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" OH MY OHIO: Cuyahoga County Election Director Resigns! New SoS Requests Audit of Blackwell, Shredded Documents! "
OH MY OHIO: Cuyahoga County Election Director Resigns! New SoS Requests Audit of Blackwell, Shredded Documents!
Big Doings in the Buckeye Today...
By Brad Friedman on 2/6/2007, 3:48pm PT
Blogged by Brad from the road...
As is too often the case, the proverbial shit seems most likely to hit the erstwhile fan whenever we're on the road and unable to cover the splatter sufficiently. This week has been no exception.
There is much movement in Ohio today as Michael Vu, the Election Director for Cuyahoga County, where two Election Officials were convicted two weeks ago of having rigged the 2004 Presidential recount, has now finally resigned from the Board of Elections after what is hopefully his last failed election.
The official BoE statement generously says: "Michael Vu has chosen to pursue future career growth and will resign as director of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections March 1 of this year."
In related news --- and speaking of failed elections and "future career growth" --- the office of the new Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, has now officially requested an audit of the SoS's office over the last two years as it was led by the corrupt former SoS and democracy-hater J. Kenneth Blackwell.
In addition to the $80,000 in bonuses given to employees on the way out the door, and the $250,000 settlement Blackwell agreed to concerning the 2004 Election last December (as we reported two weeks ago), Brunner expressed a new concern in her hand-delivered letter to the Republican State Auditor Mary Taylor: Shredded documents.
As reported today by the Columbus Dispatch:
Brunner cites five major concerns that prompted her request, including the revelation that a member of her transition team witnessed "many shredding machines in operation" while Blackwell was in office — and those machines are no longer in the office.
"We hope that this does not affect your ability to perform the complete and thorough audit that we request," Brunner wrote.
Blackwell shredding documents?! We're shocked! Shocked!
Article Categories: Election Irregularities, Election 2004, J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio, Election 2006, Election Fraud
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"OH MY OHIO: Cuyahoga County Election Director Resigns! New SoS Requests Audit of Blackwell, Shredded Documents!"
(14 Responses so far...)
... big dan said on 2/6/2007 @ 4:01 pm PT...
...he better check out the "future career growth" opportunities....IN THE SLAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Vu: If you're reading this, click here
-> www.careerbuilder.com
...it says there's great future growth opportunities in the slammer in: License Plate Making, Chef (tossing salads), and Laundry.
... allie said on 2/6/2007 @ 4:16 pm PT...
Kenneth Blackwell has always been at the base of the stolen election of '04 and now people are realizing it - big time! He had an obvious 'conflict of interest' in being State SOS as well as the State Director of the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign. The handwriting should have been on the wall in that it was Ohio (where infamous Diebold of the touch-screen corrupt voting machines are manufactured) that swung the election from Kerry to Bush. Anyone with more than a room temperature IQ knew something smelled rotten in Ohio. And that "something smelling rotten" is none other than the illustrious and soon-to-be-indicted Kenneth Blackwell. Dirty deeds produce prison time and Blackwell's time is right around the corner.
... Grizzly Bear Dancer said on 2/6/2007 @ 5:46 pm PT...
scum of the earth.
These tumors on American Democracy cannot go to jail soon enough for stealing 2004?
... Botany said on 2/6/2007 @ 6:20 pm PT...
@ 1:09 AM on 11/3/04 the exit polls showed
female voters 53 to 47 % Kerry to bush
male voters 51 to 49 % Kerry to bush
Jennifer Brunner will not continue to cover up the
theft of the 04 election. She was a judge w/ a specialty
in election law.
Very soon all of us "conspiracy freaks" will look a
whole lot smarter.
... angle said on 2/7/2007 @ 9:28 am PT...
Soon-To-Be-Indicted Blackwell.
Bless you for that lovely thought.
... Ambercat said on 2/7/2007 @ 9:39 am PT...
The Vu story is irrelevant. Until Chairman of the board of directors of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections Bob Bennet, not coincidentally the chairman of the state Republican Party, resigns, he'll just find himself another Michael Vu, an obedient bureaucrat afraid not to do his bidding.
On the other hand, Ken Blackwell....oh where does one begin? Investigate, Jennifer, investigate! Let's make those Kenny-in-the-slammer dreams come true! Yeah, I was SOOOOO surprised that he was shredding documents following his humiliating defeat in the governors' race in November. That must be why he was too busy to call Jennifer and work with her on the transition process.
I will be interested to see what auditor Mary Taylor's response is. She was the only Republican to survive the wipeout of the GOP from statewide offices — and just barely. She can keep her nose clean, do her job and come out smelling like a rose. Or she can continue to follow the Republican game plan of ignoring corruption while stretching rules to enrich herself and provide an easy target in 2010. So far, she seems to be leaning toward the latter - go figure!
... brantl said on 2/7/2007 @ 10:06 am PT...
I'll bet you Kenny boy's pale now!
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
... Former Buckeye said on 2/7/2007 @ 11:43 am PT...
Political corruption in Republican-dominated Ohio is as American as apple pie and the 4th of July. Think Grant, Hayes, McKinley & Harding.
... Larry Bergan said on 2/8/2007 @ 12:15 am PT...
Let me guess.
Michael Vu has been offered his old job in Salt Lake City.
Don't worry Michael, just cause you couldn't make it in Ohio doesn't mean you can't be safe here.
... phil said on 2/9/2007 @ 4:08 am PT...
When the hell is someone going to *SHREAD* their friggin security clearance and their future in government?! hmm?
... Dredd said on 2/10/2007 @ 5:44 am PT...
Deja Vu all over again ...
... alans said on 2/11/2007 @ 2:35 am PT...
The convicted morons were democrats not republicans stop the kool-aid go round. You ass wipes wouldn't know the thruth if it hit you in the head. Start the crying now when a republican wins again in 2008 maybe then by the election you'll stop the whining. But I doubt it!!!
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XENISTHMIDAE
Xenisthmus
Chi Wriggler, Xenisthmus chi Gill & Hoese 2004
Chi Wriggler, Xenisthmus chi. Source: A. Gill & D. Hoese, 2004, Records of the Australian Museum, http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1428. License: All rights reserved
A very rare wriggler with about 11 brown mottled cross-shaped markings along the sides between the pectoral-fin and caudal-fin bases.
Dianne J. Bray, Xenisthmus chi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 23 Jan 2020, http://136.154.202.208/home/species/1212
Endemic to Australia and known only from Clerke Reef at Rowley Shoals in the Timor Sea.
Meristic features: Dorsal fin VII, 12; Anal fin I, 11; Vertebrae 26.
Predorsal area broadly scaled to just behind vertical through posterior edge of preopercle, a narrow median wedge of scales extending further forward almost to pore D; posterior nostrils without a flap on anterior rim.
Overall pale with brown reticulate mottling forming about 11 cross-shaped markings along the sides, between the pectoral and caudal-fin bases.
Xenisthmus chi Gill & Hoese, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus. 56: 242, fig. 1. Type locality: Clerke Reef, Rowley Shoals, Timor Sea, WA (17°18'S, 119°20'E).
Allen, G.R. & Russell, B.C. 1986. Part VII Fishes. Pp. 79-103 in Berry, P.F. (ed.) Faunal Surveys of the Rowley Shoals, Scott Reef and Seringapatam Reef, northwestern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 25: 1-106 (p. 100 as Xenisthmus sp 2)
Gill, A.C. & Hoese, D.F. 2004. Three new Australian species of the fish genus Xenisthmus (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 241-246.
XENISTHMIDAE Wrigglers
Max weight:2.2 cm SL
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After 400 years of commercial trading, there are, overall, more furbearing animals today than back when Europeans came to North America. In fact, there are more beaver in Canada than anywhere else in the world. Once near extinction in some parts of North America, wild mink population have rebounded due in part to pelts supplied by mink farming. Trapping is used for species reintroductions, for example B.C. and Yukon trappers are credited with helping re-establish lynx in Colorado. Trapping is used to protect other species by curbing predation, resulting in greater survival rates for prey species. Trapping is also used for wildlife conservation research.
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Canada’s fur trade contributes nearly $1 billion to the Canadian economy, and more than $800 million in exports . (2013)
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The Institute’s trap research program has provided expertise and access to technical information to numerous countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Argentina, New Zealand, Norway, Finland, Chile and Russia.
The first modern day fur farm was Canadian
The first mink farming attempt in Canada took place during 1866-87 in Richmond, Ontario. The world’s first modern day fox farm opened on Prince Edward Island in 1895. Fur farming moved from North America to Europe in the early 20th century.
Mink and fox have now been farmed for well over 100 years. This represents many generations of captive breeding (over 2,500 years in human terms) and these animals are now considered by animal scientists to be domesticated animals. If sent into the wild most would not survive.
Professional trappers follow plenty of rules
Professional trappers have to be qualified and licensed to trap for any purpose in Canada.
Trapping is monitored by government biologists and furbearer managers. Each province and territory has a wildlife management plan that is met through regulations and enforced by law.
Trappers must harvest within government set limits or quotas. Harvest levels can be adjusted both by changing the length and location of hunting/trapping seasons as well as by setting minimum and maximum limits on the number of animals that can be taken in a given season. Poaching is a crime in Canada.
Trap lines must be registered and catches must be reported. In all provinces, trap lines must be checked at least daily by law.
Under provincial/territorial regulations, only scientifically tested and approved traps for named Canadian species may be used.
New traps are better for the animals
According to animal scientists, measuring and interpreting distress levels in any animal, including people, is complex and difficult. Scientific data on the affects of trapping on furbearing species is limited but the research that has been done to measure the behaviour and physical responses of different species showed that most animals tested were 1) only moderately stressed by a trapping experience, 2) that stress indicators may vary but none appeared life-threatening.
Research with some species such as squirrels, rabbits and fox has also shown that stress, although not normally excessive in either case, may actually be more acute in cage traps than limb holding traps.
Today’s traps are also less likely to cause injury and discomfort. The use of modern soft-catch (padded) limb holding traps or encapsulated (enclosed) foothold traps together with mandatory trap line inspections significantly reduces injuries and resulting animal discomfort and distress.
Experienced trappers say that under proper circumstances most wild animals caught in limb holding traps only make efforts to escape until they realize that they are securely held and will then settle down. This observation is supported by the existing research.
Rarely will an animal attempt to injure itself in a cage trap or restraining limb holding trap. This may occur in rare situations where a trap has been used improperly or illegally.
Trappers need to pass an exam
The first step in becoming a trapper is to take a course in fur management. Subjects include; population dynamics, biology, regulations, trapper safety and humane trapping techniques.
Trappers must pass an exam to get his or her provincial/territorial trapping licence. In Canada, a trapper’s license is required to practice trapping for any reason including for pest and disease control and for wildlife conservation.
A well managed farm produces top quality fur
Most farmers raise animals because they enjoy working with them. However, farming is more than a way of life. It is also a business and a fur farmer’s livelihood depends on producing high quality pelts.
Just as with our household animals, the condition of a furbearer’s coat is one of the clearest indications of the care it is receiving. Poorly cared for animals produce poor quality pelts which receive a lower price at auction, if they sell at all.
Fur farming is also well regulated both through provincial laws, Best Management Practices and Codes of Practice. This helps ensure fur farms are environmentally responsible and provide healthy, safe conditions for the animals.
In some provinces fur farms must be licensed and all Canadian farms are subject to provincial animal and environmental protection laws.
Canadian furs are the envy of the world
Canada ranks third in the world for fur production, behind the United States and Russia, but first for the quality of furs produced. Buyers from around the world attend Canadian fur auctions and marketing events each year.
Canadian farmers sell 137 times more fur than wool. In 2011 the farm value of wool was $1.6 million. Canada’s total farm sales of fur was $224.5 million that same year.
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10 Best Alternatives to Steam for Buying Cheap PC Games
To begin with, Steam is a digital distribution platform. Valve corporation is behind the development of Steam. It offers DRM, online multiplayer gaming and social networking services. Key features include in-game voice chat, community features, Installation and automatic updates.
Well, one can not argue that Steam is leading the market of online gaming. When it comes to Distributing PC games digitally, It is an undisputed champion. Steam has completed over 2 Billion game sales. However, there are very bold and worthy alternatives of Steam, some of them are even DRM free. In this list, we discuss 10 best alternatives to Steam.
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GOG Galaxy.
On a serious note, This is a game changer. It could give Steam a run for its money. GOG stands for “good old games“, and as the name suggests, it provides an extended catalog for older games that are not usually found on other platforms. One of the key features is that it is 100% DRM free. Which means, you can download the self-contained packages for the game so you won’t even need to authenticate it with other services. You can download it and even share it with your friends. Also, you may copy it to an external USB stick or Hard drive. It has lesser restrictions and gives the user a choice to play online or offline. Once downloaded, you can run a game on your computer without an internet connection.
This gaming website keeps on coming up with deals now and then. Sometimes it can offer like Summer sale which gets hard to resist. You could even find big titles like Watch Dogs, DOOM, etc. It is a U.K based retailer and boasts a massive catalog of over 5200 games. GMG is definitely worth a try.
Heaven! It is an Indie game heaven. If Indie gaming is your style, then Itch.io is your ride. You get a massive catalog having over 58,000 games. Most of which, are free. As it is a platform to support Indie game development, some big names from the gaming industry could be absent.
Origin game client, Big games, huge discounts. Origin is famous for providing massive discounts which are on par with Steam, during the holiday season. You can easily find Huge Titles like FIFA 2017, Battlefield etc. If you want all the Big names and light prices, ORIGIN is the destination for you. Beating steam with its pricing strategy, this can save a good amount of money if you grab the opportunity at the right time.
You must have heard about it. It is famous for its DRM free “Pay what you want” game bundles. You will often find some game deals around the corner, percent of which goes to charity. Humble is focused on building a stack of Indie and small publisher games, but you can find Big titles also. This website offers some cool exclusive indie games that are not usually found anywhere else.
Windows Game Store
It is quite surprising to find this on Windows 10. Yes! Windows 10 comes with a built in game store. While you cannot expect much from this store, you can find some PC versions of popular mobile games. Also, few titles can share achievements and save points across Xbox and PC. It is not of much use, But it is already there on your PC if you have Windows 10.
Ubisoft is a well-established brand in the world of gaming. Ubisoft has come up with a DRM platform Uplay. It is quite similar to Origin, But unlike Origin, Ubisoft offers its release on other platforms like Steam as well. Also, you can trade your unit rewards with discounts on games on Storefront.
Oneplay
Oneplay has to offer a Web Store like interface. Offering you a windows client dedicated to downloading games directly from the company’s system. Well, it has a unique concept of game rentals, you could rent a game for 30 days and play it. However, not all the games are available for rent now. It also provides a monthly VIP subscription for USD 10 per month which allows you to select games from its extended library of Indie and older games.
Even though its collection isn’t as great as other services, It has a unique concept. It has unique “Blue coin System” through which a customer can earn Blue coins on every purchase and by participating in the GamersGate’s community. Blue coins can be used for any Digital purchase on the site. Though it’s not as popular as steam, it is a viable alternative as it provides you to spend the digital cash earned through the website to make in-game purchases or purchasing new content from the website itself.
Direct2drive
Direct2drive offers Direct download on most of the titles, it is pay and download right away.
The company also offers DRM activation on Steam, Uplay etc. It also offers pre-orderable games for purchase.
Though this company is not owned by IGN anymore it definitely has not deviated from its core too much. Well, this is unique in its own way and is definitely worth a look.
So here was the list of 10 best gaming clients like steam or best alternatives of steam. Well, now that you know that there are options available, don’t procrastinate to check them out for yourself. There is a cheap PC games download for you ahead.
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Movie Review: ‘PETER AND THE FARM’ – a vivid character study
Preston Barta // Editor
PETER AND THE FARM
Not rated, 91 min.
Director: Tony Stone
Cast: Peter Dunning
To call PETER AND THE FARM a documentary seems ill-defined. While it chronicles the year in the life of a Vermont farmer, what makes this film greater than how its plot reads on paper is its subject, Peter Dunning, and how filmmaker Tony Stone (SEVERED WAYS: THE NORSE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA) shares his story.
After the film’s oddly compelling opening shot from the perspective of a car’s hood as it drives down a winding country road, we are introduced to Peter, a farmer who’s initially is presented as a nearly 70 year old man with a big white beard who’s determined and works hard. Soon, we learn of Peter’s pain and his psychological issues through the stories he shares and the harsh conditions he faces.
There’s a poetic way in which Peter reveals his past and an organic way in which Stone captures it. Never does it feel as though Stone is prying information out of him. Everything comes out naturally through some sort of action or event, whether it’s working with a saw to learn of how Peter lost his hand or observing drawings to learn how Peter thinks and operates.
PETER AND THE FARM may not be the easiest of watches for the casual filmgoer – especially those who are sensitive to see what happens on an actual farm – but to anyone who is fascinated by tales of truth, this film will highly engage you.
Through this intense character study we don’t simply observe Peter through his everyday challenges, we participate. As an audience, it’s our job to fill in the gaps with whatever we deem fit. This structure elevates the material beyond what it so easily could have been a sad sob story, but Stone makes it a story of candor without rose-tinted glasses or a Hollywood makeover.
PETER AND THE FARM opens this weekend in limited release, but is available on various digital formats.
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Hello, there! My name is Preston Barta, and I am the features editor of Fresh Fiction and senior film critic at the Denton Record-Chronicle. My cinematic love story began where I was born: off planet on the isolated desert world of the Jakku system. It's there I passed the time scavenging for loose parts with my good friend Rey. One day I found an old film projector and a dusty reel of the 1975 film JAWS. It rocked my world so much that I left my kinfolk in the rearview (I so miss their morning cups of green milk) to pursue my dreams of writing about film. It wasn't long until I met two gents who said they would give me a lift. I can't recall their names, but one was an older man who liked to point a lot and the other was a tall, hairy fella. They got me as far as one of Jupiter's moons where we crossed paths with the U.S.S. Enterprise. Some pointy-eared bastard said I was clear to come aboard. He saw that I was clutching my beloved shark movie and invited me to the "moving pictures room" where he was screening the 1993 film JURASSIC PARK to his crew. He said my life would be much more prosperous if I were familiar with more work by the god named Steven Spielberg. From there, my love for cinema blossomed. Once we reached planet Earth, everything changed. I found the small town of Denton, TX, and was welcomed into the Barta family. They showed me the writings of local film critic Boo Allen. He became my hero and caused me to chase a degree in film and journalism. After my studies at graduate of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I met some film critics who showed me the ropes and got me into my first press screening: 2011's THE GREEN LANTERN. Don't worry; I recovered just fine. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was only four years away.
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[Drama 2019] Item, 아이템
By 0ly40, September 10, 2018 in k-dramas & movies
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MBC’s upcoming Monday-Tuesday drama “The Item” revealed stills of Joo Ji Hoon as prosecutor Kang Gon.
Based on the popular webtoon of the same name, “The Item” will tell the story of a man and a woman that set out to uncover the secrets behind several mysterious objects with supernatural powers. Joo Ji Hoon will star as Kang Gon, a hot-headed prosecutor who becomes entangled in the mystery while attempting to save his beloved niece, and Jin Se Yeon will star as Shin So Young, a talented criminal profiler who remains perfectly composed even when faced with the most horrific of crime scenes.
Joo Ji Hoon, who received much love for playing various characters, is taking on the role of prosecutor for the first time through “Item,” which is drawing keen attention from the viewers. Although prosecutors have been appearing frequently in dramas, the viewers are interested in what kind of unique character Joo Ji Hoon will create with his skillful acting. On top of that, they are looking forward to Joo Ji Hoon’s fantasy acting, which is expected to shine in the drama as well.
In the released stills, Joo Ji Hoon looks completely immersed as Kang Gon, the man who is passionate about justice. From suits to a prosecutor robe, his outfits add another realistic tweak to his character. The production crew praised, “Joo Ji Hoon does various action scenes and emotional scenes in each episode. Despite the need for physical strength and time, he actively comes up with ideas and continues monitoring. We have no doubt that his hard-working efforts will be passed onto the viewers. Please look forward to it.”
Joo Ji Hoon also commented about his new character, saying, “He is a prosecutor who fights hard for justice. As a result, he is a very strong character who can’t tolerate internal corruption, is accused, is photographed, and is demoted.”
For the first time in four years, the actor will be making his small-screen comeback. He said, “It’s been a long time since I came back, and there’s been a lot of changes in the environment as well. I’m having an interesting time filming. I’m really curious about how the viewers will react because the drama has a much closer interaction with them.”
Then Joo Ji Hoon shared, “I’m working hard to get to you with a very fun and fresh story. I wish you all the best in the New Year.”
read rest here https://www.soompi.com/article/1300961wpp/joo-ji-hoon-talks-about-his-return-to-the-small-screen-as-hot-headed-prosecutor-in-the-item
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Looks interesting!!! But I was just wondering…is this drama pre-produced? Because the filming of Kingdom will start in February?! Surely Ju Ji Hoon won't jump from one set to another right?
I believe they started filing in November because the drama contains some supernatural aspects/CGI ,so half is probably pre produced
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The unboxing videos for "ITEM" look good even though I can't understand what they are saying. Looks like there will be some fun and cute scenes in the drama too
Viki has added the unboxing episode with full subs
https://www.viki.com/tv/36417c-the-item
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Can’t wait. I was too excited that I thought it airs today.
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So i think the press con is the same day ep one is airing
Ratings for all the Monday night dramas lowered due to the the New Year holiday so it was definitely the right choice not to start airing this week.
new teaser has been released for MBC’s upcoming drama “The Item.”
Based on the popular webtoon of the same name, “The Item” is a fantasy drama about a man and a woman that set out to uncover the secrets behind several mysterious objects with supernatural powers. The drama will star Joo Ji Hoon as Kang Gon, a hot-headed prosecutor who becomes entangled in the mystery while attempting to save his beloved niece, and Jin Se Yeon as Shin So Young, a talented criminal profiler who remains perfectly composed even when faced with the most horrific crime scenes.
The newly released teaser begins with Joo Ji Hoon running through a dark, eerie tunnel with a flashlight. A mysterious being exerts unusual power on someone, and there are items with unknown super powers. The caption claims, “There haven’t been any dramas like this before.”
Joo Ji Hoon declares, “Unbelievable things are happening to us right now,” increasing the tension in the atmosphere. Kim Kang Woo, who plays the sinister villain Jo Se Hwang, adds to the tension by becoming violent as he snarls, “Don’t you know what that item means to me?”
Then Kim Kang Woo can be seen smirking over an unconscious person in the hospital while Joo Ji Hoon dashes urgently into the same building. Joo Ji Hoon vows, “It was definitely him,” while Kim Kang Woo remarks, “It’s an ordinary object, but we can kill people with it.”
The caption on the screen describes the drama as “a grand story of ordinary people trying to reclaim the most precious thing.” Both Joo Ji Hoon and Jin Se Yeon do their best to save their loved ones from the unknown evil.
The production crew stated, “Finally, the first broadcast is only a week away. We’re working hard during the Lunar New Year holidays to meet our viewers with a new drama that has never been done so far, so please look forward to it.”
“The Item” will premiere on February 11 at 10 p.m. KST and will be available on Viki with English subtitles!
https://www.soompi.com/article/1301585wpp/watch-joo-ji-hoon-and-jin-se-yeon-team-up-against-evil-in-dark-and-intriguing-teaser-for-the-item
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Yey subs gonna be quick. Thanks.. Binge watch a lot of c-dramas. So back to kdrama again. Can't wait for JJH KKW wow them plus JSY too.
On 2/6/2019 at 6:02 PM, jongski said:
I'm so pleased it weill be subbed on viki!
Edited February 7, 2019 by Jillia
Please do not quote IGs! Thanks! :)
The photos released on February 6 show the two characters’ strange first encounter. They first stare at each other with discontent expressions on their faces, but soon fall down together, arousing curiosity. Joo JI Hoon looks taken aback at the awkward situation, but at the same time, his arm is around her shoulder, as if he is sheltering her. Jin Se Yeon also looks surprised, and this scene hints their unusual future relationship.
https://www.soompi.com/article/1301785wpp/joo-ji-hoon-and-jin-se-yeon-have-a-bizarre-first-encounter-in-upcoming-drama-the-item
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Items is in two days time! Haha
Btw do join us!
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Changing the Executive Arrangement
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Annual Council, Council
Wednesday, 8th May, 2019 7.00 pm
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Venue: Council Chamber
Contact: Penelope Williams Email: penelope.williams@enfield.gov.uk
Mayor's Chaplain to give a Blessing
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Father Emmanuel Ogunnaike from St Edmund’s Church, Edmonton gave the blessing.
Members of the Council are invited to identify any disclosable pecuniary, other pecuniary or non-pecuniary interests relevant to items on the agenda.
There were no declarations of interest.
Election of Mayor
To elect the Mayor of the London Borough of Enfield for the municipal year 2019/20.
Councillor Caliskan moved and Councillor Laban seconded the nomination of Councillor Kate Anolue as Mayor of the London Borough of Enfield for the 2019/20 municipal year.
Councillor Caliskan said that she was delighted to nominate Councillor Anolue, a councillor held in high esteem, a strong, inspiring no nonsense, principled woman, who had previously been Mayor in 2013/14. She also welcomed her Young Mayor initiative.
Councillor Laban in seconding the nomination said that Councillor Anolue had in the past served the borough with distinction, had a dedication to public service, working as a midwife, was a caring and compassionate woman and she wished her all success in the year ahead.
AGREED that Councillor Kate Anolue be elected Mayor of the London Borough of Enfield, for the 2018/19 municipal year.
Councillor Anolue then made and signed a declaration of acceptance of office and was invested with the badge of office by Councillor Karakus, the retiring Mayor.
Mayor's Acceptance Speech
The Mayor began by saying it was wonderful to be back and that she would speak from her heart.
The Mayor thanked everyone for being there and welcomed them all to the meeting.
The Mayor said that she was proud to be part of this great, vibrant and diverse borough. That it was a great privilege and responsibility to be able to take on the role of Mayor and she sincerely appreciated the trust that her fellow councillors had put in her. She was committed to serving the people of Enfield with enthusiasm and compassion.
The Mayor had grown up the eldest of seven children, two girls and five boys, but her father at a time when girls were not educated, had believed in gender equality and had sent her to school. She thanked her father for this and for enabling her to come such a long way from Nanka, her small town in the state of Anambra in Nigeria, with only 40,000 people.
At this point the King and Queen of her home village, Nanka, entered. They had come from so far away, with their cabinet to celebrate with her. The Mayor welcomed them with a traditional greeting.
The Mayor had served 40 years in the National Health Service at North Middlesex Hospital. As a midwife she had bought many children into the world, many who were now mums and dads themselves. She had valued the support she had been able to give women over these years including women suffering from domestic violence.
Enfield had been a second home to her. She had been widowed when her youngest child was 18 months old, bought up her family of two boys and two girls as a single parent and so had a soft spot for single parents. It was not always easy to keep children honest and on the right path, but she believed that God did not give you what you cannot carry, and she had not given up.
Her father and her husband had supported her in her training to become a nurse and she had been determined to make the best use of her profession. However it was her father who had wanted her to become a nurse, she herself had wanted to be a lawyer, and so once she had achieved his ambition she had later studied for a law degree at the University of North London. This was at the same time as working full time and bringing up her four children.
After completing her degree, although continuing as a midwife, she had used it to help others by working as a shop steward at the hospital. This had eventually led her to becoming a councillor.
As a councillor she had been able to help many people. In 2014-18 she had taken a break from the Council and had set up two groups: a forum for African Caribbean and Asian women and a group to support women into politics. She had also worked with young ... view the full minutes text for item 4.
Election of Deputy Mayor
To elect the deputy Mayor of the Council for the municipal year 2019/20.
Councillor Nesil Caliskan proposed and Councillor Joanne Laban seconded the nomination of Councillor Sabri Ozaydin as the new deputy mayor.
Councillor Caliskan welcomed the distinguished guests and said that she was pleased to nominate Sabir Ozaydin, a councillor who had been elected in 2018, had worked to support the people of Turkey Street and had many plans for the future.
Councillor Laban in seconding the nomination hoped that he would have a good year.
AGREED that Councillor Sabri Ozaydin be elected as the Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Enfield, for the 2019/20 municipal year.
Councillor Ozaydin then made and signed a declaration of acceptance of office and was invested with the badge of office by Councillor Anolue, the new Mayor.
He thanked members for nominating him and said that he would try his best to serve everyone in Enfield and would try to make a difference.
Appointment of Mayor's and Deputy Mayor's Consorts
5.1 Appointment of Mayor’s Consort
The Mayor to announce the appointment of the Mayor’s Consort for the Municipal Year 2019/20.
5.2 Appointment of Deputy Mayor’s Consort
The Mayor to announce the appointment of the Deputy Mayor’s Consort for the Municipal Year 2019/20.
1. Appointment of Mayor’s Consorts
The Mayor thanked members for nominating her and announced the appointment of Chinelo Anyanwu and Amaechi Anolue as her consorts for the 2019/20 Municipal Year. She then invested them with their badges of office.
2. Appointment of Deputy Mayor’s Consorts
The Deputy Mayor announced the appointment of Ozlem Ozaydin and Emre Ozaydin as his consorts for the 2019/20 Municipal year investing them with their badges of office.
Presentation of the Past Mayor and the Past Mayor's Consort Badges
On behalf of the Council, the Mayor will present the past Mayor’s and past Mayor’s Consort badges to Councillor Saray Karakus, Ismet Karakus and Destiny Karakus.
The Mayor presented the past Mayor’s and Mayor’s Consort badges and certificates recording the Council’s appreciation to the retiring Mayor, Councillor Saray Karakus, and her consorts Ismet and Destiny Karakus.
The Mayor, on behalf of the Council, thanked them for the work they had undertaken during the 2018/19 municipal year.
The Leader thanked Councillor Karakus for all her incredible hard work over the past year and for the enthusiasm she had bought to the role. She mentioned the 100 years of volunteering event which she had attended with her recently which had been a fantastic event.
Councillor Laban echoed the Leader’s thanks saying that Councillor Karakus had been an excellent Mayor. She had particularly appreciated the independence with which she had chaired the Council meetings and the compassion and energy she had shown bringing the community together. She hoped that she would continue with this.
Presentation of Young Mayor and Young Deputy Mayor
The Mayor will announce the appointment of the Young Mayor and Deputy Young Mayor for 2019/20.
The Mayor said that it gave her great pleasure to be able to introduce the new Young Mayor, Okan Gurhan and Deputy Young Mayor, Christevie Ngoma to the Council.
She said that it was going to be a great year and that the young mayors should never give up, should work hard and make their parents proud. She would support young people all the way and hoped that the youth parliament would last for ever.
Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Daniel Anderson, Margaret Greer, Dino Lemonides, Vicki Pite and Lindsay Rawlings.
Minutes PDF 252 KB
View the background to item 10.
To approve as a correct record the minutes of the Council meeting held on Wednesday 27 February 2019 including the amendment below.
To agree the amendment set out in the attached briefing paper, to the report of the Director of Finance, which sought approval, as part of the 2019/20 Budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan 2019/20 – 2022/23, to cemetery fees and charges agreed at the last Council meeting.
Cemetery Fees Charges 2019-20 Briefing Note (2) , item 10. PDF 77 KB
The minutes of the meeting held on 27 February 2019 were agreed as a correct record.
Mayor's Announcements in Connection with the Ordinary Council Business
The Mayor congratulated her attendant Gordon Hall who was retiring after 3 years with in the Mayoral office. She said that everyone would miss him and wished him all the best for the future.
The Mayor planned great things for her mayoral year and would be raising funds for several charities. This year she had chosen to support charities in support of sickle cell anaemia, dementia, cancer and the elderly and the retired as her core charities.
Last time she said that she had raised £44,000 which she thought was more than any other mayor. She hoped to beat her own record.
Notification of Cabinet Membership
To note the appointments to Cabinet made by the Leader of the Council as detailed under 14.1 on the agenda.
Councillor Nesil Caliskan thanked everyone for their hard work over the last year and confirmed the appointments as set out below and as detailed on the yellow list tabled under agenda item 11.
1. Cabinet Members
Deputy Leader: Councillor Ian Barnes
Cabinet Member for Children’s Services: Councillor Rick Jewell
Cabinet Member for Environment and Sustainability: Councillor Guney Dogan
Cabinet Member for Finance & Procurement: Councillor Mary Maguire
Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care: Councillor Alev Cazimoglu
Cabinet Member for Licensing and Regulatory Services: Councillor George Savva
Cabinet Member for Community Safety & Cohesion: Councillor Nneka Keazor
Cabinet Member for Public Health: Councillor Mahtab Uddin
Cabinet Member for Social Housing: Councillor Gina Needs
2. Associate Cabinet Members
Enfield North: Councillor Ahmet Hasan
Enfield South East: Councillor Mustapha Cetinkaya
Enfield West: Councillor Claire Stewart
Constitution Review PDF 198 KB
To receive a report from the Director of Law and Governance setting out changes to the Council constitution. (Report No: 2)
This report was considered by the Member and Democratic Services Group and recommended to Council for approval, at a meeting held on 23 April 2019.
Appendix 2 - Constitution with tracked changes , item 13. PDF 401 KB
Councillor Nesil Caliskan moved and Councillor Joanne Laban seconded the report of the Director of Law and Governance setting out changes to the Council Constitution. (Report No: 2)
1. The report had been considered and agreed for recommendation to Council by the Member and Democratic Services Group at their meeting on 23 April 2019.
2. The report put forward clear recommendations for changes to the timings for discussion of items at the Council meetings, the order of business and minor amendments to motions, questions and amendments. Full details were in the report.
3. Councillor Laban welcomed the change that would mean that more time could be spent discussing reports than motions.
1. To approve the proposed amendments referred from Member and Democratic Services Group as set out in the report.
2. To note that the revised Council rules of procedure would apply from the July Council meeting, and all other constitutional amendments within Phase 1 would take immediate effect.
Membership of Committees and Panels PDF 79 KB
To receive a report of the Director of Law and Governance asking the Council to determine the constitution and political balance of the committees, joint committees and panels that have been set up for discharge of the Council’s functions. (Report No: 1)
Membership of Commitees and Panels , item 14. PDF 188 KB
Councillor Ergin Erbil moved and Councillor Glynis Vince seconded the report of the Director of Law and Governance (Report No: 1) seeking Council approval to determine the constitution and political balance of the committees, joint committees and panels that had been set up for the discharge of the Council’s functions.
1. That the seats allocated to each political party on the committees and boards to which section 15 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 apply, be approved as set out in Appendix A to the report.
2. That in accordance with paragraph 3.3 of the report, the Council resolves (without dissent) that the rules of political proportionality should not apply to those bodies marked with an * in Appendix A.
Appointment to Council Bodies for 2019/20 PDF 183 KB
14.1 To establish Council bodies for the coming Municipal Year and to appoint memberships to these.
14.2 To confirm the terms of reference of those bodies set out in Part 2 of the Constitution.
Constitution - Part 2
1.1 Appointment of Council Bodies 2019/20: Committee Membership List
Councillor Ergin Erbil moved and Councillor Glynis Vince seconded the list of Council bodies to be established and membership appointments for the 2019/20 municipal year.
AGREED to the establishment of the Council bodies for the 2019/20 Municipal Year and the appointment of their memberships as set out on the yellow list tabled at the meeting.
1.2 Appointment of Council Bodies 2019/20 Terms of Reference
Councillor Ergin Erbil moved and Councillor Glynis Vince seconded the motion to approve the terms of reference as set out in Part 2 of the Council’s Constitution.
AGREED to confirm the terms of reference of those bodies as set out in Part 2 of the Council’s Constitution.
Representation on Outside Bodies and Organisations PDF 258 KB
To consider the Council’s representation on outside bodies and organisations as required.
Councillor Ergin Erbil moved and Councillor Glynis Vince seconded the list of nominations to outside bodies for the 2019/20 Municipal Year.
AGREED the Council’s representation on outside bodies, as detailed on the green list tabled at the meeting .
Council Scheme of Delegation
The Council is asked to agree the authority’s Scheme of Delegation as set out in Part 3 (pages 3.2-3.12) of the Constitution.
Councillor Ergin Erbil moved and Councillor Glynis Vince seconded the authority’s scheme of delegation.
AGREED the authority’s scheme of delegation, as set out in Part 3 (pages 3-3 to 3-5) of the Constitution.
Calendar of Meetings PDF 173 KB
17.1 To approve the calendar of Council meetings, including the proposed date for the next Council meeting on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at 7.00pm at the Civic Centre.
17.2 The Council is asked to approve the calendar, subject to any further changes/additions being delegated to the Director of Law and Governance in consultation with both party groups.
1. The calendar of meetings of the Council, including the next Council meeting which was scheduled for Wednesday 10 July 2019.
2. That approval of any further amendments to the calendar be delegated to the Director of Law and Governance in consultation with both groups.
Date of Next Meeting
Members are asked to note that subject to Item 17.1 above, the next meeting of the Council will be held on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at 7.00pm at the Civic Centre.
NOTED that the next meeting of the Council will be held at 7pm on Wednesday 10 July 2019 at the Civic Centre.
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85 Central Schemes
Govt extends 85 central schemes to J&K, Ladakh
The state administration on Sunday removed J&K flag from the civil secretariat building in Srinagar, with only the National Flag remaining on it
Rahul Tripathi
As many as 85 central schemes, including those related to farmers’ welfare, have been extended to Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, governor Satya Pal Malik announced on Sunday.
Malik, who was in New Delhi to pay his last respects to former Union minister Arun Jaitley, said: “If blockade of communication saves lives, what’s the harm? In the past, whenever there was a crisis in Kashmir, at least 50 people used to die in the first week itself. Our attitude is that there should be no loss of human life. There would be no phone connection for 10 more days. We will restore everything soon.”
The state administration on Sunday removed J&K flag from the civil secretariat building in Srinagar, with only the National Flag remaining on it. An official said that all government offices were yet to take off the state flag.
Meanwhile, home ministry officials said the situation in the valley was peaceful barring a few incidents. “Today the situation remained peaceful. No untoward incident reported from anywhere,” Jammu and Kashmir police tweeted late in the evening.
The J&K administration informed the MHA that 80% medical shops are open and all essential medicines are available. In a statement, the MHA said: “As many as 1,165 (out of 1,666) chemist shops in Srinagar remained open. In the Kashmir Valley, 4,331 chemist shops (out of 7,630) are working, which is almost 65% of the total strength.”
“All 376 notified drugs are available at government shops as well as with private retailers. 62 essential lifesaving drugs have also been made available. Medicines worth Rs 23.81 crore have reached end-user retail shops over the last 20 days. That’s slightly higher than the monthly average... All 376 notified drugs are available at government shops and also private retailers. Sixty-two essential/life-saving drugs are available,” said the statement.
The state government in a statement said: “There was a shortage of baby food in the Valley for nearly 2 days. Fresh stocks received. Sufficient for next three weeks minimum... Three persons each stationed at Jammu and Chandigarh for quick despatch of medicines and baby food. SDM East nodal officer coordinating for valley supplies.”
The MHA also said the average delivery time after placement of order is 14-18 hours from Jammu as most medical distributors for Kashmir are based out of Jammu. The statement also said no case of overpricing has been received.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who along with a delegation of opposition leaders wasn’t allowed to enter Srinagar, in a tweet said: “Leaders of the Opposition & the Press got a taste of the draconian administration & brute force unleashed on the people of J&K...”
With PTI inputs
Satya Pal Malik
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Chinese Physicists Just Achieved Quantum Teleportation Underwater
Chinese scientists have successfully sent information between entangled particles through sea water, the first time this type of quantum communication has been achieved underwater.
In this proof-of-concept experiment, information was sent across a 3.3-metre (10.8-foot) long tank of seawater, but the researchers predict they should be able to use the same technique to send unhackable communications close to 900 metres (0.55 miles) through open water.
“People have talked about the idea of underwater quantum communication before, but I’m not aware of anyone who has done an experiment like this,” Thomas Jennewein from the University of Waterloo in Canada told Devin Powell over at New Scientist.
“An obvious application would be a submarine which wants to remain submerged but communicate in a secure fashion.”
This is a big deal, because quantum communication – also known as quantum teleportation – promises to allow people to send messages that are protected from prying eyes by the laws of physics. It’s the ultimate encryption.
It’s based on the idea of quantum entanglement – that kooky phenomenon Einstein referred to as “spooky at a distance”. Basically, quantum entanglement means that two particles become inextricably linked so that whatever happens to one will automatically affect the other, no matter how far apart they are.
Through that mechanism, scientists have already ‘teleported’ information across vast distances through optical fibre and even open space.
Earlier this year, a separate team of Chinese researchers were able to use quantum entanglement to teleport information to a satellite in Earth’s orbit across more than 500 km (311 miles).
But up until now, no one had done the same thing in water, which is notorious for scattering anything we try to beam through it. Just think of shining a laser pointer into the air and into water.
For this experiment, researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University took seawater from the Yellow Sea and set it up in a 3 metre tank in the lab.
They then created a pair of entangled photons by shooting a beam of light through a crystal. Whatever the polarisation of one of the photons, its pair would automatically have the opposite polarisation.
These particles were placed at opposite ends of the tank, and the team showed that despite being separated by metres of seawater, they could accurately communicate information between them more than 98 percent of the time.
“Our results confirm the feasibility of a seawater quantum channel, representing the first step towards underwater quantum communication,” the researchers write in the journal The Optical Society.
It’s still early days, and not only is it important for other teams to now replicate this result, but it remains to be seen whether the same thing can be done across greater distances, but also in seawater not confined to a tank.
Based on the team’s calculations, they predict that it would be possible to achieve quantum communication through open water across a distance of 885 metres (0.55 miles) using photons in the blue-green window.
But New Scientist reports that other groups have calculated a limit of underwater quantum communication of just 120 metres (0.07 miles).
“Because ocean water absorbs light, extending this is going to difficult,” Jeffrey Uhlmann, a physicists from the University of Missouri in Columbia, told Powell.
How far we can stretch this underwater quantum communication remains to be seen, but now that researchers have shown it’s possible, it’s only a matter of time before the limits begin to be pushed.
The research has been published in The Optical Society.
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Gross Movie Reviews #353
Posted on July 13, 2015 by grossmoviereviews
By Tim Gross
Stone Cold (DVD) – A very underrated action flick from the early 90s starring none other than Brain Bosworth as Officer Hough who goes undercover for the FBI. Hough’s undercover name is John Stone and the reason the FBI was interested in the Boz is he gets the job done. But this gig might be too much as he must get tight with a murderous biker gang lead by the man, the myth, the legend Lance Henriksen and his insane cohort William Forsythe! He gets in by going to kill a traitor of the gang. Boz actually deports the guy and uses him for information but comes back to haunt him later in the film. A lot of fun B-movie action with a couple A-list actors that I believe has gotten better with age. So do yourself a favor if you are action movie fan and rewatch this flick as I give 3 stars and then after that watch the 30 for 30 special on ‘The Boz’ and it puts a lot of things in focus if you were ever a fan of ‘The Boz’?
Aftermath (DVD) – Edward Furlong and Monica Keena star in what I claim is a remake of the 80s TV movie “The Day After”. As people are effected by the nuclear bombs that have been dropped on US soil one day. Trying to ride it out in a basement eventually they are driven out by crazed survivors of the devastation. Sad, depressing, and a little realistic like “The Day After” but well worth the watch if you enjoy post-apocalyptic flicks? I give the depressing look at what may happen someday 3 stars.
The Dead 2: India (DVD) – The zombie saga continues as apparently the sickness has reached the slums of a major city in India and the story centers around an American engineer and his Indian girlfriend. Just finding out she is pregnant he is trying to make his way to her home to help her and her family to escape the outbreak. Not as intriguing as the first film but not as boring either but my main issue is they seem to mail in on the effects. Like or not the first film had some amazing effects work. I watched it mainly because it is a sequel but I wouldn’t make it a point to go out of your way to see it as I give it 2 stars.
Hell Baby (DVD) – A hilarious flick about a couple who buy a house that happens to be haunted, has Key from the Key & Peele show living in the duct work, and was a steal because it was in a bad neighborhood. Soon the couple realize that the baby that is coming a spawn from hell and they need an exorcism. Hilarity ensues as it does make fun of several recent films but possibly the best part of the film is Key’s character as he just pops up everywhere in the house in almost every scene and has most of the great lines. I give it 2 ½ stars.
Gallowwalkers (DVD) – I personally was hoping Wesley Snipes first horror movie in sometime would may be a “Blade” sequel but instead was this oddity of a bad film. Wesley Snipes’ character murders the gang that rape his woman, then they come back to life killing across the old west. And now Snipes is hunting them down again. Doesn’t make a ton of sense and kinda boring but couldn’t help myself wanting to see Wesley Snipes in another horror flick. I am disappointed and must give the film 1 star.
Sharks’ Treasure (DVD) – A 1975 film most likely trying to cash in on the “Jaws” fame with four dudes (one of them Yaphet Kotto) going to seek a sure thing in treasure off a small island. Once found and celebrating they are boarded by escape convicts that are looking for a boat to take them to freedom. Now the four must decide do they want to live or die trying to keep the treasure they have found. Not the most exciting shark film but you do get to see Yaphet Kotto fight a shark and that’s worth 2 stars alone.
Rites of Spring (DVD) – For the past years in this small community in Mississippi, young women of disappeared around the first day of spring. Now kidnappers of rich dude’s kid get involved by accident when a girl screaming bloody murder runs through the kidnapping gone bad and they all must deal with some creature that decapitates people. Apparently a farmer uses this creature for an early harvest every year and it has been a part of the family throughout generations. Great looking box art, but disappointing attempt at a scarecrow slasher type of horror film. There was nothing very memorable about the film as I give it 1 ½ stars.
Call Girl of Cthulhu (Blu-ray/DVD) – First, great title for an independent horror film. Second, it’s been picked up by Camp Motion Pictures so you the horror fan including myself are going to be in for a treat. The story begins with a man named Carter Wilcox, who is trying to explain the events that have happened recently while he sits in front of a detective that wants answers. Mr. Wilcox is an artist but he is a lonely artist with a noisy roommate named Erika. Carter has a chance meeting with an escort named Riley who Wilcox asks to paint her. They become friendly and boom ‘The Great Old Ones’ are in town looking for a woman with a Cthulhu birthmark on her ass (Riley). Going through all the escorts in town they finally know its Riley. Once captured, she becomes the vessel for the legendary evil creature and breaks off her relationship with Wilcox. But meanwhile Wilcox just got a gig copying an old weird book. Then we got death by dildo and plastic fan, a really cool tongue cutting scene, heads exploding, zombie whores, crazy gore and goo flying everywhere, Riley turns into really weird and awful looking creature that resembles Chet from “Weird Science”, and it’s all happening at the ‘Church of Starry Wisdom’. First half of the film is a lot of tits and ass but once the film progresses into the Cthulhu mythology of how ‘The Great Old Ones’ are trying to bring Cthulhu into the world the film gets really interesting and entertaining. With the title it has it is expected to have some nude scenes but I was more impressed with not only the creature and cool make-up effects but the awesome and entertaining storyline plus the actors that played Riley, Carter, and Erika did a wonderful job. Also the Blu-ray combo pack has one of the best extras I have come across this year and it’s called: “My 5-year old niece explains Cthulhu”. It is so cute and so freaking hilarious! I have to give this entertaining independent horror/comedy 3 ½ out of 4 stars. Do yourself a favor and order a copy now at: www.alternativecinema.com .
Non-stop (DVD) – Liam Neeson proves this flick is no “Passenger 57” or “Executive Decision” and makes no sense why he would do this uninteresting action flick over an “A-team” sequel. Found it boring at times, skip this one folks and go watch “Run All Night” or “Taken” again as I give it 1 ½ stars.
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Christchurch Marathon 2015 Results
31/05/2015 /in AAA_Posts 2015, All Results, General Results 2015 /by Hawks | Admin
Marathon Race Report by Ryan Stacey
Christchurch Marathon day started at a brisk -3 degrees. A lot of buildup to get to today. Would all those hours of training pay off in the result? The two lap course started well heading from Cathedral square out and back around Hagley park, enjoying the company of the 10km and half marathon runners.
The second part of the loop took runners alongside the Avon river and back through the altered landscape of central Christchurch. Running through red zoned, flattened areas that used to be full of hundreds of houses now completely gone was eerie. Uneven roads and potholes meant you had to concentrate harder on foot placement.
As I rounded halfway mark, splits were on track and I had managed to get enough nutrition on board through the aid stations. As I passed through the central city onto the second lap, I was still feeling strong and working in a group. Then as we hit the 33/34km km mark, the point where the race really starts, the legs started to die. The last few kms really tested me mentally and physically as I tried to hold on to my pace and place in the field. When I ran over the line it was such a relief to come away with a 3 minute PB (2:41:54) and a 9th place finish.
Congratulations to Tim Stewart who had a strong race in a stacked half field for the national half marathon champs and to Oliver Mclean who finished 2nd in the Junior Men 10km.
Half Marathon Race Report by Tim Steward
After surprising myself with a 1:08:28 half marathon at Rotorua off an injury riddled build up, I flew into Christchurch with high hopes of a good result. While the field was stacked with some of the country’s best I had put together a good few weeks of preparation since Rotorua so decided to take a bold approach and go out hard in pursuit of the Top 5 place prize money.
We went off fast, but my legs didn’t feel it thanks to a solid taper during the week and an overflow of adrenalin which had built up on the start line. after a very fast first kilometre we settled into a rhythm of about 3:06min/km before Aaron Pulford started throwing in surges in a way that was described by another competitor as “a pitbull fighting with his leash”. At about the 7km mark my legs began to feel the pace and I dropped off the leaders alongside young Rotorua athlete Michael Voss. When we went through the 10km mark in 31:45 (my second fastest ever), I realised that my legs were on the path towards imminent meltdown so eased off the pace to a more comfortable 3:20min/km.
When Wellington athlete Nick Horspool came past me at the 14km mark I tried to jump on his shoulder in pursuit of another PB. Unfortunately soon after I lost all strength in my legs while going up a slight rise, so knew it was time switch to plan B and buckled down for a long session in the hurt box. The final 6 or so km in no man’s land can only be understood by someone who has finished a race exhausted, only to be told that they’ve got another lap left. During the long straights parallel to the Avon River I worked hard to regain ground on Michael Voss in the hope that his legs had suffered a worse explosion than mine, but it was a lost cause I eventually trudged home in 1:09:45, which gave me a respectable 12th place.
Overall I was happy to get under 70 minutes and not be too far off some of the guns, but in retrospect felt that I could certainly have flirted with the 68 minute barrier had I calmed the excitement early on and run a more even race.
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Contemporary conflicts and challenges part 2
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The global distribution of poverty
Poverty means being unable to afford basic things such as safe drinking water, food, shelter, sanitation, health care and education.
The international poverty line is the minimum level of income considered necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country. The world Bank has set the international poverty line at less than $1.25 a day. However, Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $1 a day - which severly linits a persons ability to provide for their basic needs, such as food, water and shelter.
Main causes of poverty & its effects
Poverty is the highest in the rural areas of developing countries where subsistence economies prevail.
In subsistence economies, people find it difficult to provide themselves with enough food. Malnutrition can lead to the spread of diseases which make people too ill to work, or farm. With no surplus crops to sell, a lack of personal income means it is also difficult to escape poverty through investigating in better technology to increase food production, or afford schooling to improve job prospectus etc.
Overpopulation in rural areas can lead to poor farming practices (e.g. overgrazing) which cause soil exhaustion and a decline in soil fertility. Low crop (food) production results in malnourishment and the inability to work.
Long term malnutrition and poor sanitation can make them more vulnerable to short term disasters such as extreme weather events, (e.g. drought, flooding) which can increase poverty.
In Sub Saharan Africa, almost 2/3rds of the population have HIV/AIDS. The effects on families of HIV/AIDS can include loss of income, the diversion of efforts into care and medicine, and the withdrawal of children from school, either because of lack of money or because they are needed for agricultural work.
War can also increase poverty because there is a destruction of property, a lack of work and reduced crop yields.
War can also result in an influx of refugees into an area but they are dependent on external assistance for shelterm food, water and often live in poor living conditions in refugee camps. Their presence may also contribute to overpopulation and put a further strain on resources for local people.
Vicious circle/cycle of poverty
The causes of poverty are often complex because usually it results from a combination of factors which are linked to each other. It can create a cycle of poverty which becomes difficult to break.
(Look at pg 9 in study guide for cycle)
indicators to assess global distribution of povert
Poverty is caused by a low level of income which contributes to low levels of nutrition, school enrolment and health amongst others.
Social/demographic indicators:
High death rate
Low life expectancy
High IMR
People per doctor
Children enrolled in primary school
Economic indicators:
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) & GNP (Gross National Product)
Average wealth per person = Per capita of GNP and GDP
Amount of exports and % of people unemployed
Environmental indicators:
% urban and rural
% fuelwood in energy mix
GDP and GNP
One of the simplest ways to assess the global distribution of poverty is to compare levels of national wealth. However, using just GNP/GDP to measure a country's level of development can have its limitations..
Gross Domestic Product (GNP) is the value of all goods and services produced by a country in a year
Gross National Product (GNP) is the GDP of a country PLUS any money that has been earned by investment abroad (e.g. earnings from companies working abroad)
The GNP/GDP are expressed in US dollars and often given as PER CAPITA which means the total figure is divided by the total population
It's more useful to use GDP per capita rather than GDP where comparing the wealth of 2 countries as: it shows average income per person in the country so the average income can be compared when doing it per head. GDP makes it seem very similar but one country may be a lot wealthier - so per capita is more accurate
+ & - Of using GNP/GDP to measure development
Indicates the average income of a country and is expressed in US dollars so it's easy to compare one country with another
A higher GNP/GDP indicates the country has more industries and services indicating a higher level of ECONOMIC development
There is a strong correlation between GNP/GDP and the social development of a country. E.g. a country with a higher GNP can usually afford to spend more on health care, education and general living standards are also higher.
The GNP and GDP can be adjusted to purchasing power parity (PPP) to more accurately compare standards of living across different countries. It takes into account the idea that a typical basket of goods may cost more in one country than another.
The GDP/GNP can hide inequalities as it doesn't show the distribution of wealth WITHIN a country. (E.g. Saudi Arabia, with its oil it has a high GDP so ranks well on global scale. However, its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and for most of the pop, living conditions, health care & education are poor.
The GDP/GNP don't take into account economic activity that doesn't use money. E.g. LEDC's usually have larger subsistence economy or informal economy (e.g. bartering, cash in hand, unpaid work). As a result , the GDP/GNP often understates the true level of economic development in a poorer country.
Composite Indices
In recent decades COMPOSITE INDICES have been used to give a fuller picture of the level of development of a country. There are many different examples of composite indicators, for example, the physical quality of life index (PQLI), human suffering index, the human poverty index to name just a few. However, the most widely used composite indicator is the Human Development Index (HDI)
The Human Development Index (HDI)
A statistic used to rank countries by their level of 'human development'. This is based on the:-
Education (e.g. literacy rate and average years of schooling)
+ & - of using HDI to measure development
Closer to 1 = most developed
The higher the HDI, the more developed the country is. E.g. Norway is the most developed country in the world with an HDI of 0.965. The country showing the least development is Niger with an index of 0.311.
It indicates a country's level of economic and social development
It can be used to measure the relative development of a country. E.g. Swazilandm with an index of 0.500, could be said to be about half as developed as Norway with an index of 1.
It contains no measure that refers to human rights or freedom
Case study: Poverty in Afghanistan
Economic indicator that shows Afghanistan's very poor: GDP Per capital - The GDP per capita is only $1000 compared to the UK which is $36500. This shows that ther wealth is no where near an MEDC and the people living in Afghanistan are poor.
Social indicator: life expectancy (49 yrs) - The life expectancy is 49 yrs (UK is 80.17) this suggests that the health care is not available to many people and may not be available due to them not being able to afford it also diseases can't be treated due to not being able to afford it.
Composite indicator: HDI 0.4 and world rank 172/177 - the HDI rank is quite low, this is suggesting that the social development and living standards are quite poor (as UK is 0.897), the world rank is 172 which shows it's one of the world's poorest countries (compared to UK being 12)
Afghanistan in stage 2 of DTM:
High BR & FR& Falling DR
Low % elderly - low life expectaancy and high DR
Less jobs -> high dependency ratio -> youthful pop
How situations caused poverty in afghanistan:
Lack of education (social):
Don't have basic skills to do jobs
Can't work in jobs that require them to read/write so can't earn money
Girls denied education - only 12% females literate - 89& women had no education
Less professionals as educated flee the country - brain drain
30 years of war (ECONOMIC)
Money spent on manufacturing weapons (Russian War 1979-1989)
Houses, roads, schools, hospitals and farmland destroyed
5 million refugees in 2007 so completely dependent on aid from countries like Pakistan
Difficult to trade and very unsafe still
Girls schools that were burnt down have to be rebuilt
Ancient Lamal System provides water for rural areas destroyed by IED's
cont.....
Poor quality land (ENVIRONMENTAL):
Can't do any farming as infertile soil/land
Cutting down of trees -> desertification
No personal income to invest in farming
Impact of the Taliban regime/weak govt today (POLITICAL):
Corruption -> money from NATO ($135 billion a year) goes to country but itsn't going where it should be such as building houses/schools/hospitals
Govt. dependent on aid as no tax payers
Rely on opium produce
Uni's closed down so lack of skilled work force so lack of tax payers and can't get into practical roles.
ADDRESSING poverty on a global scale
The Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, the UN summit established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is probably the most significant major attempt to reduce poverty ever undertaken. There are 8 MDGs & within these are a series of targets – most set for 2015 using 1990 as a benchmark.
MDGs:
1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2) Achieve universal primary education
3) Promote gender equality and empower women
4) Reduce child mortality
5) Improve maternal health
6) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, other diseases
7) Ensure environmental sustainability
8) Global partnership for development
MDG Links
The eight MDGs are aimed at tackling the causes of poverty- but there are connections between them. By addressing one MDG, progress in other MDGs is possible.
Develop a global partnership for development can lead to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger as MEDC's can help with aid for the poor
Develop a global partnership for development can combat HIV/AIDS,malaria, and other diseases as they may fund for healthcare/clinics
Ensuring environmental sustainability could eradicate extreme poverty and hunger as crops for food and surplus crops for income
Promoting gender equality and empowerment for women could lead to combating HIV/AIDS,malaria, and other diseases as if women are in education there's less **** etc.
Promoting gender equality and empowerment of women can lead to achieve universal primary education as women/girls get jobs/education - more skilled professionals
Promoting gender equality and empowering women can reduce child mortality as there's better health so reduced mortality
Achieving universal primary education can combating HIV/AIDS,malaria, and other diseases as children can be education about sexual health, contraception use etc. and also taught about how the diseases spread
Progress of MDGs
MDG 1 (Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty. Target: reduce $1 a day poverty by half):
World poverty falling due to Chinese economic growth
N. Africa target already met/expected to be met by 2015
Western Asia making no progress
MDG2 (Achieve universal primary education. Target: primary schooling for all by 2015):
Progress overall but too slow to meet target
Been dramatic in Africa
Caucasia and Central Asia making no progress
Eastern Asia and N. Africa already met target/expected to be met by 2015
MDG 3 (Promote gender equality and empower women. Target: increase womens paid employment):
Significant gain in girls employment and target will be met on time
Slow progress/improvement in women's economic and political participations
Alreadt met/expected to be met by 2015 in E. Asia and Latin America & Carribean
MDG 4 (Reduce child mortality. Target: reduce mortality of under 5 yr olds by 66%):
Progress everywhere and global child mortality fallen by 1/3
Children in rural areas more at risk (compared to urban)
E. Asia, N. Africa and Latin America & Carribean met target/expected to be met by 2015
MDG 5 (Improve maternal health. Target: reduce maternal mortality by 75%):
Easten Asia and Caucasia & Central Asia already met target or expected to be met by 2015
Sub Saharn Africa not progressing
MDG 6 (Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. Target: halt and reverse spread of TB):
Latin America & Carribean, N. Africa, E. Asia, S. Asia already met target or expected to be met by 2015
Sub Saharan Africa and Caucasia and Central Asia progress is insufficient to reach the target
MDG 7 (Ensure environmental sustainability. Target: reduce forest loss):
E. Asia, W. Asia and N. Africa already met target or will by 2015
Sub Saharan Africa's progress is insufficient to reach the target
S. Asia and Oceania making no progress
MDG 8 (Develop a global partnership for development. Target: making Internet widely accessible):
Sub Saharan Africa and S. Asia progression is insufficient to make progress
E. Asia, Latin America & Carribean, W. Asia already met target or expected to be met by 2015
Success and limitations of MDGs
SUCCESS OF MDGs
Children and mums who would have died at birth didn't
Education is increasing and less malaria etc.
40 million in school
Ethiopia govt. has developed. Saving mothers and kids lives
More people receving drugs for diseases
4 million more receiving drugs for HIV
Provides focus on how to tackle poverty
LIMITATIONS OF MDGs
Due to recession this is harder to do
Don't have necessary political help to progress more
Goals putting off onto wrong track = goals are very technical
Goals are too narrow - nothing about safety etc.
Should incl. more on politics and climate change
Don't paint the whole picture
Don't take security, human rights and equality into consideration so are not being tackled
The support of the international community is essential in helping progress towards the MDGs in developing countries – and one of the main ways in which this can be done is through the provision of aid.
Types of aid:
Bilateral: Aid given from one goverment to another
Multilateral: When money is given by goverments to international organisations to assist programmes in poorer nations (WORLD BANK, UNESCO)
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations): Many of which are charities (e.g. Oxfram, Comic Relief) distribute aid in a variety of ways
In 2002, MEDCS agreed to set a target of target 0.7% of their GNP as aid to LEDCs. However, economic recession has meant that many countries have cut back on their foreign spending (but not the UK – who have kept to this target!)
Short term aid (humanitarian) - health care, GP, pregnant women support, children, malaria etc. To try improve their life and help - immediate relief.
Long term aid (developmental) - help people get on their feet (e.g. help farmers grow drought resistant crops). Develop countries future.
Limitations with aid provided: Not easy for NGOs to get where needed, countries become too dependent on aid, people giving aid may have to leave the country due to political problems; if multicultural or bilateral give money the donor country say you need to spend money in our country (tied aid) e.g. USA gave Africa HIV drugs and said spend money in the USA for more HIV drugs (that were more expensive)
Other UN agencies
Other UN agencies which help to address issues associated with global poverty....
At present the UN has a number of specialized agencies/ organizations that carry out various functions.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): Protects the rights of children and young people e.g. distribute vaccines and train teachers.
World Health Organisation (WHO): Providing leadership on global health matters e.g. distribute vaccines & drugs; & carrying out various health-related campaigns. UN Security Council: Maintain international peace and security e.g. Peace keeping forces ,cease fires embargoes. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): Protect and support refugees e.g. tents and food aid in refugee camps, assist with repatriation etc. The World Bank is another agency belonging to the UN. In the past the World Bank has been blamed on causing poverty by providing loans to developing nations. A loan needs paying back and the World Bank charged interest ...between 1968 and 1980 “developing world” debt increased 20% per year! The UN are hoping that the MDGs will put right past mistakes in addressing poverty.
DFID's attempts to address poverty
Many MEDCs have set up a governmental department to oversee their spending of foreign aid. They have used the framework of the MDGs to better focus their overseas spending so that they are more effective in reducing global poverty. For example the, UK government has DFID.
Plans for overseas aid SWOT analysis:
STRENGTHS of the new approach:
Some 20% of DFID's total funding to Afghanistan is spend in Helamd, goes to fund areas that are outside the traditional aid priorties (e.g. health and education)
New district council buildings, courts and police stations funded by DFID
WEAKNESSES of the new approach:
Some countries lose direct British fundting (e.g. Bosnia and Vietnam) as seen to "graduated" from poverty
British aid becoming a political issue in India and Britain. Controversial because of India's rapid economic growth and it's nuclear weapons capability
OPPORTUNITIES (hopes) of the new approach:
50 million will be helped in health and education
11 million children will be put through school
10 million women will receive safe contraception
More people will have access to safe drinking water and safe sanitation than there are households in the UK
THREATS associated with the new approach: some spendings such as on infrastructure may not have benefits that can be measured in a scientific way
no development without security&no security withou
The issue surrounding security and development will be discussed in the context of AFGHANISTAN. Afghanistan has nine MDGS instead of the usual eight goals MDG 9 in Afghanistan is to “Enhance Security”. This additional MDG for Afghanistan recognises the critical role of peace and security in achieving development in the country. The UN has also agreed an extension to the date by which its MDGs should be achieved, from 2015 to 2020
6 views of Afghanistan today:
Widow: Husband killed in suicide attack selling veg (locals not safe); women become docs; girls and boys go to school;women don't have to wear burqa; hopes American's leave and suicide attacks stop.
Female doctor: Senior docs left (brain drain) when Taliban in power; have all equipment in hospital now; she's not sure if her kids are safe when they go school or herself; Taliban let women work in hospital; when Taliban in power there was no electricity and lack of medical equipment.
Journalist: Atmosphere changed when Taliban removed from power; people have opportunity to talk about their basic rights; part of big international community again; open society and freedom of speech is back.
Farmer: Cultivating opium in Taliban; son goes school now; living cost increased; nothing changed except schooling; roads paved now and electricity in some places; suffering more - opium makes more money than veg; more security now.
Shop owner (music & DVDs): Moved back from Pakistan after Taliban; more peace now; increased security and better National Army and police force increased; says country will develop further; Taliban years he became a refugee, his shop was banned; lack of equipment and no airforce-army and police force-only have this due to aid
Police man: Taliban carrying out suicide attacks; more people and security but not enough due to taliban insurgents; more schools, roads, bridges and clinics built, people trust police, salary not enough-family can't live off it.
Main issues currently in Afghanistan
Security issues currently facing people living in Afghanistan:
Taliban insurgents
Refugees suffer
No/very little human rights
Taliban supporters still exist
Bombs, shootings etc. threat to people
Rural areas suffer
Development issues facing the country:
Dependent on aid "Aid juggernauts"
Still in stage 2 of DTM
Highest IMR in world
Salary is not enough
Illegal opium trade
Low GDP
Low tax base
50-60% in poverty
High unemployment
Living cost increased but salary is the same
Subsistence economy
How can security impact on development?
Lack of security affects development as it haults/slows development - e.g. people may not build schools due to taliban supporters. If the country wants to develop it needs to be more secure.
How can development impact on security?
More developed = more secure as can afford army and police force. More developed - more security.
What does this suggest about the relationship between security and development?
The lower the development, the lower the security. To reduce confliect countries need to develop.
1. A lack of security hinders development
Case study: The HEP turbine project at Kajaki Dam, Helmand Province.
Based in: Helmand
Funded by: US govt.
Development issues facing the region: Taliban land so difficult to get equipment; Army had to fight off Taliban to transport turbine; Taliban took control of 2 nearby areas.
Security issues which led to damn's postponement: Lack of equipment; Poor infrastructure etc; Road not secure enough for cement needed to install it at the site; Chinese company contracted to install turbine left overnight for security reasons.
Postponement of the dam will hinder the development of the region as: No/very little electricity.
2. Greater security decreases development....
Lashkar Gar, the capital of Helmand Province.
What security issues did Lashkar Gar (capital of Helmand Province) have in the past?
Resembled a ghost town, deserted streets, burnt vehicles, gun fire.
How was security improved in the city?
People have an option to fly to Kabul.
Fast-rising buildings.
Markets filled with shoppers and restaurants, blaring loud music.
There's now cars, not armed vehicles.
Now have an airport - new daily flights.
Open air ***** that was open only for Western aid agencies.
What evidence is there that greater security has led to increased economic development in the town?
Markets filled with shoppers.
Traders had to use Lashkar Gar - kabul road, which runs through the Taliban strongholds.
Security is good, people have helped business.
Heavy fighting outside city, people have come to Lashkar Gar so there's cheap labour as people move in.
Airport built.
Hospitals and private clinics built.
progress in security & development in Afghanistan
70% of Afghans think security has improved in recent years.
Development has improved in recent years - employment is increasing.
One year ago, 29% of Afghans thought job prospects were good, now that has risen to 41%.
The challenges of multicultural societies in the U
What is a multicultural society?
A multicultural society contains people from different national, linguistic, religious and/ or cultural backgrounds. The UK is an example of a multicultural society.
What % of UK's pop is from ethnic minorities: 14%
What is the largest ethnic minority group in the UK today: Asian
What do you think is the main reason(s) for the presence of ethnic minorities in the UK today: EU population, labour shortages after WW2.
The white population of Huddersfield is 81% and blow the UK average. Why do you think there is a high concentration of ethnic minorities in the town: University and textile industry.
10% of Hyde Park's population is Asian
Leeds average is 5% - it is double the Leeds average
There's a high concentration of Asian's here because of cheap housing, the community and white flight.
REASONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES IN THE UK
The UK is a multicultural society because of immigration and the inter-marriages that have taken place since. Mass immigration into the UK started after World War two
Terminology associated with immigration
Legal immigrant – a person who comes into a country to settle. Migration is usually for economic reasons (for work).
Illegal immigrant – a person who takes up residence in a foreign country without official permission to do so.
Asylum Seekers are people who have fled from their country of origin because they claim to be victims of persecution.
If the claims of an Asylum Seekers are found to be genuine, then they are granted Refugee status in the host country
reasons why britain became a multicultural society
1940s-1960s: large wave of immigrants from countries of the former British Empire (e.g. especially The Caribbean, India and Pakistan) because:
Immigrants were needed to help reconstruct the British economy after WW2 due to shortages in the labour force following loss of men in the world wars.
There were no restrictions on immigration into UK from the British Empire and Commonwealth - allows them to live and work in British Empire without a visa.
1972: Influx of Ugandan Asians into the UK because:
Idi Amin (Military dictator and president of Uganda) suddenly decided to expel all Asians from Uganda in 1972. Most held a British passport so were able to migrate to the UK.
1980s-1990s: A growth in asylum seekers to the UK from countries affected by conflict e.g. Afghanistan. They'd flee because:
To protect themslves and/or their family
To seek help and employment
Since 2004, there has been an increase in immigration to the UK from Eastern Europen countries, especially Poland because:
For economic reasons (to find work) and temporary in nature
Headed to UK because no border restrictions imposed
British Nationality Act 1948 caused a rush of immigration into the UK from former colonies
The Empire Windrush was the name of the "immigrant ship" from the Caribbean
66,000 West Indians rushed to enter the UK in 1962 to beat the door being slammed shut by the 1962 immigration act
The 1972 Immigration Act restricted movement from Commonwealth countries as it required migrants to have a job before they arrived, to possess special skills or who would meet the "labour needs£ of the national economy
Issues related to multicultural societies in the U
In 1968 Enoch Powell (a Conservative MP for Wolverhampton) first warned about the dangers of mass immigration into the UK in his "Rivers of Blood" speech.
Why was Enoch Powell concerned about the impacts of mass immigration from the Commonwealth?
British white people feel like they are being treated like 2nd class citizens, competing for jobs, housing etc.
Overpopulation in Britain
Not enough hospital beds, schools etc.
50,000 immigrants coming into country a year
He estimated by 2000, 1 million people or 1 in 10 of the population would be of immigrant descent
British White say they are not being racist - just saying what is right
Mass immigration causing problems for Brits and immigrants themselves
Over 40 years on, the debate goes on as to whether immigration is causing Britain's society to fragment and whether Enoch Powell was right. Today it's EU immigration causing problems and conservaties are trying to stop this. Back then it was prejudice. Differences is that today we accept multiculturalism, back then we didn't.
Issues associated with multicultural Britain
In the initial phases of immigration, multiple occupancy in rented accommodation in inner-city areas (terraced houses) was widespread. As migrants are often a source of cheap labour they have tended to concentrate in the poorest housing areas of major cities. Such concentrations are reinforced by later migrants who seek the support and security of living near friends and relatives within an ethnic community. More recently there has been greater owner occupancy and some more wealthy individuals have moved out into more suburban areas. In addition, many individuals from ethnic minorities run a small business such as a shop, and live in part of the same building.
Concentrations of minorities in inner-city areas have led to some schools being dominated by one ethnic group, which has affected education requirements. For example, special English lessons may be needed for children and their parents (mothers in particular), and bilingual reading schemes may be introduced. In some areas, special religious provision for minority groups has developed into separate schooling, known as faith schools”, but this is rare. In some areas, holiday patterns, school timetables and school meals are being modified to reflect the ethnic mix of the areas concerned in an effort to enhance mutual understanding of culture, particularly amongst the young.
New migrants can find it difficult to obtain employment and to integrate if they donot speak English. Second-generation migrant children, educated in the UK, grow up speaking the language and have different aspirations from their parents. They are more likely to integrate, and this can cause tension within the ethnic group if they adopt the culture of the host country.
Migrants are likely to follow a different religion from the host population and this may cause friction with employers and authorities when migrants wish to adhere to their own religious calendars and practices.
In the UK, there has been legislation on anti-racism, employment rights and equal opportunities to combat discrimination, prejudice and racism. However, the cost of state benefits for migrants’ housing, education and unemployment may still cause resentment and racial intolerance from members of the host population. The government policy of constructing centres to house asylum seekers in rural areas of the UK has caused concern and resentment among local residents. Migrants now account for one in eight of the UK’s working age population, which some now estimate as boosting economic output by £6 billion (2007). Much of this labour is aimed at the unskilled and low-skilled employment available. Others There are times when the issue of multiculturalism rises to the fore in a negative sense when there are terrorist incidents on UK soil. The recent incidents of the “7/7 bombings” in July 2005 and at Glasgow airport in 2007 which owe their origin to “home-grown” Islamic fundamentalist terrorists illustrate this.
Benefits associated with a multicultural society i
People less predjudice
Different food an shops
Understand more about different cultures
Younger generation less predjudice
Older generation may be more predjudice
Without immigration the UK's population would be in natural decrease
Higher active population to support elderly and youthful dependants
Dependency ratio would get lower as more tax payers so govt. receive more revenue
Less strain on NHS
Own their own businesses
Filled jobs in UK, e.g. doctors, labourers etc.
Unwanted jobs taken (e.g. farming-potato picking)
Contribute to tax as they pay
Case study: multicultural issues in Bradford
Bradford is a city with a multicultural society.
Reasons for ethnic mix in Bradford:
chain migration (move there because already know people there)
factory jobs
cheap houses in inner city and close to factories
(Look in SG page 61 for table)
Key points arising on Bradford's ethnic mix:
Higher non-British white community - especially Pakistani's
Diversity index score of 0.40
Frizinghall has the highest conc. of Pakistani's in England and Wales
Pakistan population is heavily concentrated within inner areas of Bradford and makes up 1/2 the population inwards such as Toller, university, little Horton and Bradford Moor.
2.7% pop of Bradford = Indians
processes which led to conc. of ethnic groups in B
White flight: Where ethnic minorities move into a district and white people move out
Ethnic absolutism: People with similar ethnic characteristics choose to locate together because they prefer to live with people who speak the same language, have same the customs and religious practices. This means that even with increasing wealth, people will still choose to live in the same ethnic community
Geographical Housing Inertia: Once an area becomes dominated by a particular ethnic group, it is likely to continue with a clustering together of people with a similar ethnic/cultural background
Chain migration: A social process by which immigrants who have settled in an area then help others from their family or community abroad to join them in the same area in the UK
Ethnic segregation: The clustering together of people with similar ethnic or cultural characteristics into separate urban residential areas. This can also resulted in segregation through schooling.
Chain migration + white flight = ethnic absolutism --> geographical housing inertia
Issues of multicultural society in Bradford
Issues in housing
Manningham (Inner city area) 75-90% Asian and Suburbs (Tong and Wisbey) 90% white
Geographical housing interia - whites keep moving to stay amongst white people
Poorest housing conditions in inner city where Asian's are
Frizinghall highest conc. of Pakistan's in the UK - begaan since 1997 (India's independence) and textile industry and cheap houses = immigrants in inner city -> chain migration -> white flight = segregation
Issues in racism
White flight - segregation
Racially segregated schools
Riots in 2007 - district of Manningham. 75% Asian. White youths attacked Asian businesses
Issues in education
"Linking Project" = encourage education school being linked together so children can mix
Different ethnic groups went to different schools
Academic achievement for students of Pakistani origin is only 30% 5 A*-C GCSE's, well below Bradford average
Geographical separation - between white & Asian population
Different ethnic groups went to different youth centres etc. Council used to have multi-cultural policy in town. Contributed to closed communities - funding given to different ethnic groups
Kids bussed from all Asian school to all white and vice versa to break barriers between children
Key figures to learn with Bradford case study
71% white in Bradford
20% Asian (mainly Pakistani) in Bradford
70-90% of Asian in Mannigham (inner city area of Bradford)
90% of whites in Tong and Wibsey (suburban areas of Bradford)
2001 was the date of Bradford riots
Change in attitudes towards multiculturalism
In theory, the longer a multicultural society exists, the more integrated the ethnic groups are into a community. The local population become more accustomed to different cultures and religions so that prejudices and tensions decrease over time. Language difficulties in the ethnic population also become less obvious. However, attitudes can also change . For example:-
Multiculturalism in the UK can be viewed negatively when there are acts of terrorism
immigration is welcomed in times of economic growth but resented during times of economic recession
Separatism within &/or across the national boundar
What is separatism? An attempt by a minority group within a country to gain greater independence or separation from the main country in order to protect its individualism.
Case study one: Scotland
Independence for Scotland (what you already know about Scottish referendum):
Alastair Darling=wanted Scotland to remain part of the UK
Govts. write paper of independence
Holyrood = Scottish Parliament 1998
Alex Salmond = leader of SNP and was 1st minister of Scotland (resigned due to 'no' vote)
SNP = Scottish National Party - nationalism
Yes campaign: Nicola Sturgen = in SNP and was deputy 1st minister - now 1st minister
Yes! = 90% of Scottish water and revenue goes to UK. Only get 10% of UK revenue
1707 act of union - because part of UK and lost independence
David Cameron promised he would give Scotland more power
18th September 2014 = Referendum. 1314 = Battle of Bannockburn. Year of Commonwealth games in Scotland
No campaign: Can't assume will get EU membership. Can't assume that can keep the £
5 W's on Scottish referendum
What is a referendum: Public vote or question
When was the referendum to be held?: 18th September 2014
Why this date?: Anniversary of 1314 Battle of Bannockburn (700 yrs after)
Which single yes/no question was on the ballot paper?: Should Scotland be an independent country
Who was eligible to vote in the referendum? Scottish citizens 16+
History of Scottish independence
The campaign for Scottish independence began as soon as the unification of England took place in 1707
1286: When the King of Scotland (Alexander III) died there was a power vacuum. The process of choosing the next ruler of Scotland would lead directly to deadly conflict with England in the Wars of Independence. The English King (Edward II) decides to step in and his English forces invade Scotland and this puts the country under English rule.
1314: In the Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce and his soldiers defeat the English (featured in the film”Braveheart”!), and Scotland wins back its independence from England.
1707: Scotland agrees to become part of the United Kingdom under the Act of Union (partly as a result of a financial crisis. Some will even claim that the Scots were bribed to sign the Act of Union). It results in a political union between Scotland and England with all political powers moved to London. This ends Scotland’s days as an independent Kingdom with its own parliament and government. However Scotland still retains its own legal system national church (Presbyterian) and universities.
1934: The Scottish National Party (SNP) was formed to campaign for greater political independence from the UK. 1999: A referendum on devolution is held and 74% of Scots vote in favour of greater political freedom. As a result, A Scottish Parliament (called Holyrood in Edinburgh) is created. Holyrood is given wide range policy making powers in areas of education, health care and transport as well as legal powers. However, Westminster still retains political powers on taxation (fiscal policy), energy, & foreign policy in the UK. However, Holyrood receives a treasury grant from the UK government for public spending(10% of UK revenue)
2011: The SNP win a landslide victory and became the first party to form a majority government in Holyrood. Alex Salmond is leader of the SNP and becomes First Minister of Scotland. He proposes a referendum on Scottish independence.
Oct 2012: Alex Salmond and David Cameron sign the Edinburgh Agreement. The UK Government and the Scottish Government agree to work together to ensure that a referendum on Scottish independence can take place.
18th Sept 2014: The date of the referendum where the people of Scotland voted on whether Scotland should become an independent country (45% For; 55% Against)
1286 (Wars of Independence) & 1314 (Battle of Bannockburn) = violent to gain independence to separatism
1934 (SNP), 1999 (A referendum on devolution), 2011 (The SNP win a landslide victory), 18th Sept 2014 (Referendum) = political/peaceful nature to separatism. Political route to achieve independence. Peaceful because working together - Scottish people, Scottish govt. & UK govt.
Nature & consequences of separatism
The NATURE OF SEPARATISM can be divided into two main forms: violent & peaceful:-
Violent consequences can include civil war, & terrorism.
Peaceful consequences can involve holding a referendum to achieve greater political independence (through devolution), establishing and maintaining a separate cultural identity, & passing laws which preserve teaching the language in schools.
How has the nature of separatism changed over time?
Violent -> peaceful. - Because gradual step and UK, Scottish govt. and Scottish people worked together to see what the Scots want.
Should Scotland become an independent country?
The debate over the future of Scotland will rumble on into the next generation. The official campaign for independence was called “Yes Scotland” and was dominated by the SNP. The official campaign against independence was called “Better Together”
reasons 4 separatists pressures(independence)in sc
Historical reasons:
Scotland has already been an independent country - Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1st 1707 when joined in a political union with Kingdom of England to create a United Kingdom of Great Britain, there were widespread protests.
Cultural reasons:
The Scottish identity will be best expressed through an independent country - Gaelic is a celtic language spoken in Scotland and distinctive cultural history.
Economic reasons:
Scotland would get 90% of Brtish North Sea revenue and make Scotland financially viable.
Scottish govt. would set up an oil fund which could be set aside for beneficial use in the future.
Political reasons:
Scotland has the right to self determination (Scots making decisions for themselves etc.)
The Scottish electorate would be empowered - make Scotland free by removing "Trident" (UK owned sumarine carrying nuclear missles) from the Frith on the Clyde (Scottish waters).
Arguments against independence
Could be finanically worse off with independence - highly dependent on revenue from North Sea oil and gas. Volatility of oil prices would affect Scottish budget
Could result in cuts in public spending - with devolution
Scotland enjoys a higher public spending per head while in the UK
Scotland's biggest market is the UK - biggest trading partners. UK independence may create trade barriers
Sctoland's stronger and more secure as part of the UK - Sctoalnd would of been ruined by the recent finanical crisis if it had not been for the UK.
Scottish cultural identity is not suppressed by being part of the UK - able to increase the sense of Scottishness (e.g. Scottish studies in school curriciculum)
consequences of separatism
What would have happened in the event of a “yes” vote for independence?
An independent Scotland would retain Queen Elizabeth as head of state. However, Scotland would need to reapply for European Union and NATO membership. In addition, a constitutional settlement would need to be agreed with the UK government. Many issues would need to discussed and negotiated involving weighty issues which may take a long time to resolve.
Issues which a Scottish government would have needed to resolve with the UK government.
Defence is one - especially since the SNP want rid of Britains nuclear weapons (Trident) based on the Clyde (Scottish waters)
Scotland would have to take a share of UK's debt and continued to use the pound sterling
Even after independence is achieved other hurdles need to be clear - European Union and Nato memberships
Final outcome of referendum:
55% of votes against independence. Alex Salmond resigned as leader of SNP and as first minister. Nicola Sturgen has now taken over.
Alex Salmond described the independence referendum as a once –in-a-generation event so it unlikely that there will be other independence referendums in the immediate future. However, in order to swing the vote in favour of the “Better Together” campaign, the UK Govt agreed to a number of alterations to the current powers held by the Scottish Parliament. These were close to what the SNP had requested in the intitial referendum and which they had termed “Devo-max”. (The SNP had originally wanted three parts to the voting slip: Yes to Independence, No to Independence and Devo-Max. Devo-max was removed by the Conservatives).
consequences of separatism:
What increased powers were the Scottish people offered if they voted to remain in the Union (UK)?:
Set income tax and bands
Allow 16-17 year olds to vote in Scottish elections
Be given part share in VAT receipts
Have control over air passenger duty
What has happened since the "no" vote for independence?
Continue to form an integral part of the UK - but for Scottish devolution, the process of granting powers from Westminister to the Scottish parliament, it's far from business as usual
UK parties (Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems) agree that further devolution powers to Holyroof must take place - if scots rejected independence
Labour wants to give Holyrood the power to vary income tax by 15p in the pound - but not the power to cut the top tax rate on its own
Case study 2: South Sudan (e.g. of regionalism)
The reasons for South Sudan separatist pressures. (page 96 in s/g for extra notes)
Sudanese separatism-
Borders are long, straight lines drawn on maps by colonian rulers carving up people and villages, creating conflict as it ignores ethnicity and religion
Independent in 1956 from Ethiopia and war has been going on since
Gained independence from British Colonian rule
Cultural/religions reasons:
Different religions- North: Muslims / South: Christians & Animists (following traditional religion)
Different languages & tradition beliefs: (The Dinkas & The Nuers)
North = Arabs / South = The Drinkas, The Nuers & Christian
South Sudan oil rich, but its oil fields are on border with the North and only pipeline runs to the North, making oil dispute a strong possibility
Produce 80% oil but only receive 50% of wealth - South Sudan could be wealthier if independent
Neglected South Sudan education, food, water etc.
Northern based govt. illegally "stole land" and given it to military borders from the North, leaving people as refugees
Consequences of Sudanese separatist pressures
How did the Separatist Pressures manifest themselves?
The South Sudanese struggle for independence could be traced back to tribal rivalries (Cultural differences) in the 15th and 16th Centuries, but the real conflict started after Sudan gained Independence from Egypt in 1956.
1st civil war took place in: 1955-1972. Consequences: 1/2 million deaths and 100's of 1000's displaced people
2nd civil war took place in: 1983-2005. Consequences: 2 million deaths from war, famine, disease and 4 million displaced. Was Guerilla warfare - fight informally
War ended in 2005 and was solved with a peace agreement which granted the Southerners with regional autonomy along with guaranteed representation in a national power - strong govt.. Also provided a referendum for Southerners to decide if they want independence
Challenges which face South Sudan as a NIC:
Poverty: half the pop lives on less than $1 a day
Improved drinking water: less than 2/3 pop have access
Immunisation: 10% children fully vaccinated only
Child birth: only 10$ of deliveries are attended by a skilled practioner
Less than 15% literate
Insecure country
Could be in debt
Pipeline on North border
S.Sudanese Referendum&Independent State
The South Sudanese Referendum and the move to an Independent State
What is a referendum?
Public vote or question
What was the outcome of the South Sudan referendum?
99% said yes to independence
When did South Sudan become an independent state and what was the general feeling of the population?
Celebrating and optimistic for the future. 9th July 2011.
Since the elections and independence, South Sudan has become embroiled in a bitter civil war mainly centred around disagreements between different ethnic (tribal) groups. The recent “Guardian” newspaper extract gives some insight:“ More than 2 million people have fled their homes in South Sudan since fighting erupted in December 2013. The conflict was sparked by a long-standing enmity between South Sudan President Salva Kiir, from the country’s largest Dinka ethnic group, and his former deputy turned rebel leader Riek Machar, a Nuer, which quickly spread from the streets of Juba into an increasingly tribal conflict. Around 200,000 South Sudanese have fled to Gambella – a remote rural region in western Ethiopia. In a war that has been marked by unprecedented levels of sexual violence, largely against children, Nyadel is willing to sacrifice her 18-year-old son to avenge what she considers the extermination of their people. “Death is normal. I’ll die. He will die. All of us do not need to be here and he can contribute,”
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Rockstar discusses the past, present and future of GTA Online
By ReverseFlash, November 24, 2019 in GTA Online
ReverseFlash 734
Rockstar North's co studio head has talked about the past, present and future of GTA Online.
"We’ve always wanted to build these immersive, complex living worlds to hold our stories, regardless of whether it’s for a single player or multiple," he says. "We had created complex systems for weather, traffic, population, and more, to give people as much freedom as we possibly could to create unique experiences. "
"We can go ‘into’ the world by creating additional interiors like the Maze Bank Arena, missile silos, or the underground bunkers. But we also have the opportunity to change the topography in major ways, like the Diamond Casino & Resort building. There’s a lot more we can do with the world we’ve made before we’re going to feel like we’re pushing the limits of what it can handle."
"We have great people at every level of the company who play the game all the time and who are constantly coming up with new ways to add to the world. It’s a credit to the entire team, from the initial world-building that sets up the universe, through to scripting, animation, and the mission design."
Rockstar discusses their thoughts on role playing
"It’s fascinating, People are taking it far beyond traditional game structures and we love seeing what people get up to. They’ve essentially had to break the game down to do it, but it shows that not only are people constantly looking for ways to create different kinds of immersive experiences, but that others enjoy watching what they do. We’ve always wanted people to role-play. Even in the singleplayer games we’re providing an opportunity to play as a character in a specific kind of world."
"As we have developed our online worlds we’ve wanted it to be an opportunity for players to role-play as their own characters within the structure of that world we’ve built. In Red Dead Online we took another step by giving players specific roles, but we think there’s a lot of ways we can improve that experience."
Rockstar on player habits and what people want
“The most interesting thing, but maybe not surprising, is that what people say they want isn’t necessarily what they want.
“Sometimes we will release an update and see a lot of negative social media feedback. But we learn by the way that people are engaging with it that it’s actually really popular. We’ve always been trying to deliver something our audience will enjoy and we’ve learned a ton about the game through player habits.
“Player feedback is always a part of our overall decision-making process in terms of guiding the moving parts of any given update. We often have the larger concepts we want to pursue from update to update as part of our near-to-long- term planning, but the team is constantly looking at player data or the feedback the community sends us to see how we can improve what we’re building as we go.
Now Rockstar talks about the Future of GTA Online
"We try to keep plans going roughly a year out, but we want to have the flexibility to be responsive to any changes," says Nelson. "So we choose not to telegraph that entire timeline to players. That said, players should feel confident that we have a ton of brand new ideas still to come. It’s been six years and we just hit record player numbers and we are all incredibly grateful to everyone who’s been with us along the way. In terms of what’s coming up, Halloween should be a lot of fun this year and we’ve got really exciting plans for later in the holiday season and beyond."
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-past-present-and-future-of-rockstars-world-conquering-grand-theft-auto-online/?utm_content=bufferc0480&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw
Edited November 24, 2019 by ReverseFlash
joel15cat 9,300
You are becoming hysterical
Lonely-Martin 25,154
Time for a refresh.
"...to give people as much freedom as we possibly could to create unique experiences. "
Bullsh*t, absolute bollocks. 🤣🤣
If they're gonna start with a flat out lie, there's little point reading on IMHO.
ventogt 756
This was discussed like a week ago or more.
2 minutes ago, ventogt said:
Can I see this?
JackCarter 266
Recon Jack
I remember on 360, my buddy was walking his dog or something, I had my character standing in the window of his Del Perro apartment, looking out over the street. I walk in from the kitchen and look at the screen and all of a sudden there's like 6 guys pulling up in military vehicles on the sidewalk, all dressed as tacticool as was possible in those days and they were using the lobby mic and going full on milsim. I started choking from laughing so hard because the lobby was next to empty then out of nowhere here's this whole team of guys hopping about the curbs and shooting at cars, yelling commands at eachother, trying to move in formation. 1 sounded like Barry White, another sounded like the chipmunks..
mute! 1,287
"Halloween should be a lot of fun this year...'
With that out of the way, it sounds like they want to continue milking gta online well into 2020. I get why, but wish GTA6/GTA online 2 would come out already!!
"we can totally change the map without any issues"
*Diamond resort runs at about 20 fps*
"Fans dont want what they want"
*releases botched missions and survivals with sh*tty payouts and broken cars*
"Players complain, but new updates are still very popular"
*yeah what's the player drop off rate there chief?*
"We give players freedom and unique experiences"
*arbitrary restrictions, linear mission design, lack of customization in most aspects*
"Halloween should be fun"
*releases slow trike, busted survivals and vanilla peyote plants that are also broken*
You guys need a community manager or something? Jesus Christ.
Edited November 24, 2019 by HamwithCheese
Quinn_flower 14,267
S.T.A.R.S Unit/The Dear R* Girl/Meh Queen
Bullsh*t r* listening... Hahah dont make me bring up the clothing
Well, it's good to know that I don't want what I *thought* I wanted.
Next update should just turn that tower, that's been under construction for six years, into a giant middle finger.
Volatollotalov 496
Seems to me that this was an interview very much aimed at the investors, not the players
2 hours ago, ReverseFlash said:
I made a song for it.
Black-Dragon96 7,482
Yeah sure thing R*, the adversery modes are totally not only popular because they are paying double for the first week. Who would come to such a ridiculous conclusion.
Thats why the 99,9% of them are dead as soon as the double $ ends.
When people ask for this:
they ofcourse want sh*t like this:
Edited November 24, 2019 by Black-Dragon96
Willy A. Jeep 4,976
Hans Z. Porsche
What silly reasoning they've got for player habits. Of course content is popular when it's in the game, because it's something to do - the point of playing a game. It doesn't mean that it's what people want, or that other (non-existent) content is not, they're just looking for more gameplay in the game they paid money for. When you make the arena and fill it with tools, you can't make unbiased observations when players are using the tools in the arena and not the tools you didn't add to the other arena you didn't make! That's madness.
To me, it's always seemed like Rockstar is more keen on doing what they want than what players want, which is backwards. They make content that sometimes is enjoyed by the community at large, and other times they're wasting everybody's time on things that either nobody is interested in, or things that are so half-hearted that many people who would've liked it can't even enjoy it right. It's not necessarily that the game is bad, just that it could be so much better. And goodness gracious, I recognize that the vocal parts of the playerbase don't necessarily represent its entirety, but they do represent considerable segments of it. They're suggesting content all the time, things that many players do want, why not add that alongside the stuff that only people at Rockstar are suggesting?
And, of course, these spokesmen seem so laughably disconnected from the reality of the game. Playing for more than two hours on PC routinely results in menu users ruining entire sessions, forcing disconnects, and generally making players shy away from actually participating in much of this "immersive, complex living world" of Grand Theft Auto Online. Further, with the incredibly restrictive, PvP-encouraging structures of the highest-paying freeroam missions, I find it hard to believe they have multiple people playing the game "all the time" as normal players do without seeing so much of what is wrong with it. At best, they've fallen victim to groupthink, at worst, this is what they actually want. Yikes.
3 hours ago, Quinn_flower said:
They are obviously listening to some colourblind kid from the sticks with no fashion sense who thinks that a gold lamé bomber jacket with neon purple $$$$ signs all over it is cool as f*ck.
Lock n' Stock 2,514
“Player feedback is always a part of our overall decision-making process..."
Of course it is. At least when it comes to the kiddies who want flying bikes and laser guns.
Edited November 24, 2019 by Lock n' Stock
“The most interesting thing, but maybe not surprising, is that what people say they want isn’t necessarily what they want."
Translation: Shut the f*ck up. We think you're stupid. We want your money. Not your criticism. This is our investors game. Not yours.
Give players "As much freedom as we could."
Oh? So it's only "as much freedom" when it comes to anything that doesn't involve GTA$? Because when it comes to game modes and making money we are all handcuffed and hampered at EVERY f*ckING TURN. Timers on literally everything is freedom? Telling the entire lobby what you're doing and putting a flashing red blip on us is freedom? F*ck you, PR bitch.
This interview is laughable at best and should have been seen as the utter bullsh*t it is and not ever been published, at worst.
Oh that's right, I DIDN'T want to run my businesses in my former crew sessions and hope to grow that rather than many quitting or going solo to do theirs in peace too. Of course, now I remember. None of us did.
I swear some of those responses are bait, lol.
Halal Cyborg 5,835
They’re probably assuming everyone bought a mk2 oppressor because it’s what everyone wanted without realising...not because it’s a vehicle without a counter save for one of your own.
Standard Deluxe 59 10,074
Wishing I was in Margaritaville
Interesting to know that apparently I don't want a classic Porsche 911 lookalike and actually wanted a widebody and rally variant.
I also didn't know that I wanted a bagged chop top 49 Mercury Coupe instead of a stock one.
Nor did I know that I wanted an Esprit with useless machine guns.
Yeah, the players don't know what they want or want what they want? I mean I guess...
AutobotJazz1 5,306
PSN-AutobotJazz1
I just just f*cking hate R more and more now. The f*ck are they doing with the 6 billion dollars we made them???
39 minutes ago, Standard Deluxe 59 said:
This x1000. They wonder why stuff isn't as popular as they expected it to be, you gotta wonder what they actually gave us that was highly requested?
Jester? Subpar. Comet classic? Two subpar models. Gauntlets? Well received but rather slow. Madmax sh*t? Insane pay walls and unlocks. Nightlife update? Time consuming upkeep, paywalls, trash clothing. The list can go on and on but this is a BnM at this point.
It's unfair to say "oh well the customer is wrong because they don't like what they want, no they want this." That's incredibly insulting to me, and it gives off this foolish "the audience loves me I can't fail" attitude, and eventually will lead to their downfall.
25 minutes ago, MeisterJazz said:
dorcy 2,174
"Alright, let's get straight to the biscuits."
4 hours ago, YELLOW DOG WITH CONE said:
lol. "i'm dead iniside."
this does pretty much sum it up. players buy product, bitch about purchased product, pretend next time will be different. rinse repeat.
B7R 2,640
R* Got Greedy with GTAOnline
I'm no moderator but at this point, take it to PM guys, enough of threads getting derailed because there's a feud between members
Coleco 19,043
Shut up and dance you FOOLS
Ooh I think I arrived in topic at just the right time
Also, this game should be commended for a number of things, but wholesome gameplay and player engagement certainly aren't among them. From the start this game has been a shallow multiplayer sandbox which has the occasional Shiny New Thing thrown into it every so often. Not a 'living, breathing world' by any means.
Unless you count 'living' as skies filled with shark-jumping examples of how to destroy game balancing and 'breathing' as the sounds from other players mics every time you're locked in a lobby waiting endlessly for another lousy Adversary mode to start
Edited November 25, 2019 by Coleco
Uncle Sikee Atric 11,031
Everyone's favorite Uncle, but not Green Badge.
21 minutes ago, B7R said:
Both of ya, either do that or knock it off!
This sort of thread has the potential to create a flame war fairly sharpish in any case, so don't give us a reason to lock it. Be civil.
1 hour ago, Coleco said:
I gotta disagree. I don't feel like it became your description until Ill Gotten Gains.
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Towards a global research network for the molecular pathological stratification of leishmaniasis.
Lead Research Organisation: University of York
Department Name: Biology
The leishmaniasis are parasitic diseases caused by one of several species of single cell parasites (Leishmania) that are transmitted to humans by the bite of infected phlebotamine sand flies. These diseases affect over 150 million people across 98 countries worldwide, including many low and middle income countries (LMICs). Some forms of leishmaniasis are fatal, whereas other are very stigmatising and affect quality of life, particularly in children and women. Few drugs are available for patients leishmaniasis and no vaccines are currently registered for use in preventing or treating these diseases. Importantly, the drugs that we do have are not universally effective and often have significant side effects. Sometimes patients even in the same geographical area will respond quite differently to therapy, and for some drugs effectiveness may vary widely between different countries. In order to make the best use of current and future drugs for the leishmaniasis, we need to understand more about why this is the case, and use that information to select appropriate drugs or drug combination for use in different settings. Using the appropriate treatment would save costs in health care, minimise the patient suffering that results from administering ineffective treatments, and reduce the economic burden of disease on patients, their families and communities.
In this proposal, we are aiming to lay the foundation blocks that will drive a new way of managing patients with leishmaniasis and conducting research into these diseases. We will use new molecular approaches to extract as much information as possible from small tissue samples that are collected from patients to diagnose their leishmaniasis, and use this information to start to develop new tests that can help clinicians decide on the best course of treatment. We will use the internet to ensure that the information obtained from these tissue samples is used most effectively for research, clinical decision making and for education and training. We will conduct an analysis of the added value of these changes in approach, in order to provide a case for their adoption by health systems in LMICs and by the funders of research. Ultimately, by adopting these practices we will seek to deliver improvements in health and economic prosperity in LMICs. The research we propose over the next two years will not provide all the answers, but will provide necessary proof of concept data to support applications for future funding that may allow us to realise this longer term ambition.
Technical Summary
The leishmaniasis are complex diseases, showing great diversity in clinical presentation and in response to drug treatment, across individual patients as well as across geographic boundaries. The adoption of stratified approaches to treatment with existing as well as new drugs and /or drug combination therapies could have a considerable impact on the direct and indirect costs associated with treatment and significantly improve patient well-being. In this Foundation Award, we aim to set the scene for a change in the way we conduct clinical research in leishmaniasis. Using Nanostring nCounter analysis of formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) sections, we will maximise the data obtained from diagnostic tissue samples and use this information to start to develop multiplex point of care assays that can be used in a resource poor setting. We will assess the added value to research, clinical decision making and education and training that can be achieved thorough the development of an internet-based telepathology network, initially linking "scanning" hubs in Brazil and York with remote viewing stations in Sri Lanka and India. We will use a series of scoping workshops to i) inform the development of a new clinical grading tool for tegumentary leishmaniasis (based on advances being made for other dermatological diseases) and ii) to understand the health economic implications of adopting this approach and to seek evidence for added value for the research community and for health systems in LMICs. Each of the specific project aims has been structured to provide the necessary preliminary data and, where appropriate, explore the industrial partnerships necessary to underpin future funding applications and / or commercial sector engagement in 12-18mth time. At the completion of the Foundation Award, these studies will have also delivered new knowledge of importance in its own right and suitable for publication.
Planned Impact
The leishmaniasis are global diseases with a particular impact on the health and well-being of populations in lower and middle income countries (LMICs). Tegumentary leishmaniasis, most often resulting in significant scaring, affects people in >40 LMICs and may lead to reduction in life chances, stigmatisation and social exclusion. This is particularly so for children and females. Visceral leishmaniasis is responsible for 20,000-40,000 deaths each year, mainly in Sudan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Brazil. In addition to the health impact, the leishmaniasis affect economic development in LMICs, with extensive stays in hospital and / or treatment costs having a considerable impact for patients, their families and for affected communities. Knowing why current drugs work better in some people and in some countries than in others and the ability to use this information in rapid point of care clinical decision making would have a major impact on patient health and help reduce the economic burden of disease.
This proposal sets the foundation for a longer more far reaching program of work that aims to reduce the burden of leishmaniasis in LIMCs. The step change in research approach that we are proposing will provide clinicians and researchers with much better access to clinical materials, taken during routine diagnosis, than has ever been possible before. In depth analysis of these samples using state of the art "omics" approaches will generate new knowledge and help us develop new tests to guide clinicians on the most appropriate treatment, improving individual patient experience, and reducing direct and indirect treatment costs. The manufacture and marketing of these tests would provide new commercial opportunities in LMICs.
The technology we will use to develop an internet based tele pathology network will extend the developments in telehealth already underway in some LMICs and demonstrate its added value for research and health practice related to not only leishmaniasis but other neglected diseases of poverty.
This will foster greater adoption of this approach for clinical decision making, research and importantly for education and training. We believe that the use of new technology in this way will encourage young researchers and clinicians to make their careers in the field of poverty related diseases. We see leishmaniasis as an exemplar of what might be achieved across a range of poverty related diseases.
By conducting a health economic evaluation of the value added by developing global networks for research and training and by developing point of care testing to aid therapeutic choice, we will enhance the case for future research and uptake of such practices by health service providers. Evidence of greater research capacity and translational impact will also encourage further funding into these diseases in LMICs by major funders such as the Wellcome Trust and or BMGF, as well as through the GCRF.
MR/P024661/1
Paul Martin Kaye
Health Category:
Infection (100%)
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors (25%)
5.9 Resources and infrastructure (development of treatments) (75%)
Research Programme:
GCRF
University of York, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (Collaboration)
Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education And Research (Collaboration)
University of Sao Paolo (Collaboration)
Paul Martin Kaye (Principal Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-4755
Hiro Goto (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7048-562X
Mark Sculpher (Co-Investigator)
Pegine Walrad (Co-Investigator)
Dimitris Lagos (Co-Investigator)
Shalindra Ranasinghe (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8173-334X
Paul Andrew Revill (Co-Investigator)
Alison Margaret Layton (Co-Investigator)
Mitali Chatterjee (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-6019
Fletcher HA (2018) VALIDATE: Exploiting the synergy between complex intracellular pathogens to expedite vaccine research and development for tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, melioidosis and leprosy. in F1000Research
Research Tools and Methods
Description MRC UK-Brazil Joint centre Partnership
Amount £2,000,000 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/S019472/1
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC)
Title LeisPathNet digital pathology platform
Description We have developed a website to host digitised whole slide images from research projects on human and experimental leishmaniasis. The database is being developed in collaboration with Zeiss and allows searching of images via metadata to allow within and across experiment analysis of pathology data. Metadata also includes available tissue samples for future research, allowing the development of new clinical and animal research collaborations based on archival rather than new sample collection. This has considerable ethical implications, notably in the context of 3Rs and maximising benefit from human donations.
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure
Impact Whilst still in early pilot phase, we anticipate significant engage, et from the leishmanisis research community, promoting greater global collaboration and enhanced access to clinical and animal tissues and greater opportunities for data sharing and mining.
URL https://leishpathnet.org
Title LeishPathNet
Description A web based collection of digital pathology images from human and animal studies associated with research on leishmaniasis. The data is fully searchable via associated metadata and the web site promotes collaboration by making tissues available for collaborative research projects.
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data
Impact Too early to indicate
Description GCRF
Organisation Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education And Research
PI Contribution Joint applicants on successful GCRF Foundation Award
Collaborator Contribution Overseas sites responsible for developing clinical tools and patient data collection; UoY responsible for training, validation of ne multiplex methodologies in IHC and FISH and establishment of web site and databases
Impact Development of website; two workshop completed (one in health economics, the other related to clinical grading tools); new methodology for RNA FISH validated on FFPE tissues samples. Multidisciplinary involving immunologists, molecular parasitologists, clinicians, health economists.
Organisation University of Sao Paulo
Organisation University of Sri Jayawardanapura
Country Sri Lanka
Description Clinical Grading Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Workshop on devising a clinical scoring system for cutaneous lesions due to leishmaniasis. Output was a consensus case record form for use in GCRF projects across India, Sri Lanka and Brazil. Will inform better patient record keeping and use of patient samples in research. May ultimately lead to improved diagnosis or treatment.
URL https://leishpathnet.org/research/
Description Leishmaniasis Modeling and Economics Workshop
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Approx. 20 participants attended a workshop to scope current status of health economic evaluation of leishmaniasis and modelling activities in epidemiology / health economics. report made available to participants in early 2018.
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You Can Hit It Really Hard
by Sarah Cahill, The East Bay Express, Oakland, California
Read notes for Up-Front Concerto (1993) for hand drums solo and orchestra
...Percussion was also the centerpiece of another, different kind of orchestra concert over the weekend: the Community Women's Orchestra featuring Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker's Up-Front Concerto with hand-drum soloist Johanna Ceapach-Choinn. This was the kind of audience big orchestras dream of: families, little kids, couples, young and old sitting together and whooping enthusiastically after every piece. Of course, comparing a community ensemble in a high school auditorium to a professional symphony orchestra in the Paramount Theater is unfair to both groups. But something might be learned from the spirit of the women's orchestra concert, if only the thought that one of the little girls sitting next to me might get the idea, after hearing Walker's piece, that she could grow up to be a composer too.
Wearing a yarmulke (she's a pre-rabbinical school student) and sporting a sleeveless jacket to show off armfuls of colorful tattoos, Ceapach-Choinn gave a short introduction to the concerto, which she premiered three years ago with the Women's Philharmonic at Thornhill Elementary School in Oakland. Following the first movement which uses congas, the second movement highlights "the world's longest rainstick -- just an inch shorter than a Toyota station wagon," which Ceapach-Choinn had mounted on a platform. The third movement featured a cuica from Brazil, and rattles called "grapes." The concerto itself is a fun, jazzy showpiece for these instruments. Ceapach-Choinn controlled the rainstick's flow by tipping it slowly, swinging it from side to side, and rattling it. Walker's orchestral writing is spare in this movement, making the subtleties of the stick's sound audible. With the cuica -- a drum with a a stick inside it which is rubbed with a wet cloth -- Ceapach-Choinn made surprisingly expressive sounds, some melodic, some funny and rude, others very like speech, as when she entered in an intimate dialogue with violinist Sara Moore.
Smaller groups like the Community Women's Orchestra are filling in some of the gaps left by larger orchestras. Perhaps they can afford to be more creative with programming; risks do increase the bigger a group gets. But instead of reatreating to the conservative classics and old chestnuts, maybe our local symphony orchestras will find that by taking those risks they may discover what their audiences truly want to hear.
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Joy to Edward A Cahill, April 1945., April 1945. Digital
FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Papers, 1909-1968. / Series: Series IX. Unitarian Service Committee
Item — Box: 50, Folder: 2Identifier: bMS 347, bMS 347/50 (2)
Scope and Contents: Collection includes sermons, 1909-1967; addresses, 1909-1966; printed articles, 1917-1966; undated manuscript writings; book manuscripts; material on Albert Schweitzer; correspondence, 1937-1968; worship materials; material relating to his work for the Unitarian Service Committee, 1940-1946, Save the Children Federation, 1947-1950, and CARE, 1951-1955; and biographical material. Boxes 52-54 include...
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FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Unitarian Service Committee. Case Files, 1938-1951.
Item — Box: 26, Folder: 5Identifier: bMS 16004, bMS 16004/26 (5)
Scope and Contents: In May of 1948 the U.S. Congress passed the Displaced Persons Act. This act authorized individuals who were displaced from their homelands as a result of World War II to enter the United States. The Unitarian Service Committee reviewed applications for those applying for assistance and endeavored to help many individuals find homes and employment in the United States. The correspondence and applications in this collection includes biographical information,...
-H- correspondence, USC staff, 1950., 1950. Digital
FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Unitarian Service Committee. Executive Director. Records, 1941-1951.
Item — Box: 9, Folder: 10Identifier: bMS 16081, bMS 16081/9 (10)
Scope and Contents: This collection includes the records of Raymond B. Bragg, executive director, 1947-1952; Howard L. Brooks, associate director, 1943-1953, and acting director, July-November 1952, July 1946-March 1947; Charles Joy, executive director, 1944-1946; and Helen Fogg, director of child and youth projects. It also includes correspondence from USC staff members who worked with...
Portugal. Correspondence, 1947., 1947. Digital
FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1941-1952.
Scope and Contents: This collection is arranged chronologically. It documents many aspects of the relief work that the Unitarian Service Committee conducted in France, Switzerland, Portugal, Holland, Hungary, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Several different agencies and...
American Council of Voluntary Agencies. Correspondence, 1948., 1948. Digital
Item — Box: 17, Folder: 19Identifier: bMS 16035, bMS 16035/17 (19)
Correspondence. General, 1952., 1952. Digital
FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Unitarian Service Committee. Director, Child and Youth Projects. Records, 1947-1961.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4Identifier: bMS 16036, bMS 16036/1 (4)
Scope and Contents: The bulk of this collection consists of the correspondence of Helen Fogg, who was director of the Child and Youth Projects Department. This department was in charge of the child care program in Germany and the Bremen Neighborhood House, which was begun in 1950 as an experiment in community development. Fogg had a far-reaching vision for her work, and thought that the model of the medical missions could be applied to social work...
Adopted cases "B" Digital
Scope and Contents: The Unitarian Service Committee offered assistance to displaced people during and after World War II in a number of ways, some of which are documented in this collection. Under the USC "adoption" plan, sponsors in the United States usually sent a package of food monthly via the USC to a needy family or individual in Europe, as well as occasional clothing packages. The USC also assisted people in finding shelter and employment in the United States. In...
Pustau, Erna. Memos to Howard Brooks, 1949., 1949. Digital
Scope and Contents: Collection includes correspondence about displaced persons from various parts of Europe; expressions of thanks from refugees in Germany who had received care packages from the Unitarian Service Committee; correspondence to and from Helen Fogg, who was director of the Child Care Institute in Germany; communication from the International Refugee Organization in Geneva, Switzerland concerning displaced...
Switzerland, financial reports, itineraries, and correspondence re: Medical Exchange Team on Immunopathology, 1958., 1958. Digital
FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Unitarian Service Committee. Medical Missions. Records, 1942-1967. / Series: Series I. Medical missions, Europe / Sub-Series: Switzerland
Scope and Contents: This collection includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, clippings, applications, financial records, and photographs concerning the medical missions conducted by the Unitarian Service Committee. The bulk of the collection dates from 1948 to 1955 and focuses most heavily on material related to Europe. The collection also includes administrative records such as Board of Directors minutes and fundraising records which relate to the work of the medical missions....
Europe, mixed, medical symposia program, correspondence and memoranda, 1956., 1956. Digital
FOUND IN: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School / Collection: Unitarian Service Committee. Medical Missions. Records, 1942-1967. / Series: Series I. Medical missions, Europe / Sub-Series: Europe, mixed
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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Lowell 51
Amy Lowell notes concerning John Keats
Typescript notes concerning John Keats and his poetry, as well as transcribed letters of John Keats and other correspondents, compiled for Lowell's book, John Keats, published in 1925.
Collection materials are in English.
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
.5 linear feet (1 box)
Typescript notes concerning John Keats and his poetry from identified published sources, as well as Lowell's historical and poetic criticism of his poetry, for her book, John Keats (Boston, 1925). Also contains her typescript transcripts of Keats's letters, copied from the edition by Buxton Forman, The poetical works and other writings of John Keats. Lowell compares some of the published letters to the originals to show differences in wording and spelling. There are two folders of Keats's unpublished (as of 1925) letters in typescript and in the hand of Lowell, transcribed from originals held by variously identified owners. Richard Woodhouse's commonplace book, which Lowell transcribed from a copy held at the Pierpont Morgan Library, contains letters from Woodhouse and from Benjamin Bailey to John Taylor concerning Keats and his poetry.
Amy Lowell was an American poet who published a biography of the English poet John Keats.
Arranged into the following series:
I. Notes on John Keats
II. John Keats's letters, in transcription
III. Richard Woodhouse's commonplace book, in transcription
Harvard Depository
No accession number. Bequest of Amy Lowell; received: 1925.
Recataloged from: Lowell 10.29.3, Lowell 10.29.5, Lowell 10.29.7, Lowell 10.29.9, Lowell 10.29.11.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processed by: Diane Booton
Material was removed from the original three-ring black notebooks.
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925. Amy Lowell notes concerning John Keats, undated: Guide.
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Amy Lowell Notes Concerning John Keats, undated (MS Lowell 51). Houghton Library, Harvard University. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01839/catalog Accessed January 22, 2020
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Nearly all the old ministers who are on the list of the ministerial nominees President Muhammadu Buhari forwarded to the Senate for confirmation may return to their former ministries.
The screening of the nominees, which began on Wednesday with the first batch, comprising of 10 out of the 43 potential ministers, continued Thursday with the assessment of another batch of 14.
The screening is expected to end on Monday while eight among the nominees will be considered today.
Sources revealed that the plan to return the nominees, after their confirmation by the Senate, to their erstwhile portfolios was intentional so as to ensure continuation in policy direction and execution of projects.
One of the sources said that except there was a last-minute change of plans, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi would return to the Ministry of Transport; Captain Hadi Sirika would retain his Aviation portfolio; Dr. Chris Ngige would continue at the Ministry of Labour and Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN would still go back to his old position as the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
In addition, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed would still manage the Ministry of Finance; Mallam Adamu Adamu (Education), Lai Mohammed (Information) and Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu would retain his old position at the Ministry of Science and Technology.
However, the source said while Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN would retain his old portfolio, his burden might be reduced as there are plans to unbundle the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, which he superintended over during Buhari’s first term in office.
The source said another option being considered regarding Fashola’s former mega ministry is to leave it intact while he would be assisted in running the jumbo ministry with the appointments of two junior ministers.
If the consideration for the unbundling of the mega ministry prevails, Fashola might retain the Power portfolio while the two others, would be given to fresh nominees.
According to one of the sources, while former Ogun State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Olamilekan Adegbite, is being considered as Minister of Housing, former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio might be the new Minister of Works.
It was also learnt that some of the nominees and their influential friends and associates were lobbying to be sent to ministries they would be comfortable in working in.
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Review: Disneynature: Monkey Kingdom 2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack
The product featured in this post was provided free of cost to me for the sole purpose of product testing and review. Please note that any personal opinions reflected in this post are my own and have not been influenced by the sponsor in any way.
Disneynature: Monkey Kingdom
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2015
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios
ASIN: B00W43AF10
Growing up I enjoyed watching Disney True Life Adventures. As an adult I enjoy Disney Nature. Its documentaries are both educational and family friendly. Since 2008 its epic stories fittingly released in conjunction with Earth Day, and now Monkeys are movie delights. (See past reviews of Earth, Oceans, African Cats, and Chimpanzees on hereandthere.us.)
Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill ably direct primate toque macaques in their own Sri Lanka habitat. The ancient jungle ruins of Southern Asia’s Polonnaruwa is the background for a tale of a competitive hierarchy, alpha males, rivalry, social order, social status, rivalry, extended family, the search for food, and natural enemies.
Bonus Features:
Tales From The Kingdom
On The Set of Monkey Kingdom with Jane Goodall and Wolfgang Dittus
Disneynature Monkey Kingdom: The Conservation Story
It?s Our World Music Video Performed by Jacquie Lee
A Special Thank You From Disneynature
As I See It:
Monkey Kingdom narrated by Tina Fey has everything. Watching the Temple Troop simians, Raja, The Three Sisters, Maya, Kumar, and newborn Kip as they feed, face predators, and fight invading monkeys in the wild makes for good drama. Watching their uninvited crashing a child’s birthday party, shoplifting street market stalls, and hanging in an arboreal cell phone tower make for better comedy.
Cinematography is breathtaking. With clips of elephants, tigers, leopards, deer, peacocks, mongoose, termites, scorpions, and monitor lizards as background, blonde-bibbed Maya is the scene stealer. Even endangered, fighting for survival, she remains adventurous. The footage of her underwater swimming comes as a total surprise. Playful monkey hi-jinks set to The Monkee’s Song is pure fun.
My Opinion Only:
Monkey Kingdom falls somewhere between anthropomorphic giving human motives, emotions, and story to a non-human and factual zoological study. Its Environmental Media Awards nomination proves it is solid documentary in the Disney tradition (excuse my pun) monkey business aside.
Disney Nature: Monkey Kingdom, a Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital HD release, is available online and in retailers nationwide. G-rated, with a running time of 81 minutes, its SMRP is $39.99.
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Green monster: California abandons high-speed rail line between LA and San Francisco
AllahpunditPosted at 4:01 pm on February 12, 2019
I can’t believe the new, very progressive governor of California decided to drop the axe on Cali’s great green boondoggle the same week that 2020 candidates are talking up the Green New Deal. The balance sheet Newsom is looking at must be completely radioactive.
I mean, we knew it was radioactive. But it must be Fukushima-level radioactive for him to pull the plug at this highly inopportune moment, knowing how the GOP will use this to prosecute the case against the GND.
Don’t get excited, though. You know the rule: When socialist ambitions fail, the solution is more socialism. Somehow this will be folded into the case *for*, not against, the Green New Deal.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he’s ending the state’s effort to build a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Newsom said Tuesday in his State of the State address it “would cost too much and take too long” to build the line long championed by his predecessor, Jerry Brown. Latest estimates pin the cost at $77 billion and completion in 2033.
Newsom says he wants to continue construction of the high-speed link from Merced to Bakersfield in California’s Central Valley. He says building the line could bring economic transformation to the agricultural region.
Originally the project was expected to cost $33 billion and to be completed next year. It ended up reaching $77 billion and, per one projection made last March, could have ended up growing to $98 billion. Canceling the SF-LA route must seem to Newsom like a massive savings at this stage of the sunk-cost dilemma.
AP reporter Nick Ricciardi sees a GOP narrative coming together:
Worth noting that Vermont bailed on single payer and now California is driving the spike through its high-speed rail. Not a great track record for blue states implementing liberal moon-shot dreams.
— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) February 12, 2019
Yeah, you might hear that on the presidential trail a time or two next year. As noted in the excerpt, Newsom intends to finish part of the line, making this some sort of partial success for HSR fans. But that may come back to haunt him. Critics both here and elsewhere have wondered what use the state will really have for a line that doesn’t actually connect L.A. and San Francisco. If California finally spears the white whale by linking Merced and Bakersfield and the service ends up being underutilized, what sort of argument is that for other high-speed rail projects elsewhere?
As I said above, there’s no problem posed by government boondoggles that can’t be solved by even bigger boondoggles. I think Jeff Blehar’s right in anticipating the pro-GND reaction to this: California’s failure proves that this can only be solved at the national level, by a government with the power to print its own money. If Californians can’t afford to pay for high-speed rail themselves, they’ll be able to afford it once the Green New Deal passes, Uncle Sam starts farting out cash, and new taxes compel flyover-country residents to pitch in. That spin will come with the complementary spin that California’s failure in this case is specific to California, driven by esoteric local issues that certainly won’t recur elsewhere in the U.S. as a thousand HSR flowers bloom.
Those arguments will ease doubts among soft GND fans but for most of the public today’s news will be hard evidence of the proposal’s infeasibility. Expect Trump to demand that California return the $3.5 billion the feds gave them for the project too. Newsom will argue that the partial line he’s working on justifies that grant, but it can only help Trump politically to sue over it. Exit quotation via Dan McLaughlin: “If something is too expensive to build once, why not build it everywhere in the country instead?”
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Biden: People make money “clipping coupons on the street”
Karen Townsend Jan 22, 2020 5:01 PM
Bring your own scissors
Did we learn nothing from the Ebola virus?
We have to be better at this by now, don’t we?
Dems must end this sham impeachment, says … former Clinton adviser?
Schiff “simply a weapon jamming through impeachment and ignoring fair procedure or legal process.”
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Molecular cloning of the translocation breakpoint in T-ALL 11;14 (p13;q11): genomic map of TCR alpha and delta region on chromosome 14q11 and long-range map of region 11p13
Brigitte Royer-Pokora, Brigitte Fleischer, Susanne Ragg, Uschi Loos, Dorothea Williams
Using chromosome walking techniques, overlapping lambda and cosmid clones from the T cell receptor alpha (TCRα) region have been isolated; these span the entire Jα region and parts of the TCR delta gene. Molecular analysis of the acute childhood leukemia cells (T-ALL) 8511 revealed a rearrangement on one chromosome 14 in Jα 58 kb 5′ of Cα; this does not result in production of α message. The translocation was identified 90 kb 5′ of Cα at the previously identified Jδ2 element. A probe derived from the 5′ region of the translocation breakpoint hybridized to DNA from a mouse-human cell hybrid containing chromosome 11 as the only human chromosome. This probe was used to isolate cosmid clones from chromosome 11. Several rare cutting restriction enzyme sites were found in close vicinity to the translocation breakpoint, and a long-range map spanning 1000 kb of chromosome region 11p13 was established. Analysis of the DNA from 15 cases of sporadic and familial Wilms' tumor did not reveal any changes, indicating that the translocation breakpoint does not reside in this gene.
Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Cosmids
Molecular Cloning
T-Cell Receptor delta Genes
T-Cell Receptor alpha Genes
Chromosome Walking
Hybrid Cells
Human Chromosomes
Royer-Pokora, B., Fleischer, B., Ragg, S., Loos, U., & Williams, D. (1989). Molecular cloning of the translocation breakpoint in T-ALL 11;14 (p13;q11): genomic map of TCR alpha and delta region on chromosome 14q11 and long-range map of region 11p13. Human Genetics, 82(3), 264-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291167
Molecular cloning of the translocation breakpoint in T-ALL 11;14 (p13;q11) : genomic map of TCR alpha and delta region on chromosome 14q11 and long-range map of region 11p13. / Royer-Pokora, Brigitte; Fleischer, Brigitte; Ragg, Susanne; Loos, Uschi; Williams, Dorothea.
In: Human Genetics, Vol. 82, No. 3, 06.1989, p. 264-270.
Royer-Pokora, B, Fleischer, B, Ragg, S, Loos, U & Williams, D 1989, 'Molecular cloning of the translocation breakpoint in T-ALL 11;14 (p13;q11): genomic map of TCR alpha and delta region on chromosome 14q11 and long-range map of region 11p13', Human Genetics, vol. 82, no. 3, pp. 264-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291167
Royer-Pokora B, Fleischer B, Ragg S, Loos U, Williams D. Molecular cloning of the translocation breakpoint in T-ALL 11;14 (p13;q11): genomic map of TCR alpha and delta region on chromosome 14q11 and long-range map of region 11p13. Human Genetics. 1989 Jun;82(3):264-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00291167
Royer-Pokora, Brigitte ; Fleischer, Brigitte ; Ragg, Susanne ; Loos, Uschi ; Williams, Dorothea. / Molecular cloning of the translocation breakpoint in T-ALL 11;14 (p13;q11) : genomic map of TCR alpha and delta region on chromosome 14q11 and long-range map of region 11p13. In: Human Genetics. 1989 ; Vol. 82, No. 3. pp. 264-270.
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We are coming to you LIVE from SXSW 2019! Tune in each day of the event to watch SXSW Conference Keynotes and Featured Speaker presentations, exclusive interviews from the SXSW Live Studio, star-studded red carpet coverage of SXSW Film Festival premieres, and more. Watch live streaming coverage at sxsw.com/live to experience a bit of SXSW magic from the heart of Austin from March 8-17 directly to you on any device, anywhere.
Starting on Friday, March 8 at 11am CT, best-selling author and researcher Brené Brown kicks off the event – and our live streaming coverage – as the 2019 Opening Speaker.
At the crux of each day’s SXSW Conference programming, join us for hour-long Keynotes. Keynote speakers include immersive director and writer Jessica Brillhart; Endeavor Chief Marketing Officer Bozoma Saint John; Founder of ConsenSys and co-founder of blockchain platform Ethereum Joseph Lubin; lead vocalist of the critically-acclaimed alternative rock band Garbage Shirley Manson and singer-songwriter Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES with Puja Patel; award-winning filmmaker PJ Raval; Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger with Josh Constine; director, actress, producer, and activist Olivia Wilde; and many more.
Among the Featured Speakers streaming live are political trailblazer Stacey Abrams; best-selling author Neil Gaiman; journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell; world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels; actress and producer Elisabeth Moss; Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and (you guessed it) more.
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By decision of the Board of Directors, NOVA.id.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (“NOVA.id.FCT”) opens an international call to hire a PhD Researcher, with the internal reference “#NOVAID86”, under a unfixed term employment to conduct research activities in the field of Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology in the scope of the Project entitled “Engineering of Dual-stimuli REsponsive nanofibrous Magnetic Membranes” with reference PTDC/CTM-CTM/30623/2017, financed by “Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa, na componente FEDER” (ref. LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-30623) and by “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.”.
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The hiring of the PhD Researcher shall be made by means of an Unfixed Term Employment Contract entered into in accordance with the Portuguese Labour Code approved by the Law no. 7/2009 of February 12th, as amended. The contract should have a forecasted duration of 22 months, and should not be extended further than the project duration. The contract should begin in November 1st, 2019.
The present hiring procedure is further governed inter alia by Decree-law no. 57/2016 of July 19th, as amended by the Law no. 57/2017 of August 29thand Regulatory decree no. 11-A/2017 of December 29th.
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The PhD Researcher will participate in all scientific research activities within the DREaMM project. These include processing the thermoresponsive polymer, production of composite membranes, and extensive characterization of the produced materials. Drug release studies from the obtained materials, as well as data treatment using mathematical models. Magnetic hyperthermia assays. Cell culture assays to evaluate cytotoxicity, adhesion and proliferation. Evaluation of the developed composite systems as dual-stimuli responsive membranes and as substrates for temperature-mediated cell detachment. The work plan will also include the functions: Supervision of junior researchers, MSc and PhD students; Preparation of scientific reports and papers; Contribute towards project dissemination and communication; Coordination and maintenance of laboratory infrastructure; Interact with national and international partners and active participation in obtaining funding for research projects.
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The PhD Researcher shall earn a monthly remuneration in the gross amount of €2.128,34 by reference to the 1st grade of the initial salary scale, pursuant to number 2 of Article 15 of Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of 19 July, as amended by Law no. 57/2017 of 29 August, and Regulatory Decree no. 11-A / 2017, of December 29.
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Pakistan must act now to resolve its continued debilitating power shortages that are grinding industry to a halt and robbing the population of a basic necessity, warns Dr Kamal Munir
The 1990’s privatisation of Pakistan’s energy sector, and the policies under which it now operates, are to blame for the country’s continuing power crisis, with 18-hour long power cuts followed by almost daily unrest and street protests.
According to Dr Kamal Munir, Reader in Strategy & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, there are two solutions to the continued debilitating power shortages that are grinding industry to a halt and robbing the population of a basic necessity.
He advocates that in the long term, the fuel mix should be changed. Almost a third of electricity is oil-generated which is expensive because Pakistan is not an oil producer. A further 30 per cent comes from the dwindling reserves of gas.
“Pakistan has coal reserves estimated to be the fourth largest in the world and yet only 0.1% of electricity comes from coal so where have the governments been for the last 20 to 30 years?
“Why haven’t they developed more hydro capacity? Why haven’t they developed coal as an alternative source plus solar? Pakistan is the Saudi Arabia of solar energy; there is so much sun. How come we are not investing in developing solar the way we should be? Similarly we have wind corridors in Pakistan – how come they are not being developed?”
Dr Munir’s favoured short-term solution is to change the regulatory regime which governs the energy sector.
“That can become a short-term solution if the contracts are renegotiated with the independent power producers. Today’s situation is simply unsustainable and will lead to a lot more political and social unrest. If that is what the policy-makers want, then fine they are going about in the right way. If that is not desirable, then something needs to be done about the supply contracts right now.”
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Examination of petrological thin-sections is an established method for assessing the mineralogical and textural properties of rock and stone implements (Fenton and Travis 1988; Cooney and Mandal 1998; Kerr 1942; Deer et al. 1992). These properties provide a petrographic fingerprint that assists with classification of rock and the grouping together of samples with similar features. In this way the Implement Petrology Group (IPG) has recognised thirty-four petrographically different groups of stone axes (Clough and Cummins 1988). In addition, by matching axe thin-sections with ones taken from rock exposures it is possible to provenance axes to exposures, a practice which is a founding tenet behind the formation of the IPG (Keiller et al. 1941).
Petrographic analysis of axe thin-sections has some limitations. Rocks from different geographical locations can have similar petrography, so petrological microscopy alone may not be able to distinguish between them. This is especially pertinent to greenstones found in Devon and Cornwall: they often share primary mineralogical characteristics, and having been partially recrystallised through low-grade metamorphic events, samples from geographically separate exposures can be difficult to tell apart (Keiller et al. 1941). Petrological variability of individual greenstone exposures means that two greenstone samples may have come from two locales metres apart on the same exposure, or from two different exposures that are many kilometres apart.
The first recorded provenancing of stone implement to exposure was achieved in 1919 (Warren 1919). In 1948 Clare Fell (Bunch and Fell 1949) identified the remains of a Neolithic 'working floor in Langdale', leading to the recognition of deliberate and concentrated manufacturing sites for Group VI axes. Once identified, more axe factories have been recognised and raised the expectation that a Group I axe factory existed and awaited discovery. Keiller et al. (1941) provenanced Group I to the Mounts Bay area of Cornwall through petrographic similarity between implements and rock from unnamed exposures between Penzance and Mousehole, heightening expectation that a Neolithic Cornish greenstone axe factory would be discovered.
This article reports on the re-examination of 149 thin-sections assigned to Group I, Ia, and III implements, carried out as part of a larger piece of research aimed at provenancing Group I implements, and which provided the basis for further non-destructive analysis of greenstone implements with the aim of locating the source exposure(s) for IPG Group I, Ia and II axes (Markham 2000).
A monocular petrological microscope was used to re-examine all thin-sections over a relatively short period of time, with a quantitative process used to substantiate the visual, qualitative, observations, leading to the ability to quantify and thus analyse the thin-sections.
Quantitative scores (cf. Table 6) were given to each thin-section based on its colour, original grain size, degrees of pyroxene and feldspar alteration, presence of epidote and apatite and the size and type of opaque grains present. Complete results and analysis of this novel quantitative approach are contained in Markham (2000).
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OPERATIONALIZING CPEC: CHALLENGES AND POLICY MEASURES
Islamabad Policy Institute - February 26, 2019
Operationalizing cpec: challenges and policy measures by faisal ahmad from ipipk
Report of Roundtable with Dr. Hadi Soleimanpour, Iranian Scholar on Contemporary Issues
On December 20, 2017 Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI) hosted a round-table discussion with Dr. Hadi Soleimanpour, an Iranian scholar based at Center for International Research and Education, Tehran. Prof. Syed Sajjad Shabbir, Executive Director IPI, chaired the discussion. In his opening remarks Prof. Bukhari welcomed...
Terms of re-engagement
Islamabad Policy Institute - October 16, 2017
PAKISTAN-US relations have entered a new and tense phase following President Donald Trump’s harsh allegations and threats against Pakistan in August and Islamabad’s angry response. Both sides, however, appear inclined to re-engage with each other. The nature of the future relationship will be determined by...
Reviewing State of Pakistani Economy
Muhammad Faran Balance of Payments – 2M FY18 CAD at US$ 2.6bn As per latest data released, current account deficit clocked in at US$550mn in Aug’17 (Jul’17-Revised: S$2,051mn). For 2MFY18, the current account deficit level stood at US$2,601mn (up 102% YoY).Trade deficit for goods witnessed notable...
US Opposition to China-led Development Initiatives
Faisal Ahmed In a surprise development Trump administration, through U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis, first time commented on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and China-led connectivity initiatives. Addressing questions on role of China at the U.S. Senate’s Armed Services Committee hearing on ‘Political and Security Situation in...
North Korean Leader Hails Nuclear Arsenal as ‘Powerful Deterrent’
he North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has vowed to build up his country’s nuclear arsenal as a “powerful deterrent” to the United States, state media reported, hours after President Trump said that “only one thing will work” in dealing with the isolated country. Mr. Kim...
The Next India-Pakistan Crisis Will Be Worse
PAKISTAN FOREIGN POLICY: CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
IPI Morning News Brief – May 21, 2019
PAKISTAN’S ENERGY SECURITY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear...
LECTURE: Pak-Iran Relations: Current Scenario & Future Prospects.
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The judges have completed their work on entries for the 21st Annual KCABJ Media Awards. The winners will be notified soon and the plaques ordered.
The awards ceremony will occur at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 at The Star Press Pavilion, 16th and McGee streets. Light refreshments will be provided.
KCABJ honors go to news media coverage for accurate and honest depictions of African Americans and other people of color in stories, pictures and artwork about people in the Greater Kansas City area.
KCABJ President Glenn E. Rice will name the winner of the KCABJ President’s Award given annually to the person or organization, doing the most to further the interests of KCABJ.
In addition, Glenn has picked two persons to receive KCABJ Lifetime Achievement Awards. They are Pete Wilkerson, a former reporter for The Kansas City Times and cameraman for KCTV-5, and J.W. Edwards, a longtime cameraman for WDAF-TV, Channel 4. They join only three other persons chosen for the lifetime achievement honor in KCABJ’s 31-year history. They are Anita Parran, Helen Gray and Geri Gosa.
The students in the summer KCABJ journalism academy will receive copies of the 2012 KCABJ Journal with their stories from the 2012 KCABJ Urban Student Journalism Academy, which took place at the Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley. Their radio and television newscasts will be aired at the awards program, and the students will receive copies of them to use to get internships and jobs.
KCABJ members at the September meeting picked the top performing students in the academy for the four KCABJ scholarships. Those awards are the KCABJ-Roy Wilkins Scholarship, the KCABJ-Lucile Bluford Scholarship, the KCABJ-Laura Hockaday Scholarship and the KCABJ-Nancy Diuguid Scholarship.
The winners will be announced at the awards program along with the winners of the professional media awards.
The membership decided at its September meeting to also co-sponsor a candidates forum with the Kansas City branch of the NAACP. The date tentatively is set for Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center. Look for more breaking information on the KCABJ website and blog. KCABJ members will moderate the forum.
NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. has picked Carol D. Ash as chair of the 2013 NABJ convention in Orlando, Fla., and Benet J. Wilson as program chair for the gathering on July 31-Aug. 4.
“I know Carol and Benet will ensure convention attendees get all that they expect out of an NABJ convention, particularly top-notch training and workshops, opportunities to network, and a chance to relax and have a great time,” Lee said. “Our convention is in great hands.”
NABJ also is seeking workshop and panel presentation proposals for the Orlando convention. The deadline is Oct. 17. The program committee is accepting innovative, educational and “out of the box” proposals that relate to the NABJ theme this year of “People, Purpose, Passion: The Power of NABJ.”
KCABJ member Amber Mobley’s first Faith Walk column appeared Saturday, Sept. 15 in The Kansas City Star in the Faith section. Check it out!
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Lexi Palmer Lexi Palmer took first place in the Keene Three-Minute Fiction Slam and went on to place third in the statewide slam. She won Keene State’s 2019 Fred Fosher Excellence in Writing Award, a $1,000 prize given to a student who has shown excellence in writing. And she’s just landed a prestigious Summer Undergraduate…
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Emily Cackowski: Making the Most of It
mlong May 8, 2017
Emily Cackowski has taken advantage of the many opportunities available to students majoring in English at Keene State College. “I’ve had so many great teachers and mentors,” Emily writes. “I heard many positive things about the English department at Orientation, but I feel like it has exceeded my expectations. I feel like I’ve grown so much as a…
Peter Beauchamp (English 2006) is Karpatkin Fellow in the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
In his “An Important Victory for Indian Tribes” Peter Beachamp (BA English 2006) summarizes a recent court decision by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken of South Dakota’s federal District Court that a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in March of 2013 can go forward, rejecting motions filed by the defendants that sought to have the case dismissed. The…
The 2012 Fred Fosher Excellence in Writing Award
Nathan A. Gray is the recipient of the 2012 Fred Fosher Award for Excellence in Writing. This annual award was established in 2005 to acknowledge the inspired work of a student in any discipline who rises to the intellectual challenge of writing clear and purposeful expository prose. The award is made possible by the generous support…
Mary Benson: 2010 Eder Award Recipient
The English Department is honored to announce KSC senior Mary Benson, from Chester, NH, as the recipient of the 2010 Eder Creative Writing Scholarship Endowment. Mary is passionate about writing. At Keene State, she has excelled in writing fiction, critical essays and poetry. When she is not writing, or working, she pursues other interests, including…
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Highlights from the Knockout Stages of the Champions League
The most prestigious tournament in European soccer gets to the business end
By Glen Levy @glenjlFeb. 14, 2013
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Real Madrid's Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo vies with Manchester United's Northern Irish defender Jonny Evans during the UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg football match Real Madrid CF vs Manchester United FC at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Feb. 13, 2013.
Real Madrid 1 – 1 Manchester United. It says something about the magnetism of managers Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson that their pre-match remarks arguably made as many headlines as anything uttered by the world class players on show. Madrid’s Mourinho isn’t having the easiest of seasons, with his side trailing behind rivals Barcelona in the league, and journalists were keen to know what his next managerial move might be. Would he eventually take over from Sir Alex at Manchester United, when Fergie eventually calls it a day (he’s been the boss since 1986)? While the former Chelsea manager confirmed that a return to English soccer “will be my next step,” he dismissed the possibility of heading to Manchester because “I think we have to end our career at the same time. [Ferguson] at 90 and me at 70.”
It was a cute, yet respectful, answer and a reminder that, even with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney taking to the field at Madrid’s Bernabeu stadium Wednesday, these charismatic leaders are enthralling. Ferguson, who can handle anything thrown at him, had a zinger of his own in response to Spain‘s press labelling his striker Rooney as a “hooligan,” and “a freckled demon.” “Rooney can’t read Spanish so we will be all right,” said Sir Alex.
Perhaps Rooney had been taking lessons, and was so hurt by the remarks that he put in a curiously quiet performance. Luckily for United, one of his strike partners for club and country, Danny Welbeck, was far livlier and gave the road side an early lead (and potentially crucial away goal) with a header from a corner. Ten minutes later and former United star Ronaldo equalized with an even more powerful header, somewhat reminiscent of the goal he scored for United in the 2008 Champions League final. Say what you will in the great Lionel Messi vs. Cristiano Ronaldo debate but it’s hard to find a player who heads a ball as decisively as the Portugese playmaker.
The game was utterly compelling and played at a pace which made a mockery of any claims that international soccer is the pinnacle of this sport. There’s a frenetic quality to Champions League knockout games, but class and poise somehow remains on show. In theory, United remain more on track to progress to the quarter finals thanks to the tie, and Ferguson has his defence and goalkeeper David De Gea to thank for holding firm (the always on point, and hilarious, Roger Bennett tweeted that “This was a lot like witnessing De Gea’s BarMitzvah. The day he became a man.”) The game might not have ended up being the final that Sir Alex wanted but the good news for the rest of us is that we get to do it again in a few weeks.
(MORE: Lionel Messi on His Sport, Cristiano Ronaldo — and Argentina)
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-2 Borussia Dortmund. Unless you were at this game, did it truly take place? With no disrespect intended, who would have been watching when Madrid vs. United was on at the same time? But anyone who did tune in was treated to a thoroughly absorbing contest, with Borussia Dortmund emerging happier than Shakhtar Donetsk. Twice Dortmund fell behind, to Darijo Srna’s free-kick and then substitute Douglas Costa doing his best to replicate Dennis Bergkamp’s wonder goal for Holland which knocked out Argentina at World Cup ’98. But the German outfit would not yield. They equalized through the prolific Robert Lewandowski and, with three minutes to play, Mats Hummels. Dortmund continue to go under the radar but if they progress, as they will be expected to, nobody will fancy playing them.
Celtic 0 -3 Juventus. Scottish side Celtic had already defied expectations in this season’s Champions League by emerging from a group which contained Spartak Moscow, Benfica and Barcelona, who Celtic memorably defeated at home. So when you beat Messi and his mates, a knockout match against Italian giants Juventus is unlikely to fill you with fear. But despite giving their all, and, to keep the soccer clichés rolling, working their socks off, Celtic got caught cold by a classic road performance from Juve, who soaked up considerable pressure from the home side, and then went down the other end of the field to score three times.
Within three minutes, striker Alessandro Matri made defender Efe Ambrose pay for his misjudgement. But the Italians didn’t score their decisive second and third until the final 15 minutes of the game when Claudio Marchisio scored on the counter-attack before Mirko Vucinic rubbed salt into the wounds after another error from the hapless Ambrose. His selection may have caused some surprise, considering that he played in last Sunday’s African Cup of Nations final for Nigeria and didn’t even arrive back in Glasgow until the day of the game.
Celtic manager Neil Lennon didn’t shy away from the monumental effort required in the return game next month by stating that his side “need[s] a miracle. It’s the harsh reality of football at this level.” He also got in a dig at referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco, calling him “very pro-Juventus” for what he felt was robust man-marking at corner kicks, and how “it’s not rugby we’re playing, it’s soccer.” Regardless of the sport, if Celtic did somehow manage to overturn the deficit, the result would surely be on a par with their historic win in the final of this competition back in 1967.
Valencia 1 – 2 Paris Saint-Germain. PSG made one of the biggest splashes in the recent transfer window by enticing David Beckham to join for the remainder of the season. Despite being eligible to play in the Champions League, Becks wasn’t included in the squad (though was watching from the stands) and will be pleased that his new side won the first leg, on the road no less. But perhaps he and they will reflect that the task at hand is more difficult than it ought to be. Going into injury time, PSG had a healthy 2-0 lead, courtesy of Ezequiel Lavezzi and Javier Pastore’s first half goals. But then two major blows: first, Valencia halved the deficit when Rami headed in Tino Costa’s free-kick, and then Swedish enigma Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sent off for a stamp, though it didn’t appear as if there was much contact with Andres Guardado. His three-match ban means he’ll miss the return fixture on March 6. At least they’ll have a replacement player raring to go, even if Beckham’s best days are probably behind him.
MORE: David Beckham Signs for Paris Saint-Germain and Will Play for Free
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Physical distance between the site of type II DNA binding to the membrane and oriC on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome
Mitsuhiro Itaya, J. J. Laffan, N. Sueoka
The precise physical locations of the oriC region and the region for type II DNA binding to the membrane on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome were determined. The DNA regions were physically mapped by creating new restriction sites (NotI and SfiI) within these regions. The physical distance between oriC and the type II DNA-binding region was verified with the creation of a novel sequence cleaved by endonuclease I-SceI in each of the above regions. Complete removal of the defined type II membrane-binding region produced no noticeable phenotype.
Deoxyribonuclease I
Itaya, M., Laffan, J. J., & Sueoka, N. (1992). Physical distance between the site of type II DNA binding to the membrane and oriC on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome. Journal of Bacteriology, 174(16), 5466-5470.
Physical distance between the site of type II DNA binding to the membrane and oriC on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome. / Itaya, Mitsuhiro; Laffan, J. J.; Sueoka, N.
In: Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 174, No. 16, 1992, p. 5466-5470.
Itaya, M, Laffan, JJ & Sueoka, N 1992, 'Physical distance between the site of type II DNA binding to the membrane and oriC on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome', Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 174, no. 16, pp. 5466-5470.
Itaya M, Laffan JJ, Sueoka N. Physical distance between the site of type II DNA binding to the membrane and oriC on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome. Journal of Bacteriology. 1992;174(16):5466-5470.
Itaya, Mitsuhiro ; Laffan, J. J. ; Sueoka, N. / Physical distance between the site of type II DNA binding to the membrane and oriC on the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome. In: Journal of Bacteriology. 1992 ; Vol. 174, No. 16. pp. 5466-5470.
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Archive | July 2013
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A Psychic Timebomb (no 2)
A Psychic Timebomb (no 2) (A4, mixed media)
TV TALK (2013)
A Psychic Timebomb
A Psychic Timebomb (A4, mixed media)
Do we have the ability to be in touch with out emotional reactions whilst we scroll down our Facebook news feed populated by 300+ competing informational sources? Does one sense a feeling of panic, accelerating inadequacy, as if they were being pummeled into dust under a great waterfall, or does one sense a feeling of excitement? I have to refer to Italian Theorist Franco (Bifo) Berardi, here, because I haven’t found anybody else who elaborates on such concerns better.
“Cyberspace overloads cybertime, because cyberspace is an unbounded sphere whose speed can accelerate without limits, while cybertime (the organic time of attention, memory, imagination) cannot be sped up beyond a certain point—or it cracks. And it actually is cracking, collapsing under the stress of hyper-productivity. An epidemic of panic and depression is now spreading throughout the circuits of the social brain”.
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/cognitarian-subjectivation/
The panic induced by the myriad of competing reactions to information when scrolling the Facebook news feed, one either resorts to not caring, reducing all information to the same level (as if Drone strikes to photographs of someone’s well-prepared dinner were nothing but different sweets in a pick and mix stall) or trying to care about everything and becoming utterly exhausted, with monthly drops into depression. But what we rarely pick up on is that the age of Facebook/Twitter/YouTube isn’t merely a social phenomenon, it’s an unprecedented social seismic shift which shows no sign of slowing down.
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Recent psychogeographical maps
What makes news stories about weather extremes so hard to listen to?
Some years ago I read how the author of the Gaia Hypothesis James Lovelock believed a ‘wartime spirit’ was needed in order to counter and curb our rapid descent into a climate-chaotic world. Perhaps he wasn’t thinking solely about Britain, but was just taking inspiration from the much-celebrated 1940’s spirit; the way a civilian population pulled together (more than before) during the years that the nation was involved in World War 2.
I personally haven’t been able to reread such books, because I am aware I’d be reading at a point when the issue has been allowed to escalate in size. It occurred to me today, as the latest extreme weather disaster makes the news (a large forest fire in Arizona, USA, that has so far taken the lives of 19 firefighters) that such events would be much more easily accepted and digested within the population at large if we believed that we were living in a (global) society that was pulling together to challenge the increasingly severe threat it poses; that the events wouldn’t largely be forgotten due to the seeming insurmountable task they present us with, which I believe to be the case at present.
(This would, in itself, also require a huge collective conflict against a global power structure that is totally reliant on the exploitation of anything that could be seen as a resource, but stating this should be all-to-obvious as to be left to one side for the time-being).
We are alone together in denial, or intermittent amnesia, because to stare these monstrous threats in the face, whilst feeling that one is doing so alone is spirit-shattering. We hear the news in the morning, and we feel alone, like nobody else is listening. Likely we go to work trying not to talk about it, likely other colleagues are doing just the same.
Lovelock’s reference to the ‘war-spirit’ could be easily exploited for destructive ends, when what it should entail is that when we hear of a tragic environmental event on the news, that we also feel we have support, because everybody else is on our side in trying to stop such events from getting worse or happening again.
The hyper-individualisation of humans within a neoliberal society is possibly the most contrasting of places from the place we need to be in to challenge climate breakdown; the appeal for a moral ethical stance, recycling our used supermarket packaging, or living like king’s Hugh Fearnley and Alex James from a depressed former mining village will never come near to altering this 21st century global descent. If you have recently watched Ken Loach’s latest film The Spirit of ’45, I would plead all to incorporate the issue of climate change in the call for ‘a spirit of ’13’.
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JFH Staff Blog | June 2011
Featured Fan - Aimee
Aimee and KJ-52
Favorite Band/Artist: KJ-52
Featured Fan: Aimee
When/Where Was The Above Photo Taken: Bryce Jordan Center, State College, PA
What About This Artist's Music Speaks To You: I love KJ's songs because they always encourage me. I especially love his song "Daddy's Girl" because I can relate to that song because of my dad and then also "Gonna be Alright" because it encourages me that no matter what is happening in my life that everything is gonna be alright with God.
Favorite Album by This Artist: Five-Two Television
Favorite Song by This Artist: "Daddy's Girl"
Number of Times Seen This Artist Live: 1
Favorite Live Show Experience: Winter Jam at Bryce Jordan Center
Favorite Piece Of Merch/Item You Own From This Artist: my KJ CDs
Submit your photo and reasons why YOU'RE a fan for a chance to be featured here!
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Featured Fan - Jeffrey Thomas
Michael W Smith, Jim Daneker and Jeffrey Thomas
Favorite Band/Artist: Michael W. Smith
Featured Fan: Jeffrey Thomas
When/Where Was The Above Photo Taken: During "Smitty-oake" on the Michael W Smith and Friends Alaskan Cruise. I got to sing my favourite Smitty song while he sang background vocals!
What About This Artist's Music Speaks To You: I was twelve when I first saw Michael W Smith. I loved how he would play a bunch of upbeat songs with a band and then sit down at the piano and just sing. His music is very diverse and, while not always explicitly Christian, often deals with important aspects of life. As a teenager in the late 90's I was encouraged by his music and now he has helped me see the Wonder of God with his latest release!
Favorite Album by This Artist: Live The Life
Favorite Song by This Artist: "Missing Person"
Number of Times Seen This Artist Live: I think 12 times counting the entire cruise as one concert even though there were three or four Michael W Smith concerts on the cruise.
Favorite Live Show Experience: The entire Alaskan Cruise
Favorite Piece Of Merch/Item You Own From This Artist: I used to own a life sized cardboard cutout from a bookstore, but then I thought it was kind of creepy!
Website: http://www.myspace.com/jeffreydavidthomas
Relient K's Covers EP - Ranked!
Relient K is releasing a brand new EP of cover songs next Tuesday, June 28th, titled K is for Karaoke. The EP serves as a precursor for a full album with the same title releasing October 4th. With the new EP almost here, I'm ranking the songs as a countdown from the least standout covering to my favorite...
7. "Surf Wax America" by Weezer
It's a faithful rendition, and that's all it is. It works better during their live sets. Weezer have their own feel and charm that just doesn't really translate when others try to cover it, at least in a studio setting without the roar of a crowd.
6. "Baby" by Justin Bieber
Though Thiessen sings it like a champ, it can't beat the fact that they completely scraped Ludacris' rap during the bridge. They could have had a ton of fun with this, but instead the four-fifths of the song they do sing is very faithful to the source material, and that's about it. Regardless, it'll be the biggest seller on iTunes. We all know this is true.
5. "Doctor Worm" by They Might Be Giants
I hadn't heard this They Might Be Giants song until after I had heard Relient K's cover. I was struck by just how much the two sound identical. Thiessen definitely borrows some of his vocal chops from TMBG. This song is kinda weird, but it works as a goofy Relient K track. It kind of sounds like an actual Relient K song. And it's a lot of fun.
4. "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
Thiessen's vocals shine here, because he does a good job of nailing it, while not really taking it too seriously. It's a fun song with a funky beat, that Relient K somehow works out without sounding too weird. Job well done.
3. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears
Relient K did little to take this one out of the 1980s, and that's exactly how it should be. It sounds a little wild as a Relient K song, but, man, I can't get it out of my head. I love it. I can't even really explain it, you just have to hear it.
2. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" by Cindi Lauper
Definitely the most energetic song on the EP. I've always said that Matt Thiessen likes to state his intentions for each record he does somewhere on the album. We get the point of this EP right from the get-go- it's all about having fun. Don't hit me, but I think this version if superior to the original.
1. "Here Comes My Girl" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
When looking at the track listing, I probably scratched my head the hardest at this choice. Tom Petty? Really? I mean, I love Tom Petty. But...Tom Petty? Really? But it works. So well. They have a ton of fun with it, and it works as a (slightly wild) Relient K track. It's got fun verses, rousing chorus lead ins, and a well-earned, melodic chorus that will have you singing along by the end of the second verse even if you've never heard the song before. This I promise you.
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Featured Fan - Alina
Alina & the guys from Tenth Avneue North. Mike, Jeff, Jason, Ruben, and Brendon
Favorite Band/Artist: Tenth Avenue North
Featured Fan: Alina
When/Where Was The Above Photo Taken: Six Flags Vallejo,CA & Spirit West Coast Monterey 2010
What About This Artist's Music Speaks To You: They have songs for just about every season of your life: when you just need to lean on God, when you don't feel like He's close to you, when you can't seem to give Him full control, when you're struggling with your identity, when you have extreme faith in God, or when your faith is hanging by a thread. Their music is totally relatable and that's something we truly need these days. Tenth Avenue North is truly a blessing in the music industry!!
Favorite Album by This Artist: Over and Underneath
Favorite Song by This Artist: "Too many great ones! "Hold My Heart", "By Your Side" "All The Pretty Things"
Favorite Live Show Experience: When Mike does his amazing & funny impersonations (especially his Rocky one)!!
Favorite Piece Of Merch/Item You Own From This Artist: My Tenth Avenue North Buttons!!!!!
Website: http://www.youtube.com/user/11Six4Eva?feature=mhee
Featured Fan - Daniel Valencia
Daniel Valencia Jared Rigsby, Eric Newcomer, Ian Valencia, Tim Skipper, Sam Valencia
Favorite Band/Artist: House of Heroes
Featured Fan: Daniel Valencia
Location: Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
When/Where Was The Above Photo Taken: May 15th, Tulsa, OK 2011
What About This Artist's Music Speaks To You: House of Heroes is special to me for several reasons. They are obviously on a totally different musical level that most artists these days as their music is authentic and original. They are a flawless blend of popular music's best and the greatness of underground/indie genres, making them a true gem. They are passionate about their faith and their music and this is very apparent in their live show, which ranks among one of the best I've seen... and I've seen a lot. A truly underrated group of artists.
Favorite Album by This Artist: The End is Not the End
Favorite Song by This Artist: "Sooner or Later" / "Mercedes Baby"
Favorite Live Show Experience: Hanging with Jared Rigsby at the merch table. This has actually happened twice on two seperate occasions!
Favorite Piece Of Merch/Item You Own From This Artist: Rare What You Want Is Now album.
Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/As-Told-By-Clide/109850465716175
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Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness
William R. Perlman, Maree J. Webster, Joel Kleinman, Cynthia Shannon Weickert
The amygdala is a limbic structure involved in the stress response and the regulation of emotional behaviors, both of which are disrupted in patients with neuropsychiatric illnesses. Because glucocorticoids are mediators of the stress response, we hypothesized that glucocorticoid receptor (GR) messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels might be altered in the amygdala. We also hypothesized that estrogen receptor α (ERα) mRNA expression might be altered in the amygdala, on the basis of observed gender differences in mental illness. Using quantitative film autoradiography after in situ hybridization with human GR and ERα probes, we measured mRNA levels on adjacent amygdala sections in four groups (n = 15 each of subjects with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder, and unaffected control subjects) provided by the Stanley Consortium. We detected main effects of diagnosis and exposure to antidepressant medication on the levels of both mRNAs but no main effect of gender. Compared with control subjects, GR mRNA expression was reduced in the basolateral/lateral nuclei in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Estrogen receptor α mRNA levels were reduced in the basomedial nucleus in major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Our results support and extend previous findings describing a pattern of steroid hormone mRNA alterations that differs depending on which brain region is being examined in a given mental illness.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.006
Estrogen Receptor alpha
Autoradiography
Antidepressive Agents
In Situ Hybridization
glucocorticoid receptor alpha
Perlman, W. R., Webster, M. J., Kleinman, J., & Weickert, C. S. (2004). Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness. Biological Psychiatry, 56(11), 844-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.006
Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness. / Perlman, William R.; Webster, Maree J.; Kleinman, Joel; Weickert, Cynthia Shannon.
In: Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 56, No. 11, 01.12.2004, p. 844-852.
Perlman, WR, Webster, MJ, Kleinman, J & Weickert, CS 2004, 'Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness', Biological Psychiatry, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 844-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.006
Perlman WR, Webster MJ, Kleinman J, Weickert CS. Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness. Biological Psychiatry. 2004 Dec 1;56(11):844-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.006
Perlman, William R. ; Webster, Maree J. ; Kleinman, Joel ; Weickert, Cynthia Shannon. / Reduced glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor alpha messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the amygdala of patients with major mental illness. In: Biological Psychiatry. 2004 ; Vol. 56, No. 11. pp. 844-852.
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WaPo Sharing Drafts Scandal
July 26, 2012 //
There’s a controversy over reporters sharing drafts of their stories with the subjects of the stories. It’s quite serious, having to do with the pressure of the 24 hour news cycle and the inability of newspapers to edit that properly, as well as the ADD of new media reporters. Ceding editing to PR people is — sue me if I’m wrong — probably not journalism’s best idea.
But as usual, the hotttttttest dirt is in the comments to the stories. This, friends, is the Paddy Chayevsky “I’m mad as hell and I ain’t taking it anymore” “Network” script of the 21st century. Imaginary sources! This takes Deep Throat to a Whole Nother Realm. This is from the comments to the story linked to. Oh! I am….slavering. …http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/post-reporter-criticized-for—-checking-his-facts/2012/07/25/gJQA9Yot8W_blog.html#comments
Washington Post higher education reporter Daniel de Vise.
Janis Sartucci makes the comment elsewhere, and says she is associated with a local public school parents’ association.
jzsartucci 7/25/2012 1:51 PM MDT
In 2009, Mr de Vise wrote, and The Washington Post printed, an article based on a fictitious person as if the person were real. Mr. de Vise stated that he never spoke to the person on the phone and never met the person, but completely relied on e-mails to write the story. The person was attacking a very active parent group in Montgomery County. The parent group was able to show that the e-mails were coming from a school system IP address. However, Mr de Vise did not state that fact in the article and quoted the fictitious person as if she were real. The e-mails were coming from someone within the public school system or with access to a public school system computer. Yet, the article did not have a response from the public school system to this fact. If, the writer of these e-mails was the school systems public relations department or an administrator, that means that the school system was able to trick the Washington Post into writing an article by using a fictitious parent to attack other parents. Score 1 for the public school system! But, what does this say about The Washington Post and their fact checking?
The following is the only good argument I’ve seen for sharing drafts, and I’d love to hear more from Tom Ricks on how to use the technique to extract quotes from the unindicted co-conspirator Rumsfeld’s spokesmodels at the Pentagon:
And others stand by it, including Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews and former Washington Post reporter Tom Ricks, now a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He writes the following thumbs-up via e-mail:
[W]hen I was at the Post, I used to e-mail drafts to sources all the time. I never felt like I was subjecting myself to pressure. Rather, I used it to pressure sources, especially recalcitrant or hostile ones — which pretty much described the people around [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld. I would say something like, “Here is where I am going. Speak now or forever hold your peace.”
I saw nothing wrong with the practice. It showed sources that I was serious about getting it right — and also would go to press whether or not they cooperated. It often resulted in getting more facts and more accuracy. I think the practice should be encouraged.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/brauchli-signals-brake-on-previews-of-story-drafts/2012/07/26/gJQAmjOOBX_blog.html
Tags daniel de vise, marcus brauchli, network, paddy chayefsky, sharing drafts, tom ricks, Washington Post
Categories journalism
Get Your Clix on Route 666
Technorati’s top ten websites 5.7.12.
The Washington Post lost $22 million in its last quarter, are aggressively buying out senior, rain-making, prize-winning reporters, and apparently turning the newsroom into a click-thru sweatshop, complete with a screen recording story hits in real time.
The bigfeet reporters are worried.
http://www.adweek.com/news/press/secret-meeting-has-washington-post-buzzing-140036
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with getting rid of expensive old reporters and replacing them with young ones.
I do think there is a difference between the clickhound journalism of Gawker or The Mail Online, however, and reporters.
News is curated for the public good. You need to keep your eyes on the prize. I think the public good is high, if not universal, voter turnout, and the journalism version of Friday Night Lights. Grassroots issues and community.
The Washington Post needs to figure out what that prize is, and cover the two local industries they have — U.S. politics and Chocolate City — with what I’m thinking of as Freakonomics Politico, a journalism paradigm for the 21st century. I think the old avatar of Freako Politico is Mike Davis, the Marxist. His City of Quartz is probably the very best Holy Shit Story of his generation, as Steven Levitt (I am still checking him out) may be of his generation.
Everybody knows from writing their own blogs what gets the most clix. Use the word porn in your headline and your clix will increase 20 fold.
I once posted a photograph to Flickr of the weird python-like process of creating and stuffing a cloth doll. I called it Getting Stuffed. It got nearly a thousand hits in two hours until I changed the headline. In 10 years of blogging privately, this Getting Stuffed photograph was my greatest hit in what we shall call, for journalism curriculum purposes, the Scandanavian Christmas Elf Tomte Syndrome:
Getting stuffed.
So the perfect capitalist tool of a newspaper, as WaPo president and general manager Steve Hills seems to have told the senior reporters, to maximize the website, would be 10 rainmakers, 1,000 clix drones, and the words “Getting Stuffed” in every headline. Today’s lede stories in the NYT:
At Cusp of Major Power, Bo Xilai Gets Stuffed by Own Hard Tactics
A Scramble as Biden Gets Stuffed on Same Sex Marriage
Stock Trading Is Still Getting Stuffed After ’08
Hollande Calling for ‘Get Stuffed’ Amid Cuts in Europe
Even more trenchantly, for the clix hix, this minute’s top four most e-mailed stories from the NYT:
For the Hard of Hearing, Clarity Out of the Getting Stuffed
When Illness Makes a Spouse Get Stuffed
Those Getting Stuffed Europeans
Black Women and Getting Stuffed
Stephen P. Hills, ad guy, Harvard B School, former San Mateo, CA sports reporter. President and general manager of The Washington Post.
Good luck with that. Other newspapers are making it online, as the Technorati top ten screen cap shows. Why can’t the Post?
One, no one in the national and international audience a website is going for is interested in the politics they cover or the way they cover it. Stop being provincial. Let Politico do that for the local wonk readership; they like it, they’re good at it, let the tiny niche wonk market go.
Two, The Root D.C. is not a substitute for covering The Post’s other great franchise, Chocolate City. Last I checked, the demographics for black people in the D.C. metro area were that they were the best-educated, richest per capita black people in the U.S. and probably in the world. The Post’s new Root D.C. website is attempting real time coverage of the grassroots issues for people of color the world over inherent in the local coverage of Chocolate City. There never was a story like the D.C. riots, which the late Bob Maynard, the founder of the Maynard Institute, covered for The Washington Post wearing his clogs. There never was a story like Marion Barry or the suburbanization into redneck Prince George’s County of D.C.’s upwardly mobile Talented Tenth. I’d simply like to point out to you that Ron We’re-an-empire-now Suskind, one of the great Freako Politico reporters, won his Pulitzer prize in The Wall Street Journal, telling the story of one black kid trying to get though the D.C. schools and into the Ivy League. And The Wire, recently voted the best TV show of the last 25 years by New York magazine, was set in inner city Baltimore and written by a Baltimore reporter.
Eyes on the prize, Hills. You’re not from around here, are you? Get George Pelecanos to give you some story ideas.
Tags chocolate city, Ron Suskind, Steven Levitt, the new economy, Washington Post
Categories journalism, news, politics, urban theory
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Black Trans Lives Matter - banner and marchers in Fresno/Clovis protest march
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Last Updated: Sunday, 10 July 2016 00:29
Written by Jim Reeves
On Saturday, July 9, BlackLivesMatter demonstrators began a public protest action at the intersection of Blackstone and Shaw in Fresno. Beginning at 5pm, people met at the intersection, and began blocking traffic at one of Fresno's busiest rush-hour intersections. Marchers then headed towards Freeway 41, apparently intending to block traffic. Officers from the CHP, Fresno Police, and Fresno County Sheriff's Office Deputies prevented the group from entering the busy freeway. Marchers then made their way down various streets in the area, and ended up on Shaw Avenue, close to Fashion Fair Mall. Eventually, after a walk through Fashion Fair mall's parking lot, and after a small contingent walked through the interior of the mall, marchers returned to Shaw Avenue, and headed east. Law enforcement again prevented them from entering Highway 168 at the border with the city of Clovis. Marchers continued to Clovis Avenue, turned north, and made their way, eventually, to Clovis Police headquarters, where a short street sit-in was held. Several speakers addressed the crowd, a minister led the group in a prayer, and then they peacefully dispersed.
In the march were at least two people recognizing black transgender victims of violence. Carrying a red banner that read "Black Trans Lives Matter", one of the marchers was adorned with a rainbow flag, and was briefly interviewed by a news reporter embedded with the marchers. If anyone knows who the marchers are, please let me know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and I'll update this post with their names and affiliation (if any).
The march was mostly peaceful, with minor skirmishes with law enforcement when they tried to enter Highway 41, and again when "anti-protesters" became involved in a scuffle with marchers at the border with Clovis. Organizers and police quickly broke up the fight between several white individuals, one holding a sign saying he protested the protest, and some of the marchers. The crowd quickly moved on past the small group of individuals.
The protest, which grew into a 5 hour, 7 mile march, was covered in real time on several Facebook live feeds. Fresno TV stations had reporters and cameramen embedded with the march, using their cellphones to provide as-it-happened video to viewers. Fresno PD was also watching from their command center, and at least two helicopters watched from overhead.
Image ABC30 News screen capture.
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Friday, March 29, 2019 | 12:00 pm - 01:30 pm
LAII PhD Fellows Colloquium
Each year the LAII awards PhD Fellowships to meritorious doctoral students whose research relates to Latin America. The LAII's current PhD Fellows represent the departments of Linguistics; Spanish and Portuguese; Biology; Anthropology; History; Latin American Studies; Political Science; and Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | 04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: From Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Journalist’s Perspective on Reporting in the Americas
Simon Romero, National Correspondent, The New York Times
Join the LAII for a conversation with journalist Simon Romero, a national correspondent for The New York Times. In this role, he covers immigration and other issues in the United States. Previously, he was the Brazil bureau chief from 2011 to the 2017, covering Brazil and several other countries in South America, including Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
LAII Lecture Series: Raramuri Criollo Cattle and Climate Change in the Desert Southwest
Dr. Andrés Cibils, Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University
Join the LAII for a presentation with Dr. Andrés Cibils, Professor of Rangeland Science in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences at New Mexico State University, as he discusses climate change in the desert of the southwest.
Taller de Nahuatl: Lenguaje, cultura y tradición
Eduardo De la Cruz, Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ)
CNM•UNM LAS Speaker Series: The US Embassy’s Role in Human Rights in Guatemala: How Foreign Service Officers Can Make a Difference
David Lindwall, Retired Foreign Service Officer / MA Student, UNM Latin American Studies Program
David Lindwall, MA student in the Latin American Studies program, draws on his 33 years as a Foreign Service Officer in the US State Department at postings throughout Latin America and around the world.
Monday, March 04, 2019 | 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Cooking Presentation: Fiesta de elotes y su comida sagrada: El caldo de pollo
Please join the LAII, El Centro de la Raza, and Chicana and Chicano Studies for a cooking presentation with visiting speaker Eduardo De la Cruz of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ) of Mexico.
Research Presentation: Cenyahtoc cintli tonacayo: huahcapatl huan tlen naman / El máiz sigue siendo nuestro muestro de ayer y hoy
Please join the LAII, El Centro de la Raza, and Chicana and Chicano Studies for a presentation with visiting speaker Eduardo De la Cruz of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ) of Mexico.
Thursday, February 28, 2019 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: Merging Natural and Cultural Landscapes: Field Experiences Along the Camino real del Quindío in Colonial Colombia
Larry Larrichio, LAII Research Associate
Join us for a presentation in the LAII Lecture Series as Dr. Larry Larrichio, LAII Research Associate and alumnus, discusses the fieldwork he undertook to complete research for his dissertation and its subsequent revision, translation into Spanish, and publication in Colombia.
Friday, February 22, 2019 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: La culinaria afrodescendiente de Tamiahua
Doris Careaga Coleman, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Join the LAII for a special presentation culinary experience with Dr. Doris Careaga Coleman of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies as she presents her fifth book, La culinaria afrodescendiente de Tamiahua, focused on culinary arts and Afro-Mexican cultural traditions.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Speaker Series: Multilingualism, Language Contact and Language Endangerment in Paraguay
Jens Van Gysel, PhD Student, UNM Department of Linguistics
Jens Van Gyself, PhD Student in the UNM Department of Linguistics, shares a presentation on sociolinguistic and language revitalizatio in Paraguay.
Monday, February 18, 2019 | 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Teach In: Venezuela in Crisis
Join us for a panel discussion on the current crisis in Venezuela. What is happening? Is it a crisis and, if so, what led to this crisis? What is the role of U.S. foreign policy? Come ask questions and learn from a panel of scholars from Venezuela who will share their experiences and perspectives.
Friday, February 15, 2019 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Afro-Brazilian Activism, Poetry, and Journalism: 40 Years of Cadernos Negros and Quilombhoje Literatura
Esmeralda Ribeiro, Quilombhoje Literatura
Ribeiro is a journalist, writer and scholar of Afro-Brazilian Literature. In 1984, she received her BA in Journalism from the Universidade Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. She has been a member of Quilombhoje Literatura since 1982, a group of Afro-Brazilian writers based in São Paulo. Her work has been published in 35 anthologies in Brazil and around the world. She has been consistently active in promoting the participation of black women in literature.
Musicology Colloquium Series: The Cruelty of Jazz: Toward a Hemispheric Politics of Sound
Dr. Jason Borge, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Jason Borge discusses "The Cruelty of Jazz: Toward a Hemispheric Politics of Sound." This lecture is presented as part of the Musicology Colloquium Series.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: Quill and Cross in the Borderlands
Dr. Anna M. Nogar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr. Anna M. Nogar discusses her most recent book, Quill and Cross in the Borderlands, which examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, identified as the legendary “Lady in Blue” who miraculously appeared to tribes in colonial-era New Mexico and taught them the rudiments of the Catholic faith.
Friday, January 25, 2019 | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Braceros Exhibit: Opening Reception
Drawn from the archives of Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Relations, this stunning collection of black and white photography explores the Bracero Program as it was seen by the men and women who lived it.
Monday, November 19, 2018 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
Book Presentation: Beyond Alterity, Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico
Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera and Dr. Vivette García Deister
Join us as we celebrate the recent publication of Beyond Alterity, Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico, with authors Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera and Dr. Vivette García Deister.
Friday, November 16, 2018 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
Experimentalisms in Practice: Book Presentation with Authors
Dr. Ana Alonso Minutti, Dr. Eduardo Herrera, and Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid
Join us for a presentation, signing, and reception with Dr. Ana Alonso Minutti (University of New Mexico), Dr. Eduardo Herrera (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), and Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid (Cornell University), co-editors of the volume Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Lecture Series: Policing the City: From Ferguson to Rio de Janeiro
Jennifer Tucker, Assistant Professor, UNM Community and Regional Planning Program
Join the UNM and CNM Latin American Studies programs for the third presentation in their Fall 2018 LAS Lecture Series as Dr. Jennifer Tucker, Assistant Professor in Community and Regional Planning, shares a presentation on race and security in global cities.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | 08:00 am - 05:00 pm
Greenleaf Symposium on Rural Transformation in Latin America's Changing Climate
The LAII is pleased to announce its fifth annual Richard E. Greenleaf Interdisciplinary Symposium on Latin America, which will focus on the theoretical understandings of smallholder agriculture and rural landscapes within the context of ecological, political, and economic transformation in Latin America.
Thursday, November 08, 2018 | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
Celebrate Bilingualism and New Mexico Spanish
Join us for an evening to celebrate the recent publication of Bilingualism in the Community (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a new book on code-switching. This exciting research documents that, contrary to popular beliefs about language mixing, bilinguals are skilled at maintaining distinct grammatical structures in their two languages, while switching between them.
4th Annual Field Research Grant Colloquium
Join us for the LAII's fourth annual Field Research Grant Colloquium, where we will highlight graduate student scholarship. Recent FRG recipients will share their respective research experiences and findings in a series of presentations.
Thursday, October 25, 2018 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: Trying to Resolve Political Issues Through Law: The Spanish State and the Catalan Conflict
Dr. Bruno Aguilera Barchet, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Join the LAII and UNM School of Law for a presentation with Dr. Bruno Aguilera Barchet, Visiting Professor with the School of Law, as he discusses the recent political uprising in the Catalan region of Spain.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Lecture Series: Indigenous Andeans: Race and Ethnicity from Colony to Nation
Laura Powell, PhD Student, UNM Department of History
Join the UNM and CNM Latin American Studies programs for the second presentation in their Fall 2018 LAS Lecture Series as UNM graduate student Laura Powell shares her research concerning Indigenous people of the Andean region.
Friday, October 19, 2018 | 12:00 pm - 02:30 pm
LAII Lecture Series: Expert Practices: Ethical Considerations in Disseminating Findings About Indigenous and Politically-Non-Dominant Languages
Dr. Catherine Rhodes and colleagues
As part of an effort to foster in-depth conversation on critical topics, the LAII has invited UNM faculty and graduate students to convene and examine “expert practices,” discussing the ethical considerations in disseminating findings about indigenous and politically non-dominant languages.
9th Annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture
Héctor Armienta
On Thursday, Oct. 18, the UNM Department of English hosts the distinguished Héctor Armienta as the featured speaker for the ninth annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest.
Monday, October 08, 2018 | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
LAII Lecture Series: Women in Coffee and Chocolate
Mayra Orellana-Powell and Karla McNeil-Rueda
Join us as we welcome special visiting guests from the coffee and chocolate industry, Mayra Orellana-Powell and Karla McNeil-Rueda, as they discuss their work as women of color entrepreneurs in the global supply chain industry of specialty coffee and cacao.
Thursday, October 04, 2018 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Mexico, the U.S., and the Politics of Mobility in the Trump Era
Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH)
Join El Centro de la Raza, the Global Education Office, and the LAII for a special roundtable discussion with visiting faculty from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH) as they discuss US-Mexico relations in the era of the Trump administration.
Wednesday, October 03, 2018 | 11:00 am - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: 50 años de la masacre de Tlatelolco: Elena Garro y el 68: violencia y persecución del Estado mexicano
Dr. Patricia Rosas Lopátegui, Dr. Miguel López, Dr. Irene Vásquez, Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Spanish & Portuguese
Join the LAII and the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies for a special event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Tlatelolco.
Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
LOBOS Share Intercultural Experience Studying Abroad in Colombia
Join us for a panel presentation of students and faculty who participated in the Summer 2018 study abroad program, "Culturas Indígenas de Colombia," one of the first of its kind at UNM!
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
The Continued Threats to Colombian Peace Community
Jesus Emilio Tuberquia, Peace Community of San José de Apartadó
Join the Interdisciplinary Group of Colombian Studies at UNM as they present a talk with Jesus Emilio Tuberquia, a founding member of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in northwest Colombia.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: Deregulating the Social Life of Property: Neoliberalism and Proliferation of Normative Dissonances in Mexico
Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, UNM Mexico Studies Chair
Join the LAII for a presentation with Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, UNM's Mexico Studies Chair, as she discusses the history and ongoing practices of privatization and commodification of communal lands in rural indigenous Mexico.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Lecture Series: Cultural Retentions in Afroveracruzana Cuisine: Visualizing the Afromexican Culinary Tradition
Dr. Doris Careaga-Coleman, UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Join the UNM and CNM Latin American Studies programs for a presentation in their Fall 2018 LAS Lecture Series as UNM professor Dr. Doris Careaga-Coleman shares her research concerning Afromexican foodways as cultural retentions.
Genocide, Sleaze, and Other Maladies: The Signs of Violence and Trauma in the Narratives of Gabriela Alemán
Dr. Gabriela Alemán
Join the UNM Department of Spanish and Portuguese and partners for a talk with Ecuadorian writer Gabriela Alemán.
Father Luis Olivares: Faith, Politics, and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles
Mario T. García, Distinguished Professor of History and Chicana and Chicano Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Join the UNM Department of Sociology and campus partners for a special presentation with Dr. Mario T. García, Distinguished Professor of History and Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as he discusses his forthcoming book, Father Luis Olivares: A Biography - Faith, Politics, and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
Foreign Service Careers and Opportunities in Latin America and Beyond
Ken Chavez, UNM Diplomat in Residence
UNM Diplomat in Residence Ken Chavez will hold a discussion about internships and careers in the Foreign Service with the US Department of State and how the skills you develop with international coursework could lead to an exciting career in diplomacy.
Mezcal, Tequila & Sotol: A Conversation About Supporting Mexican Craft Spirits in the Global Economy
Graciela Angeles - Ricardo Pico - William Scanlan, III - Clayton Szczech, Distillery Representatives
Join us for a panel presentation with invited speakers who represent a range of organizations producing craft spirits in Mexico.
Writing Resistance Symposium
Join us for "Writing Resistance," a mini-symposium focused on the theme of writing resistance and featuring Brazilian author and 2016 recipient of the prestigious Prêmio Jabuti award Natalia Borges Polesso and literary and cultural critic Leonardo Tonus.
Monday, April 23, 2018 | 08:00 am - 08:00 pm
3rd Annual Semana Cervantina
To commemorate the “International Day of the Book” and the “Day of the Spanish Language” on April 23rd, Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque organizes a week of events in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Spanish Resource Center, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute, and the Consulate of Mexico.
Political Participation in “Post-Conflict” Colombia: Social Movements, Community Radio and the Challenge of Implementing the 2016 Government-FARC Peace Accords in the Countryside
Mario A. Murillo, Hofstra University
Join us for a presentation with Professor Murillo of Hostra University as he addresses questions regarding political participation in "post-conflict" Colombia.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Lecture Series: The Rise of the Latin American New Middle Classes in Brazil and Colombia: A Cultural Story
Diego Bustos, UNM Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Join the UNM and CNM Latin American Studies programs for a presentation in their Spring 2018 LAS Lecture Series as graduate student Diego Bustos shares his research on looking at the rise of the Latin American new middle class.
LAII PhD Colloquium
Join us for an afternoon with our LAII PhD Fellows, doctoral students from around campus whose work relates to Latin America, as they discuss their ongoing research.
Spanish Women Sound Artists: Sound Creations for Piano with Extended Techniques, Electronics, and Multimedia
Carmen Morales Moreno
Join us for a presentation in the Spring 2018 Musicology Colloquium and Music of the Americas Concert Series as pianist Carmen Morales presents on Spanish women sound artists.
Haciendo justicia desde la comunidad: A Discussion with Peruvian Artists and Activists
Adelina García • Wari Zárate • and Rosalía Tineo
Meet Peruvian artists and activists Adelina García, Wari Zaraté, and Rosalia Tineo whose work is at the forefront of the fight for truth, justice, and reconciliation in the wake of the 20 year internal armed conflict with the Shining Path that claimed the lives of nearly 70,000 Peruvians between 1980 and 2000. Using their traditional folk arts of Ayacucho, they give testimony to the stories of individuals and communities who endured violence. The discussion will take place in Spanish with English interpretation.
Segundo Encuentro Jaranerxs Burqueño 2018
Patricia Hidalgo • Esther Cruz Marantos
Join us for a week of community building with two Son Jarocho musicians from Veracruz Mexico, Patricio Hidalgo and Esther Cruz Marantos. As keepers and experts of AfroMexican folk music, they will be sharing historical knowledge of Son Jarocho and host zapeatedo (dance), lyric writing and jarana workshops. This fabulous week is open to anyone that is interested in learning about the Afro Influences in Son Jarocho and a great opportunity to learn how to play an instrument.
LAII Lecture Series: Multi-Actor Conflict and Violence in Colombia
Dr. Javier Osorio, University of Arizona
Join us for a presentation with Dr. Javier Osorio, an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, as he discusses multi-actor conflict and violence in Colombia.
Spring 2018 C&J Colloquium: Citizen Made Alien: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Politics of War
Dr. Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado Boulder
Join the Department of Communications & Journalism for a presentation with Dr. Lisa A. Flores, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, as she discusses gender, race, and violence in the politics of war.
Resolana con Simón Romero
Join the UNM Spanish as a Heritage Language student organization, Resolanas, as they welcome journalist Simón Romero.
LAII Lecture Series: Creating the Sisters in Blue: History, Legend and Place
Anna Nogar • Enrique Lamadrid • Amy Córdova
Join us for a presentation with Dr. Anna Nogar, Dr. Enrique Lamadrid, and Amy Córdova as they share the process behind creating Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul: Sor María de Ágreda Comes to New Mexico/ Sor María de Ágreda viene a Nuevo México, a bilingual children's book that weaves together New Mexican history, legend, and place.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Lecture Series: Fieldwork in Colombia: The Experiences of an Activist and Anthropology Student
María del Pilar File-Muriel, UNM Department of Anthropology
Join the UNM and CNM Latin American Studies programs for a presentation in their Spring 2018 LAS Lecture Series as graduate student María del Pilar File-Muriel shares her experiences conducting fieldwork in Colombia
Synonymic Borrowings in Bilingual Context: A Corpus Approach to New Mexico Spanish
Alicia Assini, University of Texas at Austin
Please join the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) and University Libraries for a presentation with Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Alicia Assini, a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
LAII Lecture Series: Community Policing the Brazilian Slum
Michael Wolff, Western Washington University
Join the LAII for a presentation with Dr. Michael Wolff, assistant professor of political science at Western Washington University, whose research focuses on the social and political dynamics of criminal systems and public security policy in Latin America.
Friday, March 23, 2018 | 08:00 am - 01:00 pm
Four Corners Conflict Network
Join the Four Corners Conflict Network (4CCN) for their third annual conference. The 4CCN was established in 2015 with a view towards building some community connecting the many scholars of violent and nonviolent forms of political and social conflict that work at universities in the four corner states: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
LAII Lecture Series: Trauma as Cultural Legibility in BANG: Researching and Writing the Contemporary Narconovela
Daniel Peña
Join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Latin American & Iberian Institute for a presentation with noted author Daniel Peña as he speaks about the process of writing his latest work, BANG (Arte Público Press).
LAII Lecture Series: Why Charles Bent had to Die (and Oraibi had to be Sacked): Pastoral Conflict in the Nineteenth Century New Mexico Borderlands
Lance R. Blyth, LAII Research Associate
Join the UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) for a presentation with LAII Research Associate Dr. Lance R. Blyth as he speaks on his research focused on 19th century New Mexico borderlands.
LAII Lecture Series: Mexico's Difficult Democratic Moment
Claudio Holzner, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Utah
Join the Department of Political Science and the LAII for a presentation with Dr. Claudio Holzner, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah, as he discusses the political context of Mexico's upcoming presidential elections.
ESPECTROS: Breaking Silences and Telling Stories of Gendered Violence
Dr. Amanda L. Peterson, University of San Diego
Join the UNM Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the LAII for a presentation with Dr. Amanda L. Peterson, who will speak about her co-edited volume ESPECTROS: Ghostly Hauntings in Transhispanic Narratives.
LAII Lecture Series: Poverty and Political Participation in Latin America
Carew Boulding, University of Colorado Boulder
Join the LAII and the Department of Political Science for the first presentation in the Spring 2018 LAII Lecture Series, as Dr. Carew Boulding presents on poverty and political participation in Latin America.
LAII Lecture Series: Mexico in the Key of Rock: Some Thoughts on Music and Literature
Brian Price, Brigham Young University
Join the LAII and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a presentation with Dr. Brian Price of Brigham Young University as he discusses research related to his most recent book project, Viva Rockotitlán: Rock Literature in Mexico (1955-2015), which tells the story of how rock and roll transformed Mexican literature and, by doing so, revolutionized the way that citizens imagined themselves and their nation.
Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Lecture: The Prosodic Structure of Code-Switching in New Mexican Spanish
Jonathan Steuck, Pennsylvania State University
Please join the LAII and University Libraries for a presentation with Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Jonathan Steuck, a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Linguistics and Language Science at Pennsylvania State University. Steuck’s
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
CNM•UNM LAS Lecture Series: Adaptation to Drought in Costa Rica’s Crony Capitalist Rice Economy
Benjamin Warner, UNM Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
Join us for the first presentation in the Spring 2018 CNM•UNM LAS Speaker Series as Dr. Benjamin Warner shares his research on how smaller farmers adapt to climate change in Costa Rica.
Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar: A Language Contact Perspective on New Mexican Spanish Phonology
Dr. Esther L. Brown, University of Colorado Boulder
Please join us for a presentation with Dr. Esther Brown, Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar, as she presents on her research involving language contact in New Mexican Spanish phonology.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 | 04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Facilitating & Sharing Community-Based Research through Seed Saving Initiatives in Rural Communities of Northern Ecuador
Michael Ayala Ayala, Universidad Central del Ecuador
Please join us for a presentation with Latin American Studies doctoral student Michael Ayala Ayala, who will address his recent, community-based research involving seed saving initiatives in rural Ecuador.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 | 05:30 pm - 07:00 pm
Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Regina José Galindo
Join us for a presentation with Regina José Galindo, who presents as part of the 2017-18 Gale Memorial Lecture Series, Decolonizing Methodologies in Art.
LAII Lecture Series: The Contradictory Fortunes of Bilingual Education in the US and Latin America
Aurolyn Luykx, University of Texas at El Paso
Join us for the last presentation in the Fall 2017 LAII Lecture Series as we welcome to campus Dr. Aurolyn Luykx, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Teacher Education at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Gale Memorial Lecture Series: The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Pratt Institute
Join us for a presentation with Macarena Gómez-Barris, who presents as part of the 2017-18 Gale Memorial Lecture Series, Decolonizing Methodologies in Art.
Contraband city: Outlaw capital and urban development in the Paraguay-Brazil borderlands
Dr. Jennifer Tucker, UNM Department of Community and Regional Planning
Join the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies for a presentation with Dr. Jennifer Tucker, who shares her research focused on urban development in the Paraguay-Brazil borderlands as part of the department's Autumn 2017 Colloquium Series.
Musicology Colloquium Series: The Politics of Exile, the Dedication of the Cathedral of Puebla, and the Music of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Luisa Vilar Payá, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla
Join us for a presentation with Dr. Luisa Vilar-Payá of the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017 | 03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
An Alumni Panel: After the Degree - LAS Informed Careers
Join us for a special opportunity to hear from local Latin American Studies alumni.
Monday, October 30, 2017 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
LAII Lecture Series: The Collapse of Venezuela and the Strange Longevity of the Maduro Administration
Javier Corrales, Amherst College
Join us for a presentation with Dr. Javier Corrales, the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
LAII Lecture Series: Representing Political Violence in Peru through Comics
Join us for a presentation with Jesús Cossio, a Peruvian illustrator, author, and editor of comic books and graphic novels.
LAII Lecture Series: Cristales de tiempo: Los poemas transgresores de Elena Garro
Patricia Rosas Lopátegui, UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Join us for a presentation in the Fall 2017 LAII Lecture Series as we hear from Dr. Patricia Rosas Lopátegui, an Assistant Professor in the UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Muriel Hasbun
Muriel Hasbun
Join us for a presentation with Muriel Hasbun, who presents as part of the 2017-18 Gale Memorial Lecture Series, Decolonizing Methodologies in Art.
Chavela's Frida: Emancipatory Songs of Love & Pain
Ana Alonso-Minutti, UNM Department of Music
University of New Mexico Art Museum, in partnership with Way OUT West Film Fest and UNM Department of Music, presents a lecture with Associate Professor of Music and faculty affiliate of the LAII, Ana Alonso-Minutti.
Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Lecture: Global Health Equity and Urban Design
Marco Akerman, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Join the College of Population Health for the annual Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Lecture featuring Dr. Marco Akerman, MD, MPH, Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
LAII Lecture Series: Contesting Violence Against Women: Constructing Human Rights at the Frontiers of Globalization
Alison Brysk, University of California, Santa Barbara
Join us for a presentation in the Fall 2017 LAII Lecture Series as we hear from Dr. Alison Brysk, the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as she speaks on "Contesting Violence Against Women: Constructing Human Rights at the Frontiers of Globalization."
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin
Join us for the second presentation in the Fall 2017 CNM*UNM LAS Lecture Series as Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett presents "Archives, Historical Memory, and Human Rights in Guatemala: The Case of Fernando Garcia."
Join us for the second presentation in the Fall 2017 LAII Lecture Series as Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett presents on "Archives, Historical Memory, and Human Rights in Guatemala: The Case of Fernando Garcia."
Musicology Colloquium Series: Imagining Something Better: Punk, Tejano, La Bamba, and Other Rolas from My Border Hi-Fi.
Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, UNM Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Join us for a presentation with Dr. Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and faculty affiliate of the LAII, as he presents on "Imagining Something Better: Punk, Tejano, La Bamba, and Other Rolas from My Border Hi-Fi."
Decolonizing Methodologies in Art Lecture Series: Emory Douglas and Caleb Duarte
Emory Douglas &Caleb Duarte
Join the UNM Department of Art for a presentation in their 2017-18 Gale Memorial Lecture Series on "Decolonizing Methodologies in Art." Emory Douglas is a Former Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party, and served as director, designer and illustrator for The Black Panther Newsletter. Caleb Duarte, an artist who creates public works and community performances, is the founder and director of the EDELO art residency in Chiapas, Mexico.
Dr. Hector Dante Cincotta
Join us for a special presentation featuring Argentina poet and scholar Dr. Hector Dante Cincotta. For the first part of the presentation, Dr. Cincotta will speak on "Borges y Molinari: Convergencies and Divergencies." The latter half of the presentation will allow Dr. Cincotta to offer remarks in an homage to Dr. Marshall Nason on the eve of the 100th anniversary of Dr. Nason's birth.
CNM Lecture Series: ¿Que es Marihuana? And Why it's Important to Know
Chris Duvall, UNM Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Musicology Colloquium Series: The Tide Was Always High: Latin American Musical Modernisms in Los Angeles
Josh Kun, USC Annenberg School
Join us for the first lecture in the Fall 2017 Musicology Colloquium Series. Drawing from his research for the Getty Foundation's PST: LA/LA initiative, Professor Kun will explore the role of various Latin American musical histories in the shaping of jazz, funk, and popular music in 20th century Los Angeles.
Friday, April 14, 2017 | 08:00 am - 08:00 pm
Greenleaf Conference on Practicing Asylum: Expert Witness Testimony in Latin American Asylum Cases
This free and open conference pulled together attorneys and academics engaged in these issues in order to expand the network of trained expert witnesses available to attorneys and to strengthen best practices in the creation of country condition affidavits. Panel presentations addressed technical and academic subjects critical to asylum work, as well as explored policy and political conditions for asylum work. Presenters combined academics and attorneys from New Mexico and beyond.
The Challenge of National Literary Historiography, The Case of Mexican Literature Latin American
Dr. Anna Nogar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
In this presentation, Dr. Anna M. Nogar discusses the challenges posed by the project of writing a history of Mexican literature for the 21st century. This discussion follows the publication of A History of Mexican Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2016), a collaborative project that involved pulling together authors from across Mexican literary studies.
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The LAII's Literature Guides are lesson plans and activities that accompany young adult novels that engage in some way with Latin America, the Caribbean or Latinos in the United States. Each guide includes background on the author and book, thematic lessons and activities, and resources to support or extend the use of the book in the classroom. The lesson plans and activities encourage the teaching of literacy through the content areas and are linked to the Common Core State Standards.
We also have several guides to selected children's books that were recognized by the Américas Award.
PANCHO RABBIT AND THE COYOTE: A MIGRANT'S TALE
Tonatiuh, Duncan | Harry N. Abrams, 2013 | United States/Mexico
In this allegorical picture book, a young rabbit named Pancho eagerly awaits his papa’s return. Papa Rabbit traveled north two years ago to find work in the great carrot and lettuce fields to earn money for his family. When Papa does not return, Pancho sets out to find him. He packs Papa’s favorite meal—mole, rice and beans, a heap of warm tortillas, and a jug of aguamiel—and heads north. He meets a coyote, who offers to help Pancho in exchange for some of Papa’s food. They travel together until the food is gone and the coyote decides he is still hungry . . . for Pancho! Duncan Tonatiuh brings to light the hardship and struggles faced by thousands of families who seek to make better lives for themselves and their children by illegally crossing the border.
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SEPARATE IS NEVER EQUAL: SYLVIA MENDEZ AND HER FAMILY'S FIGHT FOR DESEGREGATION
Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a “Whites only” school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated education in California.
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Alvarez, Julia | Yearling, 2010 | United States/Mexico | Available in Spanish
After Tyler’s father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected to her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?
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DEVOLVER AL REMITENTE
Alvarez, Julia | Yearling, 2010 | United States/Mexico | Available in English
Después de que el padre de Tyler fuese lastimado en un accidente de tractor, su familia es forzada a emplear a trabajadores migrantes mexicanos para que ayuden a salvar su rancho en Vermont. Tyler no sabe qué pensar sobre estos trabajadores. ¿Son indocumentados? Y qué se puede pensar sobre las tres hijas, especialmente Mari, la hija mayor que se siente orgullosa de su herencia hispana, pero que también se siente conectada a su vida americana. Su familia vive con un miedo constante de ser descubiertos por las autoridades y de que los regresen a México donde vivían en pobreza. ¿Podrán Tyler y Mari llegar a ser amigos a pesar de sus diferencias?
MORNING GIRL
Michael, Dorris | Scholastic, 1992 | Caribbean
This brief, lyrical novel explores the world of a sister and brother living on a lush island in the Bahamas just before the arrival of Columbus. Morning Girl and Star Boy narrate the story in alternating chapters, giving readers a view into the Taino Indian culture of which they are a part. That they must live in harmony with nature is a given; that the children recognize the power of that harmony is elegantly drawn. Says Morning Girl: "I like the aloneness of the early morning. I try to step gently on the path so that the sounds I make will blend into the rustle of the world..."
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THE RED UMBRELLA
Gonzalez, Christina Diaz | Yearling-Random House, 2012 | United States/Cuba
The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl’s journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro’s revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change...
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Jiménez, Francisco | UNM Press, 1997 | United States/Mexico | Available in Spanish
After dark in a Mexican border town, a father holds open a hole in a wire fence as his wife and two small boys crawl through. So begins life in the United States for many people every day. And so begins this collection of twelve autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jiménez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947...
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Jiménez, Francisco | UNM Press, 1997 | United States/Mexico | Available in English
Al anochecer en una ciudad cerca de la frontera mexicana, un padre mantiene abierto un agujero en un cerco alambrado mientras su esposa y dos niños pequeños salen por éste. Así comienza la vida en los Estados Unidos para muchas personas cada día. Y así comienza esta colección de doce escritos autobiográficos por el profesor Francisco Jiménez de la Universidad de Santa Clara, quien a la edad de cuatro años, cruzó la frontera ilegalmente con su familia en 1947...
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THE COLOR OF MY WORDS
Joseph, Lynn | HarperCollins, 2011 | Dominican Republic | Available in Spanish
Twelve-year-old Ana Rosa is a blossoming writer growing up in the Dominican Republic, a country where words are feared. Yet there is so much inspiration all around her- watching her brother search for a future, learning to dance and to love, and finding out what it means to be part of a community- that Ana Rosa must write it all down. As she struggles to find her own voice and a way to make it heard, Ana Rosa realizes the power of her words to transform the world around her- and to transcend the most unthinkable of tragedies. Download Educator's Guide to The Color Of My Words
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EL COLOR DE MIS PALABRAS
Joseph, Lynn | HarperCollins, 2011 | Dominican Republic | Available in English
Ana Rosa es una escritora joven de doce años y vive en la República Dominicana, un país donde las palabras son temidas. Sin embargo, está rodeada por mucha inspiración—ver a su hermano buscar un futuro, aprender a bailar y amar, y buscar el significado de ser parte de una comunidad—por lo que escribirá mucho. Mientras lucha para encontrar su propia voz y la manera de proyectarla, Ana Rosa pone en práctica el poder de sus palabras para transformar el mundo a su alrededor y para superar las tragedias más inconcebibles.
SUMMER OF THE MARIPOSAS
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia | Lee & Low Books, 2012 | United States/Mexico | Available in Spanish
When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero’s journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey that would rival Homer’s original tale. Summer of the Mariposas is not just a magical Mexican American retelling of The Odyssey, it is a celebration of sisterhood and maternal love
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THE REVOLUTION OF EVELYN SERRANO
Manzano, Sonia | Yearling, 2010 | United States/Puerto Rico
There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami and stepfather. Her true feelings about growing up in her Spanish Harlem neighborhood, and her attitude about Abuela, her sassy grandmother who’s come from Puerto Rico to live with them. Then, like an urgent ticking clock, events erupt that change everything. The Young Lords, a Puerto Rican activist group, dump garbage in the street and set it on fire, igniting a powerful protest. When Abuela steps in to take charge, Evelyn is thrust into the action. Tempers flare, loyalties are tested. Through it all, Evelyn learns important truths about her Latino heritage and the history makers who shaped a nation. Infused with actual news accounts from the time period, Sonia Manzano has crafted a gripping work of fiction based on her own life growing up during a fiery, unforgettable time in America, when young Latinos took control of their destinies.
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WHAT THE MOON SAW
Resau, Laura | Yearling, 2008 | United States/Mexico
Clara Luna’s name means “clear moon” in Spanish. But lately, her head has felt anything but clear. One day a letter comes from Mexico, written in Spanish: Dear Clara, We invite you to our house for the summer. We will wait for you on the day of the full moon, in June, at the Oaxaca airport. Love, your grandparents. Fourteen-year-old Clara has never met her father’s parents. She knows he snuck over the border from Mexico as a teenager, but beyond that, she knows almost nothing about his childhood. When she agrees to go, she’s stunned by her grandparents’ life: they live in simple shacks in the mountains of southern Mexico, where most people speak not only Spanish, but an indigenous language, Mixteco...
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Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Scholastic, 2010 | Chile | Available in Spanish
From the time he is a young boy, Neftalí hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself, Neftalí knows he cannot ignore the call. Under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, he listens and he follows. . . Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial, transporting illustrations, Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination
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EL SOÑADOR
Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Scholastic, 2010 | Chile | Available in English
Desde el momento en que él es un muchacho joven, Neftalí escucha la llamada de una voz misteriosa. Incluso cuando los niños del barrio se burlan de él, y cuando su duro, autoritario padre le ridiculiza, y cuando el mismo se duda, Neftalí sabe que no puede ignorar la llamada. Bajo el dosel de la selva exuberante, en el mar temible, y a través de la lluvia persistente de Chile, el escucha y sigue. Combinando elementos del realismo mágico con la biografía, la poesía, la ficción literaria, y ilustraciones sensoriales, Pam Muñoz Ryan y Peter Sís llevan los lectores en un viaje raro del corazón y la imaginación.
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Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina | Candlewick, 2018 |
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don’t have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci’s school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna’s jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci’s grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately — forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she’s left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school. In a coming-of-age tale full of humor and wisdom, award-winning author Meg Medina gets to the heart of the confusion and constant change that defines middle school — and the steadfast connection that defines family.
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Jazz Owls
Margarita Engle | Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018 |
Thousands of young Navy sailors are pouring into Los Angeles on their way to the front lines of World War II. They are teenagers, scared, longing to feel alive before they have to face the horrors of battle. Hot jazz music spiced with cool salsa rhythms calls them to dance with the local Mexican American girls, who jitterbug all night before working all day in the canneries. Proud to do their part for the war effort, these Jazz Owl girls are happy to dance with the sailors—until the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder. Suddenly the young white sailors are attacking these girls’ brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violence—when in reality these boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin.
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ESTRELLA'S QUINCEAÑERA
Alegría, Malín | Simon & Schuster, 2007 | United States/Mexico
For as long as Estrella Alvarez can remember, her mother has been planning to throw her an elaborate quinceañera for her fifteenth birthday — complete with a mariachi band, cheesy decorations, and a hideous dress. Just thinking about her quince makes Estrella cringe. But her mother insists that it’s tradition. Estrella has other things on her mind, anyway — like dating Speedy. Does it matter that her new friends — and her parents — would never approve of a guy from el barrio? Estrella’s almost fifteen and wants to start making her own decisions. But is she ready to find out who she is — and who she really wants to be?
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BEFORE WE WERE FREE
Alvarez, Julia | Laurel Leaf, 2004 | Dominican Republic/ | Available in Spanish
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free.
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ANTES DE SER LIBRES
Alvarez, Julia | Laurel Leaf, 2004 | Dominican Republic/ | Available in English
Anita de la Torre nunca dudó de su libertad mientras vivía en la República Dominicana. Pero para su doceavo cumpleaños en el año 1960, muchos de sus familiares han emigrado a los Estados Unidos, su tío Toni ha desaparecido, y la policía secreta aterroriza su familia por su supuesta oposición al dictador de su país. Mientras sus años en la secundaria deberían enfocarse en la escuela, los niños, sus hermanas, y la pubertad, Anita también brega con palabras de código, escapes peligrosos, y complots de asesinatos. Inspirado por la perseverancia y fuerza inmedible de su familia, Anita lucha por superar sus miedos y hacer un escape dramático hacia la libertad, dejando atrás todo lo que antes conocía.
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Brown, Skila | Candlewick, 2014 | Guatemala/ | Available in Spanish
Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet — he’s still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist. Mama tells Carlos to run and hide, then try to find her. . . . Numb and alone, he must join a band of guerillas as they trek to the top of the mountain where Carlos’s abuela lives. Will he be in time, and brave enough, to warn them about the soldiers? What will he do then? A novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala’s civil war, Caminar is the moving story of a boy who loses nearly everything before discovering who he really is.
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SERAFINA'S PROMISE
Burg, Ann | Scholastic, 2013 | Haiti/
Serafina has // a secret dream. She wants to go to school // and become a doctor // with her best friend, Julie Marie. But in their rural village // outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, // many obstacles // stand in Serafina’s way– // little money, // never-ending chores, // and Manman’s worries. More powerful even // than all of these // are the heavy rains // and the shaking earth // that test Serafina’s resolve // in ways she never dreamed. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, // this exquisitely crafted story // will leave a lasting impression // on your heart.
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Calcines, Eduardo F. | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2009 | Cuba/
Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed by his schoolmates and even his teachers for being a traitor to his country. But even worse, his father was sent to an agricultural reform camp to do hard labor as punishment for daring to want to leave Cuba. During the years to come, as he grew up in Glorytown, a neighborhood in the city of Cienfuegos, Eduardo hoped with all his might that their exit visa would be granted before he turned fifteen, the age at which he would be drafted into the army. In this absorbing memoir, by turns humorous and heartbreaking, Eduardo Calcines recounts his boyhood and chronicles the conditions that led him to wish above all else to leave behind his beloved extended family and his home for a chance at a better future.
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Cameron, Ann | Laurel Leaf, 2005 | Guatemala/ | Available in Spanish
She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibrí, Spanish for “Hummingbird.” At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then she’s travelled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for her parents but had no success. There’s almost no chance Rosa will ever find them, but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck – a treasure big enough to last him all his life. So he’s kept her with him. Together, they have travelled from town to town in the highlands of Guatemala, scraping out a living, hoping to find the treasure. Eight years have passed, and Rosa has turned twelve. No treasure has been found, and Uncle has almost given up hope. When he turns angry and desperate, danger threatens Rosa from all side, but especially from Uncle himself.
Cameron, Ann | Laurel Leaf, 2005 | Guatemala/ | Available in English
Su madre la llamó Colibrí porque era una niña chiquita y hermosa. A los cuatro años fue raptada en la Ciudad de Guatemala mientras viajaba con sus padres en un autobús. Desde entonces, ha viajado con un ex soldado mendigo y andariego, su "tío", que la llama Rosa. Él siempre le ha dicho que buscó a sus padres, pero lo cierto es que cuando Rosa era joven, una adivina le dijo que la niña le ayudaría a encontrar un tesoro muy grande que le duraría toda la vida y es la única razón por la que la mantiene a su lado. Pero Rosa ya tiene 12 años y no hay señal del tesoro y Tío se está impacientando.
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THE TEQUILA WORM
Canales, Viola | Random House, 2007 | United States/
Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Día de los Muertos, preparing for quinceañera, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to an elite boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. It’s a different mundo, but one where Sofia’s traditions take on new meaning and illuminate her path.
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ENCHANTED AIR: TWO CULTURES, TWO WINGS
Engle, Margarita | Atheneum, 2015 | Cuba/United States | Available in Spanish
In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.
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HURRICANE DANCERS: THE FIRST CARIBBEAN PIRATE SHIPWRECK
Engle, Margarita | Henry Holt & Co., 2011 | Caribbean/
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his father’s Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors.
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THE LIGHTNING DREAMER: CUBA'S GREAT ABOLITIONIST
Engle, Margarita | HMH Books, 2013 | Cuba/
“I find it so easy to forget / that I’m just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts.” Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who bravely resisted an arranged marriage at the age of fourteen, and was ultimately courageous enough to fight against injustice. Historical notes, excerpts, and source notes round out this exceptional tribute.
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THE SURRENDER TREE
Engle, Margarita | Henry Holt & Co, 2010 | Cuba/ | Available in Spanish
It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in concentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but with a price on her head for helping the rebels, she dares not go to the camps. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish—Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war?
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EL ÁRBOL DE LA RENDICIÓN
Engle, Margarita | Henry Holt & Co, 2010 | Cuba/ | Available in English
Es el año 1896. Cuba ha enfrentado en tres guerras por la independencia y todavía no es libre. Las personas han sido detenidos en campos de concentración, con muy poca comida y demasiada enfermedad. Rosa es una enfermera, pero con un precio sobre su cabeza para ayudar a los rebeldes, no se atreve a ir a los campamentos. En cambio, ella se vuelve cuevas ocultas en los hospitales para los que saben cómo encontrarla. Negro, blanco, cubano, español-Rosa hace lo mejor para todos. Pero, ¿quién puede sanar un país tan desgarrado por la guerra?
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Jaramillo, Ann | Square Fish, 2006 | Mexico/
Miguel’s life is just beginning. Or so he thinks. Fifteen-year-old Miguel leaves his rancho deep in Mexico to migrate to California across la línea, the border, in a debut novel of life-changing, cliff-hanging moments. But Miguel’s carefully laid plans change suddenly when his younger sister Elena stows away and follows him. Together, Miguel and Elena endure hardships and danger on their journey of desperation and desire, loyalty and betrayal. An epilogue, set ten years after the events of the story, shows that you can’t always count on dreams–even the ones that come true.
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Jiménez, Francisco | University of New Mexico Press, 1997 | Mexico/United States | Available in Spanish
Jiménez, Francisco | University of New Mexico Press, 1997 | 1997/United States | Available in English
UNDER THE MESQUITE
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia | Lee & Low, 2011 | United States/
Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother’s battle with cancer in this young adult novel in verse. When Lupita learns Mami has cancer, she is terrified by the possibility of losing her mother, the anchor of her close-knit family. Suddenly, being a high school student, starring in a play, and dealing with friends who don’t always understand, become less important than doing whatever she can to save Mami’s life. While her father cares for Mami at an out-of-town clinic, Lupita takes charge of her seven younger siblings. As Lupita struggles to keep the family afloat, she takes refuge in the shade of a mesquite tree, where she escapes the chaos at home to write. Forced to face her limitations in the midst of overwhelming changes and losses, Lupita rediscovers her voice and finds healing in the power of words. Told with honest emotion in evocative free verse, Lupita’s journey toward hope is captured in moments that are alternately warm and poignant. Under the Mesquite is an empowering story about testing family bonds and the strength of a young woman navigating pain and hardship with surprising resilience.
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Manzano, Sonia | Scholastic, 2012 | United States/Puerto Rico
THE GIRL WHO COULD SILENCE THE WIND
Medina, Meg | Candlewick, 2013 | United States/
Sixteen-year-old Sonia Ocampo was born on the night of the worst storm Tres Montes had ever seen. And when the winds mercifully stopped, an unshakable belief in the girl’s protective powers began. All her life, Sonia has been asked to pray for sick mothers or missing sons, as worried parents and friends press silver milagros in her hands. Sonia knows she has no special powers, but how can she disappoint those who look to her for solace? Still, her conscience is heavy, so when she gets a chance to travel to the city and work in the home of a wealthy woman, she seizes it. At first, Sonia feels freedom in being treated like all the other girls. But when news arrives that her beloved brother has disappeared while looking for work, she learns to her sorrow that she can never truly leave the past or her family behind.
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YAQUI DELGADO WANTS TO KICK YOUR ASS
One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first Piddy is more concerned with trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her weekend job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off or running away? In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine who is forced to decide who she really is.
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Shadowshaper
Older, Daniel José | Levine, 2015 | Caribbean/United States
Paint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world. Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears… Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on. With the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one — and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. Now she must unravel her family’s past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for generations to come. Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a heroine and magic unlike anything else in fantasy fiction, and marks the YA debut of a bold new voice.
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JOURNEY OF DREAMS
Pellegrino, Marge | Frances Lincoln, 2009 | Guatemala/
For the peaceful highlanders of Guatemala, life has become a nightmare. Helicopters slash like machetes through the once-quiet air. Soldiers patrol the streets, hunting down suspected guerillas. Villagers mysteriously disappear and children are recruited as soldiers. Tomasa’s family is growing increasingly desperate, especially after Mama goes into hiding with Tomasa’s oldest brother. Finally, after their house is razed to the ground and the villagers massacred, Tomasa, Manuelito, and baby Maria set off with Papa on a perilous journey to find Mama and Carlos, only to discover that where one journey ends, another begins. This gripping novel tells the story of how Tomasa’s family survives the Guatemalan army’s brutal regime and how, in the midst of tragedy, their love and loyalty — and Papa’s storytelling — keeps them going on their harrowing journey as refugees to the United States. Mirrored in the tapestries of Tomasa’s dreams, the dramatic events of the Guatemalan army’s “scorched earth” campaign of the 1980s are tempered with hope and the generosity of the human spirit.
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THE QUEEN OF WATER
Resau, Laura | Delacorte, 2011 | Ecuador/
Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it’s not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta -stupid Indian -by the ruling class of mestizos, or Spanish descendants. On the day Virginia is taken from her village to be an unpaid servant to a mestizo couple, she has no idea what the next decade will hold for her. In this poignant novel based on a true story, acclaimed author Laura Resau has collaborated with María Virginia Farinango to recount an indigenous girl’s unforgettable journey to self-discovery that will speak to anyone who has ever struggled to find his or her place in the world. Virginia’s story will make you laugh and cry, and ultimately, fill you with hope.
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Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Scholastic, 2010 | Chile/ | Available in Spanish
Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Scholastic, 2010 | Chile/ | Available in English
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire | Simon & Schuster, 2012 | United States/
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
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HE FORGOT TO SAY GOODBYE
Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove don’t appear to have much in common. Ram lives in the Mexican-American working-class barrio of El Paso called “Dizzy Land.” His brother is sinking into a world of drugs, wreaking havoc in their household. Jake is a rich West Side white boy who has developed a problem managing his anger. An only child, he is a misfit in his mother’s shallow and materialistic world. But Ram and Jake do have one thing in common: They are lost boys who have never met their fathers. This sad fact has left both of them undeniably scarred and obsessed with the men who abandoned them. As Jake and Ram overcome their suspicions of each other, they begin to move away from their loner existences and realize that they are capable of reaching out beyond their wounds and the neighborhoods that they grew up in. Their friendship becomes a healing in a world of hurt.
Educator's Guide to He Forgot to Say Goodbye
Because of the Sun
Jenny Torres Sánchez | Delacorte Press, 2017 |
Dani learned to tolerate her existence in suburban Florida with her brash and seemingly unloving mother by embracing the philosophy Why care? It will only hurt. So when her mother is killed in a sudden and violent manner, Dani goes into an even deeper protection mode, total numbness. It's the only way she can go on. But when Dani chooses The Stranger by Albert Camus as summer reading for school, it feels like fate. The main character's alienation after his mother's death mirrors her own. Dani's life is thrown into further turmoil when she is sent to New Mexico to live with an aunt she never knew she had. The awkwardness between them is palpable. To escape, Dani takes long walks in the merciless heat. One day, she meets Paulo, who understands how much Dani is hurting. Although she is hesitant at first, a mutual trust and affection develops between them. And as she and her aunt begin to connect, Dani learns about her mother's past. Forgiving isn't easy, but maybe it's the only way to move forward.
Educator's Guide to Because of the Sun
Alegría, Malín | Simon & Schuster, 2007 | United States
Álvarez, Julia | Laurel Leaf, 2004 | Dominican Republic | Available in Spanish
Álvarez, Julia | Laurel Leaf, 2004 | Dominican Republic | Available in English
Educator's Guide to Antes de ser libres
THE MEANING OF CONSUELO
Cofer, Judith Ortiz | Beacon, 2005 | Puerto Rico
The Signe family is blessed with two daughters. Consuelo, the elder, is thought of as pensive and book-loving, the serious child-la niña seria-while Mili, her younger sister, is seen as vivacious, a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But, for all the joy both girls should bring, something is not right in this Puerto Rican family; a tragedia is developing, like a tumor, at its core. In this fierce, funny, and sometimes startling novel, we follow a young woman's quest to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture and her family.
Educator's Guide to The Meaning of Consuelo
Danticat, Edwidge | Vintage, 1996 |
Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling to survive under the brutal Duvalier regime, Danticat illuminates the distance between people's desires and the stifling reality of their lives. A profound mix of Catholicism and voodoo spirituality informs the tales, bestowing a mythic importance on people described in the opening story, "Children of the Sea," as those "in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves." The ceaseless grip of dictatorship often leads men to emotionally abandon their families, like the husband in "A Wall of Fire Rising," who dreams of escaping in a neighbor's hot-air balloon. The women exhibit more resilience, largely because of their insistence on finding meaning and solidarity through storytelling; but Danticat portrays these bonds with an honesty that shows that sisterhood, too, has its power plays. In the book's final piece, "Epilogue: Women Like Us," she writes: "Are there women who both cook and write? Kitchen poets, they call them. They slip phrases into their stew and wrap meaning around their pork before frying it. They make narrative dumplings and stuff their daughter's mouths so they say nothing more."
Educator's Guide to Krik? Krak!
Engle, Margarita | Atheneum, 2015 | Cuba | Available in Spanish
In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her far-away family. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita’s worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?
Engle, Margarita | Henry Holt and Co., 2010 | Cuba | Available in Spanish
Engle, Margarita | Henry Holt and Co., 2010 | Cuba | Available in English
Lake, Nick | Bloomsbury, 2012 | Haiti
Trapped beneath the rubble of the Haitian earthquake of 2010, a teenage boy is terrified, desperate and alone. A child of the slums, Shorty has been drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule his broken city, a world that turns dreams into dust and boys into killers.
Educator's Guide to In Darkness
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia | Lee & Low, 2011 | United States
Medina, Meg | Candlewick, 2013 | United States
Miller-Lachman, Lyn | Curbstone, 2009 | Chile
Daniel’s papá, Marcelo, used to play soccer, dance the cueca, and drive his kids to school in a beat-up green taxi—all while publishing an underground newspaper that exposed Chile’s military regime. After papá’s arrest in 1980, Daniel’s family fled to the United States. Now Daniel has a new life, playing guitar in a rock band and dating Courtney, a minister’s daughter. He hopes to become a US citizen as soon as he turns eighteen. When Daniel’s father is released and rejoins his family, they see what five years of prison and torture have done to him. Marcelo is partially paralyzed, haunted by nightmares, and bitter about being exiled to “Gringolandia.” Daniel worries that Courtney’s scheme to start a bilingual human rights newspaper will rake up papá’s past and drive him further into alcohol abuse and self-destruction. Daniel dreams of a real father-son relationship, but he may have to give up everything simply to save his papá’s life. This powerful coming-of-age story portrays an immigrant teen’s struggle to reach his tortured father and find his place in the world.
Educator's Guide to Gringolandia
MEXICAN WHITEBOY
de la Peña, Matt | Ember, 2010 | United States/
Danny's tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it. But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny’ s brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. That’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. Only, to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see--the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.
Educator's Guide to Mexican Whiteboy
GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES
Quintero, Isabel | Cinco Puntos Press, 2014 | United States/
Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food she craves. And best of all, the poetry that helps forge her identity. July 24. My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. My mom has told me the story many, many, MANY, times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was pregnant with me, her mother beat her. BEAT HER! She was twenty-five. That story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it's important to wait until you're married to give it up. So now, every time I go out with a guy, my mom says, "Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas." Eyes open, legs closed. That's as far as the birds and the bees talk has gone. And I don't mind it. I don't necessarily agree with that whole wait until you're married crap, though. I mean, this is America and the 21st century; not Mexico one hundred years ago. But, of course, I can't tell my mom that because she will think I'm bad. Or worse: trying to be White.
Educator's Guide to Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
SAMMY AND JULIANA IN HOLLYWOOD
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire | Cinco Puntos Press, 2004 | United States/
The “Hollywood” where Sammy Santos and Juliana Ríos live is not the West Coast one, the one with all the glitz and glitter. This Hollywood is a tough barrio at the edge of a small town in southern New Mexico. Sammy and this friends—members of the 1969 high school graduating class—face a world of racism, dress codes, war in Vietnam and barrio violence. In the summer before his senior year begins, Sammy falls in love with Juliana, a girl whose tough veneer disguises a world of hurt. By summer’s end, Juliana is dead. Sammy grieves, and in his grief, the memory of Juliana becomes his guide through this difficult year. Sammy is a smart kid, but he’s angry. He’s angry about Juliana’s death, he’s angry about the poverty his father and his sister must endure, he’s angry at his high school and its thinly disguised gringo racism, and he’s angry he might not be able to go to college. Benjamin Alire Sáenz, evoking the bittersweet ambience found in such novels as McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, captures the essence of what it meant to grow up Chicano in small-town America in the late 1960s.
Educator's Guide to Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD
Stork, Francisco X. | Scholastic, 2011 | United States/
The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others. Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear ― part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo's differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer . . . to join "the real world." There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file a picture of a girl with half a face that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.
Educator's Guide to Marcelo in the Real World
"One of These Days" / Un día de estos"
García Márquez, Gabriel | Vintage Español, 1962 | Colombia | Available in English/Spanish
A humble dentist, Aurelio Escovar, lives in a town riddled with corruption. When the murderous mayor arrives in his office, the dentist refuses to treat him. The mayor pulls a gun on the dentist and demands treatment for what Escovar discovers to be an infected wisdom tooth. He agrees to treat him, but without the aid of anesthesia saying, "Now you'll pay for twenty dead men.”
Educator's Guide to "One of These Days"
"House Taken Over" / "Casa tomada"
Cortázar, Julio | Alfaguara, 1952 | Argentina | Available in English / Spanish
The narrator and his sister, Irene, have inherited a large mansion, in which they live happily with generations of keepsakes. Irene has taken up knitting and the narrator loves literature. They stick to an easy routine, until one day an entity takes over a part of their house, until eventually they must abandon it.
Educator's Guide to "House Taken Over"
"First Visit to the Finca" / "Primer viaje a la finca"
Menchú, Rigoberta | Verso, 2010 | Guatemala | Available in English / Spanish
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.
Educator's Guide to "First Visit to the Finca"
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Colorado Asks SCOTUS to Resolve Dispute That Could Have Serious Consequences for the Electoral College
by Elura Nanos | 1:21 pm, October 17th, 2019
Just over a year out from the 2020 presidential election, things are getting real in the Battle of the Electoral College.
Colorado filed a cert petition with SCOTUS on Wednesday, asking whether electors (the actual people who make up the electoral college) really have to vote for the state’s popular winner. Ultimately, if the Court answers in the negative – meaning that individual electors are permitted to exercise their own discretion – it could mean the beginning of the end of the electoral college system.
Colorado is appealing its loss at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case over Micheal Baca’s “faithless electing.” Baca was a Hillary Clinton-hating Democratic elector in Colorado; in 2016, he cast his ballot for Ohio’s then-Gov. John Kasich (R), despite Clinton having won Colorado’s popular vote. Colorado’s Secretary of State then removed Baca as an elector, threw out his vote, and replaced him with a Hillary voter. Litigation ensued.
The Tenth Circuit upheld Baca’s right to vote, with Judge Carolyn McHugh writing that the Framers use of the word “vote” implied an expectation of independent judgment on the part of electors.
A similar case is proceeding in Washington State, where then-19-year-old elector Levi Guerra and two others declared themselves “Hamilton Electors.” They refused to cast ballots for Clinton (the popular winner), and instead, voted for moderate Republicans as part of a larger scheme to keep Trump out of office. The Hamilton Electors were fined, and Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig represented them in their resulting lawsuit.
Colorado now urges SCOTUS to settle disputes over all things “faithless elector.”
Unelected, unaccountable presidential electors should not be allowed to decide the presidential election without regard to voters’ choices and state law. That’s why we are vigorously appealing the “faithless elector” decision to the US Supreme Court. #copolitics #SCOTUS
— Jena Griswold (@JenaGriswold) October 16, 2019
In its petition, Colorado argues that the Tenth Circuit’s decision in favor of Micheal Baca “deepens an existing split over whether presidential electors are state officers.” Ooh, good one. SCOTUS usually can’t resist getting involved when someone asks it to draw the line between state and federal turf.
Colorado also argues that allowing electors to exercise their own discretion would amount to some kind of “new” constitutional right, and that there’s nothing remotely unconstitutional about requiring state electors to cast votes for the popular vote winner.
But Colorado’s most persuasive argument for bringing in SCOTUS may not even appear in petition for certiorari. The unspoken truth looms large: The Election is Coming. Faithless electing has already been an issue in 2016; it will happen again in the future, and may even gain additional momentum.
Asking SCOTUS to rule on faithless election now is perfect timing. The Court could rule in the abstract – without its decision having direct and immediate impact on the outcome of a presidential election.
Many Americans view the electoral college as nothing more than a confusing and arcane quirk of American government. But at least some experts aren’t so quick to see it eroded. Election law expert Rick Hasen called the matter a “well-intentioned, audacious gambit” that “could backfire spectacularly.”
Hasen argues that if the Supreme Court concluded that electors are free to vote their consciences, the process of choosing those electors will become enormously politicized. What’s more, potentially rogue electors would be lobbied incessantly during every election, and the voters would have less confidence in the value of their votes. The chaos that would ensue would be pervasive and devastating. As Hasen put it, “This is no way to pick a president or run a country.”
Right now, Colorado is asking. We’ll keep you posted as SCOTUS considers whether to enter this uniquely American fray.
[Image via Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images]
Colorado, electoral college, Micheal baca, Rick Hasen
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Five Men's Morris is attested in the 17th century CE. It is played on a Six Men's Morris board, but each player has five pieces. Otherwise, the rules are the same as for Six Men's Morris. Is it played on a board of two concentric squares, with a line connecting the center points of each side of the two squares, but not extending inside the perimeter of the central square. Play occurs on the intersections of the lines and the corners of the squares. Each player has five pieces. Play begins with each player placing pieces on empty points. If they make three in a row along the lines, they can remove one of the opponent's pieces. They cannot remove an opponent's piece that is in a three in a row formation unless there are no other options. Once all pieces are place, players take turns moving pieces one spot to an adjacent point along the lines. If a player makes three in a row, an opponent's piece is removed as in the first phase of the game. The game is won when the opponent is reduced to two pieces.
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RUSSELL & MATTHEW LEWIS
We took actors Russell and Matthew Lewis to Ojai California for a western inspired shoot ahead of GODLESS the premiere of their new show on Netflix.
MM: When did you want to get into acting? How did you get started?
RL: I did a couple of plays in high school. A friend of mine was in the theatre club and got me involved. I think it really started though as kids. We grew up in the middle of nowhere upstate New York, and we didn’t have cable, so we didn’t watch a lot of TV. My brothers and I would just play outside all day making up characters and stories.
MM: What was the move out to LA like from the east coast?
RL: It was much needed. I wasn’t really pursuing acting as much as I would’ve liked in NYC. All my energy was exhausted trying to survive and pay bills. I made the decision to make the move and within three weeks I quit my job packed a few belongings and moved. I didn’t even know where I was going to sleep when I got there. Luckily some friends pulled through for me and offered me their couches!
MM: What projects/shows/ shorts were you doing before you were cast in GODLESS?
RL: Mostly Indie films and small roles here and there on TV. Teen Wolf, The Bold and the Beautiful, Major Crimes to name a few.
Russel Lewis, Actor
MM: Tell us about your characters in the new Netflix series? (issue out Dec 1)
RL: Our characters are misunderstood, troubled young men… Haha no, they’re violent sociopaths living in a world where they can get away with murder… Not someone to bring home to meet your mother.
MM: Any funny stories on set, you can embarrass your- self just not your actor peers here?
RL: Umm funny stories? We were told funny stories by Jeff Daniels, during takes, while his back was to camera and Matt and I was supposed to be very serious. Do you want to know how to make prairie dog soup? We also had some amazing dance parties with Michelle Dockery and the ladies of Labelle at a local restaurant. They’d let us stay after closing time and we’d dance all night!
MM: What was the most challenging thing about filming GODLESS? BEST PART of filming GODLESS?
RL: Most Challenging part of filming GODLESS would definitely be the elements. We filmed in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico. We filmed for three months. In those three months we experienced monsoon season, summer, fall, and winter. Our last few days on set were so cold we were put- ting our hands between the horses and saddles to keep them warm. Best part, the crew!!! We had an amazing crew that took really great care of us. Westerns are a beast of a challenge film/produce and they endured a lot more than we the actors did and they slayed it!!! Shout out to Bea, Kat and Jess! You ladies rock!
MM: What actor or actors do you really admire?
RL: Well first, the many great actors that we worked with on Godless. Watching Jeff Daniels work on set is like a master class in acting. Michelle Dockery and Jack are O’connel were amazing to work with as well. I’m also a big fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Jake Gyllenhaal.
MM: If you could star in any old western movie, remade today, what film, what character, who would you want to direct it?
RL: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I’d play Sundance. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.
ML: I feel like ever since I was little I was interested in acting but didn’t have much of an opportunity growing up in a small town. I guess playing outside with my brothers really helps shape my imagination. I got started by making the decision to move to NYC and begin the grind. I served tables, and put in my time just like so many others. One step leads to another and I just stayed persistent.
ML: The move was easy. I only came out with one suitcase and a backpack. I was only intending to stay for the pilot season then never went back haha the actual hardest part, which is still hard is just being away from the entire family.
ML: I made several appearances on the Investigation Discovery channel, had the opportunity to work with some awesome music artists which is mentioned in my bio, and plenty of indie short films.
Matthew Lewis, Actor
MM: Tell us about your characters in the new Netflix series?
ML: We are terrible people!!! The worst, but we could not have asked for characters that were more fun to play.
ML: Mine happened on pretty much on day 1. We had the opportunity to go through what everyone was calling “Cowboy Camp.” It was twelve days of horseback riding and firearms training. Since we did all of our own ridings in the show we had to perfect this and get to know our horse counterpart. My first day was supposed to be simple. I was on my horse, walking at a slow pace talking to the wrangler as he did the same with his horse. Next thing I know, something spooked the horse, or it stepped on a cactus or something and it was gone, and I was in the air, then on the ground. It didn’t hurt at all, but that’s one way to NOT feel very cool in front of the other cowboys. After that, they gave me a different horse, my soul mate, Buttercup. We were the best of friends for the entire shoot.
MM: What was the most challenging thing about filming GODLESS?
ML: It was an amazing shoot and ran so smoothly for having such a huge cast. Probably the most challenging thing about the shooting was the last day. It was early December and bitter cold
ML: I would say, Daniel Craig and Charlize Theron. Both of them are incredible actors and they get to play such amazing characters. Plus, I wouldn’t mind playing Daniel Craig’s son in a Bond movie.
ML: “Winchester ‘73” the 1967 remake because Russ and I could play the brothers, Lin, and Dakin McAdam. There are several directors I could think of for this, but after seeing how amazing “Godless” turned out, it would be cool to see what Scott Frank could do with it.
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Wolfe Research Lowers Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) to Peer Perform
Posted by Frank Smitson on Jan 16th, 2020
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) was downgraded by Wolfe Research from an “outperform” rating to a “peer perform” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday, January 9th, Marketbeat Ratings reports.
Several other research analysts have also weighed in on HUBB. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price objective on shares of Hubbell from $135.00 to $145.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 10th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Hubbell from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 2nd. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on Hubbell from $138.00 to $152.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 11th. Finally, ValuEngine cut shares of Hubbell from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Friday, January 3rd. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $149.00.
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NYSE HUBB traded up $0.79 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $147.05. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,350 shares, compared to its average volume of 190,716. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.20, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.83 and a beta of 1.51. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a current ratio of 2.09 and a quick ratio of 1.33. Hubbell has a 52-week low of $103.47 and a 52-week high of $149.31. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $147.22 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $136.53.
Hubbell (NYSE:HUBB) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October 29th. The industrial products company reported $2.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $2.27 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $1.20 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.21 billion. Hubbell had a return on equity of 23.47% and a net margin of 8.34%. The business’s revenue was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $2.34 earnings per share. On average, equities analysts forecast that Hubbell will post 8.06 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In related news, insider Rodd Richard Ruland sold 3,594 shares of Hubbell stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, November 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $143.96, for a total transaction of $517,392.24. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, VP Joseph Anthony Capozzoli sold 1,243 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $142.39, for a total value of $176,990.77. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 10,812 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,539,520.68. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Corporate insiders own 2.20% of the company’s stock.
A number of institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. River & Mercantile Asset Management LLP purchased a new position in shares of Hubbell in the second quarter valued at $46,000. Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. bought a new stake in shares of Hubbell during the 2nd quarter valued at $61,000. Quadrant Capital Group LLC grew its position in shares of Hubbell by 127.2% in the 3rd quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC now owns 602 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $75,000 after buying an additional 337 shares during the period. Cerebellum GP LLC bought a new position in shares of Hubbell during the third quarter valued at approximately $84,000. Finally, MUFG Americas Holdings Corp bought a new position in shares of Hubbell during the third quarter valued at $105,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 84.46% of the company’s stock.
Hubbell Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells electrical and electronic products in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Electrical and Power. The Electrical segment offers standard and special application wiring device products, rough-in electrical products, connector and grounding products, lighting fixtures and controls, and other electrical equipment for use in industrial, commercial, and institutional facilities by electrical contractors, maintenance personnel, electricians, utilities, and telecommunications companies, as well as components and assemblies for the natural gas distribution market.
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If it's on purpose, then the intentions are clear, but if it comes across as accidental, it could be his body language telling you something his mouth wouldn't dare reveal. So instead of carrying an object in front of your body, hold them at your side. Often people will use this rudimentary sign language to speak to others when they need something. Body language moves are special secret gestures, words and moves to trigger special feelings of affection, devotion, commitment or desire in any man. Well over half of all communication is projected through body language, though we frequently aren't aware of the language our body is speaking in important situations. Vanessa gallo is our in-house body language expert. Laughter stimulates the body's natural painkillers and 'feel good' enhancers, known as endorphins, helping relieve stress and heal the body. Are a normal part of communication (whilst gazing at other parts of the body can. The horse will also use his body to communicate fear or apprehension. Move many times, paying careful attention to correct posture. Here are 7 body language moves covered in the program by sharon starr. I created these cheat sheets to help you show a character’s state of mind through his or her body language. Or the guy behind me who thinks crowding me will make things move faster so they can race home to sit down and relax. Give the appearance of high muscle tone which the body displays when it. Body language moves is based on science and has been tested and tweaked by the owner. This is an obvious case of ‘closed’ body language. As in most languages, sexual imagery plays an important part. Bonus 2: man dictionary body language moves pdf. Mirroring starts by observing a person’s facial and body gestures and then subtly letting your body take on similar expressions and postures. The male of the species, despite a couple of million years of evolution, has yet to develop much subtle body language in this area. Eyes were designed to go towards movement, so we could spy moving game and catch our supper. He tries to stand closer to you when you talk, and if you don't like him back you tend to move away. For the second hypothesis, which focuses on the body language of persian male and female efl learners, as mentioned before, no significant relationship or difference was found between men and women in terms of using body language. Read the interviewer's body language. Generally the older and more sophisticated a person is, the more subtle their body language becomes. However, because of their separate educational circumstances before coming to university, their body language may have become even more different from each other due to the novelty effect of campus co-educational influence. Outwards, making the body seem wider. Further analysis of the pattern of symbols with unknown meaning has linked it to the ancient sumerian language of mesopotamia and old tamil from india. Keep your body squared off to the other person—facing him or her fully. The long list of its contents doesn’t end here as you will get lots more with body language moves. As we’ve discovered in my group dynamics course, even when you ask people to line up and form rows in a seemingly mundane “class photo” style, their body language and position in the group might reveal a lot. You all know the most common body language gestures: twirling hair, tossing hair and leg crossing, but i will discuss a few others. Both handsand examined carefully, and then stored, preferably in a wallet, on the upper half of the body. Bonus 2: man dictionary body language moves pdf free. What is the hypnotic body language moves. Most men with active history are well known to a body language moves free download friend’s area. Dancing is further example of how body language operates at a different level in sexual-social situations. Great body language videos on regular basis, so stay tuned. Unmistakably and the biggest sign of being scared is their tail tucked extremely low between their legs, under their body. Your body and eyes are relaxed. to many, body language is considered the most important aspect of communication as it sends signals to how we are truly feeling. A woman’s body language will tell you everything you need to know about how she is feeling. Doing so, along with mirroring body language and face expressions, helps to build understanding and trust. Handshake is a greeting ritual in which two people grasp each other's hands and may move their grasped hands up and down. Body language mistakes that kill employee motivation. If he doesn’t respect you, he won’t fake it with body language. Getting to know what your man really want in a woman is not an easy task and the earlier you begin to figure out body language moves hero instinct the better for you and the love life you passionately wish to build for yourself. Use body language to attract a man. your body language and gestures should be natural. ” hypnotic body language moves book this is one humble however cool method for asking hypnotic body language moves does it work her out on the town. It would be difficult to translate this tribes language without the use of morphemes. This body language shows that the cockatoo is calm and is resting. The biggest problem with certain body language: customers interpret it differently than its meant to be. I want to know what people in general are thinking and what the body language means. Paul ekman and william friesen on deceptive behaviors, shows that when a person lies he produces more signals associated with deceitfulness in the lower part of his body than in the upper part - this applies to both genders. When teachers deal with listening in class, this is most commonly done with the use of recorded text on audio tape or cd, so these more visual factors in the communication are neglected in our students' second language development. Wasting the amazing opportunities that becoming a body language master has to offer. – we think that she moves around while sitting over there because she’s an active, spontaneous kinda girl. Hypnotic body language moves is a comprehensive dating ebook by sharon starr, a renowned relationship coach and expert. When you are presenting, strong, positive body language becomes an essential tool in helping you build credibility, express your emotions, and connect with your listeners. She moved to boulder in 2009 to create the pta personal trainer certification program with her husband. That's why body language matters so much: it tells the truth, even when our words lie, according to dr. All things considered, these two hints are hypnotic body language moves download insufficient to get a lady eager to have intercourse with you. I guarantee that after you finish this course, you'll find that your body language ability has become as automatic as your instinct. Reading your body language of nervousness. She offered the ultimate body language spectacle each time; she was able to impersonate everything her audience was looking for: the sweet, naive provincial girl, the girl next door, a “sex kitten”, a vulnerable or a refined young woman. Body language flirting signals first date do vary your body posture. The body exhibits different signals just as a radio transmits the signals. The vocabulary of the language is expanded and the grammar rules become more stable, enabling speakers to communicate more fully. When a happily married couple make love, more than just their bodies meet. Body language can shout and it can be subtle. With these notes in mind we already understand the basic principles of head positions in body language. The body plans of most animals, including humans, exhibit mirror symmetry, also called bilateral symmetry. Use body language to add depth to dialogue. Bohns and wiltermuth (2012) found that just putting the body in a dominant position, upright. Yet, after winning, both express the same body language for victory:. Ethnologist irenaus eibl-eibesfeldt believes in the instinctive control of basic characteristics of body language that transcend cultural barriers. Evidence shows conclusively that smiles and laughter build the immune system, defend the body against illness and disease, medicate the body, sell ideas, teach better, attract more friends and extend life. Eye of the charmer: a possessive feeling of love is awakened by this move in the men that will force him to kiss you extremely passionately. What to look for in body language books. Reading your golden retrievers emotions from their body language. Todd asks the entire staff to move to the roof. His body is turned to you. If male) or move closer to the other person. No matter how hard you work to gain respect at your workplace, seriously unprofessional body language can send much of your hard work out the window. Our body moves can tell half the story about what we are thinking. We send are sent with our body and facial movements and only 20% with our words. The benefits of the language of desire. The nonverbal advantage: secrets and science of body language at work, the silent language of leaders: how body language can help—or hurt how you lead, and most recently,. She displays closed body language to you – example: she turns and faces away from you and crosses her arms. Male, female, single, divorced, children / children and age and body type – are asked for basic details of what you are looking for. Body language moves is an incredible program created by the sharon starr through which women will know about the vital things for winning the love and attention of their man. But no move for anything further. The main thing is you just need to move the way you normally move when you’re talking to people and not be frozen or stiff.
Body Language Moves
Sign language is actually one of the quickest ways for children to learn how to communicate as well. One should be very conscious about his/her body language. Who is the author behind hypnotic body language moves. When we think of communication, we immediately equate it to written or spoken language but we often ignore the “silent language” as james borg, psychologist and author of. Finally, learning about body language is not all hard work. Emotions, mind, and body work as one to send signals to other people. ” within minutes of employing this move, his palms will sweat, and his nerves will glow with so much excitement that he’ll need to kiss that the life out of you. Move a strand of her out of her face or take her hand in yours. Body language moves pdf before going to buy. When someone inclines their body towards the person who’s speaking it shows interest or attraction in the other person. Active listening - listening very attentively and empathizing and reflecting back understanding through body language and usually words too. What are some of the body language moves you will learn from this program that promise to attract your man. Here, what your body language in some everyday situations might say about your marriage, and how to be sure you're sending your man loving silent messages. Whereas some other angry body language may be threatening, when an angry person crosses their arms or legs defensively they are restraining themselves, almost as if they are telling their friends and followers, “hold me back because i don’t want to do something we’ll all regret. If we don’t follow the rules of good body language, our repute and chances of landing into better opportunities can reduce drastically. You should generally start off apart then move in closer as her defences soften. It is no wonder that so many people are fascinated by body language. Many linguists have recognized kriol as a full-fledged creole, because it has met all of the rules that set it apart from a pidgin and other contact languages. Do you move a certain way, and then she moves the same way. Body language is an essential ingredient of attraction. Research in embodied cognition has revealed that the body takes language to heart and can be awfully literal-minded. Following are some examples of body language. and what each example communicates to other people:. Starving your body of carbs and eating lots of fat will eventually make your body adapt to not having carbs, and eventually the fat will make you gain weight. Let your body do the talking. An example of this is the studies whorf did on the hopi language. Touching: it’s ok to touch but don’t try to put your hand up her skirt the second she moves towards you. How much do auto body parts usually cost. You need to look at this bigger picture also when it comes to reading body language. Toucha-toucha-me move: it makes a man crave your nearness so much that he’ll wish to lovingly cuddle you from morning till night. This is someone that you will see on a weekly basis in the same church circles unless one of you makes a move to leave the church. Nlp rapport with body language. Unfortunately, "body language" which is supposed to come off as a thriller, succeeds in being more of a puzzle than a meaningful thriller. 15 body language cues a girl gives away if she likes you. The good news is that the hypnotic body language moves by sharon starr promises to turn things around. Movement pattern analysis, pioneered by warren lamb, claims that every person has a distinct way of moving that can be analysed and can define a personality type and even predict future behaviour. The same facial expressions could have a very different meaning when read in conjunction with the general posture of their whole body. Vocalization actually takes second place to a dog's body language. Copy their pace, energy and type of body language. you do not give your date a full bore full on contact full body embrace. In short, different movements of your body convey particular ideas and kinesics is how nonverbal communication is interpreted, which will greatly vary across cultures. One important point that should be considered here is that some of the body language instances which are dominant in american culture have no or a different meaning in persian. Additionally, don’t rely on certain actions as indicators of body language; it is more helpful to also have an idea of the person’s general behavior. Moreover, it was found that there was no significant difference between persian male and female students of english in using body language. Liespotting, conducted significant research on the ways we lie to figure out the common patterns in our body language. A woman touching her body, usually means that she is imagining you doing or touching her there. This is what the body language moves guide can help you achieve. It's time to learn from a real master of body language who walks the talk. In other words, chi-squares were used to compare the body language features of:. Romanian is a romance language, but it has continuously borrowed from others: old slavonic, turkish, hungarian, and german, to name a few. Body language of blinking and allergies and medical conditions . If they move their body, match by moving or nodding your head to follow the direction they take. Body language, one of the first books on the subject. Women’s subordinate social status in american society is indicated by the languages women use, as well as in the language used to them. Finally, i highly recommend hypnotic body language moves to control the love of your life. In business schools in the us, such as harvard where cuddy teaches, half your grade is based on how much you participate — and she’s found that body language is related to how much students participate, and interestingly, she’s noticed that it’s related to how the students sit. He promised women that upon understanding and use of theses weird but powerful key body language moves; his man will willingly surrendered and fully commit his whole life to them. I actually will be posting regularly from now on and to commemorate the occasion i present you with my first breakthrough article: advanced body language. Obviously, negative hypnotic body language moves system remarks can’t be maintained a strategic distance from. Confident and authentic body language and verbal delivery is an important key to persuasion. The author has designed this hypnotic body language moves e-book in such a way that ladies can enter the heart of their partners and make them feel the real pleasure on this planet. Julius fasts ââthe body languageââ is very simple. While you might not necessarily consider it body language, it’s still a nonverbal cue that can send a pretty strong message. Some rabbits rebel (and are none too concerned about showing you) when you rearrange or move items in their cage. To be honest, men are usually very simple creatures, so you do not have much trouble learning a guy and learning to do body language moves does it works anything you like. With no words, you can interpret what’s going on in the picture below with no problem – that’s one reason why body language is important. Mesmeric smile – this body language moves this instantly puts a man in this impulsive trance where he’ll feel an irresistible force to rush to your side, grab you, and steal you from the world. A golden-lit, refracted sequence of close-ups of a male body in motion — individual muscles stretching, flexing, tensing — opens “reinventing marvin,” as we assume we’re watching a dancer in preparation for an arduous ballet. Body language was also a clear differentiator between casts and social classes. Arms tucked behind body for the first 70 seconds of speech. What is hypnotic body language moves about. Invariably, they're going to choose the nonverbal because it's a natural, unconscious language that broadcasts your true feelings and intentions. Is that something that can really help you to reach you goal to get you to buy a product like body language moves.
That body language moves review means you have to restore the control you have taken. This program is effective and could work for a beginner as well, as the moves are well laid out and explained. What other body language insights have you come across. Simple language and systematic presentation make it easy to understand and implement. You don't have to use a body language gesture (or two) for every word, but it's a good idea to have a toolbox of gestures you can use to reinforce very important, yet easily misinterpreted concepts. Bonus 8: shameless truth report body language moves system. If the guy was really waiting for a spark between both of you, these moves should instantly evoke a flinch. Certain body postures can improve your performance. Someone suffering from autism may not exhibit typical body language and may be incongruous with what they are saying. Be aware of the interview body language message your legs are giving. Read body language through the comfort/discomfort lens. it was intriguing then to hear his belgian-accented voice as he began to speak about the pitfalls and pleasures of body language. Language ideology has become a very good way for us to understand how human groups are organized, despite differences in beliefs and ways of life. What every body is saying. Not knowing how to say it in english, he gestured to the flight attendant by curving his fingers as if holding a water glass and moving it to his mouth to mimic drinking action. Body language moves review the system is really well organized and is systematic. The first dvd and a half is all david deangelo, and it is very solid content – he basically gives you (in about 2 hours or so) a concentrate of research on body language, much of it coming from academic books on evolutionary psychology. Linguistic relativity: how variety in language structure affect people’s thoughts and actions. ” similarly, long after he moved to france and adopted the country’s language, cioran would still resort to romanian for curses. This is one of the oldest body language moves ever. Using body language to your advantage. Body language at work â peter clayton gbp10. Watch for these interview body language signals from your interviewer to read the message they are sending you. Every move you make sends a message. When a mare strays from the band and the stallion wants her back, his body language is impressive and unmistakable. What's this about: while this video isn't directly related to body language - it emphesize the importance of attention, an important trait in our observation and the reading of body lanugage. Just as in learning any language one can become more fluent, more perceptive and more skilled at reading body signals, but there is no magic or silver bullet partly because of the subtlety of the cues but also because of the multiple meanings attached to identified behaviours. Tactile sensations: we associate touching and tactile sensations with body language, like being stiff, loose, hard, soft, rough, smooth, and relaxed. There is also another set of factors that are crucial in more localized kinesics and in shaping the body language of different people living in different countries. This is easily communicated by by touching the index finger and thumb together, like one would hold a pen, then moving the hand in the air as if to be signing a cheque or credit card slip. When body language moves reviews you live by the philosophy of “living”, you can be a valuable person to the community. The first time i read about the body language of eyes was a few years ago, and was in an article that mentioned marilyn monroe being a genius of sensual body language. Hair flipping, swishing, combing and general preening, plus a smile, are the main flirting feminine body language cues women use to get men's attention. Body beast goes back to the basics as a focused program dedicated to all things mass, and so may not be suitable for people with more than one specific goal. Body language success & emotional intelligence. In those cases, participants more often determined the emotion to be that associated with the body. Next guest is a woman called patty who demonstrates confident body language. This has been the entire gist of the body language moves review. A woman’s true intentions are never quite clear, but body language can help uncover what is hidden to others and sometimes even to her. The secret body language of marilyn monroe…. It can’t be argued that vegetables are good for the human body and soul, but their main effect is helping those who need to lose weight to lose it effectively not to mention, deliciously. Girl body language: when to back off and when to get closer. Additionally, they may not have the skills to decode others people’s body language. Also, if he stares at you inappropriately or in a way that makes you writhe, move on; a stranger who doesn't know when to stop staring in a way that makes you feel uneasy is not someone to be hanging around. When you or colleagues meet with customers, what your body says may be hurting business. Research from harvard and columbia business schools has shown that if you do the following moves for two minutes you will up your testosterone and lower your stress hormone. For the thumb, extension moves the thumb away from the palm of the hand, within the same plane as the palm, while flexion brings the thumb back against the index finger or into the palm. But easiest way to do that is to move your hands. Intentional movement connects our motion to our words so our body language is supporting our delivery. She displays open body language to you – example: she turns and faces towards you with arms uncrossed. Coiscéim’s david bolger has not just created a stunning visual setting, but through daily performances he slowly constructs a compulsive insight into how we unconsciously communicate through our bodies. My character’s stance and body language moves around throughout the film. Hypnotic body language moves review. If they seem to move towards you in any way, such as stepping or leaning closer, then they probably feel comfortable being around you. The definitive book of body language:. Body language, she explains, is everything from our facial expressions, to eye contact, to our gestures, stance, and posture. He does all this to impress you and after observing all these mentioned body signs a woman can conclude that a guy may be interested in entering a relationship with her. The paper, "body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions," was published in science nov. Three body language experts share their insights on what moves to make, and avoid, in an interview. Gestures can be some of the most direct and obvious body language signals. The fact is that while body language moves does talk about the power of psychology and how it can help you get faster results after buying it, body language moves also talks about other well-known things that have a big impact on wasting your money to for the similar systems. Then the story moves to hari babu’s travails in war zone. Just make sure that your excellent posture isn't negated by a stiff, immobile upper body. Experts now record speeches and analyze frame-by-frame the minute changes in facial expressions and body movements, usually to explore evidence that the speaker is being insincere. Find out in my honest body language moves review. Hypnotic body language moves ebook – why is it useful. From head to toe, here are the groups when grouped for body parts:. People often communicate via body language without awareness. Move your hands in a circular motion up,. You see body language is a huge part of communication but so is dressing and the color chosen. Move slowly—you can keep them entranced. This is a complete seminar in reading, decoding and interpreting body language from the source.
Whether a woman is in a bar, on a train or shopping, if she is attracted to you, her body will unconsciously communicate that attraction. Languages develop and change throughout time. A tail held naturally, level or lower than the body means calm and relaxed. Many factors including culture, gender, age, and psyche can affect the use of body language among different people. So if you are feeling that your love life is having trouble or lack of understanding or even your man moving away from you then body language moves guide is for you. Therefore you must always be very attentive to your own body language and what messages it is sending. Finally, some exciting new research has emerged regarding using body language to strengthen your power as a speaker. Now the ultimate in body language when you’re giving a presentation, a sure fire way to make people think you’re comfortable, confident relaxed, move a little. In european culture 30 inches is about the acceptable limit - closer than this and you may feel that your body space has been invaded making you uncomfortable. Mirror the body language you are observing, showing you are in agreement and that you like--or are sincerely trying to like--the person you are with. Mirroring body language is an excellent way to build trust and understanding quickly. This is another tricky body language of women, but whenever she rubs her legs or her thighs, it could be another subconscious move that indicates she wants you to touch her too. I have seen honest and genuine compliments in your personal and professional body language moves guide life as you did as a coach. Right before the end of this phase, the body laterally tilts to the non-throwing arm side. The power of body language is probably best described by amy cuddy’s famous quote:. History channel - secrets of body language. In open body language a person is friendly willing and receptive. If answer yes then, hypnotic body language moves is the best program for you. Is her second language and i've preserved most of what. how you communicate with your body is important because research show that 60% to 90% of communication is nonverbal. But the way that body's talkin' definitely makes sense now. Some say that it’s rude to look at a stranger’s body, but when you really think about it, people really can’t help it when they feel attracted. Exposing your body makes you more vulnerable to attack and shows that you. As stated earlier, culture influences all aspects of our lives, and body language is not an exception to that either. Body language moves by sharon starr takes you through the reason why men acts so cold and distant and reveals the secret psychology that makes a man fall in love. After sharon started applying her knowledge of body language moves ebook to her own relationships, she noticed a series of progressive positive changes. It doesn’t matter how she may be intentionally trying to keep her cool around you either, her subconscious body cues are sure to give her away at some point. You will learn a lot about body language and how it affects our communication and behavior, both consciously and subconsciously. We will go deeper into the hypnotic body language moves guide, taking a look at the credibility of the creator and the features of the book, including all the advantages and cons that come with using it. Not dominant) eye body language. Using your body as a signaling mechanism. Usual stuff: mostly it talks about body language at work. In fact, it even has a scientific name: the moro reflex, which causes an infant to suddenly throw his arms out to the sides and then quickly bring them back toward the middle of the body whenever he has been startled by a noise, bright light, or sudden movement. "one of the most important body language signs you should convey during your first encounter with your partner's parents is eye contact with your partner," says wood. Secrets of body language summary. Often, they are overshadowed by languages that are already established and codified. When you are reading female body language, dilated pupils are a good sign. I thought that if i get enough people to see what others are thinking or feeling (through their body language), it breaks down a lot of barriers and makes communication better, more efficient, and more honest. Many contemporary body language theorists have stated that this system of non-verbal communication has been in use from the times of our ancestors even before the creation of words (learning speed, “body language ii”)…. As this study was primarily devoted to the study of body language disparities between americans and persians, a closer look at each system seems crucial. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Specific tips for enhancing your body language: in addition to learning how to read others, finding out how best to communicate the messages you wish to send is crucial for mastering the art of body language. We can tell this by the way people monitor their speech to make sure it is appropriate with a particular language ideology. So, what is sexy body language. I’ve had jim under surveillance for a while now from my perch at the coffee house, and i can see he instinctively does everything taught in mazlo’s positive body language program. Kelly cope russak, right, works out at a body language on the move workout class at rallysport health and fitness club in boulder. But what happens when our body language is. Smith gives us the whole arc of the experience, in a language whose pleasure shines through even the bleakest details. This is a prime example of linguistic ethnocentrism, where the language is linked with the culture, which becomes linked with harmful stereotypes. The battlefield here is not your body, but your mind and the language you speak; against such a regime you defend yourself not in the street, but in your head. Proxemics - the technical term for the personal space aspect of body language. Creoles use the lexicon of the language that has higher power or prestige, known as the superstate, and borrows grammatical rules from the less powerful language, or substrate. ) most are not aware or attuned with how their body moves and what signal it omits to others. Observing the body language of men is crucial in determining if they really have a feeling for you and if there is a likelihood of them falling in love with you. Research has shown that acquiring and understanding body language increases one’s ability to communicate successfully in a conversational situation. The hypnotic body language moves book has a number of key features that help it stand out and offer trusted ways that will help your relationship. Improving your body language can make a big difference in your people skills, attractiveness and general mood. Hypnotic body language moves will work for you. What does your body language say about you. Luckily, thanks to science and body language research there is. It’s getting time to move on to the rest of the body, but before i do, i just need to mention the chin and neck. Body language reflects our emotional interest in various ways. Body language is prone to pseudo-science: simplistic decoding of gestures and posture to instruct how to sit during a job interview or to see if someone fancies you. She has published 4 articles in the field of english language teaching on eltweekly. Where does body language come from. Reading body language is important because women are usually not the ones who approach first. Research shows that 60 to 90 percent of our communication with others is nonverbal, which means the body language we use is extremely important.
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Take two minutes to try some high power poses in the morning before your sales meetings, and see what sort of difference it makes in your attitude. Does the body positioning of two men in apparent discussion mean the third man is an unwanted interloper. And remember that: body language tells you more about what a person is. The short and sweet of it is yes, trump engages physically in the manner that he does because he’s executing power moves and using body language to assert dominance. Watch as their eyes move level with their left ear as they access the audio part of their brain. Eye body language is not only useful to know how other people are thinking, you can use it to help you think more clearly. Thus, these classes provide optimum conditions for the students to act naturally during their presentations such that the probability of using body language in this course is higher than in any other. “the most highly valued instances of this counter-language were ambiguous speech performances that were usually puzzling or unintelligible to outsiders but easily understood by the african americans who were present”. If while you touch your chess piece to make your next move, your opponent âsteeplesâ his hands (as in âhereâs the church, hereâs the steepleâ), this signals he or she feels confident. You can read people’s body language by spotting changes in their movements or posture. To work on your body language so that you do not appear nervous the first thing that you will have to do is to get your body to relax. While you're talking, what is your body saying. Out of all the different facial expressions, the most important and powerful is the smile. Just listening i could feel my body language shift and open up. Goman for using your body language to your advantage:. Voice of the temptress move- it reveals a simple 3-second shift and every word out of your mouth will be like a drug to a man’s senses that are intoxicating and very addictive. However, we can learn to better understand horses and interpret their body language through extensive observation. Bonus 7: the power of suggestive body language body language moves tricks. Make no sudden moves, just move away slowly to defuse the situation. A smile, pleasant handshake, warm greeting, and the previously mentioned positive body language will set the stage for a comfortable interview. In case you’re a pleasant person then conceivably hypnotic body language moves book you don’t know how to get a lady in bed. President donald trump is not shy making his move on former us presidential candidate mitt romney. You can use any of these body language moves without him noticing. 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Contact languages may be divided into two categories: pidgin and creole. Who’s the superior and who’s the subordinate in the social power struggle. The fingers and thumb move in opposite directions, “opening” and “closing,” several times to suggest a mouth speaking (it also looks sort of like a duck quacking). While some studies suggest that non-verbal communication might have been present in our ancestor’s behavioral patterns, other research suggests that it may have only taken form after the evolution of verbal language. Generally speaking, most of our messages in face to face interaction are transmitted through body language instances. For example, if the other person moves their arm, you can match this by gently moving your hand on the corresponding side in the same direction. Parietal lobe is located farther back in the brain and controls sensory perceptions as well as linking spoken and written language to memory to give it meaning so we can understand what we hear and read. 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For example, a common sound that is used in indian language is /dh. If he is not contributing in "making the move", then he might not be interested. Whether she steps back or leans away, her body language is saying that you are invading her personal space. These body language photos will show you some of the basic and advanced techniques used to interpret body language. This is a more difficult move however once you have mastered it, it will be unforgettable. Oh, and bad posture also makes you look shorter and fatter than you really are, which means you’ll never have that athletically toned body, no matter how much time you spend at the gym, until you learn to walk tall. Do not ask the ideal body if it is not body language moves program yours. By positioning your body and head squarely towards the other person, you signal that you are interested in them and are giving your full attention. Body language signs a woman feels comfortable with you. 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When you are evaluating body language, pay attention to some of the following signals that the arms and legs may convey:. Show your power and control of the space as you move through it. From the small amount gathered online, she is a relationship expert and she has helped many women to improve their relationships by paying closer attention to their body language and the way they communicate. The language of desire review. ” within seconds of using this move, his palms will sweat, and his nerves will buzz with so much excitement that he’ll want to kiss the life out of you. You'll display negative body language as a result, and that's not good. You might not think at first blush that conversation is part of body language or of flirtation. Stop-stare-stop – this can be an extremely powerful move. So please make sure you read every word of this letter, because the body language secrets that can catapult you to the top of the success ladder is written here. Photographers who like to photograph people might benefit from familiarizing themselves with the basic body language patterns that reveal particular emotions and mental states. 23 body language tricks that make you instantly likeable. If she’s running her fingers through her hair or performing the hair flip, she’s employing a classic come-hither move. Body language comprises gesture, stance, and facial expression. She mimics your body’s moves. When reading female body language you have to look carefully, however. The writer, producer and director of "body language" seem to be uncertain about its genre: what seemingly kicks off as a whodunit morphs first into a psychosexual thriller and finally into something more like comedy. Show your intentions (flirt) early on, see how she’s responding (body language cues), and. Mark bowden, author of winning body language. For example, many different languages are spoken within one society, proving that the theory of linguistics regarding human societies as monolingual would be a very limited help. In fact, the authors report, respondents interpreted the positive faces as negative more than they did the negative faces. Making his screen debut as the younger marvin, stern-faced, copper-haired jules porier is a terrific find, his guarded expression and gangly body language bearing the weight of years of hiding, even when he hasn’t known what exactly to hide. Inside my review, it includes all the important, positive and negative points of this whether this hypnotic body language moves. Even during a coffee break, be aware that you may create a barrier by holding your cup and saucer in a way that seems deliberately to block your body or distance you from others. Body language: how’s the rest of the body language. With the exception of hand gestures and some facial expressions, physical indications of body language all tend to indicate a person’s emotions, including physical distance between two people, whether or not a person’s hands are in their pockets, their arms are crossed, or they have slumped shoulders. Then move your hands apart while changing both hands into. A body language move that involves crossing your legs in a certain way that will make you seem much more mysterious and attractive to him. As i mention above, your voice is physical, so it's obviously a component of effective body language. They have done their job and have created positive opportunities body language moves does it works for success. the bottom line is, the body doesn’t lie. Body language moves has a dynamic membership website includes training materials. They signal by not making any moves that others will have to move. Learning to read interview body language is about understanding candidates’ motives. What if he shows all of these signs, but doesn't make a move. As a general rule a dog can only really do three things with their bodies:. You can mirror the body language, the pace of their speech, the volume or tone and the facial expressions. Angling the body to them is also less threatening, but also invites others to. Hypnotic posture – this body language moves revels hush-hush way to cross your legs… and an interestingly mystical way to place your hands that can send any man over the edge with obsessive desire for you. While the exact origins of body language are a subject of constant debate, there is evidence that suggests that there is a clear link to animal behavior. Sandy will move in with her difficult boyfriend, jack. Instead of using language ideology we see speakers of different languages or dialects may possibly share certain beliefs or practice, or even a conflict involving a language. Stop-stare-stop – this is a highly powerful move. The study of language ideology allows evidence in which that the way we talk will always be embedded in a social world of power differences. By maintaining open body language, our ancestors showed that they had no concealed weapons hidden behind their back, their armpits or in their hands. Over the years, they developed a language community of their own, with the pidgin language as the means of communication among themselves and with their offspring born into slavery. Body language of love & dating: review. Little finger resting against your body near your belly or waist. Ladies are extremely touchy about the hypnotic body language moves sharon starr physical touch. Early in the school year, students note a teacher’s verbal and nonverbal language to determine if they can seize the power and authority from him/her. The video / book / notes discuss each move that you already know,. Positive posture, like positive visualisation can inculcate positive thoughts leading to positive behaviours. In that case, his ears will probably be back, he may be wringing his tail, and his body will be tense.
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On the mechanism of photocatalytic reactions with eosin Y Michal Majek*1, Fabiana Filace2 and Axel Jacobi von Wangelin*1
Full Research Paper Address: 1Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Universitaetsstr. 31, 93040 Regensburg, Germany and 2Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
Open Access Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 981–989. doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.97 Received: 30 January 2014 Accepted: 10 April 2014 Published: 30 April 2014
Email: Michal Majek* - [email protected]; Axel Jacobi von Wangelin* [email protected]
This article is part of the Thematic Series "Organic synthesis using photoredox catalysis".
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Keywords: mechanism; organocatalysis; photocatalysis; photoredox catalysis; quantum yields; visible light
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Abstract A combined spectroscopic, synthetic, and apparative study has allowed a more detailed mechanistic rationalization of several recently reported eosin Y-catalyzed aromatic substitutions at arenediazonium salts. The operation of rapid acid–base equilibria, direct photolysis pathways, and radical chain reactions has been discussed on the basis of pH, solvent polarity, lamp type, absorption properties, and quantum yields. Determination of the latter proved to be an especially valuable tool for the distinction between radical chain and photocatalytic reactions.
Introduction The ability of natural systems to harness solar energy for the genesis of matter has been fascinating mankind since time immemorial and has stimulated numerous reproduction attempts in the context of chemical synthesis over the last two centuries. The vast majority of photochemical reactions known until the 1980s exploited stoichiometric amounts of a photoactive molecular entity to drive a chemical transformation [1]. Only recently, a steadily growing number of homogeneous transition metal complexes which are redox-active and show absorption in the visible range of the solar spectrum have been demon-
strated to catalyze light-driven organic reactions. The use of the pyridyl-based complexes [Ru(bpy) 3 ] 2+ , [Ir(ppy) 3 ] and [Ir(ppy2)(dtbbpy)]+ for the mediation of redox processes has certainly attracted the most interest, incipiently in photocatalytic reactions of activated organic electrophiles [2-8]. Despite the numerous examples of efficient catalytic photoredox transformations with organometallic dyes known to date, their high price, toxicity profile, and problematic recyclability might limit their more general use especially on
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larger scales. However, the recent pursuit of environmentally more benign photoactive catalysts has focused on much cheaper metal-free dyes. Several commercially available fluorescein and xanthene dyes have been successfully applied to photoredox reactions, including radical substitutions at α-amino, β-carbonyl, and aryl moieties [9,10]. Among them, eosin Y, the 2’,4’,5’,7’-tetrabromo derivative of fluorescein, has been most widely employed. The redox potential of the EY+/EY* pair of 1.1 V (vs. SCE) is experimentally not available as both of the compounds are short-lived intermediates. However, the redox potential can be obtained indirectly via analysis of the thermodynamic cycle involving the energy of the triplet state eosin Y* (T1) (derived from fluorescence measurements) and the energy of the radical cation eosin Y +• (derived from cyclovoltammetric experiments, for more details see Supporting Information File 1). Much effort has been directed at the oxidative quenching of eosin Y* (T1) with suitable electrophiles in order to generate aryl radicals by a light-driven single-electron transfer (SET) process (i.e., one-electron reduction of Ar–X, see Scheme 1). Due to their easy reducibility, arenediazonium salts are especially attractive precursors which constitute versatile alternatives to haloarene-based strategies. They are readily available by diazotization of anilines, no toxic metals are required; the bond cleavage generates gaseous N 2 which escapes the reaction mixture. Photoredox reactions with arenediazonium salts are often more selective than traditional methods such as copper(II)-mediated Meerwein arylations [11] or protocols employing stoichiometric iron(II) or titanium(III)
reductants in aqueous media [12-14]. This renaissance of arene diazonium chemistry has recently led to various applications of eosin Y to visible light-driven syntheses of biaryls [15], stilbenes [16], benzothiophenes [17], α-phenylketones [18], phenanthrenes [19], arylsulfides [20] and arylboron pinacolates [21] (Scheme 1). Numerous mechanistic studies have been performed at reactions with organometallic photocatalysts [3-8], whereas much less attention has been directed at eosin Y-catalyzed reactions. The reductive quenching pathway of eosin Y, which operates in the photooxidation of isoquinolines [9], has been studied in a single report [22]. To the best of our knowledge, related data have not been collected for the much more widely used oxidative quenching. Most literature protocols were interpreted in analogy to the related [Ru(bpy)3Cl2]-catalyzed reactions and similar mechanisms were proposed (Scheme 2) [15-21]. These generally commence with the SET between excited eosin Y and the arenediazonium salt I to give aryl radical II. Nucleophilic attack onto reactive II generates the more stable complex III which is prone to back-electron transfer upon oxidative formation of the cationic species IV. Terminal elimination of X + (mostly a proton) gives the substitution product V. Two general pathways of back-electron transfer can be followed: Path A involves oneelectron reduction of the radical cation state of the catalyst. Radical chain propagation (B) can occur when the SET occurs with another molecule of the starting material I. Some attempts have been made to differentiate between radical chain and
Scheme 1: Oxidative quenching of eosin Y with arenediazonium salts and reactions of the resultant aryl radicals.
Scheme 2: Proposed general reaction mechanism of eosin Y-catalyzed substitutions with arene diazonium salts.
photocatalysis mechanisms by monitoring the reaction progress after the light sources have been switched off [20]. Clearly, such experiments neglect the existence of short radical chains and thus provide no conclusive evidence of the mechanism. In general, the thermodynamic feasibility of a redox process is determined by the difference of redox potentials of the two half reactions. The redox potential of most arenediazonium salts (redox pair I/II, Scheme 2) is close to 0 V vs. SCE [23,24]. The redox potentials of the short-lived adducts III/IV are unknown and experimentally not (easily) available. However, it is likely that their potential is greater than 0 V in many cases which makes the radical species III a sufficiently strong reductant for arenediazonium salts of type I. After all, the unambiguous determination of the underlying reaction mechanisms is not possible without further spectroscopic, kinetic, and theoretical experiments. The studied systems are mostly too complex for transient absorption spectroscopy. We have so far failed to obtain any insight from photo-CIDNP NMR experiments. Therefore, we have decided to evaluate the efficiency of the radiation events of several recent literature protocols by recording the quantum yields Φ [15-17,19-21]. Furthermore, we have learned along the way that the reactions appear to be strongly dependent on the pH of the solution and the type of lamp used for irradiation. Here, we present a detailed study on the direct consequences of these three major factors for the outcome and mechanism of several recently reported eosin Y-catalyzed aromatic substitution protocols starting from arenediazonium salts [15-21].
Results and Discussion Effect of pH on the efficiency of eosin Y-mediated photocatalysis For better comparison, we have employed identical reagent concentrations and reaction conditions (solvents) as reported in the original papers [15-21]. Dry DMSO was mostly used as solvent, with the exception of the phenanthrene [19] and arylboron pinacolate [21] syntheses which were run in acetonitrile. Much to our surprise, the solutions of eosin Y and arenediazonium salts in acetonitrile were yellow (instead of the usual red colour; see Figure 1, conditions as in [21]) and did not exhibit intense fluorescence (Figure 2, conditions as in [21]). We have suspected this to be a consequence of facile acid–base reactions of the catalyst eosin Y. Indeed, immediate colour change was effected by addition of base (tetra-n-butylammonium hydroxide, TBAOH), and strong fluorescence occurred in the green spectrum. This dramatic pH effect on the spectroscopic properties of eosin Y solutions prompted us to further investigate this behaviour. The organic dye eosin Y can exist in four different structures in solution: the spirocyclic form EY1, the neutral EY2, the monoanionic EY3, and the dianionic form EY4 (Scheme 3). Eosin Y contains two relatively acidic protons (pKa 2.0, 3.8 in water) [25] which can be easily abstracted to give dianionic EY4. Lack of clarity exists in many publications on photoredox catalysis with regard to the nature of the employed dye. The authors either report the use of “eosin Y, spirit soluble” – which can be EY1 or EY2 according to the Sigma–Aldrich catalogue [26], or claim the use of the free acid EY2. The presence of
Figure 1: UV–vis spectra of the photoborylation reaction mixture (RM).
Scheme 3: Acid–base behaviour of eosin Y.
Figure 2: Fluorescence spectra of the photoborylation reaction mixture (RM). Ex. = excitation wavelength.
stoichiometric amounts of bases, e.g., in eosin Y-catalyzed photo-oxidative transformations with amines [9], results in the quantitative generation of the dianionic form EY4 under the reaction conditions. On the other hand, the SET-generation of aryl radicals from arenediazonium salts by photocatalysis proceeds in the absence of base. The non-aqueous conditions should not provide a significant buffering capacity. Here, the presence of only minute amount of impurities in the solvents or starting materials is sufficient to push the acid–base equilibria of the catalytic amounts of eosin Y in either direction. The spirocyclic form EY1 contains an interrupted conjugation of the fluorone ring system and thus would be photocatalytically inactive under visible light irradiation. The neutral form EY2 exhibits only weak fluorescence when irradiated with visible light (Figure 2). Studies on related alkylated eosin derivatives suggest that this fluorescent state is very short lived and is therefore also not appropriate for photoredox catalysis [27]. The charged forms EY3 and EY4 are catalytically active, which in turn also means that solutions containing commercial “eosin Y, spirit soluble” would per se not trigger efficient
photoredox catalysis. In such cases, catalytic activity as observed in recent publications by König et al. is dependent on the operation of acid–base equilibration (e.g., in DMSO solution) so that the employed eosin Y is converted in situ to the active species EY3 or EY4 [15-18]. Efforts to reproduce the photoredox synthesis of arylboron pinacolates in acetonitrile have so far failed in our hands when irradiating at 535 nm [21]. No product formation was observed, and the UV–vis spectra showed no appreciable absorption at this wavelength. However, the addition of minor quantities of base (TBAOH) to the reaction mixture resulted in strong absorption at 535 nm and good photocatalytic activity under irradiation. The substitution of acetonitrile with DMSO in the same reaction gave strong absorption at 535 nm and allowed the photocatalytic synthesis of the desired arylborinic ester in good yields in the absence of extra base. This discrepancy is most likely associated with the different properties of DMSO and acetonitrile as bases. DMSO is a stronger base than acetonitrile which enhances the acidity of most Brønsted acids in DMSO [28]. These observations lead to the conclusion that photoredox reactions catalyzed by eosin Y (or similar organic dyes) cannot be discussed without strict specification of the employed form of the dye and the reaction conditions. Conclusive mechanistic proposals of visible-lightdriven reactions with these dyes also need to address the operation of acid–base equilibria and the pH dependence of absorption properties.
Effect of the light source on the eosin Y-mediated photocatalysis Another reaction parameter which lacks clarity and consistency among the literature reports is the source of irradiation. Several
groups including ourselves have used commercial narrow-band LEDs with a maximum intensity at 535 nm (green light) [1518,20]. Other reactions were irradiated with white light from broad-band compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) [19,21]. The determination of quantum yields requires the use of narrowband light sources due to the variation of the optical density of the samples with the wavelength. Therefore, we have studied the impact of different irradiation types on the course of the photocatalytic reaction. Although the type of CFLs was not specified in the literature [19,21], the majority of commercial CFLs cover similar spectral ranges with the individual UV edge being significantly below 400 nm and with substantial radiation power in the region of 400–500 nm. A similar wavelength distribution is seen in the spectrum of commercial whitecolored LEDs (see Supporting Information File 1 for spectrum). The activation energy of thermal heterolysis of arenediazonium ions is approx. 115 kJ/mol (1.19 eV) [29]. The energy of a photon at the edge of the visible spectrum (400 nm) is 3.1 eV so that such photons carry sufficient energy to heterolyze diazonium ions to give highly electrophilic aryl cations. Moreover, arenediazonium salts are known to form weak charge-transfer complexes with solvent molecules whose absorption tails into the visible range [30]. These observations support the notion that the use of broadband visible irradiation indeed can have a profound effect on the outcome of a photocatalytic reaction. We have therefore examined if direct absorption of the arenediazonium ions can trigger a productive pathway under irradiation with broad-band light sources even in the absence of the photocatalyst. As representative examples we chose the recently reported syntheses of arylborinic esters [21] and phenanthrenes [19]. The absorption spectrum of a mixture of para-bromobenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate (p-BrC6H4N2BF4) and bispinacolato diboron (B2pin2) in acetonitrile shows a significant shoulder of a UV-absorption band tailing into the visible part of the spectrum (Figure 3) [30]. At the UV–vis edge (400 nm), the absorbance of the system is still more than 0.1 which translates into 21% of all light being absorbed at this wavelength. When we performed the borylation reaction according to the literature report [21] but without the addition of the photocatalyst eosin
Y, 54% yield of the borylation product were obtained by direct photolysis (Scheme 4). These observations are in full accord with a report of direct reaction of thermally generated aryl cations (from arenediazonium salts) with bispinacolato diboron to give the corresponding arylborinic esters [31]. It is thus very likely that direct light-triggered heterolysis of the starting material accounts for substantial amounts of product formation under conditions which were believed to proceed through photocatalytic SET.
Figure 3: UV–vis spectrum of p-bromobenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate (pBrPhN2) and bispinacolato diboron (B2pin2) in acetonitrile.
A similar behaviour was found in our study of the phenanthrene synthesis [19]. A solution of o-biphenyldiazonium tetrafluoroborate in acetonitrile showed strong absorption between 400–500 nm with all light at the UV–vis edge at 400 nm being completely absorbed. This again indicates that direct photocleavage of the C–N bond might be operating. The cyclization reaction with ethyl propiolate according to the literature protocol [19] but in the absence of eosin Y did not afford any phenanthrene product (Scheme 5). Instead, a Ritter-type reaction proceeded to give the corresponding acetanilide after aqueous work-up which is consistent with the original report by Deronzier from 1984 [32]. The significant overlap of the absorption spectra of the arenediazonium salt recorded before and after the addition of eosin Y (Figure 4) suggests that direct photolysis of the C–N bond could account for the erosion of product yield in the catalytic process due to competitive hetero-
Scheme 4: Eosin Y-catalyzed and dye-free photolytic borylation.
Scheme 5: Eosin Y-catalyzed and dye-free reactions with ethyl propiolate.
lysis of the substrate and subsequent ionic Ritter reaction. This notion was supported by our experiments performed in DMSO where a higher portion of the photocatalyst resides in the active EY3 and EY4 states. Following an otherwise identical protocol, irradiation at 535 nm resulted in the formation of the phenanthrene in 71% yield (cf. literature yield of 53%)[19].
Figure 4: UV–vis spectra of ortho-biphenyldiazonium tetrafluoroborate (biPhN2) in acetonitrile.
Quantum yields of eosin Y-catalyzed reactions The determination of quantum yields of light-driven reactions provides valuable insight into the efficiency of the radiative processes and thus can be used for the mechanistic understanding of such processes. The magnitude of quantum yields Φ also describes how much energy is wasted into thermal dissipation in such systems, which is an especially critical parameter for the evaluation of sustainability of a photocatalytic process. The quantum yield is defined as the efficiency of a photochemical reaction in the studied system: Φ = (rate of substrate conversion)/(absorbed photon flux) Theoretically, if a simple photocatalytic process is considered, the quantum yield would be in the range 0 < Φ ≤ 1. It
approaches unity as the efficiency of the photocatalytic step increases. In reality, quantum yields can exceed unity in cases where the products of the photocatalytic reaction induce (radical) chain reactions. Therefore, the determination of quantum yields Φ provides a meaningful answer to mechanistic ambiguities. For the eosin Y-catalyzed reactions with arenediazonium salts, conclusive answers to the distinction between photocatalytic and radical chain mechanisms can be derived directly from Φ. A quantification of the photon flux is rather problematic. Recently, devices became available which use solar cells for the direct measurement of photon fluxes [33]. However, chemical actinometry constitutes a prevalent indirect method of photon flux measurement [34]. Several effective chemical actinometers are known for UV spectral studies whereas similar experiments in the visible range are much more limited by the availability of chemical actinometers. Even more challenging are photon flux determinations above 500 nm which marks the spectral cut-off of the commonly used Hatchard–Parker ferrioxalate. None of the chemical actinometers that operate in this region are commercially available. We therefore decided to prepare potassium Reineckate, a robust actinometer for the >500 nm region, according to a literature method [34,35]. Quantum yields Φ were measured for all aforementioned visible-light-driven reactions in the same solvent, DMSO. Irradiation was performed with a green LED (3.8 W) at 535 nm. All other reaction conditions were adopted from the individual literature reports [15-21]. For more details on the actinometry experiments and quantum yield determinations, see Supporting Information File 1. The observed quantum yields Φ of the studied reactions varied by almost two orders of magnitude, between 4.7 and 0.075. This already indicates the operation of different mechanisms in these aromatic substitution reactions with arene diazonium salts. The redox potentials of most substituted arene diazonium salts cluster with very little deviation around 0.0 V vs. SCE (±0.2 V) [23,24] so that the observed
differences in Φ can be largely attributed to different mechanistic pathways. Our experiments (Scheme 6) afforded quantum yields of Φ > 1 for the heterobiaryl coupling [15] and the Hecktype olefination with styrene [16], respectively. This indicates that in addition to a photocatalytic path (Scheme 2, A) radicalchain propagation is operating under the reaction conditions (Scheme 2, B). This contrasts with the other reactions where the quantum yields range between 0.6 and 0.075. In the original paper from Deronzier [32], where similar reactions under catalysis of Ru(bpy)32+ were studied, Φ values of 0.46–0.78 were reported. Our actinometric experiments of the eosin Y-catalyzed phenanthrene synthesis [19] and photoborylation [21] gave similar quantum yields of 0.35 and 0.60, respectively. This suggests that the photocatalytic pathway is indeed populated
(Scheme 2, A). Finally, the benzothiophene synthesis [17] and photothiolation [19] exhibited relatively low quantum yields which could be a consequence of non-productive processes that are responsible for the significant loss of energy. The presence of electron-rich alkylthiolate moieties in both systems could in principle effect reversible redox processes with the catalyst eosin Y which might account for the erosion of Φ.
Conclusion In summary, we have investigated the impact of several reaction parameters on the outcome and mechanism of photocatalytic aromatic substitution reactions of arenediazonium salts in the presence of eosin Y. However, the significance of these data certainly extends to other light-driven reactions that lie beyond
Scheme 6: Quantum yield determinations of selected visible-light-driven aromatic substitutions.
the focus of this study. Eosin Y (and many other organic photocatalysts) undergo rapid acid–base equilibria which significantly alter the photophysical properties. It is therefore of pivotal importance to ascertain the actual nature of the employed dye under the reaction conditions. Experimental details should always be given that specify the employed dye, the presence of acids and bases as well as the purity of the reagents, solvents, and additives. The use of broad-spectrum lamps in photocatalytic reactions with arenediazonium salts is strongly discouraged as they promote heterolytic C–N bond cleavage toward highly reactive aryl cation species. The standard reaction conditions of many literature reports involve concentrations which are orders of magnitude higher than those suitable for absorption spectroscopy studies. This means that even very inefficient transitions (at tailings of absorption maxima) can indeed trigger productive processes and therefore need to be addressed in mechanistic rationalizations. Quantum yield determinations with potassium Reineckate have now allowed the distinction between photocatalytic and radical-chain mechanisms. However, the operation of the prevalent pathway is likely dictated by the stability of the relevant catalytic intermediates.
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The 2380s decade covers the period from 2380-2389.
Years Edit
April 5: Rogue synths launch an attack on Mars. (ST: "Children of Mars")
Jean-Luc Picard is promoted to Admiral at some point in the decade if he wasn't promoted in 2379.
Alternate timeline events Edit
The following event took place in an alternate timeline in which the USS Voyager was destroyed while navigating the quantum slipstream in 2375. (VOY: "Timeless")
2380: Starfleet officially abandons the search for Voyager.
The following event takes place in an alternate timeline when the USS Voyager did not return to Earth in 2378. (VOY: "Endgame")
2381: After she receives fatal injuries on an away mission, Seven of Nine dies on Voyager, in the arms of her husband, Chakotay.
The following events took place in an alternate timeline where Captain Benjamin Sisko was temporally displaced. (DS9: "The Visitor")
2382: Jake Sisko marries Korena.
2389: Benjamin Sisko briefly appears in Jake's house in New Orleans.
Appendices Edit
ST: "Children of Mars"
In "The Dogs of War", Benjamin Sisko predicted that if the Federation Alliance did not launch an assault against the Dominion in late 2375, they would re-arm themselves and launch an offensive in the early 2380s.
The false future seen in "Future Imperfect" was set in the year 2383.
Apocrypha Edit
2380: The post-"Endgame" portions of the FPS game Star Trek: Elite Force II take part in this year.
The last climactic missions of Star Trek: Legacy take place in 2380 also.
Events described in Taking Wing:
William T. Riker gets his own ship (the USS Titan); joining his crew are Deanna Troi and later Tuvok.
The crew of the Titan plays a crucial role in stabilizing the political situation on Romulus; the Klingon Empire becomes a protector of the Remans.
Events described in Resistance:
With Riker and Troi gone, Captain Jean-Luc Picard makes Worf his new number one.
Captain Picard, in an attempt to stop the Borg, becomes Locutus again - Dr. Crusher later is able to restore him.
Events described in Before Dishonor:
Kathryn Janeway is assimilated by the Borg, made the new Borg Queen and killed after this, according to official record; her ultimate fate remains unknown, it is hinted that she has become a companion of Lady Q.
The Borg reach their next step of evolution - instead of assimilating, they now "absorb" whole starships, with the ships becoming part of the absorbing Borg cube and the crew being assimilated.
Events described in Star Trek: Destiny:
2381 The Borg have declared war on the Federation and its allies with the goal of eradication over assimilation. By the end of the war, major colonies have destroyed, the core worlds nearly destroyed and more, but the Borg are no more either. They were reunited with an ancient civilization.
Events described in Unworthy:
Sometime after 2382, Chakotay seeks Icheb's assistance to undertake a vision quest to help a very sick Seven of Nine.
Countdown: "Number One" begins on stardate 64333.4, in 2387.
Beginning of the path to 2409, events leading up to Star Trek Online.
In the game Star Trek: Armada, the USS Premonition is supposedly built in an alternate timeline where the Borg have control of most of the Alpha Quadrant. Due to the Premonition's temporal drive, it went back in time to 2376 to stop the first Borg attack on Starbase 612. It returned to the future after a successful effort in defeating the Borg. (Star Trek: Armada)
2370s Timeline
24th century 2390s
2380s at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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Posted on March 7, 1991 by Jennifer Norris
Philip Inhofer, U.S. Air Force Retiree
Philip Inhofer was an Air Force retiree hired as a civil servant at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California after retirement from the military. He was recently divorced from his second wife and enjoying retirement as a single man. Philip moved back to North Natomas in Sacramento to be closer to his family. He adored his grandkids and enjoyed being a grandfather. On March 7, 1991, Philip’s boss at McClellan AFB called Philip’s son Henry because he hadn’t shown up to work which was not like him and they were worried. Henry went to Philip’s home and found that his car was gone and his lights were off. He went inside the house, saw blood, and thought maybe he was hurt. Henry was frantic and as a result, he checked the entire house; he eventually found his dad in a closet. Philip was face down and naked with a plastic bag over his head. Henry called his wife who came right over and initially they thought maybe Philip killed himself; they called the police together. Henry took his father’s death hard. He admitted to feeling bummed and having no passion about anything after this tragedy. Henry was in the process of rebuilding his relationship with his dad because when he was young, he was a rebellious teen and Philip was gone a lot while he was in the military.
Henry shared that Philip had been to Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand in his military travels. Henry was using this chance as an opportunity to get to know his father and was looking forward to many more years with him. In retirement, Philip Inhofer loved square dancing and enjoyed his social life but he was getting bored so he bought a two-door 1975 Mercedes convertible. Henry found a list of escort services in his dad’s home and was shocked. He didn’t know anything about his father’s lifestyle. Henry assumed since Philip was recently divorced, he was looking for love in all the wrong places. Henry was embarrassed that his father was purchasing escorts. Apparently Philip did not like being alone so one night he called an escort service and asked for two women. One of those women was an escort by the name of Jade. Jade did not look like a prostitute and was very pretty although she was a prostitute at a Nevada brothel. After meeting Jade that first time, Philip was struck by her and asked for her by name after that because he only had eyes for Jade. In addition to paying Jade for her services, Philip helped her financially; he gave her money to pay her debts, bought her designer clothes, took her shopping, and paid all her expenses. He began spending more and more time with Jade and spending more and more money.
Meanwhile, Henry noticed that Philip would stop by briefly to visit with them but would not sit down and would not stay. He appeared fidgety. Philip was not depressed but looking back in retrospect, he was in love. Philip got rid of his dog for Jade after she complained about it. Then out of the blue he talked about selling his beloved car. We would later learn that Jade wanted his car and he needed another one to replace it. Investigators determined that Jade wanting Philip’s Mercedes became a problem in the relationship because Philip wanted to keep his beloved car. Jade also wanted to continue to shop endlessly but Philip had to put his foot down because he didn’t have the money. Despite Jade’s persistence about the car, Philip could not part with it. Regardless, Philip and Jade started making serious plans together. Philip wanted Jade to move in with him and on March 6, 1991, Jade left the Mustang Ranch in Nevada to move in with her new man in California. Jade and a friend drove through a snow storm to get to California and Philip was very happy to see her. One day later, Philip Inhofer was found dead in his home. First responders at the scene knew right away that Philip Inhofer’s death was no suicide.
A homicide detective was called to the scene to investigate what appeared to be a brutal murder. Detectives discovered a large blood stain on the carpet and found Philip lying on his stomach with a plastic bag on his head. They observed that Philip had suffered from numerous stab wounds and his throat had been slashed. Whoever killed Philip did so in a rage. Philip’s skull was fractured and his teeth were smashed in which was evidence tremendous amounts of blunt force were used. Philip’s shower curtain was shredded and there was blood everywhere including in the tub, on the walls, and on the shower curtains. Detectives found two pieces of paper in the home with Jade’s name on it, one of them was located on the bed stand. They learned Jade was an escort but Philip never told his family that piece of information. Using Philip’s phone records, detectives were able to track down persons of interest in an effort to find Jade. Detectives learned from a friend that Jade was going to Sacramento, California to pick up a Mercedes. The friend who gave Jade a ride to Sacramento informed police that Jade asked her to stop at a store so she could pick up some rat poisoning. She claimed she was going to use it to kill someone but her friend thought she was just kidding.
Investigators also learned that Jade or Michelle Cummisky was accused of electrocuting a previous husband; she threw a radio in his tub. But there was not enough evidence to charge her. Some of her friends said she worshipped Satan and Black Magic, and had tried to kill every man she was ever involved with. A previous husband thought she used rat poison on him because he got very ill when he was with her. Police were concerned that a beautiful, lethal woman was on the run so they called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist. And the media was contacted; they called Michelle Cummisky ‘Batgirl’ in reports. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a police officer pulled over two girls in a Ryder rental truck with a freshly painted Mercedes in the back. The police ran the vehicle identification number and it came back as a hit to the murder victim, Philip Inhofer. Sacramento detectives went to Mississippi. Michelle’s friend Crystal Woodruff was clueless about Michelle’s crimes so she was released but Michelle on the other hand admitted to the crime. She told investigators that she hurt the man she loved because she was high on a lot of LSD and didn’t know what she was doing. Michelle loved her LSD. She claimed she went to get in the shower with Philip but instead saw monsters and beasts. She described Philip as a dark force that she needed to get rid of.
As Michelle committed the murder, she was reminded that Satan would protect her. She started stabbing Philip through the shower curtain as he was taking a shower. He was completely vulnerable, defenseless, and taken off guard. He attempted to fight off the attack as evidenced by the numerous defense wounds on his body but would succumb to the multiple stab wounds. An autopsy revealed that Philip had been stabbed thirty-two times. After he collapsed, Michelle hit him in the head with a bat a few times to make sure he was dead then dragged his body to a closet. Michelle ate dinner and went to bed. She described to investigators that Satan guided her through everything. The next day, Michelle left North Natomas with the bloody rugs and stole Philip’s Mercedes. Michelle Cummisky was charged with murder. At her trial a couple years later, she used the fact that she had a horrible upbringing and difficult childhood as her defense. The prosecutors reminded the jury that the murder was a cold calculated crime and Michelle would go to any lengths to get what she wanted. On April 14, 1994, Michelle Cummisky was sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. In April 2011, Michelle Cummisky was denied her first chance at parole. Michelle Cummisky is a greedy, sociopath and her selfish actions altered the destiny of several people forever.
Source: Shades of Jade, Stranger in My Home, Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery:
A lonely ex-military man meets up with a much younger beautiful woman, and together they fall in love. Or so they think. Until a deadly combination of greed, worry, and secrets leaves one dead and the other on the run… wanted for murder. -Shades of Jade, A Stranger in My Home (S3, E8)
Editor’s note: With a cable subscription, you can download the free ID Go app and watch Investigation Discovery programming at your convenience. And for those who do not have cable, you can watch “unlocked” episodes on the ID Go app including the latest premieres. For those who prefer commercial free programming during your binge session, Prime Video has an ID channel: ‘True Crime Files by Investigation Discovery” available for $3.99 a month. It’s a compilation of older seasons but totally worth the cost if you are a true crime addict. Download the ID Go app or purchase ID True Crime Files & binge away.
Michelle Cummiskey v. California Superior Court (1992)
‘Batgirl’ killer of Sacramento man denied parole
Ask Sacto 911 crime Q&A: What happened to woman investigators dubbed ‘Batgirl’?
Philip Inhofer, Michelle Cummiskey: ‘Bat Girl’ Killer Known as Jade was Sexy Escort, Story on ID’s ‘A Stranger in My Home’
Shades of Jade | A Stranger in My Home | Investigation Discovery (S3,E8)
Shades of Jade | A Stranger in My Home | Investigation Discovery (website)
Shades of Jade | A Stranger in My Home | Investigation Discovery (Amazon)
A Stranger in My Home Premiered ‘Shades of Jade’ on ID: Nevada Escort Murders Air Force Retiree Philip Inhofer Because Greed (April 8, 2016)
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The Precision Rifle Series (PRS) is a “championship style point series race” designed to host the top precision rifle competitions and shooters in the Nation. From its inauguration in 2012, PRS has expanded to host 36 annual matches and has over 1,800 members. PRS offers a variety of categories for different types of shooters: Open, Senior, Junior, Lady, and active Military and Law Enforcement. And as of 2017, PRS has three classifications: Pro, Semi-Pro, and Amateur. For those skilled enough to proceed into the finals, PRS offers lucrative cash and physical prizes. The large scope of the PRS makes it a world-class organization. This year, in conjunction with W.A.R. Rifles, McMillan has sponsored a PRS team of five skilled shooters.
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First and foremost, the NRL is a non-profit organization that aims for growth and public education on precision rifle shooting through outdoor activities, such as matches. We are proud to sponsor organizations like the NRL that not only help shooters develop their marksmanship skills, but also emphasize firearms safety and the community, business, and family aspects of competitive shooting. With 235 members at the time of writing this post, the NRL is currently a growing organization and will be hosting three more matches this season, in California, Washington, and Idaho, respectively. Check out nationalrifleleague.org for detailed information on their mission statement and upcoming events.
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How does Mott MacDonald approach the issue of sustainability?
Thoughtful integration of sustainability principles within architectural design is fundamental to the delivery of a building or infrastructure project.
Sustainability does not necessarily have to be a visible component of a project; however, features within a project that have a visible function can support awareness raising and present a developer with an opportunity to make a clear statement about their commitment towards a ‘greener’- built environment. Given that so many opportunities for integrating sustainability within projects lies within architectural design, Mott MacDonald’s sustainability specialists and engineers continue to work in close collaboration with architects to ensure these opportunities are fully realised.
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Dreaming and the Body in Ancient Medicine
Posted by callowayscott on August 31, 2019 January 4, 2020
Calloway Scott // Among the civilizations which ringed the shores of the antique Mediterranean (and beyond), it was quite well known that dreams carried with them portents of the future events. The cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer and Assyria speak of the nocturnal intercourse of royals and gods, promising success in war. The epics of Homer, both the Iliad and Odyssey, tell us that dreams come from direct Zeus, although these fleeting phenomena may give true or false intimations of things to come. Herodotus peppers his History of the known world with the dreams of kings and tyrants, even if only to underscore how easily such divine visions could mislead. Still, for Sumerians and Greeks alike, not all dreams were regarded as provident. The gods disclosed the future only to their chosen favorites, kings, and this in turn lent legitimation to the king’s monopoly upon charismatic authority. Across cultures there ran a tidy political economy between gods and kings funded by the stuff of dreams. Beyond these shared cultural strategies of dreaming lay a shared experiential nature of dreaming; dreams were conceived of as external events or visitations occurring to a sleeper, not interior processes of soul or mind.
Sometime within the 5th century BCE a break in this conception of dreams occurred. The medical writings of the Hippocratic corpus take note of their patients’ sleeping and dreaming habits. In the effort to create reliable signs, the quality and kind of sleep and dreams offered a new diagnostic tool, making connections between the jagged and disordered dreams one experiences with fevers. Uncoupled from any divine or external origin, dreams began to appear within the symptomological lists found within the Hippocratic Epidemics and other texts as essential clues for the physician.
Yet one medical treatise presses this new, bodily-oriented interest in dreams considerably further. Encroaching on the space of the traditional seer or dream interpreter, the author of Regimen 4, also known as On Dreams, scrutinizes dream contents for what they might disclose about the interior state of the dreamer’s body. His purpose in appropriating for medicine the tools of the dream interpreter are ingenious: the overarching aim of the 4 “books” comprising the composite treatise Regimen is to demonstrate and defend his discovery of “prodiagnosis.” For the author of Regimen, “prodiagnosis” is the exercise of careful self-surveillance—conjoined with a comprehensive knowledge of one’s elemental and humoral constitution—which allows one to “know in advance” when the body’s healthful balance has fallen askew before displaying symptoms of true illness. For the author, dreams play a new and important role in this diagnostic effort, for
When the body is at rest, the soul, being set in motion and awake, administers her own household, and of herself performs all the acts of the body. For the body when asleep has no perception; but the soul when awake has cognizance of all things—sees what is visible, hears what is audible, walks, touches, feels pain, ponders (Reg. 4.1).
That is, the author imagines that the soul is 1) quite separate from the body and 2) during sleep, is attuned to the interior state of the body without distraction. Dreams, then, offer an unparalleled point of access for knowing the condition of the body that the soul cannot perceive during the day. The rest of the text offers a neatly organized set of interpretations of dreams as they forewarn us about various illnesses, utilizing a relatively simplistic analogical framework of the humors and the relationship between the cosmos and human body. For instance, a dream about torrential rains indicates a growing abundance of moisture within the body, which ought to be counterbalanced by a “drying” regimen of exercises and foods. Similarly, dreams about astronomical bodies like the sun, moon, stars and planets, which are clear and follow their normal orbits signify good bodily order and that one ought to maintain current dietary and exercise habits. Yet, if one should perceive heavenly bodies to be obscured by cloud or mist, it is a clear indication that some kind of disorder has occurred within the body (an excess of phlegm, for instance). The treatise goes on to analyze and interpret a fascinating variety of dreams—including those involving the gods and the dead—even as it admits that some dreams are, indeed, the divine in their origins and best left to the knowledgeable seer. Yet, in the breadth of his dream hermeneutics, the Regimen author’s aim to carve away some of the ancient dream-interpreter “market” is clear.
More fundamentally, once the soul has been identified as the seat of dreaming (or the principal seat of intellection whereby dreams are apprehended), the relationship between dreams, the soul, and (medical) foreknowledge becomes an important and abiding question in ancient science. Aristotle took up the question at length (without a completely clear conclusion) in his treatise On Prophecy in Sleep, and the predictive value of dreams was an essential feature in Stoic cosmological thought. But once broached in the Hippocratic texts, the specific issue of the existence of medically predictive dreams never vanished and was taken up by Herophilus, Erasistratus, and all the later medical sects. Galen (or one of his imitators) was forced to tackle the issue in the text On Diagnosis in Dreams, which includes reports from other medical authorities of dreams which proved to hold prognostic value. The main worry for these later thinkers, stressed by Rufus of Ephesus, who acknowledged the existence of these dreams, was the difficulty in landing on the proper criteria for distinguishing the provident dream from the non, sorting the silver from the dross. In opening the realm of dreams to the practicing physician, these thinkers appropriated a tool with weighty explanatory power drawn from the deeply entrenched and widely held belief in the existence of divination. At the same time, the attempt to generate rigorous criteria to usefully identify such dreams never wholly succeeded.
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San Francisco-based drone deliveries firm Zipline has raised US$25 million in Series B funding to expand its operations across Africa.
Zipline launched in Rwanda last month, enabling blood transfusion clinics across the Western half of the country to place emergency orders by SMS, which are then delivered by one of the company’s fleet of 15 drones, called Zips.
The company will soon be making 50-150 emergency flights a day to deliver lifesaving blood to 21 transfusion clinics across the country, and has now raised funding to expand its work in Rwanda to other countries across Africa.
The funding round – which takes Zipline’s total raised capital to US$43 million – was led by Visionnaire Ventures and includes investments from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Aside from expanding to more countries in Africa and across the world, Zipline also hopes to begin making instant deliveries in the United States within the next six months in collaboration with the White House and the FAA.
“The inability to deliver life saving medicines to the people who need them the most causes millions of preventable deaths each year. Zipline will help solve that problem once and for all,” said Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo.
“We’re building an instant delivery system for the world, allowing medicines and other products to be delivered on-demand and at low-cost, anywhere. This new funding will help make that vision possible much sooner.”
Read more at IT Web Africa
November 12, 2016 by Staff
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Safe schools would keep young families in Montreal: Bergeron
By Lynn Moore | Published October 14, 2013 by THE GAZETTE
The offer of safe neighbourhood schools would help keep young families in Montreal, says Richard Bergeron, who wants the city’s mayor to have direct contact with school boards and Quebec’s education minister.
While too many inner-city schools were being sold to condo developers, new schools were popping up in suburbia, the Projet Montréal mayoral candidate said Monday.
“There has been a lack of leadership from the mayor of Montreal” who seemed indifferent to the outward flow of families, Bergeron said.
He and Projet Montréal candidates in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve area pointed to three schools along a kilometre-long stretch of Adam St. All three are infested with mould.
École Baril is soon to be demolished while “parents are being kept in the dark” about the fate of École Hochelaga and École Saint-Nom-de-Jésus.
Projet Montréal wants that stretch of Adam and surrounding streets to be reconfigured for the safety of students, pedestrians and cyclists.
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Safe+schools+would+keep+young+families+Montreal+Bergeron/9034202/story.html
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The Philosophy of the Epic of Gilgamesh, 2: Enkidu and the Cult of Sex and Civilization
February 13, 2019 February 13, 2019 / Hesiod
This essay is abstracted from my lectures on the Epic of Gilgamesh, an audio recording is available below through the YT video:
The most memorable character of the Epic of Gilgamesh is probably Enkidu, the wild-man created by the god Aruru to rival and challenge Gilgamesh but who befriends Gilgamesh and whose death causes Gilgamesh existential dread over mortality. Enkidu is also the most interesting figure to examine from a purely mythological perspective. While Gilgamesh is considered to have been a historical person, scholars are divided as to whether Enkidu would have been a historical councilor to the king or not. Regardless, the many symbolic themes that carry with the character of Enkidu is what concerns us.
2.1 Enkidu as the “Wild Man” or “Savage Man”
Enkidu is created by the gods to challenge Gilgamesh and his arrogance. In principle, the gods are terrified of what Gilgamesh is becoming and what he might do to them through his power and the adoration he receives from his people. Because Gilgamesh is strong (and handsome), the gods create Enkidu who rivals Gilgamesh in strength but lacks his beauty and cultivated manners. This is because Enkidu represents primordial man—the hairy, disheveled, animalistic brute who doesn’t have reason and lives like the animals, that is, purely on his bodily desires and instincts. He is like the great ape of years before, a man who is yet a man, a man who is more animalistic than civilized and refined.
Even after entering Uruk, Enkidu does not know how to eat, drink, or properly dress himself—the hallmarks of civilized and urban living. Enkidu, as many Assyriologists point out, likely represents the homogenized composite of the “man outside the walls,” the “barbarian” whose speech doesn’t make sense, whose way of life (with the animals) seems shocking and unbefitting of a man, but who seeks out the civilized life offered by the Neolithic revolution. This fact cannot be lost on readers of the epic. We are reading the oldest work of literature thus far recovered in human history. It is written, if dating is correct, in the mid-2300s B.C. While well after the Neolithic revolution, evolutionarily speaking it is not that far removed from when Neolithic man settled the dust and began to raise crops and domesticate animals for his well-being and livelihood.
The Neolithic revolution marked a major turning point in human history. No longer the wandering brutes of the past, man became a civilized, rational thinking, law-abiding, nature conquering, being. Man was, in the terminology of Hannah Arendt, homo faber. All of these themes are present in the Epic of Gilgamesh and all are contained in the person of Enkidu.
When he is first introduced “he knows not a people, nor even a country.” He is an unsettled savage. He is alone, a wanderer, a brute who does not possess reason. He is described like an animal, un-groomed hair and beastly in attitude and power. It is only after his taming and settling in Uruk that he becomes a man—especially in the Aristotelian sense: a rational and social (or political) animal. Prior to his arrival in Uruk Enkidu is an irrational animal and an a-social (solitary) animal. The bumbling, stumbling, brutish beast that Enkidu is before his encounter with Shamhat and arrival in Uruk is the primordial man before the Neolithic revolution. And as some men founded cities, those who did not were intrigued by the towering walls and houses that began to dot the landscape and they inquisitively wanted to know about the city—thus the “birth of reason” in man.
Rationality is what the ancient philosophers, Greek, Roman, and Christian, considered to be the distinctive feature of man as the rational animal. Where animals simply followed their instincts and desires, man has the capacity of mastering his instincts and desires and ordering them, through reason, to more productive and civilized ends. As Aristotle said in Politics, civilized man can be known by how he eats and has sex. Re-read the first two tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh very carefully; Enkidu’s turn to civilization is based on sex and eating. In the words of John Milton, in Paradise Lost, “Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed / Labour, as to debar us when we need / Refreshment, whether food, or talk between, / Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse, / Of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow, / To brute denied, and are of love the food, / Love, not the lowest end of human life.” Man, unlike animal, can appreciate the sweetness of life, sex, and food; as Dante said in Purgatorio, “The soul, which is created quick to love, responds to everything that pleases, just as soon as beauty wakens it to act.”
Enkidu is, at first, the wild man—primordial man—who follows his animalistic instincts. Animal man is the antithesis to civilized man. This is why the gods created Enkidu to rival civilized Gilgamesh. Animal man in his brutality, pure desire, and irrationality, threatens everything that rational and civilized man has constructed: order, social function, and the taming of his animalistic impulses and directed to spouse, family, and country. Thus, this is what Enkidu must “lose” before being civilized: his brutality, his animalism, and his uncontrollable desire as he roams aimlessly like the gazelles simply feeding his desires and moving on to another location to do the same.
2.2 Enkidu and Shamhat: Sex, Food, Marriage, and Civilization
Shamhat is the tertiary protagonist in the story and the most important woman in the story. She is a sacred harlot, a sex priestess, which was an important position in ancient Mesopotamian society. While the Greek historian Herodotus deplored the practice of “sacred sex” in the fertility cults, Shamhat serves a very important role in the story—she is the individual who civilizes Enkidu, teaches him the sacred meaning of sex and family, teaches him how to eat and dress, and inducts Enkidu into social life. (It is interesting to highlight how Enkidu, created by the fertility goddess Aruru, is civilized through the sexual act.)
Where Enkidu is solitary, Uruk is social; where Enkidu is an animal, the citizens of Uruk are civilized, where Enkidu doesn’t know how to eat “like a person,” instead foraging like the animals, the people of Uruk have table manners, cooked food, and appropriate dress. “For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.” Those fateful words from Aristotle accurately summarize the dialectical contrast between Enkidu the wild-man, and Enkidu the civilized man after his encounter with Shamhat.
When the hunter tasked with finding Enkidu discovers him, having brought Shamhat along, he informs her, “This is he, Shamhat! Uncradle your bosom, bare your sex, let him take in your charms! Do not recoil, but take in his scent: he will see you, and will approach you. Spread your clothing so he may lie on you, do for the man the work of a woman! Let his passions caress and embrace you, his herd will spurn him, though he grew up amongst it.”
The encounter of Enkidu with Shamhat has been one of the most discussed parts of the epic. Feminists, naturally, have despised it for its patriarchal and demeaning language and dialectic. Anthropologists and philosophers, by contrast, have generally seen the tremendous symbolism entailed in the encounter of wild man and civilized woman and the dignified position that Shamhat plays in the narrative becoming the sort of adoptive wife of Enkidu. Not all feminists have recoiled at the depiction of sacred sex and the role of sex in the birth of civilization. Camille Paglia stands against the grain insofar that she sees the powerful role of the feminine mystique in the sex act and the power that woman holds over man through the sex act.
As Paglia explained in Sexual Personae, the sexual act brings out the true character of a man; his depravity or exquisiteness; also, from the feminine perspective, the power of women over men as it relates to the civilizing role of sex and how through the sexual act came the glories of ordered civilization where men had to tame and order their sexual drive and replaced “belly-magic” with “head-magic” (rational order vs. chaotic watery order). This transformation in civilization, Paglia notes, though men took the lead, was spurred by man’s simultaneous fear and honoring of woman and entirely related to the sexual act. Sex not only brought forth personal identity and distinctiveness, it brought about ordered civilization.
Although the Catholic Church is often demeaned as anti-woman by those who know next to nothing about the complexity and depth of Catholic anthropological and civilizational thinking, Catholic sexual ethics also expounds on the reality of woman as the civilizer of man as seen through the encounter of Enkidu and Shamhat. Women set the bar of civilization because man is a creature of sexual desire first and foremost and sets his use of reason to the sexual act. When women set the bar high for sex men will follow. When women set the bar low for sex men will follow. Sex brings about the elevation and dignification of man, or sex brings out the denigration and animalization of man. This is why Aristotle remarked that sex is one of the tell-tale signs of civilization.
Animal sex is unpassionate, instrumental, purely utilitarian, and stems from nothing more than desire as desire. Animals have sex because they need to have sex and nothing more. Human sex, from the standpoint of anthropological humanism (e.g. human exceptionalism), is something far more exquisite. It represents a training in virtue in the words of St. Augustine. It represents the civilized nature of man and society according to Aristotle. And it represents the real power that women hold over men according to Camille Paglia. It is love.
Humans are social and relational animals. This is the main difference between “conservative” anthropology and “liberal” anthropology; or classical and modern anthropology. Conservative anthropology affirms man’s social and relational nature—that humans flourish when in relationships and that that the basis of all civilization is the family which is brought together through the conjugal act. Liberal anthropology affirms man’s solitary nature—that humans flourish best when left alone to follow their desires for self-preservation and nothing more; family, in particular, is the biggest barrier to human freedom (individual choice and movement).
Enkidu, prior to sex, is an animal. After sex he is becoming a man. He caresses and has an intimate relationship with another person for the first time in his life. This transforms him, literally. When he stands up and heads to the herd of gazelles they panic and flee from him. He eventually returns to Uruk with Shamhat where he learns the art of eating and dressing. Through sex, Shamhat introduces Enkidu to civilization and the marriage rite—where he meets Gilgamesh presiding over an event he doesn’t understand because animals do not marry. Through sex Shamhat has taught Enkidu to master his animal desires and direct them to higher goods: family, state, and society (all of which imply something beyond the self).
When entering Uruk Enkidu does not know how to eat. After sex with Shamhat and her tutelage, Enkidu knows table manners and when to eat—again a mastery of the passions. Man, left alone—as Enkidu was before meeting and making love with Shamhat—is nothing but a brutish animal that follows his desires without any self-mastery and is incapable of social living and personal virtue. Man, when united with a woman—as Enkidu becomes in his meeting and making love with Shamhat—becomes a groomed, civilized, well-spoken, and more importantly, rational being. As the author of the poem states, after rising to his feet after sex, “he had reason, and wide understanding.”
The sex act and eating rituals, along with the marriage rite that Enkidu observes, is the trinity of civilization; and all three are integrally related to each other: Ordered sexual drive leads to marriage and the celebration of the union of male and female entails the eating of food (the celebratory wedding dinner) where the sophistication of human civilization is fully on display. (Enkidu, having been an animal confesses to Shamhat he does not know what is going on when he first encounters the sophistication of human society and its rituals.) Sex divorced from family, eating divorced from ritual and manner, and marriage divorced social union, simply returns man to his primitive and barbaric state of existence. The ordering of sex, eating, and marriage to more than self-pleasure and self-want is the basis on which civilization rises and falls. Sex, therefore, is also the induction of a person into civilized society. For what is a man but an animal when he brutishly engages in self-gratifying sex and eating and doesn’t commit himself to marriage but lives a life of licentious animalism? For what is man but a man when he exercises control in sex and eating and commits himself to a lifelong relationship of love with a woman to have children, raise them, and ensure the continuation of the sacred seed of life? (This is further implied through the fact that Shamhat is a sacred harlot; the sacredness and mystery of sex and its civilizing power bound up in the functionary religious role she has in Sumerian society.)
Here the understanding of sex and civilization from Aristotle, Catholicism, and Camille Paglia are better understood. All animals have sexual urges. The question for man is whether he follows the “animalistic” way which is to have sex at will and purely for instrumental use, or whether he follows the “civilized” way which is to control the urge, unite with a spouse, and procreate for the health of civil society. Moreover, as Camille Paglia asserts, the sex drive and sex act shows the real character of a person. Furthermore, women really do control the highs and lows of civilization with the sexual act; for it is woman who guards sexual ethics and with it the animalization or civilization of human society and interactions. If woman acts like an animal man will follow her and be an animal; if woman acts like a dignified human than man will follow her and be a dignified human.
Paglia notes, and she follows Augustinian anthropology very closely here, that man is truly a creature of erotic desire. In this sense the starting point of all humans is that of an animal but the task of humanization is to be made human rather than to remain an animal. Ibn Rushd (Averroes), one of the foremost medieval Islamic philosophers said that the task of humanization was to turn an animal into a man through the cultivated use of imagination, his soul (e.g. reason), and ordering of the sexual instinct; this is what made man distinct from the rest of the animal kingdom. While it is true that some men are sadistic and will behave as brutes engaged in the lust for domination through sexual libido, most men are not like that but take cues from the broader sexual and fetishistic mores of their environment (returning us to the Catholic insight as, perhaps, best summed up by Dietrich von Hildebrand concerning the sexual act as a civilizing bar that women have total control over). Women control the future of civilization because of the mysterious and civilizing power of sex. And Shamhat demonstrates this in her bedding and civilizing of Enkidu; she is the prime mover in Enkidu’s civilizing.
Enkidu owes his newfound way of life, his friendships, his loyalty to country, and his social mores to Shamhat. Shamhat is not the undignified harlot abused by Enkidu but the sacred and mysterious feminine mystique that brings civilization into Enkidu’s life. It is through their sexual encounter that Enkidu learns to master his passions, shed away his animalistic side, learn the customs and manners of civilized society, enjoy life in society, develop friendship, and become appreciative of life. Shamhat civilizes Enkidu—not Gilgamesh—and she civilizes him through the mystical union of two flesh becoming one in the sexual encounter.
2.3 Enkidu and Gilgamesh: Friendship and Sociality
Lastly, the final unmissable aspect of Enkidu in the epic is the friendship he forms with Gilgamesh. At first they wrestle with each other, but then they become friends after this conflict wherein Enkidu yields to Gilgamesh.
This conflict turning to yielding is a common theme in human literature, from vanquishing comes friendship—deep and intimate friendship. Moreover, Enkidu accepts his place in the pecking order with Gilgamesh; Gilgamesh is the head and Enkidu the body. The theme of conflict leading to friendship is visible in other great works of literature, like How Green was My Valley and Captains Courageous.
In the ancient world friendship was something intimate and deeply personal. Modernists sometime read homoerotic overtures into the relationship, but such readings only emerged after the 1970s. Most scholars do not consider the nature of the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu to be homoerotic in nature but reflective of the deep, intimate, and personal. The deeply intimate friendship of Gilgamesh and Enkidu is shocking to modern readers because we live in a deeply de-personalized world with very few friendships. St. Augustine, one of the greater writers on friendship in antiquity, argued that friends are not only equals with one another but people whom we have an intimate relationship with: Friends are people whom we share secrets with, who are our companions, always around us (and we with them) and whom we love. In this sense how many friends can moderns say to have? Friends are not acquaintances and acquaintances are not friends.
Paul Freedman, a historian at Yale, noted the sudden explosion of homoerotic interpretations of famous friendships in classical literature—including Augustine in Confessions which he has brushed aside as modernist ideological eisegesis. Concerning the prevalence of intimate friendships in classical literature there is David and Jonathan in the Hebrew Bible, Augustine and Alypius in Confessions, and most famously Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad. Xenophon, the ancient Greek philosopher, took time to comment that there was no romantic relationship between the two in Homer’s epic and a multitude of other classicists and ancient literary critics have written against reading homoerotic overtures in classical friendship narratives.
In this way Gilgamesh and Enkidu are the first to embody the intimate friendship narrative in the ancient world. This is because the ancient world asserted that man was not merely a social animal but a relational animal. This theme is also found in the Genesis creation narrative with the creation of Adam and Eve, asserted by Plato, Aristotle, and the Christian church fathers in their writings, and certainly affirmed in the friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
It is important to remember what Enkidu was before his civilizing and what Enkidu becomes after his civilizing. Through his civilizing he becomes a groomed, respectable, and social person bound up with social customs and mores of ancient Mesopotamian society. Ancient life was excessively social—any reader of Plato or Aristotle would know this. The social nature of the Sumerian city is on display when Enkidu enters it. There are festivals and religious rites being publicly performed for all to participate in. Enkidu meets Gilgamesh in a marriage ceremony (where he learned to properly eat and clothe himself) which was also a very public affair in the ancient world and remains a deeply public affair in traditional Catholic areas around the world (with public processions and music playing as the bride and groom leave the church and walk the city streets).
In the companionship of Gilgamesh and Enkidu we see the social dynamic of man’s nature become crystallized for us. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are always beside one another—even to the bitter end.
Enkidu’s death causes existential dread to overcome Gilgamesh. Even Enkidu seems angry with the fact that he is going to die, and he curses life (all the farmers, herders, and craftsmen) and Shamhat for his predicament. In Enkidu’s cursing of life, he reflects, momentarily, the bitter and nihilistic strand of human existence. In cursing Shamhat he wishes to have remained with the animals than become aware of his mortality. Ignorance is bliss.
But Enkidu is assuaged from his bitterness and he comes to bless Shamhat and the Sumerians. Enkidu celebrates the gift of life even though he will die. The funeral rite and ceremony Gilgamesh gives him is not merely mourning of the life (and friend) lost but a celebration of a life lived. Funeral rites were important in ancient society and remain important in traditional religious sects (such as Catholicism and Islam). Funeral rites are important because they are meant to give praise to the individual’s life, his worth, and importance during life. Friends, family, and the whole city participate in the funeral.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu’s relationship is nothing short of the deeply personal and relational nature of man; the deeply personal and intimate relationships that ancient man had with his fellow man in antiquity. The very word for society comes from the Latin word socius (socii, plural) which translates as “friend.” Civilization, society, is composed of friends. People whom we know, spend time with, care for, and love. Gilgamesh loved Enkidu because he was his friend. Friendship in the ancient world was vastly different than “friendship” today. Ancient friendship was intimate while modern “friendship” is often depersonalized. This is why moderns have often struggled reading back on the friendship narratives of classical literature—Gilgamesh and Enkidu being no different.
The civilizing of Enkidu comes about by life in the city, his introduction to sex, eating, and marriage rites, and his friendship with Gilgamesh. In essence, Enkidu becomes a man by passing through the rites of passage of adulthood and becoming a member of that excellent city which Aristotle talks about in Politics.
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Driveclub Free Edition Coming “As Soon As Possible” – Meanwhile Paying Customers Vent Their Frustration
Evolution Studios continue to come under heavy fire today following yet more problems with the retail version of Driveclub as thousands of players report problems with downloading the latest update that was released yesterday. Driveclub is rapidly approaching two weeks of live status but in that time many players have still been unable to explore any of the online multiplayer elements of the game and the latest attempt at solving the problem seems to have caused more issues.
Some players are reporting that the new update is unavailable to download while other players are distraught at their inability to access any element of the game whatsoever.
“Lots of reports from players having to retry the 1.04 download over & over for it to be successful,” the most recent statement, at 4 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, October 16, says. “Keep retrying. PSN team is investigating.”
A statement released yesterday said that the team are working on deploying new servers and server upgrades as often as possible, with the planned return of the Face-off event expected to be soon. Evolution Studios also said that they are working to get the free PlayStation Plus version of the game out as soon as possible, but cannot provide an exact time or date.
“We are still also working hard to get the PS Plus Edition of Driveclub out as soon as possible and hope to update you on this soon.”
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mm361: Gin, television, Web 2.0
Ever have one of those moments? You know, the ones where you read or see something that just simply closes a loop in your mind that you didn’t know was open? Where you (one hopes, figuratively) slap yourself on the face and say (one fervently hopes, subvocally): Wow, I wish I thought of that?
Had one of those today.
I’m a history of technology guy; I even alluded very briefly to that a couple of posts ago (featuring one of yr (justifiably) humble svt‘s favorite headlines, if I may be so unhumble to say so!).
So, I enjoy taking a global, macro view of technology, and how it shaped the story of civilization (technology = civilization — can’t have the latter without the former). And I also enjoy making connections.
So, my attention was captured today by the first paragraph of this post, found during typical stream-of-consciousness blogging today.
So, I read on, and the connections and insights about technology and where it’s taking us, and why it’s taking us there, were jaw-dropping.
See, I’ve often said (once, here) that one of the things I really like about this blogging mania obsession habit of mine is that after more than 15 years of consuming the Internet, now, in my infinitesimal, nanocorner of the ‘Sphere© way, I’m now contributing.
And, that’s the point:
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
By Clay Shirky on April 26, 2008 10:48 AM
I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
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mm299: More than the economy, we’re in intellectual trouble
Susan Jacoby has just released a book, “The Age of American Unreason“, and contributed to the Opinion page of the Washington Post a couple of Sundays ago.
Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a Nation of Dunces
By Susan Jacoby | Sunday, February 17, 2008; B01
“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today’s very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble — in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
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mm162: Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience
As the November launch date for the XO approaches, the news, save for the price, keeps getting better.
The XO, as regular reader of this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere© no doubt recalls (and such links as this, this and this will help jog the memory), is the long-awaited One Laptop Per Child initiative of Nicholas Negroponte come to fruition.
And now, the respected David Pogue of the NYTimes weighs in with his advance report.
And here’s the essence:
The truth is, the XO laptop, now in final testing, is absolutely amazing, and in my limited tests, a total kid magnet. Both the hardware and the software exhibit breakthrough after breakthrough — some of them not available on any other laptop, for $400 or $4,000.
It’s a rave review.
By DAVID POGUE
In November, you’ll be able to buy a new laptop that’s spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It’s fanless, it’s silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds. One battery charge will power six hours of heavy activity, or 24 hours of reading. The laptop has a built-in video camera, microphone, memory-card slot, graphics tablet, game-pad controllers and a screen that rotates into a tablet configuration.
And this laptop will cost $200.
The computer, if you hadn’t already guessed, is the fabled “$100 laptop” that’s been igniting hype and controversy for three years. It’s an effort by One Laptop Per Child (laptop.org) to develop a very low-cost, high-potential, extremely rugged computer for the two billion educationally underserved children in poor countries.
The concept: if a machine is designed smartly enough, without the bloat of standard laptops, and sold in large enough quantities, the price can be brought way, way down. Maybe not down to $100, as O.L.P.C. originally hoped, but low enough for developing countries to afford millions of them — one per child.
XO is a technological tour de force.
Of course, XO has its detractors. Gearheads complain that it’s underpowered and fully functioning laptops can be purchased for $400 today. As Pogue points out, missing the point entirely. It’s not for you, guys.
And, ministers of education (and their superiors, I’m betting) in many developing nations apparently feel threatened by the implications of such an interconnected, and Internet-connected, resource in so many millions of hands.
[Please click the link below for the complete article — but then please come on back!]
Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience – New York Times
I hope that every child in the developing world get’s a chance to use the XO — and as I’ve stated here before, a lot of U.S. kids live in developing world conditions as far as housing and education are concerned.
And, based on what we’ve all seen of the value of the dollar lately, $188 is the new $100. So, don’t beat up OLPC on price — ramp up production and watch what happens. And if it doesn’t, based on Pogue’s evaluation, it’s a dazzler even at today’s price.
And imagine some of the older children tuning into UC Berkeley’s YouTube courses. This all can’t happen soon enough. And, you can help!
It’s real people. And I’ll repeat my proposal from last time we discussed this initiative:
This is a wonderful cause, and I would think that people who would find a $399 purchase with a 50% charitable component affordable might also wish, as the story suggests, to donate the PC they’re entitled to a (not third world, but certainly third rate) school in this country.
God knows that there are pockets of the third world within these preciously regarded borders of ours, many within our biggest cities. Then it becomes a $399 charitable contribution, serving to further education among the deserving needy in our own country as well as beyond….
As the giving season looms (the pumpkins are out, after all!), why not add OLPC’s “Give 1, Get 1” to your planning (orders to be taken Nov. 12–26); and as MUDGE recommends, just make that slight adjustment and you can call it “Give 1 (there), Give 1 (here).”
And we’ll give the eloquent David Pogue the last word:
… Despite all the obstacles and doubters, O.L.P.C. has come up with a laptop that’s tough and simple enough for hot, humid, dusty locales; cool enough to keep young minds engaged, both at school and at home; and open, flexible and collaborative enough to support a million different teaching and learning styles.
It’s it for now. Thanks,
–MUDGE
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mm160: UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube
Lots of children have been left behind, in this country where that Bush administration typical Potemkin Village of an initiative has dashed more hopes than fulfilled them; and around the world, where surviving to age 18 is a challenge, much less becoming minimally educated.
But when every child does get that laptop, UC Berkeley will be ready for them (at least when they get a little more learning under their belts!).
YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley.
The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web’s No.1 video-sharing site.
Berkeley officials claimed in a statement that the university is the first to make full course lectures available on YouTube. The school said that over 300 hours of videotaped courses will be available at youtube.com/ucberkeley.
Berkeley said it will continue to expand the offering. The topics of study found on YouTube included chemistry, physics, biology and even a lecture on search-engine technology given in 2005 by Google cofounder Sergey Brin.
And, all YouTube content is free to the viewer, right?
UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
Click one of the links, and enjoy some higher ed.
In the dark, dark ages of MUDGE‘s youth, the gold standard of information for the home was Encyclopaedia Britannica. In the ’50s, owning such a set was as aspirational as the filled two car garage, and represented a considerable expense for many families.
Now, Wikipedia and its like has democratized the encyclopedia, perhaps to the detriment of nano-accuracy, but it’s brilliant and self correcting in the main, and it’s free to all. All with PC and Internet access, of course, where OLPC comes in.
Today, UC Berkeley is showing the way toward liberating higher education.
Some days even a curmudgeon can’t help but smile.
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Brain Iron Levels Correlate with MS Progression, Disability Risk, Study Shows
by Patricia Inacio PhD
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Evaluating the local differences in iron accumulation in the deep gray matter of the brain using a special magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, may help identify multiple sclerosis (MS) patients at greater risk for disease progression and disability, a study reports.
The study “Brain Iron by Using Quantitative MRI Is Associated with Disability in Multiple Sclerosis” was published in the journal Radiology.
Measuring brain’s atrophy (shrinkage) is currently used as a predictor of cognitive and physical disability in MS, but assessing these changes in the brain is a long-term task.
“Brain atrophy takes a long time to see,” Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD, said in a press release. Zivadinov is professor of neurology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.
“We need an earlier measure of who will develop MS-related disability,” Zivadinov added.
A growing number of studies are investigating the role of iron in MS, its accumulation in white matter and gray matter, and potential damage. However, how iron accumulation in different regions of the brain correlate with MS is still poorly understood.
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“It is known that there is more iron in the deep gray matter structures in MS patients, but also we’ve seen in recent literature that there are regions where we find less iron in the brains of these patients,” Zivadinov said.
Together with colleagues, Zivadinov used a recently developed MRI technique, called quantitative susceptibility mapping, to measure the levels of iron accumulation in different areas of the brain in MS patients compared to healthy controls.
They focused on the deep gray matter of the brain and its different regions, including the thalamus and the basal ganglia. The thalamus relays sensory and motor signals into the cerebral cortex, and the basal ganglia is a group of structures responsible primarily for motor control.
“Although literature data consistently show higher iron content in other deep gray matter structures results are more contradictory with respect to the thalamus. Some studies show higher iron content, whereas others report lower iron load,” researchers wrote.
The study included 600 MS patients, 452 with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) and 148 with secondary progressive MS (SPMS), and 250 age- and sex-matched healthy people used as study controls.
Compared to controls, MS patients showed an increased accumulation of iron in the basal ganglia — measured separately in each sub-structure of the gland, namely the caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus — but levels were lower in the thalamus.
Moreover, lower iron levels in the thalamus correlated with longer disease duration, higher disability degree and disease progression, namely in SPMS. Increased disability also was associated with increased iron accumulation in the globus pallidus, specifically.
These correlations were maintained after researchers adjusted the data for the differences in brain volume of the participants.
“In this large cohort of MS patients and healthy controls, we have reported, for the first time, iron increasing in the basal ganglia but decreasing in thalamic structures,” said Zivadinov. “Iron depletion or increase in several structures of the brain is an independent predictor of disability related to MS.”
Overall, the team concluded that monitoring iron accumulation in the brain may help identify MS patients at greater risk for developing physical disability. The team also suggested that iron levels may be used as a potential readout in clinical trials testing experimental MS therapies.
Patricia Inacio PhD
Patricia holds her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from University Nova de Lisboa, and has served as an author on several research projects and fellowships, as well as major grant applications for European Agencies. She also served as a PhD student research assistant in the Laboratory of Doctor David A. Fidock, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University, New York.
Tagged basal ganglia, deep gray matter, disability, disease progression, iron, MRI, quantitative susceptibility mapping, thalamus.
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Pope Eco Loon Plants A Tree
I was very pleased to read that the Evil Clown will symbolically plant a tree to show how very ecological he is etc. Etc.
This kind of cheap, cheesy PR stunts will damage him among Catholics and, by being praised by the wrong crowd, will help even those who are still not red pilled yet (and boy, they are late!) to finally understand what is going on.
Religious should never try to emulate politicians. When they do, they unavoidably damage themselves in the long run for the fleeting satisfaction of the headlines in the short term. The eco warrior in cassock, or priestly suit, is the perfect image of the guy who just doesn’t get it. All those who are more interested in salvation than in the next tree (broadly speaking, they should coincide with the Elect) will immediately feel that all this is as off as last month’s carrots. The eco loons (many of them, assuredly, Reprobates) will immediately embrace the stuff or, in case, criticise it because not looney enough, thus further alerting the first group as to the kind of people the Evil Clown is stupidly trying to court.
Francis does not get this because, having no faith, he is unable to even imagine how the brains of the faithful work. To him, vacuous slogans and an empty search for popularity is all there is, whilst his obvious hatred for the Church makes his stupidity more fun, at least for as long as he lives.
I hope the guy keeps planting trees, starts going to the funeral of glaciers and publicly invites teenager to not go to school in order to aggrandize him. The wrong crowd will be delighted, but the people who count will be terrified.
Keep planting trees, Frankie boy.
Show everybody what a joke you are.
On Salvini, The Crucifix, And The Tortellini
The Italian Trump, Matteo Salvini, criticised two recent anti-Christian moves in Italy: the proposal to remove the Crucifix from classrooms and the traitorous decision of the Archbishop Cardinal of Bologna to have, for the feast of the Patron, tortellini made with chicken instead of pork, you easily imagine why.
Salvini criticises and then reflects whether he is the best man for it, because he is a sinner.
My answer to this is: we all are, Signor Salvini.
God works in mysterious and often unexpected ways. Countless times, He has used improbable characters for His purposes.
The tribal chiefs whose conversion led to the christianisation of England were certainly no saints, either before or, it is to be suspected, after their conversion. The lesser chiefs and common people who then converted because of tribal customs were also quite improbable speakers for their new religion. But this is how it works.
The Cathars were forced to convert or die. Not many champions of orthodoxy about them, I am sure. But how many Cathars has France now?
Do not reject good deeds because they come from people who are below par. Encourage and support politicians who are committed to the right policies for the public, and let the Lord deal with their private failings.
The man who gave Italy the long-desired peace with the Church was – at that time – a public atheist and public concubine. He married canonically merely because the Church made of this a precondition of the agreement. He remained, all his life, a first-class philanderer. But he changed the Country and helped the Church to become a formidable force in Italy. He was good enough for Pius XI, who very rightly called him “l’ uomo della Provvidenza”. You work with what God gives you.
Please remember this every time you vote. Please do not help Christian values to be defeated just because those who would lead you to victory are below your standard. And please always support the Salvinis of the world, when you know they are batting for the right team.
God knows, these days we cannot afford to be choosy.
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Home Arts Grow It Green park in Morristown to get totem from Morris Arts...
Grow It Green park in Morristown to get totem from Morris Arts grant
The community garden on Early Street has a bright future, thanks to grants that will enable Morristown to acquire the land.
By Kevin Coughlin
A public park planned for Grow It Green’s Early Street Community Garden will have a totemic centerpiece, thanks to a national grant awarded to Morris Arts.
A totemic sculpture will welcome visitors to the Early Street Community Garden in 2016, according to Morris Arts. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
Gabriele Hiltl-Cohen, a stone carver and sculptor, will take public input and “feature symbols and poetry reflecting the area’s changing demographic,” from Italian, Irish and African American to predominantly Latino, according to Dr. Lynn Siebert of Morris Arts.
It’s meant to “pay homage to the many immigrants who have called this neighborhood home over the centuries,” Siebert said in a statement.
The nonprofit organization received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the project, titled Our Heritage is Our Future, The Gateway Totem Project.
Morris Arts is among 18 “Local Arts Agencies” nationwide that will share $585,000 from the NEA.
“Morris Arts is thrilled to be in such select company,” Morris Arts Executive Director Tom Werder said in a statement.
“This grant constitutes national recognition for our public art initiatives to build community through the arts. We are extremely grateful to have NEA support for this project.”
Abby Gallo, executive director of Grow It Green, described the Gateway project as “a wonderful way to incorporate beautiful art into the garden and honor Morristown’s history.”
Siebert said the totem will be installed sometime in 2016.
Through September, Grow It Green had raised about $75,000 for a $200,000 expansion that will double the number of garden plots, while adding a small public park and walking path, a demonstration rain garden, a pavilion, and a composting toilet underwritten by craigslist founder Craig Newmark.
Here’s more…
FROM MORRIS ARTS:
Morris Arts (aka Arts Council of the Morris Area) is thrilled to report that the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $20,000 grant for its Our Heritage is Our Future, The Gateway Totem Project. Stone carver and sculptor Gabriele Hiltl-Cohen will create a new, site-specific public art installation in the historic Speedwell section of Morristown. Morris Arts will collaborate with the Town of Morristown to implement a part of the town’s master plan by commissioning this new public artwork. The installation will serve as the centerpiece of a community park in an area identified by the town as being in need of redevelopment and will include community input and feature symbols and poetry reflecting the area’s changing demographic (Italian, Irish, African American and now a majority of Latino residents) that will pay homage to the many immigrants who have called this neighborhood home over the centuries. Public workshops and the design of a sculpture and gathering space in front of Grow it Green Morristown’s community garden will create a focal point that honors past, present and future residents and helps unite the community while fostering cross-cultural understanding and acceptance..
Among the many categories of recently announced grants, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a total of $585,000 to 18 “Local Arts Agencies,” throughout the entire United States. “Morris Arts is thrilled to be in such select company,” commented Executive Director Tom Werder. “This grant constitutes national recognition for our public art initiatives to build community through the arts. We are extremely grateful to have NEA support for this project.” United States Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen added, “Congratulations on your award!”
The other 17 Local Arts Agencies that won NEA awards include: Scottsdale Cultural Council (aka Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ); Ink People, Inc. (aka Ink People Center for the Arts, of Eureka, CA); Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach, Long Beach, CA); Mariposa County Arts Council (Mariposa, CA); San Francisco Arts Commission (San Francisco, CA); Boulder County Arts Alliance (Boulder, CO); Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities (aka Telluride Arts, Telluride, CO); Americans for the Arts, Inc. (Washington, DC); City of Atlanta, Georgia (aka Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA); Arts Council of Princeton (aka ACP, Princeton, NJ); Queens Council on the Arts, Inc. (aka QCA, Astoria, NY); CNY Arts, Inc. (Syracuse, NY); Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (aka ArtsWave, Cincinnati, OH); Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council (aka GPAC, Pittsburgh, PA); ArtsMemphis (Memphis, TN); Cultural Development Authority of King County (aka 4Culture, Seattle, WA); and Methow Arts Alliance (aka Methow Arts, Twisp, WA).
Located in Morristown, NJ and founded in 1973, Morris Arts uses the arts to inspire, connect and engage, serving as a resource for Morris County with a special focus on arts programming in the community and in schools, arts advocacy, and support of the Morris Area community of artists and arts organizations. This wonderful NEA grant will fund one of Morris Arts many initiatives to connect the community with the arts and creativity.
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Home News The Round-up
The Round-up
Police search
Police are appealing for public help to find Alex Fisher.
Warrants have been issued for the 34-year-old’s arrest in relation to failing to appear at Ringwood Magistrates’ Court for drug, burglary and theft matters.
He is described as 187 centimetres tall with a solid build, blue eyes and short brown hair.
Fisher is known to frequent the Yarra Valley, Ringwood and Croydon areas.
Police released an image of Mr Fisher in the hope someone might have information on his whereabouts.
Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 with any information.
Missing boy
Police are appealing for public help to find 13-year-old Liam Jenkins.
Liam was last seen on 6 August in Victoria Road, Lilydale.
Police have concerns for his welfare due to his age and the length of time he has been missing.
Liam is 150 centimetres tall with brown hair, brown eyes, a slim build and a fair complexion.
He is known to frequent the Box Hill, Ringwood, Ashwood and Springvale areas.
Police released an image of Liam in the hope someone recognises him and can provide information regarding his whereabouts.
Call Lilydale Police Station on 9739 2300 with any information.
First ANPR car on the road
Unauthorised drivers in the Yarra Ranges will find it much harder to flout the law with the addition of a new highway patrol car equipped with Victoria Police’s new automatic number plate recognition (ANPR).
The technology allows police to detect suspended, disqualified or unlicensed drivers as well as unregistered and stolen vehicles and stolen number plates.
The car is one of 221 ANPR units being deployed across the state over the next two years.
Yarra Ranges Highway Patrol officers started patrols in the car last Friday 6 September.
It detected 270 vehicles of interest in its first three days.
Yarra Ranges Highway Patrol Sergeant David McIlfatrick said the car was able to scan number plates and match them against a database of vehicles of interest.
“It’s able to scan thousands of number plates per shift which we wouldn’t ordinarily be able to do,” he said.
The cars are also fitted with in-car video to record audio and visual evidence that can be used in court.
Sgt McIlfatrick said it was hoped that public awareness of the video system would enhance officer safety by deterring and de-escalating potential incidents.
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Gorilla Whale Returns
If that title means anything to you, I don’t really need to say anything else. Here’s the story, at Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017027.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. are making a “Godzilla” movie.
There are two kinds of people in the world, at this moment: People for whom this rates as a giant ho-hum akin to the announcement of an as-yet untitled Jennifer Anniston rom-com, and people who are feeling some form of incredible excitement – though perhaps mixed with experience-based trepidation. People of the first type are entirely extraneous, as far as I’m concerned, and are almost certainly reading the wrong blog.
This is, instantly, the upcoming project which now has the majority of my attention. With appologies to The Avengers and Mr. Baggins… Godzilla is Godzilla.
“Legendary,” for what it’s worth, is Thomas Tull’s Hollywood/Wall Street investment hybrid, notably responsible for throwing their initial weight behind “Batman Begins” and a good bulk of Warner Bros. “geek” properties henceforth (300, Superman, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, Ninja Assassin and Clash of The Titans, among others) so that, at least, spells “good hands” so far. The BIG surprise is that notoriously-protective (even for a Japanese studio) “Toho” let ANY westerners near the property, which says that Legendary/Warners either has a killer pitch or (more likely) a SHITLOAD of cash.
They’ll be announcing a director “shortly,” which likely means they’ve already got one. At least one likely bet would “Clash” director Louis Leterrier – if “Clash” is a hit then “director of hit monster movie to remake Godzilla” makes fantastic marketing synergy. But that’s just a guess. My dream choice? Neil Blomkamp.
Of Legendary/Warners, I’d make only TWO plaintive requests: Let Godzilla look like Godzilla, and let him breath fire. Oh, and if Ratner, Michael Bay, McG or anyone else in the Hack Pack finds their way to this project, I will find my way to you 😉
Gaiking?
As “geek news” sites that either play ball with the studios better or are run by “the biz” itself take greater prominence on the web, the old warhorse AICN is more and more regarded as more an opinion/editorial site than a “news” source. Nothing wrong with that, march of history, etc. But once in awhile they pull one out, which may have happened once again.
Harry Knowles – to be fair, the patron-saint of “reporting stuff I WANT to happen as actually on it’s way to happening” – has a report up claiming that producer Jules Urbach is well on his way to a live-action “Shogun Warriors” movie.
“Shogun Warriors” is a bit before my time, but the basic history is pretty fascinating: Much as happened with Transformers, an American toy distributor bought the rights to a slew of largely-unrelated Japanese giant-robot characters and released them as the “Shogun Warriors.” A tie-in Marvel comic tied them together storywise, and the various heroes would become familiar to subsequent generations as their various anime series became syndicated worldwide like Mazinger (“Tranzor Z”) or the “Force Five” anthology series.
According to AICN, Urbach is gunning for a live-action franchise after initially scoring the rights for a short-subject in David Fincher’s long-gestating “Heavy Metal” movie. The plan involves starting with “Gaiking,” a giant horn-headed mecha who rides around in a spaceship that turns into a dinosaur who’s head he wears as a chestplate. Great idea… but we’ll see what comes of it. For now, AICN has Urbach’s FX-test clip of Gaiking himself which looks… pretty damn incredible, actually. Not to be a broken record, but why can’t the Transformers look this good, again?
Spoilers – though nothing that ain’t in the trailer – follow.
“Hot Tub Time Machine” and Dreamworks “Dragon” movie are the big deals this weekend, but if it’s playing near you “Chloe” is definately worth tracking down. The hook is about the same as “In The Cut” – i.e. art-film director, in this case Atom Egoyan, tackles trashy erotic thriller – but the payoff is actually quite excellent.
It’s basically a “Comfortably-wealthy married women have problems too, y’know!” drama centered around Julianne Moore’s Catherine, who’s not dealing well with her teenage son’s now-evident sex life and – more problematically – suspects her husband (Liam Neeson) of cheating. As in most stories like this, simply walking up to him and ASKING would apparently be “unrefined,” so instead Catherine tracks down conspicuously-glamorous call girl Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) and pays her to “bait” the husband. What could possibly go wrong?
We’ve seen this story before, and thus “know” that things will spiral out of control, but there’s a few character curveballs and one head-slapper plot twist (I won’t divulge that one, though this is technically a remake of the French “Nathalie” from a few years back) that put it on a different level. Most of the time, “erotic thrillers” using the “bait the cheater” angle are about jealousy and envy – here, it’s all about psycho-sexual transference: Catherine is deriving personal erotic satisfaction from Chloe’s descriptions of her encounter’s with Neeson, something the audience and Chloe pick up on before she does – in effect having an “affair” with secondhand storytelling – which escalates to the logical extreme as Catherine is compelled to “sample the wares” firsthand, taking Chloe to bed in a “holy shit!” sequence that’ll make this the most inappropriately-purchased DVD since “Mulholland Drive.”
This how you can tell European/Canadian erotic-thrillers from American, btw: The plot (if not Egoyan’s linger long-shots) take the lesbian development entirely for granted – there’s no “wait, a woman?” or “I’ve never done this” business at all… the film and it’s characters seem to take (female) bisexuality as a “given.” The real – er.. “thrust” of the story, as usual, is more about class than sex: Rich-as-hell Catherine, at the end of the day, essentially regards Chloe as an expensive tool to be used – either as agent, proxy and finally lover – then set aside. Act 3 is all about reminding Catherine et al that even a prostitute may react… “unexpectedly” to being used and discarded.
If the film gets any attention at all, it’ll probably face some backlash painting it as a stereotypical “lesbian stalker” moviel but it strikes me as having more going on. It’s possible to read it in basic, broad Freudian terms: Catherine is repressing her own homosexuality (she happens to be an ob-gyn, if you want to get really “broad” about it) which inflames cheating suspicions, which gives her the “excuse” to seek out Chloe. And Chloe’s constant insistance on “gifting” Catherine with an ornate hairpin that had belonged to her mother seems like a pretty clear-cut same-sex-Oedipal-complex. And not for nothing does Chloe open their initial dialogue by volunteering how seldom she’s contacted by single women (as opposed to couples.) But the fact that there’s something more AT ALL going on is the real point of interest.
…Or you could, of course, just go to gawk at the nudity from Seyfried – who looks like a Greek statue, an absolute stunner – and Moore – who’s better suited than most other actresses of her age to appear nude alongside (literally) someone who looks like a Greek statue. That works, too…
Escape to the Movies: "Hot Tub Time Machine"
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This week’s Intermission is titled “It’s Time to Forgive George Lucas”: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7339-Its-Time-To-Forgive-George-Lucas
Chris Evans is Captain America
So says THR’s “Heat Vision” blog: http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/03/evans-accepts-captain-america-mantle.html
This all comes after Marvel Films essentially shortlisted, “considered” and screen-tested every “all-American”-looking male actor in the United States, up to and including Ryan Philippe, Channing Tatum and John Krasinski. If true, the deal not only gives Evans the lead in (at least) one major Marvel movie but also co-lead in “The Avengers” and (likely) cameos in “connected” Marvel movies. It also saddles him with the unenviable task of explaining to research-averse film journalists that it “doesn’t matter” that he was already in the (terrible) “Fantastic Four” movies because the shared “Avengers Universe” movies Marvel is making doesn’t (yet) include characters who’s franchises are currently owned by other studios (re: Spider-Man, X-Men, Fanastic Four, etc.)
In the broader sense, this also turns the (still akwardly-titled) “The First Avenger: Captain America” into the capper on a pretty big – and interestingly comic-book-centric – year for Evans: He’s also got big roles in the DC-based “The Losers” and Edgar Wright’s “Scott Pilgrim” movie.
Additionally, for those who hadn’t yet heard, the victor in the casting of The Red Skull – aka the battle of vocally-gifted pan-European character actors specializing in bad guys – ultimately went to Hugo Weaving.
Escape to the Movies: "Repo Men"
“Intermission” is an interview with Jeff Kinney, author of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7309-Interview-With-the-Wimpy-Man
Mario’s Inferno
King Bros. offers a spot-on goof at the expense of EA’s “GoW: ‘Mad World'”-wannabe trailer for Dante’s Inferno:
For a refresher, here’s the actual spot being spoofed…
…and the now-famous “Gears of War” ad it wants to be in the worst way:
Escape to the Movies: "Green Zone"
“Intermission” wishes you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day with the 5 Best Drinking Movies of All Time: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/7276-Another-Round
funniest trailer spoof ever?
Okay, fine. “Big Hollywood” gets a pass for today, for pointing me in the direction of THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0&feature=player_embedded
“CATCHPHRASE!!!!” I’m sorry, that’s effing brilliant. Brilliant enough to forgive it for all the “me too” weak copies of this we’re innevitably going to get.
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So, for me the theme of the show this year was: “Very nice people giving terrific speeches in acceptance of awards they oughtn’t have won.”
Sandra Bullock seems like a lovely person, GREAT speech, obviously heartfelt… but “The Blindside” is a piece of shit and she’s pretty bad in it.
No way did “Hurt Locker” – a serviceable but utterly pedestrian war-is-hell script – deserve a Best Original Screenplay win over “Inglorious Basterds.” Yes, fine, hooray for low-budget indies and all that, but give me a break. Like I said, another great speech… but if anyone remembers “Locker” a year from now – which is a dicey prospect, at best – it’s exclusively because Kathryn Bigelow is a peerless director of action sequences. Speaking of which…
It’s unfortunate that the whole thing had to be between “Avatar” and “Locker” for Picture – utterly-shallow big-budget actioner versus equally-shallow low-budget actioner- and it’s right and just that Kathryn Bigelow has freed herself from directorial limbo at last… but c’mon. “Avatar,” at least, had the minimum novelty of being revolutionary and a pop-cultural “event,” but there’s no way “Locker” even belonged on the nominee list in the same year “Watchmen” and “Moon” got shut-out.
This is another Pulp/Gump/Shawshank year: People will bitch back and forth about “Avatar” and “Hurt Locker” for the next two years, and then by 2012 “Locker” will be in the $5 bin, “Avatar” will be the perenial big-box-store LCD “demo blu-ray” and people will be shaking their heads wondering why “Inglorious Basterds” – which by then will have been running in near-permanent rotation on the cables – was overlooked.
Whatever. Good on the “Hurt Locker” people for sincerely thanking the troops, if nothing else. On Monday morning, offers every un-attached action franchise on the planet will be piled up in Kathryn Bigelow’s office. Show of hands on everyone who was surprised to be reminded that there has NEVER been a black Best Director winner. Taylor Lautner looks like a middle schooler in his older brother’s tuxedo. The star of “Soul Plane” and the director of “Point Break” both have Oscars.
Oh, and if you’re wondering: Yes, the Fisher Stevens accepting the Best Documentary award for producing “The Cove” IS Fisher Stevens the actor you might remember from “Hackers,” “Super Mario Bros.,” “My Science Project” and the “Short Circuit” movies.
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Apple Mac malware: A short history (1982-2010)
24 Nov 2010 41 Apple, Malware
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by Graham Cluley
Since this article was first published we have released a revised and more complete history of Mac malware. Make sure to check out that version!
There’s been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the threat that malware poses on the Mac OS X platform. It’s clearly an emotive subject, with strongly held views on both sides.
To help some of the discussions, here’s a brief overview of some of the malware we have seen infecting Apple computers. From the early 1980s, right up until the present day, here are some of the highlights in the history of Apple Mac malware.
Mac virus timeline
The first virus to affect Apple computers wasn’t written for the Macintosh (that iconic computer wasn’t set to appear until 1984) but is of historic interest none the less.
In 1982, 15-year-old student Rich Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus, capable of infecting the boot sector of Apple II computers.
On every 50th boot the Elk Cloner virus would display a short poem:
Elk Cloner: The program with a personality
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes, it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!
What may surprise some Apple fans is that the Elk Cloner boot sector virus predates IBM PC viruses by some years.
The nVIR virus began to infect Macs, spreading mainly by floppy disk. Source code was later made available, causing a rash of variants.
HyperCard viruses emerged that could run on early versions of Apple’s Mac OS. One HyperCard virus showed the message “Dukakis for President” before self-destructing.
The MDEF virus (aka Garfield) emerged, infecting application and system files on the Mac.
Microsoft accidentally shipped the first ever Word macro virus, Concept, on CD ROM. It infected both Macs and PCs. Thousands of macro viruses followed, many affecting Microsoft Office for Mac.
Laroux, the first Excel virus, was released. Mac users were unaffected by this new strain of macro virus until the release of Excel 98 for Mac meant they could become victims.
It was in Hong Kong, in 1998, when the next significant Mac malware outbreak was first spotted. A worm – dubbed AutoStart 9805 – spread rapidly in the desktop publishing community via removable media, using the CD-ROM AutoPlay feature of QuickTime 2.5+
David Harley of Macvirus tells me that he remembers watching with interest as reports of Autostart spread from Asia to the rest of the world.
In the same year, Sevendust, also known as 666, infected applications on Apple Mac computers.
Big changes to the Mac malware scene were just around the corner, however, with the release of Mac OS X – a whole new version of the operating system which would mean that much of the old malware would no longer be capable of running. In the future, Mac-specific malware would have to be written with a new OS in mind..
The Renepo script worm attempted to disable Mac OS X security, downloaded hacking tools to affected computers, and gave criminals admin rights to the Apple Macintosh.
Hackers also wrote a proof-of-concept program called Amphimix which demonstrated how executable code could be disguised as an MP3 music file on an Apple Mac.
Leap-A, the first ever virus for Mac OS X was discovered. Leap-A can spread via iChat.
The Inqtana worm and proof-of-concept virus soon followed.
A buggy proof-of-concept virus called Macarena appeared, written in Xcode. Every infected file contained the phrases
"MachoMan - roy g biv"
"26/10/06"
Sophos discovered an OpenOffice multi-platform macro worm capable of running on Windows, Linux and Mac computers.
The BadBunny worm dropped Ruby script viruses on Mac OS X systems, and displayed an indecent JPEG image of a man wearing a rabbit costume.
The first financial malware for Mac was discovered. The gang behind the attacks developed both Windows and Mac versions of their OSX/RSPlug-A Trojan horse.
The Trojan posed as a codec to help users view pornographic videos, but in fact changes DNS server entries to direct surfers unwittingly to other websites.
Cybercriminals targeted Mac and PC users in equal measure, by planting poisoned adverts on TV-related websites. If accessed via an Apple Mac, surfers would be attacked by a piece of Macintosh scareware called MacSweeper.
Close relatives of MacSweeper followed shortly afterwards, including Imunizator – another example of scareware for the Apple Mac, which claimed to find privacy issues on the user’s precious computer.
In June, the OSX/Hovdy-A Trojan horse was discovered that could steal passwords from Mac OS X users, open the firewall to give access to hackers, and disable security settings.
Troj/RKOSX-A was discovered – a Mac OS X tool to assist hackers create backdoor Trojans, which can give them access and control over your Apple Mac computer.
In November, Sophos warned of the Jahlav Trojan. Like in other malware campaigns, cybercriminals created a bogus webpage claiming to contain a video. Visiting the site produces a message saying that you don’t have the correct codec installed to watch the video – whereupon the site offers you an EXE if you run Windows, and a DMG (Disk Image) file if you are using an Apple Mac.
Controversially, Apple issued a support advisory urging customers to run anti-virus software – but after media interest, rapidly deleted the page from their website.
In January 2009, hackers began to distribute the OSX/iWorkS-A Trojan horse via BitTorrent inside pirated versions of Apple’s iWork ’09 software suite.
In the same month, a new variant of the Trojan was distributed in a pirated version of Adobe Photoshop CS4.
In March, Sophos reported on how hackers were planting versions of the RSPlug Trojan horse on websites, posing as an HDTV program called MacCinema.
In June, SophosLabs discovered a new version of the Tored email worm for Mac OS X, and hackers planted a version of the Jahlav Mac Trojan horse on a website posing as a portal for hardcore porn videos.
Shortly afterwards, the Twitter account of celebrity blogger Guy Kawasaki had a malicious link posted onto it, claiming to point to a sex video of Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester. In reality, however, the link lead unsuspecting users to malware which could infect Mac users.
Meanwhile, Apple finally began to introduce some rudimentary anti-malware protection into Mac OS X.
Although it wasn’t really equivalent to a true anti-virus product (it only protected against a handful of Mac malware, doesn’t defend you if you try to copy an infected file from a USB stick for instance, and doesn’t offer clean-up facilities), it was still encouraging to see some attempt to offer more protection for Mac users.
The OSX/Pinhead Trojan (also known as HellRTS) emerged.
The backdoor Trojan horse can allow hackers to gain remote control over your treasured iMac or MacBook.
Once again, the malware was distributed disguised as a legitimate application – in this case, iPhoto, the photo application which ships on modern Macs.
More recently, the Boonana cross-platform worm appeared, using a Java applet to target not just Windows computers for infection, but Mac OS X and Linux too.
Sophos detects various components of the attack as Troj/Boonana-A, Troj/KoobStrt-A, Troj/KoobInst-A, Troj/KoobCls-A, Troj/Agent-PDY, Troj/DwnLdr-IOX, and Troj/DwnLdr-IOY. In addition, Sophos’s web protection blocks access to the malicious webpages.
Also in 2010, Sophos issued a free home user version of its anti-virus for Macs. We have been protecting business customers who have Macs for years, and now there was a chance for home Mac users to protect themselves against the threat too.
Early reports indicate that there are plenty of Mac users with malware on their computers – some of it is Windows malware, some Mac OS X, and some cross-platform.
There’s no doubt that the Windows malware problem is much larger than the Mac threat – but that doesn’t mean that the danger of malware infection on Mac OS X is non-existent.
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41 comments on “Apple Mac malware: A short history (1982-2010)”
Dru Richman says:
Of course, no one would doubt the sincerity of a security software company to raise dire warnings to Mac users about the ever-present, growing menace of Macintosh viruses. [Much like the TSA trying to convince the flying public that having your genitals groped is absolutely necessary to insure flight safety] Yeah, right!
Only a fool would believe that ANY computer system is invulnerable to some kind of attack. Fortunately for the Mac, most attacks have been trojans or a form of social networking attack. Few, if any, that have directly attacked and that have been able to replicate themselves within the Macintosh environment.
I believe Dennis Fisher said it best: "Virus attacks are not an indicator of the security of an operating system.
That probably sounds like clueless trolling to many of you reading this, but it's not, and it highlights an important distinction. Security is about technical measures, like the strength of the locks on your doors and windows. Safety is about the likelihood that you’ll actually suffer from some sort of attack. Microsoft has in fact implemented more advanced security measures in Windows than Apple has in Mac OS X, but that’s not surprising, because Windows is where nearly all the malware is.
But it rings untrue to most ears to claim that Apple is doing a bad job with regard to security. The evidence suggests that Mac OS X has been and remains secure enough to be safe, and safety is what real people actually care about."
Tatianna says:
Great comment! You just summed it up 🙂
Malware associated with Apple's original (pre-OS X) operating system is irrelevant to any discussion of modern Mac security, as it was an entirely different architecture, and was admittedly less robust than today's Unix-based OS X.
It is worth noting that even back in the '90s, the classic Mac OS suffered significantly fewer attacks than Windows. While Norton and Symantec antivirus programs were gumming up the Macs of others, mine was trouble-free using only the free Disinfectant extension, which I regularly kept current.
No system can ever be 100% secure, especially from trojans which don't exploit any flaw in the OS, but rather fool the user into installing them. Mac users would do well to keep apprised with the current state of malware, but I think it is premature to panic and start relying of third-party security utilities with ongoing maintenance costs and potential problems of their own. Security utilities can instill a false sense of safety as they can only protect against known (but not new) malware. Employing safe practices such as only installing software only from known and trusted sources is even better. Clicking on random links to porn and pirated software is just plain stupid.
For all the laboratory proof-of-concepts and FUD (like this article with an agenda), there has yet to be any significant malware outbreak on OS X. If and when that happens, I will consider my options.
As for Macs being unwitting carriers of Windows malware…. Screw Windows users. They made their choice. Let 'em get a clue and finally switch to the Mac. I'm not willing to gum up my computer on their behalf.
prak says:
I ran Disinfectant too, but did you ever use GateKeeper? It was fantastic. I wish it was possible to write something like that today! But if it is, I suspect it would end up a lot like Vista's constant "Allow or Deny" dialogues.
Graham Cluley says:
You're right that the pre-Mac OS X malware isn't a threat to current Mac users. But this *is* supposed to be a history, so that's why I have listed them.
I don't think you're right in saying that anti-virus software can only protect you from known malware. For instance, in the last couple of weeks we've seen a number of different versions of the Boonana attack – all of which we've been able to protect against proactively without needing to update our products.
Of course, that's not to say that anti-virus can detect *all* future threats… 🙂
Yes, the article is a history, and there is nothing untrue about what you have written. However by (deliberately ?) omitting the fact that OS X is not an evolution of the more vulnerable classic Mac OS, you leave the uninformed reader to assume that the current Mac has a less robust foundation, when in fact OS X is completely different operating system with much better inherent security
The definition of FUD is Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Sowing FUD is a potent marketing tactic in the security software business.
If Mac market-share keeps growing, malware attacks will undoubtedly increase. The day may eventually come when we feel compelled (as many Windows users do) to install third-party security software. It not here yet as far as I'm concerned, but I'm sure that day can't come too soon for you .
Check again. I did update the article (after your first post) to make clear that much of the early malware became obsolete with the introduction of Mac OS X.
OMG, you are so funny, I just love the comments here " Screw Windows users, They made their choice". LOL
Nathan Dickson says:
I tried out Sophos on my Mac Pro a few days ago, just to see if I had been compromised in the last two years. It found nothing. So much for "lack of safety".
Peter Barber says:
So did I: same NIL result. Still, it gave me reassurance, and I shall keep on trying, perhaps on a monthly basis…after all, "NO news is GOOD News" !
Wow ! That is like saying you wore a seatbelt for a day in your car and "Hey, look, no car accidents". *sigh*
WaltFrench says:
I'll chip in to ask all readers to consider "security" as also including other risks besides those that Sophos highlights.
I don't know a huge number of Mac users, but of the few whom I DO know, none has been hit by a virus/trojan that did any damage, but ALL have had their work destroyed by other, more easily prevented problems.
Generally, the prevention is to Backup, Backup, Archive and BACKUP! It takes care of theft, "prankster" co-workers, operator errors, software glitches, hardware failures –AND– viruses, without slowing down your work every time you insert a USB stick, every time you download a file, every time you unzip a document that you sent yourself from your office PC.
Another few minutes well-spent: think long & hard about why you need java enabled in Safari. Whether some system utility is so worthwhile that it'll be worth having even when it keeps your machine from booting on OS X 10.9, long after you've forgotten you installed it (but migrated it forward). Why you should punch holes in the Mac firewall by turning on sharing features that you don't fully understand.
I'm NOT saying anti-virus is useless; I'm saying it's NOT the answer to "security," by itself. It's not even the most important part of a security mindset.
Bill Burkholder says:
Every so often , there is a rash of articles such as this one, spreading FUD about Mac security.
I've used Macs since 1985. I've been a Mac systems manager for a photo lab, and for my wife's marketing company. In that time, I've seen exactly one virus infection, on a machine at my day job that an employee played games on in his spare time. That was 1991, and the OS was version 7.1, which was a piece of crap by modern standards. The game player was fired, the computer was cleaned up with a hard drive wipe, and we never had any more issues.
We have never run any anti-crap software on Macs. We always run anti-crap software on Windows. Our IT folks can't leave a "honey pot" computer on the 'Net without any anti-crap protection for longer than a few minutes without it being attacked by something. At least, then, they can see what the "bait" caught, and be sure we're protected from it on our behind-the-firewall PCs.
I'm like the other guys here. I can't see a point to anti-anything software on the Mac, yet. But I can see a point to educating users, teaching them to NOT click on anything that wants to download and install software.
At home, for instance, the in-Mac firewall is on, and the in-router firewall is on, and NAT is active. The wireless network is protected with WPA2. I lock down all unnecessary ports, and turn off all but print sharing.
I keep my kids out of trouble with Parental Access Controls. The 12-year-old twins are prevented from installing anything without my reviewing it and entering an Admin password. They're also blocked from porn sites and other problem sites, by policy and by name, as need be. We run Windows 7 under Parallels Desktop 6, and it is fully protected by anti-virus, anti-adware, anti-spyware software, in addition to hiding behind two firewalls.
Finally, we update everything on schedule… Mac OS X, all Mac software, all Microsoft Office software, all Adobe Creative Suite software, all Reader, Flash, Java, Windows, and other software. We don't install software we haven't vetted thoroughly.
Are we impenetrable? Hell, no. Are we paranoid enough to install anti-this-n-that? Hell, no! We have a reasonable level of risk and tolerance. And we have backups…
Nothing is impenetrable. That is why you *need* to keep very current backups on removable, offline media. If you do all of the above, the probability of your Mac being attacked "in the wild" is so low as to be negligible. You have to be stupid or asleep to allow your Mac to become compromised. But you have to plan for the eventual mistake, and the possibility of an attack.
Maybe, if you are into porn, every social website known to exist, downloading lots of bit torrent stolen apps, and other illegal, immoral, and unethical computing behavior, you should run an anti-crap app. But then again, maybe you shouldn't engage in risky behavior!
Brian Richardson says:
I agree with your views. Although I run Intego VirusBarrier X6 on Snow Leopard and MS Security Essentials on Win 7 Pro inside Parallels 6, I think common sense and judicious firewall settings are sufficient.
I always get pissed off when I go into the Apple Store and ask if you can get viruses on the Mac. They say no and surely this is selling a lie. Consumer rights should be all over this because they are falsely claiming shit.
Jon T says:
There is no OSX virus in the wild. They are right.
There aren't that many viruses for Windows in the wild either.
Most of the bad stuff we see for Windows are Trojans. Same story with Macs.
Not really sure why Mac users get so hung up about the terminology. Just throw it all in one bucket and call it "bad stuff" if it makes things simpler.
Grenville Grimace says:
Correct terminology is always important.
Especially when it comes to firms such as Sophos abusing it, when trying to flog their wholly unnecessary Mac ANTI-VIRUS.
LEAP-A is a trojan, not a virus as described in the above article.
When something comes along that I don't have to deliberately download, then deliberately install by entering my Admin password, then let me know.
It's all just a bit more Sophos FUD-spreading.
If they can't get something so extremely basic correct, how can I have faith that their product might be anything more than a mere scareware scam.
A Trojan horse is a seemingly legitimate computer program that has been intentionally designed to disrupt and damage computer activity. Importantly, Trojan horses do not replicate or have any mechanism of spreading themselves. They have to be deliberately planted on a website, or accidentally shared with another user, or spammed out to email addresses. There is nothing inside a Trojan's code to distribute themselves further to other victims.
Trojan horses do not contain any code to distribute or spread themselves, viruses and worms do.
OSX/Leap-A is programmed to use the iChat instant messaging system to spread itself to other users. As such, it is comparable to an email or instant messaging worm on the Windows platform. Worms are a sub category of the group of malware known as viruses.
Therefore, it is correct to call OSX/Leap-A a virus or a worm. It is not correct to call OSX/Leap-A a Trojan horse.
Devin Best says:
Great article, though I'm a little troubled by the fact that you neglected the Autostart worm from around 1998-99. This one was a real pain in the printing industry for a couple of months, transferring via removable media (the Iomega JAZ in particular), and corrupting files.
http://www.macintouch.com/hkvirus.html
Thanks for the reminder about AutoStart. How remiss of me! David Harley also mentioned my omission in a blog post. Now updated!
You failed to mention the Autostart worm (from os 8 or 9 era computing) which was probably the most damaging of anything to hit an apple platform.
Mark Gary Blumenthal says:
There is a lovely little donation-ware program known as ClamXav that I have used on my OS-X based systems for years. Combined with MacKeeper, a superb management utility that includes an antiviral component, I have NEVER been afflicted by a virus, trojan horse, or malware. I appreciate that Sophos offers a fine service, but to this point, I have never seen the need for it and do not see the need for it now. If I ever do, I will be among the first to sign up.
leetaylor says:
Hey! Happy Thanksgiving all! I'd like to thank SOPHOS & Graham for making this software & information available for free. I try to follow the suggestions listed in the posts above, I'm even a bit of a scrooge to my fellow computer users, often giving them the only heads-up they ever hear about something I've read regarding potential threats or malware. I've had a couple of incidents in my 20 years of MAC only experience – one funny one with the WAZOO! infection – via a corrupted floppy disc (co-worker sharing my box) & a scary incident involving having a hard drive wiped clean while online surfing (re-direct to a chinese website) so I guess all things being equal I'm lucky. I do know that the threat exists & I've used all the freeware mentioned above at one time or another & I see this offering from SOPHOS as another tool from a respected source to be used accordingly.
I DO appreciate it.
Ahh.. yes, Wazzu!
Wazzu was a simple Word macro virus, capable of infecting DOC files – just as happily on Macs as Windows. Wazzu would mess around with your documents, shifting words around and inserting the word "wazzu" randomly.
No financially-impacting payload… it's weird looking back and realising just what innocent times we lived in back then.
(and Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers!)
bill costello says:
Awesome post. Better than the article itself, although I must say to the main author, thanks for not being a typical basher like the rest of these articles popping up all over. I suspect you are a mac user yourself.
I have been manager of many mac departments since the 90s. Convinced every single one to delete annoying auto-run anti virus software, and like others, only had the one worm from the 90's that used to come in from client's zip disks. (Pre-OSX)
I come from a world where about 90% of the people I know are mac users. Between my friends and I, we manage maybe 100 macs, and none of us yet have ever seen a virus on OSX. Doesn't mean we should not be careful. One day the viruses will come. That will be the first day to actually run anti-virus software.
i agree totally, especially the last part, if you do dumb s#@t you probably deserve the stuff you get back, still a free virus protection, that dust take much system resources is probe a good idea.
james katt says:
Leap-A is a trojan.
It requires user interaction to spread itself.
It is an application despite being disguised as a jpg.
It is also a "proof-of-concept" product rather than something released into the wild.
It is disingenuous for Sophos to call Leap-A a virus.
The rest of the malware listed by Sophos are either "proof-of-concept" or trojans.
There are still no Mac OS X viruses in the wild.
I agree with you that it's not "in the wild". But here's what I wrote back in February 2006 when people first argued about whether OSX/Leap was a virus or not:
Some members of the Apple Macintosh community have claimed that OSX/Leap-A is a Trojan horse, and not a virus or worm, because it requires user interaction (the user has to receive a file via iChat, and manually choose to open and run the file contained inside).
However, this is not the definition of a Trojan horse.
Tim at IMM says:
I'm surprised this article didn't mention the freeware Disinfectant that ran on pro-OS X Macs and was maintained for a very long time. It was generously made available by John Norstad and his employer Northwestern University. I must admit though I never got a Mac virus though in the 15 years I've been using Macs.
In many ways I like to imagine that the free Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac home users is the natural successor to the likes of Disinfectant from the early days.
There have been other anti-virus products for Mac along the way of course – including Virex, ClamXav, Symantec AntiVirus for Mac (which I think now might have been rebranded as Norton), ProtectMac, Intego and others… but hey, this was supposed to be a brief history of Mac malware, not a slightly longer history of Mac anti-malware. 🙂
Thu Win says:
Apple has claimed that only PCs have viruses. Remember the Mac vs. PC ads that claim only PCs have viruses and require reboots?
zzguardian says:
What’s sad is that Apple will soon suffer from the same levels of malware as PCs do. As Apple grow in popularity, more and more of their products will be targeted. It’s a question of bang for the buck. If Apple wishes to be popular, they will have to accept that they are going to be targets of malware.
The spiffy advertising campaign has also attracted the same kind of customers that PCs (Microsoft Windows) have suffered from also: the less educated and more likely to click on that website pop-up informing the user that their PC/Mac require a through scan & disinfection.
Ben Zipperer says:
This year in our shop we are seeing more infected OSX systems from residential clients than last year. We are seeing trojans, DNS hijacking, unwanted Safari search bars. Sometimes the payload also includes Windows EXEs and DLLs which are harmless in OSX. Glad Sophos is making their product available free to home Mac users now. Of course the infection rate is only a tiny fraction of the Windows rate, but since the product is reliable, free, and does not slow down the system, it is a no-brainer to recommend to our residential clients.
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Carr says:
BLah blah blah … dont click on what you dont know . If you arent expecting an email and one comes with an attachment (esp from a pc user ) trash it.
If you have any doubts from a known correspondent . Send a new (clean) email to them asking did they send an attachment
If you stick your cursor where it dont belong you deserve to be infected.
Mac user for years with 9 in the office and 4 at home and no issues
Peter 'Bauer' Lemeššanyi says:
Very useful post, thanks!
Weng Seng says:
I do believe that this article is a history of malware affecting the Mac platform. I do not see neither FUD nor an attack on the security features or design on the Mac. I fail to see why people are writing such a passionate defenses to an attack that is just not there.
There is AV software for Unix and AV software for the Mac. It is probably not such a bad idea to have one installed. Just as a bank has multiple layers of security to protect their vault, not because the locks on their vault are defective.
Subsequently, as more and more people use the Mac OS X platform, it is only a matter of time before organized crime decide that is might be profitable to put more focus on designing Mac specific malware. Having some sort of defense in place, before a problem, seems prudent.
Airport security is, in my opinion, increasingly invasive, ineffective, reactionary and foolish. On the other hand, installing an AV product is relatively transparent, after the installation, and mostly effective against known threats.
Last but not least, people need to get off their high horses. Not everybody who is infected by Malware brought it on themselves by visiting naughty sites or installing Malware on their own computer. There are forms of Malware that require almost no user intervention. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to think of ways that malware can infect a full patched, fully updated computer, with an up to date security suite, although exclusively used to visit web sites of good reputation or even just one online banking site. One possible vector is to think about is a day 0 attack at the OS level by a worm.
Well, all I can say is that I've used macs since 1985. I've waited (with baited breath) to experience my first virus -but have yet to see one.
And I have YET to install any anti-virus software.
Now, either I've been extraordinarily luck (which I doubt) -or an awful lot of 'web-writers' (not journalists -they'd know better) have been dabbling in FUD in order to get their click rate up.
Somehow, I suspect the latter.
I've had an iMac for 3 years and love it. However, a friend had some kind or virus/trojan, so I installed Sophos and 2 days later it picked up this fake anti-virus
"OSX/FakeAVZp-C' detected"
Whilst it may not have caused damage to my data, I believe that it may have made some personal information available, or redirected me (or my kids) to porn sites, etc.
The risk is much smaller than with Windows, but why not install something like Sophos that is free and unobtrusive? Personally, it puts my mind at rest.
darwin says:
I remember in the late 80s and early 90s, installing anti-virus software on Macs in order to keep them clean of virus problems. Most of the infections were caused by the engineers bringing software and utilities with them from japan. Infected diskettes were no fun. At that time, it was mostly malicious and pranksters. Now, its organized crime with mission statements and watching their bottom line.
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Service Missions for Young Missionaries
by LDS365.com (11/19/2018 04:23 am)
For many years, young Latter-day Saints with a desire to serve a mission but who are unable to do so for health reasons have served the Lord valiantly in various community and Church organizations. The Church has now announced increased opportunities for young missionaries who have health challenges.
Beginning on January 2, 2019, all young missionary candidates will use the missionary online recommendation process. Under the direction of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, each prospective missionary who qualifies will receive a call that best suits him or her.
Preaching the gospel will always be the primary purpose of missionary service, so the Lord, through His leaders, will call most young people to find, teach, and baptize converts. Others, unable to serve in this manner, may be called to serve the Lord as a service missionary.
Additionally, missionaries who return home early from a proselyting mission
for long-term health reasons may be reassigned to serve the Lord as a service missionary. Some other candidates may be honorably excused from any formal missionary service.
Here are key messages from the First Presidency letter and the website lds.org/service-missionary:
A missionary candidate does not choose which kind of mission he or she will serve. All missionary applicants are considered first for proselyting missions. Young men and women who are unable to be called as proselyting missionaries for physical, mental, or emotional reasons are called as service missionaries. Their service missions are tailored to their unique talents, skills, and gifts and to the local environment.
After a young man or young woman has been called to serve as a service missionary, the stake president counsels with the missionary, his or her parents, and the service mission leaders to create a customized mission to match the missionary’s capabilities.
Service missionaries live at home and serve locally at approved community charitable organizations (e.g., food banks, refugee services, or shelters), Church operations (e.g., storehouses, canneries, temples, seminaries and institutes), or in assignments from their stake president or bishop. JustServe.org may be a helpful resource for identifying charitable service opportunities.
The standards of worthiness for service missionaries are the same as for proselyting missionaries.
Service missions are acceptable offerings to the Lord when a proselyting mission is not possible. They are both “real missions.” All missionaries represent the Lord and are His agents in the work of salvation.
A call to the work as either a proselyting or service missionary comes from God through the President of the Church. Service missionaries are invited to speak in sacrament meeting before and after their missions, and they report to the high council upon completion of the mission. A calling as a service missionary is recorded on a membership record in the same way as a proselyting mission.
Watch this video “Church Announces Changes to Recommendation Process for Young Missionaries” for more information:
Learn more in the following articles:
“Church Announces Changes to Recommendation Process for Young Missionaries.”
“Expanded Service Missionary Program Means More Ways to Serve“
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07 Sep, 2017 Colin Dixon 3 Comments Online Ads, OTT Services, Social TV
In March of 2017, 70% of all online ad revenue was consumed by Google and Facebook. That changed when a furious group of online advertisers formed a coalition to persuade ad agencies and brands to switch their spending. The action came in the wake of a brand safety scandal that was engulfing Google.
Advertisers moved to protect their brands
Advertisers were horrified to find their ads placed in front of videos on Google’s YouTube that most considered extremist. Google responded stating that it has “strict guidelines” dictating where ads could appear. Moreover, the company contended that the ads only appeared against content that violated the policy “a very small percentage of the time.”
Google’s reassurances did little to dissuade more than 1,200 companies, including the government of the UK, from withdrawing their ad spending. ‘Indefensible’ was the cry from many of these brands. The growing coalition of angry companies and loss of revenue put pressure on YouTube to make changes to protect its advertising business.
And change it did!
With so much backlash, YouTube made some serious alterations. No channel under ten thousand views could display ads, and much stricter algorithms were put in place to vet the content. All videos that were deemed unsuitable for advertisers after being evaluated by this algorithm were ‘demonetized.’ Although this had been in practice since 2012 the new changes, coupled with notifying the creators of these videos, created a backlash.
The result of this video purge was that thousands of creators had many of their videos demonetized and saw their YouTube revenues shrink. Philip DeFranco, a popular current events blogger, saw a 30% drop in his ad revenue. Groups with seemingly pure intentions also took a hit. Women Real Stories, a charity project dedicated to sharing women’s stories of abuse, dropped from $2,000 to $10 in revenue. Their YouTube channel, although designed to help and aid women who have experienced severe trauma, could no longer be sustained.
It remains unclear whether the videos were inappropriate in the first place. For example, YouTube banned some language versions of translated videos while allowing others to pass. Though there has been an appeals process in place, most see it as slow and inefficient.
It seems YouTube could not appease either its advertisers or its creators.
Advertising in user generated videos has been around for more than a decade. However, widespread use on the scale seen recently is unprecedented. Moreover, like any new medium, it will take time to equilibrium.
Since the “crisis” earlier this year, the problem is still ongoing for many creators, although for many revenues appear to be recovering. By late May revenue for many of the top creators approached pre-March levels. At a recent convention hosting the top 100 YouTubers, only four stated explicitly that their revenues had still not recovered.
Advertisers, as well, are slowly starting to return to YouTube to promote their brands.
It seems that the platform is improving, but there are still problems. With over 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, it is impossible to monitor every video perfectly. The only way to handle that volume of video is with better algorithms.
“YouTube is trying to balance the needs of advertisers with the needs of creators. Do they always get it right? Of course not,” said Steven Oh, COO of The Young Turks Network. “It’s a very tough balance to strike, and just as advertisers push for their interests to be protected, creators should do the same.”
Thousands of companies cut or eliminated their ad spending from YouTube due to questionable content.
Thousands of creators had their revenues cut or eliminated because of YouTube’s attempt to fix the problem.
Now the initial hysteria has died down, companies and creators are settling back down to the business of ad supported video. Expect further bumps along the road.
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Chasing Love…Prologue #mgtab @NatalieAnn121
Posted on January 22, 2019 by natalieannbooks
Time for a glimpse into Chasing Love.
“Meena, stop following us everywhere.”
Meena squinted her eyes at her older brother. She was bored and there was nothing to do. “Why can’t I play with you and Troy?”
“Because you’re ten and we’re fifteen and we don’t play anymore,” Brian said.
“Meena,” her mother said from the kitchen where she was baking cookies. The smell of ginger was awesome and she couldn’t wait to eat some, but she didn’t want to help make them. Baking wasn’t her thing. Neither was cooking or doing arts and crafts, coloring or playing with dolls. All the things her mother wanted her to do. “Leave your brother and Troy alone.”
“But I want to go outside with them,” she argued.
Her mother’s sigh could be heard loud and clear. “You can go outside but don’t go chasing them around. Let them be.”
Meena would take it as a win and rushed out the side door her brother and his best friend Troy just exited. Brian was lucky that his best friend lived in the same development as them, even if it was a few streets over. He was old enough to ride his bike around on his own with his friends, but she had to stay in the cul de sac where she could be seen.
When she was adventurous—which was often if her mother could be believed—she pushed her boundaries by going to the end of the street. Her mom could still see her if she craned her neck out the kitchen window more and that had been Meena’s answer.
Brian turned when Meena ran into the garage and got on her bike next to the older boys. “What are you doing out here, clown?”
“I’m not a clown,” Meena said, looking down at her rainbow tutu that she’d had on over neon green leggings. “You just wish you had my fashion sense.”
“She has you there,” Troy said to Brian. “I’d like to see you pull off that look.”
Meena giggled. If she was always chasing them around it was because she wanted to be by Troy and not Brian. Troy was always nice to her and made her giggle more than normal. He made all these funny feelings erupt in her belly a lot too.
“At least I can match my socks,” Brian said, laughing.
“It’s the style,” Meena argued. “You’ve got none, that’s why you can’t pull it off.”
“The style is to make sure you wear the brightest, boldest colors and nothing matches?” Brian asked, smirking. “I’ll stay out of style if you don’t mind.”
Meena shrugged. She was used to the comments that she received. Not just from her brother or her parents—who were too dull and boring in her eyes. Her parents were probably closer to most grandparents’ age and they looked it. Except when her mother went to work at the hospital. She was thinking those ugly black scrubs would always be around for the nurses.
Her father still wore a suit and tie to work every day to the insurance firm he owned. A black or blue suit with a white shirt and a solid-color tie. Usually red or blue. Lame! She hadn’t once seen him wear one of the ties she’d picked out for him. Her father didn’t believe her when she said pink and purple stripes looked good on him.
“That’s because you boys are boring,” she said back. Both of them were just wearing athletic shorts and some T-shirt with a logo on it. Neither Brian nor Troy ever wanted to really stand out and she didn’t understand that. Standing out from the crowd was fun and exciting.
How come no one thought like she did?
Troy laughed at her. “I like boring just fine, Meena. But you look cute dressed the way you are. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
Her smile lifted even more. Troy never picked on her. He never made fun of her. He said she looked cute. She wondered if he felt all those warm fuzzy bunnies hopping around in his belly like she did too.
“Thanks, Troy. You’re a lot nicer to me than my brother.”
“That’s because you’re not bugging him twenty-four seven like you do me.” But Brian brought his bike closer to her and tugged on her ponytail playfully. She wanted to be annoyed at him but found she couldn’t be. He’d never been really mean to her. He just wanted space that she didn’t feel like giving him.
“Can I go with you two, please?” she asked, trying one last time.
“No, Meena,” Brian said. “You’re too young and we’re going to hang out with our friends at the park.”
“Maybe another time,” Troy said, and the two of them started to pedal away.
“Why would you say that to her?” she heard her brother say to Troy. “Don’t encourage her to hang around us even more.”
“She’s just a kid looking for attention,” Troy said. “She only wants a friend to play with.”
Meena narrowed her eyes at the boy’s retreating back, then whispered to herself, “A friend, Troy? I don’t think so.” She giggled to herself. “You’re going to be my husband someday.”
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nation.academy Announces its 2020 Season Tryout Dates
Charleston, SC – nation.academy today announced tryout dates for the 2020 Season. The 14U & Younger will be October 19 and the 15U & Older will be November 9, 2018. Both dates will be at Park West Recreation Center. Registrants should be aware that dates, times and location are subject to change by the Palmetto Volleyball Association (PVA) region policies.
“The last two years, tryout dates have been pushed back due to hurricanes which delayed high school playoffs for many players which prevented them from trying out. Parents and players should monitor dates of clubs they want to try out for,” said Club Director Jaime Shamis.
“Also, we can’t stress enough our club is for players who want to get to the next level and play in college. We have assembled a staff with experience second to none who have coached at the international, national team (men’s, women’s and youth), collegiate (having won NCAA Division I championships) and USAV Youth Open National Championships so we know what it takes to get to the next level. This means we play as many Open National Qualifiers as possible, train at the highest level possible every chance we get and set a very high standard for our players to compete against each other daily for playing time (we DO NOT guarantee playing time). This is not for everyone, but for those willing to make the same level of commitment that other national level club’s players are doing” said Shamis.
The club tryout page has specific information on what is required to tryout for one or multiple clubs as well as the PVA’s Tryout Policies. nation.academy will communicate regularly with the volleyball community via social media with information players and parents need to know about the Palmetto Region Open Tryout and Signing Period. More information will follow subject to the annual PVA meeting on August 18.
Players wishing to tryout for nation.academy can register to do so through the new Charleston Academy Bronze Membership. We are limiting registration spots to 50 per age group and closing registration two weeks prior to tryout dates. Late registration spots will be subject to availability and an additional $25.
about nation.academy
nation.academy (a dba of dot academy llc) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sport Venture Group. Its mission is to become a national academy brand by developing 50 multisport facilities around the country over the next 10 years whose players, parents and staff are committed to training and competing at the highest level possible at all times. The club started with volleyball as charleston.academy in 2019 season and expects to add Basketball and Soccer in 2020.
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Instant Driving Records
Employment Drug Screening
Credential Verifications
Researching County Criminal Records
Looky Here
Some years ago, one of my research agents was summarily kicked out of a Kentucky court. Fearing that he was somehow offensive or in the wrong, I called up the clerk of court to discuss the issue. After reviewing the incident with the clerk, he responded that his court was simply too busy to respond to "all these pre-employment requests" and that he simply was not going to do it anymore.
If I needed that information, I could visit the state repository. I explained my concerns about state repositories and asked if there wasn't a compromise solution, as these were, after all, public records.
At that point, he lost his patience and said, "Looky here".
If you don't like the way I run my court, here's what you do.
First, you move yourself to this county and establish a residence.
Then, you run for this office.
Then, if you are fortunate enough to get yourself elected," raising his voice he went on, "you can run this court anyway you want. Until then, it is my court and I will run it the way I see fit."
That was the end of the conversation. I suspect that I was not his first caller that day.
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Federal Courts.
The next most common type of criminal court of origin is the federal district court.
These courts hear cases involving violations of federal law. There may be only one to a state, or there may be several. These courts can be searched in person or by using a remote access. But, however they are searched, they represent a problem for the user.
Since these courts rely very heavily on fingerprint identification, it is very difficult to get anything other than a name and possible address match with tools other than fingerprints.
That said, there is no substitute for a federal district search if that search is required for a reasonable due diligence to fill a position.
Also, this search is a requirement for those employers authorized to use fingerprints, such as registered securities dealers, as the fingerprint search against the NCIC will not contain the most up to date adjudication information for a given case.
For the employer with a tighter budget, a federal district search for lower level positions, in the absence of a legal requirement or specific risk avoidance objective, may be overkill.
While it will reveal charges not found in any state search, it is likely that the applicant will be no stranger to the state courts.
8. Court Research.
For each of the sources of criminal history noted above, there is no single access method. For most, a research agent is still required to physically visit the court unless, of course, you can afford the average three-to four-week turn around via mailed requests.
Once at the court, research is performed a variety of ways. In some courts, a local public access terminal is available that can provide not only index information, but also complete case information that can be transcribed. In other courts, the public access terminal may only be a name index.
As the public may not access physical court files directly, name matches must be brought to the clerk of court staff, who will research them as time permits and provide the results when they can get to them. In other courts, searches must be done by hand in old ledger books or paper indices.
In still others, the automated case management software has been in place for less than seven years, so searches must be done using a combination of computer terminal access, old ledger books, and reliance on court services staff.
Roughly 10 percent of all searches may be done using remote access tools directly into court systems, but this does not always mean faster or cheaper.
Even aside from some of the specialized hardware or software required by some courts, there are connectivity issues and poorly designed systems that dump page after page of docket activity making it a "Where's Waldo?" search for the actual identity, charges, and disposition data.
There are still other remote systems that serve only as pointer files and still require the services of a live agent and court services staff to complete the research.
Adding another level of complexity to all the above is the fact that each state has its own, unique criminal code, and each court within each state may have its own procedures for recording and storing information.
There are about 3,200 counties in the U.S., and about 10,000 different courts.
Some days it seems that all they have in common is that they are understaffed, overworked, and uninterested in your problems.
9. Building a Background Check Strategy
With an understanding of the challenges of both on-line and court research, how does one determine the appropriate scope of or a criminal history background?
To answer that question, there is one more concept that must be understood.
That is the concept I call "Managed Risk and Criminal Histories:"
Hiring employees creates potential risk to other employees, the public, and to the assets of the employer. Past behavior is one of the best predictors of future behavior.
Any position being filled must be evaluated to understand those criminal behaviors that add risk.
Because there is no useful single nationwide repository of criminal history and since it is unreasonable to conduct a search in every court in the country, a background program should be designed to cover both a reasonable period of time and a reasonable geographic scope to manage and mitigate those risks.
Simply stated: You can't do it all, so what can you do?
I am going to set down some guidelines based on the experience of clients around the country.
10. Take these guidelines and discuss them with legal counsel to see how they may best work within the context of your company and your employees.
11. A Complete Application.
Every criminal history check should begin with a complete application.
This cannot be emphasized enough.
That application should contain a statement of truth in which the applicant acknowledges that all information is true and complete,
without omissions, understanding that the employer has the right to choose not to hire or to terminate if they find out otherwise.
This application should ask the applicant to self-report job-related convictions.
(There are numerous state and federal laws addressing this section that can not be address here. Once again, consult with counsel.)
Be sure that the application has sufficient address history to cover the required depth of background discussed below.
Also be sure that if you are using a third party background company, you have a separate release and notification form signed by the applicant that meets Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) standards.
(Note that some courts require date of birth for an identifier, especially for common names, and the release is a good place to capture that and other identifying data).
12. Social Security Check.
The next required tool is the social security number check done through one of the background check sources.
This check serves three important functions.
First, it may help reveal a legal name change when additional names are associated with a number.
Second, it serves to raise a red flag if (a) the applicant's name is not associated with the entered number, (b) the number was issued by an unaccounted for state, or (c) the date of issue does not seem to match the applicant's age.
Third, it will reveal up to a seven-year residence address history.
This will be crucial in identifying courts to be searched that would otherwise be missed should the applicant have selective memory.
13. Criminal History Check.
Now you would use a position risk analysis to decide how wide and how deep the search needs to be.
The how wide is simply how many years of employment or residence addresses do you need to cover.
The how deep is how many years back do you need to go in the court that you are searching.
The standard for depth of search in a court is seven years back.
Unless one has specific licensing or regulatory requirements to do otherwise, this should be your baseline.
It is the how wide that will vary by position.
A very simple rule of thumb is to start with the current county of residence as the most basic and minimum search, and add to that as responsibility and risk increases.
Taking our rule of thumb, the following are reasonable guidelines for criminal history checks, along with the number of courts for budgeting.
(When budgeting, remember that about 10 percent of courts charge statutory access fees ranging from $5 to $26.
Your average cost of fees will vary depending on your applicant pool demographics, but in a true nationwide distribution, you would be safe planning $2 per search for access fees. Fees in New York state are especially high, and Los Angeles courts are $5 per name per search.)
14.-Entry level position,
no cash handling, very little or no customer contact, well supervised--A check of felonies and those misdemeanors indexed at the court
of current county of residence, seven years deep. Average 1 court searched.
14 A. -Entry level position,
no cash handling, customer contact, well supervised--A check of felonies and those misdemeanors indexed at the court(s) covering
three years of residence checked, seven years deep.
Average 1.5 courts searched.
14 B. Entry level position,
cash handling, customer contact, well supervised--A check of felonies and those misdemeanors indexed at the court(s) covering five
years of residence checked, seven years deep. Average 2 courts searched.
15. Mid-management or key holder position--
A check of felonies and those misdemeanors indexed at the court(s) covering seven years of residence checked seven years deep. Average 2.7 courts searched.
16. Unsupervised customer contact,
such as delivery or repair person--A check of felonies and those misdemeanors indexed at the court(s) covering seven years of residence checked seven years deep, plus a sex offender's registry check. Average 2.7 courts searched, plus the state registry.
17. Upper-level management and purchasing positions--
A check of felonies and those misdemeanors indexed at the court(s) covering seven years of residence checked in both county and federal district courts at least seven years deep. Average 4 courts searched.
Those hiring in metropolitan areas covering many counties might consider adding either additional contiguous counties or statewide checks, if available. Atlanta is one of the best examples of a city touching many counties, but it also has one of the hardest to use statewide searches.
18. Misdemeanor Checks.
Not specifically mentioned in the search guidelines are the addition of misdemeanor checks. Law will require them for certain positions.
For example, before a security company can arm a security officer, they must search to ensure that there is not a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence.
Beyond legal requirements, some employers require a separate misdemeanor check of residences because they are concerned about behaviors that pose risks such as misdemeanor assaults, substance abuse, and theft convictions.
If your budget can support additional separate searches, by all means, add them to your search package.
You will add roughly two-tenths of a search to each felony search requested.
You may wish to evaluate the targeted misdemeanor search by doing a retrospective study on the results from those courts, not only in terms of hits, but also in terms of employment decisions made. You may find that, as so eloquently put by a Florida client: "The juice is not worth the squeeze."
Identifying Information.
Be prepared with complete identifying information when requesting your search, both to improve accuracy and to improve turn around time.
Typical requirements for a search are full name, date of birth, social security number, maiden name and/or aliases, race, and sex.
Puerto Rico searches require the mother's maiden name, and some courts, like Los Angeles, use driver's license as a good identifier.
A current home address will be required for those repositories that automatically notify applicants of the results of the search, including Oregon, Kentucky, and North Dakota.
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19. Where Do Criminals Commit Crimes?
There is much discussion concerning geographic scope. There are those who recommend searching courts in both counties of residence and employment for the specified scope, as well as any contiguous counties.
While a risk management argument can be made supporting a broader scope for some positions or in some metropolitan areas that actually cross several counties, two interesting studies suggest that doing more than counties of residence is overkill for most positions.
"The Prisoner's Antecedents" was a study conducted by the Census Bureau and published in 1929. In that study, 73 percent of those entering prison nationwide committed their offenses in their county of residence. In 1997, the Bureau of Justice Statistics conducted a similar, as yet unpublished, study and found that eight out of ten inmates committed their crimes in the their own county.
This did vary somewhat by type of crime, with DWI and kidnap least likely to be committed at home. But they are also the most likely crimes to be found in a search other than a county search, that is, a Department of Motor Vehicle and a federal district check, respectively.
Even with 75 years between studies and an arguably more mobile society today, these studies reveal that in the context of managed risk, a search for criminal history in counties of residence is by far the most productive framework.
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20. From Myths to Realities
This article represents the realities of accessing criminal history in today's environment.
Of course, times change and courts will continue to evolve. How quickly if ever criminal history will become available on-line is difficult to predict.
Exercise caution and evaluate on-line opportunities so that you understand the data source and its limitations.
We can expect more courts to offer remote access solutions to address their own needs of handling the growing volume of requests,
but remember that not all on-line solutions or new case management systems pick up the minimum seven-year depth of history.With this knowledge, your pre-employment screening program can be designed to provide a reasonable hedge against the suits de jour of negligent hiring, retention, and supervision. There is no Lucy in the sky with data, but the diamonds of information to be mined can help you and your company protect employees and assets by matching each qualified applicant to the right job.
Frederick G. Giles, CPP, is president of The Official Provider's Source, a public records retrieval provider to background screening companies.
He is a recognized authority in the background and pre-screening arena.
Updated 02/2017
Criminal record database searches are not by themselves legal for FCRA compliant background checks.
The FCRA requires that information contained in criminal records be confirmed as the latest information available before being used in employment related decisions.
Database records may be months or even years old. Moreover, they may not contain up to 30 or 40 % of actual criminal records that may be found at the county, State or Federal records repositories.
The article below is very enlightening on criminal record database search records.
The Myths and Realities of On-line Criminal History Databases
By Frederick G. Giles, CPP(Article first published in Loss Prevention Magazine January-February 2002)
The cornucopia of information that is the Internet has given rise to the expectation that somewhere there must be a magical mystery database of information on whatever and whomever we need.
There is a popular perception that there are more and more databases threatening our individual privacy a "permanent record" of criminal history information in which all of our lives is documented.
It must be so because it makes so much sense.
But, it's not so. There is no Lucy in the sky with data.
Our nation's courts are among the oldest institutions in this nation of laws, and their many distinct, disjointed, and undesirable systems are part of that heritage.
So what is the state of criminal history information in this country?
How does a loss prevention or human resources professional designing a background screening program develop an appropriate strategy for criminal history searches?
To explore the first question, we will take a look how criminal history information is housed in this country, and how misimpressions become policy.
1. The FBI National Database
The most famous and misunderstood non-source is the FBI database, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
Many security professionals, having come from local, state, or federal law enforcement, call upon friends and colleagues who still have NCIC terminal access when they need criminal history information. Sometimes, this may be a display of insider power intended to awe those who do not have a golden Rolodex of contacts.
But most times, it is simply a federal crime.FBI audit and compliance programs are getting better and better with the government stepping up prosecution of offenders.
By law and by compact with the states who contribute information, NCIC data is not available without permissible purpose and legislative authority, such as has been granted to banks and securities dealers.
It is usually not an option for the ethical and law abiding professional.
Even for those who are currently sworn law enforcement officers, improper use of NCIC will lead to prosecution.
Recently, an elected sheriff was charged with a felony for using NCIC to do background checks on his political opponents and their supporters.
But don't be concerned about lack of access. Even for those with legislative authority, the use of this data is rife with problems.
The NCIC was originally intended to serve as a law enforcement source of intelligence. It does that well and is a credit to those who maintain it.
Reporting of records to the NCIC, however, is dependent on the states or other courts forwarding the data.
It is often not current (as much as two years behind for some states), and rarely has current disposition information.
Generally, an NCIC search is a beginning but not an end. NCIC users understand that, but many employers do not.
2. State-by-State Databases
So if NCIC is not an option, why not turn to the individual states who supply the national database?
Unfortunately, there are issues with these repositories as well.
In many states, the state criminal history repository was, again, designed as a law enforcement intelligence tool.
The data housed is often late, incomplete, or simply not reported from the originating court.
To illustrate this point, consider the experience of one Florida retailer who relied solely on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement state repository for criminal history checks.
The company hired an employee who had no record in the state repository. Unfortunately, this employee subsequently assaulted a customer.
The customer's attorney placed one phone call to the court in the employee's county of residence that revealed a significant history of assault.
The general rule of thumb for most negligent hiring cases is "if you could have known, you should have known."
This retailer learned an expensive lesson about the deficiencies in state repositories.
I have seen similar examples in most state repositories.
Having said that, Florida recently passed legislation to provide some protections when an employer incorporates a state repository search in its hiring program.
(See the accompanying sidebar.)
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3. Florida's Negligent Hiring Protection
Having used Florida Department of Law Enforcement as an example of the poor record quality of state repositories in general, it is somewhat ironic to point out that Florida has passed a law (Florida code 768.096) that protects employers from negligent hiring lawsuits if the employer conducts criminal records checks through the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement along with employment history verifications:
"In a civil action for the death of, or injury or damage to, a third person caused by the intentional tort of an employee, such employee's employer is presumed not to have been negligent in hiring such employee if, before hiring the employee, the employer conducted a background investigation of the prospective employee and the investigation did not reveal any information that reasonably demonstrated the unsuitability of the prospective employee for the particular work to be performed or for the employment in general."
This was well intentioned, but perhaps not well advised, legislation.
That said, if mitigation of civil risk is one of the drivers for a criminal history check program,
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Let's run some numbers on state criminal history searches. In the fifty states plus the
District of Columbia there are forty-two central criminal record repositories.
Of these forty-two, half of the states want the request accompanied by a signed release.
Eight of those twenty-one states, Alabama, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming, require a special notarized release.
Four states, Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, and West Virginia, require a signed release plus a completed ten-digit fingerprint card or a thumbprint.
These requirements add significantly to the cost, time, and logistical complexity of accessing records.
Of the remaining twenty-one states, only eighteen have an average turn around time of four days or less.
Some states will only accept requests by mail and average two weeks turn around time.
Some have stretched out as long as sixty days either due to backlogs or a pre-notification requirement of the consumer before any records will be reported out.
In addition to the timelessness of the reporting, what about other costs? State repository fees range up to $25 per name, averaging $15 paid directly to the state agency.
This, of course, does not include any handling fee for your public record provider or the cost of fingerprint collection when required.
Fees are subject to change without notice and are expected to increase along with all other costs.
For the moment, let's assume that time, money, and logistical obstacles are not an issue. Just how reliable is the state repository data, anyway?
Although the potential for statewide coverage is attractive, as is the fact that both felonies and misdemeanors may be included, experience indicates
that the quality of the reports from these agencies is substantially lower than for records obtained directly from the originating courts.
Remember, the state repository data is second-generation information gathered from courts and police departments statewide, with little consistency in format or language.
There are sometimes problems in matching arrest data with disposition data since they come from different sources at different times.
Even in those states where there is a statutory requirement for the various criminal justice agencies to report records to the state repository, we have found both significant reporting delays and in many cases known records having never been reported to the repository at all!
An administrator with one state repository who asked not to be identified stated that he estimated that only about 40 percent of all criminal data from the police and criminal courts was actually ever reported to the state criminal record center.
Further, he thought this was pretty typical compared to other states!
In 1993, the Defense Personnel Security Research Center (PERSEREC) published a white paper authored by Richards Heuer entitled
"Crime andSecurity Risk."
The study was commissioned by the Director of the CIA and was one in a series evaluating various criteria for adjudicating security clearances.
This paper evaluated the condition of criminal records in the U.S. and determined that both the NCIC and various state repositories were flawed by reporting problems and that the only search exercising appropriate due diligence was one done at the originating courts.
Unfortunately, no updated study has been published. But based on current experience, I believe a similar study today would yield the same conclusion.
With all these attendant problems, is there a place for a statewide search in the pre-employment background process?
Perhaps. A statewide search is to a court of origin search as a shotgun is to a rifle. A shotgun will disperse lots of little pellets covering a wider area on a map, but will also leave a lot of target area un-hit.
With a rifle, on the other hand, one can be reasonably assured of hitting the target exactly.
If having the widest possible coverage is an objective, while recognizing all the holes in coverage, a state repository search achieves that objective.
4. Courts of Origin
Always mindful of the holes inherent in state repository searches, I would recommend that, as a minimum, an employer consider adding a search of the county-of-residence superior court to ensure that those holes do not create major liabilities in states other than Florida.
If the objective of any background search is more than merely "papering a file," searches in those courts of origin are a critical elementWhat are courts of origin?
5. County Superior Court.
The most commonly searched state court is the county superior or felony-level court, which is usually located in the county seat.
This court of origin contains the records for the felony-level cases that originate in that jurisdiction.
A complete county felony search at that location will reveal the following:
-Felony charges that resulted in a felony conviction,
-Felony charges that were pleaded down to a misdemeanor conviction,
-Bench warrants issued by that court, and
-Cases that are still pending final action for all cases and convictions that have not been sealed or expunged.
Every rule has exceptions. There are jurisdictions in which the felony level court is actually an independent city court,
or in which there are split divisions requiring at least two searches at different locations to complete a countywide felony search.
Police officers are trained to "hang from the highest branch on the tree," meaning that if there is any discretion regarding whether an offense is classified as a felony or misdemeanor, always arrest for the most serious felony and let the courts sort matters out.
Not only does this practice result in many more cases being found in the felony courts, but it also helps unclog our courts system by affording reasonable grounds for plea-bargaining to avoid lengthy and expensive trials.
Many felony cases, therefore, end up as misdemeanor convictions.
6. Municipal Courts.
Misdemeanors are a source of confusion for many.
Misdemeanors are defined in different ways by different states, but to simplify somewhat, they are generally
those offenses that can result in fines of less than $1000 or jail terms of less than one year in a county facility.
The courts that hear misdemeanors are generally municipal courts, and they do not always share space, indices, or administration with the courts that adjudicate felonies.
This means that there is often not a one-stop shop for a county-wide search for all felonies and all misdemeanors for an applicant.
There are three conditions under which misdemeanors will be revealed.
First, a search of the county felony courts will also reveal, as noted above, those misdemeanor convictions resulting from an original felony charge. (Note that is some courts, these are the only misdemeanors that will be revealed).
Second, there are many courts that are unified to the extent that either all the case activity can be searched in one index, or at the least, there is an index for all misdemeanor courts in that county co-located in the same county seat courthouse with the felony court.
Third is a circumstance very similar to the second, but only the misdemeanors from that municipal court serving the county seat can be researched at that court.
What all this means is that the requestor, who truly wants or needs misdemeanors for a particular municipal jurisdiction, should specify that jurisdiction in the request, or the search will be done only at the county seat, with the possible range of results above.
In the case of misdemeanor courts, the confusion is not only with the requestor.
Many of the public record access difficulties come in these courts.
As in all public sector jobs, tax cuts combined with population growth have forced these courts to do more with less.
Looking for ways to ease that burden, periodically one of these courts will devise new and onerous or restrictive policies to reduce their research.
The best examples of the worst are found in New Jersey, pockets of Kentucky, and California, which flares up occasionally. In New Jersey, many municipal courts simple refuse to accept research requests in person or at all.
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Cops Gone Rogue
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WATCH: Another Drunk Ohio Judge Crashes Car and Gets Arrested
Keith Palmer
“I am so intoxicated,” Doherty said as a police officer placed her in a squad car. Video shows her cursing at officers and even demanding a cup of water.
On February 10 Brimfield Police Department officers in Ohio responded to a report of a car off the road at the eastbound Interstate 76 on-ramp at Route 43.
PINAC News also covered Ohio Judge Monica Hawkins when she was arrested for drunk driving in January 2019.
Judge Doherty, 55, had been driving the car and was arrested on a charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. At 9:15 p.m. Judge Doherty drove a 2016 GMC Terrain SUV off an icy ramp and crashed into a ditch.
Once at the police station Judge Doherty refused to take a breathalyzer test or complete a field sobriety test.
Judge Doherty eventually plead guilty before her trial and her licence was suspended for one year, WKYC News reports. Part of her sentence also included three days in jail, a $375 fine, and a requirement to take a 72 hour class on driver intervention.
***Judge Becky Doherty***
Judge Doherty can only drive if it involves work, medical appointments or the Driver Intervention Program.
After the arraignment, Doherty read the following statement:
“Please accept my apologies and my regret for my conduct. I have felt so blessed to be in a position of trust. I regret that I violated that trust. I have dedicated my career to upholding the law and trying to make a positive difference in the world. Unfortunately, I am human. I have made a terrible error in judgement that I must accept both the responsibility and the punishment for. Today I plead guilty to the charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol in Kent Municipal Court. As a judge I make decisions every day that I pray will be the most thoughtful and fair for all concerned. I am humbled by and will learn from this experience and am confident it will make me a better judge and resident of our community. Thank you."
She was elected as a Common Pleas Court judge in 2015. She previously was chief of the criminal division of the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office from 2009 until she was elected to the bench. Doherty served as a solicitor for the village of Lakemore in Summit County, and was a criminal prosecutor from 1992 to 2008 in the violent crime unit of the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office.
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LKO3
Tired of these officials getting treated completely different than the public! It is supposed to be the same laws for all. This is a load of crap!
Sterling1031
This is a pathetic excuse for a judge...........and for a judgement as well. Why was she not brought to a hospital for a blood draw, as would be done to anyone else who refused to take a breathalyzer or field sobriety testing? She proclaimed she was very drunk, acted like an ass, even after being told she was being recorded. Her rude demands were pathetic, asking them to call a superior to get out of this is TO ME, a reason to SUSPEND HER LICENSE AS A JUDGE for a year as well. She was attempting to obstruct justice, perhaps a bribe, to get out of this situation. Her punishment DOES NOT in any way, shape or form, satisfy her criminal behavior. Had they done a blood draw, as would be done on your or I, they most likely would have discovered her being 2-3 times over the legal limit.........perhaps more! She has proven to us once again, there are two tiers of criminal behavior and punishment. SHAME!
StevenThomas1949
True Colors of this C U Next Time Judge came out when she was loaded. Hopefully having her panties pulled down in front of everyone will do her some good. Maybe she can change?
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December 24, 2019 by Tony Farina
EXCLUSIVE: Restaino Announces New Cabinet
Mayor-Elect Robert M. Restaino.
Mayor-Elect Taps Brother as City Administrator; Retains Some Holdovers Including Police
Superintendent and Fire Chief; Adds New Faces
By: Tony Farina
It took a little while as one might expect, but Niagara Falls Mayor-elect Robert Restaino has settled on his team, subject to council approval, to help him lead the city as he moves into the mayor’s office on the second floor come Jan. 1, replacing three-term incumbent Paul Dyster.
Perhaps the most important selection by the mayor-elect is a gentleman with the same last name, his brother Anthony Restaino, who will retire from his job as commissioner of Niagara County Social Services to become city administrator, in effect the mayor’s right hand man.
Anthony Restaino was a major advisor to his brother in the bruising and no-holds barred mayoral campaign which saw Robert Restaino win a narrow Democratic primary against top Dyster aide Seth Piccirillo in June and then score an overwhelming victory over three opponents, including Piccirillo and Republican Glenn Choolokian, in November.
Anthony Restaino, who has been selected as the City Administrator in his brother’s administration.
Mayor-elect Restaino confirms that his brother will take the job after he retires from his Social Services position which pays in the $100,000 range. As a public office retiree, he will only be able to earn $35,000 as city administrator even though the budget number for the job is $79,490.
Other key appointments by Mayor-elect Restaino with the budgeted salaries in parenthesis are Kathleen Ligammari, city clerk ($50,861), who comes from the private sector; Dan Morello, controller ($100,663) who will continue in that post; and Christopher Mazur, corporation counsel ($106,670), who currently serves as deputy corporation counsel.
Police Chief Tom Licata will maintain his position as Police Chief under Mayor Robert Restaino.
Mayor-elect Restaino has opted to retain Police Supt. Tom Licata ($115,436) and Fire Dept. Chief Joseph Pedulla ($114,266) in their current positions.
Other appointments are two selections for economic development: Allen Booker and Thomas Tedesco. Also, Sanquin Starks, youth services director, and Ruby Pulliam who will continue as director of human resources.
Fire Chief Joseph Pedulla will maintain his position as Chief under Mayor Robert
Restaino says he is asking all his appointees to come prepared with a plan to lead their departments as they take over control of government in a city where the financial challenges are many, especially with the casino revenue-sharing money still in doubt although there is hope that the Seneca Nation will in the end pay the state the $256 million in back payments from 2017 that an aribitration panel and a federal court judge say they owe.
The Senecas have still not announced their plans although sources say the money has been put aside to make that $256 million payment although in all likelihood, the Senecas will reserve the right to continue their appeal.
The mayor-elect says going through the applications of candidates for city positions was a very difficult challenge, and it took him a little longer than expected to finally make his decisions with the full list expected to be announced shortly.
Robert Restaino, the new mayor, has survived his own challenges to finally capture the city’s top job and by every possible measure, he is eager to move forward and help create that vision for the future that he has thought about for years and talked about to this newspaper several years ago.
It comes as no surprise that he selected his trusted brother as his go-to guy as city administrator, a throwback to the JFK days when President picked his brother Bobby to be attorney general. There’s no question the new mayor will need all the help he can get trying to move the city forward, and having his brother on the team makes perfect sense.
Expect this team to hit the ground running come next week, and we can only hope that working with a new majority in the council, positive changes will occur and Niagara Falls will reclaim its past glory and begin the process of rebuilding from the ground up, starting with a new leader in city hall.
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Devon Cuimara.
Devon’s anti-violence vision gains ground
Jeremy Goff
A remote community in Western Australia’s Pilbara would provide a men-free safe haven from family violence as part of an ambitious proposal to mend families and reduce the number of Aboriginal people in jails.
Newman, located 1200km north-east of Perth, is a small town where Aboriginal leaders have big plans.
Federal Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt and Labor Senator Pat Dodson are expected to visit the town in August to see their vision first-hand.
Newman local Devon Cuimara, whose vision for an Aboriginal Male’s Healing Centre as an alternative for jail has the support of WA Chief Justice Wayne Martin and Family Court of WA chief judge Stephen Thackray as patrons, also wants to run a sanctuary for women.
He is asking the WA Government to allow the rundown Aboriginal reserve of Parnpajinya, on the outskirts of Newman, to become a sanctuary where victims of family violence – women, children and the elderly – could live as part of a co-op while the men receive mandatory treatment as live-in residents at the healing centre.
Parnpajinya has 13 houses that are currently in need of repair and are used mostly by a transient population, he said.
Mr Cuimara said security measures would be put in place to protect those living there and it would become a sacred women’s space, with men banned.
He said it would be hoped families could be mended after the men had had treatment, but it may not always be possible and it would be up to each of the family members to decide which path they wanted to take.
“We want to provide that safe space for women and children close to town, assisting to lower that homelessness rate, and the elderly included,” Mr Cuimara said.
“It will also allow the children some normalcy so they can access their school if they are in attendance.”
The WA Government has pledged to fund operating costs for the Aboriginal Male’s Healing Centre once it is up and running.
Mr Cuimara said he hoped the Federal Government would help with funding to build the centre.
So far nearly $1 million worth of pro bono work — including architectural plans for the centre — has been completed.
The Aboriginal Male’s Healing Centre is expected to be open in late 2020 or 2021 at an estimated cost of about $20 million.
Mr Cuimara said he hoped the Newman plans could become a prototype for other centres and communities around the country and lead to a drop in the number of Aboriginal people in jails.
“We’re about justice reinvestment,” Mr Cuimara said.
“It’s all about an alternative measure to incarceration.”
The WA Government’s Pilbara Development Commission said Parnpajinya is one of eight communities in its Town Based Reserves Project in the Pilbara that aims to ensure Aboriginal people living in town reserves receive the same services and opportunities as residents of the town.
“The commission is working together with residents and relevant government agencies to determine the best future for all of these communities,” PDC chief executive officer Terry Hill said.
“The consultation and engagement phase of this project is currently underway.
“The commission has received a copy of the AMHC proposal for merger with Parnpajinya. “The Parnpajinya Aboriginal Reserve, including existing infrastructure, is the responsibility of the Aboriginal Lands Trust.”
WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt’s office has been contacted for comment.
reporter@nit.com.au
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April 20, 2018 by Carolyn Foote Edelmann
“When the world is too much with me,” — and, ever since 11/16/16 it has been overwhelmingly so! — I turn to my heroes of old. Thoreau. Rachel (Carson). Eleanor (Roosevelt). Ed Abbey. They inspire me, stiffen my spine, balance me, serve as quintessential examples. Ed does all this, PLUS, he makes me laugh. Yes, right out loud, in the middle of the night, when I least expect it.
But it’s Ed’s prophetic wisdom that sustains me now, in this time worse than 1984, worse than Lord of the Flies…
Pictures of Ed seem few and far between — this isolate one who reached the entire world. Here is a stock photo of Ed in his beloved Red Rock Country. Thank you, Alamy.
I wrote in the first page of Ed’s The Journey Home,: (first published in 1970) “Oh, Edward, where are you now?! There is no one to speak/write/CRY OUT against greed, destruction, war on the land itself. No one to protest the ruin of our land/air/water/future!”
As though Ed himself (no one calls him Edward – it’s my ‘pet name’ for my hero) had answered, I wrote his stunning proclamation: “WE HAVE CONNIVED IN THE MURDER OF OUR OWN ORIGINS.”
Wizard. Prophet. So long ago, to have realized, to have dared call attention to the wasting of the West, of liberty itself! “The earth is not a mechanism but an organism.” “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Truth-teller, par excellence: “Yosemite is no more wild nature than Central Park!” Insisting that we should ban cars in our parks, he asserts, “You’ve got to be willing to walk!”
America’s parks Abbey considers essential to the survival of democracy: –“treasures best enjoyed through the body and spirit, not through commercial plunder!.” Which leads to one of my all-time favorite Abbeyisms: “The best cure for the ills of democracy is MORE democracy!”
Ed Abbey holds a particular hatred for those who would destroy his beloved desert, all in the form of ‘progress’: “Vegas is creeping out everywhere.”
Abbey warns against “ration[ing] the wilderness experience.” One of his quotes I’ve used as my e-mail signature proclaims “Long live the weeds and the wilderness!”
At his most exuberant, this author –who refuses to be called a naturalist–, exclaims, “O, to be a buzzard!” One appeared at his (forbidden desert) funeral, delighting every mourner, all of whom has memorized so many of E.A.’s salient points, –circling, slowly, lazily, approving procedures below. Those who know me, know I’m sure Ed borrowed that vulture’s physical body, for a fitting farewell.
Most chilling, always, are Ed’s musings on the dangers of our country’s losing true liberty. “Our own nation is not free from the dangers of dictatorship. And I refer to internal, as well as external, threats to our liberties.” Abbey decries “the tendency upon the part of the authoritarian element always present… to suppress individual freedoms; to use the refined techniques of police surveillance…, in order to preserve, not wilderness, but the status quo, the privileged positions of those who now so largely control the economic and governmental institutions of the United States.”
(Have you noticed how rarely is used the term “United States” in post-1916 Amerika? cfe)
In 1970, Ed warns of “the two-legged flesh-skinned robot, her head, his head, its head, wired by telepathic radio to a universal central control system.”
(Does anyone besides me cringe whenever I hear ‘the man or woman in the street’ use that ghastly Weather Channel command, “Stay Safe.” It’s right up there with “Shelter in place,” which commands were rampant after the Boston Marathon Massacres. We are being coached during every storm to follow mandates that were the tools of tyrants. cfe)
Edward Abbey probably had very little patience with matters of clairvoyance. How else, though, do we explain his agony over, “When reality becomes intolerable; when the fantasies of nightmare become everyday experience, deny that reality; obliterate it; escape, escape, escape.” “Every train of thought seems to lead to some concentration camp of nightmare.”
The heart of the matter with Edward Abbey comes down to his conclusion in this final chapter of “The Journey Home“: “WE CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM WITHOUT WILDERNESS.” He quotes one of his own heroes, the legendary Dave Brower, in case we are missing the point: “A WORLD WITHOUT WILDERNESS IS A CAGE.”
(David Ross Brower was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth.” Wikipedia)
Abbey goes out on yet another flawless limb: “I SEE THE PRESERVATION OF WILDERNESS AS ONE SECTOR IN THE WAR AGAINST THE ENCROACHING INDUSTRIAL STATE.”
“IF WE WISH TO GIVE OUR CHILDREN A TASTE OF THE GOOD LIFE, WE MUST BRING A HALT TO THE EVER-EXPANDING ECONOMY, and put the growth-maniacs under medical care.”
In case we didn’t get his point, about the importance of wilderness as a place where humans can rediscover themselves; as well as as “coyotes, lions (he means mountain lions), eagles and badgers; a place to re-experience freedom, the place “to learn what the lion has to teach,” Abbey declares, “All government is bad, including good government.”
“I am an extremist,” he insists in his naturalist-denying preface, merrily confessing his “extreme intransigence.” Edward Abbey raves about being “far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where the world falls off into the depths. That’s where I like it. E.A.”
My hero describes his writings as having been “stirred in a blackened iron pot over a smoking fire of juniper, passionflower and mesquite. Agitate. “(italics Ed’s). He calls his words “a slumgullion”, which, “like any stew, makes a tasty, nutritious and coherent stew… Society, too, is like a stew 00 If you don’t keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.”
Travel with Ed. Revel with Ed. Experience and re-experience Canyonlands and Arches and Death Valley and even Hoboken, and always the sere, saguaro-studded landscape in which he earned is deathless nickname, Cactus Ed.
Realize that to lose untrammeled wilderness is to lose the very liberty for which this country was founded in the 1770’s. Let Edward Abbey, seer, open your eyes, stiffen your spine. The times, our troublous times, demand it!
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August 13, 2016 by Carolyn Foote Edelmann
“CACTUS ED” ABBEY ON MY MIND
“The earth is not a mechanism, but an organism.” Ed Abbey, The Journey Home
[Being in the Southwest] “is a treasure best enjoyed through the body and the spirit…, not through commercial plunder.” Ed Abbey, The Journey Home
“Are we going to ration the wilderness experience?” Ed Abbey, The Journey Home
Delicate Arch, Canyonlands, from Internet
The more I experience of man’s inhumanity to the Planet, –especially in overpopulated, pipe-line-threatened New Jersey–, the more I need Ed Abbey at my side.
Right now, horrified at the success of the multi-billion-dollar-funded Climate Change Deniers (see This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein), I’m reading Adventures with Ed by Jack Loeffler. The author hiked and ate and drank and discussed and even fought with Ed during his lifetime.
The two made a solemn pact that neither would let the other die in a hospital. A pledge Loeffler was barely able to keep, but did. The secret burial site required by Ed was facilitated, honored and often visited by Loeffler. He would bring beer, –one poured for Ed; one drunk by himself, whenever he made that pilgrimage.
Everything about which we have been warned by Naomi Klein and 350.org and James Hansen and and Elizabeth Kolbert and Bill McKibben and probably even Rachel Carson and even the Nobel Prize Committee and Al Gore, is described in chapter and verse of anything by and about Abbey.
A professed non-naturalist and determined “desert rat”, — who claimed to want to turn into a vulture upon dying–, Ed showed us the Southwest as the Poster Child for military/industrial/Big Coal/Big Gas/Big Copper ruinations.
McKibben issued his clarion call when The End of Nature was published in 1989. He is still calling. Abbey’s pivotal Desert Solitaire brought us to attention to commercial despoilations of our planet, especially in the Southwest, in 1968 Is anybody listening?
My first attention to the plight of our pPlanet came through Ed’s articles, as well as through his seminal non-fiction work, Desert Solitaire.
My first protests began and accelerated with the proposal to dam the Grand Canyon (!yes!) and another to build an enormous coal-fired generating station on the Kaiparowits Plateau, fouling the Four Corners region sacred to countless Indian tribes.
In those enlightened days, popular magazines published words and memorable images of the beauties we seemed fated to lose, as we now stand to lose New Jersey’s last green spaces to Pipelines conspiracies. That’s when I joined the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, and ‘adopted whales’ through a Provincetown non-profit, as my daughters’ main Christmas presents.
Ed, whom I did not yet ‘know’ from that one volume (still most successfully in print) said it first. Working as I do for D&R Greenway Land Trust, though I am speaking here as my very private, very opinionated self, I see perils to nature at every turn. Some of which incursions we can prevent, and in some cases turn around. Every year of the benighted 21st Century, it becomes more and more clear to me that Ed was a remarkable prophet, as well as a stirring author. (Read his novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, if you don’t believe me.)
Ed is carefully quoted by Jack Loeffler, –from a speech Abbey was asked to give to St. John’s College in Santa Fe, in his beloved New Mexico: “WILDERNESS IS WORTH SAVING FOR ITS OWN SAKE.” This was 1975. “Not for human benefit or pleasure. Wild things and wild places have a right to exist and to continue existing… Bees. birds, animals, snakes, buzzards, bugs, whatever, have a legal and moral right to continue. Even rocks have the moral right to continue being rocks.”
Those of you who read my US 1 (Business) Newspaper Cover Story on Four Shady Walks this week [princetoninfo.com], have absorbed my passion for the towering boulders of the Sourlands trail off Hopewell’s Greenwood Avenue. This haven taught me that not only trees and flowers, animals and insects, –but the very rocks themselves–, exude spirit. One is changed, –of course for the better–, in their midst. One is stilled, inspired and strengthened merely walking among them. Even more-so, sitting upon the most majestic rocks at the end of the blue trail, their ancient reality, their connection to creation, seeps into and surrounds one.
You who read this blog, who did read NJ WILD all those years with the Packet, have seen images of those rocks. They impact me like Chartres and Mt. St. Michel. But you must go there in timelessness. You must allow them to realize that you are open to their beings, and sometimes, even their messages. You might apologize aloud for humans who ferried them away and pulverized their eminences into gravel and Belgian blocks. To say nothing of the angry and misguided who defaced them with (now effaced, but never forgotten) wild graffiti last fall. You might also make amends to noble beech trees along the trail, scarred by (to me, inexplicable) human need to carve their initials upon their sacred skin.
Ed insists, and I have always agreed, the Bible has it wrong. “Man was NOT put here to have dominion over all things… The earth was here first, and all these living things before us.” Ed, also, –whose great joy was scrambling over rocks and boulders, mountains and peaks, preferably in sere desert landscapes–, goes on to tell the St. John’s students: “Is it not possible that rocks, hills, and mountains, may enjoy a sentience, a form of consciousness, which we humans cannot perceive, because of vastly different time scales?” His most outrageous proposition, which I find irresistible, is “…consider that we are thoughts in the minds of mountains, or that all humanity is a long, long thought.”
His (temporary, for Ed never gave UP on these themes) conclusion is, “As mind is to body, so is humanity to earth. We cannot dishonor one without dishonoring and destroying ourselves.”
The Intrepids and I turn together to Eleanor Roosevelt and Georgia O’Keeffe, to stiffen our spines for the battles demanded in the 21st Century, to carry on to victories small and large upon which the Planet’s very survival depends. Privately, every single year, I turn to Ed.
Ed ruminates on reverberations of research: “Science leads to technology…, and industry. It’s what [science] can lead to that could be bad… Things go wrong, and scientists (and the Army Corps of Engineers, adds Carolyn-of-New-Jersey) are called in to think up remedies. More and more, the system comes to rely upon remedial tinkering. It becomes ever more centralized until utter collapse is inevitable.” Outrageous Ed dares to say “the sooner, the better”, which quip I do not applaud. But his conclusion is essential, “Then, maybe, we can stamp out this blight, this cancer of industrialization.”
When our beautiful –state, with its marvelous green preserves of forest and farmland–, is reduced to a “What Exit?” joke… When everyone’s view of this entity formerly known as The Garden is a plethora of tanks and chimneys and wires and overpasses. When our sacred Shore is eyed by Big Power as one long limitless oilfield — it’s time to pay attention to Ed. Read him. Write letters to editors. Protest every pipeline suggestion/appropriation. Support your local land trusts, who are trying to turn the tide of ruination decried by Ed Abbey, the Hemingway of preservation.
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The death of a ‘value based’ democracy….
Posted on October 17, 2015 October 18, 2015 by noelmull
In the 2015 Canadian General Election we are witnessing the end of ‘values based’ politics in our country.
As a nation, we’ve somehow made the #1 issue in this election, by far and away: the latest voter preference poll. This is an unprecedented development for a G8 democracy.
Nothing best exposes this more than the recent abandonment of the Green Party by a plethora of prominent environmental entities and activists.
They did this on the eve of the election, with Trudeau headed for a majority government, the NDP campaign flagging nationwide, and the conservatives all but collapsing. This context is made even more interesting by the fact the Greens are surging in support across BC, and challenging in many many ridings.
Apparently the Green message has legs.
One such activist, Ben West, who is publically associated with ‘The Great Climate Race’, and a ‘Tanker-Free BC’, has decided to openly support parties that have no credible plan to address climate change, and who won’t take a clear stand on either pipelines or tankers.
This, even as the Green Party of Canada has produced the most comprehensive environmental platform Canada has ever seen: a platform that states it will ban all new heavy oil pipelines to BC and make a complete reckoning of climate change domestically by 2050.
Why did they do that? Well, the polls told them to do that.
Canadians everywhere are being told to park their values and vote based on the most recent poll.
Polls have now become the fill-in where principles, platforms and issues once reigned.
We’ve become a democracy that no longer cares about these things; we want to know what the score is, rather than be part of the game.
And that, fellow Canadians, spells the end of our ‘values based’ democratic tradition.
It’s not as if there aren’t a great many extremely important issues to form our values around in this election.
It is, after all, the eve of the onset of catastrophic climate change, something that we’ve seen coming for 35 years.
And a time when our entire country has faced unprecedented wildfires, drought, floods, and other climate change related maladies,
When our commodities industries are on the brink of total failure,
When we’re about to enter the most difficult demographic transition in living memory,
When household debt is at an all time high,
When we’re in a technical recession,
When our dollar is on a steady decline,
When we have the lowest interest rates possible, and no growth to report,
When we’re about to hand over our very sovereignty to foreign business interests in the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
When there are over 1200 missing and murdered aboriginal women, and steadily rising.
We’ve now somehow handed our entire political process over to notoriously unreliable voter preference polls, looking to the likes of Dogwood, LeadNow and VoteTogether as our new political intelligentsia.
Even more exceptional, we’ve managed to do this, for months upon months, in an election that has featured between 20-30% undecided voters.
It’s really been amazing to watch this all unfold as both an insider and an informed observer.
Anyone who has been involved in even a few elections knows that the ‘strategic vote’ campaign is now the regular feature of both Liberal and NDP campaigning. They’ve been doing this for years and the pattern is crystal clear.
Both the NDP and Libs are guilty of electioneering of the highest degree, and this is now one of their main tactics. The other chief tactic is refusing to electorally cooperate, which has turned our elections into some sick parallel of the Prometheus story.
On the progressive left, we grow our vital organs back every election, before they are ripped out once more by the unified and ‘value-driven’ Conservatives. I feel your anger: it’s ridiculous to watch this.
What’s been even more amazing is watching the NDP slip from the lead and change, overnight, their tactic from a full-charge strategic vote, to a ‘vote for what you want!’, ‘don’t abandon your values now!’ strategy. It’s worthy of ridicule.
Honestly, if this election was only about strategic voting, we could have saved the $350 million and just handed this contest to Justin in the wake of his Bill C-51 debacle: because that’s the logical outcome of strategic voting if we accept it as our political ‘raison d’etre’.
I’ve been canvassing and campaigning in a variety of locations this election, I still haven’t been able to find even a handful of people that actually want to vote for either the party, platform or the leader they feel strategic voting compels them to.
They’re doing it simply out of fear of the other, and that my friends, is no way to pick a Prime Minister.
But Harper is going to win, right?
How does Harper win, anyways?
Everybody on your social media seems to hate him, so where do all these voters come from at election time?
In a nutshell, Harper panders to the largest ‘value based’ voter base still left in Canada: Conservative Canadians. That seems a very powerful thing to do.
Conservative voters will simply NOT abandon their vote because it’s based in a deep-rooted sense of shared values that have nothing to do with polls.
While on the progressive left we’re rapidly refreshing our poll websites to find out where our vote should go next; Conservatives are charting a 30 year trajectory through the political wilderness, unified by a common destiny.
I can’t begin to tell you how inadequate the ‘progressive’ approach has been in comparison.
We don’t know what philosophy we’re even following anymore; we just know we’re against the other guys.
Are you Green, NDP or Liberal? Can you articulate what the differences are, or what this means for your vote? Do you know what’s in the platforms and do you understand the character of the leaders?
We desperately need to start to understand just how much damage ‘fear politics’ has done to our great nation.
We’ve fallen from global respect and dignity, to the laughing stock of the G8, and worldwide climate villain.
Scroll back to the top, and have a look at the condition we currently find ourselves in: that’s a terrible confluence of factors for any civil society to find itself.
When I visited the Canadian Mission to the UN in 2005, we were the most respected country in the world and held in the very highest regard in the General Assembly.
We had so many people appointed to key global positions that we were characteristically embarrassed about it.
Fast forward to 2015 and we’ve become a pariah in the very same house; exemplified by the vote that saw Canada rejected a seat on the Security Council by our GA partners.
Along the way our politics have become hi-jacked by electioneers, we’ve abandoned our values, and our democratic traditions.
We have only ourselves to blame for this precipitous decline.
As a nation we’ve become obsessed with fear politics and it shows.
The case to never again vote NDP, Liberal or Conservative, as long as you live.
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7 thoughts on “The death of a ‘value based’ democracy….”
Deb Proby says:
While I can’t comment publicly as I am currently an Election Canada employee, I will proudly say to you that I voted Green with no hesitation. When I have admitted this to friends and/or family, I had to explain why I stepped away from the “strategic voting” plan. I replied that I WAS strategic voting when I voted for the party that most closely represented my own value system. It is unfortunate the voting has become more of a calculation of the odds of winning when we all have so much more to lose in the end. Good one you for writing and circulating this. Much regard, Deb
Mahri Brasfield says:
Even as I thought the Greens couldn’t yet be prime leaders I supported and voted for them because I wan’t them to know that many of us need them to gather and grow and get citizens aware of their efforts to bring back our democracy, fair laws, tended environment next time we vote! Be heard greens, soon more will join your party and understand you truthful interest in a better Canada!
the ndp has done a last minute switch to vote your values rhetoric? where? i only see strategic voting up of the ass of everywhere still….
i wouldn’t say im completely a green supporter but i did vote for my local green party candidate in this election , and i can articulate plenty of differences for you about these parties , which can be summed up as the gpc for the most part isn’t a part of the power structure that the other parties are , and yes i do know much of what’s in the gpc’s platform (it’s like 200 pages big not gonna read the whole thing lol) , i even bought a copy of their condensed platform for this election…..
this article is really good , just wish more strategic voting minded people could see it…..
well would you take a look at that , liberal majority , death of a ‘value based’ democracy indeed….
Scriptuali-T says:
Well, I somehow missed that blog last year, but I would like to comment it now, as I believe my comment will still be relevent.
First, let me tell you that I don’t associate myself with any political party (although I voted Liberal at the last federal election), and I will tell you why. When I vote for a leader, I don’t look at their values, which can be and often are pretended (look at Trump’s pretended Christian values), but rather at their capacity to “administer” a territory. So, when you write about the “death of a value-based democracy”, I shake my head a bit.
My environmental values are quite high, but I would not vote for the Green Party, simply because it’s an ideological party, just like the other parties, but more so than the others, except maybe the Conservatives. I believe values are personal aspects of life, and they have no business in politics (although I realize not many people believe that). Faith is also a personal value that should have nothing to do in politics (would you vote for a religious party? Many do, and use the same arguments you use to convince us to vote Green, which is “Vote according to your values”).
I believe values are fondamental. However, I believe it’s a mistake to try to impose our personal values to others, and that’s what all political parties do, and that’s what you try to do too in your blogs. I believe that, as a member of the Council, your responsibility is to administer the District as wisely as you can (which sometimes mean to go against your personal values). Up to now, I think you do a great job, and the reason I say this is because I didn’t notice that you were trying to impose your personal values as a Councilor, and this is wise (although sometimes I feel you would like to have more power in order to be able to impose your personal values).
There is another thing that made me shake my head a bit in this blog: you believe that the Canadian federal political system is a “democracy”. I wouldn’t want us to spend hours and hours to argue about this fact. However, you also believe that you are a well informed person. I can understand that, at the municipal level, people believe this is a democracy (because I can communicate with the head of the District, which is the Council, and they will listen to what I say, like you do now), but do you believe this is actually the case at the national level? Even more, do you believe that, at the national level, it’s the will of the people that directs the day-to-day decisions, and not the will of the big corporations? If, as an informed person, you understand that it’s money that talks at the national level, can you still call this system a democracy? Wouldn’t it be more exact to call it an oligarchy, if we understand that a democracy is a territory ruled by the people, while an oligarchy is a territory ruled by the elite?
Sorry for the long comment, Noel, there is so much to discuss when it comes to values in politics. ☺
noelmull says:
Hello Marc,
I’m not sure you caught the main point of this article, which is:
in 2015 polls became the stand in where platforms and values used to reign.
You’ll see it again in the 2017 Provincial election…and the National one after that.
That’s no way to pick a government.
We seem to do it out of fear of the other, and it’s now the regular feature of campaigns Federally, Provincially and even Municipally.
I get your point about the administration being key, I feel the same way…however as the old saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat,
that’s where the values come in, or at least they used to!
Hello Noel,
You argue that your main point was a switch from value to polls, and I argue that your main point was to stress the importance of voting according to one’s value. Me think we mean the same thing, don’t we? : )
Whatever your main point was, MY main point was to stress the importance of not voting according to our values, but according to who we think would make a better administrator.
By the way, you seem to like to make strong predictions. One needs to be very careful with that, if one doesn’t want to lose credibility (remember your prediction in the last federal election? 🙂 ). My opinion on the “poll voting”, as you call it, is that when a population feels the strong need to get rid of a bad administrator, the people will tend to vote strategically, which was the case in the last federal election, indeed, and might very well be the case in the next provincial election too. However, unless the actual federal government changes drastically its way to administer the country, I believe that people will get back to a more “personal” approach to voting in the next federal election. We shall see.
Keep on the great work! : )
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Minamata Convention confirms amalgam to be gradually phased out
Submitted 3 years 11 months ago by Divya Verma.
The final ratification of the Minamata Convention on Mercury has been agreed confirming that individual nations can work gradually to scale down the use of amalgam. The Convention is an international legally-binding treaty which is designed to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. The use of amalgam in dentistry is leading to mercury in waterlines which is very difficult to treat with normal water filtering processes. This is resulting in toxic mercury accumulation in the soil and water which can leach into agriculture land and accumulate in wildlife such as fish which becomes increasingly concentrated in species higher up the food chain.
The news has been welcomed by the BDA (British Dental Association), FDI (Federation Dentaire Internationale) and CED (Council of European Dentists) who have been lobbying to ensure that a complete phase-out within a short time period was avoided. Their arguments are that there is no viable replacement material for amalgam and that restrictions on its use would damage the financial stability of the dental health system and would impact patients' ability to afford dental care. This view point is also supported by the WHO who advocate the phasing down rather than phasing out of amalgam and suggest that the quality of alternative materials must be further improved for use in public dental care.
The phasing down highlights some important considerations such as the requirement for further training (both undergraduate and as CPD) in the application of composites, and the lack of training in placing amalgam restorations in certain dental schools despite it not being phased out yet. Other considerations draw on evidence from Norway which suggests that strong leadership from the Directorate of Health, acceptance of the need to change by the profession, and effective collaborative working with all stakeholders (including patients) were paramount to their success in phasing out of amalgam.
It will be interesting to see the time frame that will be suggested for the phasing down of amalgam in the UK, especially given what appears to me as a reluctance of the profession as a whole to embrace the idea. Will they follow a similar approach to Norway with a complete ban on amalgam where dentists can apply for exemptions or will this appear to be too controversial?
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Submitted by Frances Mortimer on Wed, 2016-03-02 19:57
Hi Divya - thanks for posting this, I have been meaning to read up about the Minamata Convention for ages! As you know i am not a dentist, but i was a bit surprised to read that there is not a viable alternative to amalgam - i think there are alternatives commonly in use?
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May 27, 2005 The XM25 Advanced Airburst Weapon System is an entirely new class of weapon that takes the concept of a grenade launcher and adds some smarts, thereby increasing the probability of hit-to-kill performance by up to 500 percent over existing weapons. The advanced design allows the soldier to program the air bursting 25mm round so that it flies to the target and detonates at a precise point in the air. It does not require impact to detonate and is hence capable of defeating an enemy behind a wall, inside a building or in a foxhole.
Alliant Techsystems has delivered the first six prototype XM25 advanced airbursting weapon systems to the U.S. Army for field-testing. The XM25 fires a High Explosive (HE), air bursting 25mm round capable of defeating an enemy behind a wall, inside a building or in a foxhole. The advanced design allows the operator to program the round so that it flies to the target and detonates at a precise point in the air. It does not require impact to detonate.
The XM25 is ideal for urban combat. It puts precision firepower in the hands of the soldier, allowing them to eliminate threats without causing significant collateral damage. “The initial field tests are very promising,” said LTC Matthew Clarke, U.S. Army project manager, individual weapons. “A weapon system like the XM25 will prove invaluable to our warfighters. It will be a clear differentiator on the battlefield.”
The revolutionary fire control system for the XM25 employs an advanced laser rangefinder that transmits information to the chambered 25mm round. As the round flies downrange to the target, it precisely measures the distance travelled and detonates at exactly the right moment to deliver maximum effectiveness.
The XM25 increases the warfighter’s probability of hit-to-kill performance by up to 500 percent over existing weapons. It also extends the effective range of the soldier’s individual weapon to more than 500 meters.
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wow2010 January 14, 2011 08:34 PM
May lord bless us not to let such weapon into those monkey\'s hands to hurt peace keepers or innocents who wants nothing to do with wars.
RealityBites August 23, 2011 08:34 PM
Great! new toys for the psycho\'s. Why not try to make a weapon that doesn\'t murder civilians? or is that the plan?
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Reality, we don't aim to kill civilians. When the terrorists use them for as human sheilds however, THEY are responsible for the deaths. I want one of these to add to my collection.
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It\'s really really hard to kill ideology with weapons... The people responsible for terrorism are ideologues beyond sense, logic, or critical thinking which means it is very difficult to reason with them. Maybe if we had \"bullets\" that would get their brains a bit of a reboot to see how damaging it is adhere so dogmatically to an ideology whether it be Islam, Judaism or Christianity... As an engineer, I am jazzed by the tech, but it also scares me as a human being and a father about who and how this gets used...
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Last I heard they\'d fired nearly 60 rounds in combat... Hopefully minimizing the need for heaver weapons in an urban environment... Being able to put the round four feet past a window or wall is a LOT more discriminating than razing half a city block to get a few \"insurgents\" holed up on a midst of a civilian housing area...
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A huge technological wonder. With increased precision, unwanted damage or civilian casualty is avoided which is very necessary, especially in modern urban warfare. This machine will prove considerably effective.
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Great but maybe not so great when Musthava Jihad gets his/her hands on one.
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Breaking it off with her long-time non-magical boyfriend, Evan, was for his own good. At least that’s what Maggie Owen tells herself. After all, a witch and a human can have no future together. Her vision told her so. But now it seems the universe is exacting revenge for upsetting the balance of what “should be” and her heart is telling her she was wrong.
Evan Jackson can’t believe his bad luck. It’s been a year since Maggie broke his heart, and now his business partner has hired her as their new receptionist. Fine, they need the help. But no way will he let her get close again. He can’t take another heartbreak from the woman he still dreams about, even if it feels like there’s still a magical pull between them.
Being in the same building with Evan is a start, but it’s going to take more than Maggie’s special talents and a wink to get the hard-hearted bad-boy to see that love is really more than just cosmic nonsense and set the universe back into balance.
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This lovers-reunited novella, found Maggie Owen accepting a job at the very tattoo shop co-owned by her ex-boyfriend, Evan Jackson. In a cosmically ironic turn of events, their reunion was the impetus they needed to face their strong feelings for each other and the reasons for their breakup. There were several naughty, but not overtly explicit, sex scenes, that pulled readers in, as Maggie and Evan’s personal barriers were torn down and their mutual desire heated up. They had to look past their surface attraction, to the deep feelings underneath and both learned to accept the other’s gifts, including Maggie’s magical connection.
Annabel, Maggie’s sister and Liam, Evan’s business partner and friend, rounded out the cast and there were hints of a possible love match for Liam in future books. These secondary characters were even funnier and snarkier than the lead characters. My favorite quote was delivered by Annabel as she described Evan, “Maggie, the man looks like Aphrodite and David Gandy had a love baby. He loves art and building stuff. He likes puppies. He volunteers at a soup kitchen. His favorite movie is Love Actually for heaven’s sake.” (Marrow, A. D. (2014-03-24). Love and Other Cosmic Nonsense (Entangled Covet) (Kindle Locations 246-247). Entangled Publishing, LLC. Kindle Edition.) Who wouldn’t fall for a tattooed good boy, like that?
My only note was that the story was too short. I know A.D. Marrow planned to continue the series but this reader would have enjoyed some flashbacks to the characters’ “meet cute,” “first date,” or “first sex scene.” The length did not detract from the story – I just wanted more! However, fans of Entangled books will be pleasantly surprised with at least one cameo from another author’s popular MMA fighter series.
I look forward to Ms. Marrow’s future books and recommend Love and Other Cosmic Nonsense (Entangled Covet) for those days when you need a short, sweet and funny happily ever after to curl up with on a cold or rainy day.
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A.D Marrow is a a registered Sapiophile, a proud Geek since before Geek was chic and believes that everyone deserves a happily ever after. She lives in the foothills of North Carolina with her ridiculously hot and amazingly supportive husband, three kids that rock so hard there should be a national holiday for their awesomeness, two really stupid dogs and a plethora of Post-it notes with book ideas to last her until she’s 90.
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The anatomy of debate about campaign finance
Ryan Pevnick
The goal of this article is to provide a conceptual overview that highlights the key questions of democratic theory at stake in the debate about campaign finance. It does so in two main steps. First, against the common view that the debate is a one-front confrontation between egalitarians and their opponents, the article outlines three distinct reform positions. These positions aim to eliminate the dependence of public officials on wealthy supporters, equalize citizens' opportunity for political influence, or ensure that advocates of competing positions have equal resources with which to contest elections. Second, the article articulates a challenge faced by advocates of all of the main reform positions: they must show that the ideal for which they advocate can be meaningfully pursued without undermining broader commitments to individual liberty in the background culture. This generates deeper difficulties for the reform movement than ordinarily recognized.
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Pevnick, R. (2016). The anatomy of debate about campaign finance. Journal of Politics, 78(4), 1184-1195. https://doi.org/10.1086/686687
The anatomy of debate about campaign finance. / Pevnick, Ryan.
In: Journal of Politics, Vol. 78, No. 4, 01.10.2016, p. 1184-1195.
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Consolidation of the National Transparency System: A New Paradigm for Open Institutions
This panel will present Mexico's National Transparency System emphasizing the subnational level involving governors, representives from the civil society and the national autonomous agency, INAI.
Maria Marván
Alejandro González Arreola
Francisco Domínguez
Graco Ramírez
Aristóteles Sandoval
Joel Salas Suárez
Access to Information, Panel
Host Organization GESOC, Gestión Social y Cooperación, A.C.
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Fiscal Openness Working Group
Members of the Fiscal Openness Working Group (FOWG) will share with the audience an update about their fiscal transparency commitments; special attention will be devoted to the engagements that involve public participation. IBP will provide an update of the main findings of the Open Budget Survey 2015. GIFT will provide an update about the peer learning and technical support it has been providing, particularly: analysis of the fiscal transparency commitments at OGP, the open fiscal data package and the public participation principles.
Hazel Feigenblatt
IEP-IRM-OGP
Cecile Le Guen
Warren Krafchik
Massimo Mastruzzi
Murray Petrie
Host Organization Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency
Public Policy to Combat Corruption: the Challenges faced by the National Anti-Corruption System
This session wil disciuss the premises that led to the creation of the Mexican National Anti-Corruption Sytem and its objectives, policy and institutional and challenges in the current political context.
Enrique Cárdenas
Oscar Guerra Ford
Eileen Matus
Mauricio Merino
José Roldán Xopa
Host Organization Red por la Rendición de Cuentas
Governments & Civil Society Collaboration in Fiscal Transparency Portals
Representatives from governments and civil society groups will discuss the role of dialogue between the supply and the demand sides of fiscal information, focusing on how to create and improve official websites that publish and disseminate fiscal information. The discussion will address peer-to-peer learning and south-south collaboration, making reference to recent exchanges between Brazil and six Latin American countries, as well as Indonesia and South Africa. Participants will present experiences, opportunities and challenges in using websites to disclose budget information and address specific user demands.
Diego de la Mora
Kunta Dasa Wibawa Nugraha
Yenti Nurhidayat
Lorena Rivero del Paso
General Director of Performance Monitoring and Information Analysis, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico
Jorge Galeano Robledo
Yenny Sucipto
Wawan Sunarjo
Space Bicentenario
Access to Information and Improved Policing: Results of a Multi-Country Study and Other OGP Efforts
This moderated roundtable discussion among five government and civil society experts will feature heavy audience participation. Panelists representing different governments will talk about implementation of OGP commitments in policing information collection, management and sharing. The session will present results of the first phase of a multi-country study (involving Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the UK) examining access to information concerning policing of assemblies. The moderator will then host a discussion about proactive disclosure requirements as well as the study's findings regarding benefits and challenges to police of sharing and disclosing information.
Sandra Coliver
Senior Managing Legal Officer, Open Society Justice Initiative
I am working to support litigation and law reform to strengthen and defend the rights to freedom of association and assembly in parts of Latin America, Europe and Africa; build support for, and use of, the Principles on Protest and Right to Information, including by working with networks... Read More →
Gregory Michener
Professor - Director Transparency Program, FGV-EBAPE / Transparency Audit Network
Professor of Policy and Politics at FGV-EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro, Director of FGV's Public Transparency Program and of the Open Society Foundation-supported Transparency Audit Network. New paper I wrote on ATI (FOI) in Latin America: http://goo.gl/jxGRpO
Dante Preisser
Head of the Government Openness Unit, México's Attorney General's Office
Mexican lawyer. I'm in charge of the open government policy at the Office of the Attorney General in Mexico, a complex job that I greatly enjoy.
Mark Wise
Thursday October 29, 2015 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Host Organization Open Society Justice Initiative | FGV, Rio
Access to Information as a Critical Link to Fulfilling National OGP Commitments
Access to information (ATI) is a fundamental right and a critical element for participation, voice, and accountability. It is crucial in addressing the most pressing social needs, solving public problems, improving the effectiveness of government institutions, and allowing citizens to help set priorities and monitor government action. Increasing transparency and access to information is at the core of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) values and principles; and passage of ATI legislation is included as one of the four main eligibility criteria for joining the OGP. While many OGP countries have developed national actions plans which include a series of commitments related to areas such as improved service delivery, fiscal transparency, asset disclosure, e-government, infrastructure, improved public service, in some cases, the country national action plans do not include specific commitments for continued advancement of the right of access to information or the ATI obligations that have been made are not effectively connected to other OGP commitments.
María José Montiel
Fola Adeleke
Paulina Bustos Arellano
Operations Program Manager at Codeando México (Code for Mexico) a non-profit organization that deploys civic hacking communities in order to solve social problems with technology.---
Marcos Mendiburu
Laura Neuman
Director of the Global Access to Information Program, Carter Center
Laura Neuman is director of the Global Access to Information Program. She directs and implements Carter Center transparency and good governance programming, including projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Ms. Neuman developed the innovative access to information implementation... Read More →
Jordi Romeu-Granados
Researcher - PhD Candidate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Head of Legal Services at Vinaròs City Council. Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. Researcher at Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset. Madrid, Spain. Researcher at Grupo de Pesquisa sobre Controle Social do Gasto Público da UNESP and at Grupo de Pesquisa Administração... Read More →
Host Organization Access to Information Working Group
How can Open Contracting Impact Development?
Governments spend over US $9.5 trillion every single year through contracts. Yet, in many countries, this information is unavailable for public scrutiny. This high level policy dialogue will focus on showing how Open Contracting can make all public contracting truly public, and how it is contributing and can have further incidence on governments’ development agendas and on the everyday lives of citizens around the world.
Gavin Hayman
Eduardo Bohórquez
Director, Transparencia Mexicana
Licenciado en Ciencia Política y Administración Pública por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y Maestro en Estudios del Desarrollo por la Universidad de Cambridge, Inglaterra.Se desempeñó como Consejero de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Social y de la Secretaría... Read More →
Eduardo Briones
Robert Hunja
Max Nefyodov
Seember Nyager
Host Organization The Open Contracting Partnership | The World Bank
Social Impact Bonds, Public-Private Partnerships and other Mechanisms to Improve Transparency and Accountability
The aim of the session focuses on raising awareness among participants on the importance of the new instruments in the public sector to promote transparency and managing for results. In this set of instruments to promote RBM (Pay for Success) are Public-Private Partnerships, Social Impact Bonds, among others. In each of these strategies underlies the concept of transparency and open government.
José Luis Chicoma
Alberto Bucardo
Ana Paula Gonzalez
Sean Jones
Cristina Yoshida
Host Organization Ethos Laboratorio de Políticas Públicas
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Car Giants Focus On Lithium Battery Production
By Jon LeSage - May 26, 2018, 10:00 AM CDT
Years ago, the great automotive “chicken or egg” debate centered on which technology would lead the way: the electric vehicle or the charging infrastructure.
Now it’s all about the lithium battery, as automakers like Tesla, General Motors, Daimler, Toyota, Nissan, and BMW cut deals for large scale battery production. They’re also seeing huge potential in the energy storage capacity available through the lithium battery packs they’re already building on their own or through supplier alliances.
There's been a wave of developments on the lithium battery front — both in terms of higher capacity for longer range electric vehicle driving and for energy storage as a serious revenue source for automakers. Lithium miners in Australia and Canada are seeing their stock prices climb, as demand for electric vehicles grows due to increasingly stringent government mandates and burgeoning interest in long-range, affordable EVs like the Chevrolet Bolt and Tesla Model 3.
Forecasts of expected demand for long-range EVs have lifted lithium carbonate prices more than two times the level reached in 2015.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be losing his popularity with shareholders and analysts as costs rise to meet aggressive Model 3 production targets, but interest is still quite strong from battery technology suppliers. One of them, Australian mining company Kidman Resources Ltd., will supply Tesla with lithium hydroxide through a joint venture with Chile’s giant Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA. Kidman will supply Tesla through its planned refinery in Western Australia for an initial three-year period, which could extend to more three-year agreements.
Related: Is The U.S. Ethanol Industry Under Siege?
The Tesla deal has stirred up a good deal of interest. Kidman said on Thursday it was in talks with other “globally significant” parties seeking supplies of refined lithium.
Tesla’s major battery supplier, Panasonic, last week announced it will be extending its agreement with the electric carmaker. Along with producing battery cells for Tesla in Japan and jointly with the company at the Gigafactory in Nevada, Panasonic said it could jointly produce battery packs with Tesla in China.
Earlier this month, Tesla registered to establish a wholly owned company in Shanghai, according to a Chinese government’s website. The company plunked down 100 million yuan ($15.8 million) to register the new Chinese company. Tesla’s registration includes technological development and services on EVs, auto parts, batteries, energy storage facilities, and solar panel products. It may be ideal for setting up its second Gigafactory with Panasonic.
Along with German automakers preparing to become Tesla-competitive in luxury EVs and more affordable electric models, several upscale startups are being followed by auto analysts. One of them, led by car design chief Henrik Fisker, is based more on the strengths of the battery than on the beauty and power of the scheduled-for-launch Fisker EMotion. Fisker, who headed the now-bankrupt Fisker Automotive and its Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sportscar, is ready to go to the next phase with what he calls a three-dimensional solid-state battery.
The new company, Fisker Inc., says that its EV batteries will have three-dimensional electrodes with 2.5 times the energy density of current lithium-ion batteries. That will deliver a first — a 500-mile driving range with charging times that can go as low as one minute.
"Our chief scientist is an expert on solid-state batteries," Fisker said. "He has done, shall we say, the 2.0 of solid-state batteries.”
Japanese auto giant Toyota also believes in solid-state batteries leading the EV revolution in the next decade. But it won’t be happening overnight, with 2030 being a more realistic timetable for seeing mass production for Toyota’s EVs powered by solid-state batteries.
There is also a growing number of clientele on the energy storage side of the business. While Tesla Energy has set the benchmark with its Powerpack product, Nissan and BMW have taken steps forward in advancing the technology.
Japanese automaker Nissan just confirmed the UK launch of the home solar-plus-storage product that it first unveiled in February. The company said it will provide a great opportunity to expand its current base of 880,000 solar homes in the UK.
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The UK is also seeing another energy storage product from a global automaker. Vattenfall, a major European energy company, has connected 500 BMW i3 batteries to the Pen y Cymoedd onshore wind farm in Wales. It makes for the largest co-located installation in the UK.
During its recent first quarter shareholder earnings call, Tesla reported that its Energy Storage business grew 161 percent in Q1 over Q4 2017. The company predicts that its energy storage business will triple this year. Along with the successful Hornsdale project in South Australia, Tesla Energy is working on deals in other parts of the world such as the U.S. Similar relationships may be established with Consolidated Edison in New York, and Xcel Energy and PG&E in California.
Gross margin on the energy generation and energy storage business improved, Tesla reported.
Oil giant BP also sees the growth potential in the EV battery market. Its BP Ventures subsidiary has invested $20 million in StoreDot to develop a new battery technology capable of charging an EV in as little as 5 minutes.
BP has installed more than 70 EV charging stations at retail locations in several countries. The company has also invested $5 million in FreeWire, a maker of mobile EV charging systems.
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Tom on May 26 2018 said:
While we see continued development of the electric car and battery storage systems, the Oil Industry and Ethanol Industries remain locked in an endless battle over Market Share, as played out in the Renewable Fuels Standard and RIN Prices.
I think it is incredibly short sighted of both the oil industry and the ethanol industry to not seek a mutually beneficial partnership to bring Clean Burning, Affordable, High Octane Fuels to the market place. We need higher octane fuels for greater efficiency to compete with the electrics, octanes on the order of 98 to 100 can help gasoline engines approach the efficiency of diesel engines. We need cleaner fuels to compete with the low emissions the electrics offer. We need the cost the higher octane fuels to be very cost effective. An extra cost of 50 to 75 cents per gallon for the high octane fuel is not going to cut it in competition with the electric car.
To achieve the maximum benefits described above we need the Oil Industry and Ethanol Industry to work together, with the Auto Industry and the EPA to do what is best for the American Consumer. By focusing on what is best for the CONSUMER, REDUCED POLLUTION, HIGHEST EFFICIENCY engines, and LOWEST COST high octane fuels, the participating groups can all win in the market place, and help their industries be more sustainable LONG TERM. By continuing the constant warfare between oil and ethanol, the two industries are throwing away a brighter future for both.
Its time for the API and the EPA to come into the 21st Century, and recognize that ethanol is not the enemy of oil, but rather a very useful resource to make oil and the internal combustion engine more sustainable and competitive with the electric car.
If oil is going to fight the electric car without ethanol, then they are going to fight one handed.
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Mabee Foundation gives OMRF $1.7 million challenge grant for new Cardiovascular Center
Tulsa’s J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation has given OMRF a $1.7 million challenge grant. The funds, and all gifts matched through it, will be used for construction of a new $8.48 million Cardiovascular Center at OMRF.
The Center will be a part of OMRF’s research tower, an 8-story facility that will add 186,000 square feet of clinical and research space to OMRF’s campus. The Cardiovascular Center will occupy one floor of the tower and be home to the laboratories of 8 principal scientists and more than 40 research and support staff. Construction is due for completion by early 2011.
“For more than three decades, the Mabee Foundation has been a vital contributor to OMRF and helped us become one of the leading independent research institutes in the U.S.,” said OMRF President Dr. Stephen Prescott. “We are thrilled with this new challenge grant, and we will use it to find new ways to combat heart disease.”
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in American adults, claiming more than 600,000 lives each year. According to the Oklahoma Department of Health, heart disease is also Oklahoma’s leading killer of both men and women.
OMRF has established itself as an internationally recognized center of excellence in the field of heart and blood research, with discoveries that have led to three life-saving therapies on the market today.
The Cardiovascular Center will be home to the labs of five long-time OMRF researchers and three recently recruited faculty members. The scientists will pursue a wide spectrum of projects, including investigation of the root causes of atherosclerosis, the build-up of fats in the lining of the arteries that can lead to stroke and heart attack. They will also focus on understanding and controlling blood vessel development, which is crucial to stopping cancer and cardiovascular disease.
OMRF has initiated a special fundraising campaign to raise the required matching funds for the Mabee challenge grant. All gifts toward the Center construction project received between now and Oct. 1 will be matched with Mabee funds.
“The Mabee Foundation has given Oklahomans a great opportunity to leverage their charitable dollars,” said OMRF Vice President of Development Penny Voss. “We hope it will give donors one more reason to join OMRF scientists in stopping Oklahoma’s number one killer.”
For more information about the Mabee challenge grant and the OMRF Cardiovascular Center campaign, go to www.omrf.org/mabee.
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Farage Eyes Eastleigh
Nigel Farage is up to something. He’s very publicly challenged Cameron to a debate, delivering a personal note to No.10 this morning:
“I propose a public debate between us where we can put our respective cases forward. My challenge to you is an open and honest one and I hope you will afford me, and the people of this country, a proper say on the matter.”
True to form, the UKIP leader took some ladies with him for the ride. While a debate between these two would no doubt be a belter, it’s not going to happen. Where Farage chose to announce his debate plan did pique Guido’s interest though. It seems he has spent the weekend in the prospective battlefield site of Eastleigh – Chris Huhne’s seat. For now…
Hypothetically, were there to be a by-election in the seat it would tear the coalition apart. There is plenty of bad blood on the ground after local Tories were narrowly defeated by vicious LibDem campaigns in election after election. Nobody would be pulling their punches this time…
If LibDem polling figures remain where they are, it will be the Tories’ to lose, but there are also 10,000 Labour votes up for grabs. With a decent tactical campaign UKIP could easily pick up significantly more than the 3,000 votes they secured in 2010. And not just from from disillusioned Tories…
Interestingly Farage stood in the seat in 1994, he reportedly told a local crowd on Saturday: “coming to Eastleigh is like coming home”. “Eastleigh is a site of some interest” a UKIP spokesmen told Guido this afternoon, though they would not be drawn on speculation. Ingratiating himself with local businesses? Talking to residents? Whatever could he be up to…
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Mayor Bowser Introduces Legislation to Expand Contracting Opportunities for Small and Local Businesses
(Washington, DC) – Today, the Council passed legislation introduced by Mayor Muriel Bowser to expand contracting opportunities for small and local businesses by giving preference to certified business enterprises (CBEs) in power line undergrounding construction contracts and architectural and engineering contracts. The Power Line Undergrounding Program Certified Business Enterprise Utilization Emergency Act of 2018, the Power Line Undergrounding Program Certified Business Enterprise Utilization Temporary Act of 2018, and the Power Line Undergrounding Program Certified Business Enterprise Utilization Emergency Declaration Resolution Act of 2018 will clarify and update certain provisions of the Electric Company Infrastructure Improvement Financing Act of 2014 in order to expand contracting opportunities for CBEs.
“Small and local businesses are the backbone of our economy—when they thrive, our community thrives,” said Mayor Bowser. “With DC PLUG, we have many opportunities for work, and with this legislation, we can better ensure that our small and local businesses are first in line for those jobs.”
The District’s power line undergrounding program (DC PLUG) is a multiyear effort to place certain overhead electrical lines underground in order to reduce the number of power outages during weather events and to increase the resiliency of the power distribution system. The Electric Company Infrastructure Improvement Financing Act of 2014, which authorized certain aspects of the program, included a goal that 100 percent of the DC PLUG construction contracts be awarded to District businesses.
The Mayor worked with Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie on the Power Line Undergrounding Program Certified Business Enterprise Utilization Emergency Act of 2018 to make clear that the goal applies to small and local businesses. The legislation will change the goal for contracting 100 percent of DC PLUG construction contracts with “District businesses” to a goal of contracting 100 percent of the DC PLUG construction contracts with “certified business enterprises or certified joint ventures.” Additionally, it will authorize the Office of Contracting and Procurement and the District Department of Transportation to provide CBE preference points for architectural and engineering contracts.
“I’m pleased to support the Power Line Undergrounding Program Certified Business Enterprise Utilization Emergency Act of 2018, which clarifies the intent of legislation I previously championed. That legislation, the Electric Company Infrastructure Improvement Financing Act of 2013 (B20-0387), seeks to improve the reliability of our electrical service by moving targeted power lines underground,” said Councilmember McDuffie. “As the District embarks on this large infrastructure project, it is critically important to keep as many dollars as possible within the District and maximize CBE and SBE participation to provide them with additional economic benefits.”
DC PLUG represents a public-private partnership between DC Government and Pepco that will result in the strategic undergrounding of overhead feeders in Wards 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8. Through this initiative, the high-voltage feeders most affected by outages will be installed underground. About half of the District is already served by undergound lines. Secondary and service lines will remain overhead on the existing poles.
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A New and Disturbing Angle On the GTH Scandal Saga You May Not Know About
Let’s pull back the curtain, for a moment, on newsrooms.
Newsrooms love having an Exclusive story, which aren’t usually exclusive for long. Once an Exclusive comes out, other newsrooms often pick it up and start running their own version – these are called Follows.
Except sometimes there are no Follows, which is the problem with Exclusives – you may never know about them.
The Exclusive may have involved hours of research and sources that cannot be properly replicated by other news outlets, and sometimes it just boils down to plain old professional jealousy (it takes a certain amount of humility for one newsroom to Follow another).
In Saskatchewan, many newsrooms have been decimated by cutbacks. They are overburdened and under-resourced. The reporters we have left are amazingly talented individuals, but they simply can’t get to it all.
Any or all of these reasons is why overall Saskatchewan media coverage of the Global Transportation Hub (GTH) has been sporadic. It’s been CBC iTeam reporter Geoff Leo’s story from the beginning; he has logged hundreds of hours investigating and reporting the scandal. It’s not an easy story, and not one that can be easily replicated.
Recently Leo revealed another disturbing branch of the GTH story. Because of rampant greed and potential corruption, lives have been ruined and a woman is dead. Just because you may not have heard about this latest bombshell does not mean it is not an extraordinary and crucially important development.
So, I will try to bring you up to speed by summarizing (many of the links are to documents shared in his story) Leo’s latest here.
You may remember Brightenview Development International from such projects as the Dundurn Megamall, or their other Megamall in Ontario, or the conveniently timed pre-2016 election deal to buy high-priced land at the GTH.
Brightenview’s plan is to build a business hub in Saskatchewan so Chinese entrepreneurs can move here to sell their products, in person, to North American buyers. First that hub was going to be the Dundurn Megamall. Now it appears it will be the Global Trade Exhibition Centre (GTEC) which Brightenview claims will be built at the GTH.
In the summer of 2012, shortly after they got Dundurn’s blessing to build their Monorail Megamall, businessmen Joe Zhou and Mike Niu launched Brightenview Development International. Mike and Joe were already business partners; together they had each previously founded businesses which as a whole comprised the Toronto-based Canmax group of companies.
The two men were quick to link their businesses. Canmax became a key stakeholder in Brightenview: promoting the Megamall in China, offering immigration services to Saskatchewan consulting to wannabe Brightenview tenants, and posting job ads for Brightenview on the Canmax website.
Leo’s story reveals that today, some of the Canmax group of companies are facing dozens of lawsuits from potential Chinese immigrants who claim Canmax took their money and gave them nothing but the runaround in return. In statements of defence Canmax denies it has done anything wrong.
Joe, and the Canmax companies he directed, managed to avoid being sued. Mike and his Canmax companies, however, are being sued like it’s going out of style.
In the CBC story, Brightenview insists that they have severed every last strand of their relationship with Canmax. I mean, just a few weeks ago their website said Canmax was the company that would provide settlement services for Brightenview projects, and it listed to Canmax as one of its corporate partners… but okay.
In Leo’s latest story we learn about Sophia Li, a Toronto nurse who in 2012 gave Canmax $60,000 – the life savings of her extended family – to help her sister and a nephew immigrate to Saskatchewan from China. After years of frustration, she is now in court fighting to get the money back. Meanwhile, another sister accused Sophia of pocketing the money herself, a charge so painful and dishonorable that it led Sophia’s elderly mother to kill herself in 2015.
We also meet Richard Xie, who in 2011 paid Canmax $25,000 to help his sister immigrate to Saskatchewan. By August 2015 no progress had been made and Xie was suspicious, so he contacted the Saskatchewan government himself. Imagine his surprise when he learned they had rejected his sister’s application in 2013. After a little more digging Xie also discovered that the job offer provided by Canmax to his sister from a Saskatoon company was fake – the address, and the company, didn’t exist.
So it’s not like the Saskatchewan government didn’t know about the issues with Canmax. In fact, in 2014 an official from Bill Boyd’s Ministry of the Economy contacted the federal government to advise that they had a “whole bunch” of Canmax applications which they believed included fake job offers.
Oh, and then there’s this: Mike Niu (remember, cofounder of Brightenview and Canmax) and his Lady Friend Jesse have been wanted by the Chinese government for loan fraud since 2014.
From CBC.ca – read the whole story here
Lady Friend Jesse is listed on corporate records as the founder of Vancouver-based Brightenvantage, a subsidiary of Brightenview, but she was removed from the corporate record a few weeks ago.
When the CBC asked who is now running the Brightenvantage office in Vancouver:
“…oh, God — I’m not even sure. I’m not even sure who’s running (Brightenvantage) in Vancouver,” replied the CEO (“not even sure” – the CEO!) of Brightenvantage, former NDP MP Lorne Nystrom, who is also Brightenview’s vice-president of government relations.
(I actually think my favorite part of this whole story is listening to the SaskParty government and their past-their-expiry-date surrogates eagerly siding with their new BFF, Tom-No-Pipelines-Mulcair supporter and diehard left-winger Lorne Nystrom.)
Back to Mike – he’s still up to his neck in lawsuits, and his name was taken off all Canmax corporate registries shortly after he showed up on Interpol.
Understandably.
On February 3, 2016, then Minister of the Economy/GTH Bill Boyd signed a land sale agreement with Brightenview that has since been heavily, and almost singularly, trotted out by the Saskatchewan government as proof that the GTH is a super-successful business that is definitely not sucking the taxpayer dry. They also signed a “co-operation agreement”.
“GTH is the lead agency empowered by government to work with Brightenview on the proposed projects,” Boyd wrote. “Please engage the relevant resources within government and any external agencies to assist as necessary.”
In other words, the provincial government was going all in (with your tax dollars) to back Brightenview.
Maybe this is why last fall Premier Brad Wall and a passel of delegates, including some from the GTH and Brightenview, were in Beijing talking up the GTH and specifically GTEC, Brightenview’s new and exciting project.
Maybe this is why the Saskatchewan government lined up beside Brightenview at the cheesiest sod-turning event (and not the least because of those white pants) this province may have ever seen.
A picture that for a few reasons may haunt Economy Minister Jeremy Harrison for the rest of his life. (CBC.ca)
I don’t even have any words for how unbelievably stupid this is. I mean, the fact these were the Dundurn Megamall folks didn’t cause a moment of pause for anyone?
If they were unwilling to overlook that, how about the fact that up until the day before Boyd signed those agreements, Mike Niu, an internationally wanted man (the government of Saskatchewan has an office in Shanghai, so there’s no excuse for them not knowing this), was still listed on the Saskatchewan corporate registry as a director and majority shareholder of Brightenview?
He was removed from the register the same day everybody got out their signin’ pens.
“Okay,” I can hear you thinking, “that’s good, right? They waited until the last possible second, but they did remove Mike from the company.”
Yeah, okay.
CBC phoned the Brightenvantage office in Vancouver, and three separate employees said that Mike was their boss. This news managed to jog Nystrom’s memory a bit.
“Whether he’s doing some stuff in the office off and on, I do not know,” he conceded.
Ah, I see.
Further, according to Leo’s story Mike was replaced by someone named Hua Ma, who also took ownership of Mike’s 90 per cent shares in Brightenview. Hua Ma’s address on the registry is a property owned by Mike’s Lady Friend Jesse.
Oh, and six months after being removed as a director, Mike seemingly registered a web domain for the GTH-based GTEC, using Brightenview’s contact information.
Seriously, does anyone in this government know how to use Google, nevermind do their due diligence before committing our tax dollars to this shit?
The Saskatchewan government and the GTH have cheerfully partnered with a company founded, and still connected to a man who has been wanted by the Chinese government for loan fraud.
The Saskatchewan government and the GTH have cheerfully partnered with a company that up until a few weeks ago, was broadly tied to an immigration company (founded by that guy wanted for fraud) that is facing 20-odd lawsuits filed on behalf of prospective Chinese immigrants who say it ripped them off.
The success of the Saskatchewan government’s partnership with this company, key to the future of the GTH, hinges on the Saskatchewan government’s speedy approval of the immigration applications of hundreds of Chinese business people through the province’s immigrant nominee program.
What I laid out here is just the tip of the iceberg.
This story has continued to unravel in many more bizarre and disturbing ways, all detailed at CBC.ca/Sask’s GTH reporting link.
In my next post I’ll help you follow the trail of bread crumbs… which I promise and guarantee you will one day end at the feet of people in jail cells across Canada.
*Apologies to those beautiful people on this blog’s mailing list. I had to republish this post because it wasn’t sharing properly on social media, so you got two copies in your inbox. Thank you for reading!
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Mo Pete says:
This story needs more attention. Another aspect that completely baffles me is how the Sask Party is so eager to get behind a project that appears to be little more than a front for Chinese residents to immigrate to Canada through the Province’s entrepreneur program. Will this mall even be open to the public? Will the business owners who buy into this project even live in Saskatchewan? I imagine a building filled with a bunch of empty condo units whose ownership changes every few months. This Government’s decision making is either based purely on ideology or gaining ‘quick-wins’ over common sense, facts or long term sustainability. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cash-for-jobs-immigration-consultant-connected-to-sask-government-backed-chinese-megamall-1.4164880
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August 14, 2019 August 13, 2019 by Películas & Cosas, posted in movie reviews
Director Quentin Tarantino’s highly-anticipated 9th film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is a fairy tale tribute to the final moments of Hollywood’s golden age. The writer-director’s 9th film is set in an alternate timeline and is his take on the events that would lead up to the Manson murders. On a 90 million dollar budget, Tarantino was able to ensemble a cast that includes Leonardo Dicaprio Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Al Pacino and more. Spoilers after the trailer.
A Classy Reimagining
Back in 2017, the news first broke that Quentin Tarantino was going to write and direct a movie based on the Manson family murders and reader, I’m not going to lie this movie isn’t what I expected. Set in 1969, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follows an aging television actor Rick Dalton (Brad Pitt) and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) as Dalton tries to make the transition from television to a successful film actor.
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The relationship between Dalton and Booth is the most enjoyable part of the film. Rick Dalton is the former star of the hit show Bounty Law and now that his star is fading the only person who is there for him is Cliff Booth. Since Dalton isn’t acquiring roles like he used to, Booth isn’t getting much work as a stuntman in Hollywood and is regulated to doing odd jobs for Rick.
Dalton is typecast in Hollywood as the rugged badass, ironically, that is who Cliff Booth really is. In Hollywood circles, the powers that be do not want to work with Booth because they all believe he killed his wife after a domestic dispute. Thanks to his connections with Rick he gets added on to the stunt crew but that does not last long thanks to his altercation with legendary martial artist Bruce Lee (Mike Moh). Lee and Booth had a light sparring session to see who could knock the other one down to the ground 2 out of 3 falls style.
The inclusion of the scene will definitely split viewers because the way that Bruce Lee – the only character of color with a major role – is treated but it helps put Booth’s tough guy persona over for the viewer. Tarantino’s knack for writing keen dialogue also adds to the memorability of Booth and Lee’s confrontation.
Tarantino’s approach to Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) is a complete 180 from Bruce Lee. She’s not given much dialogue in the film as the film chooses to mostly focus on a day of her life where she goes to the movies to watch herself in The Wrecking Crew.
Instead of re-enacting the scenes with Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, Tarantino decided to play the original footage with the real-life Sharon Tate on the big screen. On one hand this lets the audience remember her as a person instead of in the context of the tragic events that took her life. On the other hand, Margot does look like Sharon Tate but when you show footage of the real Sharon Tate it takes you out of the film.
Small Roles, Big Show
With such a large ensemble cast that’s filled with veteran actors and Oscar winners from start to finish, there were a few performances from actors who weren’t as experienced that maximized their screen time to create something memorable. Other real-life characters portrayed by accomplished actors include Red (Dakota Fanning) who has a sinister stare; George Spahn (Bruce Dern) is a blind cranky old man; and Dalton’s agent Hollywood producer Marvin Scwhartz (Al Pacino).
Pussycat (Margaret Qualley) was a character who was created specifically for this film. She’s a member of the Manson Family and Qualley does a good job at portraying the characters mysteriousness. Having Pussycat hitch a ride with Tate was a nice red-herring by Tarantino. Qualley shares most of her screentime with Brad Pitt and she holds her own with the veteran actor as the pair flowed off each other very well.
Qualley wasn’t the only actress to have made the most out of her appearance in the film, 10 year-old child actor Julia Butters was spectacular as Trudi Fraser. Trudi is another original character for the film and she’s Rick Dalton’s co-star on the set of Lancer. She holds her own with DiCaprio and there is a tense scene between the two while filming Lancer.
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If it wasn’t for the final confrontation during the film’s third act, Julia Butters would’ve had my top pick for breakout performance but I have to give that to Mikey Madison’s portrayal of Sadie. Madison has about 5 minutes of screentime and maybe 4 lines of dialogue that doesn’t include her screaming but she has one of my favorite scenes in the film. After their altercation with Rick Dalton, Katie (Madisen Beaty), Tex (Austin Butler) and Sadie decided to kill him instead of Sharon Tate. The way that Madison portrays Sadie as this delusional egocentric psychic is how I imagine the real life Susan “Sadie” Atkins was.
Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood is another welcoming addition to legendary director Quentin Tarantino’s filmography. As a director this film is Tarantino at his best. There are interesting and beautiful shot compositions throughout the film. However, as a writer there is a sense of wishing there was more things happening in the film. As a narrative thread, the relationship between Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth is what carries the movie through its 2 hour and 45 minute runtime. Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio have amazing performances that should get both of them some nominations come Oscar season. Nine films down and it will be interesting to see what Quentin has in store for Hollywood and the world whenever he releases film number 10.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was released in theaters July 26, 2019.
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Raymond Braun
Raymond Braun is a media personality, social influencer and the Founder of RWB Media, Inc. He has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30 “All Star”, one of MTV’s “Social Stars to Watch in 2016,” one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the world (OUT 100 by OUT magazine), iMedia’s top 25 Marketing Leaders and Innovators, Pride.com’s “67 Young Queer People Who Are Changing the World,” and Seventeen magazine’s “Fave Feel Good Message” of the year. In 2015, Raymond founded RWB Media, a consultancy focused on social media, politics, and LGBTQ engagement, which counts several Fortune 500 companies and leading global non-profits as clients, including Google, Inc. He is an active supporter and social media advocate for the Human Rights Campaign, The Trevor Project, GLAAD, and the Los Angeles LGBT Center, among others. One example of Raymond’s work in this space is that he consulted with the Human Rights Campaign on executing their viral #LoveWins campaign, culminating in the Supreme Court’s marriage equality victory. #LoveWins was one of the top trending hashtags of 2015 and became the hashtag symbol for the marriage equality victory. Prior to starting his own company, Raymond worked at YouTube where he originated their LGBTQ marketing and community engagement strategy. In addition to his business leadership, Raymond has travelled the world to report on political and social movements, and to encourage young people to get involved with politics and LGBTQ advocacy. This included flying to Ireland to cover their marriage equality referendum and being on the ground at the United States Supreme Court, reporting on all the developments for the historic marriage equality case.
Simon Rodgers
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Aritha Wickramasinghe
Aritha joined K&L Gates in December 2014 and was immediately elected into the firm’s Diversity Committee and took on the role of LGBT Champion. He has worked on raising awareness of LGBT issues in the work place by assisting in organising workshops and talks on LGBT issues, dealing with LGBT bullying and harassment in the work place, discussing the issues of multiple identities (especially ethnic and religious) and mentoring junior LGBT associates. He also set up a Global LGBT Rights Pro bono network at work so that all of their 47 offices across the world can collaborate on LGBT rights related work on a global scale. In 2015, he helped found Think Equal – a UN Human Rights Office endorsed global education initiative and he has worked closely with the Human Dignity Trust in negotiating with the European Union to convince them to include decriminalisation of homosexuality as a condition for Sri Lanka to gain preferential trade access into the single market through the GSP+ scheme. In 2016, he became the founding Director of i-Probono’s LGBT Justice Initiative, connecting over 60,000 pro bono lawyers across the world to LGBT persons and organisations in need.
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Global head of GM Technology Core Engineering Integration Components
Along with her role as Head of GM Technology Core Engineering Integration Components, Pips is co-lead of the Credit Suisse LGBT and Ally network and the LGBT Ally Working group responsible for helping execute LGBT Ally related events, publications and communications to better promote the network and to foster a workplace environment that is open and inclusive for all regardless of their gender identity, gender expression or sexuality. As part of her diversity work, Pips regularly presents to large audiences both within the workplace and externally to articulate the importance of an ally program and highlight the importance of authenticity. Pips identifies as gender fluid spending half of her time as Phil and the other half as Pippa both at work and at home with her wife and children and works closely with Stonewall and OUTstanding, specifically on education around trans* and non-binary identities. She is an active collaborator with many other organisations, including the Trans*Formation group and Diversity Role Models and has produced articles and documentaries with leading organisations including the Financial Times and the BBC. Pips is highly active and visible outside the workplace being at the Vanguard of helping to promote a diverse and inclusive culture working to eradicate marginalisation and promote the importance of authenticity.
Dr Nick Deakin
Investment Banking Associate
As part of his role with Citi, Nick has created a new outreach programme, recognising that leadership and role models are required to boost the numbers of LGBT+ candidates feeling that a career in investment banking is for them. This included helping organise Citi’s first minority recruiting event, initiating a new outreach programme which connects bankers to individual LGBT+ applicants and publishing his profile internally and through the Inside & Out recruitment event. He has mentored several young bankers and connected them to seniors within and outside Citi, and chaired the ‘Out in Investment Banking’ workshop at ROMBA in Chicago. Externally, Nick is the Co-Chair of EurOUT, Europe’s largest LGBT+ student conference, where he has overseen a 120% increase in levels of sponsorship and employer attendance. He is also the Co-President of the London Business School Out In Business Club, sits on the LBS LGBT+ Scholarship Committee and is a trained Diversity Role Model.
Mark McBride-Wright
Senior Safety Engineer
Being listed at number 2 in the 2015 Future LGBT Leaders List has been invaluable for the advancement of InterEngineering, which Mark co-founded in December 2014. The aim is to connect, inform and empower LGBT engineers and allies, and under his leadership the network has grown to over 500 members. Within his employer he is leading on a global inclusion strategy for KBR and compiled the company’s first Stonewall Workplace Equality Index submission. Upon the request from the House of Commons, co-authored with Alec Shelbrooke MP with a foreword from Lord Browne, Mark created the report “Engineering Action: Tackling Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia in Engineering”. The report received significant media coverage and was complemented with an event at the House of Commons in February 2016 where Mark presented the main findings. Going forward, Mark has ambitious plans and ideas for overhauling the image of the engineering industry. His work on inclusion led him to winning the Corporate Rising Star award at the 2016 British LGBT Awards.
Tamoor Ali
Corporate Finance Manager, BP Treasury
Tamoor is an Executive member of BP Pride and BP Treasury’s representative for Diversity & Inclusion, and co-chaired BP Pride from 2012 – 2015 where he now mentors the current co-chairs. As a gay Pakistani Muslim, his efforts for Pride have focused on inclusion around multi-faceted identities (gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability) as well as supporting LGBT people of faith. He represents BP on the OUTstanding future leaders working group, is a Trustee and Treasurer of “Diversity Role Models” charity focused on homophobic bullying in schools, is BP’s representative on the Stonewall global workplace committee focused to supporting local staff for multi-national companies and was named as the Stonewall role model of the year in 2015. He is also part of the InterEnergy executive committee working to support LGBT staff in the energy sector and has spoken at several panel events on LGBT and importance of inclusion.
Rica Paras
Technology Solution Planning Manager
As the ASEAN LGBT Lead, Rica collaborates with different Inclusion and Diversity LGBT leads in Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. In her home country Philippines, they were able to implement LGBT gender-neutral restrooms and gender-neutral dress code policy in Accenture sites across the country. Accenture Philippines’ Friends Of Lesbians and Gays (FLAG) regularly participates in Metro Manila Gay Pride March. Last December 2015, Accenture Philippines launched a same sex partner beneficiary as one of the packages offered to employees, making them one of the first companies to do so in the Philippines. Rica currently serves as the Vice-Chairwoman of Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines (STRAP), and is a National Spokesperson for Ang Ladlad Partylist, the only LGBT political organisation in Philippines. She regularly appears on Philippine TV to speak on the current situation and issues that affect the lives of LGBT Filipinos, and was the first and only transsexual woman who participated in Pinoy Big Brother.
Anthony Shop
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Social Driver
Anthony founded Social Driver, a digital marketing agency, with his husband. In five years, they bootstrapped the Washington, D.C.-based company to a team of 40 people with clients around the world. Under Anthony’s leadership, Social Driver has been named the 7th fastest growing marketing agency in the U.S. by Agency Post and as the Supplier of the Year by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Anthony has been an advocate for LGBT workplace equality since founding the Out for Business group at The George Washington University School of Business, where he earned his MBA. He is now an adjunct faculty member at the university. Anthony uses his platform as a successful entrepreneur and frequent media contributor and public speaker to advocate that inclusion makes companies more competitive, professionals more confident and communities more connected. Anthony serves on NGLCC’s certification committee and is a member of the Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and the Mid-America Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
Catherine Hennigan
Catherine is a Senior Analyst in the Global Leadership & Diversity team where she acts as a strategic advisor to the LGBT Network and leads on LGBT projects such as maintaining the firm’s relationship with Stonewall. She has been pivotal in driving several new initiatives for the firm, such as flying the Trans flag outside the London office for the first time this year, and creating and delivering an innovative training session focused on challenging homophobic & transphobic bullying. She has also mentored several LGBT interns and new graduates, and has spoken at various LGBT recruitment events as an alumnus of the Stonewall Young Talent Programme. At 24 years old, she is the youngest ever Co-Chair of the Gay Women’s Network (GWN), and she is currently Vice Chairman of LGBT+ Conservatives.
Darren Beaumont
Technology Product Manager
Dispelling stereotypes and normalising inclusion topics are Darren’s primary motivators – leading him to steer the Bank’s LGBT inclusion objectives since 2008. He’s led dbPride employee network subcommittees around engagement, events and recruitment and now focuses on global connectivity of the network. He currently mentors LGBT talent, reverse mentors senior leaders and blogs personal stories and challenges around being openly bisexual. In 2016 he led the Bank’s ‘Wear Purple’ IDAHOT initiative: doubling 2015’s participation with 6,500+ colleagues engaged globally – raising visibility of allies and LGBT inclusion. He has attended 5 international Out&Equal workplace equality conferences and ran a technology themed panel workshop at this year’s conference. Externally, he sits on OUTstanding’s LGBT Future Leaders working group and volunteers his technical skills to develop the online presence of local LGBT community assets.
Em Sendall
Manager, Consulting
Deloitte UK
Em is a manager in Deloitte’s Human Capital practice, and co-chair of their LGBT network (GLOBE). Since 2007 she has worked hard to make Deloitte a better place for LGBT people to work. She is a visible LGBT role model in the business, and manages a number of key network initiatives day-to-day. Recently, she has driven a programme of trans inclusion activities including policy development and associated HR/support framework establishment, arranged a series of senior leader dinners to provide a space for CXOs to discuss LGBT inclusion, supported the development of GLOBE communities in a number of Deloitte UK’s regional offices, and managed Deloitte’s EMEA sponsorship of global LGBT events. Em regularly speaks about D&I and LGBT inclusion at internal and external events, and provides informal mentoring and coaching to more junior LGBT colleagues. Externally she supports HRC, the Kaleidoscope Trust and Opening Doors London.
Rupert McCann
Director - Head of EMEA Prime Client On-boarding
Rupert is the Co-Chair of LGBT & Ally Network and Co-Founder of CS LGBT Ally Program, where he featured as the primary subject in the “Ally Video” which was distributed globally and formed part of CS’ ‘Dignity at Work’ training. He has actively worked with the D&I function to update LGBT* policies and he has worked with the Procurement team to update supplier diversity policies. In 2016 he launched the CS LGBT Ally Program in CS’ new Dublin Branch. As one of the younger Directors in CS he mentors Graduates and Interns as an ‘out’ and visible role model. Externally he is the longest standing of the Interbank LGBT Forum, a member of the OUTstanding Communications Committee, a Role Model with DRM and a member of its Advisory Panel and an active Stonewall supporter.
Helen Slinger
Helen is the Chair of the Northern GLEE@PwC network which in it’s first year grew from 11 to over 450 members. She has hosted a wide range of external facing events: business networking, personal development, LGBT matters and socials. Helen has introduced successful initiatives such as Lean In circles (based on Sheryl Sandberg’s foundation), mentoring and interview skills sessions with university LGBT Societies. Her leadership success has been recognised by both internal and external awards for GLEE@PwC North: PwC’s Exceptional People Experience Award; and the Sheffield Pride Award for Striving for Equality, awarded by Sheffield Chamber of Commerce. She also co-steers the national GLEE@PwC network and is a trustee of Diversity Role Models, a charity that works to combat homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools.
Jose Alberto Pino Andrade
Consumerism Value Chain Manager North Latin America
Dow Chemical Company
Jose Alberto started the LGBT+ and allies employee resource group (GLAD) at Dow in the Mexico City Office in 2012 with zero participants; today approximately 34% of employees participate. His main contributions to build a LGBT+ friendly office can be summarised in three main categories; Awareness, Empathy, Create a Culture of Inclusion and Team Building. Dow is a founding Member of Pride Connection, the first Mexican LGBT and Allies companies association and organised the first Human Rights Campaign Event outside the USA. Jose Alberto has been a speaker on several events talking about employee resource groups and their benefits as a business case and has done more than 20 Interviews and articles in Tier-1 newspapers such as El Universal, Milenio and Magazines such as Divers Magazine, Ambiente Plastico, Manufactura; to discuss LGBT rights in the workplace.
Krishna Omkar
Slaughter and May
When Krishna joined Slaughter and May in 2010, the LGBT network was dormant, and the firm was ranked 315 in the Stonewall index. Ever since taking the lead to organise the network’s very first event in January 2011, Krishna has worked hard to ensure the network’s development and success. Today PRISM is the most active and visible network, Stonewall ranks them at 132. He is developing joint initiatives with the Black and Minority Ethic network, mentors junior LGBT lawyers and students, and actively participates in recruitment events aimed at encouraging applications from LGBT, ethnic minority, and non-traditional background candidates. He is the firm’s key liaison with Interlaw and Stonewall and is a UK board member for GLAAD. He also supports the Terrence Higgins Trust, is a trustee of the charity Paintings in Hospitals and is working with Athlete Ally on an initiative to combat homophobia in football.
Marijn Pijnenburg
Global Business Development Executive
Marijn has been an active member of the IBM EAGLE LGBT network for over 12 years, organising events, initiating IBM’s LGBT Business Forums throughout EMEA, and hosting LGBT leadership developments workshops. He has helped create a global reverse mentoring program on D&I including LGBT and has been reverse mentoring IBM managers for the last 8 years. He is a trusted advisor and has been working with over 50 multinationals on the diversity and LGBT topic. He is regularly speaking at conferences, webcasts, and panels, including Out&Equal, The Conference Board, Global Headquarters conference, LGBT@Work, European Diversity Conference, IE University Madrid, Leiden University. In the last 5 years he has mentored several C-level executives and over 20 LGBT people on their personal development and/or on the LGBT inclusion topic; helping them to either come out, or be better allies. Marijn is also on the board of Workplace Pride, and the OUTstanding membership committee.
Ramses Aldana
Manager, Accenture Management Consulting - Products Industry
Accenture Mexico
Ramsés leads Accenture’s LGBT Network in Mexico, where he has been instrumental in driving a significant cultural shift that has resulted in a supportive and inclusive workplace for LGBT people across the company and the country. He has significantly increased the level of awareness in Accenture Mexico through communication campaigns, awareness sessions, training (in the Mexican community but has also supporting same initiative with Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Costa Rica), social events and Ally campaigns. Externally, Ramsés co-founded Pride Connection Mexico, and has helped to expand Pride Connection to Colombia and Chile. He has served as speaker during the “Empowering LGBT” Congress, and has coordinated additional events at the Tolerance Museum with TEDx format participations and conferences. Ramsés has also been on ‘W Radio’ as part of Pride Connection Mexico’s Core Committee to speak about their first ever Pride Connection Summit, where Accenture’s CIO and other Top Executives participated and has been published by the local newspaper ‘Dinero en Imagen’ being referenced in the Mexican Corporate Market as an LGBT Leader.
Quentin Goodwin
SABMiller plc
Quentin created and chaired the LAGER network for three years. Continuing as a Stonewall diversity champion, he oversaw their first WEI submission and commissioned a policy review to ensure explicitly inclusive language. He ran a high-profile sponsorship including a float into the parade (a first for a global brewer), a VIP event and internal events aimed at getting all employees engaged in the network. He is now working with their Australian entity to set up a local LAGER network. He has managed sponsorship of Pride in London for three years, and spoken at a number of Pride events about sponsorship. He also sits on the OUTstanding events committee, and continues to ensure that SABMiller plays an active role in supporting OUTstanding.
Cory Valente, PhD
R&D Leader, Strategic Recruiting
Since taking over as Global Leader for Dow’s LGBT & Allies network GLAD in January 2015, Cory has defined and implemented the network’s strategic priorities that have led to Dow’s leading voice on LGBT public policy, increased employee engagement and awareness on the business case for inclusion, a network rebranding to be more inclusive of transgender and bisexual employees, and continued network expansion in the US and around the world in Turkey, Canada, Spain, Colombia and Germany. Cory helped facilitate Dow’s signing on to the amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States of America in favour of Marriage Equality and the amicus brief supporting the Department of Justice’s case against House Bill 2 in North Carolina, in addition to robust social and print media campaigns on various state based equality issues. He works to ensure close collaboration of their team with NGO’s including the Human Rights Campaign, PFLAG, Out&Equal, and OUTstanding. He is also a founding member of the Delaware Valley Consortium for LGBT and Ally Scientists and Engineers.
Ali Hannon
Ali was Chair of the ‘Pride UK’ Amex LGBTQ network for 18 months – during which they won Stonewall Network of the Year and The British LGBT Awards Network of the Year. They supported and consulted on the first global Trans Inclusion Policy for American Express and supported colleagues in Italy on how to best set up, run and drive engagement for a local market LGBT network. They have been a strategic partner and speaker to a number of external organisations including Stonewall, OUTstanding, Brighton & Hove City Council, Brighton University and Centre for Talent Innovation. Externally, they are a Ditch the Label Advisory Board Member and have mentored LGBTQ Brighton University students for 3 years. Ali also performs in a comedy improvisation group who appear in predominantly LGBTQ friendly events and venues.
Stuart Barette
CMB IT Infrastructure Streamlining Manager
Stuart is the Trans* Lead for the HSBC Pride UK Network and Chair of the HSBC Pride Network in the Channel Islands. He hosts monthly transgender support calls for both HSBC and other financial companies globally, sharing best practices and actively supporting several trans people through their initial transition and mentoring other trans* employees. He worked with the global team to create a new HSBC transitioning policy and guides for Transgender people and their line managers, using research on best practices. Externally, he works with the Jersey LGBT Consultative Group, Liberate and Trans* Jersey and is an active supporter of Stonewall. He has spoken to church groups regarding LGBT issues and participated in studies relating to transgender people with autism to further research in this area.
James Davies
Head of Campaigns and International Markets, Marketing, Asia Pacific
When James arrived at HSBC in Hong Kong from the UK it was clear that fostering a culture of LGBT acceptance and inclusion there first required increased LGBT visibility. One of his first initiatives was to lead a highly visible campaign called United by Diversity where they invited employees to take part in a photo shoot and then used the portraits create a film. The HSBC Hong Kong building was used to screen the film which was framed with rainbow lighting. The campaign brought recognition to HSBC in Asia as a leading LGBT employer from multiple external LGBT advocacy groups. James is the Co-Chair of HSBC Pride Asia and has worked with a great deal of organisations to increase visibility including Out Leadership, Community Business, Pink Dot and Interbank
Jean Luc-Vey
AVP / Innovation Manager
Jean-Luc has been involved in LGBT equality at the workplace in Germany since 2000. He is one of the co-founders of db Pride, Deutsche Bank’s global LGBT employee network, in Germany and was part of its steering committee from 2001 to 2013. As part of this role, he initiated and oversaw several major projects, including the participation in Pride parades in Germany, a new internal straight-ally-programme and the bank’s participation in an LGBT recruiting fair. Personally, he coaches and mentors employees starting or developing LGBT networks and promotes LGBT equality at the workplace through the German non-profit organisation “PROUT AT WORK”, a group he co-founded in 2013 and on whose board he serves. He previously was a board member of a gay center in Frankfurt am Main and actively supported several LGBT organisations in the Frankfurt area. For the past four years, he has also given lectures on LGBT equality at the workplace in practice at the Business University of Vienna (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) twice a year.
Jessica de Kramer
Vice President, Senior Accounting Analyst, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing
Jessica has been actively involved in BNY Mellon’s PRISM Employee Resource Group for LGBTQA employees and became EMEA Co-chair in January 2016. Under her leadership, PRISM has been re-launched in multiple sites and a new chapter was opened in the company’s Wroclaw office. Being an out female leader has inspired Jessica to encourage other women across the company to become involved in the diversity and inclusion agenda. She has given presentations during several Town Hall meetings to emphasise the importance of being out in one’s professional life and how allies play an important role in this process. She has supported Gay Cannel Pride in Amsterdam and, in 2010, co-founded the Dutch Charity Committee of BNY Mellon and was the Chair for several years.
Kyle McQueen
Strategic Transformation Manager
Kyle is currently a Co-founder and Co-Chair of Emerge, Barclays Early Career Network focusing on Millennials in the workplace. He has led Diversity training for Graduates and previously acted as the Spectrum Communications Lead, responsible for the UK’s regular communications to over 2000 members, senior leaders and key network sponsors of the LGBT network. Kyle speaks readily about his experiences as an openly gay man in the business on various panels, role models for other LGBT people and has co-written internal & external blogs. He also volunteers as a Befriender for Opening Doors London and is a mentee on the OUTstanding mentoring programme.
Rashanne Coke
Specialist, Banking & Research
Rashanne has been an active member of Thomson Reuters’ Pride at Work network since starting at the firm as a graduate. Over the past two years, she has worked hard to provide an inclusive space for LGBT*+ colleagues by encouraging greater BAME participation and Bi* visibility, hosting global diversity and inclusion panel events with senior managers and pioneering the Bi* Engagement Project. Externally she is on the GW Network – Multicultural steering committee, is an active member of Stonewall Young Leaders Alumni Network and in June 2016, was featured in the inaugural issue of the University of Warwick LGBT* Role Model Guide.
Martin Liang
Business Services Quality Coordinator
Direct Line Group
Since taking on the role in the LGBT Diversity & Inclusion Committee in November 2013 Martin has taken the lead on various improvements within the Group, including a re-write of their Transitioning guidelines which offers guidance for team leaders managing a team member, as well as individuals at every stage of transitioning. He has grown the committee from four people to over 30 and has written/facilitated 29 company-wide publications to raise awareness, celebrate and increase visibility of the struggles faced by LGBT people. Externally, he is an active member of several LGBT focus groups which are often the first reach out from local closeted gay men and women where they can make friends and accelerate their understanding of what it means to be LGBT. He is also a member of the Gay Professional Network and a supporter of Stonewall and the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Emmeline Tang
EMEA Engineering Manager
In her previous role at Arup, Emmeline was a committee member for the LGBT network from 2012 to 2015, raising awareness and driving advancements on LGBT matters internally and externally for the construction/engineering industry. She moved to Amazon Web Services in Dublin this year and is looking to grow a local LGBT network. She was a steering committee member of the Gay Women’s Network from 2011 to 2014 and the co-chair of the multicultural arm (GWN-M) in 2011 & 2012. When reading her MBA at London Business School, she was the Vice President of the Out in Business LGBT Network in 2014 – 2015 and led the organisation for EurOUT in 2014.
Niarchos Pombo
Head of Diversity & Inclusion - Latin America & Caribbean
Within one year, Niarchos expanded SAP’s LGBT employee network from 400 to 6,000 members contributing to a more inclusive environment for employees from more than 100 countries. He regularly coaches LGBT Leads from more than 15 countries, delivers LGBT enablement workshops and speaks at international conferences about the benefits of equality. Niarchos was the main driver for having representation of LGBT inclusive Images in SAP’s corporate image library. He was also responsible for enabling the writing of a chapter of a book about LGBT Inclusion, “Implementing LGBT-Diversity Management in a Global Company: The Case of SAP. Externally, he created and promoted several LGBT Inclusion Coalitions that bring together LGBT leaders from Latin American-based companies for regular best-practice sharing and regularly acts as an out spokesperson and support campaigns on the benefits of equality in the media.
Alessandro Commisso
Senior manager - global brand and digital
Alessandro is the spokesperson for Lush on diversity and LGBT issues. Lush is an equal opportunity employer, as well as an advocate for LGBT rights around the world. This year they have worked to improve LGBT inclusion globally; they invited all staff to take part in the pride in Seoul, South Korea, they won second place in the Be Proud Awards in the Czech republic, and in Ukraine their local CEO now explicitly supports LGBT rights through conferences and campaigning. Alessandro works to make sure that the topics of equality and diversity are part of the overall company agenda. Last summer AllOut and Lush run a global campaign (#GayIsOK) that raised over £250,000 for grassroots LGBT activists and more recently he partnered with CondividiLove to support civil unions in Italy.
Andrew Jakubowski
Over three years, Andrew has developed and executed a globalisation plan for inclusive-culture building across 30+ offices, supported chapter establishment in 8+ offices worldwide, developed diversity- and bias-related trainings for recruiting and interviewing teams, launched an LGBT+ “buddy” mentorship program for candidates and hires, and championed for more collaborative work across all employee resource groups to ensure better support for colleagues sitting at the intersection of multiple identities. Despite being constrained by extensive travel for work, he has actively mentored LGBT+ high school and undergraduate students and attended several minority-focused development conferences like Out for Undergrad and JumpStart on an annual basis. He has also participated in the Out & Equal Workplace Summit for three years, serving as a presenter in 2016, and has supported LBGT+ fundraisers such as the NYC AIDS Walk and Ali Forney Center Charity Auction.
Dave Carlos
Senior Sustainability Communications Consultant
Dave is the co-chair of the LGBT network and over the last three years has become a very visible and vocal LGBT role model. He has used his expertise in sustainability communications to raise awareness of LGBT issues both internally and for the property sector as a whole. Dave led a number of programmes including working with 3 construction companies to tackle homophobia by getting over 600 workers to wear rainbow laces on site and also getting hundreds of JLL staff wearing a bright colour in support of IDAHOT. Dave speaks with senior leaders on how they as allies can set a positive example. He has also spoken to a number of teams about his personal journey while presenting the business case for LGBT inclusion. To influence the sector, Dave has led conversations with four clients to help them start LGBT networks, has spoken at Stonewall Workplace Conferences and the Facilities Management Conference on what building managers can do to help LGBT inclusivity, and has been quoted in the Independent and FT on his views. JLL held its first company awards last year and Dave won the Community Impact award for his work in diversity & inclusion.
Filipe Mota Da Silva
Business Development Executive - Energy and Commodities
As part of his work at Infosys, an Indian technology company with around 200,000 employees globally, he deals with a different reality to that of most companies. It took him a while to be out at work but in the last few months, with the help of OUTstanding, he has been restarting a new committee for LGBT people in the company. He is one of the ambassadors supporting the roll-out of diverse initiatives to promote a more inclusive and diverse workplace. Additionally as part of his function as Secretary of Future Energy Leaders by World Energy Council, he supported the inclusion of a new Taskforce on the change needed on Human Capital in Energy industry presented this October at World Energy Council in Istanbul, which included a chapter on Diversity in Energy. He is also a supporter of OUTstanding and EurOUT, the leading LBGT recruitment conference in Europe, and is increasing his involvement on minorities and equal rights campaigns in the energy field.
Jens Audenaert
Vice President & General Manager, ADP Ventures
Jens serves as global Chair of ADP Pride, ADP’s LGBTQ & Allies business resource group. Since taking on this role two years ago, he has doubled overall membership each year, focusing on inclusion, global awareness with chapter launches in countries such as Brazil, India and the Philippines, and driving marketplace impact. Jens serves on the Leadership Council and co-leads the Generation Love initiative for God’s Love We Deliver, and serves on the Board of Visitors of Boston’s Fenway Health where he was the Founding Co-Chair of the Young Leaders Council. He also hosts the annual Case Competition for Reaching Out MBA and is currently engaged as a pro-bono strategic advisor to Reaching Out’s Board of Directors.
Scott Allardyce
Commercial, Privacy and Product Counsel
As head of the LGBT employee network at King, Scott helped to secure support for the company’s diversity agenda to promote and enhance King’s atmosphere of inclusivity and openness. This involved contributing to the King group’s global diversity strategy and highlighting the LGBT view on a range of issues. He also organised King’s attendance at Pride marches across Europe.Executing diversity workshops at company induction and annual conferences, as well as company-wide networking activities, has helped to improve LGBT visibility and make the workplace even more inclusive and LGBT friendly. He is a keen supporter of LGBT initiatives which seek to promote LGBT visibility outside of King: he supported King’s involvement in the It Gets Better video campaign (which has been watched over 7,000 times) and the NoH8 campaign, as well as its work with an LGBT sports club in Barcelona.
Danielle de Sousa
Manager, Customer Success
2 years ago Danielle became the co-chair of LinkedIn’s LGBT ERG out@in Dublin, since then she has organised several social events, to raise awareness on LGBT issues and partnered with the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network Ireland as a speaker for their Spring Professional Networking Evening earlier this year. LinkedIn is partaking in GLEN’s Diversity Champions program since late 2015. Externally she co-founded InterTech Ireland and since January has been acting as Co-chair. They organise events for the Dublin Tech LGBT community that focus on one or more of three values: social impact, community development and social networking and have received national coverage.
Adrien & Pierre Gaubert
myGwork
Adrien and Pierre co-created and now run the myGwork platform where LGBT employees and candidates can not only network but also find employment opportunities within friendly organisations. myGwork is a tool for companies to get feedback from their staff and make sure their improve where they need to. Individual members can choose to become mentors and help their fellow G work members with career advice. They promote role models through personal stories in their blog section. Externally, they have been involved with l’Autre Cercle where they took part in conferences on diversity issues. They promote the work of international associations like Plural Peru or the Women Coalition of Hong Kong. They have also featured in articles in the general media about the importance of creating a strong LGBT community, including the Guardian and The Huffington Post. They support the P3 network and as alumni they mentor LGBT students from LSE and King’s College. In 2015 they won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Attitude Award. They created a media partnership with Gay Star News to give more visibility to their corporate partners’ profiles, events and role stories.
Barry Whyte
Barry joined Decoded as person number seven, giving him a phenomenal opportunity to help shape their recruiting practices and growth over the past 3.5 years. They now have a staff of 40 permanent plus 50 freelancers spread across 4 international offices. He set up an internal discussion group called “#diversity” where they share thoughts on diversity issues in tech, pitch for the occasional diversity client brief and run training programmes to encourage stronger interpersonal communication/awareness between everyone in the business. Externally, he Co-founded ‘Series Q’ in early 2016, is a member of EurOUT Conference Advisory Board, is the former president of ‘Cluster Q’, and often writes and speaks about LGBT issues on platforms such as the Huffington Post and the Reaching Out LGBT business conference.
Samuel Rensing
Samuel set up the LGBT network for BCG Switzerland in 2013 and has since regularly organised events and activities for LGBT employees and allies, raising awareness for LGBT workplace issues in Switzerland. He further supports and coordinates LGBT activities across Germany, Switzerland & the UK and has co-organised several regional LGBT recruiting events. Moreover, he supported the setup of a Trans*-ally program within BCG and has played a key role in BCG joining Open for Business. Previously, he was chair of the last EurOUT conference and is currently an organising member of OutRight Action International’s Young Professionals Engagement Committee in New York and a co-founder of the same network in London. He regularly volunteers at different LGBT support organizations, and was a speaker at ROMBA.
Daniel Docherty
Vice President | Business Support Manager, Global Corporate Services
Daniel has been instrumental in helping to ensure that BofAML is a great place to work for LGBT people, and has tirelessly worked to raise awareness and champion LGBT issues. He is a co-founder of the bank’s Global Ally Programme and co-chair of BofAML’s EMEA LGBT Pride Employee Network. In this role, Daniel works with volunteers to ensure the network runs effectively and achieves its goal of building a truly diverse and inclusive environment. He acts as mentor and regularly partners with HR to assist with recruitment events and initiatives that help with staff attraction and retention. In 2015, he was instrumental in advising on the roll-out of the company’s transgender benefits that provide private medical cover for gender reassignment as part of BofAML’s UK benefits package. Externally, Daniel sits on the Interbank Council, recently joined the Radius Network Leaders Council and volunteers with the Albert Kennedy Trust.
Christina Riley
Senior Planner
Balfour Beatty
Christina is in her second year as Co-Chair of the Balfour Beatty LGBT network. She has written and run LGBT & Diversity Tool Box Talks to grass roots engineers, clients and sub-contractors, work for which they won the CECA Inspiring Change award. Externally, she is raising awareness of LGBT support networks and mental health in the workplace by doing the Deloitte Ride Across Britain, and she runs a global twitter feed called LGBT Construct, promoting LGBT diversity in the construction sector. She is also a Diversity Role Model, has been a key note speaker at the Stonewall Diversity in the Built Environment Conference and a guest speaker at the National Grid LGBT network. She is a transgender rep on the South Oxfordshire Scouts Executive Committee and has been in charity videos for an Oxford youth support group called My Normal.
Jill Pollock
Product & Privacy Counsel
Jill is an active member of King’s LGBT/ally network “RoyaLGBT” and works with the steering committee to combat bisexual invisibility, for example at King-sponsored Pride events in London and Berlin. She also acts as King’s representative at events promoting the interests of the bi community in the workplace. Externally she featured as one of the faces of Pride in London’s 2016 advertising campaign “No Filter” where she had a speaking role in a short film which ran online and in an out of home campaign, is an active member of “kuntinuum” a salon and networking group for queer-female and non-binary gendered individuals working in the creative industries and a participant in OUTstanding’s mentorship scheme.
James Pineda
Soon after joining the company in 2012 James noted that ExxonMobil actively recruited at conferences for a variety of diversity groups but not for LGBTs. As a result he spearheaded ExxonMobil’s LGBT recruiting efforts by proposing to U.S. and global recruiting management that ExxonMobil recruit at Reaching Out MBA. He is a member of his PRIDE chapter’s leadership team and has held various positions, including programs coordinator, treasurer, and vice president. Externally, he is a supporter of Whitman-Walker Health and the Human Rights Campaign.
Dan Ricard
Dan is one of the co-founders of GLEE@PwC and has been part of the leadership team since the network was launched. As part of this role, he has expanded the reach of GLEE outside of London, connected and supported GLEE@PwC networks in the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Germany, engaged senior Partners across the firm on how to use GLEE to engage with their clients and co-organised joint events with the Co-op, UBS or Transport For London sponsored by the business. He actively manages and maximises the firm’s OUTstanding membership including representing PwC as Vice-Chair of the OUTstanding Events and Content Committee. Externally he established LGBT TNON which brings together LGBT network leaders across all sectors to share best practice about operating efficiently and effectively LGBT employee networks. He also supports several charities through fundraising and volunteering, including National AIDS Trust, Opening Doors London and Diversity Role Models.
Head of Corporate Banking FX
As co-chair of Barclays Spectrum, James leads on activity with colleagues, clients and communities. He is a role model and ambassador for LGBT leadership and has been nominated for a Business Diversity Award. He has been actively involved in Pride and has engaged with colleagues to promote their Allies programme. His main focus this year has been to undertake Corporate Mentoring with clients, to help them create their LGBT networks, and promote LGBT inclusion in their workplaces. He has also delivered an event with A&Out for AKT raising £30k for the Purple Door project, and lead team to deliver the Spectrum Gala Dinner raising £125k for THT. He is a regular speaker at LGBT content events, including Radius, who has invited him to join their Advisory Panel as a result.
Jason Eng
Engineering Team Lead
Bloomberg LP
As a member of the steering committee Jason has been one of the key contributors to the success of the Bloomberg LGBTA community. He has been involved in developing and expanding the community over the last 3 years, most recently active in initiatives that increase ally membership and engagement. Most notably, he spearheaded the PFLAG Straight 4 Equality training at Bloomberg, a screening of The Case Against 8, a panel on how to discuss LGBT topics with children, and a session on Gender Identity and Gender Policing. Externally he is an active volunteer with Heritage of Pride, he has mentored young adults from Hetrick-Martin Institute on job preparedness and participated in the White House LGBT Tech & Innovation Summit (2015) in effort to address the nation’s key social issues.
Mohsin Zaidi
6 KBW College Hill
Mohsin has recently joined the bar’s LGBT network and, as a former solicitor, hopes to help facilitate relationship building between the LGBT bar and city law firms legal by coordinating joint events; these networks play a vital role in making the workplace welcoming for LGBT people, especially in professions as traditional as the self-employed bar. Externally, he is General Counsel (Legal Director) for Pride in London and is currently working with London Business School to create a novel sustainability strategy for the entirely volunteer run organisation. In addition, he is in the process of setting up a national support group for the families of gay muslims, aiming to provide a safe space for muslim families to talk to each other and to experts in order to help remedy some of the heart ache and misunderstandings that stem from having a gay muslim relative.
Liam Rezende
Andaz London Liverpool Street
Liam launched the UK Chapter of HyPride, Hyatt Hotels’ global LGBT employee resource network – the first and only chapter to be launched outside of North America. As co-chair he has liaised with the Regional Human Resource team and championed the review of the company’s on-boarding experience, employee training and HR policies that pertain to diversity and LGBT inclusion to all staff. He currently manages all relationships with LGBT charities and organisations, signed Hyatt Hotels up to Stonewall’s Global Diversity Champions programme and has initiated the work for Hyatt’s inclusion in their Workplace Equality Index. More recently, he organised the first fundraising charity dinner for the London Gay Men’s Chorus to support their development and outreach programme and was featured in Attitude Magazine talking about growing up gay in Trinidad and Tobago, a country that still criminalises homosexuality.
Ben Cawley
Ben was appointed the UK LGBT+ & Allies Network Co Chair for Standard Chartered in January 2016, following a spate of inactivity for the network. As well as reinvigorating the network for its current members he has worked with a team of newly appointed committee members to reach beyond those who openly identify as LGBT+. This has included a Bank-wide Pride initiative where all employees were given rainbow coloured paraphernalia, organising the Bank’s first queer awareness / gender fluidity talk and a joint event with the Parents & Carers Network on Surrogacy & Adoption. Externally, he has contributed to the UN Human Rights corporate principles for tackling LGBT+ discrimination in Brussels and is enrolled on a volunteer mentorship program for young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, where LGBT+ issues are hugely pertinent.
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Polemic
The battle for the Greens
By Michael Brull
30.Jun.17
It seems the Greens don’t do politics so differently after all.
As we well know, Australian politics has been roiled by vicious political infighting since 2010. Gillard knifed Rudd, then Rudd spent years leaking against her to reclaim the title, which he briefly held before losing to Abbott, then Turnbull knifed Abbott, and Abbott has spent almost two years trying to return the favour.
The Greens have often held themselves out as principled in a way the major parties aren’t. Like the Democrats. And like the Democrats, they have taken a turn to pragmatism that threatens to destroy the party’s credibility with its supporters.
In May 2015, Richard Di Natale became the new leader of the federal Greens party. Within a few weeks, he signalled that in the event of a hung parliament, he would be willing to compromise on the Greens’ asylum seeker policy in return for sharing power with the ALP. According to the Australian reported, Di Natale:
did not rule out supporting offshore processing in a Labor-Greens government if the yearly humanitarian intake were increased. ‘That’s something that we will come to if and when there is a close result and the need of negotiations post-election.’
The message was that the Greens had now become ‘pragmatic’. A symbol of this new approach was the plaudits from Fairfax centrist-in-chief Peter Hartcher, who observed that Di Natale ‘projects a matter-of-fact rationality that well serves a party seeking to lose its radical hue’. Now, Hartcher went on, the ‘Greens need to weed out radical ideological artefacts like Jim Casey’, the avowedly socialist candidate for inner-west Sydney electorate Grayndler.
This week’s events indicate that the party may be following Hartcher’s advice. On Wednesday, the Greens announced the following two resolutions:
The Australian Greens Party Room request that National Council work with Greens NSW to end the practice of NSW MPs being bound to vote against the decision of the Australian Greens Party Room.(Supported by all MPs with the exception of Lee Rhiannon.)
That NSW Senators be excluded from Party Room discussions and decisions on contentious government legislation, including within their portfolio responsibilities, until these issues are resolved. (Supported by all MPs, with the exception of Lee Rhiannon and Adam Bandt.)
The first indicates what the dispute is about, and is effectively an ultimatum: the Australian Greens Party Room wants the National Council and Greens NSW to change the latter’s constitution
The second means effectively suspending NSW Senator Rhiannon from being able to work within the Greens. Rhiannon will remain suspended and excluded from the party room until the NSW Greens submit on the first point. It is hard to regard this as anything but blackmail. Or as anything but stupid.
The NSW branch of the Greens is often regarded as more radical than its counterparts, mostly because it has a more decentralised system than in other states. As Max Chalmers reported in New Matilda last year:
NSW is decentralised, with local groups given total control over any funding that flows to them, the power to control how preferences are allocated on How-To-Vote cards in their electorate, and significant power to halt changes to the party’s central platform. Local groups send representatives to the State Delegates Council, where decisions are made on a consensus basis. Decisions can go to a vote, but need a super majority of 75 per cent support to get over the line.
For this reason, the grassroots in NSW have more control over the party than in other states. Admittedly, the democratic process that follows can be more cumbersome. Furthermore, NSW has stricter rules about accepting donations – the party won’t accept them from companies, or for sums over $2500.
Victoria, on the other hand, has a more centralised operation, which Chalmers identified as a:
more centre-heavy structure, including a full-time campaign staff of nine people who work between elections. Their number swells to 50 at the height of a campaign. Money flows to the centre then back out. Campaign skills and techniques are more easily transferred from one bout to the next.
The Victorian branch may be regarded as more ‘professional’ in the eyes of some, but the structure means the centre is able to disregard the grassroots. It’s for that reason that Di Natale can casually float compromises on party policy, in a way that Rhiannon, following her obligations in the NSW Greens, cannot.
If someone thought it reasonable to change how the NSW branch operated, a more sensible approach would have been to try to persuade members internally that the change was necessary or worthwhile. With this approach, the party wouldn’t be dragged into public disrepute, the Greens wouldn’t be airing their dirty laundry in public, and if the attempt failed, the party would still remain united.
As the situation now stands, if the party leadership doesn’t get their way, Rhiannon will effectively remain excluded from the leadership and its discussions on important issues. Either the leadership will back down – which appears unlikely right now – or the NSW branch will be forced to secede from the federal Greens. Such a result would be disastrous for the party, and could well split its vote. Now, instead of campaigning on important issues, the Greens will be forced to devote increasing efforts to inner-party squabbles.
In other words, there are constructive ways this dispute could have been resolved, without publicly shredding the credibility of the party, alienating members and the public, and turning on a senator who has served as a NSW Greens member in state and federal politics for the past 18 years.
Indeed, the two resolutions make clear that Rhiannon has been suspended for obeying the rules of NSW Greens – that the senator was bound to act as she has. Instead of accepting those limitations and/or working to change them, the party leadership has imperiously decided to try to impose change.
In their statement on the issue, the NSW Greens have predictably backed Rhiannon:
We believe the decision of Australian Greens party room tonight is unconstitutional.
We understand some federal MPs wish to review our governance. We do not believe there is support within the party to change either the Australian Greens or Greens NSW constitutions. There is a process for reviewing each constitution, and we are disappointed the federal party room is not following this process.
So the battle lines have been drawn. And rather than quietly trying to resolve this issue, the party leadership has decided to pick a fight which will be ugly and public. For years, there have been public criticisms of Senator Rhiannon by conservative elements within the Party. This came to a head over the last week, as party leaders and staffers began to leak nasty allegations against her.
The pretext for this campaign was a dispute over education policy. Greens leader Richard Di Natale and education spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young wanted to negotiate education policy in relation to the Gonski report with the sitting government. Senator Rhiannon, in the words of Gabrielle Chan, ‘maintained a line closer to the Australian Education Union and the NSW Teachers Federation, which strongly opposed the bill’. Rhiannon authorised a leaflet urging people to campaign against the bill.
The leaflet has been portrayed as an act of gross disloyalty by party leadership, who claim that it sabotaged negotiations with the government. (Of course, the bill ultimately received the backing of enough crossbench senators to make Greens support irrelevant.)
To justify the way that the Greens were turning on her, it was alleged that Rhiannon had been officially ‘censured’:
The ABC was told yesterday Senator Rhiannon had been censured twice by the Greens party room in the past.
This morning some media outlets — including the ABC — published articles saying her fellow Greens senators might now expel her from the party room, because the previous censures had not stopped her breaching the rules.
Note how the ABC set-up the story: Senator Rhiannon had already supposedly received two strikes, and still refused to cooperate with the rest of the party. If they were to expel her, it would be for her third strike.
Rhiannon denied these claims, and the Greens who had made the allegations in the first place conceded that they had lied:
Party sources brushed off Senator Rhiannon’s argument she had been targeted by fabrications.
They conceded there had not been a formal ‘censure motion’ against Senator Rhiannon, because that mechanism was not used in partyroom meetings.
But they maintained the party room had nonetheless formally criticised her twice in the past for breaching party discipline, which amounted to the same thing.
Which is … totally incoherent. Censure motion means a formal criticism. Now, they admit there was no motion of formal criticism, but the party still formally criticised her. Such obfuscation could mean anything. It could be made up!
When asked about the matter later, Di Natale merely stated that ‘we have raised specific issues’ with Senator Rhiannon. Which is slightly less serious. It looks increasingly like anonymous sources have simply lied to the media.
Rhiannon has described the stories as a ‘vicious attempt to destroy my reputation’. And it seems clear that the point of these false claims was to justify Rhiannon’s subsequent suspension and possible expulsion: the Greens are right – surely! – to defend themselves against this kind of betrayal. The fact that zero Greens politicians have put their own names to these smears – nor have any repudiated them – indicates what credence the claims, and their sources, should be given.
Ultimately, the Greens party room did not suspend Rhiannon on the basis of these leaflets, or because of imaginary censure motions in the past. They suspended her because she was acting in accordance with the grassroots membership in NSW. The Greens’ grievances, then, are not actually with Rhiannon per se, but with the institutional mandates of the NSW party. Which also means that the party leadership is at odds with much of the NSW membership. Which means that those same members are set on a collision course with the party’s leadership.
The fight appears likely to become protracted: The leadership has all the power, and is largely united. But instead of civilly disagreeing about internal structures and rules, and saving their venom for political opponents, the Greens leadership have tried to leverage their power to impose changes upon a membership who may well come to regard the leadership as their primary political opponents. Even if half of the NSW party were to agree with the leadership, and supported diminishing their own control over politicians, the two motions are likely to introduce acrimony and intense in-fighting. It makes a permanent rift seem like an increasing possibility.
On the evening when the decision to suspend Rhiannon was made, I received a fundraising email from the Greens. They stressed that one of their priorities was reaching out to young people, who had achieved so much in fighting for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. The passionate support of millennials was, of course, a crucial part of Corbyn’s victory. And yet, it was also Corbyn’s responsiveness and accountability to the grassroots that helped generate a manifesto responsive to the needs of grassroots activists, and the enthusiasm that followed.
The Greens leadership appear determined to go down a very different path, one where the enthusiasm of the young is replaced by technocratic moderation. But it appears they have a fight on their hands. That fight will determine whether voters will have a viable and principled option to the left of the major parties.
Image: Can’t eat coal / The Greens
Michael Brull is a columnist at New Matilda. He’s written for other publications including Fairfax, the Guardian, Crikey, Tracker and the Indigenous Law Bulletin.
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From Kristian Bolwell on 30 June 2017 at 2.15 pm
Great article – with the exception of ‘the party room holding all the power’ . Not in NSW.
From Sue Stock on 30 June 2017 at 2.33 pm
Great article. Thanks.
From Hall Greenland on 30 June 2017 at 2.50 pm
Yes, terrific piece. Thank you the work and thinking that runs through this piece. We are ina crucial period in the history of the Greens. One of those turning points. Looks to me right now like the NSW members will not be deterred from upholding their rights to a members-run party.
From Maddie K on 30 June 2017 at 3.58 pm
I’m in the Victorian Greens and I find this article snobby, suggesting “we in NSW are purer and therefore better than you in Victoria”. Yes, you’re purer. But I don’t care about purity, I care about progressive change. If that means looking more professional and negotiating for better outcomes, so be it. For example, sometimes people from other parties do have good ideas and it’s worth working together to make it happen.
On that note, I think of a quote from Gough Whitlam (who brought us free education and many other things that almost all of us on the left agree were wonderful): “Only the impotent are pure.”
Screw purity, I want real change: legislative change, structural change. It’s unhelpful for people to sook around the edges, sneering at people who are actually getting things done.
From Anonymous on 30 June 2017 at 6.06 pm
Ironic that you quote EG Whitlam given it was the intervention by the Federal Executive into the Victorian ALP, instigated by him, that led to the improved electoral performance in that state, which resulted in the Labor winning the 1972 elections
From Michael on 30 June 2017 at 6.11 pm
My article doesn’t exactly say NSW is “purer” than Victoria. Also – it’s a bit strange to say people from other parties do have good ideas and it’s worth working together. NSW hasn’t tried to ban another state from Party Room discussion of “contentious” legislation. Lee Rhiannon has tried to work together. If her hands are tied, this is not a very constructive way to deal with that. You don’t seem to get that I regard that as the central issue here.
From Pat on 1 July 2017 at 11.30 am
It really is ironic that some Greens are recalling Whitlam’s quote from the anti-leftist purges of the 1970’s and 80’s. I wonder which party many of those activists and militants helped found after their ALP expulsion? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
From David Grant Lloyd on 30 June 2017 at 4.51 pm
Great article. Very accurate, relevant and illuminating.
From Smith on 30 June 2017 at 5.17 pm
Very interesting article thank you. It maybe that fight dies not happen though because there are some Senators who might read this article and agree about how the party process does work so why disturb it. They may even back off regardless of how the media presents that action because there are greater battles to be had then with each other.
From Sylvia Hale on 30 June 2017 at 7.03 pm
The best discussion in the media of the issues at the heart of the debate that I’ve read. The great irony of the attack on NSW has been its unifying effect on NSW members who until now may not have engaged fully with the issues, especially the substance and implications of grassroots democracy. A marvellous, well deserved, own goal by the hierarchical centrists.
From Ray H on 30 June 2017 at 10.42 pm
So the hierarchical centrists include everyone except NSW?
From Alex van Vucht on 30 June 2017 at 11.58 pm
Not at all; in fact the NSW Greens have had a great upswell of support from grassroots members and former members in other states, frustrated with the autocracy of their state parties. Viva la revolution!
From Ray H on 2 July 2017 at 12.07 pm
From Michael G on 30 June 2017 at 7.56 pm
An excellent analysis of the fundamental contradictions at the core of the Greens’ raison d’être, and a good argument for why those Greens who want parliamentary change should be in the Labor Party.
The article ignores the fact that the senators from WA, Tas, SA and QLD also voted in favour. This isn’t a Victoria versus NSW issue. It’s a NSW versus everyone else issue. Who is out of step?
From Alex van Vucht on 1 July 2017 at 12.02 am
There isn’t an ‘in-step’ or ‘out of step’ way here. This doesn’t need to be a contest – and it wasn’t a contest for over 20 years. The Greens NSW have always worked quite well alongside other state parties, in our quirky way. Why now?
I was very active in the Vic Greens when Kerry was NSW senator. And yes, it was an issue back then. Why now? Because the recent decision by NSW was the final straw.
Here’s the crucial point. The parliamentary party consists of 10 members. 9 voted against NSW. Why?
From Anon on 30 June 2017 at 11.27 pm
“Corbyn’s victory”
If Corbyn won, how come Theresa May is still Prime Minister?
From Phillip Walker on 1 July 2017 at 12.19 am
I have been an admirer of Michael Brull’s journalism. His forensic dissection around the death of Ms Dhu, published in New Matilda, was superb. It is a pity this contribution falls way short of that standard and comes across as a piece of North Korean propaganda. To be uncritically quoting the Murdoch press FFS, who use every manipulative trick in the book to undermine the Greens, well actually this piece from Michael is so flawed it would go down well in the Murdochrity because it contains more hints and innuendo than hard fact. He unquestioningly accepts that Ms Rhiannon is more accountable to the ALP-aligned AEU than she is to her own parliamentary colleagues.
Brull clearly does not understand how the Victorian Greens operate and so can freely put out inaccurate bias fed to him by antagonists. He fails to mention that, like it or not, the trajectory of Victorian Greens is strongly supported by members there and the public vote for the so-called ‘centrist’ style continues to grow. Meantime in NSW the Green vote flounders; if there had only been a half-senate vote last election Ms Rhiannon would probably no longer be an elected member. Michael is surely aware how much the situation within NSW Greens is disputed space. To laud the grassroots democracy in NSW and fail to mention the deep bitter factionalism is akin to posting a photo of Lenin on a podium and omit Trotsky.
I would agree with Michael this attack on Lee and the NSW Greens is stupid and an own goal. It is counterproductive and has has the opposite effect to that intended, namely that people are uniting behind Lee and NSW. Still, when all the parliamentarians from every other state, including those who are often close to Lee, have signed a letter and adopted two resolutions (Adam dissenting on the second), indicates a very deep level of dissatisfaction (in other words, pissed off). The issue is more than suggesting it is just some sort of parochial state vs state power struggle.
Recently I mentioned to a Green friend that in the 80’s I was in Germany during the realo / fundi debate. He wisely said that at least they had a debate; here we are sleepwalking in one direction. IMHO all Green politicians claim adherence to both parliamentary politics and community activism, yet there is a distinction between those that drive the grassroots approach and those that turn up for the photo shoot. I hold many differences with the ‘pragmatic’ approach. If this is the debate the Greens need to have, then let’s get it out there and have it. But it won’t be served by mouthing simplistic biases. Please Michael, get back to the standard of reporting you are capable of and drop this cheap shit.
I second your views Phillip. All the state parties have a strong membership base. I know (knew rather – I’m out of it now) both Richard and Janet well. They are where they are now because of the support of the membership. Janet is one of the founders of the Victorian party and she has worked tirelessly with the membership at all levels.
You are right to recall the German realo/fundi debate. How many know that the German party was based on Tasmanian Greens?
It is simply wrong to characterise this as an ‘evil centrist’ versus ‘grassroots membership’ issue. In the case of Victoria the current structure was developed by the grassroots members. If they wish to change things, they can. I suspect they won’t.
So what is this really about? It’s about trusting the parliamentary members, not micromanaging them. They simply would not, and could not, be where they are if they did not understand Greens’ policy. The selection process is rigorous (I know, I went through it).
Is this decision stupid? In a sense, but it was also inevitable. A showdown has been brewing for years. Yes, in the immediate term some NSW members will rally around Lee. But I suspect that the members in the other states will in turn rally around their representatives. This will take months to work its way through the various state processes and each of the senators will face tough questions from the members. But I suspect they will eventually be supported.
So counterproductive? For NSW eventually. They may just succeed in really pissing off all the other states.
From Carlos M on 1 July 2017 at 12.37 am
Possibly the laziest and stupidest attempt to shove top down political control with arrogance and ineptitude via anonymous media briefings. Seriously.
Regardless of the merits of any education reforms or negotiations, this latest escalation by the parliamentary party shows very clearly they want to run the show. While telling members to stick it.
Way to score an own goal!
First: stuff up your own negotiations with the Turnbull Liberal government (because the crossbench sold out much more cheaply!).
And now: way to unify your largest state and membership to fight for the future of a true Grassroots Green Party!
Surely couldn’t be any more stupid?
(As per our key foundational principles, literally taken from federal The Greens webpage:
https://greens.org.au/about
“The Australian Greens are a political party based on four key principles: ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, social justice and peace and non-violence.
We have the courage to put people and our future first. That means that along with meaningful and smart solutions to ensure future generations of Australians have clean air, clean water and clean soil, the Greens are also working in many other areas to champion integrity, decency and fairness.
As well as representing constituents, the Greens speak on behalf of those who wouldn’t otherwise get much of a say inside parliament: children, refugees, students, individuals and families living in poverty and, of course, our natural environment.”)
The parliamentary party is made up of dedicated Greens’ members selected by the various state memberships. They are there because of the members.
It’s not top down at all.
From Robyn T on 1 July 2017 at 1.10 am
Thank you for this article. Clearly, this is an important time in our history – and an even more important time for the wider Australian community. My concern is that the centrist strategy which some are pushing for will put us on the same disastrous trajectory as the ALP. So it is encouraging to see how strongly NSW members feel about their involvement in decision-making and their support for Lee. We have united in the face of injustice and this can only make us stronger.
From Vacy Vlazna on 1 July 2017 at 11.21 am
Bandt’s decision to not vote for Lee Rhiannon’s suspension is morally intelligent, yet his vote to blackmail the NSW Greens using Lee as a sacrificial lamb was stupid gutter politics.
How dare the Greens exclude the Senator for NSW “from partyroom discussions and decisions on contentious government legislation, including within their portfolio responsibilities, until these issues are resolved”.
This was not just a vote to exclude an individual but to exclude the people of NSW whom Lee represents and fights for and all the children in NSW schools who are to be ripped off by Gonski 2.0. ( let alone the children in the states whom the other Greens represent).
Greens’ disloyalty reminds me of the scenes of the mass meetings, shown this week on ABC Australia through American Eyes, where Qld’s police obscenely voted to support Chris Hurley who had battered to death Cameron Mulrunji. Matt Bond, then an indigenous police officer, was devastated by his colleagues’ stand. Lee may not be devastated, but I bet she was hurt.
Brown’s and Di Natale’s vision to mainstream The Greens brings to mind the fate of the Democrats who went down that path.
Like Australia needs another mainstream party!
The Federal Greens have changed for the worse; there’s a lot of self-interested ambition in that party room and.. sheep mentality. And Brown’s interference has the Rudd-Abbott hallmark.
I admire Lee enormously, particularly on her commitment to freedom for Palestine. Bob Brown lost me, when he shamefully turned mainstream with his anti-BDS, now Greens policy, position.
Lee’s strength is she is ambitious for human and environmental rights and for that she is hugely respected, admired and valued.
How dare they? They have every right.
Brown’s and Di Natale’s vision? In case you forgot, this decision was supported by every other state. Do you think that only NSW matters? What about WA, SA and Qld? NSW only has one federal representative. Vic has 3, WA has 2, Tassie has 2. Their opinion matters.
Greens’ disloyalty? To whom? What about NSW’s disloyalty to the other states?
From Cyndi Dawes on 1 July 2017 at 11.23 am
Another article that uses terms like “grassroots” and “centralised” without really explaining how they play out for actual members. Another article that positions Victoria against NSW. I do think there are important discussions to be had about how structurally the AGV operates, how viable it is to have individual branches sitting on lots of cash when trying to advance electoral political gains at a state and national level and why the biggest state in terms of population does not reflect that as could be expected in membership numbers, also how to manage consensus in the party and in the party room are also important. But this reductionist Vic versus NSW, centrist versus grassroots, progressive versus conservative claptrap does not help the progressive cause, the Greens or general understanding. So I’m left wondering what’s the point of this article?
From Peter Reid on 1 July 2017 at 12.32 pm
Public schools, the AEU and ‘public education activists’ should be grateful to SHY and RDN for negotiating improvements to Gonski 2.0 that mean more money for public schools. The Greens should stay right away from the ALP AEU campaign running into the next election to restore the absurd Gillard version of Gonski that locked in all the Howard era private school rorts.
From Brett Stokes on 1 July 2017 at 1.07 pm
– that the Greens are mistaken in trying to be the third LibLab party.
And that the Greens are too soft on nuclear.
And that the Greens have completely lost the plot on cannabis.
From Malikeh Michels on 1 July 2017 at 7.55 pm
Excellent article.. Highlights the focus of NSW Greens independence from centrist politics and policy of the Greens Federal machine… The Greens as a Federal entity should give regard to the grass roots nature of the State branches and allow negotiations around issues. Lee Rhiannon was well within her mandate within the NSW Greens Policy in rejecting the Federal line on Gonski. She deserves to be treated better. She is ‘far left’ but the Greens becoming mainstream will not help the party. We will become the ALP’s poor cousins.
From Catherine Cole on 2 July 2017 at 6.05 am
People can argue the merits or otherwise of what is going on within the Greens all they want. I have voted Green before, and I never will again. I don’t need the same rubbish that goes on in other parties. The Greens were a party for social justice and the environment. When I read comments like “snobby” and “It’s a NSW vs everyone else issue. Who is out of step?” I realise that the focus on the issues has gone and the lust for power and control is just as strong as all the other political parties. If the Greens have lost me, they have lost. I am the swinging voter. Abject stupidity and waste…
From Herman on 8 April 2018 at 11.27 pm
I’m a fan of your articles, Michael (New Matilda). And I’ve been working backwards on your articles to see what else you have to say. Sorry to say: This is a lazily researched article. It is unfair for me to compare the 4Corners (Aug 17) with this article (Jul 17), as ABC would have had more manpower in researching too. Yet this article is so strongly biased to warrant strong criticisms as outlined by other comments.
Plus it didn’t mention that Bob Brown, Christine Milne and now Richard DiNatale have had particular difficulty working with Rhiannon.
And Lee Rhiannon basically lied to the rest in supporting the move to negotiate, and behind their backs was signing off on the phamplets to outright oppose Gonski 2.0.
We definitely need more firebrand in Aus Greens, but not via the duplicitous & cantankerous ways of Rhiannon. And unsurprisingly, NSW Greens members had voted to support a different person in the next fed election senate election.
I’ll keep learning from your other articles.
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Associations of MICA Polymorphisms with Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases
Qingwen Wang1, Xiaodong Zhou*, 2
1 Department of Rheumatism and Immunology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, China
2 Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB5270, Houston Texas 77030, USA; Tel: 713-500-6900; Fax: 713-500-0580; E-mail: xiaodong.zhou@uth.tmc.edu
Inflammatory rheumatic diseases are characterized by inflammation resulting from the immune dysregulation that usually attacks joints, skin and internal organs. Many of them are considered as complex disease that may be predisposed by multiple genes and/or genetic loci, and triggered by environmental factors such as microbiome and cellular stress. The major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA) is a highly polymorphic gene that encodes protein variants expressed under cellular stress conditions, and these MICA variants play important roles in immune activation and surveillance. Recently, accumulating evidences from both genetic and functional studies have suggested that MICA polymorphisms may be associated with various rheumatic diseases, and the expression of MICA variants may attribute to the altered immune responses in the diseases. The objective of this review is to discuss potential genetic associations and pathological relevance of MICA in inflammatory rheumatic diseases that may help us to understand pathogenesis contributing to the development of these diseases.
Keywords: MICA, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Behçet’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease.
The major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA) is a non-classic HLA gene [1]. Similar to classic HLA genes, its DNA sequence is highly polymorphic [2]. Two heavily investigated polymorphisms of the MICA are one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at codon 129 leading to methionine (met) and valine (val) substitution, and a tri-nucleotide microsatellite (GCT)n starting at codon 293 named MICA-A(x), and an exceptional 5 repeats with an insertion of guanosine at codon 295 named MICA-A5.1. The former leads to a change of binding affinity to MICA receptor NKG2D [3], the latter causes structure alteration on MICA transmembrane (TM) domain [4]. In addition to individual polymorphisms, according to haplotypes of the exonic polymorphisms, about 100 MICA alleles have been identified [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/ imgt/hla/]. Although, the functional significance of these polymorphisms has not been fully defined, some have been associated with immune-mediated diseases.
The MICA gene encodes a protein that expresses on the surface of selective cells such as gut epithelial, fibroblasts and endothelial cells [5, 6], and it plays unique roles in immune activation and surveillance [7, 8]. Under cellular stress conditions, such as infections, tissue injury, pro-inflammatory signals, and malignant transformation [9-15], MICA interacts with its receptor NKG2D found on natural killer (NK) cells, NK T cells, γδ T cells, αβ CD8+ T cells,
and a minor immune-regulatory subset of CD4+ T cells [14-22]. Binding of MICA (membrane-bound MICA) with NKG2D triggers cell-mediated cytotoxicity and cytokine release from NK and T cells [13, 14, 23, 24]. On the other hand, the proteolytic cleavage of MICA proteins from expressing cells, termed MICA shedding produces soluble MICA that may control the immune process by down-modulating NKG2D expression [25, 26], and facilitate expansion of an immunosuppressive CD4+ T-cell subset [19]. In addition, MICA can be excreted in exosomes which can also down-regulate NKG2D activity [27]. Therefore, the balance between membrane-bound MICA and soluble MICA/exosomal MICA may control the outcome of immune function via NKG2D regulation.
Given its complex gene sequence and protein expression features, as well as unique functions in immune process, studies of MICA in order to understand pathogenesis of various immune-mediated diseases are important. Accumulating evidences have supported that MICA and its signaling pathway are useful biomarker for the measurement of disease susceptibility, evaluation of disease progression and/or development of therapeutic approaches. This review will focus on recent reports of MICA in association with inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
MICA IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA)
The first report of MICA in association with RA was based on a study of fifty-four Spanish families of affected son and daughter and 211 consecutive RA patients, in which MICA-A6 was suggested to be protective against RA in the shared epitope (SE) positive RA patients [28]. This result was immediately replicated by a small Caucasian case/control cohort (90/85) [29]. However, studies of a larger RA tri-families of French Caucasian along with an independent 100 RA trio families and a German Caucasian case-control (90/182) cohort did not confirm such an association. Instead, the evidence from the studies showed a MICA SNP rs1051794 corresponding to MICA codon 129 (MICA-129) in association with RA, and it was suggested that this SNP was in complete linkage disequilibrium (LD) with another functional SNP, rs1051792 that contributes differential binding affinity of MICA protein to its receptor NKG2D [30].
Although functional studies of these RA-associated MICA alleles have not been reported, MICA and NKG2D signaling appeared to be aberrant in RA patients [31]. In particular, substantial amount of synoviocyte-derived soluble MICA was observed in peripheral blood serum samples of RA patients [31]. However, it failed to induce down-modulation of NKG2D on T cells by overcoming opposing activity of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and IL-15 [31]. Increased NKG2D activity in RA patients was observed, and that may cause autoreactive T cell stimulation which may be responsible to the self-perpetuating pathology in RA [31].
MICA IN ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (AS)
Studies of MICA in AS was first reported in a small case-control Caucasian cohort (48/50) [32], in which the four-repetition GCT of the MICA gene (MICA-A4) was found at significantly higher frequency in AS [32]. However, another study of AS case-control cohort (162/103) indicated that the frequency of the MICA-A4 allele was not significantly higher in the B27-positive and B27-negative patient groups, as compared to the B27-positive and B27-negative control groups, respectively [33]. Therefore, the MICA-A4 was considered in strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) with HLA-B27. This result was contradictive to a report from the studies of Sardinia AS (case/control: 82/139), in which a high frequency of MICA-A4 (80%) was found in HLA-B27-negative AS patients, and that was associated with AS [34]. Following MICA-A4 studies, Amroun et al. reported an association between MICA-129 met/met genotype and juvenile AS independent of HLA-B27 positivity in a case-control Algerian cohort (129/760) [35]. Recently, a sequencing study of the exonic haplotypes of the MICA alleles was performed in two large case-control cohorts of US Caucasian (1070/1003) and Chinese Han (473/536) [36]. From the studies, the haplotype allele MICA*007:01 was identified as a significant risk allele for AS in both Caucasian and Han populations, and MICA*019 was a major risk allele in Han AS patients. Conditional analysis of MICA alleles on HLA-B27 that unshielded LD effect supported independent associations of the MICA*007 and *019 with AS [36]. Of note, MICA*007 contains both MICA-A4 and MICA-129-met, MICA*019 with MICA-A5 and MICA-129-val compared to the common allele MICA*008 with A5.1 and MICA-129-val.
MICA IN PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (PSA) AND PSORIASIS
Studies of MICA in PsA and psoriasis appeared more complex. A Spanish study of 65 patients with PsA, 5 psoriasis, and 177 healthy controls was the first to show MICA-A9 as a risk to PsA [37]. This observation was replicated in a case-control study (110/110) of another Spanish cohort [38]. Further studies in Jewish (Caucasian) cases and controls (52/73) suggested that a higher frequency of MICA-A9 in PsA patients is in LD with HLA-B alleles (B*5701, B*3801), but the latter were not increased in PsA [39]. Two studies of Chinese populations including each of the case-control studies of PsA (102/210) and psoriasis (105/160) indicated no association [40, 41].
Considering ethnic heterogeneity in genetics, Song et al. performed a meta-analysis using 10 studies involving 2,002 cases and 1,933 controls of European and Asian [42]. The results showed that MICA-A9 was significantly associated with PsA and psoriasis patients in the entire study population, and with PsA in Europeans and psoriasis in Asian populations [42].
In studies of the association between PsA clinical forms and MICA [43]. Two hundred and twenty-six patients were classified as asymmetric oligoarthritis (AO), symmetric poly-arthritis (PA) and spondylitis (SP), or combinations (PA/SP, OA/SP). Compared to 225 normal controls, only the combined PA/SP subset showed a significantly positive association with MICA-A9 [43]. Another study in Canadian Caucasian with 745 patients and 547 controls indicated that MICA-129-met/met was a marker of skin manifestations of PsA that was independent of HLA-B and -C [44].
A common concern of these genetic studies is relatively small sample sizes [45]. Recently, a large-scale fine-mapping study of psoriasis vulgaris (PsV) risk in the HLA region in 9,247 PsV patients and 13,589 controls of European descent was performed by imputing HLA-class I and II and MICA genes from SNP genotype data. HLA-C*06:02, *12:03, HLA-B amino acid positions 67 and 9, HLA-A amino acid position 95, and HLA-DQα1 amino acid position 53 showed significant association with PsV, but not MICA [46].
SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE)
In a study of case-control cohort (48/158) of Italian population, the positive associations of MICA-A5 and MICA-A5.1 and negative association of MICA-A9 with SLE were observed, and which appeared independently from HLA-DR3 and DQ2 [47]. The increased MICA-A5.1 in SLE was also reported in Czech population (case/control: 123/96) [48]. Recently, a GWAS (case/control: 183/1288) of Central European population reported an association of cutaneous lupus erythematosus with SNP rs2844559 that is located 27 kb proximal of the MICA gene [49].
A Japanese study of cases and controls (SLE/RA/control: 716/327/351) indicated that the MICA129Met;A9 haplotype was associated with SLE, and there was an additive genetic effect between the MICA129Met;A9 haplotype and HLA-DRB1*15:01 [50]. However, the associations were not replicated in a Spanish study (case/control: 333/361) [51].
An increased expression of MICA was observed in SLE patients' kidneys [52]. The MICA 129Met;A9 was shown to suppress NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity, but it stimulated the release of IFNγ [50]. In addition, increased NKG2D(+) CD4(+) T cells were inversely correlated with disease activity in juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [53].
MICA IN BEHÇET’S DISEASE (BD)
Association between the MICA gene and BD appeared also controversial. Mizuki et al. first reported a significantly higher frequency of MICA-A6 in BD patients of Japanese cohort (case/control: 77/103) [54], which was independently supported by several other studies including a Greek (case/control: 38/40) [55] and a Korean cohort (108/204) [56], as well as a study of juvenile BD (jBD) of Italian cohort (18/20) [57]. However, the follow-up studies by Mizuki et al. indicated that the previously reported MICA-A6 association was due to LD effect of HLA-B51 [58-60], and this notion was in consistent with the studies of Spanish case-control cohort (58/194) [61] and Italian (69/130) [62].
An imputation with SNPs and meta-analysis of the extended HLA locus in 2 independent BD cohorts (case/control Turkish: 503/504 and Italian: 144/1270) showed that a SNP (rs116799036) between the HLA-B51 and the MICA was strongly associated with BD, and that influenced HLA-B*51 [63]. However, this observation was not replicated in a large case-control cohort (1,190/1,257), which instead verified HLA-B51 as a primary BA allele [64]. Recently, a study of Iranian BD reported that the HLA-B51 allele and the rs76546355/rs116799036 MHC SNP are independent genetic risk factors for BD [65].
While the association of single polymorphisms of the MICA with BD appeared inconsistent in different reports, increased haplotype alleles of the MICA*009 and/or *019 were associated with BD in two independent studies including case-control European Caucasian (56/90) and Spanish (42/165) cohorts [66, 67].
There are limited studies of pathological importance of MICA in BD. In a study with 27 patients and 21 controls, soluble MICA in serum and NKG2D expression on CD8+ T cells were not significantly increased in BD [68]. In another study, HLA-B51-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes autoreactive to MICA transmembrane peptides were detected in active DB patients [69].
MICA IN RHEUMATIC DISEASE ASSOCIATED INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD) INCLU-DING ULCERATIVE COLITIS (UC) AND CROHN'S DISEASE (CD)
Although IBD is not categorized as rheumatic disease, strong association between IBD and spondyloarthropathy (SpA) is well documented [70-73]. About 10% SpA patients develop IBD in the follow-up studies [74-76], and 20-30% patients with IBD have rheumatic abnormality [77, 78]. Moreover, studies indicated that 20%-40% of patients with IBD fulfill the criteria for SpA [79, 80].
MICA has been extensively studied in IBD. MICA-A5.1 was identified as a protective allele to CD and extensive form of UC in two independent case-control studies including Tunisian (36 cases/123 controls) and Spanish (121/116) cohorts, respectively [81, 82]. On the other hand, MICA-A5 was correlated with worse progression of UC [82], and was associated with late age of onset of CD [81]. MICA-A6 also was associated with UC in Tunish and Japanese (case/control: 36/12 and 83/132, respectively) studies [81, 83]. A higher frequency of MICA-129met/met was reported in IBD patients of Murcians (case/control: 88/154) [84]. A haplotype study showed that allele MICA*007 was associated with UC of North European Caucasian (141 cases vs 118 controls) [85]. However, these associations were not in agreement with several other reports. Two Chinese studies presented contradictory results by showing an increase of MICA-A5.1 in UC patients [86, 87]. The frequencies of MICA-129-val was significantly higher in UC patients of a Chinese cohort (case/control: 272/560) [88]. A later report of Japanese case-control (64/236) cohort of UC patients indicated that MICA-A6 association attributed to LD with HLA-B52 [89]. Two study of Caucasoid origin with CD (n=94 and 248), UC (n=94 and 329) and controls (n=154 and 354) could not find any associations of particular alleles of the MICA gene [90, 91]. Taking together, like other genetic association studies, in addition to sample size as an important factor, the incidence of MICA variants in patients with IBD may vary between different racial and ethnic populations.
The intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) is a major MICA expression cell type. Increased MICA expression was found on IECs in CD. Correspondingly, an increased subset of CD4(+) T cells expressing NKG2D was also found in the lamina propria from patients with CD, along with an increased Th1 cytokine profile and perforin in the periphery and in the mucosa in CD [92, 93]. These findings highlight the role of MICA-NKG2D in the activation of a unique subset of CD4(+) T cells with inflammatory and cytotoxic properties in CD [92].
SUMMARY AND PERSPECTIVE
Multiple polymorphisms of the MICA gene have been extensively examined in rheumatic diseases. Although some results are inconsistent, which are mainly conflicted in primary susceptibility verses secondary effect from the HLA class I or II genes. There seems to be an agreement that significantly increased frequencies of specific MICA alleles occur in various rheumatic diseases. The discrepancies of the genetic association of the MICA gene with the diseases may be largely caused by sample size and heterogeneity of study populations (Table 1). It is particularly concerned that the numbers of study subjects in most of the reports were relatively small with low statistical power.
Summary of associations between inflammatory rheumatic diseases and MICA
MICA Variant
Population or Ethnicity
Case/Control or Family
(Risk or Protective)
RA MICA--A6 Spanish 54 families and 211 cases yes (protective) [28]
RA MICA--A6 Caucasian 90/85 yes (protective) [29]
RA MICA--A6 French Caucasian (FC)
and German Caucasian (GC) 100 families (FC) and 90/182 (GC) none [30]
RA MICA--129 French Caucasian (FC)
and German Caucasian (GC) 100 families (FC) and 90/182 (GC) yes (unknown) [30]
AS MICA--A4 Caucasian 48/50 yes (risk) [32]
AS MICA--A4 Caucasian 162/103 none due to LD with HLA--B27 [33]
AS MICA--A4 Sardinia 82/139 yes (risk) [34]
AS MICA--129 met/met Algerian 129/760 yes (risk) [35]
AS MICA*007:01 US Caucasian 1070/1003 yes (risk) [36]
AS MICA*007:01 Chinese Han 473/536 yes (risk) [36]
AS MICA*019 Chinese Han 473/536 yes (risk) [36]
PsA MICA--A9 Spanish 65/177 yes (risk) [37]
PsA MICA--A9 Spanish 110/110 yes (risk) [38]
PsA MICA--A9 Jewish 52/73 yes (risk) [39]
PsA MICA--A9 Chinese 102/210 none [40, 41]
PsA MICA--A9 mixed populations with meta--analysis 2002 /1933 yes (risk) [42]
PsA MICA--129--met/met Canadian Caucasian 745/547 yes (risk) [44]
psoriasis MICA--A9 mixed populations with meta--analysis 2003 /1933 yes (risk) [42]
psoriasis MICA--A9 Chinese 105/160 none [40]
psoriasis MICA--A9 European 9247/13589 none [46]
SLE MICA--A5 Italian 48/158 yes (risk) [47]
SLE MICA--A5.1 Italian 48/158 yes (risk) [47]
SLE MICA--A9 Italian 48/158 yes (protective) [47]
SLE MICA--A5.1 Czech 123/96 yes (risk) [48]
SLE MICA129Met;A9 Japanese 716/351 yes (risk) [50]
SLE any of MICA variants Spanish 333/361 none [51]
BD MICA--A6 Japanese 77/103 yes (risk) [54]
BD MICA--A6 Greek 38/40 yes (risk) [55]
BD MICA--A6 Korean 108/204 yes (risk) [56]
jBD MICA--A6 Italian 18/20 yes (risk) [57]
BD MICA--A6 Iranian 84/87 none due to LD with HLA--B51 [58]
BD MICA--A6 Spanish 58/194 none due to LD with HLA--B51 [61]
BD MICA--A6 Italian 69/130 none due to LD with HLA--B51 [62]
BD MICA*009 European Caucasian 56/90 yes (risk) [66]
BD MICA*019 Spanish 42/165 yes (risk) [67]
CD MICA--A5.1 Tunisian 36/123 yes (protective) [81]
CD MICA--A5 Tunisian 36/123 late age of onset [81]
CD any of MICA variants Caucasian 94/154 none [90, 91]
CD any of MICA variants Caucasian 248/354 none [90, 91]
UC MICA--A5.1 Spanish 121/116 yes (protective) [82]
UC MICA--A5.1 Chinese 86/172 and 124/172 yes (risk) [86, 87]
UC MICA--A5 Spanish 121/116 worse progression [82]
UC MICA--A6 Tunisian 36/12 yes (risk) [81]
UC MICA--A6 Japanese 64/236 none due to LD with HLA--B52 [89]
UC MICA--A7 Japanese 83/132 yes (risk) [83]
UC MICA--129--val Chinese 272/560 yes (risk) [88]
UC MICA*007 European Caucasian 141/118 yes (risk) [85]
UC any of MICA variants Caucasian 94/154 none [90, 91]
UC any of MICA variants Caucasian 329/354 none [90, 91]
IBD MICA--129met/met Murcians 88/154 yes (risk) [84]
In addition, genotyping methods and disease subtypes may also be important factors. Therefore, much research remains to be done on the genetics of MICA in rheumatic diseases.
MICA has been attributed to play important roles in immune surveillance. However, the evidence of functional MICA variants contributing to pathogenesis of many rheumatic diseases is still unconvincing. MICA polymorphism and/or haplotype alleles encode unique protein structures, and/or exhibit specific functions. For instance, MICA-A5.1 contains an insertion of guanine at codon 295 that results in a premature stop codon at position 304, which in turn encodes a truncated MICA protein lacking part of the transmembrane domain and the whole cytoplasmic tail [2]; The proteins encoded by MICA-129-met possess stronger binding affinity to NKG2D than MICA-129-val [3]; Among MICA*008, *007 and *019, MICA*008 expresses less on the surface of human fibroblasts, but can be excreted in exosomes that down-regulate NKG2D activity [27, 94], MICA*019 highly expressed on the surface of the fibroblasts whereas expression of MICA*007 was the lowest in the soluble form, which may suggest a predominant up-regulation on NKG2D by both alleles. From its functional point of view, no matter contributing to primary or secondary disease susceptibility, changes of frequencies of MICA variants may impact cellular functions and subsequent immune responses or inflammatory process in the diseases. Therefore, a possible change of NKG2D signaling caused by high affinity of MICA to NKG2D may present in AS, PsA, SLE and IBD that were reported in association with MICA-129met [35, 36, 44, 50, 84], and a potentially predominant up-regulation of NKG2D may occur in AS, BD and UC that were associated with MICA*007 and/or *019 [36, 67, 85].
In fact, altered expression of MICA and activity of NKG2G, and/or its downstream signals have been reported in RA, SLE, BD and IBD [31, 52, 53, 69, 92, 93]. Further research may be focused on how MICA variants are associated with MICA/NKG2D signaling that contributes to pathogenesis in rheumatic diseases.
CONFLICT INTEREST
This study was supported by the NIH NIAID 1U01AI09090-01.
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Chasing polymer finials
This picture of Mareike Scharmer’s bright polymer finials on a fence in Germany threw me completely off track. The time I should have spent researching and writing other projects was sucked away and replaced with hours of tracking down links, translating captions, joining groups, and laughing at her riotous designs. You’ve been warned.
Mareike is a designer who specializes in rooms and library spaces for children, complete with furniture and murals. Her own house makeover is simply stunning with a Wonderland/Dr. Seuss feel from top to bottom.
There’s a smattering of polymer in Mareike’s projects. I’m betting there will be more. It’s interesting that her favorite Flickr pictures are mostly from other polymer artists (which led me all over the globe). You’re on your own. I’m not responsible.
Polymer gourd miniatures
On our first crisp and gray fall day, this little basket of squashes mirrors the season. Linda Cummings makes perfect polymer Turks turbans, sweet dumplings and butternut squashes that nestle in a tiny basket. They look just like the ones at the Saturday morning farmers’ market.
If you need more fall reminders, go to Linda’s blog to see her baskets of bread and tables of pumpkins being carved. All 1/12th scale miniatures, of course.
Welker’s carvings
Did you catch Bettina Welker’s new carved and textured series of polymer beads, brooches and bracelets?
Bettina’s experiments using Pardo clay, paints and carving resulted in a lively series this summer and evolved to this chunky new fall batch that’s rich with color and full of bead-within-bead movement.
I keep running into carved polymer pieces lately. Is texture the new frontier to explore this fall?
Making realistic flowers from air dry polymer clay was originally popular in Thailand and Japan. That popularity has spread to Russia, the US and elsewhere. Thin and pliable air dry clay, often referred to as cold porcelain, is perfect for simulating petals.
I tracked down Daisy Clay (US and Thailand), Rowan Craft (Russia and UK), and Deco Clay (Hawaii) and new brands are popping up.
Take a look at some of what’s happening to this contingent of artists within the polymer community.
Natalia Leitman (not quite sure of her name), that’s her hair clip
Olga Petrova who uses Deco Clay
ThaiflowerArt with Tarapat van Gulik uses Daisy Clay
Zahra Malak at Arakina.com
Daisy Clay, the US manufacturer’s site
Anastasia P. in Russia with Rowan Craft
Ravivan Petchprepa in Bangkok
Connie at Lilychartier in Niceville, FL
Fabi faux
These graphic faux enamels from Fabi (fperezajates) have a hip new look. Fabi carves her own patterns into erasers and I’m guessing that she used metallic clay for the polymer base.
Inks and powders seem to be involved and she finishes the look with a layer of resin.
Like yesterday’s Natalia, Fabi is from Madrid where they’re obviously pouring it on for the EuroClay Carnival.
Fabi has also embellished some small crocheted purses with polymer buttons. Sweet!
Browse through her site and you’ll see what you’re missing while they frollick in Madrid. So much enthusiasm. Thanks to Eva Ménager for making us more jealous.
Scooped polymer in Madrid
As she gears up for the EuroClay Carnival in Madrid on October 9-12, Natalia Garcia de Leaniz has unveiled this chunky, dimensional scooped-out bracelet.
It’s a companion to the folded beads that she’ll be teaching in Madrid.
Natalia’s Flickr pages are filled with snapshots of ideas and processes that she’s developed and played with. It’s like a workshop – but without the beauty of Madrid and the warmth of friends (sigh).
Extruded string beads
Since several people have inquired about extruded string beads lately, it must be time to feature them again.
As luck would have it, the link to Vera Kleist’s “rough cut” extruded bead necklace came to me today via Lindly Haunani.
And Annerose Doering had just emailed me the address for Dominique Franceschi’s tutorial (from 2006) for the technique.
Annerose prefers a smooth finish on hers. She says, “Before I smooth the clay around the scrap base bead, I let the beads rest for a few hours so that they are not too soft. This helps to get clearer lines. I let them rest again before I pierce them.”
The basic material for these colorful, chaotic beads is dry, old clay and most of us have that readily available.
Last of summer polymer
ToutEnCouleur offers us one last blast of summer with her beach-colored beads on a hot September day in Ohio.
Polymer works on ToutEnCouleur’s Flickr page and Dawanda shop show an ease with color and a willingness to experiment…good practices to remember as I head back to the studio.
This French artist is new to PCD. Thanks to Lindly Haunani for the link.
Space Girls polymer
Wanda Shum is only inspired to create one or two polymer-covered teapots a year. This year’s Space Girls theme was prompted by the Jetson-like shape of the pot. The best view of the rest of her line of jewelry and accessories is found on her Facebook page (it’s public).
If you click on these images, you’ll see the smooth, flawless finish on Wanda’s intricate collage of canes and textures.
She provides inspiration to rocket us into a new week.
Fago’s carving tips
The latest discovery in my hunt for polymer and texture techniques led me back to Celie Fago. She posted these carving and texture plate tips on her blog a while back and I happily stumbled upon them.
When Celie first started in polymer, she spent many hours carving warm, baked polymer and she developed many tricks, including ways to keep tools sharp.
Time-intensive carving made her think about creating texture plates which she now uses for both metal clay and polymer. You’ll see evidence of both techniques in her Etsy shop. I hope your weekend is filled with texture.
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A more acidic ocean will bend the mermaid's wineglass
(Press-News.org) New research from the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories shows that a more acidic ocean can weaken the protective shell of a delicate alga. The findings, published Sept. 9 in the journal Biology Letters, come at a time when global climate change may increase ocean acidification.
The creature in question is Acetabularia acetabulum, commonly called the mermaid's wineglass. Reaching a height of just a few inches, this single-celled alga lives on shallow seafloors, where sunlight can still filter down for photosynthesis. Like many marine creatures, the mermaid's wineglass sports a supportive skeleton made of calcium carbonate. Its skeleton is thought to deter grazing by predators and keep the alga's thin stem rigid to support the round reproductive structure on top, said UW biology professor and senior author Emily Carrington.
Increasing acidity of ocean water disrupts calcium carbonate levels. The more acidic the water is, the less calcium carbonate is available to living organisms. No studies had shown if even a slight increase in ocean acidity could weaken the shell of the mermaid's wineglass. But three years ago a colleague told Carrington and UW biology doctoral student Laura Newcomb that the mermaid's wineglass grows differently in certain parts of the Mediterranean Sea.
"Jason Hall-Spencer from Plymouth University came to Friday Harbor to talk about his research on underwater carbon dioxide seeps in Europe," said Carrington. "He said the mermaid's wineglass looks different when it grows close to the seeps, and asked us if anyone might be interested in finding out why."
Carrington and Newcomb, who want to understand how marine organisms adapt to changing environmental conditions, were intrigued by the differences Hall-Spencer reported.
"The algae far from the seeps appeared whiter -- probably because of their well-developed skeletons," said Newcomb, who is lead author on the paper. "But ones found closer to the vents are more brown and green."
Underwater volcanic activity creates CO2 seeps, which spew gas and minerals into the water column. This includes dissolved carbon dioxide, which makes ocean waters near the vents more acidic. Newcomb wondered if mermaid's wineglass algae growing closer to the seeps had weaker calcium carbonate skeletons. She measured the composition, morphology and stiffness of preserved algae that Hall-Spencer had collected, and found that algae near the vents were thinner and droopier.
But Newcomb and Carrington worried that the preservative the algae had been stored in might have affected the measurements. There was only one thing to do.
"She needed to go to Italy to work with live algae," said Carrington. "Poor thing."
The CO2 seeps were located near Vulcano, an island off the northern coast of Sicily. Newcomb collected fresh samples of the mermaid's wineglass -- both near and far from the seeps -- and measured the carbon dioxide levels of the water at each site.
"The sites around the CO2 seeps are pretty shallow," said Newcomb. "So we could just snorkel and dive down to collect samples. We looked at three different sites -- low, medium and high carbon dioxide levels."
Carbon dioxide levels were five times higher at sites closest to the seeps. The CO2 readings indicated how acidified the water is at each site -- the more carbon dioxide, the more acidified.
The high carbon dioxide levels affected the composition and flexibility of mermaid's wineglass skeletons. Newcomb found that near seeps in high carbon dioxide conditions, mermaid's wineglass skeletons contained 32 percent less calcium carbonate. As a result, the straw-like stems were 40 percent less stiff and 40 percent droopier than their counterparts from low carbon dioxide waters.
"We saw a big loss in skeletal stiffness with even a small increase in carbon dioxide," said Carrington.
Newcomb and Carrington hypothesize that the less fortified mermaid's wineglass algae might be more susceptible to damage from ocean currents and grazing by marine animals. Their droopy posture may also make it difficult to disperse offspring. On the other hand, the thinner skeletons may transmit more sunlight to make food, and neither Newcomb nor her co-authors found snails -- a common wineglass muncher -- near the CO2 seeps.
"The beauty of these seep systems is that we can go back to these sites and test these hypotheses," said Carrington. "We can really try to see how increased flexibility affects the algae."
Carrington and Newcomb hope that field studies like these, which look at the mechanical function of the calcium carbonate skeletons and not just their composition, will help biologists and oceanographers understand how climate change could affect creatures like the mermaid's wineglass.
"Calcium carbonate skeletons are quite widespread in marine life, found in algae and plankton and even in larger creatures like snails and corals," said Newcomb. "And in a more acidified ocean, some creatures are able to cope and do just fine. Some, like the mermaid's wineglass here, suffer but still persist. Others will really struggle."
As human activity pumps more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the oceans are absorbing a greater share than they have for millennia, and ocean acidification overall is expected to increase. These conditions may just bend the mermaid's wineglass, but they could break others.
Newcomb, Carrington and Hall-Spencer were joined on the paper by co-author Marco Milazzo from the University of Palermo. This study was funded by the National Science Foundation (EF-1041213) and the Mediterranean Sea Acidification Program.
For more information, contact Carrington at 201-221-4676 or ecarring@uw.edu and Newcomb at the same phone number or newcombl@uw.edu.
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#Xenophobicattacks: Suspend diplomatic ties with South Africa – Ekweremadu tells Buhari
Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend diplomatic ties with South Africa
Ekweremadu in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, condemned the incessant xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa.
Describing the attack as “un-African, barbaric, and unparalleled acts of ingratitude, the lawmaker regretted that the Government of South Africa had not wielded the big stick to end the attacks, and called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to consider suspension of diplomatic ties with the Southern African nation until things were put right.
“I find the incessant xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationals in South Africa very un-African, barbaric, and unparalleled acts of ingratitude. It is quite disturbing that the Government of South Africa has not taken decisive steps to end these attacks, which have led to wanton loss of lives and properties of fellow Africans, especially Nigerians.
“The attacks defy and desecrate everything African brotherhood stands for, especially for a country that gained freedom with the support, sweat, and sacrifice of fellow African nations among which Nigeria clearly stands out. The attacks have reached scary and desperate degrees and call for desperate actions on the part of Nigeria, other African nations, and the African Union.
“It will therefore not be out of place for the Federal Government to suspend diplomatic relations with SA until full assurance of safety of Nigerians and their properties in South African are secured, adequate compensation paid for the damages, and the perpetrators also brought to book”.
“The AU should therefore summon an emergency session to sanction South Africa; and a suspend from the Union for unprovoked acts of hostilities against fellow Africans whose countries fought for the freedom they enjoy today will not be out of place,” Ekweremadu added.
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