of this or that ethnocultural community. It is shown that language and culture can be compared as independent semiotic systems, in many respects structurally isomorphic and mutually displayed. The language incorporates every possible combination of results of activity of the person, his thoughts and spirit itself. The information, put in the text by the author, organizes reality display in consciousness of the reader.
akhidzhakova2012_2.pdf (344 Kb)
Realization of cognitive mechanisms in the bilingual artistic text
The paper deals with the phenomenology of bilingual language consciousness in the artistic text. The authors consider the mechanisms of linguistic interpretation of cognitive and culturological intentions of the artistic text of Circassian writers-bilingualists living in the historical homeland and abroad. They represent “a speech fabric” in which the bicultural speech code is fixed.
V.P. Balakhova
Stylistic potential of a polypredicative complex sentence
The paper examines a stylistic potential of a polypredicative complex sentence. It is noted that the author’s message defines his idiostyle, promoting genre formation, and the syntactic organization, semantics, pragmatics, the communicative essence and stylistic potential of the text cause realization of his general communicative intention.
balakhova2012_2.pdf (285 Kb)
S.K. Bedanokova
Some features of functioning of the past times in an artistic narration
The paper deals with a polysemy of the verbal forms related to essential weakening of time semantics at their inclusion in the artistic text. The text and time forms of a verb are examined from the point of view of the text organization (using an example of Passй simple and Imparfait). Cooperating with the other means of expression of the time relations in the text, they serve formation of integrity and cohesion of the text, implementing text-forming functions.
bedanokova2012_2.pdf (346 Kb)
N.I. Valeeva
Role of punctuation marks in the communicative and semantic organization of polypredicative complex sentences-microtexts
The paper discusses the role of punctuation marks and their functioning in polypredicative complex sentences-microtexts. Features of use of punctuation marks in paremiological statements are revealed. Specificity of the use of the independent punctuation caused by communicative and pragmatical tasks of the author is investigated.
valeeva2012_2.pdf (336 Kb)
S.N. Gasanova, D.S. Samedov
On differentiation of a compound word and the phrase in the Agulsky language
The paper discusses the differentiation of a compound word and the phrase in the Agulsky language. An attempt is undertaken to differentiate compound words, appositive constructions, analytical constructions and phrases taking into account phonetic, morphological, syntactic features of these units.
gasanova1_2012_2.pdf (343 Kb)
S.N. Gasanova
Syntax of phraseological units of the Agulsky language
An attempt is undertaken to analyse features of functioning of phraseological units in the text and to define semantic-syntagmatic relations between phraseological units and words. The research objective is to reveal features of the phrases containing phraseological units.
E.V. Zavertkina
Oikonymy and its inherent features
The oikonymy – a set of geographical names of settlements – is investigated in this paper as a part of lexical system of language. The position of oikonymic lexicon in system of language is considered from the point of view of a system-functional approach to language. The research has revealed the inherent properties of oikonymic lexicon presented in this paper.
zavertkina2012_2.pdf (338 Kb)
V.Yu. Zaytseva
A scheme of argumentation creation by respondents with a «concrete conceptualization» style
The paper discusses features of the scheme of argumentation creation by the respondents belonging to a group of a concrete conceptualization within a cognitive style of «a concrete/abstract conceptualization». Following the concept definition of «argumentative communication», S. Tulmin’s argumentative-functional model, used for the analysis, is considered. The analysis of one of the statements is provided and the general features of the argumentation, characteristic of this group are deduced.
zaytseva2012_2.pdf (303 Kb)
A.D. Iriolova
Linguistic realization of the emotions and feelings related to love (as shown by U.S. Maugham’s works)
The paper examines the designation and ways of expression of the emotions and feelings related to love. An analysis is made of the means related to manifestation of emotionality in language of the well-known writer. The differentiation of emotions and feelings is made. The analysis of texts of U.S. Maugham’s works shows that emotions and feelings are displayed at the same time both in internal experience and in external behavioural manifestations.
iriolova2012_2.pdf (328 Kb)
L.T. Kalabekova
Leading role of time category in the functional importance of paradigmal forms of verbal conjugation (in the French, Russian and Ossetian languages)
The paper addresses the categories of time and space. Obviously, they are the most primary categories of life not only in ontogenesis, but also in categorization and conceptualization by the person of the world around. It is inferred that the research of any grammatical category (i.e. the material of the French, Russian and Ossetian languages), the nearest implication of which is one of the forms of verbal conjugation (for example, a voice, a mood or an aspect), should take into account a priori the presence of time in it.
kalabekova2012_2.pdf (329 Kb)
A.S. Kolomiytseva
Genre signs of polypredicative complex sentences - paragraphs in the Russian text
The paper describes the genre signs of polypredicative complex sentences in function of paragraphs as the composite, syntactic and communicative units of texts. They carry out the specific communicative and pragmatical objectives directed to realization of the general communicative task of the text, corresponding to its genre features and functional orientation of the style of speech. The author shows means of realization of the main signs of art, publicistic, scientific and official styles of speech by polypredicative complex sentences - paragraphs.
kolomiytseva2012_2.pdf (299 Kb)
Z.G. Kakhuzheva (Tkhabisimova)
Linguostylistic features of a news note
The paper provides an analysis of the item of newspaper news the linguostylistic features of which are created by orientation to the informing type of speech causing the use of language standards. It is noted that in news materials of the press, such forms of informing speech as fact ascertaining, the informative description and an informative narration are intensely used. It is inferred that the distinctive properties of these types of speech in newspaper journalism are objectivity and lack of assessment.
kakhuzheva(tkhabisimova)2012_2.pdf (326 Kb)
Y.G. Kocharyan
Linguistic origin of the military term
The present article is devoted to the study of the concept «term», it’s characteristics and particularization of the «military term». It also deals with the ways of replenishment and widening of English military terminology. The most prevailing ways are suffixal term formation, combination of two words, conversion, abbreviation, lexico-semantic word formation.
kocharyan2012_2.pdf (330 Kb)
N.I. Melkonyan
On ways of formation of a computer slang
The paper discusses some innovations in English and emergence of new lexical units in the conditions of electronic communication. An analysis is made of the emergence of a computer slang, ways of its word-formation, as well as its distribution among professionals and ordinary users.
melkonyan2012_2.pdf (330 Kb)
Yu.P. Nechay
Language means and ways of an explication of a modal assessment (as shown by the language of the novel by E.Voynich «Gadfly»)
The paper examines means and ways of expression of a modal assessment in the novel language of E.Voynich “Gadfly”. It is shown that a change of a word order, presence of a synonymy, specification, repetitions and tropes influence the expression of a modal assessment. Selection, sequence and nature of use of modal means of different levels are proved to be a semantic code of a modality. It is established that information put in the text by the author, organizes the programmed display of reality in consciousness of the reader.
nechay2012_2.pdf (331 Kb)
N.V. Samarina
Functional-semantic field as an object of study in modern grammar
The research deals with such a notion as a functional-semantic field. The structures of the functional-semantic field and the functional-semantic category are compared. It is inferred that there exists a variety of functional-semantic fields which focus on a solution of representation issues basing on the material of one language as well as on comparison of several languages with such categories as definiteness/indefiniteness, quantitiveness and comparativeness.
samarina2012_2.pdf (290 Kb)
A.P. Tikhonova
The Khattsky – Adygsky lexical parallels (linguocultural aspect of a language sign)
The Khattsky and Adygsky lexical units are compared to prove the relationship of the Khattsky and Adygsky languages at lexical level. Word-formation affixes and the root elements used at a word composition are revealed. It is shown that it is possible to appeal to the modern languages in order to restore a logic-conceptual structure of ancient words.
tikhonova2012_2.pdf (355 Kb)
N.R. Khamitova
Verbal word-formation of pair nouns in the Bashkir language
The paper describes the unique way of word-formation of nouns in the Bashkir language. After the general specificity of pair nouns is considered, the author discloses functional possibilities of a making basis which differ from each other in degree of their activity and efficiency. Process of participation of verbs as a making basis in a system of formation of pair nouns is analyzed in detail. Semantic versions of the pair nouns having a verbal origin are distinguished.
khamitova2012_2.pdf (311 Kb)
Principles of studying and practical adoption of national singing traditions
The paper examines the questions related to introduction of achievements of basic science in performing practice. The author offers effective working methods for the heads of creative groups, putting a task of preservation of a tradition. Those are designing a studied repertoire in accordance with the structure of genre system; presentation of samples in typical forms and in various genre and style cover; learning mechanisms of typification of the text and tune and means of a variation and combination of different cliche.
A.B. Shishkin
Integration on the focused set on a projection
The paper contains bases of constructive theory of integration on a projection on to the partially oriented set in space R^n.
shishkin2012_2.pdf (410 Kb)
V.A. Kozlov, E.N. Kumshaev, L.Zh. Palandzhyants
On a variation task of the theory of the multiplicative integral
This paper considers the solution of a variation problem of the theory of the multiplicative integral.
kozlov2012_2.pdf (216 Kb)
A.V. Kovalenko, A.A. Khromykh, M.K. Urtenov, D.K. Mamiy
Modeling and the numerical analysis of the process of binary electrolyte transfer in the desalination channel of the electrodialytic device in the potentially static mode
The paper discusses the modeling and the numerical analysis of the process of binary electrolyte transfer in the desalination channel of the electrodialytic device. The authors propose various mathematical models of ion transfer in the potentially static mode in the form of system of the quasilinear equations with private derivatives. Transition to a dimensionless kind is carried out and presence of some small parameter ε>0 is shown at the senior derivatives in the equations. If speed of electrolyte circulation through the desalination chamber is considerable there is one more small parameter λ>0. The special stretched system of coordinates is used for the numerical analysis. The basic laws of occurrence and development of a spatial charge in the desalination channel of electrodialytic device are revealed. Various asymptotic and numerical methods of the solution are proposed.
kovalenko2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
M.A. Voloshin, V.I. Chizhikov
Designing and building resistance furnaces for the monocrystal growth device
The paper discusses a method for calculating the temperature distribution along the length of resistance furnaces. The method has several advantages: it reduces the time to build a furnace, saves resources and leads to the desired result. Muffle material and heat insulation material are taken into account. A resistance furnace with a given temperature distribution was built based on the calculation.
voloshin2012_2.pdf (438 Kb)
A.D. Tsikunib, B. Dzhrivakh, S.A. Tlekhuch, S.R. Kaytmesova, T.A. Filimonova
Optimization of the iodic status of an organism in the conditions of high power expenditures. «Iodine-preserving» diet
The paper provides an «iodine-preserving» diet elaborated by the authors, which contains not only the optimum amount of iodine, but also nutrients, raising its bioavailability.
A.V. Shakhanova, A.A. Kuzmin, A.Kh. Agirov
The functional and adaptive capabilities of young 10–15 year-old football and basketball players, depending on the somatotype
This work addresses the questions of the functional state and adaptive capabilities of young athletes, depending on age, constitution type and training level in football and basketball training mode of child-youthful sports school of the Olympic reserve. The obtained results are of interest from the point of view of impact of sports training on the processes of growth, development and adaptation of an organism of young athletes of different somatotypes, as well as in terms of planning adequate training mode, taking into account regulatory and adaptive status of young athletes, in order to make an early forecast of overtraining and prevention of disadaptive states.
shakhanova2012_2.pdf (769 Kb)
N.N. Khasanova, L.F. Trokhimchuk, T.A. Filimonova
Assessment of functional condition of an organism of students working on computers
This work examines influence of work on the computer on a functional condition of an organism of students. It has been established that the functional condition of the central nervous system and the visual analyzer change for the worse at the students working on computers in comparison to those who do not work on computers. The authors have revealed the dependence of the degree of fatigue upon the time of continuous work on computer.
khasanova2012_2.pdf (616 Kb)
K.D. Chermit, A.G. Zabolotniy, A.V. Shakhanova, A.A. Tkhagova
The classification of the electrobiological activity produced by muscles when performing powerlifting squats
Electromyogrames (EMG) were obtained for the leg, hip and back muscles during performing powerlifting squats. Their classification is given, on the basis of which the authors elaborated the model of the transformation of the electromyogram pattern when performing squats with different weights.
chermit3_2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
E.A. Sirotyuk, T.G. Bakhareva
Intrapopulation and ecological-geographical variability of gentian Pyrenean (Northwestern Caucasus)
The paper examines intra- and interpopulation variability of a gentian Pyrenean in Alpine and subalpine phytocenoses of the Northwest Caucasus. Based on the majority of dimensional signs and the number of metameres of a flower, the authors show that there is a differentiation of cenopopulations of this species from various phytocenopses. It is assumed that these signs are the most plastic and depend to a greater degree on influence of environment factors.
sirotyuk2012_2.pdf (2 Mb)
S.S. Grechishkina, A.V. Shakhanova, Yu.Yu. Dautov
The relationship of indicators of heart rate variability and external respiration of athletes with different orientation of the training process
This paper examines the effect of systematic athletic exercises on the functional state of cardiorespiratory system. The authors show the relationship of indicators of heart rate variability and external respiration in athletes with different orientation of the training process.
grechishkina2012_2.pdf (936 Kb)
L.F. Trokhimchuk, T.G. Kirillova, M.A. Izmaylovа
The dynamics of the statistical heart rate indices in the adolescents learning in the Physical Training Faculty
The participants in this study (40 adolescents) were all students at a Faculty of Physical Training who were surveyed in the dynamics of the first and second year of training. The dynamics of heart rate statistics was studied in autumn (in the dynamics of the first year of training in semester 1 and at the beginning of the second year of training), as well as before and after examinations in the period of winter and summer examinations. Physiological mechanisms of adaptation of young men to training process at Faculty of Physical Training promote strengthening centralization of heart rate control only in reply to examination tension that occurs at the expense of reduction of a parasympathetic tone and increase of the adrenergetic influences, capable to provide short-term mobilization of additional energy resources.
trokhimchuk1_2012_2.pdf (740 Kb)
T.G. Petrova, A.V. Shakhanova, N.N. Khasanova, G.M. Konovalova
The neurophysiological status and its relationship to a morphotype of sportsmen-track and field athletes
This paper reports upon research on the neurophysiological status at sportsmen-track and field athletes. It is revealed that somatotypological features influence the character of display of the basic properties of nerv-ous system: lability, mobility, force and degree of balance of nervous processes. The obtained results are attractive for a choice of tactics and strategy of track and field athlete training, taking into account a current condition of nervous system.
petrova2012_2.pdf (634 Kb)
V.V. Myakotnykh
Age dynamics of oxygen consumption at relative rest of persons with the various modes of impellent activity
The level of energy potential of a biosystem can serve as a criterion for stability of an organism to a wide range of adverse effects. Increase in maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) is possible only at application of great in volume and intensity physical activities. According to the theory of oxidative stress the increase in power loading can lead to accumulation of oxidative damage and to fast exhaustion of a biological resource of an organism. On the other hand, high energy expenditure during a working phase is accompanied by considerable economization of activity in a condition of relative rest, consequently, by decrease in intensity of free radical oxidation. In the present research, an attempt is undertaken to quantitatively assess a degree of this economization on the basis of indicators of the main exchange and oxygen consumption in a condition of relative rest at persons with high level of impellent activity.
myakotnykh2012_2.pdf (575 Kb)
A.R. Tuguz, D.V. Muzhenya, E.N. Anokhina, A.S. Doroshenko, T.M. Ashkanova, L.D. Aldonina, K.A. Rudenko, A.F. Kizyanov, O.V. Sokolova, D.S. Shumilov, I.V. Smolkov
Polymorphisms G197 and 197A of the pro-inflammatory IL-17A gene associated with cardiovascular diseases and malignant new growths of female reproductive organs at inhabitants of the Republic of Adygheya
The distribution of polymorphisms G197/197A of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-17A gene is investigated by the SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) method in ethnic groups (Russian and Adyghes) of the population of the Adygheya Republic: donors, patients with different variants and starting mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and malignant new growths of female reproductive organs. The «normal» G197 allele IL-17A, which is most widespread in populations, is associated (Р=0,011) with risk of development of peripheral atherosclerosis and tumoral progression at a cancer of a mammary gland (р=0,026). Availability of polymorphism G197 of pro-inflammatory IL-17A can be used for inhabitants of the Adygheya Republic as a marker of system inflammatory reactions of the organism involved in pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases and malignant new growths.
tuguz_a1_2012_2.pdf (709 Kb)
V.I. Kumakhov, A.S. Aloev
Reproduction of soil fertility depending on fertilizers and the vegetative remains in a crop rotation on the chernozem in a foothill zone of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
The paper examines optimization of a food of crops and gives agrochemical substantiation of reproduction of chernozem fertility depending on types and doses of fertilizers, the root and superficial remains and on balance of humus in the soil.
kumakhov2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
L.F. Trokhimchuk, O.I. Shkvirina, E.R. Kristalenko
Physiological assessment of fifth-former adaptation to learning activities on the basis of a vegetative component of heart rate variability
This work studies adaptation of pupils to learning activity in the initial stage of training in the 5th form using the method of the mathematical analysis of heart rate variability. The authors reveal sexual distinctions of adaptation potentialities of an organism. It is shown that the main physiological mechanism of initial adaptation is the high tone of parasympathetic section of vegetative nervous system. The above-segmentary level of regulation serves as a marker of reserve possibilities of an organism in the considered age.
Yu.Yu. Dautov, T.Yu. Urakova, D.N. Teunova, M.M. Dautova
Dynamics of some indicators of interstitial space in patients with arterial hypertension, abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome under the effect of reduced food
This work provides surveillance data of persons with an arterial hypertension, abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Among non-drug methods of rehabilitation the effective is a hypohigh-calorie diet which reduced the clinical-laboratory indicators and slowed down disease progressing.
dautov2012_2.pdf (707 Kb)
A.R. Tuguz, D.V. Muzhenya, T.M. Ashkanova, E.N. Anokhina
Polymorphisms of angiotensinogen and receptor I of the angiotensinogen type in teenage groups
Frequencies of Met235Thr and Thr174Met in the polymorphisms of a gene of AGT and A1166C of 2alleles of receptor I of the angiotensinogen-2 (AGT2R1) type associated with risk of development of cardiovascular diseases at the healthy surveyed teenagers living in Maikop (Adygheya Republic), are 0.410; 0.177; and 0.211, respectively. Frequency of Met235Thr in the polymorphisms of AGT gene exceeds similar indicators characteristic of the population in the Rostov region (0.179). No significant distinctions in frequency of Met235Thr of the polymorphisms of AGT gene in ethnic populations of the Adyghes, Russians and Armenians have been revealed.
tuguz_a2_2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
T.G. Tuova, B.R. Tuova
Geographic and economic features of the dynamics and structure of unemployment in the Adygheya Republic
This paper examines the contemporary problems of geography of unemployment within the limits of Adygheya Republic, as well as of population employment and labor market. The attention is focused on research of the number of the unemployed in the Republic, their stratification, allocation among the unemployed of a share of unemployed graduates of higher education institutions, possibilities of an employment service of the population in solving questions related to the hidden unemployment and providing services by the employment centers for youth employment.
tuova2012_2.pdf (1 Mb)
Analysis of stages of system scaling
This work examines the main stages of system scaling and presents reasons for realization of the system to a certain stage.
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New Anime And Manga Releases For Your Week Of December 6Th
Anime fans all over South Florida and Fort Lauderdale be aware of about Tate's Comics, Toys, Videos & Most. It is said to be one of the finest places to purchase Anime-related services. Tate's has created a community of loyal fans one many sales and events held at the shop. One of those sales happens this month: Tate's Annual Halloween Tent Sale.
The titles that became available yesterday are Bleach GN 32, Dengeki Daisy GN 6, Naruto GN 54, Neon Genesis Evangelion Ch. 14, Oishinbo GN 4, One Piece GNs 54 and 55, Ouran High School Host Club GN 12 and Ristorante Paradiso GN 1. The 54th availablility of Naruto won't make a print debut until January 3rd, 2012 and Ristorante Paradiso volume 1 could be the digital debut of the Natsume Ono created string.
This leads me to one of the main reasons people enjoy manga, the art variety. Those characters with big eyes and spikey hair! look for instance Japanese (or any other ethnic group) but they have energy and life. Their style looks so different than the American comic book art style that youngsters are drawn on it! Its simple animated look draws them in along with the energetic page layouts buy them hooked. Think about remember even with! There is no such thing as a Manga style of art. Japanese comic artists are inspired to find their own style. Believe me, while i would check out the comic shops in Japan, I would see some wild art styles that broke that stereotype we have have of manga with the states.
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R2P: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All
From the killing fields of Cambodia to the ongoing nightmare in Darfur, why has the world traditionally stood by as governments fail to protect their own people from genocide, ethnic cleansing, or other crimes against humanity? Gareth Evans explains why mass atrocities continue to go unchecked and how the emergence of new international norms, such as the Responsibility to Protect, can guard citizens from falling victim to mass crimes. A former Australian Foreign Minister and leading international advocate in conflict prevention and resolution, Evans co-chaired the international commission that initiated the Responsibility to Protect idea in 2001.
Direct download: 04-13-09_Gareth_Evans.mp3
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Review: The Gifted 1.07 eXtreme measures
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The seventh episode of The Gifted starts kicking things into high gear, wrapping up some earlier story arcs and introducing a few new ones. The Gifted has kept up a relentless pace this entire season. There are only 4 more episodes to go and this episode brought us more backstory from different members of the mutant underground and continued to tell the story of the Struckers and their allies. One thing I absolutely adore is the pacing of the show. It’s kept up a relentless movie-like pace that makes the story all the more fascinating.
The illusion was broken slightly in this episode with a pop-song and a montage but the pop-song and the montage were a small price to pay for the characters, the story, the themes that were dealt with (redemption, fatherhood, being a decent person and recovering from your past) were almost cathartic. Everybody delivered A+ performances and even the more minor players made themselves known. It’s hard to pick a few favorites to cover but settle in “children of the atom” so that we can share with you just what extreme measures both the mutant underground and sentinel services have gone to in order to get things done.
The Struckers Deal With Some Trust Issues
The family at the heart of the story, the Struckers, ended up dealing with something small that takes on a whole new meaning when you’re a mutant. Lauren, after becoming enamored with Wes, the mysterious boy she trained with, was starting to become romantically involved. While her parents disapproved initially, their disapproval became more pronounced when Reed discovered that Wes was a target of the mysterious “government program” that became the real topic of debate within the story. Wes apparently had a massive criminal record that made him distrust him. He shared this distrust with Lauren who promptly had an argument with Wes that broke part their budding love triangle.
It was nice to see the focus put on Lauren who has been the more composed of the Strucker children, but Reed’s judgment felt incredibly out of place. In a society where mutants are living in abandoned buildings and starving, how could one person begrudge another everything that they had to do to survive? Still, he realized that his judgment was harsh, a relic of his time as a prosecutor, and he talked to Wes not as a criminal but as a kid who needed guidance to become a better man. Wes ultimately confessed the wrongs that he did and Sage agreed to keep him within the underground so that he could find some degree of stability and safety. He ended up leaving however for a distant station, hopefully, to return. Danny Ramirez’s Wes had great chemistry with Natalie Alyn Lynd and given the Von Strucker’s family history, giving Lauren relationship would be a great development for her character.
I continue to be deeply impressed with the character of Reed Strucker. He’s Coby Bell’s Jace Turner’s foil but he also does something that you don’t see very often on television. He’s a gentle compassionate man who isn’t a physical fighter. We need more characters like Reed and Caitlin who don’t have abilities but who are still decent human beings. Every week I end up learning a lot from the 2 of them both about real-world issues and about family. In a world where Reed Strucker could have easily become a tragic doomed Walter white esque shill for Turner, he takes the moral high road. Indeed, he’s gentle about it making him a stand-out character.
#PolarEclipse Rises and Falls, #ThunderBlink Rises
In episode 4 Eclipse returned to his own dark roots, mirroring Wes’s history, in order to save Polaris from captivity. Carmen, the ruthless crime lord, agreed to help him but only if he returned to work for her. This episode brought that back to the chagrin of every single person who loved the chemistry between the show’s Sean Teale and Emma Dumont by having Carmen work with Eclipse to bring down a Russian drug lab. His motives are clear, he truly wants to help Lorna and he wants this to be over with as quickly as possible but Carmen insists that something within him will awaken when he gets out there and actually starts doing the work he did before joining the Mutant Underground. Eclipse like Wes faced a choice and he made the right one, but in helping Polaris and Reed get out of Sentinel Service’s clutches his past has come back to haunt him and Polaris isn’t in a forgiving mood. It’s nice to see women who don’t instantly jump back into a man’s arms after he does something legitimately wrong, although again the show continues to ask the audience “was it wrong?” There are no wholly right answers here.
Except perhaps in the case of Thunderbird and blink, popularly called Thunderblink. Blink abandoned the mutant underground, trying to find a degree of peace and safety. Concerned when he hears that Sentinel Services are picking up mutants in the area, Thunderbird goes after her. The two reconcile and replace Dreamer’s fake memory with a real one of him comforting her after her search leads her to the foster home where her foster parents were killed trying to defend other non-human looking mutant children. It’s heartbreaking and a very real reminder of the cost of the fight that the underground faces, as well as the danger they might potentially be swept into which leads to the final part of the show…
Sentinel Services and Jace Turner Release the Hounds
There’s no other way to go about it then a Simpsons joke. After many episodes lurking in the shadows where what remained of Turner’s moral compass refused to let him leave, we are finally introduced to Rodrick Campbell a man with little respect for mutants and someone who is willing to win the fight against the so-called “terrorists” at any cost. The show directly alludes to them not being terrorists by introducing a department of justice attorney who meets a rather…grisly end at the hand of Campbell and his “hounds”, mutants who have some sort of brainwashing and conditioning. They’re not dog-like creatures and there are no leashes, they’re simply a non-government sanctioned project run by Trask Industries.
Yes, that Trask Industries. Fans of the X-Men might recall the last time we saw Trask Industries in X-Men: Days of Future Past widely regarded as the divergent point for the broader X-Men universe. Just what Trask industries is up to remains a mystery but Reed finds the name to be the most disheartening thing he’s heard since joining the underground since his father worked for Trask Industries for 35 years. With the elder Von Struckers slated to be introduced in episode 8, it looks as if things weren’t changed by Wolverine, at least, not entirely. Time will tell how that turns out for all concerned.
Apart from the shattering of ships and the perils of young love, this episode was best served by it’s slow pacing in regards to Reed’s final revelation about his family history. Trask is a huge bombshell for any X-Men fan who remembers Peter Dinkledge’s brilliant performance in the movie. Just what will come of it and the Struckers remains a mystery, but it’s one that looks to be solved quickly thanks to The Gifted and their incredible writers. The same can’t be said for Polaris, Eclipse and Wes and Lauren, but at the core of The Gifted is it’s most fundamental message. No matter who or what we are, or how we are different, we are all human and we all feel very deeply and that deserves to be respected.
Wes has awesome powers, a cool (if somewhat repetitive backstory) but most importantly great chemistry with Natalie Alyn Lynd’s Lauren Strucker. Having him return is a must.
Andy didn’t do much this episode and I was okay with that. He borders uncomfortably into the lone wolf territory. Thank goodness for Reed and his strong family support.
I guess, given that Peter Dinkledge sort of haunted this episode with the mention of Trask Industries, that I now know how Tyrion Lannister felt during the bridge of boats. All my ships are sinking into the water.
Some of the hounds actually look cool. Here’s hoping they can break their programming so we can learn more about them.
Why isn’t Carmen a mutant? That would have been better then having her employ mutants and directly demonstrate mutant bias.
Tags: recap, The Gifted
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CDC Abortion Surveillance Report Concurs with Pro-lifers: Minorities are Targeted
July 15, 2013 July 15, 2013 ~ Pharmer
Pro-lifers have known for decades that abortion clinics are concentrated in minority neighborhoods. It’s been a eugenics program all along, to regulate the population sizes of Blacks and Hispanics most particularly.
In November, the CDC Abortion Surveillance Report was published, which shows that 63 percent of the abortions in the U.S. end the lives of Black or Hispanic babies. This wildly outpaces the proportions of these minorities in the general population, and it directly relates to the locations of the abortion clinics.
From the CDC Report comes a data set from 2009.
White women had 38% of abortions or 8.5 abortions 1ooo women (15-44yrs) or 140 abortions per 1000 live births.
Black women had 35.4% of abortions, 32.5 abortions per 1000 women (15-44yrs) or 477 abortions per 1000 live births.
Hispanic women had 20.6% of abortions, 19.3 abortions per 1000 women (15-44yrs) or 195 abortions per 1000 live births.
Women of other races: 6.3% of abortions, 17.7 abortions per 1000 women (15-44yrs) or 243 abortions per 1000 live births.
Admittedly the CDC is not counting all of the abortions, but the analysis of data which they have been able to collect bears out what pro-lifers have noticed all along. The placement of abortion clinics is having its intended effects.
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Why we don’t respect the West anymore (MUST READ!)
44180 Views March 19, 2018 132 Comments Speeches, Statements and Interviews The Saker
by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT TV channel and MIA “Russia today”
translated by Scott
source: https://ria.ru/analytics/20180319/1516767644.html
Essentially, the West should be horrified not because 76% of Russians voted for Putin, but because this elections have demonstrated that 95% of Russia’s population supports conservative-patriotic, communist and nationalist ideas. That means that liberal ideas are barely surviving among measly 5% of population.
And that’s your fault, my Western friends. It was you who pushed us into “Russians never surrender” mode.
I’ve been telling you for a long time to find normal advisers on Russia. Sack all those parasites. With their short-sighted sanctions, heartless humiliation of our athletes (including athletes with disabilities ), with their “skripals” and ostentatious disregard of the most basic liberal values, like a presumption of innocence, that they manage to hypocritically combined with forcible imposition of ultra-liberal ideas in their own countries, their epileptic mass hysteria, causing in a healthy person a sigh of relief that he lives in Russia, and not in Hollywood, with their post-electoral mess in the United States, in Germany, and in the Brexit-zone; with their attacks on RT, which they cannot forgive for taking advantage of the freedom of speech and showing to the world how to use it, and it turned out that the freedom of speech never was intended to be used for good, but was invented as an object of beauty, like some sort of crystal mop that shines from afar, but is not suitable to clean your stables, with all your injustice and cruelty, inquisitorial hypocrisy and lies you forced us to stop respecting you. You and your so called “values.”
We don’t want to live like you live, anymore. For fifty years, secretly and openly, we wanted to live like you, but not any longer.
We have no more respect for you, and for those amongst us that you support, and for all those people who support you. That’s how this 5% came to be.
For that you only have yourself to blame. And also your Western politicians and analysts, newsmakers and scouts.
Our people are capable to forgive a lot. But we don’t forgive arrogance, and no normal nation would.
Your only remaining Empire would be wise to learn history of its allies, all of them are former empires. To learn the ways they lost their empires. Only because of their arrogance.
White man’s burden, my ass (in English in the original text – trans.)
But the only Empire, you have left, ignores history, it doesn’t teach it and refuses to learn it, meaning that it all will end the way it always does, in such cases.
In meantime, you’ve pushed us to rally around your enemy. Immediately, after you declared him an enemy, we united around him.
Before, he was just our President, who could be reelected. Now, he has become our Leader. We won’t let you change this. And it was you, who created this situation.
It was you who imposed an opposition between patriotism and liberalism. Although, they shouldn’t be mutually exclusive notions. This false dilemma, created by you, made us to chose patriotism.
Even though, many of us are really liberals, myself included.
Get cleaned up, now. You don’t have much time left.
Margarita Simonyan
vot tak on March 19, 2018 · at 10:37 pm EST/EDT
Nice. My respect for Ms. Simonyan just got bumped up a bit, and it was already well up there to begin with.
tc on March 19, 2018 · at 10:41 pm EST/EDT
Liberal here!
…but I understand, that I can only b liberal amongst equals.
So I’ll work on that for now…:-)
Anonymous on March 20, 2018 · at 10:50 am EST/EDT
When I was in college, I joined a counter-culture. So, one can say I ‘stopped respecting’ the west, or at least its primary american culture, back in the 1970’s. It seemed obvious to a lot of us that something had to change.
As with so much else, Dr. King put it so very well.
“We must rapidly begin [applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ”
From my political background, liberal was a dirty word. Not from the point of view of the right-wing neanderthals that thought Lt. Calley was a hero for conducting the massacre at My Lai, but from a leftist point of view convinced that this culture must change. Liberal is, or at least was, defined as those who were willing to make a minimal amount of changes to keep the system intact. Since we believed that the system must change, liberals were just one flavor of our opponents. Of course, now days, liberal means to be the servants of Wall Street, to support the police in their killings and beatings, and supporting every war and even desiring nuclear war with Russia and China.
But still, my first thought when reading this headline is that I for one lost respect for ‘the west’ as soon as I began to understand the world in which I was growing up. We tried to change it. By now its obvious that we failed. What I don’t know if we were the last best chance for mankind to avoid disaster, or whether today’s generation will somehow find it within their souls to avoid the holocaust at which we seem to be hurtling. I am not hopeful.
The anti-war opposition from the left appears to be dead and gone. Here we are in a crisis as serious as the Cuban Missile Crisis, and as I check some lefty websites not one is even talking about how to organize an anti-war opposition. What opposition that is there appears to be on the right. And unfortunately, most of them bring too much of their hatred and racism to really be a solution. And their numbers are minimal and not nearly enough to challenge the war machine. But, since I believe in what Dr. King taught, that only Love can defeat Hatred, it seems to me that the right is fatally flawed to conduct this struggle.
OldBear on March 22, 2018 · at 4:04 pm EST/EDT
You may be already familiar with the work of David Swanson, but if not, you can check it out at davidswanson.org One thing he is currently trying to do is get people to participate in the March 24 anti-gun marches and possibly get people eventually interested in a broader peace movement. He is a pacifist and you may be also or maybe not but still anti-war, but his work and ideas should be interesting wherever you are on the peace spectrum.
Павел (Paul) on March 19, 2018 · at 10:51 pm EST/EDT
Whoosh ! … and wow ! … a direct hit.
Larchmonter445 on March 19, 2018 · at 10:53 pm EST/EDT
Liberalism at a breaking point. They cannot rationalize Western values (sic) set as a choice versus Patriotism and Russian values.
This is goodbye to European idealization. This is goodbye to illusions of choice.
One cannot cling to Mother and cling to her assassins.
Simonyan is a special person, uniquely equipped to make this declaration of independence, to make this weighty choice.
She has a career built by the largess of Putin, her leader. He gave her Sputniknews, RIA, and RT at a very young age. And she has performed miracles with all of them, while she has built her own family with several young children, in a home with her mother. Amazing, accomplished woman.
Yet in the last six months she has seen her “publication” off-spring demonized and regulated as if it they were dirty weapons instead of very useful information sources for the world. She believed in Freedom of Information and had that shoved in her face by the US government and others in other countries.
She is a professional journalist-executive, probably one of the very best in the entire world.
And now she has found the bitter truth that she is a ‘Russian’ and, so, will be treated as an inferior, a vassal or an enemy or at least as a threat.
She is a brave Russian woman who now has abandoned the fantasy that European values, or American ideals were better than Russian norms. She knows for certain that no one can remain a Russian and still be a Liberal. It is impossible. It is like being dead, but alive. It’s binary. One or the other.
She has chosen Life, a Russian life full of Freedom. Just like the Freedoms Putin entrusted her with at age 24. She understands now what her full responsibility is and to whom she owes it. To Russia, for Russia, with Russia.
Bravo! Carry on, Margarita.
Grieved on March 19, 2018 · at 11:26 pm EST/EDT
Wow. What a great salutation to her, Larchmonter.
Brilliant point she made. It’s just as we’ve seen throughout every endeavor of the west, from the smallest to the largest effort – they are creating their own demise, by their own hand.
In the recent interview with Putin, Solovyov asks, what about the peripheral nations to Russia, that the US is dripping poison into their ears? Putin responds, when you drip poison, you end up drinking it. Cites the Russian proverb, don’t spit in the well, you may need to drink from it.
And Margarita is correct, of course. They can’t hear this ordinary wisdom. They have to end like every empire does.
lsammart on March 20, 2018 · at 9:07 am EST/EDT
The game is not over with the re-election of president Putin: the West wants him dead, RF wealth must be divided among western powers, Christian values must be suppressed as it did happen in many parts of the west.
There will surely be a major battle of some sort (Syria, Ukraina) involving not proxies, but English, American, NATO…. Will RF have the stomach for it? I like and respect president Putin as one of the best leader of our time, but “brutality” sometimes wins idealism. The poison “charade” in England before the elections, wanted to separate people from the leader, because in the case of a conflict and a defeat, they may go down as he will.
On the other hand, at times, in history there are epochal changes ans David defeats Goliath…
JJ on March 20, 2018 · at 5:39 am EST/EDT
Much more deserving to be a next Presidential candidate than peoples just clearly massively not voted for..
Mulga Mumblebrain on March 20, 2018 · at 6:17 am EST/EDT
‘Liberalism’ has devolved into a bitter, pitiless, neo-feudalism, where the ‘rights’ of private property have usurped the rights of everything else in existence. ‘Liberalism’ has become the exact opposite of what it claims to be, but lying is now not just normalised but compulsory throughout a West that is dying of radical inauthenticity. Nothing it proclaims about itself is even a distant approximation of the truth.
earl on March 20, 2018 · at 7:09 am EST/EDT
Sputniknews, RIA, and RT are indeed weapons. The truth just as are lies, is a powerful weapon that certain factions need to stifle and control for in the light of truth all of their lies wither and die and they know it.
And lets face it the truth is the most important weapon good people have. The truth is backed by facts.
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ross on March 20, 2018 · at 4:24 am EST/EDT
love this song from my high school days….. thanks for sharing
miguelouuu on March 19, 2018 · at 11:28 pm EST/EDT
Excellent, cant be more clear.
pdb on March 19, 2018 · at 11:37 pm EST/EDT
I grew up being taught that the US (my country) is THE standard bearer of righteousness in the world, and in my life of 50 years as an adult, I have learned that the exact opposite is true, and that everything I was taught was simply US American propaganda. Now, since the fall of the USSR and the founding of Russia under President VV Putin, Russia has become the standard bearer of righteousness in the world. It’s because of organizations like RIA, RT, Sputnik and others, that the world is learning the truth behind US American propanganda. It’s because of Russia and her courageous, wise, and compassionate leader, that US American terrorism campaigns in the Middle East are winding down. It’s because of Russia that countries can hope to be sovereign and yet not be destroyed by US American bombs. US citizens cannot stop US elites from being the evil terrorist murderers and thieves that they are, but Russia can do it. For that, as a US citizen, I am profoundly grateful. My country’s satanic foreign policy has grieved me for years and has made me sick with impotent rage. Russia’s decision to no longer accept this policy has given me hope for the future of the world. Russia, please carry on! You have chosen wisely in this election, and no doubt many US American citizens are cheering for your success in life, as individuals, and as a country. As for the US, it can straighten out, bring justice to the criminals who now rule, or it can cease to exist as a polity in its current state of being, isolated from the rest of the world, who are learning to shun it’s criminal ways and intentions.
Warren on March 20, 2018 · at 1:42 am EST/EDT
Well said, friend. Speak your truth far and wide. People need to hear it. Be brave; the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Andrew S MacGregor on March 20, 2018 · at 8:54 am EST/EDT
Dear pdb,
You are perfectly correct in that America can be straightened out, but but for this to happen America must first follow the same path that Russia was forced to take. In fact that was predicted in the early 1990’s after the fall of the USSR.
Rob from Canada on March 20, 2018 · at 10:12 am EST/EDT
The way I see it, America is kinda like an alcoholic addicted to its superpower status and using its will to power over others. And, every alcoholic needs to hit rock bottom before their willing to go to AA.
Ike on March 20, 2018 · at 12:11 am EST/EDT
Great essay. I enjoy reading RT , in fact it is my primary international news source. It makes me ashamed of our own Radio and Television news programs here in New Zealand as they dutifully follow the US/UK line with very little real enquiry even when that line is clearly nonsense, as in the Salisbury Poisoning. More power to you Margarita Simonyan.
I believe you have erred on a couple of minor points, that although minor are extremely important.
Firstly those of us in the ‘West’ that know, are jubilant that Mr VV Putin has won the Presidential elections as that is virtually the sole remaining key that we have for the survival of our civilisation and most species on this planet we all call home.
Your second error was to blame us as in: “my Western friends. It was you who pushed us into “Russians never surrender” mode.” This again is not correct, as the disease that has created all of this turmoil emerged from ‘The Pale’ a distinct part of Russia.
You dropped the ‘communist’ word, and again the reality is that there are several types of communism from the old pure form of helping your neighbour and having respect for all things to the perverted forms emanating from Marx and Engels, which still exists and pollutes our society, that which you call the ‘West’.
If you recall, it was the ‘American’ banks that financed Trotsky’s move to Russia in 1917 and then accepted the gold looted from the Russian Banks, can you not see a connection between that form of Communism and Capitalism?
Russia had never experienced capitalism per se as that disease emanated from the teachings of John Calvin (Cohen) who amongst other things distorted the adage of ‘Working to live’ to ‘living to work’, which resulted in the supporters of Protestantism to gather wealth far above their normal means. And of course Calvin’s teachings also supported ‘usury’ which was banned by both the Roman and the Orthodox Churches, or at least until the money-lenders got control of the Roman Church.
What so many Christians today do not realise is that the early form of communism made it possible for the artisans to build all the various great cathedrals throughout Britain and Europe, as symbols of their faith and reverence to God. Few communists today are believers in God, only in man.
Russians suffered greatly after the 1917 War to end all wars. My father told me when he was a lad working on his uncle’s fishing boat, that when the fishing was hard they sailed to Europe to pick up Russian refugees and sail them further down into Europe. I am certain that my uncle didn’t do this for nothing, but the world knew that Russia was suffering.
Then Russia suffered again in WW2 as all Europe suffered. People have always blamed the Nazi or the German, but they never look deep into the war, everybody suffered. Some people consider Hitler as evil and some as good, but that is all irrelevant, it was the people who fought and died trying to survive, but let me say this; Hitler was always controlled by the Jewish Zionists and the proof is there in 1934.
And then the USSR collapsed in 1990. Gorbachev did a deal with Reagan, a deal that Reagan never honoured. I have heard murmurs that Gorbachev was always the ‘Wests’ man, and that may be true, but the fact remains that the carpet baggers moved into Russia and plundered as much as they could. Calvin’s usury and theft was introduced to Russia.
And in the 1990’s Russia suffered greatly, and the voices in the wilderness called out that it was only time before the West suffered a similar fate, but the West were too busy feasting on the carcase of Russia to heed the warnings.
I will reiterate, Russia has suffered greatly, but then she started to rebuild, and Russia has a great leader, who some in the West compare to Hitler, but Putin has the advantage of forewarning.
It is not unreasonable to comprehend why Russia has moved so far ahead of the West in matters including technology. Russia never suffered the lies, the deceptions and the thefts that the West did from the MIC, especially in the name of NASA. NASA =MIC and always has been. Once James Van Allen proved the existence of the Van Allen Belts, Russia stopped wasting the lives of cosmonauts and money on spaceships to reach that impossible target, the Moon.
In that spacerace that Russia had always led, we were told that NASA spent $3m to invent a pen that would write in space, the Russians used a pencil. No wonder the West is bankrupt. The only fear now is the coming nuclear war that the West needs to cling on to its last vestige of power.
In the 1960’s China was not threatened by a nuclear devastation. China rightly claimed that in any such war, its population was such that no matter China would survive. When we look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both have survived, and the fears of total devastation have been wildly exaggerated, though there will be major devastation, the earth and mankind with it should survive.
The biggest factor is that Russia has suffered seriously in the past 100 years, the Russians know how to survive. Many European nations have also suffered and they too know how to survive. America and its lackey, Great Britain have not yet had that experience; I doubt if they have the knowledge or the fortitude to survive.
It is at their own peril that they play out ‘their’ little plots.
there will be no survivors if there is a nuclear exchange …… 15000 nukes at the ready where 2% of these is sufficient to destroy global life.
The radiation and nuclear winters will last decades …..and will finish off any who have the misfortune to survive.
The half life of some of these isotopes are 1000s of years ….
Nuclear war has to be prevented at all costs….
mundanomaniac on March 20, 2018 · at 7:57 am EST/EDT
Not only the radiation of the bombs … the radiation of all the destroyed
atomic plants will add to no place to live on earth.
I was told that in the 60’s and being naïve, I believed. But there is proof in realities far greater than our lying deceiving propagandist bureaucrats. The Japanese have rebuild Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And other nuclear disasters have or are being overcome.
Never forget that it is our ‘masters’ who continually bombard us with lies and wrap us in thrall. They are liars as Matthew has continually told us.
Would 2% of these be sufficient to destroy nature? Have another look at nature and see what it can do, after all it survived the ‘Great Catastrophe’ described by Comyns Beaumont and Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, and we humans and so many other creatures also survived the total displacement of our planet.
And the half life of some of these isotopes are 100s of years, and yes but the rocks of Craig Royston and of Aberdeen are yet still radioactive, and nature has endured that, along with my ancestors. Pull your head out of the sand and look at nature, and also understand, that if such catastrophes occur again, then such a mindset will not endure survival.
But I will totally agree with your one statement; “Nuclear war has to be prevented’!! but not at all costs
Yes nature may regenerate ….. or mutate
But peoples wont be a part of that regeneration.
Dont lets test this …
No Nukes …. No war …..
Dr. NG Maroudas on March 20, 2018 · at 1:21 pm EST/EDT
@ross. Agreed on both points.
1. Nuclear warfare must never. Which means that nukes are useless — so why build them?
2. “Nature”, ie living nature that adapts to environment, will continue but Man will not because the environmental stress will be too great and too sudden: bacteria and bugs will survive, they always have.
In addition to which “points” destroying billions of people is unethical.
Bonusgubbson on March 21, 2018 · at 3:43 am EST/EDT
Nuclear War is BAD, for business.
The threat of Nuclear War at all costs….is good.
Clint on March 21, 2018 · at 3:03 pm EST/EDT
Carl Sagan’s “nuclear winter” has been thoroughly debunked. The use of facile models to represent complex, non-linear stochastic chaotic systems did not work for him anymore than it does for the IPCC. Anyway, one hardly ‘needs’ that when considering a full nuclear exchange. The death and devastation is unimaginable. Thus, a doctrine of mutually assured destruction, one of deterrence clearly works very well, at least in the inhibition of the use of nuclear weapons. Problems appear when insane individuals or regimes, ideologues or theocrats (there is almost nothing to chose between any of these) appear insanely willing to initiate a nuclear conflict. I suspect (and hope) there is no ‘quid pro quo’ for a response from the rational. Indeed, a considered, rational response would be the complete and devastating use of a conventional response (see MOAB), something well within the purview of several countries.
I have pointed out two minor errors in Margarita’s article. With the rest of her article she has accurately prophesised the fate of both the UK and the US.
Hang on! Once we consider the use of mercenaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, that must tell us that our ‘Ruling Elite’ no longer have the armies or the powers to rule. They are now simply relying on the power of fiat money to control and that is their last source of power. Once that has been depleted then they will have nothing. And the tail of the dog, well it may wag, but nothing more.
The only other aspect that I would consider to be a contributing factor is the use of ‘usury’ as it has a devouring effect on every society that worships it, going back to even Babylon where they Jews first learnt of it.
Scipio Africanuz on March 20, 2018 · at 11:49 am EST/EDT
When Romans became soft, they turned to mercenaries to fight their wars, from then on, it was just a matter of time before the mercenaries overthrew the empire, and carved out fiefdoms. Putin has already warned them what’s coming, with the poison-drinker analogy. The USA is now too big, too brutal, and too weak, to survive intact. Texas, California, and Vermont will likely secede when the collapse happens.
The USA has poisoned the well, those who clean it up, will not allow her to drink from it in her current form. She’ll either voluntarily de-incorporate, or be forced to do so by superior arms and strong anti-lawlessness alliance of nations.
In a nutshell, it is over! Now for the punishment.. Watch this space.
Does anyone have any actual evidence of this bizarre claim that ‘american banks’ backed the Bolsheviks? To me, it seems to be one of these bits of internet nonsense that gets endlessly repeated by its true believers, but like so much these days lacks evidence.
I do feel like I believe that the Germans let Trotsky, or was it Lenin, pass through on his way back to Russia from exile. And that even makes a bit of sense, as the Germans would have seen that as a way to weaken the Czar’s war effort and cause some trouble for an enemy.
But America was at war with Germany by that time, Wilson having broken his campaign promise to keep America out of the war.
And in all my years of leftist struggle, I have never, never, never encountered bankers who are willing to fund leftists.
Certainly, as soon as the Bolshevik revolution occured, the American banking class was appalled at the ideas of communism and fought it as a great enemy. Including of course landing troops in the far north of Russia to protect a port and supply line to the White Russians. And there had been socialist campaigners in America for decades before, and the banking class and their controlled politicians were firm enemies to this. Many American socialists and anarchist were in jail because the bankers thought they were evil.
As such, to me this bit about how bankers backed the bolsheviks sounds like total nonsense to me. Bankers don’t back socialists and communists. They are if anything mortal enemies. I thus require evidence of this to be presented before I believe a word of it.
B.F. on March 20, 2018 · at 12:46 pm EST/EDT
That the Wall Street bankers financed the Bolsheviks is common knowledge. In fact after the First World War, they openly admitted giving Lenin and Trotsky 20 million dollars in gold.
Lenin came to Russia via Germany, being escorted by the German military. Trotsky came from New York City, where he lived the high life, being driven in a Rolls Royce. He took with him to Russia 500 New York criminals, who became “Bolsheviks”. However, his departure from New York was pretty sloppy. He went to Russia via Canada, being placed in custody by Canadian authorities, who wanted to prevent him going. The US intervened.
Both Lenin and Trotsky were not “leftists”. Both were freemasons and illuminati. I think you know who these people are. In fact Lenins brother, before World war One, was executed for trying to murder the Russian czar. Lenin thus had personal motive to destroy the Russian royal family. This famous “moralist” died in 1924 from syphilis.
Arioch on March 22, 2018 · at 12:02 am EST/EDT
> Lenin thus had personal motive to destroy the Russian royal family.
….but he was too slow.
Royal family was destroyed – reduced to mere ctitizen status and thrown under arrest by pro-Western liberals. And by UK Royal Family who denied their plea for political asylum
mark on March 20, 2018 · at 12:52 pm EST/EDT
Dear Anon,
This is true. Jew bankers in the US lavishly bankrolled Jew Bolsheviks. If you look into this for yourself and read the assessments of western politicians, researchers and analysts at the time, you can see the details of this. The natural wealth and art treasures of Russia post 1917 were looted in exactly the same way that they were post 1990, by exactly the same people.
Andrew S MacGregor on March 20, 2018 · at 8:35 pm EST/EDT
It was Lenin that the Germans let pass through their ranks, and if I remember correctly it was after the Russians had stopped fighting the Germans.
Zalamander8 on March 20, 2018 · at 10:56 pm EST/EDT
No there is no documented evidence that the banksters supported the Bolsheviks. This is all part of the weapon of anti-semitism used against the Bolshevik revolution, the same lies as Hitler used in Mein Kampf.
B.F. on March 21, 2018 · at 4:58 am EST/EDT
Zalamander8
Negating common knowledge is absurd. Who financed Karl Marx in London ? The Rothsdchilds. Marx never worked a day in his life. Who sent Trotsky to Russia from New York City ? Who financed him in New York City ? Who financed his voyage to Russia ? Who financed those 500 New York gangsters Trotsky took with him to Russia ? Who financed Lenin, both in Switzerland and in Russia ? Lenin dies in 1924, Stalin takes over, and a year later, in 1925, Hitler tries that coup d’etat in Germany. Since Stalin was not under banker control, Hitler appeared on the scene, being given the task of invading Russia. Both Napoleon and Hitler were financed by bankers. Both failed. We now have NATO trying it’s luck with Russia. It too will fail.
Zalamander8 on March 21, 2018 · at 8:35 am EST/EDT
Show us the historical documents of your allegations.
Vineyard Moderator - H.S. on March 21, 2018 · at 9:20 am EST/EDT
Please use google or your search tool of choice.
Try ‘who financed hitler’ ‘prescott bush and hitler’ ‘US and Britain fighting in Russia after revolution’ ‘who finance trotsky lenin’ ‘dulles and nazi’ ‘henry ford and nazi’ ‘balfour declaration 1917’ ‘us banks and wwi’ etc.
This site is for discussion …. please do some personal research so you can contribute to our discussions. mod
Wall Street and The Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton
https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf
goldhoarder on April 02, 2018 · at 3:17 pm EST/EDT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_C._Sutton The US built the Soviet Union. The US also built modern China. I know that because I helped. I didn’t find out about Sutton until I had a conversation with an older engineer when we were talking about the massive purposeful technology transfer from the US to China. He told me it wasn’t the first time and asked me to read Sutton.
Lenin and rest pnly became important after two prior Russian Revolution.
It is easy to see Lenin/Trotsky as some super venom, that in one swift sweep infected unprepared Russia.
This is very naive, idealistic view.
Frankly, after Trotsky was ousted, where did he do his next revolution? Nowhere? That is it.
Bolsheviks in Russia were utmost fringe minority, totally irrelevant, until 1917 autumn. It took total corruption of monarchist Russian Empire government, and then a total incompetence of pro-Western liberal Russian Republic government, that rotting alive Russia clinged to Bolsheviks.
Not because they were nice looking or cunningly speaking. But because it needed emergent reanimation. By any means. At all costs. Undo death by any methods that still can work.
That is it. If you want to argue Bolsheviks were some plague imposed upon Russia by some external conpiracy, then you should start with starters, you should start with the conditions that turned those fringe freaks into the recognized last resort. You need to start with what corrupt Russian Empire and what then made sure post-Imperial Russia would be even yet more incompetent.
If Lenin was part of some malicious plan, then he was merely a tiny and last part of the chain.
Walk in the park on March 22, 2018 · at 6:48 am EST/EDT
Now this is a lot of talk, talk, talk, Andrew, where the matter is simple: In the past socialism was a matter of choice, like, do you want a world of equals or rather one of slavery. Today the choice is: Does humanity want to survive or does humanity prefer to go for a lifeless planet, poisoned and extracted for the last grain of sand or even burnt to a cinder in a nuclear fire. Could not be more clear and – as goal – not more simple and obvious. Now go and read Marx and Lenin and figure out what that means for us today when we need to get together, all of us, to figure out a path to survival.
Vuki on March 20, 2018 · at 3:05 am EST/EDT
The man who could destroy the world has been elected by some 74% of his people. Those who would be first to go ignore the results, they ignore him, they ignore him because he shames all the maggots that they have elected who are guilty ten times over of everything that they accuse Russia. These . hypocrite are really rotten to the core.
Igor on March 21, 2018 · at 9:30 am EST/EDT
Agreed, What about the “core of the core?” Is there not one viable seed to plant somewhere?
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.~Wendell Berry
tomo on March 21, 2018 · at 11:15 pm EST/EDT
they are just following Goeblles’ advice: Accuse the other of your own crimes.
Psychopaths do that with their victims – i.e. Hilary
Was it “Goeblles’ advice” or was it British strategy as reported by Goeblles?
What is the unredacted complete quote?
Many “memes of history” prpved to be just professionally crafted fakes.
Whistling Shrimp on March 20, 2018 · at 3:13 am EST/EDT
As a natural born American, I can say that you don’t have to be a Russian to recognise how absolutely obnoxious, vile, greedy, grasping and ruthless the government of my country has become since it got the notion in its collective head that it “won” the Cold War and with it the right to rule the entire world, destroying entire countries, killing millions and driving even larger populations far abroad as a consequence of the wars waged on any society that got in its way. You were taken in by the charlatans from America who convinced you to abandon your “authoritarian” social order and “backward” policies to adopt the “freedom, “democracy,” and economic affluence that the American way of doing things (down to the finest detail) was going to bring you. They didn’t tell you that the actual benefits were really intended to redound to but a small cadre of American oligarchs working with a comparable number of Russian traitors who looted the collective wealth of the Soviet Union built over the course of 7 decades, some far more perilous and deadly than anything to ever challenge the American resolve, sequestered as it is between two immense ocean moats.
But it sounded good on paper, Washington has always had Madison Avenue and Hollywood taking point in the propaganda wars, so you good people were trusting and gave it a shot. However, as Gomer Pyle (a comedic figure who played the perennial dunce in an American TV show) would always say, “surprise, surprise,” when things turned out to be the opposite of what was anticipated. “Freedom and democracy” exist only for countries that dance to the American tune on every issue. You are not allowed the freedom of self determination (ask any country in the EU or NATO to justify the madness imposed on them by Washington). If your choices are at variance with Washington’s dictates, your “democracy” will be questioned and become a target for “regime change.” As to the expected economic miracles under laissez faire capitalism, all the rights and privileges of free trade accrue only to the ownership class, not the workers, not even in America, and American corporations fully expected to own most of Russia’s assets and natural resources in short order. John McCain meant it when he said Russia was nothing more than a gas station masquerading as a country, and he intended for American corporations to pump that petrol to the world and to pocket the profits. After all, American mega-corporations had all the money (defined as American petro dollars), what did most of your own people have but hyper-inflating Rubles?
As we Yanks like to say, the fix was in. We were supposed to own you, lock, stock and barrel. We nearly pulled it off too under Yeltsin, even though we had to meddle on an epic level in your elections to keep him in office. But then Putin was placed by fate at the helm of your country and he slowly but surely began the process of rehabilitating your country on nearly every level, bringing it back from the brink of the dissolution that Washington privately envisaged.
That’s why Putin is hated and demonised in the West. He prevented the total disintegration of Russia and saved the resurrected Russia for the benefit of Russians, not American vulture capitalists or military world hegemonists. Of course, there are many details to that sweeping statement that you know better than I and cannot be covered in a brief paragraph. Most Americans do not know any of these things, Margarita. They only know what their government and media tell them: that Russia is a backward country run by ruthless thugs. But there are some small numbers of us who do know better. I hope this small band of truth tellers is enough to keep the world from blowing up in a nuclear holocaust as Washington goes into ever worse temper tantrums as its empire crumbles before its own eyes from all the bad choices it has made but blames on others.
Si Dirst on March 20, 2018 · at 4:08 am EST/EDT
Yes, a growing number of Americans see this clearly. Keep trading in gold and the US$ will lose enough value that our troops will come home where our Constitution intended them to be. 🇺🇸
Whistling Shrimp
Excellent comment. However, I have to add one point. Fate probably had nothing to do with Putin being placed into power. When Russian patriots (military, intelligence services, politicians, academics, etc.) saw what was happening under Yeltsin, they realized the country would disintegrate and the native population would face destruction through poverty. They offered Yeltsin a deal: If he resigned and handed power to Putin, he would not be prosecuted for treason. Yeltsin wisely accepted the deal and Putin wisely respected it. When Yeltsin died, Putin came to his funeral and wisely stated that history would be the final judge of Yeltsin.
Putin was not picked by accident. When he was at school, his talents were recognized. He has a degree in law and a Phd in economics, something the Western media likes to ignore, presenting him as that KGB guy. Well, he was in the KGB, but in the upper echelons, getting plenty of experience.
Putin was the perfect choice for Russia. What he achieved is incredible. He saved the country from disintegration, he built up infrastructure and he reformed the military, making it top class. The latest Russian high tech must have come as a nasty surprise for NATO. He is, of course, vilified, as the Western elites cannot forgive him for saving the country. Worse for the elites, he has built up an economic partnership with China, which is turning Eurasia into the chief economic and political powerhouse in the world. The Western elites are watching all of this, not really knowing what to do, as they did not expect this. I sincerely hope they will not provoke a wider war to prevent all of this. That “nerve gas” false flag in London is an example of how low the elites will go to vilify someone. However, tricks like that are now backfiring.
Russia can now look forward to six more years of progress under Putin. The only thing that worries me if Russia will be able to find a successor to Putin who will have his qualities. I hope it will.
Whistling Shrimp on March 20, 2018 · at 1:52 pm EST/EDT
To say that “fate” brought Putin to the fore is not to diminish him in any way. Neither he nor anyone else ever “chose” to be born. That either happened by chance or was “decided” for us before we came into existence (depending on your religious or philosophical beliefs). I’m not implying that others in a position of influence did not see Putin’s talents and selected him for leadership precisely for that reason. In fact, there was an article published recently by an American NGO official (I can’t remember her name) who recounted how different–how utterly competent and honest Putin seemed to her upon first meeting him, how thoroughly qualified he was for the job he later received. It was clear to her that a man like him was required for the job and that Russia chose well when it picked him. However, he did not will himself into existence, that is where “fate” enters the picture.
You mean 2014 article by Sharon Tennison and her Center for Citizen Initiatives
ENG: https://ccisf.org/another-assessment-putin/
RUS: https://ccisf.org/russian-translation-sharons-russia-report-putin/
Putin was faced less by fste and more by arrogance.
There was a moment when Yeltsin publicly threstened “firend Bill” Clinton with nuclear strike.
You may write it off as drunkard’s hubris, as a pathetic loud mouth without any fists. Like Brzezinsky said “think again if thwt is your elites or our elites for you”. That is not relevant here. Point is that the Clintons 20 years ago were as arrogant as they are now and they pushed servile Yeltsin to the point he thought nuclear war can be the only option.
There is another story, about Serbia and Kosovo. Allegedly, first accords, already drafted and negotiated, should had been very different from the Serbian capitulation at West’s mercy. However, when Yeltsin sent his vice Chernomyrdin to observe the signing of the treaty, US just bought him, promised him to be the next Russia’s president if he scraps the negotiated treaty and replace it with America’s text. And he did.
Reportedly those setbacks, when Yeltsin saw both Russia itself and his personal power and safety are but “filth under feet” for the Clintons, that he started lifting up Putin
Blue on March 20, 2018 · at 3:17 am EST/EDT
Frankly, the Western Oligarchs have succeded in turning Russia into an enemy, or adversary if you will, to the West. This means massive profits for the financial and MIC oligarchs. The Muslim angle was doing ok, but with Russia and China as “enemies” the profits will soar.
True, these oligarchs would prefer Russian resources for themselves to exploit, but failing that, Russia, as an “enemy”, is equally profitable. Once another Yeltsin is found, and Russia is delivered to the Western Oligarchs, the Muslim threat can be replayed indefinitely. It’s being set up in Turkey and Syria, among others now.
The Western, particularly US, economy is dependent on the War industry. A War industry to be immensely profitable requires enemies. If they do not exist, they must be created. Margarita Simonyan has proven that these Oligarchs have succeeded in Russia to that extent. Whether they can ever get Russian resources is to be determined. But for now, the profits roll.
Cyril on March 20, 2018 · at 3:43 am EST/EDT
Putin actually increased his percentage of the vote by quite a bit, going from 64.6% in 2012 to 76.7% now. Magarita is right: all the anti-Russian propaganda pouring from the Western media has seriously backfired.
I suppose the neocons will simply double down on the hatred, but I wonder how they can possibly do that without looking even dumber and more insane than they do now.
Cyril-of course the Western psychotics will double down on the hate. Hate is the fuel of their existence. Without hatred, of other people (particularly those, like Putin, who stand up to their favourite passtime (after killing), bullying), one another, and often enough, themselves, they would cease to exist and leave nothing behind but a sulphurous stench.
Oops, typo. The “64.6%” in my previous post should have been “63.6%”.
Beautifully put. well written
Having lived thru the cuban crisis and listened to the BS re the cold war which as a teenager it all “stank” then…. and today still does. History so written and distorted while i grew up … yet today history is openly challenged by prof S Cohen on John Batchelor show ….
The berlin wall collapse and the opening up of the east was a welcome. but then the lies began in deep earnest – public reaction against Kohl who had eggs thrown at him at an election rally within 2 years of 1987!!!!.
I am so disgusted with the pathetic political elect appointed and elites and their corporate censored corporate media. Their stuff is so childish …. and the sheep suck it up! The EU is a mess and the powers that be clueless. NATO is a freak show of pathetic suits borrowed from a local second rate circus. They all should put their pop guns away and get real….
The British establishment is a sad mess of incompetents ….. the russians are coming mantra is boring ….. This garbage re poisoning is pathetic with no police work evident just a bunch of poorly advised elected shooting of their mouths ….. so so so childish.
The dumbing down in the west of the populations is like the pollution of the high seas caused by an out of control nuclear disaster eg Fukushima Daichi destroying all… it just seeps everywhere invisibly destroying the genetic make up of life. yes all made in the west. we know how to kill and pollute on a world scale.
The western mixed culture is a very sick thing which needs to be terminated.
Sucking up to a dysfunctional washington will be terminal….. Is this really what we westies have come to?
Beam me out of the west scotty as there is no intelligent life amongst these elites whom are way past their use-by-date.
S-400 on March 20, 2018 · at 4:51 am EST/EDT
Arrogance and hubris now define the decadent and moribund West.
Saw the BBC yesterday pushing a headline; saying how the response from Western countries to Putin’s election victory was collectively “muted”…. and I was there thinking to myself: do they really belive that Russians require their validation or give a shit about what they think?
What arrogance!
The “West”. America in particular, is now seen as a vast cesspool that reeks and stinks, polluting everything that comes in touch with it.
Russians came out yesterday to not only resoundingly affirm their confidence in Vladimir Putin, but to also show that they reject the filth and noise emating from the toxic West.
Viva Russia!
Tom Welsh on March 20, 2018 · at 5:11 am EST/EDT
It might be wise to avoid calling Mr Putin “the Leader” – especially capitalized. Even though it’s true, it’s not good PR.
palmtoptiger on March 20, 2018 · at 5:47 am EST/EDT
I’d urge a little bit of scepticism regarding Simonyan and her somewhat grandstanding tweets and FB posts (must’ve learned that from Trump). when she says she’s a liberal in the last paragraph, she really means it, because she is one indeed, as most interested people in Russia know. she basically used to be completely in the pro-Western camp (which is what being liberal means in Russia) – in the time before she got the very juicy state-sponsored RT position – and many would argue she still is, just not openly. since today she can’t very well be pro-Western anymore, being chief editor of RT.
there’s a much older statement of hers https://b.radikal.ru/b39/1803/2c/ad9cee865106.jpg which goes “you do understand that at the first free elections in Russia fascists will come into power, who will hang us all?” and seems really contradictory to what she’s saying now, but really isn’t. the trick is she understands that the vast majority in Russia actually supports even much more nationalistic and patriarchal ideas than those of Putin, and since even Putin is kind of authoritarian to her (she calls him “вождь” in the above post which in Russian in this context has a direct connotation with Stalin, who used to be called “вождь народов” aka The Leader of Peoples), she then in the tweet corresponding to the FB post https://d.radikal.ru/d04/1803/cc/01951289c571.jpg immediately says “обтекайте” addressing liberals (of which she is one, as she says above) which is a derogatory term for “live with it” and is probably a Freudian misnomer.
because she subconsciously realizes that her post is ONLY directed at Western governments and pro-Western liberals in Russia such as herself, who have to “live with” another 6 years of Putin, as much as they may hate it.
while the majority of Russians actually consider Putin “too soft” on liberals and would prefer someone *more* hardline and authoritarian (which Simonyan is EXTREMELY scared of).
Passer by on March 20, 2018 · at 9:06 pm EST/EDT
Is she really a liberal? I often saw that she wears a christian cross.
Arioch on March 22, 2018 · at 1:08 am EST/EDT
There were Christian pastors who worshipped Hitler and propagandized for him.
Yes, wearing cross and being loberal can co-exist
ThereisaGod on March 20, 2018 · at 6:17 am EST/EDT
Great comments that only hint at the depths of degeneracy into which the west has been dragged by our Liberal and neo-Bolshevik leadership.
When a people allow a big lie like 9/11 to dominate our collective discourse we ARE doomed. Nothing can begin to save us but the truth … and 9/11 would only be the start of it.
Rick on March 20, 2018 · at 7:31 am EST/EDT
You are right. The Kennedy assassination cover-up was a travesty but 9/11 a watershed. Everything perpetrated by the U.S. government after 9/11 is a lie. It is now terminal free-fall.
irrelevant on March 20, 2018 · at 9:09 am EST/EDT
The crossed the Rubicon with JFK murder plot…and now they have run out of the “legitimacy” they stole… Is logical, follow steps to abyss 1,2,3,4,…and then one arrives. This is the essence of singularity and “fissure” (Clapper’s term) and conflict generation – the creation of inflection points in History. Preventing Change only guarantees Revolution… What idiocy.
Was stupid idea to murder Kennedy…and B31 was the man on the job in little old Dallas…also the man who bailed out to leave his crew to drown… What Character!
Mike on March 20, 2018 · at 7:04 am EST/EDT
Ms. Simonyan would be a great leader for Russia in 2024 I guess
Brilliant article and sentiments. To the point and a perfect riposte. Russia needs President Putin and it is heartening that the majority realises it.
Long may Russia remain a bastion against the insidious march of false liberalism.
Anonymous on March 20, 2018 · at 7:50 am EST/EDT
This article gives the feel as if the person is feeling bad why the west did not accept Russia in their camp. And as if he is trying to pacify himself by finding justification why it should not matter to Russians anymore. If this is how the Russians really feel then it is really deplorable.
It is very much how i personally felt during 08-08-08 war and aftermath.
This divorce happens at each’s own pace. For Yeltsin it probably came about 1998. For Simonyan it came recently.
Sad thing is, West does not need friends, West only needs enemies and slaves.
Saker himself started as West’s paladine in shining armor, only to find these paladines are disallowed a slightest protest.
Auslander on March 20, 2018 · at 8:00 am EST/EDT
While ‘liberalism’ is not rampant it is not uncommon among those being educated today in Russian upper houses of learning, but ‘liberalism’ is rapidly losing it’s shine for most of the younger generation. As for the older generations, me included, we have seen through the false glitter that is ‘US Kulture’ for a long time.
With this lady’s outright condemnation of The West and all their tricks and lies, she has struck a resounding nerve in this AO and I’m surprised that, rain or not, there’s not a demonstration in Naxhimova Square in City Center honoring her. She told it like it is and in doing so managed to deepen the already strong respect I have for her.
Well done, young lady, well done!
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A Deep Look In To Russia, Her Culture And Her Armed Forces
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
bored muslim on March 20, 2018 · at 8:02 am EST/EDT
But don’t mention the word ‘Jew’ on Sputnik, you will be banned.
If we cant identify and talk about the enemy, how are we to fight and push back against their plots, schemes and warmongering?
We all know that the ‘war’ against Russia is 100% Jewish and their Christian Zionist lackeys.
Brilliant article, short and to the point. Russia has always been a target of invasion, and it always survived. In 1989, when the Warsaw Pact collapsed, NATO should have been disbanded. It was maintained, in order “to maintain peace” and “to fight terrorism”, laughable excuses for it’s aggressive ambitions. The intention was to move to Russia’s borders, which it did in conjunction with the EU, which is nothing more than a civilian component of NATO.
In 2014 Yanukovich is overthrown in Kiev. The intention was to drag Ukraine into the EU and NATO, so that NATO missile systems could be placed right next to Russia’s borders, making Russia’s missile systems impotent. Russia would then be presented with an ultimatum: Either surrender, or face destruction. It did not come to that. Neither did Western destabilization attempts succeed. The West planned to destabilize Russia, after which NATO would move in to maintain “law and order”, protect “human rights” and establish “democracy”. After that Russia would have been broken up in the name of “democracy” and plundered by Western corporations and banks. It also did not come to that. False flag attacks like that “nerve gas” incident in England will certainly not work, as few people believe such nonsense. Russia is now on the rise. We shall see how events will progress.
Roberto on March 20, 2018 · at 8:16 am EST/EDT
уважаемая госпожа, Margarita Simonyan,
It is with great pleasure that, thanks to the Saker, I learned today that you “don’t trust the West anymore”. Slava Bogy tovarish Simonyan! Al-hamdulillah as they would say in the language of the last ally Russia has, the heroic Syrian Arab republic.
Needless to say, I’m with you all the way.
Yet there are two (tactical) points I would humbly bring to your attention.
The first, is that the “West” really means the Anglo-sphere. The rest of us are either vassals like the French and the Germans or colonial auxiliaries like Southern and Eastern Europeans. We, the “PIGS” (Portugal, Italy Greece and Spain) as they refer to us in the English language are the adjourned synthesis of Quisling’s Norway and a disarmed version of what the “Indian” Army was during the British rule over India. Those soldiers bled for British not Indian interests, much like my old country was bullied into joining in the destruction of Libya (we all know by who) against its national interest. An episode that combines infamy and impotence on the part of the demographically largest, among our peoples, the PIGS.
A pusillanimous press-titute and political order is the new collaborationist to a colonial order referred to as Globalization, which should actually be called Anglo-balization as the values it imposes are not neutral, but those that stem from the Anglo-American, culturally born of the English Reformation. It is always good to call a spade a spade: identify a target clearly if you intend to take it out.
The UK and the US are like chicken and egg, let’s not debate which comes first, or which is worst, let’s just agree that they are two different stages of the same thing.
That said, dear Margarita it is up to us, the PIGS to decolonize form what is really an adjourned version of the British Empire by way of American power. I am certain that your country will prove worthy of what is probably the finest thing the old Soviet Union ever did: support anti-colonialists of all kins and colour of skin and proved the natural ally of the Non-Aligned Movement.
The second thing wants to be a piece of “constructive criticism” as they say.
Too many Anglos at RT (Op-ed, comments,etc.) comrade Simonyan; not enough translations from Russian. I am sure that I am not alone in being sick and tired to hear Anglos pontificating on RT on what is good or bad for Russia, or the rest of us. I certainly want to hear what the Russian take on the world is directly from Russian. There is no need for Anglo middle-men. Understand Margarita, that English has become the lingua-franca of the world. That means that we the neo-colonized use the colonial master’s language to communicate to each other. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, tovarish Simonyan, just adapt it to the terrain we are on. In other words, like the Indian independence movement used English to kick England out of India. With your help we could use the English language to emancipate from Anglo-balization, Inshallah!
Warm regards Margarita, from a Russia-file ageing lad desperately trying to become Russo-phone.
PS In my mother tongue your name means daisy (as in loves me/loves me not).
Her’s a song one of our troubadours dedicated to a lady with your same name. Hope you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJgQm9z_O90
anodinous on March 20, 2018 · at 9:50 am EST/EDT
ah, the “Non-Aligned Movement”… remember that? how fast have we forgot that countries could have their own will and support neither warsawpact/nato.
You probably know by heart to how cia led “transicion” allowed former fascist to move to power, whereas a young gonzales was elected on not joining nato, but join nato they did on their first months of power.
western sahara is over 40 years occupied country, yet no one hears about it.
long go the days of the international. each one to their own and all money to me, all while acussing your opponets of your worst behaviour, seems to be this century motto.
luckily pigs are natural born epicurists, and as such i cannot foresee any of them pucking weapons to attack outside their borders.
panes et circenses and everyone will stay put and quiet…
Dissident X on March 20, 2018 · at 8:32 am EST/EDT
I more or less agree with the article.
Of course it is difficult to argue against the ridiculousness of the western ‘leadership‘, and the idiotic, anti-social, megalomania of the masters behind the puppets.
This is from one close to the ostensible centre of the empire, in the northern ‘provinces‘, governed by that hair-tossing prodigy prince; you know what they say in Africa, “the son of a lion is a dog!”.
But about the ‘conservative‘ vs. ‘liberal‘ monikers.
I suggest to you, the readers (and mods of course), that this polar description, like the nefarious ‘left‘ vs. ‘right‘ polar labeling/divisioning, has be co-opted by…. well, the usual suspects.
It has been made into simply another tool for the 25 centuries old technique of divide and conquer.
Certainly people see things differently, have varied priorities, but the (now) artificial ‘grouping’ (thus dividing) the population into these (mostly) meaningless categories is being used against the people (the vast majority), to continue to manipulate them for the exploiting 0.1%.
What Russia really has that has dissipated from ‘the west‘ is a cohesive common understanding of who they are, where they stand in the global environment, and at least somewhat of a coalescence of what needs to be done for their (the majority) best interests.
Very luckily, I suggest, they also have an individual who has been able to successfully negotiate the international gangster collective, domestically, to enable a rebuild of the pillaged infrastructure, and build up the tools for a meaningful, coherent and pragmatic foreign/international (perhaps we should now be referring to this as ‘global‘ policy).
Of course this lack of murky cloudiness of policy and direction is opposite of what the international collective of gangsters prefers in their indiscriminate … is ‘raping‘ too strong a word?! of the people.
As mentioned before by many of the astute community colleagues, here, this is causing a hysterical reaction, which isn’t too strange considering that this ‘class‘ is psychologically tortured from birth and through childhood, in order to make them hate everybody, and thus be useful tools in the ongoing pillaging of the planet and people.
So, could we work on identifying and calling the functional factors, which drive the dysfunctionality and destructive manipulations, as opposed to the lazy and manipulated polar terms used to divide in order to better conquer?
I’m sure we can be better than that.
RGB on March 20, 2018 · at 8:33 am EST/EDT
Russia do have a very powerful weapon which they can deliver without firing a missile.
What is it? Via their comparatively small number of media outlets, Russia should show a detailed and factual report on how 911 was an inside job. That should cause a certain revolt within the USA. While still armed, the citizens would oust the traitors that make up their government and claim their country back. Given how the Establishment have set up Trump for failure, it’s a perfect time to have a civil unrest in the bully nation.
If that doesn’t do it, how about following up with documentaries of the numerous fake bombings, shootings and civilian casualties portrayed around the world, which was broadcast to the global audience via the fake MSM news network? Surely Russia would have recordings of all the videos (that youtube have now probably removed) which would clearly show how cri$i$ actors were used in their scam(s) to depict their agenda as a “Global war on terror”.
Russia, here’s your chance to spell the truth out… before UK, USA etc… ban your media outlets in their countries.
I like that idea. Only a bunch of incompetent, neo klutz, hypocrites without a conscience could false-flag attack on 911 and then proceed to botch the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s like a big cosmic joke on the zio nuts. Everything those dumb psychopaths do makes the security dilemma of an immoral settler state in the middle east worse.
mark on March 20, 2018 · at 1:05 pm EST/EDT
Good idea. Could start with the Bologna Rail Station bombing in 1980 and the Belgian Supermarket shootings of the 1980s.
Roda on March 20, 2018 · at 8:36 am EST/EDT
The West cannot produce a Margarita Simonyan and/or Maria Zakharova in a thousand years!
Power to you both!
Alicia Louisa Sinclair. on March 20, 2018 · at 8:40 am EST/EDT
So true. Russia was a basket case after Gorbachev confused love from the liberal west with political legitimacy, based in his own people. All of who had been royally screwed, and who weren`t easily going to be Bushes lapdogs.for another fifty years whilst western leeches and vultures creamed off what remained of the country.
Of course, your gangsters were first to clean up, and we live with the fallout to this day.
Had we respected and helped Yeltsins Russia, invested our “peace dividend” into Russian workers and culture-we`d now be partners in a new version of NATO, all ready for the Chinese or Islam. But no-we sell you a few football clubs, and leave the Russian people as poor and angry as ever.
Putin at least is a patriot, an economic nationalist as well as democratically elected legitimacy.
And he`s culturally fully aware of what Islam is doing with immigration…as Chechnya showed him as well as all his other border wars. We ignore his warnings, and we`ll soon find out he is right. We`re leaving the EU, Russia is a cultural giant that -alongside New European countries-are our future too. God Bless Russia and its incredible culture and people. We in the west are fully behind you, Soros and the EU will lose.
Louis Robert on March 20, 2018 · at 8:49 am EST/EDT
Well deserved.
Powerful sign of times coming, with the Empire ever more alienated, isolated, hated and cursed by the rest of the world.
New era unfolding towards an entirely new world order in this one world for all.
Australian on March 20, 2018 · at 8:55 am EST/EDT
Russia is the armory of the multipolar world.
She’s correct.
And many US persons would agree – they themselves are angry and ashamed, and jealous. I am reminded of this famous line about the jealous General who wished for a doomsday machine…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9o0OWYHRo Of course what he would wish for now is a US president like Comrade VVP… Perhaps somebody will do a voice-over of the movie clip…(hint)…correcting the dialogue.
It is left unsaid that using the opponent’s energy to strengthen yourself is the essence of Judo.
Trumpsters and illiterate criminal gangs do not employ Judo – they simply create cathodic response, and lay out the ground in which they get buried.
As we see.
Marie Pujol on March 20, 2018 · at 9:01 am EST/EDT
Bravo ! Short, but hard !
Shahna on March 20, 2018 · at 9:25 am EST/EDT
I’m reminded of a comment from a Russian voter…
“I wasn’t going to vote but Theresa May forced me to.”
Suzanne Majo De Kuyper on March 20, 2018 · at 10:07 am EST/EDT
Wonderful, wise, comment by the head of RT.com
Doloris McNutt on March 20, 2018 · at 10:16 am EST/EDT
Wow you said it sir and I’m an American but very proud that you said it and said it in such way that all can understand it.. thanks again Doloris. McNutt
David Hollander on March 20, 2018 · at 10:56 am EST/EDT
What puzzles me is not why Russia no longer respects the West but, rather, why did Russia ever respect the West in the first place? Personally I don’t think there was ever anything there to admire. Particularly not the wasteful, high consumption, consumerist lifestyle pursued by the West over the past 50 year period cited by the author. Moreover, which fifty years, I wonder? Did Russia still respect the West after the dismantling of the Soviet Union? Followed by impoverishment, “shock therapy”, looting of the wealth of Russia by the “Oligarchs”, etc? That period is already 30 years ago. How could respect for the West possible endure after that?
Spiral on March 20, 2018 · at 11:01 am EST/EDT
This sentence,
“White man’s burden, my ass. ”
encapsulates the essence of Tovarisch Margarita article. In particular, I am impressed by
the novel use of anatomical punctuation to explode western hypocrisy. I wonder why VVP
didn’t mention this powerful weapon in his 1st of March speech?
Outlaw Historian on March 20, 2018 · at 11:18 am EST/EDT
Unfortunately, as with all of Putin’s speeches–especially March 1’s–this well written explanatory essay will also be ignored by those thinking they know better as they cannot/will not let go of their arrogant hubristic mentality. Trump’s action in trying to shutdown Venezuela’s El Petro cryptocurrency is just one example of too many. Like many commenting I too live within the Outlaw US Empire and greatly desire its demise despite the dislocation likely to be visited upon me and my family because of the massive suffering its caused and the outrageous levels of corruption its generated. I liken my stance to calling in an airstrike on my position so the greater good of humanity can be preserved.
Kent on March 20, 2018 · at 11:46 am EST/EDT
My compliments to an extraordinary Lady.
http://telemarksporten.no/SakerPhotos/Margarita%20Simonyan.jpg
porphyrius on March 20, 2018 · at 11:47 am EST/EDT
As a western European, I applaud wholeheartedly.
I have only the feeling that a point was wrongly translated:
его можно было поменять = he could have been changed (not reelected)
Ondrej on March 20, 2018 · at 3:50 pm EST/EDT
I think translator did good job, yes in Russian it is more like. Yes we could exchange him Putin if we decided to do so, but will never let others to change him.., meaning others dictate whom we should have as out leader..
>> Get cleaned up, now. You don’t have much time left.
Last sentence which is bit unclear, it should be IMHO, something like >> leave as alone, or get away from us – this will stay for long , probably meaning it will take long before we can forget this..
The last line actually goes as “This (state of affairs) came for long”.
Tall, Bald, and Ugly on March 20, 2018 · at 12:11 pm EST/EDT
^^^^^YES!!!^^^^^
I knew this woman was Sharp, but DAMN does she Cut with this one!
From a not particularly proud USian.
Stop These F@cking Wars
The fed on March 20, 2018 · at 12:12 pm EST/EDT
So basically you like the message but not the messenger…
Rob from Canada on March 20, 2018 · at 12:31 pm EST/EDT
I have a lot of respect for the Wall Street/Washington Fat Bastards who are going to blow up the financial system.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/21-trillion-and-counting-why-this-time-is-different-part-1/
This is a very impressive lady.
Like other people in positions of leadership in Russia, Putin, Lavrov and Maria Zakharova.
There is nothing comparable in western countries.
We need a Bismarck, and instead we have corrupt, arrogant, venal, ignorant lying clowns like May, Johnson, Merkel, Macron, Juncker, Stoltenberg.
Just imagine if someone less capable and astute had been at the helm in Russia. Maybe someone more hot headed like Zhirinovsky. We would be at war already. Or there would have been one several years ago and we would now all be dead.
Just imagine what the world COULD have been like without the insane drive for hegemony and world domination by Washington and its satellites. The wars in Iraq/ Afghanistan/ Syria/ Libya/ Yemen/ Ukraine need never have happened. Millions of people now dead would still be alive. Millions of others would be living peaceably in their homes. Any action taken over terrorism could take the form of an international police operation. The world could be a stable and cooperative place. Just the financial cost to the US alone of the wars since 2001, currently $4.5 trillion – imagine what could have been done with that in areas like infrastructure, healthcare, education, scientific research. And how many millions of jobs would have been created in the process. It wouldn’t have taken more than basic common sense and moderate luck to create something approaching a paradise on earth. Instead we have whole countries destroyed, millions of dead and destitute, with even more destructive wars and even nuclear annihilation on the cards.
Jacques Cuse on March 21, 2018 · at 8:18 pm EST/EDT
Zhirinovsky is the Kremlin’s jest who gets to say what nobody else dares. But if in a position of power he would be much more careful, he’s not at all the madman we’ve been told he is and in fact he’s quite intelligent and well-informed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9OVaz-JdLEE
Den Lille Abe on March 20, 2018 · at 2:16 pm EST/EDT
Ms. Simonyan, with all respect we are actually a crowd living in the west, that does harbour peaceful and friendly feelings towards Russia and the Russian people.
We actually do.
Американские извращенцы on March 20, 2018 · at 2:45 pm EST/EDT
The United States has legalized torture by changing the legal definition of the word, legalized kidnapping by eliminating habeas corpus, legalized highway robbery by re-branding it as ‘civil asset forfeitures’, legalized a de facto police state by invariably failing to prosecute egregious cases of law enforcement abuse against innocent citizens, it has legalized massive spying on the general population on a level never previously seen before in human history, it runs a system of secret parallel courts (FISA courts) that use secret interpretations of law in order to issue secret warrants that no one will ever know about thanks to secret gag orders, and it also runs a world-wide web of state-run clandestine torture centers, all this among a plethora of OTHER criminal acts they commit on a daily basis ..hence the United States has ZERO credibility.
Z-E-R-O!
David is going to need a Trojan Horse to get close enough to that Goliath to bring him down with a sling. Trouble is, what qualifies as a offering to Poseidon at the gates of the City of Giants?
Helen B on March 20, 2018 · at 3:23 pm EST/EDT
So true. And most of the thinking people in the West totally agree and wish we had the same.
I stopped respecting the US long ago, the EU and UK not long after, in fact the whole NATO scam, and frankly, feel betrayed.
If I weren’t so old, I’d learn Russian and move to Russia in a heartbeat. No delusions, I know it isn’t perfect and there are still problems, but at least I could respect the government and leadership and know they are working to overcome the issues. Here in the West I despise them.
Thanks Margarita for your wonderful RT: you are a breath of life.
ioan on March 20, 2018 · at 4:38 pm EST/EDT
What she said is so powerful because it comes out from her heart. Once Tolstoy said that nobody can hate and love so powerful as a Russian soul. Only those who love truly can hate truly, nobody is happier for peace than those who suffered so much from wars, nobody is going to be even stronger against the evil as those who suffered for long the humiliations made by the evil doers.
ioan on March 21, 2018 · at 1:48 am EST/EDT
Let me add to my comment above something : I am not even Russian, I never had any doors open in my young or later days for which I didn’t must to fight, all my life was and is a struggle, each day with it’s particular flavor, thugh I wholeherathly feel the same way, maybe even more and more complex, because I include the whole world, seen and unseen, the whole bitterness and sufferings of entire generations from east to west, from north to south. Particulary I don’t feel fear at all, if is to be a war? I have nothing to lose but those who have kids, a bigger family, for them is not an easy choice. May it be as you wish in the Truth.
Tazz2293 on March 20, 2018 · at 5:23 pm EST/EDT
As an American Patriot, defender of the Constitution of the United States of America, enemy of Progressives and Political Correctness I cannot argue with her at all. In fact I agree with much of what Ms. Simonyan says.
When someone is right, they are right
Frigga Karl on March 20, 2018 · at 5:54 pm EST/EDT
Mrs Simonyan, many of us here in the west know the “insatiable appetite” (ravenousness) of the western oligarches and their immense frustrations when Putin retrieved the stolen treasures of the Russian soil. Since the wars of aggression against Iraq and Libya by the US/NATO/Israel war machine, their “advisers” think that they can wreak havoc also against Russia in their thirst for more. Their bulimia for money in order to keep their banking and defense machine working (1.100 military bases in the world and the salary of some millions of intelligent workers bound to world power) makes them inapt for a calm view of the political situation. That is why their hysteria is so easily erupting. They do not realize that the people in the west have seen and experienced their ugly grimaces, their barbarity, their cynicism and their injustices. What do we do? We become “traitors” and started to “love” the “enemies” of that bunch of thieves, in order to accelerate their fall. I hope it will work out without too much of ravage. Than we can create the Eurasian Community which is long overdue.
JT Sears on March 20, 2018 · at 6:24 pm EST/EDT
Nice Margarita! And that from a liberal American; not an empire builder of destruction.
My hat’s off to you.
Patrick Henry: “Live Free or Die.”
https://www.redhill.org/speech/liberty-or-empire
Skip Folden on March 20, 2018 · at 6:26 pm EST/EDT
Well written. Refreshing and welcomed directness. Fully justified.
Many in US would and do agree, but not reflected in our media or governmental actions.
We’ve gone well off-track into the rubble of garbage and dishonor.
We have some problems over here with wide-spread political and media selfish dishonesty.
New motto should be, “guilty until proven innocent” while embracing evidence free conclusions.
It’s shameful and embarrassing to many here.
But forgiving us is not recommend, for too many of our actions are inexcusable.
It’s up to us to straighten this internal mess and its international implications out.
Skip Folden – US
Clifford on March 20, 2018 · at 7:23 pm EST/EDT
Well said Madame. Your piece has application around the world. RT is in good hands with you.
ginger on March 20, 2018 · at 9:19 pm EST/EDT
WELL SAID! – and you are speaking for 90% of the rest of the world.
Akarnanas on March 20, 2018 · at 11:59 pm EST/EDT
Now we only have to work on the Greeks (I can dream, can’t I? )
And then it’s game, set, …. and Match.
And I only look at the commercial advantages, We sell to the Russians ancient varieties of Wine, grapes, raisins, Oranges and lemons (We used to before the Revolution in 1917).
Holidays, Shipping of all sorts.
And we get more S300 maybe S400. In order to kick out the Crusaders of 1204 and all that.
Wheat, timber and all the goodies from Siberia. Oh and the Greeks living locally in the Russian Federation would be the agents of all that.
Athletics ? Olympics PROPER at HOME. No dilly dally from the Western “Eggspurts”
As for alliances? well the Serbs for a start. Maybe the Bulgarians if they see the light and I do not disregard the Romanians. The South Italians will be welcome to trade as they will complement the VOLUME of everything that we do.
Sounds far fetched ?
Well there are efforts to tis effect.
Sola Fide on March 21, 2018 · at 4:35 am EST/EDT
As a Christian one of the things that has struck me over the past months is how the people of the West seem spiritually dead. All around me I see only the pursuit of self, the pursuit of pleasure, the pursuit of wealth, or status, or the latest fad. It’s a “look at me” culture, where everyone is fully aware of their rights, but unaware even of the notion of responsibilities. Almost without exception the West has become an oligarchy of self-serving interests, of banks, corporations, and big business. Corruption seems endemic, the public space dominated by craven politicians and a servile media that long ago sold its soul to become mouthpieces and propagandists for those whom they should hold to account.
In short, the West is bankrupt; morally, spiritually, and intellectually.
And then I look at Russia, and see a nation emerging from the murderous tyranny of Communism and deprivation of the Yeltsin years to become a country confident in itself, confident in its place in the world. Russia’s spiritual order has been restored, with 30,000 churches renovated by the state, the family placed at the center of policy, and the Church brought to the center of public life. Sure, it’s not perfect, and has a long way to go, but comparatively speaking, I think Russia has begun to eclipse the West on many fronts. Slowly at first, but now with increasing pace, it seems to have become the trusted partner of those countries beset by western imperialism. Thus, as a counterweight, Russia has become the nation whose word is given and kept.
To many of us, even here in the West, Russia is seen and cheered as the World’s David confronting the Anglozionist Goliath. It is a colossal turnaround: a one generation leap from stagnation to reinvigorated superpower. And the western elites are terrified. Whatever the ultimate outcome, Syria is the gravestone of neo-imperialism. Russia is center stage once more, and showcasing its technology, ethical fortitude in the face of moral incontinence, leadership, and trustworthiness.
So, I understand Ms. Simonyan. I also agree with her. Western dogma, deceit, and boneheaded hostility in the face of the new realities, has driven the Russian people toward a new patriotism, a new sense of self. And good luck to them! I wish them every success, and hope and pray, that we in the West can emulate Russia’s moral resurgence.
GeoPol on March 21, 2018 · at 4:42 am EST/EDT
She has a beautiful face, and smokes heavily. Smoking is condemned in the santimonious Anglo world, yet Russian and other eastern people smoke and enjoy themselves. We need a smokers international led by Russia to stand up for our rights.
Yes, she smokes and Ivanov is doing the same, though Putin does not. I’m smoking too, I know is not a good thing but I’m not gonna run for the next Olympics anyway. Be sure, if there will be bad times, the numbers of smokers will increase. By the way, I began to smoke in the military at age of 20.
Babushka on March 22, 2018 · at 6:41 am EST/EDT
I understand the beautiful Queen of Denmark enjoys smoking. As did her mother.
I don’t dispute what is said in the main.
However, we, in what is referred to as the “West” — a term so broad that I suggest it is rather meaningless in any details — might take note of some general historical trends and wonder about the genesis of the current apparent malaise.
1. Russia (and regions) crawls out of a feudal world 100 years ago and spends most of the 20th century convulsing with either internal transformations and/or external wars centered around the “God is Dead” Communist ideology.
2. Seduced by the ‘Sirens of the West’ and frustrated by the staleness of the “worker’s paradise” (lost) the USSR Inc ditch the communist ideology, and it seems just as naively as they did 100 years ago, embrace the Western modus operandi of the time.
3. To hold the shattered pieces together both a formidable “Commander” (Putin) and a new ‘old’ religion emerge — a form of the ‘Czar and Monk’ model of antiquity.
4. In this resurrection is the final realisation (c. 2018) that the darling “West” is not as it seemed — neither does it exist as a unified conglomerate; nor as a homogeneous phenomena driven from the top down (in most cases).
5. What these darling ‘Russians’ seem not to consider is the net effect of their respective release from the 100 years of experiment on the said ‘West’.
6. And what has happened? — many things are happening.
7. Of these many one thing is clear that an tsunami of exactly the types of people who fostered and promoted the 100 years of experiment in the Soviet Unions sloshed into all manner of niches in the Middle East and the West to, it seems, continue their experimentation etc.
8. For example, not only has Occupied Palestine now been largely over ridden by Russian/Ukrainian emigres; but these types have perfected the parasitoid art of draining the hegemony du jour of all independent policy capacity while at the same time ensuring all strategic operating accounts are paid for by the American taxpayer (or rather the printing press) via the military industrial complex.
9. In addition to the huge control of finance, banking, media and entertainment this cohort tap into the millennial fantasies produced in the general ‘Christian’ masses by ancient self-serving blood-thirsty narratives that claim Divine endorsement of untold suffering of the ‘not-so-human-as-us’ sub-species etc.
10. And so, just as things ME may have been settling down into a new ‘peace’ pattern the latest Russian ‘exports’ arrive and Mr Putin seems quite happy about that. Given, we now have his fleas to contend with, one can see perhaps why there is often a strategic smirk/smile on his dial.
So, Mrs Russia — look down your nose all you like at the present situation of concern in the West.
However, one thing is highly certain, it won’t take 100 years of experiment in the West for these new ‘challenges’ to be dealt with effectively. At most 10-15 years and the latest outburst of ‘globalisation’ fever (comrades!) will be over and a new balance attained (mainly via efforts from Russia and China). As to whether the new balance will be with Einstein’s ‘sticks-and-stones’ or not is still a 50:50 option imo.
ISG on March 21, 2018 · at 7:15 pm EST/EDT
Margarita,
Those of us that have kept ourselves clean are now staring at a thousand laser sights trying to find a weakness to exploit and discredit any stand they may fear we have the potential to
organize. You and I are common descendants (if I may presume) of a tragedy that was sparked by
the free-for-all that marked the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. I am rusty on the details of
Martyrs Day, but I cannot imagine that there weren’t many deals brokered to make it possible to
break the spirit of our fore-bearers in one fell swoop. The true abomination of such an act must
have been beyond what any could anticipate, and the toll is still growing as there is no firm
foundation upon which to rebuild what was ripped away. This IMO, has yet to be forcefully enough
condemned. But I see families systematically divided with backroom bargains struck by whom and
for whom one can only guess with all the relentless disinformation used to obscure clues which
may slip past the censorship. Any feeling safe from this climate shift suddenly achieving
normality may discover the hidden threat of a forced diaspora of horribly traumatized and
desperate confused outsiders that are hoped will destabilize anyone they can latch onto to get
their mass consumer fixes. Facing a nuclear threat cannot be the only front in this battle.
It’s been passed on that my grandparents were a few who heeded warning signs and joined the
diaspora, but stories are impossible to verify and inconsistencies foster distrust and fear when
obvious duplicitous narratives create opportunities for betrayers to exploit for personal gain
in such a climate. I am seeing signs of this in my quiet neighborhood, and as with the NAZI’s,
information and communication systems are used to herd and isolate, blasting potential internal
proletariat with psywar sticky viruses that create a gas-lighting nightmare only a trained agent
or very mature soul could navigate before saying something to set off security alerts…or
starving in their own home when they are well enough endowed financially.
Silicon Valley is a cesspool of caustic egotistic game-boys eager to make a mark in this world using any leverage they discover they can beg, borrow or steal from everyday folks just looking for a even playing
field on which to enjoy the tides of existence in peace.
I was forewarned of this by a project manager for a major telecom corp 25 years ago while
protecting endangered desert wildlife being threatened by the retooling for broadband fiber
optic networks. His intent was clearly to intimidate the two most ethical biologists on the
project by showing us redundant underground COG facilities that are almost certainly antiquated
or greatly enlarged by now, but impressive for the pre-information age when they were
constructed.
I would much appreciate to learn how you feel media outlets like yours might be able to bring this into
focus before the next surprise April 24th bloodletting gets a head of steam from a last gasp of
another empire.
My perspective on this must be worth something very critical to their efforts
to expend so much time and resources to break down my will to persevere in the face of the
“Shadow of Death” as I imagine some keypad lackey likes to nickname his gizmo’s as if they are now
the true tools of Shiva the Destroyer, as Oppenheimer got off on self invoking after his victory
lap for the Manhattan Project…another tragedy that nearly truncated my family tree once during
my fathers “service”. For what it may be worth in the face of dire circumstances, I am at your
service should you wish to play a card at this chess match just to keep’em guessing and maybe a
new day gets a little nearer the horizon.
“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
ISG (Igor) on March 22, 2018 · at 6:42 pm EST/EDT
Granted, to any that may have taken notice, that my previous post may have elements of rant-like behavior. I could have been hoping that some might try and imagine thousands of such folks not knowing who to trust or what they may need to do to survive being dis-“carded” for the sake of entities too big to succeed, and inserted it for effect, as a a method actor may do to give a scene a desired impact. Perhaps time will tell, or perhaps it too will be silenced. The technology to do this exists, is mostly in place, and was specifically designed to carry out this function as if performing a routine defragmentation subroutine. I am pretty sure it has been used in war scenario analyses just as nuclear weapons were. I can only foresee it as a very slippery slope that leads to chaos at the slightest perturbation if it get set in motion. I fear they may be too deeply invested to see a saner route.
If we are going to learn to stop repeating this lesson of history, at what point are we going to have to be prepared to institute measures which reduce it as an attractive outlet of pressure on institutions who may become too dysfunctional to recognize the ultimate fate and source of such policies.
Too the degree that this too is speculative and ranting I leave to whoever reads it to decide. Days like those to which I refer, are days when sometimes only those with special skills or gifts are able to hear the rumble of distant chariots. I am only hoping Ms. Simonyan will find such awareness within and share what her spirit feels is her charge to provide her audience.
ISG (nom de plume)
For the record.
Scott did a great job on translation, though few places sound odd to me, like “RT showing all the world how to use freedom of speech”. That was not in the linked Russian text, but might be seen as an artistic way to retell the meaning of the source.
However last sentence is just plain inverted.
As the linked RIA source has it now it is “This (state of affairs) came for long”.
It is VERY different from the “Little time is left for the West” vague shadenfraude this translation ends with
Unfortunately, in these modern times, the term “liberal” has morphed into something that is nearly the opposite ot the meaning it had 70 to 100 years ago. Now, to a large extent, “liberal” in the West is really little more than a rebranding of what could have been called “bolshevism” 100 years ago. It’s a totalitarian game of “Simon Says” (i.e. political correctness). The movement is intolerant of any dissent. Civll liberties apply to the movement and only to the movement. Tolerance applies only to classes and groups that are officially approved by the movement. Everyone else is a counterrevolutionary. To some extent, it seems that Russia and the West have swapped positions when compared to where things stood circa 1918 as far as true, traditional liberal values are concerned. “Liberal” in the modern sense is a misnomer and mislabeling. Kind of in the same way that violent thugs, wearing black masks and beating on dissenters in perfect fascist fashion are weirdly called “anti-fascists” by the western mainstream media.
_smr on March 22, 2018 · at 4:07 am EST/EDT
A schoolkid dreaming schoolkid dreams. Breaking news, I suspect…
JustAGirl on March 22, 2018 · at 6:03 am EST/EDT
Most probably (and hopefully) this will happen in Hungary too in April, and exactly that’s why.
Whow! Concise and to the point. Brilliant!
(What some of us wondered for some time :-)
forgotten poor cousin on March 22, 2018 · at 11:02 am EST/EDT
Dear madam,
> We have no more respect for you
It took you so long to get to this point.
This is the conclusion you should have reached in early 1990s.
At least , before 1999 you could have had a minuscule remnant of
respect for the West. In 1999, it should have become clear and
obvious what the West is. That was nearly 20 years ago!
So, I am happy that you have finally seen the obvious, but I am
less than delighted with how much time it had to pass for you to see it.
Poor Cuz’
It is a shame that you had to wait 20 years waiting for Ms. Simonyan to do your favorite dance with destiny and fate by sticking her neck out for once. Or are you saying there is a point at which talent cannot be redirected and repurposed to fight the fight that is its charge and charter to conduct? She totally new to me. Why they chose my rural area to be last in line for broadband in the U.S. is none of my business. I’ve still very limited access and she is a fresh face in a region (California) where she might find a following among the Armenian Diaspora. She is young, innovative and is in a place of authority that neither of us can claim title to, nor disparage with any credibility.
Anyone who can bear the mantle of truth and take it up should do so, and if it is their charge to bring truth to fore…let them not hold their heads up high until they have at least seen the truth for themselves and needed somewhere for it to be received and failed to desperation before abandoning it.
So cuz’, she still in the ring after all those rounds, maybe she still got a lucky punch in there somewhere to jump-start her fighting career. Sure no shortage of nasty opponents so maybe give her the support she would need to do as you would have her do.
john macdonald on March 24, 2018 · at 10:30 pm EST/EDT
Profound. Thank you. This should be posted in universities, offices, libraries and post offices. Unfortunately it will be posted nowhere, and the hundreds of millions of people who most need to read it will ignore it: some smugy, others through willful ignorance. And so the end will be an ugly surprise as it seems it must be.
geo wells on March 24, 2018 · at 11:25 pm EST/EDT
Nothing for Russians to forgive…..only justice against tyrants should be enacted….
Richard Wicks on March 25, 2018 · at 1:30 pm EST/EDT
The collapse of the United States is the only sane thing that can happen at this point.
The Western banking system is corrupt, the federal reserve simply creates money to purchase the debt, inexplicably producer nations still accept the currency, there is no rule of law, politicians openly accept bribes, European “leaders” work against the interests of their own populations, the US creates refugees Europe then takes them in. Constant obvious propaganda goes unchallenged, Iraq, Ukraine, S. Ossetia/Georgia, Libya, Syria, Yemen.
Doesn’t matter who you vote for at this point, there seems to be little or no representation – and it only took a generation for this to happen. Just 1.
Jay on March 25, 2018 · at 4:01 pm EST/EDT
Sounds good but deep down she is expressing a parasitic notion that there is something wrong with the patriotism of Russia.
Only the elites in the west need to fear or be worried about events in Russia. For the Average American citizen, we are glad you have rejected “liberalism” and have chosen patriotism. We are glad you don’t want to live like us. You should reject the globalists that have infested our culture. US elections are rigged and that was widespread public knowledge since the 2000 election. Nobody at the top of the US represents the US public.
Why does she end with this pathetic plea for us to change before its too late? “You don’t have much time…” That shows her whole opening is just a bluff. As a free American, I am glad for the Russia it is reclaiming its heritage. There is no reason for me to fear a self-sufficient Russia, why does she present it as something “fearful” unless she is an enemy of Russia?
There is nothing liberal about the American Empire. It must be opposed or surrendered to.
Candygirl on April 03, 2018 · at 3:31 pm EST/EDT
3 0 “Could anyone define and explain “a patriotic government” giving example from the past present and future. Ha Ha Ha Ha NV, You miss the whole point here by failing to notice the absence of “Smart in “patriotism .. also, on rare occasions one can show patriotism to a country .. and more commonly to oneself .. This is pretty obvious if you observe where the country”s wealth stands due to the actions of the patriots .. and the wealth of the patriots due to their patriotic deeds Every man has a price on his patriotism. The greatest act of patriotism a man can do is go and get a job. . Starting with the 225 in the parliament Simple as that! .. Don”t make patriotism very complicated. The country has too many patriots on its payroll. I say patriotism should be not smart-patriotism but unpaid-patriotism. I suppose, one who do not get paid for patriotism is called a non-patriot? The last non-patriot still standing .. writing from the last refuge.
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The privilege of being photographer-in-residence was that I was able to live by my imagination, that is to say I could imagine myself doing something and then go out and do it. What was special about this particular time and place was that I'd begun to meet other people who were also living life by their imagination, albeit in a slightly different way. These were people who knew that the work they were doing came from an old world that was rapidly dying, yet they imagined it alive. Their imaginings made them great storytellers. I felt an affinity with them.
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In January 1978 this London photography co-operative, founded in 1972, was in the process of breaking free of its home in the Half Moon Theatre in Alie Street, Whitechapel (where my exhibition hung in the foyer, its gallery), and moving to Roman Road, Bethnal Green. The new name, 'Camerawork', was the same as its magazine (founded in 1976) where my pig-killing story ('Home Bacon') would be published ('Camerawork no. 9', March 1978) to coincide with the showing of 'Shuttles, Steam & Soot'. This exhibition, put together with much thought and a very great deal of care by Ed Barber and Jenny Matthews, showcased my pictures and stories about the textile industry in Lancashire. me, 'Shuttles, Steam and Soot' is my best piece of work. Sadly, when 'Camerawork' folded (in 2003), the show (which had toured extensively) could not be found. It is the biggest regret of my working life that I made no photographic record of its exhibition panels... a very big pity.
The Hyman Collection is grateful to Daniel Meadows for his assistance in cataloguing these pictures.
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What Do You Call a 53-Year-Old Man Who Has Sex With a 9-Year-Old Girl?
This is not counterjihadist propaganda. Islamic scholars and imams around the world accept it as an historical fact that Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, married his favorite wife, Aisha, when she was six years old and consummated their marriage when she was 9.
This would be inconsequential except for two very important things:
It was written down.
Islam's most revered book (the Koran) says no less than 91 times that Muhammad is the ideal example of conduct for Muslims.
Unfortunately, the problem isn't confined to marriage. Muhammad serves as a model of conduct in other ways. He ordered non-Muslims assassinated for criticizing Islam, he aggressively conquered non-Muslims through war, he tortured, he raped, he owned slaves, and much more. And his example has been preserved in writing for all time.
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''Suffer the little children to come unto me''. I alway's took these words to mean, put up with a child's behaviour,after all they are small,defenceless,trusting and INNOCENT.These words were spoken by Jesus, the same Jesus that is claimed as a prophet by islam. The whole world knows that Christians have failed to live up to these words and betrayed that childish innocence. That betrayal was firstly against the child and also against the Word of God. Nowhere in the New Testament is there any hint that Jesus would approve of this behaviour. It is Un-Christian. Pedophilia and Thighing would appear to be islamic. islam needs to stop claiming Jesus as a prophet, it isn't worthy.
AUTHENTIC PREACHERS AND AUTHENTICITY OF PREACHING IN RELIGION
Md. Hanif
Even though there are many religions in this world, most of these have been preached at a time when there was no good system of recording. Out of the prominent religions Islam is the only religion whose preacher and his activities have been recorded in history. In fact he was the king of a large kingdom. During that period democracy was absent and men having exceptional physical strength, many friends or the sons of ruling kings become the ruler. When someone having none of these qualities became king, people knew that it happened so because of any trick. Spreading of religion was such a famous trick.
It is now meaningless to raise any discrepancy in their religious books of the old religions. If raised, the concerned followers would say, someone might have changed the original version, where no one would be able to produce any original. There is no such loophole in Islam, because their religious book was carefully recorded from the beginning. It is said that their god sent his sayings directly to the prophet through an angel. Then people recorded what the preacher said. In such a situation the followers have no scope to disagree to what has been written in their book.
When a man fabricates a religion for his selfish interests he would preach things that would instigate the greedy people to fight for him. If god preaches any religion it must target for the welfare of the entire mankind. God's preaching would in no way help any particular person, and not even the preacher.
PART III.
MEANING FROM HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: In the deserts the caravan journey from one oasis to another begins in the evening. The women sit on enclosed boxes and the slaves pick up the boxes on camel-back. One person (naquib) invites all to come and the journey begins. The caravan usually reaches destinations in the morning. In one such journey, after the caravan reached the destination, it was found that one wife of the preacher was found missing. The following evening one camel with two slaves were sent back to the previous oasis. They came back with the wife and one more person after the following night. Their staying in there for two nights made men to murmur. At this time god sent the preaching, "those who accuse honorable women but do not bring four witnesses scourge them (with) eighty stripes". It was natural that in such the offenders would disagree. There may be at best three male persons, but the number would never be four.
(02) CHAPTER 24. AN-NUR: LIGHT (LINE 31). Original text (Part): And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigor, or children who know naught of women's nakedness.
MEANING FROM HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: God in the religious book said that women can leave their outer dress in front of some relatives and persons like, "... their own husbands or fathers or husbands fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons….". While some of these are acceptable it is questionable why god included "husbands father" in this list. The answer to this question is important because of Chapter 33. Al-ahzab: The Clans, Line 37, where the preacher wished to marry his son's wife and the son had to divorce.
(03) CHAPTER 33. AL-AHZAB: THE CLANS (LINE 37): Original text (Part): 37. ….. And thou didst hide in thy mind that which Allah was to bring to light, and thou didst fear mankind whereas Allah had a better right that thou shouldst fear Him. So when Zeyd had performed the necessary formality (of divorce) from her, We gave her unto thee in marriage, so that (henceforth) there may be no sin for believers in respect of wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have performed the necessary formality (of release) from them….
MEANING FROM HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: The preacher released his slave Zeyd and made him his foster son. Zeyd married Zainab. God came to know what was in the preacher's mind because in the religious book he said: "And thou didst hide in thy mind that which Allah was to bring to light". Zeyd divorced his wife and the preacher married her. God said, "So when Zeyd had performed the necessary formality (of divorce) from her, We gave her unto thee in marriage,..". In addition God endeavored to justify such act by saying, "so that (henceforth) there may be no sin for believers in respect of wives of their adopted sons,".
(04) CHAPTER 33. AL-AHZAB: THE CLANS (LINE 53) : Original text (Part): O you who believe! Enter not the dwellings of the Prophet for a meal without waiting for the proper time, unless permission be granted to you. But if you are invited, enter, and, when, your meal is ended, then disperse. Linger not for conversation. Lo! That would cause annoyance to the Prophet, and he would be shy of (asking) you (to go); but God is not shy of the truth. And when you ask of them (the wives of the Prophet) anything, ask it of them from behind a curtain. That is purer for your hearts and for their hearts. And it is not for you to cause annoyance to the Messenger of God, nor that you should ever marry his wives after him. Lo! That in God's sight would be an enormity..
MEANING FROM HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: The leaders of prospective tribes who could accept the new religion were invited to stay and take food in the preacher's house. They entered the house probably without permission and spent more time than needed in eating and gossiping. So, god sent the preaching, "when, your meal is ended, then disperse. Linger not for conversation". God also said, "nor that you should ever marry his wives after him".
There are many other preaching in the book that prove beyond any doubt that probably it was not from any divine source, but could have been someone's creation.
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A Taste We’ll Never Forget
First Words — 03 February 2012
I could graduate from the Culinary Institute of America. Throw down with Flay and Ray this month at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Cook state dinners at The White House, the Élysée Palace, the first colony on the Moon.
I’d still hear about the Feast Day Posole I made for my family.
“Dad is cooking again,’’ the kid says.
“Hope it’s not Feast Day Posole,’’ the other kid says.
“Yeah,” the first kid says. “The last time almost killed us.’’
Such an exaggeration, I think. Nobody actually died.
It was, I admit, not my finest moment in the kitchen. It was late. I wanted to put something together fast. I grabbed the first box out of the cupboard – which just happened to be Feast Day Posole, a souvenir from a lovely trip to New Mexico several years back.
It sounded good – a festive, hominy stew for a mid-week after-work night. Easy to make. Non-toxic.
I opened the box, poured the dry contents into a pot of boiling water, waited 10 minutes, served.
I remember the looks around the table. The pursed lips. The rush to the kitchen. The clattering sounds of dishware into the sink.
And worse.
“Dad!” they said. “What did you just make for us!?”
“Feast Day Posole,” I said. “Remember that lovely trip we made to New Mexico a few years ago…?”
“Dad!’’ the kid said, “that was five years ago! The food in the box has expired!’’
“I didn’t look,” I said, “I didn’t know…’’
“It was so bad,’’ the other kid said.
“It tasted like boiled socks,’’ the kid said.
“But I haven’t cooked Feast Day Posole in 10 years,” I say now. “Can’t a cook prepare a meal without being reminded of a single misfire? I mean, there’s a statute of limitations on most major crimes.”
“Not on Feast Day Posole,” the kid says.
“I’m not making Feast Day Posole tonight!’’ I say. But, I could tell I’d already lost them.
“Can’t Mom cook tonight?” the kid says.
“She won’t be home till late,” I say.
“Can’t we order takeout?” the kid says.
“Yeah,” the other kid says.
I wonder if Flay and Ray and all the other Tastemakers out in the culinary world have had their own Feast Day Posole moments. Some dish they wish they’d never served. Could they have been that lucky, making dishes that always satisfied the family, the friends, the discerning restaurant patron?
You’ll meet some of South Florida’s Tastemakers in this issue – people who set trends not just in cooking and fine dining, but in fashion, home design & décor, travel, the arts.
Surely, like all of us, they have had misfires of their own. Or are they really that skilled? Are they really that lucky?
I put in the call for takeout. And wonder how they dodge the Feast Day Posole days of their own.
—Mark Gauert
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The movie A Christmas Story is a holiday classic. It seemingly airs around the clock for weeks during the Christmas season and an annual Christmas Eve marathon showing attracts tens of millions of viewers. Many parts of the film are now iconic: the leg lamp, th tongue sticking to the flagpole, the bunny suit, the official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle and so on. Much of the movie was filmed in Cleveland - at the Higbee's department store and at what has become A Christmas Story House in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland.
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Court Workers Strike, Seeking Pay Increase From Sacramento County
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink
Hundreds of Sacramento County court employees from five buildings did not go to work on Tuesday. The action caused courtrooms to postpone cases and the entire system to bring in temporary workers to fill the void.
Ted Somera with the United Public Employees union says it is seeking a cost-of-living increase of about 3 percent for a group, which has been doing more work since 2010. He also says the number of workers at front counters and inside courtrooms has been downsized.
“To be at 411, at one time we had 500 and something,” Somera said. “In post-2010, we were close to 600 employees.”
The union is the court system’s largest and says the average employee makes about $24 per hour. About 350 of the 411 employees did not go to work at the system’s five court buildings.
Courts’ spokeswoman Kim Pedersen say temporary employees with training have been hired to help keep the counters and some of the courtrooms open. Some cases would be dropped if defendants are unable to get a speedy trial.
Judges are going through their cases to identify which ones must continue and be delayed.
Both sides say they are hopeful the strike lasts only today.
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13 Dec 19 - Ten years ago, the United States stunned the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen by saying China and other major developing countries would have to pull their weight in the next global climate agreement.
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10 Dec 19 - Ten years ago, world leaders meeting in Copenhagen and arguing about how to verify the authenticity of greenhouse gas reductions were holding up the negotiation of a new global climate agreement.
9 Dec 19 - Ten years ago, New Zealand farmers were being told they could cut greenhouse gas emissions by keeping their cows indoors at night.
6 Dec 19 - Ten years ago, international climate negotiations in Copenhagen were split over a push by small island nations to limit warming to no more than 1.5deg – something more than half the world’s countries said they would not support.
5 Dec 19 - Ten years ago, hopes were high that a global climate agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol would be in place within six months.
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25 Nov 19 - Ten years ago, the Maori Party had won recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi in the Emissions Trading Scheme, along with the rights to 70 years’ worth of carbon credits from 35,000 hectares of State...
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17.1 = Simplicity will take you far
When in doubt, go for simplicity. Here are some shapes this rule takes in different circumstances:
== When in doubt about the gender of a noun, treat it as masculine. This is partly because probably 60% of nouns are masculine and 40% feminine, and partly because to native speakers a feminine noun treated as masculine sounds less ridiculous than a masculine noun treated as feminine. (The masculine is treated as normative; let's not get started on the politics of this.) While we're on the subject, here's a small useful trick for recognizing noun genders on the fly. If someone uses that noun in the direct plural, you're home free. If someone mentions two "X," you'll know that X is an unmarked masculine noun (one "X"). If you hear of two "X- e ", you'll know that X is a marked masculine noun (one "X- aa "). Similarly, two "X- en " means unmarked feminine (one "X"), and two "X- iyaa;N ") means marked feminine (one "X- ii "). (Unfortunately, this nice little technique doesn't work for the oblique forms.)
== When in doubt about the spelling of a word, use the simpler, more ordinary letters: for example, use ze instead of one of the other three, fancier "z" sounds. A simpler spelling, even if wrong, is less obtrusive (or confusing, or pretentious-looking) than a fancier spelling that's wrong.
== When you're not sure about an idiomatic expression, say something plain instead. Idioms and proverbs usually have to be exactly, word-for-word correct in order to sound good. Few things sound sillier than a mangled idiom or a misquoted proverb. Of course, you might want to amuse your listener(s), and also to have them teach you the correct form, so that prospect could make it worthwhile.
== When you're trying to express yourself in Urdu, NEVER frame what you want to say in sophisticated English and then ask yourself, "Oh dear, what is the Urdu word for ---- ?" Probably you don't know it or can't think of it, and there may in fact be no such precise counterpart word. And meanwhile, while you're turning all this over in your mind, the person you're trying to talk to has gotten bored with waiting and stopped listening, or maybe even sauntered away.
Instead, always ask yourself, what that is appropriate to the situation CAN I say? At a minimum, you can say achchhii baat or burii baat , or in a surprised way you can say, achchhaa, yih baat hai ? , or you can ask why the thing happened, or inquire what the other person thinks about the subject, or in a philosophical manner you can say haa;N aisii baate;N to hotii rahtii hai;N . For example, I found that people often used to ask me whether I liked America or India better. Eventually I worked out an irreproachable all-purpose reply. I would pause for a bit, then with an air of judiciousness I would say: har mulk me;N kuchh achchhii baate;N hotii hai;N , kuchh burii baate;N hotii hai;N . The other person would be obliged to nod sagely and agree.
And think of how you do it in English. Lack of a technical term would never stop you. You'd say "the thing you put your foot on to stop the car," or "the thing you hold over your head when it rains," or "when people ask for money to do bad things," or "the office where marriages are written down." You can do the same thing in Urdu. Make use of the simple words and basic grammatical forms that you DO know. Keep up your end of the discussion at all costs, lob the conversational ball back over the net somehow, and then the person you're talking with will be constantly supplying you with fresh vocabulary of just the kind you need. Don't hesitate to repeat a word and ask its meaning.
Preferably, have a little notebook with you and write it down too; or if you can't, ask the other person to write it for you. This turns any conversation into a practice session, and also reminds the other person that you're a learner, and enlists him or her in helping you. Most people are very willing informants, when they see that you're serious and respectful. In such situations, don't ask questions that use technical or grammatical terms. Asking about suitable examples works much better: kyaa ba;Raa kitaab kahte hai;N , yaa ba;Rii kitaab ? to discover gender, or kyaa la;Rkii ne dekhaa kahte hai;N , yaa la;Rkii dekhii ? to learn about transitivity.
Here's one more special suggestion for certain social situations involving food. People's hospitality can sometimes be extraordinary, and they just won't let you stop eating. (Many Hindus feel that they have a religious duty to feed a guest, and that duty doesn't seem to require that the guest should actually be hungry.) My teachers first told me that mujh se khaayaa nahii;N jaa))egaa was a particularly strong and emphatic refusal: it showed that you weren't just being refined and un-greedy, but actually meant business. But I found that it didn't always work (once in desperation I even tried to cover my plate with my hand to repel more food, but my host managed to put food on the plate between my fingers). So finally I found the ultimate weapon, and here I share it with you: "The doctor has forbidden it" [;Daak;Tar ne man((a kiyaa] (If you're curious about the small tense discrepancy here, see 19.3.) When accompanied by an ominous, sickly expression and a hand placed suggestively on the stomach, this has never been known to fail. Someday you'll be glad you know it!
In putting sentences together, no other grammatical forms are as simple, or as all-round invaluable, as postpositions. This means of course that you need to know the oblique forms of nouns and pronouns so well that they become second nature.
17.2 = In praise of postpositions
Prepositions do lots of the heavy lifting in English, but postpositions do even more in Urdu/Hindi. The number of simple, one-word ones in the whole language is minimal: ko , kaa / ke / kii , se , me;N , par , tak . (And of course, even they aren't really very simple; they all have complex lives that include not only literal but also extended and metaphorical uses.)
All the rest are compound, mostly with ke , like ke ba((d (after) and ke uupar (above). When you encounter a promising new one, cherish it: give it a special place in your notebook and your mind. You'll find a number of excellent, versatile ones in the list of "sentence organizers" in section 18.1.
Most postpositions simply take the oblique forms of nouns and pronouns, but the ubiquitous and indispensable ko family offers-- surely just because it's so close to the center of the language-- its own optional short forms for some pronouns: mujhe and so on. (Similarly in English, "do not" can become "don't," but "heed not" can't become "heedn't.")
But ko can't hold a candle to the set kaa / ke / kii , forms which appear everywhere all the time, sometimes in longish strings, and which often confuse learners more than they should. The way to get a handle on them is to think of them as the outcome of a mixed marriage: their father is a postposition, and their mother is an adjective.
That's why at the back end, through their shifting vowels, they operate like adjectives, displaying the three possible endings available to marked adjectives, aa , e , ii -- and displaying them, conveniently, in exactly the way that marked adjectives would display them (with aa going to e for both direct plural and oblique singular).
Meanwhile, at the front end, they operate like postpositions: nouns and pronouns before them go oblique. And in addition, they have a set of short forms that aren't even optional, but entirely compulsory: you're not allowed to say mujh kaa ever at all-- it has entirely withered away (or perhaps worn out) and been replaced by the shorter form meraa . And ditto for the related forms of course; this also applies to compound postpositions-- thus no mujh ke ba((d , but always and only mere ba((d . Just wrap your mind around these forms, and memorize them thoroughly, and use them without fail. They're not negotiable, and you don't want to sound like a moron by making mistakes of such a fundamental kind.
The unusual case of ba;Gair is one that you'll definitely run into, especially in older language. Here's a discussion, with Ghalibian examples: {59,1}.
Urdu/Hindi is notably poor in adverbs, so that lots of work done by adverbs in English is done by postpositional phrases in Urdu, usually with se ("from, with, by means of"): instead of "slowly" there's dhiire se ; instead of "wllingly" there's ;xvushii se ; instead of "forcefully" there's zor se ; and so on. Sometimes kar constructions are used instead: for "carefully" there's sambhal kar ; for "laughingly" there's ha;Ns kar ; and so on.
"Ghostpositions" of time and destination: The postposition ko is so commonly used for adverbial expressions of time, and direct-object expressions of destination, that in such cases it's colloquially omitted. My old friend and former colleague in the language program at Columbia, David Rubin, coined the perfect name for such cases: "ghostpositions," Thus for example consider "Last year she used to go to his house": pichhle saal vuh us ke ghar jaatii thii . Here pichhlaa saal , "last year," and "his/her/its house," us kaa ghar , have each gone oblique before an invisible but effective ko . The ko is a "ghostposition" because its hovering presence is established by its obliquifying effect (and its grammatical necessity). To actually say or write it wouldn't be wrong, but it would strike people as clumsy, redundant, and naive.
A "ghostpositional" baat : The possessive postposition kii has an extra trick up its sleeve. The abstract feminine noun baat -- meaning "Speech, language, word, saying, conversation, talk, gossip, report, discourse, news, tale, story, account; thing, affair, matter, business, concern, fact, case, circumstance, occurrence, object, particular, article, proposal, aim, cause, question, subject" (Platts p.117)-- is so utterly ubiquitous that it's very often colloquially omitted. So when you encounter a dangling kii , the odds are overwhelming that it's evoking a hovering, unstated, but still fully powerful-- baat . Ghalibian examples: {59,2}.
17.3 = Possessed by postpositions
In Urdu/Hindi, there isn't any verb that corresponds to "to have." (This of course is only an adventitious grammatical fact, and isn't evidence of any kind of anti-materialism.) Thus we're constantly, from an English point of view, improvising: instead of saying that we "have" things, we're using various postpositions to say that things and people are "to," or "of," or "near" us.
Possession of abstractions with ko : The usual way to "have" moral or emotional qualities (pride, shame, happiness, anger, hope, fear, etc.), or certain borderline mental/physical states (hurriedness [jaldii], lateness [der], business [kaam], necessity [.zaruurat], success [kaamyaabii], opinion [;xiyaal] etc.), or physical conditions (fever, headache, illness, etc.), takes the form of "X ko Y honaa," where X is the human subject and Y is an abstract noun for the state or quality.
Needless to say, the abstract noun then becomes the grammatical subject of the resulting sentence; the verb agrees with it in all cases, while the human "subject" (the experiencer) remains a mere recipient of the action of the verb.
In older texts, such ko constructions reign supreme; they strike you as how the essential genius of the language works. But the increasing pressure of English is now generating different kinds of variation: mai;N jaldii me;N huu;N , which now feels natural to many speakers, is an obviously literal translation of "I am in a hurry."
And of course, in particular cases there are longer-established variant forms as well: instead of us ko yih ;xiyaal hai , literally "to him is this opinion," we often see us kaa yih ;xiyaal hai ("of him is this opinion", or us kaa ;xiyaal yih hai ("of him the opinion is this"). Sometimes-- though really very rarely, compared to English-- an adjectival form is also possible: instead of us ko ;xvushii hai , literally "happiness is to him," we also find vuh ;xvush hai , "he is happy."
Possession of humans, etc., with kaa / ke / kii : The way one "has" relatives, children, friends, loved ones, etc., is with the possessives kaa / ke / kii . Usually the resulting constructions are quite straightforward: un kaa ek potaa hai ("of them is one grandson"), us ke do be;Te the ("of him/her were two sons"), us kii tiin be;Tiyaa;N hai;N ("of him/her are three daughters"). In constructions like this, of course, the grammatical subject of the sentence is the relative(s), while the "owner" of the relatives is the object of the possessive postposition. Thus one can't tell the gender of the "owner."
There's also a variant possibility for relatives-- one can also use a uniform masculine plural form: us ke tiin be;Tiyaa;N hai;N , un ke ek potaa thaa . To me, this standardization around masculine plural recalls the adverbial participal form; but even if it's taken as perfectly arbitrary, it will frequently be encountered, and it's formally quite correct.
The possessives kaa / ke / kii are also used for many other purposes, as a kind of "least marked" possessive form: us kii do gaa;Riyaa;N hai;N ("s/he has two cars"), un ke tiin kutte hai;N ("they have three dogs"), us kaa bahut paisaa thaa ("s/he had a lot of money"), us ghar kii mo;Tii diivaare;N hai;N ("that house has thick walls").
Possession of objects with ke paas : The basic meaning of ke paas , as a compound postposition, is "at the side (of), beside, alongside, near, about (the person, &c.), in the possession (of); at hand, close by, in the neighbourhood (of)" (Platts, p. 217). Thus as a form of possession it's used especially for things that are 1) relatively small; 2) under one's direct control. and 3) immediately available.
If a friend asks you, kyaa tumhaare paas aspirin hai? ("do you have any aspirin?"), and you say yes, your friend will expect you to promptly hand some over; if you say, "Oh, I meant that I have aspirin in the medicine chest at home," your friend will be exasperated.
Another illustration: it makes sense to say, jo kitaab us ke paas hai , vuh merii hai ("the book that is in his/her possession, is mine"), or to ask ((aadil kii kitaab kis ke paas hai? ("Who has Adil's book?"). Examples like these show the (to English speakers) readily comprehensible distinction between abstract ownership and immediate physical control.
17.4 = Compelled by postpositions
Moral obligation: The sense of "ought to" marks a kind of moral obligation that is, in Urdu as in English, deniable: it makes sense to say, "I ought to do X, but I'm not going to do it." In Urdu, this kind of moral obligation is expressed almost only by "X ko Y karnaa chaahiye," where X is the human agent, and Y karnaa is the content of the obligation. (The only other way I can think of to convey such moral obligation would be something like "Y karnaa X kaa far.z hai"; or in Hindi, "kartavya" gives the same sense.)
Thus chhaahiye deserves some special attention. Structurally, it's the polite imperative of chaahnaa , "to desire, want." You might think there could be a risk of confusion here, but in practice there isn't. For while you can say lots of other things involving chaahnaa , you'll never have occasion to say "Please want/desire" [chaahiye]. When you're offering something to someone, you can either say "Please take some" or you can say "Do you want some?". But to say "Please want some" is nonsensical. (As an undergraduate in philosophy, I remember my pleasure in reflecting on the paradoxical aphorism "you can do what you want, but you can't want what you want.") And while we're on the subject of chaahnaa , please note that vuh us ko bahut chaahtii hai means "she likes him/her very much," and not "she wants him/her."
Some speakers-- though a minority, as best I can judge-- pluralize chaahiye in plural contexts: us ko tiin saa;Riyaa;N ;xariidnii chaahiye;N ("s/he ought to buy three saris"). Others would produce us ko tiin saa;Riyaa;N ;xariidnaa chaahiye;N . [[EXPLAIN MORE ABOUT THIS]]
The ordinary "have to": The most common form of compulsion, the "least marked" one, is "X ko Y karnaa hai" ("X has to do Y"). In Urdu as in English, the range of this form is broad and the exact nature of the compulsion it invokes is unspecified. Normally, it's not deniable: in Urdu as in English, it would be odd to say that you have to do something but you won't do it.
Agreement is very commonly made: us ko tiin saa;Riyaa;N ;xariidnii hai;N ("s/he has to buy three saris"), un ko bahut-se makaan dekhne ho;Nge ("they will have to look at a lot of houses"), mujhe us ke ghar jaanaa thaa ("I had to go to his/her house").
External coercion: The most extreme form of (externally imposed) coercion is expressed by "X ko Y karna pa;Rtaa hai" ("X is compelled/forced to do Y"). The sense of pa;Rnaa includes "to fall to, to befall," with the same sense of fatedness and ineluctability as in English. It's not deniable: in Urdu as in English, it makes no sense at all to say "I am compelled to do it, but I won't do it."
Agreement is generally made: mujhe bahut kitaabe;N pa;Rnii thii;N ("I was compelled to read many books"); us ko ka))ii kaam karne pa;Re;Nge ("s/he will be be compelled to do a number of tasks").
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Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Abundances
Long-Term Annual Means with IPCC Scenarios
Figure in PDF. Figure with IPCC 2007 and 2013 comparisons in PDF. Data: CO2 (Data through 2018, Last updated 2019/03/06)
Recent Mauna Loa CO2
Figure in PDF (Data through December 2019, Last updated 2020/08)
Data Source: Dr. Pieter Tans, NOAA/ESRL (www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/) and Dr. Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/)
Recent Global CO2
Figure in PDF (Data through October 2019, Last updated 2020/01/08)
Data Source: Ed Dlugokencky and Pieter Tans, NOAA/ESRL (www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/) and Dr. Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/)
ERL (2013) Fig. 2 and PLOS ONE (2013) Fig. 6 Update
Annnual change of CO2 (globally since 1980 and at Mauna Loa before that) compared with the annual increase of the global mean surface temperature and Nino 3.4 temperature data. Figure in PDF (Data through October 2019, Last updated 2020/01/08)
"Burden" (2017) Fig. 6 Update
Left: Annnual change of CO2. Right: Correlation between the annual change of CO2 (using only global mean data) and annual change of the global mean surface temperature. Figure in PDF (Data through October 2019, Last updated 2020/01/13)
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Figure in PDF. Figure with IPCC 2007 and 2013 comparisons in PDF. Data: CH4 (Data through 2018, Last updated 2018/04/19)
Recent Global CH4
Figure in PDF (Data through September 2020, Last updated 2020/01/08)
Data Source: Ed Dlugokencky, NOAA/ESRL (www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_ch4/)
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
Figure in PDF. Figure with IPCC 2007 and 2013 comparisons in PDF. Data: N2O (Data through 2018, Last updated 2019/03/06)
Recent Global N2O
Figure in PDF (Data through August 2019, Last updated 2019/09/09)
Data Source: Combined Nitrous Oxide data from the NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division. (ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/hats/n2o/combined/GMD_global_N2O.txt)
Other Trace Gases
mixing ratios: 1900-1990 (2016/07/02), 1992-2018 (2019/12/10), 2015-2100 (2018/03/26).
Figure in PDF. (Last modifies 2019/12/10)
forcings: 1900-1990 (2016/07/09), 1992-2018 (2019/12/10) 2015-2100 (2016/07/04).
Recent Forcing and Its Growtha
Figure in PDF (Data through 2018, Last updated 2019/12/12)
Data source: NOAA ESRL HATS Total_Cl_Br, NOAA GMD HATS SF6 pages.
Greenhouse Gas Forcing Compared with Future Scenarios
Figure also available in PDF. Data through 2018. (Last modified: 2019/04/21)
Digital data for Scenarios A, B and C. The original figure is Fig. 2 in Hansen, Fung, Lacis, et al. 1988, "Global Climate Changes as Forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies Three-Dimensional Model", JGR 93, 9341-9364.
Greenhouse Gas Forcing Growth Rates
The curves are 5-year running means with 3-year running mean for 2015.
Figure also available in PDF. (Last modified: 2019/04/21)
The original figure is Fig. 4 in Hansen and Sato 2004, "Greenhouse gas growth rates" PNAS 101, 16109-16114.
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BY-LAWS OF THE DAKOTA R/T CLUB
The name of this organization shall be: Dakota R/T Club.
The purpose of this Club shall be:
1. To encourage and promote the admiration for and ownership, care and maintenance with safe and courteous operation of the Dodge Dakota R/T sport truck.
2. To serve as a medium for the exchange of ideas, information and parts for owners of the Dakota R/T, to aid in preserving these automobiles in their original likeness and to otherwise enhance every aspect of ownership.
3. To provide an organization for Club members to meet, socialize and maintain the spirit of good fellowship and to participate in activities including the use of their Dakota R/T.
4. To further the interest of owners and drivers of Dakota R/T’s and to promote the safety and enjoyment of motoring in all phases.
5. To operate in North America, within the scope of the applicable laws of the states and provinces therein.
6. The Club shall be a non-profit organization.
7. The Club shall be non-sectarian and non-partisan.
1. Regular Membership. A regular member shall be a dedicated Dakota R/T enthusiast who has paid annual membership dues to the club, and shall be entitled to participate in all activities, including voting and holding executive office.
2. Honorary Membership. An honorary member shall be an individual whose particular efforts on behalf of Dakota R/T’s are exceptional and noteworthy. An honorary member shall be nominated by the floor and accepted by a majority vote of a quorum of members.
3. Dues will be broken into 2 levels. $15.00 per year or $30.00 per year. $15.00 gets you club membership to include ability to vote in club business, participate in club meets, and purchase club swag at a discount. You will receive an electronic copy of a welcome letter and membership card. $30.00 per year includes the same benefits with the addition of printed and mailed welcome letter, club member card, and club T-shirt or other swag for that year.
On going dues are due and payable each year in the month during, or immediately following, the "good through" month and year of each individual member. New member dues paid will cover the member for the following 12 months. Dues become delinquent one month after the "good through" date.
4. Those members who paid their dues prior to 01 MAY 2000 shall be entitled to be designated as Charter Member on any Club identification, although in no other respects will their rights and privileges be more extensive than those granted to non-charter members.
5. In order to operate their vehicle at any Dakota R/T Club organized event, members must:
- be in possession of a valid driver’s license.
- have possession of public liability and property damage insurance on their Dakota R/T, or other evidence of personal financial responsibility in either the minimum amount required by the state or national government in the amount of whichever is greater.
6. The executive board is hereby granted the exclusive power and discretion to reject applications or abolish the membership of any person, to include non-paid members who use the forum. Such action shall be taken by this executive board as a group, and validated by a simple majority vote of the board. If a membership is terminated, the member forfeits all benefits to include membership dues.
7. A banned member may petition the board for reinstatement after 1 year. Reinstatement requires majority vote of board and paid members. In order to hold a vote, 2 board members must approve of the motion.
8. Spouses and or significant others to include life partners of current paid club members, may purchase a secondary membership at a $5 discount. ($10 for membership only, granting voting rights) or $25 to receive membership card, swag, etc.)
EXECUTIVE BOARD AND ELECTIONS
1. The executive board shall be made up of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and 14 Division Representatives.
2. A board member must be an active member in good standing.
3. Term of office shall be for two years and no one shall serve on the executive board for more than four consecutive years in any one position.
4. Nomination and election for board members shall be made during the months of September to November of each year, and will be conducted in the DRTC forum.
5. Division representatives shall be nominated and elected by the regular paid club members of that division only. Nominations and elections will take place in the DRTC forum, in the special "election subforum". The President or Vice President will preside over these nominations and elections, and monitor the vote. In the event that the election results in a tie, the President, Vice President, and Secretary will each cast a vote. The Secretary will validate the election.
6. The 4 executives (President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer) shall be nominated by the paid membership and seconded by an elected rep. The election will be conducted in two parts. Each of the seven divisions will hold a vote of paid members only. The division representatives will preside over the election with the secretary confirming validity of votes. The candidate receiving a simple majority of votes cast within each divisional election will receive 1 vote in the executive election; for a total of 7 votes. The executive board will hold an election separate from the divisional elections. The results of this election will be made public after the election is over; in order for the membership to see how their elected executives voted. The President will preside over all nominations and elections, and monitor the vote. The Secretary will validate the election.
7. No executive board member shall obligate or commit the club financially or otherwise without board approval.
8. Each member shall have one vote in any business relating to the club.
The duties of the President shall be:
1. To issue the call for all regular and special meetings.
2. To preside over all meetings.
3. To schedule regular elections and ensure that they are held in accordance with the by-laws.
4. To delegate authority and responsibility as necessary to accomplish the purpose of the Club.
5. To implement, administer and explain the policies of the Executive Board.
6. To act as Ex-Officio member of all committees.
7. To represent the Club at national meetings.
8. To carry out the wishes of the Executive Board.
The duties of the Vice-President shall be:
1. To perform, in the absence of the President, all of the duties of the President.
2. To assist all committees chairs.
4. To vote in all mandatory Executive Board polls.
5. The Vice-President will report directly to the President.
The duties of the Secretary shall be:
1. To record and maintain the minutes of the meetings.
2. To supervise all records of the Club.
3. To validate all executive board member elections.
5. To perform such other duties that, from time to time, may be specifically assigned to him or her by the President or Vice President.
6. The Secertary will be report directly to the Vice-President.
The duties of the Treasurer shall be:
1. To collect dues and any other income of the Club.
2. To handle all incoming mail.
3. To maintain the Club accounting books and accounts.
4. To make regular reports of the Club’s financial condition.
5. To issue checks, and payments, to be approved by two of the executive officers.
6. To maintain the club's liability insurance policy.
7. To report to the IRS the club's non-profit status by filling out form 990-N.
9. To perform such other duties that, from time to time may be specifically assigned to him or her by the President or Vice President.
10. The Treasurer will report directly to the Vice-President.
The duties of the Committee Chairmen shall be:
1. To chair committees that are made up of members.
2. The following committees shall exist: Nominating, Program, Risk Management, and Finance.
3. The Program Committee Chair shall report directly to the Treasurer, and is responsible for planning all National Events, and offer assistance in the planning of Regional and Chapter Events if asked for by a Region or Chapter. The Program Committee Chair shall work close with the Risk Management Chair.
4. The Risk Management Chair shall report directly to the Treasurer, and is responsible for making sure that the Club carries a proper insurance policy. This Chair and Committee shall also approve all Events be it National, Regional, or a Chapter.
5. The Nominating Committee Chair shall report directly to the Secretary, and is responsible for making all Nominations to the Board. These Nominations shall be of those that are members of the Club.
6. The Finance Chair shall report directly to the Treasurer and is responsible for deciding Cost of membership, accruing Sponsorships, and seeking ways to best spend the money of the Club.
Duties of the Division Representatives shall be:
1. To represent their divisional area, advising the board of all activities or concerns of their region.
3. To promote new and renewing memberships in their division.
4. To act as spokesman to their division members on behalf of the Executive Board.
5. To perform such other duties that, from time to time may be specifically assigned to him or her by the executive board.
6. The Division Representatives shall report directly to the Vice-President.
Planning Guide:
The Executive Board shall complete by 01 October 2000 a Planning Guide that will be followed by all members. This Planning Guide shall include at minimum: A complete guide on how to organize an event, and a guide to be used to make budgets for National, Regional, and Chapter purposes. This planning guide will be a sub-part of the by-laws. Therefore, the by-laws will not need amended after the planning guide is completed to allow for the planning guide.
1. The time and place of the meeting shall be designated by the President.
2. Written notice of all meetings shall be given to each member in good standing prior to the meeting.
3. At all regular or special meetings, the active members in good standing who remain in attendance shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
4. All Club business will be approved or rejected on the basis of a majority of votes cast by the members present at any scheduled Club meeting.
5. All meetings shall be conducted in accordance with *Robert’s Rules of Order of Business*.
6. Any member of the Executive Board has the right to ask for a meeting when they deem it necessary.
AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS
These by-laws may be altered, amended or replaced by a two-thirds vote. Each division will hold an election for paid members of that division, of which a simple majority of votes cast will result in 1 vote per division in the executive board election. The results of the election held by the executive board will be made public after the conclusion of the election.
Proposed alteration, amendment or replacement shall be presented to the membership prior to elections to facilitate discussion.
ADOPTED (date)______________(Officer signatures will need to appear on this document)
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I tried watching to and that guy annoys the hell out of me! That truck is a POS he couldnt even do a burnout with it when he 1st got it!
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That dude is retarded, his videos aren't watchable to anyone with an IQ above a sea horse. He couldn't build a lego car with laminated instructions, and
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Best Pace to Purchase a OEM Preferably New O2 Sensor, 2000 Dodge Dakota 5.9 R/T ??
You are thinking of Dan Bennett. He is still working at a Dodge dealership, but not selling wholesale anymore. If you are in the Mt. Vernon area he is
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I got mine from rockauto also.
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Ken grew up in a world of violence. He mastered the martial arts at a very early age and went on a global tour to challenge the greatest Street Fighters of the world. He was victorious. Upon returning to his home country he enroll- ed at Bargham University and began his life study in the field of Cybotics. While at Bargham, he was befriended by a gifted classmate named Troy. After many years, they perfected a revolutionary discovery they named Cyboplasm.
This substance, when properly administered, could make a man several times stronger than normal. This came at a good time, for mankind had just perfected travel to the "frontier" of other worlds. Ken had no interest in traveling to the new frontier, but he was glad their invention could be helpful.
One day he came to their lab and found it nearly destroyed. His partner Troy was killed, and their formula was stolen. The killer escaped to the new worlds. Ken knew he must avenge his fallen friend. He now has a very keen interest in the frontier...
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Ramsgate 2 - 2 Corinthian-Casuals
Match report and photos: Stuart Tree (full set of pictures here)
Corinthian-Casuals let a two-goal lead slip at Ramsgate on Saturday, ensuring more work needs to be done to guarantee a playoff place in the Bostik League South.
First half goals from Max Oldham and Harry Ottaway gave the visitors the lead but Ramsgate struck back in the 56th minute from the penalty spot and equalising with less than ten minutes remaining.
“There’s always goals in this fixture,” I worriedly predicted, after the previous three seasons had seen sixteen goals shared between the sides. Last season’s dramatic 4-3 win was as tough as they come on the heart and previous to that, Casuals had let a two-goal half-time lead slip to lose 3-2 on a windy Wednesday evening.
Casuals came without a win to their name in three, though Cray, Walton and Lewes were hardly the three you’d pick as three-point bankers. Ramsgate were on a run of reasonable form having won five of their last eight matches. Southwood a notoriously tough place to raid for precious points.
The visitors began bright, with Oldham heading home from a Josh Uzun corner on 17 minutes – the ball apparently moving in slow motion before finally crossing the line.
Corinth then had to soak up some sustained pressure as Ramsgate pumped balls into the box on a continual basis. Gareth Williams called into action on occasion, expertly tipping one over.
Despite this, the lead was doubled when Ottaway latched onto a perfect through ball and calmly finished. It was a classic counter-attack and appeared to deflate the hosts. Everything was positive at half-time.
The second half was a stark contrast to the controlling first. Despite having half chances to further extend the lead, Ramsgate were given a lifeline when a foul on the edge of the box saw Aaron Millbank step up. Casuals’ keeper Gareth Williams got a hand to the shot but was unable to keep it out.
Josh Uzun came closest for Casuals when his delicate lob left Luke Watkins stranded with only the crossbar making a last ditch intervention.
But on 81 minutes the comeback was complete when Ramsgate broke and a cross into the box saw Rory Smith head home to level the scores. Jamie Byatt and Ottaway both had good chances to re-take the lead but in the end it was Gareth Williams who had to make a superb last ditch save in added time to prevent Casuals coming away pointless.
Whilst James Bracken’s side were unable to take all three points, playoff rivals Walton Casuals suffered a defeat meaning Corinth require four points from their last three matches to guarantee a playoff position.
"It feels like a loss to me,” admitted Bracken after the match. “We’re 2-0 up at half-time. We know it’s never a safe score. You need to do certain things right when protecting that lead. We haven’t done that.”
“I’m beyond frustrated with it. We’ve been incapable of carrying out my instructions in the last few games. They’re simple things that need to be actioned to win a game of football. If they’d done the basics, they won’t score. It’s falling on deaf ears continually, so it’s deeply frustrating on my part. If they listen to me, we’ll win every game.
“We do need to remember that we’ve played good sides these last few weeks and haven’t threatened the goal nearly enough. Not enough shots, not enough goalmouth action. Today we scored two and had five or six other good chances. We’ve hit the bar and their keeper has made a couple of good saves. We were much better as a forward threat but badly let ourselves down with poor defending.
“Is the glass half full or half empty? At the moment, I’m not sure. I’m not going to dress things up for our boys. They need to listen, do what is asked and have a desire to defend as well as attack. They need to do what is necessary on the pitch. That might be a horrible 50 yard recovery run against someone with pace. We haven’t had enough of that recently and we need to address that quickly.
“We still need to secure our playoff place. There are three games left and a lot can go wrong. On the flipside, a lot can go right. So we need to make sure come Saturday, we’ve got the right team selections, the right tactics in place and go win. We do that, we’re in decent shape.
“Two massive home games now, because Hythe Town away on the last day is not a game you want to be going into needing something to secure a playoff spot. They’re on a fantastic run at the moment so we need to make sure next Saturday is nothing else but three points. We need a win by hook or by crook – whatever is necessary in order to get a positive result.
“If we come up short, then it’s clear we aren’t good enough. I believe we are good enough, but the boys need to quickly look at themselves and realise what I’m saying is right. If they do that, then we can secure playoffs, go into the semi-final confident and win the whole thing.”
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Forum Our forum goes from strength to strength, now with almost 350 members and 140,000 posts. One of the more successful features is our role playing section; we have role plays for both Trek and other science fiction universes like Warhammer and Star Wars. Particularly popular is the USS Daystrom role play, which has been running for more than a year now with a dozen active members and literally dozens of characters. Originally yet on the Akira class USS Daystrom, this role play has expanded into a small fleet of ships ranging from Klingon cruisers to Romulan warships and even a new class of Federation Battleship. On top of that the Daystrom role play features the original creation of a Federation Marine force, to show how a real military unit would fight in the Star Trek universe! All are welcome to join in the Daystrom or other role plays, just join the forum and come stop by!
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Apple iWatch To Be Retailed Around $300
Snehal Parikh — June 11, 2014
Investment firm, UBS, believes that the upcoming “iWatch” from Apple is expected to become a best-selling device with consumers, reaching sales similar to the iPad. UBS said in the note to the investors that Apple could sell 21 million smartwatches in the first year alone, and 36 million iWatch units in the second year.They have predicted the price tag of $300 for the anticipated wearable device.Overall, the iWatch is expected to give substantial growth to the shares of Apple.
“We are more confident that Apple will be introducing the iWatch before the holiday season following WWDC’s introduction of HealthKit, recent healthcare hirings, the acquisition of LuxVue Technology, and optimistic comments from Eddy Cue at the Re/Code Conference,” UBS analyst Steven Milunovich wrote in the note, which was picked up by AppleInsider.
UBS also reported that the iWatch will add $6.5 billion in revenue to Apple’s bottom line in 2015, and $11 billion in 2016. The firm concluded that the iWatch will sell better units than the iPad.
“We expect iWatch sales to roughly track iPad unit sales — similar penetration rates would mean higher sales,” he said. “iWatch might do better because the customer base is larger than when iPad launched and the ASP might be less. On the other hand, iWatch is the first product to be worn, which might not appeal to all users.”
Cupertino-based tech company is falling under pressure to come up with a wearable device that would either match or overpower what competitors are offering. As WWDC 2014 is approaching soon, Apple has already placed much investment in health monitoring functions by incorporating such features in the recent iOS 8 software update.
The iOS 8 unveiling might have coincided with iWatch development, which uses the health functions similar to what was mentioned earlier. At this time, iWatch actual specs — if there are any — remains sparse. Even so, more information may be available in the following months leading up to the iWatch’s eventual inauguration sometime later this year.
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NCAA Draft Prospects High School
Nike Hoop Summit Team USA Player Recap (Part One: the Guards)
O.J. Mayo, 64, PG, committed to USC
20 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 turnovers, 2 steals, 6-12 FGs, 6-6 FTs, 2-5 3-Pt
O.J. Mayo has been up and down on the spring all-star game circuit, looking phenomenal in the McDonalds practices all week only to lay an egg in the game, but bouncing back with an MVP performance at the Roundball Classic. So it was nice to see a Hoop Summit performance from Mayo that fell in between the two extremes. Mayo didnt do anything in this game to distance himself from the rest of the 2008 challengers, but he did lead Team USA in scoring. There was an occasional rushed shot, but the 4/5 Ast/TO ratio he was credited with in the box score doesnt accurately describe the impact Mayo was able to make with his passing.
While Mayo still doesnt provide the unrelenting lock-down defensive presence that his Hoop Summit backcourt mates do, this is an area that Mayo has clearly made strides in over the past year. He has worked on moving his feet effectively, and has started becoming more physically aggressive as well. This really showed itself in the practices as well, where Mayo was matched up against Derrick Rose much of the time and aggressively contested Rose at every opportunity.
Mayo has always been a phenomenal anticipator, and this really shines through now that he is putting forth adequate effort as a team and half-court defender. Mayo may never be a feared defender, but this was one weak point that needed to be cleared up before his NBA career begins. Looking at the defensive development of players like Gabe Pruitt and Nick Young since Tim Floyd arrived at USC, it is a safe assumption that Mayos year as a Trojan will only help him continue to develop here.
As for the offensive side of the ball, Mayo was his usual dominant self. It was nice to see him take the ball hard to the basket several times early in the game, where he went up strong and drew contact instead of attempting to avoid the defense and come up with a spectacular finish. Mayo got to the foul line six times, and has all the tools necessary to become a volume free throw shooter at the NBA level. He continues to show the ability to create offense just about anywhere, converting on one particularly fancy drive and leaner in the lane and whipping highlight reel passes to open teammates for finishing opportunities on countless occasions.
In terms of shooting, there were several times where Mayo could have pulled the ball back out instead of firing away early in the shot clock, but it was interesting to note that several of these quick shots were taken with Team USA big men headed into the lane and in good position for an offensive rebound. Mayo gets fabulous elevation on his jumper and is capable of pulling up off the dribble at any time when defenders will already be on their heels because of his explosive slashing and passing abilities. When he gets that midrange jumper going, NCAA defenses might as well just give up.
Mayo didnt get much of a chance to showcase his point guard abilities with all of the ball-handlers on Team USA, and he has never really proven his ability to control a game as a floor general in this type of setting. There can be no denying his elite level court vision, however. He sees the floor at a level that cant be taught, and has a special flair for the dramatic pass that is very rarely seen on any level. While his tendency to fire up quick shots has been well-documented by just about everybody, his ability to thread the needle in the blink of an eye often gets overlooked. He is a constant threat to burn a defense, and loves to throw the no-look pass in the lane after a series of dribbles when everybody is expecting a shot to go up. Mayo certainly will dominate the ball at times, but it is hard to see him not emerging as an all-around offensive force in an NBA that is still quite isolation-happy.
2007-2008 Outlook: People putting out pre-preseason All-America teams and not including Mayo just arent thinking clearly. Mayo is an instant 20-5-5 presence, and you can be sure that Tim Floyd will find a way to make the most out of his immensely talented recruit both in terms of Mayos development, and the overall success of his program. There is a lot of uncertainty out there about exactly who will be suiting up for the Trojans in the fall, but the return of Gabe Pruitt or Nick Young to go along with Mayo, Daniel Hackett, Davon Jefferson and Taj Gibson would make USC worthy of a preseason national Top 5 billing and would probably give Floyd the best team of his NCAA coaching career. As far as the draft goes, Mayo isnt on a different level compared to the other 2008 Top 5 hopefuls in the way that Oden and Durant were this year, but his NBA eligibility will still give league bottom feeders plenty of reason to think about tanking come next spring.
Derrick Rose, 63, PG, committed to Memphis
8 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 turnover, 4 steals, 4-5 FGs, 0-0 FTs, 0-1 3-PT
The statistics dont appear to be particularly impressive, but make no mistake about it Derrick Rose impressed in this game. He isnt going to dazzle the crowd on a regular basis the way that O.J. Mayo is, but that isnt because he lacks the talent. Few point guard prospects have emerged in recent memory with Roses size and vertical explosiveness. Rather, Rose doesnt force the issue when it comes to his offense or individual accomplishments, period. He focuses on making his teammates better, and winning basketball games. So even if Rose wont be receiving accolades for his eight points and 4 assists in this contest, his impact on this game was huge just like it will be at Memphis this fall.
Rose made his mark early in this one, coming up with a series of steals and deflections in that allowed Team USA to blow the game open almost immediately after the opening tap. While International floor general Petteri Koponen handled the US pressure very well, his teammates werent prepared for Roses cat-like defensive strikes in the backcourt. Opposing guards didnt bother trying to put the ball on the floor against him, and his strength all but neutralized whoever he was guarding.
It was almost hard to get a read on Roses dominance in the open floor, because of the speed with which he turned transition opportunities into points with a crisp lead pass or explosive open floor finish. He finished with four steals and four assists, but could have really filled up the box score if he wasnt so willing to give up the ball early in transition.
The Memphis-bound floor general, hounded all week by local media and fans eagerly anticipating his arrival next fall, still has one critical weakness his outside shot. Teams arent going to defend him honestly in the half-court until he gets rid of that awkward release from the side of his body, and while he knocked down open looks fairly consistently in practice, he took (and missed) just one outside shot in the game. If he ever gets to the point where he is comfortable seeking out his own offense from the perimeter, things are going to get really scary, really fast.
While Derrick Roses recruitment was every bit of high-profile with the presence of his brother Reggie and the involvement in Eric Gordons situation, Rose has won his admirers by doing the little things that every pro-level point guard must learn how to do at some point. His game is shockingly complete and quietly lethal, a stark contrast from the way Rose has often been portrayed by the media. The relentless, near machine-like efficiency with which he goes about running a team is quite rare to see in a point guard so young, making Rose a prized commodity even without the spectacular athleticism and other natural gifts. He just never lets up, a trait that has led many to compare Rose with Jason Kidd. After watching the future Tiger in action for the better part of a week, it is hard to argue with that comparison.
2007-2008 Outlook: Derrick Rose is about to take the nation by storm, and so are his Memphis Tigers. It was fascinating to watch a young Memphis team come together over the latter half of the season, with the guards playing an unselfish brand of basketball that really hadnt been seen since John Caliparis arrival. With few anticipated losses from last years elite eight squad, it just doesnt seem fair to add a player like Rose to an already formidable mix. If this group plays the way it did in March and Rose fits in the way that he should, this is a team with Final Four written all over it. With all Greg Oden and Kevin Durant did for their respective teams, it could be Rose that picks up the Carmello Anthony banner and leads his team to a national title as a freshman. Rose could probably be starting for plenty of NBA teams right now, so expect a spot in the Top 5 of the 2008 draft to follow shortly thereafter.
Jerryd Bayless, 62, PG/SG, committed to Arizona
15 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 turnover, 5-10 FGs, 4-7 FTs, 1-3 3-PT
Bayless wasnt particularly impressive in the practices leading up to last weekends Hoop Summit game, but that makes sense considering his competition. Not many players are going to out-quick and out-jump Derrick Rose and OJ Mayo. Bayless had to put everything he had into just keeping up, which left him pressing on his jumper and less than involved mentally. But the Arizona-bound combo guard came put on a much better show on Saturday when matched up against less physically dominant opponents. The full range of Bayless appeal was on display, from the outstanding elevation on his jumper and ability to penetrate to a handful of rim-rocking open court dunks and some impressive defensive potential.
Bayless had it going from the outset, spotting up for an outside jumper and getting loose in the open court for a rousing windmill dunk that really got the crowd into it. While the presence of his talented teammates kept him from really going off, he would still get into the lane for the occasional acrobatic score. Bayless doesnt have the physical maturity of a Rose or Mayo, but is still an accomplished slasher and already elevates like an NBA player when it comes to his jumper. His first step is lightning quick, and he knows how to hang in the air to draw contact.
He didnt get much of a chance to run the team either, though it appears that this would be the one area he must firm up before his NBA aspirations can begin in earnest. He isnt a very polished ball-handler at the moment, and prone to the occasional unforced miscue. This is something that could be quickly resolved in Arizonas up-tempo system, but it could take some time before he is ready be Lute Olsons full time floor general.
The one area where Bayless certainly impressed was on the defensive end. He has yet to entirely fill out his frame, but he already moves his feet quite well and isnt afraid to get physical. He did a great job of recognizing where he stood in matching up against the taller International group of wings, and was able to successfully draw several charges by cutting off drives in isolation situations. This type of defensive awareness and intensity is just what the doctor ordered for an Arizona program that has struggled on that end of the floor in recent seasons.
2007-2008 Outlook: Bayless might not be an immediate impact star on the level of Mayo or Rose, with the depth and talent of the Arizona backcourt and the fact that he still has some maturing to do in terms of his body and his floor general tools. But he fits in quite well with Arizonas up-tempo brand of basketball, and should be able to match the freshmen seasons of recent Wildcat standouts like Marcus Williams and Chase Budinger, both in production and overall impact, without much trouble. At the moment, expect Bayless to be a 2-3 year player. If he adds a bit more strength, polishes up his point guard skills and is willing to bide his time for a feature role within Lute Olsons system, Jerryd Bayless will someday find himself in the green room.
Jonny Flynn, 511, PG, committed to Syracuse
2 points, 10 assists, 2 turnovers, 3 steals, 0-3 FGs, 2-2 FTs, 0-1 3-PT
Jonny Flynn might have been the least-known player on the Team USA roster headed into the event, but those who watched the game saw a player who was absolutely deserving of his spot. He did a great job of pushing the tempo and exploiting Team USAs athletic advantage, continually pestering International guards on the defensive end and almost always finishing a fast-break or ball-handling foray by setting up a teammate for an open look.
Flynn finished the game with 10 assists, and really made an impact with his ability to set up his teammates in transition. The International team had no guard capable of keeping in front of him defensively, and Flynn was content to exploit this by kicking the ball to a teammate upon drawing help. He clicked particularly well with future Syracuse teammate Donte Green, finding the fluid athlete both in transition and in the half-court on several occasions. His ability to hound the international guards into turnovers and generally disrupt their offense, combined with unselfish play and relentless pushing of the tempo on the offensive end, meant that there was little visible drop-off in play when Team USAs second unit entered the game.
In terms of weaknesses, Flynn still has a ways to go as a scorer. He isnt a complete liability as a shooter, but has work to do with the mechanics and consistency of his jumper. Flynn is lighting quick off the dribble, but hasnt shown the ability to be a big time scorer/slasher in the half-court just yet.
2007-2008 Outlook: It should be interesting to see how Jim Boeheim utilizes his electric young floor general. Flynn should infuse the Syracuse perimeter rotation with a much-needed dose of toughness, but Flynn belongs at the head of a pressure-based defensive scheme, not sitting back in a zone. If Boeheim insists upon keeping the ball in the hands of Eric Devendorf and playing Flynn on the wing in his zone the way that he did with Paul Harris this past season, it may be hard for Flynn to make the type of immediate impact he is capable of. But all Xs and Os aside, Flynn is the type of player who should emerge as a 4-year standout at Syracuse, with a good chance to someday take his game to the NBA.
Nolan Smith, 62, PG/SG, committed to Duke
It wasnt a particularly impressive showing for the Duke-bound combo guard, but is that really a surprise given the amount of talent on the US roster? Smith was invited to be a part of this team to be a role-player, not a star.
As far as positives, Smith scored his four points on a nice slashing move from the wing, and converted a thunderous put back dunk early in the second half. Smith didnt stand out as an athlete in this group, but is going to be Dukes most explosive backcourt performer from day one. He has a mature, muscular frame and the athleticism to effectively break down defenses off the dribble on the Division One level. Smiths outside shot wasnt clicking in this game, but he gets plenty of elevation on his mechanically sound jumper. It should be a serviceable weapon for him at Duke.
In terms of running the offense, there was no opportunity for Smith to show off what he can do here. He was the third ball-handler for the US team virtually at all times, but Smith has proven in the past that he can run a team well enough for what he will be asked to do at Duke.
2007-2008 Outlook: Smith isnt going to be featured on any mock drafts anytime soon, but that doesnt mean he wont have an impact in the ACC next season. In fact, Duke is desperately in need of a player with Smiths skillset. The Blue Devils were missing that athletic, defense-minded ball-handler with the graduation of Daniel Ewing and Sean Dockery the past two seasons. Expect Nolan Smith to play early and often in 07-08.
O.J. Mayo PG/SG
Derrick Rose PG
Gabe Pruitt PG
Nick Young SG/SF
Daniel Hackett PG/SG
Davon Jefferson PF
Taj Gibson PF
Petteri Koponen PG
Eric Gordon SG
Jason Kidd PG
Greg Oden C
Kevin Durant SF/PF
Jerryd Bayless PG/SG
Marcus Williams SF
Chase Budinger SG/SF
Eric Devendorf SG
Paul Harris SF
Nolan Smith PG/SG
Ferro Carril Oeste
Daniel Ewing PG/SG
Sean Dockery PG
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Review: Evita @ Liverpool Empire
William Shakespeare it was who noted that reputation is ‘oft gained without merit, oft lost without deserving,’ During last night’s performance of Evita at the Liverpool Empire these words from Othello kept running through my mind. How very true, thought I as I nibbled away on my peanut M & Ms.
So what on earth would Shakey (William not Stevens) have made of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s monster show? Not a lot, I’ll wager.
Evita. It’s a bit of an icon, up there with The Lion King et al, a show to see before one croaks. Reputation, reputation, reputation. There’s that song about Argentina too, you know the one. It’s a West End smash, a global hit, amazing, fantastic, unmissable etc. etc.
So when yours truly took up his regular seat in the sumptuous Empire auditorium I did so expecting to be whisked away to the sultry, sexy Buenos Aires suburbs of the 1940s where I would be regaled by a rags-to-riches story of an actress who became a national icon.
I would gasp in awe at the beauty of this story, weep at the tragedy, glower at the injustice. Blimey, this was going to be a night to remember. Armed with my supply of M & Ms (grapes sold out) I took my seat.
And therein the problems began.
Right from the very off there was something not quite right about this production. It wasn’t the cast, it rarely is. For the first ten minutes of this show a sombre funereal air prevailed. They had come to bury Eva Peron, an entire nation in mourning. It was a perfectly executed scene, palls, priests and choirs.
But oh how it went on, and on and on. Starting at the end and working backwards is a standard tactic of the dramatist, only you don’t really want or need to hammer the point. This scene, large, lavish and sombre would have in fact made a perfect…ending!
And so it went on. Full on. Evita is a typical Lloyd-Webber production – it’s frenetic and with its insistence on assailing the ears, it’s very, very loud. If you miss some of the narrator’s parts half-sung, half-shouted (Che Guevara?) then like me, you could well find yourself struggling to keep up.
Noise however is not the biggest problem with this production. If only it were. With the exception of Don’t Cry for me Argentina, the quality of songs is rather disappointing, which might explain why the Don’t Cry motif is repeated through the show. Essentially, this is a one hit show.
And it just gets worse.
If you’re going to create a musical about a tragic heroine then said heroine has got to exhibit some pretty special qualities, right? As a minimum I want to experience her presence, charisma, and yes maybe her flaws too. I want this heroine to be larger than life, to compel, to dominate the stage. After all this is a story of a remarkable woman – so give me a remarkable woman!
Perhaps it was me, but I failed to see such a woman on the Liverpool Empire stage. What I did see was a rather ordinary actress with a musical theatre smile and a tendency towards the old jazz hands school of acting. Not entirely her fault. There’s very little in the way of charisma or indeed fragility for any actress to get to grips with here.
One minute she’s in a Buenos Aires club, one peculiarly lacking in any sort of ambience, and the next minute she’s wooing El Presidente! Whirlwind romance I guess you’d call it.
So what of that dusky, sultry Buenos Aires of the imagination, the place of throbbing, stabbing tango rhythms? Precisely. What of it?
With a set that starts off bright and bouncy and ends up…bright and bouncy, Eva’s journey from the peasantry to the presidential is rather, er… bright and bouncy. No menace here, nor any passion. Nor any drama. Lloyd Webber’s script/book is curiously devoid of drama.
So will Eva get her man? Well, yes actually.
And all the time that noise! A Shrill, shrieking cacophony of voices. I found myself praying for something to happen, fire alarm, act of God, something, anything to make it stop. After a while, numbed by the chaos on stage I started to consider plans to renovate my conservatory.
All of which I guess just goes to show reputation is indeed ‘oft gained without merit.” Don’t believe the hype.
Review: Zabriskie Point (1970)
Upon its cinema release Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film Zabriskie Point proved to be a commercial flop. Panned by the critics, this weird and wonderful film proved to be a painfully expensive failure for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studio.
Recently however the film has undergone somewhat of a critical re-appraisal and rightly so. Cult status calls.
Casting a couple of unknowns in the lead roles is the first of many masterstrokes by Antonioni. Mark Frechette (Mark) was apparently talent spotted on the streets while the movie would also signal the first screen role for female lead Daria Halprin (Daria).
The resulting interplay is an intriguing brew of minimalism, naturalism and improvisation. Indeed it’s the sheer unprofessionalism of the lead performances, as raw as they are un-hammy, which draws the viewer ever deeper into this film.
Add into the mix some stunning cinematography of the Nevada Desert and Death Valley, a soundtrack comprising the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones and you what have is a simply astonishing cinematic experience.
From the moment the camera pans around a university campus meeting room, an ever changing perspective that picks out myriad faces of would-be revolutionaries, you just know this film is not going to play by the rules. The camera jerks from student to student urgently attempting to follow the line of debate. Unsettling, unusual, Zabriskie Point sets out its stall.
It is within this chaotic scene that Mark declares his boredom with traditional student politics as well as his intention to die for the cause if necessary.
Thus we are pitched deep into late 1960s American counter culture. Think Kerouac meets the Graduate meets Easy Rider. A college demonstration that goes horribly wrong when a policeman is killed sees Mark on the run. But did he pull the trigger?
Meanwhile in its glossy headquarters an American corporation is planning to build a synthetic holiday resort in the desert. Using a marketing plan that is just surreal, company employee and embryonic-hippy Daria is on her way to meet the big boss in his sumptuous desert lair.
In one of many sequences that fully exploit the vast Nevada desert having commandeered an airplane, and in arguably cinema’s strangest ever courtship ritual, Mark swoops precariously over Daria as she drives down the freeway.
It’s lust at first sight. Not long after hooking up this beautiful couple are indulging in some of that Californian free love we hear so much about. The desert love scene in which Mark and Daria are joined by ever more copulating couples is a scene to behold. Sun, sea, sand (lots of sand) as you could never have imagined.
Their moment of passion past it is time for the couple to part. Mark is determined to fly back his plane, to face the music. A death wish? Has the young malevolent decided to make good on his promise to die for the cause?
Daria is thus left to drive to the corporate den of her big-time capitalist boss, a potential den of iniquity. Mourning the brief moment of freedom she enjoyed, Daria is a changed girl. The desert lair repels.
Pure Warhol, the film’s final sequence caps this visual delight magnificently. It’s a 10 minute pop art video, disturbing, surreal, psychedelic.
An interesting footnote to the film concerns the fate of leading man Mark Frechette. The troubled young man would later go on to be sentenced to a jail term for his part in an armed robbery. Two years into his sentence he would die tragically when a weight-lifting bar crushed his windpipe.
Even the back-story to this film is something else! Extraordinary. Quite extraordinary.
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Board index ‹ EDUCATION AND DEGREES ‹ Unaccredited Programs
Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica
Discussions on the value or merit of unaccredited programs and institutions.
Re: Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica
by jstrazzeri@live.com » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:44 pm
Those three degrees are for Costa Rica only.
Outside of Costa Rica they are authorized to grants degrees such as Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates.
You may contact Dr. William Zamora for more information.
E-mail: info@unem.edu
I do not have anything else to say to you.
jstrazzeri@live.com
You do not have all the information.
Those three degree are for Costa Rica only.
According to my knowledge UNEM has the authority to grant degrees outside Costa Rica Only such as Bachelors, Masters and doctorates.
This is a separate entity from Ministerio de Educacion Pública de Costa Rica:
UNEM is authorized (by Asesoría Legal del Ministerio de Educación No. ATJ-167-CONESUP) to operate internationally and to grant Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates Degrees with International Agreements with others universities (Outside Costa Rica only).
If you need more information you may contact Dr. William Zamora
by Gus Sainz » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:19 pm
jstrazzeri@live.com wrote: Outside of Costa Rica they are authorized to grants degrees such as Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates.
You claimed to be a graduate of “Empresarial University of Costa Rica.”
You said the name on your degree was “Empresarial University of Costa Rica.”
Is “Empresarial University of Costa Rica” a different and separate entity from Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica?
I ask because Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica, only has authority to issue the three degrees previously mentioned. If your degrees are from a different entity called “Empresarial University of Costa Rica,” where is it located and from whom does it derive its degree granting authority? If your alma mater is a distinct and separate entity, why do you keep referring to Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica’s authority to grant degrees?
On the other hand, if your degrees are actually from Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica, why do you persist in claiming they have the authority to grant any degree it wants outside of Costa Rica? Since it wasn’t CONESUP or the MEP (not that they could), WHO granted them this authority?
I ask you these questions, Dr. Strazzeri, because as a faculty member at a regionally accredited U.S institution (based on your degree from “Empresarial University of Costa Rica”) and an "expert" on credential evaluation who maintains his own Web site (see HERE) promoting such services (albeit one claiming “accreditation” from the eminently dubious AAHEA (see HERE), you should be well versed with these issues.
Gus Sainz
by jstrazzeri@live.com » Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:34 pm
Do not confuse things.
Empresarial University of Costa Rica is the same of Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica
UNEM is authorized to grant degrees from a separate entity called: Legal Department of the Costa Rican Ministry of Education.
UNEM is authorized by (Asesoria Legal del Ministerio de Educación No. ATJ-167-CONESUP) to operate internationally and to offer international programs and to grant Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates Degrees with International Agreements with others universities.
THIS AUTHORIZATION IS FOR OUTSIDE COSTA RICA ONLY.
jstrazzeri@live.com wrote: Do not confuse things.
¡Ay Caramba!
Listen, doctorcito (sorry for the Cantinflas reference—my mother made me watch all his films when I was growing up), Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica has the legal authority to only grant THREE degrees. This legal authority is an institutional authority, and, as a Costa Rican institution, applies everywhere in the world.
The Asesoria Legal del Ministerio de Educación No. ATJ-167-CONESUP that UNEM cites so often is not an AUTHORIZATION so much as an EXCEPTION. It basically states that UNEM cannot not offer any other degrees in Costa Rica, but if it wants to market other degrees outside of the country, it must be done in conjunction with another legitimate, duly authorized, institution. In other words, UNEM may provide the means and the instruction, but the degree itself and oversight must come from the other institution. Neither CONESUP nor the MEP can authorize anything outside of Costa Rica.
In other words (at the risk of repeating myself), any degree issued by Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica aside from the aforementioned THREE, according to CONESUP, is fraudulent. Mr. Zamora chastised the previous owners for engaging in this subterfuge (he characterized it as fraudulent and dangerous), but, according to you, it seems he is continuing this practice.
by devilsadvocate » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:41 pm
I found the attached PDF posted online. The acceptance of the university seems very interesting. Wow, NACES too.
http://www.rt3s.com/Canada_Revenue_1.pdf
Re: Interesting Reading
devilsadvocate wrote: Hello Folks,
Acceptance should be great for the THREE degrees (B.A. Business, B.A. Accounting, M.B.A.) it is authorized to issue.
Any other degrees issued by Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica aren't legitimate. Hell, they aren't even legal.
Article 8 of Costa Rican law 6693-81
by devilsadvocate » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:05 am
For Everyone's Information
Article 8 of Costa Rican law 6693-81 establishes that "once its operation has been authorized, any private university shall enjoy total liberty to develop its academic activities and curriculum as well as its study plans and the establishment of degree programs" (Conesup decree No. 270-98; official English translation issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Costa Rica). Appearance of a degree on the "Carreras Aprobadas" ("Approved Careers") list published by the Consejo Nacional de Educacion Superior (Conesup) does only indicate that a given degree is recognized as entrance qualification to a specific professional career. This however does not diminish the validity of any degree, awarded by a fully accredited private university, which does not appear on the list.
Re: Article 8 of Costa Rican law 6693-81
by Gus Sainz » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:22 am
devilsadvocate wrote: For Everyone's Information
I’m sorry, devilsadvocate (how appropriate), but it seems your aren’t familiar with Costa Rica, its laws, CONESUP, or the Ministerio de Educación. Are you even fluent enough in Spanish to navigate their Web sites and understand what you read?
What you just quoted was an anonymous entry in a pseudopedia. If you consider this an authoritative source, take a gander at THIS. Guess which institution isn’t listed as a private university in Costa Rica?
That’s right. Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica isn’t even listed.
by jstrazzeri@live.com » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:48 am
Thanks to Mr. Harley for your support.
I do teach Spanish as an Adjunct Faculty, one subject only.
I did not know about this law from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Costa Rica.
UNEM is a fully accredited private university. UNEM is listed in the majority of websites lists of Costa Rican Private Universities. UNEM is listed in the world list of private universities.
They do not have a full list of the private universities because they are so many, they listed the biggest private
universities. UNEM is very small.
Thanks again to Mr. Harley.
by Gus Sainz » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:13 am
jstrazzeri@live.com wrote: Thanks to Mr. Harley for your support.
This is not surprising since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Costa Rica never issued such a law (not that they could).
But enough about Empresarial. Why don't you tell us how you think Century University is also a great institution?
by jstrazzeri@live.com » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:21 am
To: Mr. Gus Sainz, Administrator
You called me doctorcito and I let you know that my degree cost me 3 and a half years to get it. To study online it takes more work and more effort than traditional school. You must be autodidact and very responsible. I am 59 years old and I have been living in 4 countries and I have been in school all my life and I have 7 degrees.
I wish a very nice evening.
jstrazzeri@live.com wrote: I am 59 years old and I have been living in 4 countries and I have been in school all my life and I have 7 degrees.
I do not doubt that you have worked very hard for your degrees. I have heard that many times before.
How many of your degrees are from Century University and how many are degrees from Empresarial (that aren't one of the three they are authorized to issue)?
by Hungry Ghost » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:34 am
I see that European-American University is claiming that it's "validated" by Universidad Empresarial.
http://www.thedegree.org/accreditation.html
That page says:
All degree programs of the University are reviewed and validated by the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica (UNEM). The Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica has been accredited by the Consejo Nacional de Enseñanza Superior Universitaria Privada (CONESUP) of the Ministry of Education, Costa Rica, since 5 November 1997, and is listed in the International Association of Universities International Handbook of Universities. Graduates of an EAU program can go on to obtain a dual degree award from UNEM without further academic requirements, on payment of a validation fee.
That despite the fact that the Costa Rican authorities have only accredited three local Empresarial business programs, while E-A-U is awarding its own advanced degrees in all kinds of things ranging from theology to music.
What Empresarial is doing right now kind of reminds me of what was happening with MIGS a few years ago, except that this time it seems to be even more brazen.
by Rich Douglas » Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:49 am
Unless I'm missing something--and I've been looking at Empresarial for a veeeeeerrrrrrryyyyyy long time now--what we have is a MIGS-type situation. The school has a very limited degree-granting authority, but its national government really doesn't care what it does outside the nation's borders. So, it rents its name and degree-granting ability to people in the U.S. who run their programs and award--in this case--UNEM degrees. It is practically legal--Costa Rican authorities apparently don't care--but the situation won't stand scrutiny. Graduates are banking on a lack of scrutiny--usually a good bet. When I discovered MIGS' shenanigans, I contacted Florida authorities. They pressured MIGS to apply for state licensure or to shut down. MIGS shut down. William Zamora operates(ed) UNEM's doctoral programs from the U.S.
Degrees awarded by whatever means outside the ones UNEM is approved to offer are illegitimate. But who really checks such things?
Rich Douglas
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ENFLURANE SUMMARY
Enflurane, USP, a nonflammable liquid administered by vaporizing, is a general inhalation anesthetic drug.
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Enflurane may be used for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. Enflurane may be used to provide analgesia for vaginal delivery. Low concentrations of enflurane (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION) may also be used to supplement other general anesthetic agents during delivery by Cesarean section. Higher concentrations of enflurane may produce uterine relaxation and an increase in uterine bleeding
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Comparison of effects of anaesthesia with desflurane and enflurane on liver function. [2009.01]
INTRODUCTION: Although most general anaesthesia procedures are performed without any complications, volatile agents may have adverse effects on various living systems. This study aimed to compare the effects of desflurane and enflurane on liver function... CONCLUSION: Subclinical hepatic injury after anaesthesia continues to be an issue of interest, particularly with the development of new, more sensitive methods of measuring GST levels. The increase in GST concentration after anaesthesia is thought to be a result of reduced hepatic blood flow. This study has shown that desflurane has fewer effects than enflurane on liver function tests in lengthy operations of up to 330 minutes.
The effect on the recovery profile of a change from enflurane to desflurane during the latter part of anaesthesia. [2008.09]
This study compared emergence and recovery characteristics after either enflurane anaesthesia or crossover from enflurane to desflurane anaesthesia. At an estimated 1 h prior to the end of operation, enflurane was either reduced (group E, n = 23) or replaced with desflurane (group X, n = 23)... We conclude that, during surgery, the substitution of enflurane with desflurane in the latter part of anaesthesia can improve recovery.
Myocardial metabolism altered by ischemic preconditioning and enflurane in off-pump coronary artery surgery. [2008.06]
OBJECTIVE: During off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) surgery, the heart is subjected to ischemia and reperfusion. The authors hypothesized that the volatile anesthetics are as effective as ischemic preconditioning (IPC) in preserving myocardial function during off-pump cardiac surgery, and this effect is because of multiple mechanisms of action. Therefore, the effects of enflurane with its calcium inhibition and antioxidative properties were compared with mechanical IPC in preserving myocardial cellular markers... CONCLUSIONS: Coronary occlusion during OPCAB surgery results in increased production of ischemia-related metabolic products. The application of methods such as IPC or volatile anesthesia appears to reduce the metabolic deficit, free-radical production, and physiologic changes.
Enflurane requirement for blocking adrenergic responses to incision in infants and children. [2008.02]
BACKGROUND: Enflurane is one of the most commonly used inhaled anesthetics in China, but its requirement to block adrenergic responses after skin incision in pediatric patients is still unknown. This study was to determine the minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration (MAC) of potent inhaled anesthetics required to blunt the adrenergic response to skin incision of enflurane (MACBAR) in infants and children... CONCLUSIONS: MACBAR of enflurane in infants older than 6 months is similar to that in young children. The MACBAR of enflurane decreases with co-administration of fentanyl in the pediatric population.
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Vasodilation Effect of Inhalational Anesthetics [Completed]
Previous studies on animals suggest that inhalational anesthetics can reduce vascular tension in vitro resulting in vasodilation and decrease in blood pressure. This role for inhalational anesthetics has essential clinical implications such as the condition of sepsis or septic shock or other shock-associated states during which the blood vessel constricts strongly and leads to circulation dysfunction. The vasodilation property of these anesthetics including halothane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, desflurane and enflurane enables them to be better options than other general anesthetics in many clinical conditions needing the vasculature to be dilated. The investigators hypothesized that these inhalational anesthetics can evoke vasodilation measured with ultrasonography during general anesthesia in vivo as the in vitro studies displayed.
Desflurane and Its Effect on Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Surgery [Completed]
Desflurane and its effect on postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing thoracic surgery. Halothane, enflurane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane are volatile anesthetics, a group of general anesthetics. Because of the hypnotic effects of these agents, attention has mainly focused on the central nervous system. In the last 10 years, however, numerous studies have reported that volatile anesthetic agents interact with membrane structures of the myocardium and thereby attenuate cardiac mechanical dysfunction and limit ultrastructural abnormality on reperfusion after prolonged ischemia in the myocyte. Anesthetic-induced preconditioning has become a main topic in cardiac research worldwide
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Sevoflurane and Isoflurane - During Cardiopulmonary Bypass With the MECC System (Minimized Extracorporeal Circuit) [Completed]
The use of volatile anesthetics in cardiac anesthesia is very common, because of their cardioprotective effects and their ability to ensure a sufficient depth of anesthesia. In line with the development of fast track concepts in cardiac anesthesia, volatile anesthetics are widely used to avoid a delayed recovery from cardiac surgery and anesthesia. Volatile anesthetics are delivered from calibrated vaporizers in the anesthesia machine or the cardiopulmonary bypass machine (during extracorporeal circulation). Isoflurane and Sevoflurane are the most commonly used volatile anesthetics in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The vaporizer of the anesthetics is on the cardiopulmonary bypass machine and the volatile agent is blended with air and oxygen. Until now, the pharmacokinetics of halothane, enflurane, isoflurane and desflurane during CPB have been described. Sevoflurane might be of advantage because of additional myocardial protective effects during cardiac anesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass. However, the pharmacokinetics of sevoflurane during CPB have not been investigated so far, although its being used at many hospitals. The investigators will conduct a randomized prospective study with either sevoflurane or isoflurane during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. The study will help to answer the questions about the possible cardioprotective effects of the widely used volatile anesthetics and the hemodynamic stability during cardiopulmonary bypass. Knowing the pharmacokinetics of these drugs allows the anesthesiologist to titrate the volatile anesthetics more precise. The investigators hypothesizes that the maximal postoperative increase in troponin T will be smaller in the sevoflurane group than in the isoflurane group. The investigators hypothesizes that the total amount of noradrenaline needed during the entire period of cardiopulmonary bypass will be smaller in the sevoflurane group than in the isoflurane group. The investigators hypothesizes that kinetics of washin and washout at the CPB will be faster in the sevoflurane group than in the isoflurane group. The investigators hypothesizes that the time to extubation, respectively the length of stay in intensive care unit and hospital is shorter in the sevoflurane group than in the isoflurane group.
Local Anaesthetic Day-Care Haemorrhoidectomy Challenges Traditional Concepts - a Randomised Controlled Trial [Completed]
Background: Local anaesthetic day-care open haemorrhoidectomy (LH) is feasible, cheap and may be the cost-effective surgical approach to third degree haemorrhoids. This prospective randomised controlled trial compares patient's evaluation of LH with general anaesthetic day-care Park's modified Milligan-Morgan haemorrhoidectomy (GH). Methods: 41 patients with third degree haemorrhoids were randomised to LH (19 cases) and GH (22 cases). Demographics were comparable. Independent assessment (by a research nurse) and clinical evaluation ran parallel for 6 months. Outcome measures were average and expected pain scores for 10 days; satisfaction scores at 10 days, 6 weeks and 6 months. Secondary outcomes were journey time and cost in day surgery.
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