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Village Backdrops VII [BUNDLE]
Raging Swan Press
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Village Backdrop: Coldwater
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A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM’s Resource supplement by Creighton Broadhurst Widely thought of as a haven for smugglers and other miscreants, rumours swirl as thickly about Coldwater as the persistent sea fogs that sometimes blanket the place for days at a time. Set at the head of a muddy cliff top path, Coldwater is an isolated, dismal place. Its folk are sullen, ugly people and even the village’s ruler hates the place. For all that, Coldwater can be a place of opportunity and adventure. Sometimes, pirates drop anchor off the coast to deal with the local smugglers while rumours of a sunken stair and a nearby cove of ill aspect bring a steady stream of adventurers to the village.Village Backdrops ar...
Village Backdrop: Denhearth
A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM’s Resource supplement by Jacob W. Michaels Perched high up in the mountains on an isolated plateau, the village of Denhearth long dwelled under the deep shadow of the red dragon Cinderblaze. Established as a base for the red dragon’s army and minions, the residents suffered almost as much as those the dragon terrorised until he was slain by the gold dragon Galiantana. Now, under the direction and protection of Galiantana, Denhearth is famed for its Academy of Draconic Arts, a school of sorcery that welcomes all with the blood-born ability. But recently, the gold dragon has withdrawn from public life and rumours swirl as to her whereabouts (or death). With its second dr...
Village Backdrop: Hopespyre
A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM’s Resource supplement by Jacob W. Michaels Their beliefs considered heretical by the Church of the God of the Sun and their presence viewed as a threat to the cruel ruler of their homeland, the Church of the Redemptive Flame fled and founded a new home in remote Hopespyre. The cult now wants nothing more than to live a sin-free life in their new refuge but events conspire against them. The evil elemental lord of fire has set his sights on the cult and schemes to subvert its good intentions. Aging church leader Dagor Thursh edges closer to death with each day, and a struggle is growing for the right to succeed him, its flames fanned by followers of the elemental lord who...
Village Backdrop: Idyll
A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible GM’s Resource by Mike WelhamIdyll seems like the perfect place to live, but subtle signs something is not right are scattered throughout the village. Why are the residents reluctant to leave the village’s precincts? Why are there so few children in such a prosperous place? How has the village stayed unspoiled with the wasteland surrounding it? Why is the seemingly empty Wardens’ Lodge that once served as the centre of law for Idyll so ominous? Those who investigate too deeply into Idyll’s mystery may discover plane-shattering implications. Whether the curious can share these secrets is yet another question. Village Backdrops are short, richly detailed suppleme...
Village Backdrop: Kennutcat
A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game GM’s Resource supplement by John Bennett The small island of Kennutcat, with its broad natural harbour and bountiful fishing, proved to be a great boon to early colonizers. After subjugating the native inhabitants, the colonizers quickly established a small prosperous village catering to the many merchant ships sailing the nearby trading routes. Yet, at night, a thick fog rolls in, blanketing the stone streets and wood shingled houses. Strange shapes move in the mists, while sibilant voices echo in the still air. These are Kennutcat’s dead—fathers, mothers, sons and daughters—spirits trapped and inexplicably bound to the island by an unending, unkillable nightmar...
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Mum who was caught trying to sell €90,000 worth of stolen jewellery to Tallaght cash for gold shop avoids jail
The jewellery was traced to a burglary in Lucan several days earlier
Brion Hoban
Kathleen Kiely (Image: Collins Courts)
A mother-of-one who was caught trying to sell €90,000 of stolen gold jewellery to a cash for gold shop has received a fully suspended sentence.
Kathleen Kiely, 32, of Lymington Avenue, Woodgreen, London, England, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to handling stolen property on January 21, 2018. She has no previous convictions.
At an earlier sentence hearing, Garda Sergeant Aidan Carroll told Fiona McGowan BL, prosecuting, that gardaí had placed the Gold Digger jewellery shop in Tallaght, Dublin under surveillance after receiving information that two men were to call there.
A woman exited a car driven by her former partner and approached the “cash for gold” shop carrying a handbag and a second large bag that appeared to be heavy.
Kathleen Kiely 'Cash for Gold', Tallaght
She was stopped by gardaí who discovered that the second bag contained a large amount of badly damaged gold jewellery.
The original value of the gold jewellery was €90,000, but the court heard that due to the damage it suffered, the value was reduced to €37,000. The jewellery was traced to a burglary in Lucan several days earlier.
Kiely had come into the shop the previous day and asked the owner how much he would pay for 18 carat gold, saying her husband had some he wished to sell.
Glamorous mother of one caught trying to sell €90k in stolen gold jewellery in south Dublin pawn shop
Sgt Carroll agreed with John Griffin BL, defending, that Kiely was not the primary target of gardaí. He accepted that there was no suggestion she was involved with the burglary.
The mother of one lives in London and was attending an engagement party in Ireland with her former partner at the time of the offence.
Mr Griffin said his client was influenced by her former partner Michael Maughan, 25, to commit the offence. He said Kiely instructed him to express her remorse and apologies to the victim and the court.
Dublin man who trolled DUP leader Arlene Foster online jailed for 22 months
Maughan of Hazel Hill, Tallaght, Dublin, also pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to handling assorted stolen jewellery on January 21, 2018. Judge Melanie Greally sentenced him to four year's imprisonment with the final two suspended.
Judge Karen O'Connor said the case was aggravated by the premeditation of Kiely's actions and the impact on the victim. She said the case was mitigated by her guilty plea, her previous good character and her being the mother of a teenage son.
Judge O'Connor sentenced Kiely to two years imprisonment, but suspended the entirety of the sentence on strict conditions.
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Jurgen Klopp on Big Sam jibe: "It's not a problem"
Klopp shrugs off 'soft german' tag
Allardyce called Klopp "a soft German" after Klopp suggested that Jeremain Lens should have been sent off for a late tackle on Sakho during Wednesday's game.
Klopp seem unfazed in todays press conference insisting that he "had been called worse" in his time in football and that "I had no arguments with the bench at Sunderland".
Klopp poked fun at the suggestion that the Lens' tackle was soft and joked "Mama is alive and everything is OK". Klopp is quickly becoming a favourite of the media with his mix of the candid and the jovial in his interviews and press conferences.
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Claims of an identity crisis at Manchester United are nonsense
Cian Carroll
After quickly losing faith with a besieged David Moyes after just one season in charge and going on a record-breaking, galactico-like splurge of over £150 million that would have had Florentino Perez frothing at the mouth, Manchester United’s detractors wailed that one of the giants of English football were losing their identity.
Indeed, even Sir Alex Ferguson’s right hand man, Mike Phelan, added his voice to the growing list of dissenters after Danny Welbeck’s sale to Arsenal. It’s arguable letting a very clearly talented young player like Welbeck sign for a major rival was a mistake but an offer of £16 million was obviously too difficult to turn down for a player who would have been fourth choice in his position.
Whilst the club have let a number of young players go this summer – whether permanently or on loan – and paid some huge fees for players, this isn’t United losing their identity, it is them reclaiming it.
Replacing a home grown starlet in Welbeck with a world superstar in Falcao is unfortunate but it is not unprecedented. During the summer of 2001, Jonathan Greening was sold to Middlesbrough with Juan Sebastian Veron signed as his ‘replacement’ from Lazio for just over £29 million. I don’t recall anyone crying blasphemy back then. There are countless examples of youth players who just weren’t good enough, replaced by bigger names to make the squad stronger.
Claims that current younger players are not being given their chance are completely unfounded. The average age of the back four against Everton yesterday was just 21.5. Add in a superlative David De Gea at just 23 and the average age of the entire defence comes to just under 22 (21.8).
Paddy McNair at 19 and Tyler Blackett at 20, even at this early stage, look like they could have big futures at Old Trafford whilst more experienced defenders like Marcus Rojo, Phil Jones and Chris Smalling are still in their early twenties. Yes United have made a huge splash for some big-name stars to sort out some present problems but it’s quite clear Van Gaal is also building a squad for the future – something he’s done at all the clubs he has managed at.
The Dutchman was the first coach to give Xavi his chance but that didn’t stop him from importing a raft of established Dutch stars to help rebuild a beleaguered Barcelona squad. At Bayern Munich he jettisoned a young Thomas Muller straight into the first team but he still signed world class talents like Arjen Robben.
There is a clear pattern that Van Gaal creates at every club in that he blends the best young talents at his disposal with major, world class footballers; one could argue that has always been the Manchester United way: the marriage of the best of their own brood with the best of the rest.
It must also not be ignored that the dull, directionless performances of last season under Moyes have been replaced by a more vibrant, attacking Manchester United under the ‘Iron Tulip’: full of pace and daring; a willingness to go for the throat - a throwback to the great Sir Alex Ferguson sides of the past, another staple of the club’s identity.
Whilst the real rebuilding phase in the post-Ferguson era is now well underway at Old Trafford, all is not perfect; a very youthful defence looks porous and midfield could do with a little more added grit to supplement some very silkily skilled operators but Van Gaal has United fans fawning in adulation.
After a year in the wilderness – 12 months that will have felt an eternity to supporters spoiled with glory – the Manchester United that English football feared and loathed in equal measure are back on the march with their identify fully intact.
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Unbuilt Toronto 2
More of the City That Might Have Been
Mark Osbaldeston
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Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915.
Winner of the 2012 Heritage Toronto Award of Merit
Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city." Now Unbuilt Toronto 2 provides an all-new, fascinating return to the "Toronto that might have been."
Discover the scrapyard statue planned for University Avenue, the flapper-era "CN Tower" that led to a decade of litigation, and an electric light-rail transit network proposed in 1915. What would Toronto look like today if it had hosted the Olympics in 1996 or 1976? And what was the downtown expressway that Frederick Gardiner really wanted?
With over 150 photographs, maps, and illustrations, Unbuilt Toronto 2 tracks the origins and fates of some of the city’s most interesting planning, transit, and architectural "what-ifs."
Heritage Toronto Award of Merit
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Unbuilt Toronto 2 is a treasure trove of lost projects that's every bit the rival of its predecessor. In fact, one could make the argument that it's even a tad more interesting on account of some of the lesser-known projects and plans that it sheds light on.
Canadianarchitect.com
The success of and positive response to Mark Osbaldestons first effort in 2008, Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been, left the author feeling like he wasnt quite yet finished with his research. As a consequence, in this second volume, Osbaldeston not only gives readers a more complete picture of how the city might be vastly different today, but also offers an intriguing behind-the-scenes account of the political machinations that either stymied or guaranteed the success of a number of undeniably significant architectural and urban design projects.
Canadian Architect Magazine
This sequel book examines over 150 years of plans for buildings, civic squares, city halls, and subways that Toronto and its citizens have long forgotten. Unbuilt Toronto 2 lets you imagine the city that could have been.
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Mark Osbaldeston has written and spoken extensively on Toronto's architectural and planning history. His first book, Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been, was the subject of an exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, was a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards, and received a Heritage Toronto Award of Merit. He lives in Toronto.
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BMW M4 For Sale
Used BMW M4 For Sale
Released in 2013, the BMW M4 for sale represents one of the newer performance-oriented mid-sized coupes from BMW’s M division. Available in the M4 coupe and M4 convertible body styles, the M division 4-series is equipped with a powerful and responsive 3.0-liter, twin-turbocharged, inline, six-cylinder engine and a six-speed manual transmission, or optional 7-speed M-DCT gearbox. With upgraded and lowered suspension, braking, and accentuated aerodynamic bodywork, the car sets itself apart from the commuter crowd as a driving machine to behold.
Officially dubbed the F82, this generation incorporates carbon-reinforced plastic in components such as the roof, trunk, strut braces, and carbon-ceramic brakes to improve at-speed acceleration, handling, and stopping power.
A new feature is the Active Sound Control system, live transmission of the drivetrain soundtrack that can be selectively played through the car’s speakers and cabin. Unlike systems from other brands, which play pre-recorded engine noises, this feature provides a direct and amplified high-quality experience of the inline six's symphony.
From the street, the M4 is identifiable by its lower and wider stance than traditional 4-series, a carbon-fiber roof, tri-color M badges inside, and quad rear exhausts. Flared and expanded front and rear bumpers funnel air into and out of the brake housings for optimal cooling and improve the M car’s downforce at high speeds.
To find your new 2015, view our BMW M4 listings. As a popular and constantly evolving model, you may consider your M4 lease options as a flexible alternative to a full purchase. Please contact one of our dealers with further inquiries about the seller and vehicle information.
Pushing the limits of their legendary straight-six engine, BMW has unleashed a brutal new track car: the M4 GTS. The proof is in the lap time: 7.28. For those needing to lap the Ring in a Bavarian masterpiece, a host of new features will be at your disposal.
At its core, the GTS utilizes the twin-turbocharged six-cylinder engine. Unlike the base models, however, the GTS has what BMW is calling innovative water injection technology.” This new injection system raises the power up to 493 hp, a 75 hp increase over the base model, and 442 lb-ft of torque, a 36 lb-ft increase over the base model.
In addition to the wild power, engineers stripped all non-essential weight and made extensive use of carbon composites. No manual transmission will be offered, but the seven-speed M-DCT has tougher internals and a revised launch mode to cope with the power.
Thanks to the car’s lightweight carbon fiber construction and the aforementioned boost of power, the GTS is, in a word, quick. In fact, it can complete a 0-60 mph run in 3.6 seconds, .3 seconds faster than the base model, and has a limited top speed of 189.5 mph, which is 33.5 mph faster than the base model.
An optional club sport package offers an Acid Orange roll cage behind the rear seats with provisions for a six-point racing harness. Covering the carbon-fiber seats is a mix of Alcantara and Merino leather, with cutouts to save weight. Each owner will receive a suspension tuning box which includes a spanner wrench for the springs and a dial for tuning shock rebound. For the 30th anniversary, BMW is building 700 examples, each one destined to be an instant collectible.
The newest addition to BMW’s model lineup is immediately recognizable and stunning in its soft-top and coupe livery. While the sports car wears the newest name tag in BMW’s collection, it shares most of its suspension and drivetrain underpinnings with its M3 sibling. Both soft and hard top Ms are particularly notable because of their drivetrain. Featuring a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six engine in place of the previous generation’s V8, the sports car calls to its legendary six-cylinder origins and builds upon that platform to create a 425 horsepower masterpiece capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds. Armed with the more tactile six-speed manual, this time may increase slightly, but the added involvement with the drivetrain is well worth it. Inside, BMW has incorporated carbon fiber into the trim of the cockpit to save weight and create a sporting interior atmosphere. A combination of digital age wizardry, an innovation that pushes the boundary of physics and sporting luxury, the M4 should be on your wish list this year.
High-performance convertibles are fantastic things, and the new 2015 M4 convertible is set to raise the bar even higher. The engine is the true heart of a BMW and this TwinPower 3.0-liter inline-six will deliver 425 horsepower and 406 foot-pounds of torque, redlining at 7,600 rpm. It will get you from 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds with the double-clutch transmission and a spot of M Launch control. These modern three-piece retractable hardtops are amazing feats of engineering; they can fold up in 20 seconds while still rolling along at 20 mph. The beauty of the hardtop is that you really can enjoy the full experience of both driving worlds. With the top up it’s as quiet and solid as a sedan; with the roof down, you get the full open-air stimulation. From a design perspective, the M4 Convertible is a mix of muscular M features, such as the intakes and hood bump, with a liberal application of M detailing and logos. The M4 is fast, fun and a true dual personality.
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6 things to learn from ASOS.com
0 0 EC Milo Tuesday, 7 January 2014
With over 5 million customers globally, almost 3 million Facebook fans and international sales soaring 150% in 2010 - 2011, this is the achievement of UK's iconic shopping site - ASOS.com.
ASOS started as a portal for celebrity-linked products and furniture under the name As Seen On Screen in 2000. Thirteen years later, ASOS.com has become the number one fashion shopping site of our generation, shipping to over 160 countries from its central distribution center in the United Kingdom.
Read also: 7 reasons why online fashion retailers FAIL
#1. Create desire for your product by leveraging on celebrity power
In 1996, Nick Robertson (co-founder of ASOS, who recently gives away £2.8m to staff in a special bonus), founded Entertainment Marketing with Quentin Griffins and zeroed in on the enormous potential of popular TV hit series "Friends". The marketing service company offered merchandise to television's programme producers as complimentary props for the TV set.
The modus operandi behind this was to leverage on the power of celebrities to sell products and it was a huge success. Entertainment Marketing managed to secure big clients such as Calsberg, Coca-cola, Ford, Mars, Pepsi and Samsung. Big brands were paying top dollars to associate themselves with Hollywood's finest celebrities.
In 1999, during the time when the program "Friends" was aired, NBC received an overwhelming total of 4,000 calls about a lamp and audience wanted to know where they could purchase that specific lamp they saw on set.
This clearly shows that people like to copy their favorite celebrity style, in the process willing to pay a decent and reasonable price for it.
#2. The World is Your Oyster
Think digital, Think Global!
Never limit your e-commerce business to your home country. Always remember that international expansion via the Internet brings all overhead costs to virtually nil because it eliminates costs on human resource, physical rental of retail outlets, warehousing costs and much more. In 2010, international sales on ASOS skyrocketed to 142% while at the same time its domestic sales increased by only 25%. As the matter of fact, UK only accounts for 3% of the global Internet traffic.
E-commerce business should look at the global arena and strive to compete on a global stage. This is of paramount importance especially if your home country has relatively small population compared to the likes of China, India, United States. Always take into consideration Internet penetration of the countries you plan to target, and go for the lower hanging fruit. ASOS.com has International sites in English, French, Italian, German and Dutch. It is always a smart idea to target first world countries compared to third world countries with low Internet penetration and online payment maturity.
Read also: Understanding e-commerce landscape of Southeast Asia with focus on Malaysia
#3. The higher the engagement, the higher the sales
Engage your customers by giving them more to do on your website, as quoted by Shakespeare "Variety is a spice of Life". High engagement via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram gives ASOS.com the upper hand. We can see that ASOS updates all their social media platforms on daily basis and here are some of the observations on how ASOS engages with their audience:
(i) Each post is accompanied by an image
(ii) Cosmetic, Hair, "Outfit of the Day" tutorials
(iii) DIY Video contents
(iv) New Arrivals on daily basis
(v) Bewitching Finds
(vi) Discounts & Promo
#4. Sell more, Sell more frequently and Sell to more people
ASOS is doing all three of the above. Besides launching 1,500 to 2,000 new products every week, they also cater to a variety of audiences. From plus size to petite, and from female fashion to pet fashion, ASOS sells to more and more people everyday by rapidly expanding it's product range. ASOS has its very own in-house label on top of increasing the number of brands available for sale on the site.
Read also: Why product offering (number of items) is important for online marketplace?
Selling internationally by offering free shipping worldwide enables ASOS to sell to more people around the world, enabling them to keep growing beyond a certain threshold. ASOS has constantly grown the total number of brands available for sale on its site. This provides a good reason for existing customers to frequently return and shop as sizeable new products are introduced every week. Besides existing customers, every new brand launch on the site will definitely bring in new customers!
#5. Break away from industry convention & Reconstruct market boundaries
Tip: Think What Your Customers do BEFORE, DURING and AFTER Shopping on your site!
ASOS.com does not think like a typical brick and mortar retailer. Instead, they adopt an open-minded approach and develop a very good understanding on what a customer would do before, during and after browsing on the website.
ASOS Fashion Finder has been introduced to help customers find the type of fashion they want and ASOS Marketplace provides consumers and aspiring designers the opportunity to sell their products or pre-owned items. Understanding what consumers do with the clothes which they do not wear or do not fit is an incredibly good insights to the consumer's behavior. Establishing ASOS Marketplace gives individuals the opportunity to resell their second-hand clothing, at the same time allowing new up and coming independent designers to sell and showcase their creations.
#6. Customer Service
It is no easy task managing such an enormous followings on multiple social media channels. ASOS has a dedicated team to personally answer each and every complaint, comment on Facebook.
Let's take a look on how does ASOS respond to complaints on Facebook below:
Have you ever wondered how ASOS.com handles missing orders?
Not only you will get a full refund, ASOS will also compensate you with a 10% discount code for your next purchase. This is such a simple but smart move to retain your customers and build loyalty! Always remember that, a happy customer is bound to tell 5 people about you and an unhappy customer will tell 10 people about you!
This article is written by Christy Ng, who founded ChristyNg.com in July 2010 - which has since become a leading online women's shoe store in Malaysia.
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Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) Program
Priority 5: Invitational Priority - Encouraging Private Sector Support
The Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services are particularly interested in applications that describe how the private sector will provide financial and other resources to support the State and its Participating State Agencies or Participating Programs in the implementation of the State Plan.
Signatures and Assurances
Priority 1: Absolute Priority - Using Early Learning and Development Standards and Kindergarten Entry Assessments to Promote School Readiness
Priority 2: Absolute Priority - Using Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems to Promote School Readiness
Priority 3: Competitive Preference Priority - Including all Early Learning and Development Programs in the Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement System
Priority 4: Invitational Priority - Sustaining Program Effects in the Early Elementary Grades
‹ Priority 4: Invitational Priority - Sustaining Program Effects in the Early Elementary Grades up Selection Criteria ›
Dear Secretary Duncan and
Permalink Submitted by Jackie (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-11 17:10
Dear Secretary Duncan and Secretary Sebelius:
Thank you for your work to support quality learning opportunities for every child from birth through college. Thrive by Five Washington and all of our partners are extremely enthusiastic about the opportunity to apply for the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge, and we believe that Washington is well positioned to submit a competitive proposal as this opportunity builds upon key reforms that we have prioritized in Washington State.
Thrive by Five Washington is a public-private partnership that supports early learning in Washington state by bridging public and private sector priorities and resources. The private resources that Thrive by Five Washington brings to Washington have enabled crucial pieces of our early learning system to move forward. We have raised private funds to support the development, evaluation, and validation of key early learning efforts including Washington’s QRIS system, Seeds to Success, WaKIDS, Washington’s Kindergarten assessment, and Love.Talk.Play, Washington’s primary parenting and outreach strategy. We have also raised considerable private money to create a Home Visiting Services Account, which uses private resources to develop a scalable, well evaluated home visiting system in Washington that is built up on the state and federal home visiting investments. Most importantly, Thrive by Five Washington has been able to raise awareness, support, and champions from the private sector, including leaders in business, philanthropy, and across local communities.
These efforts are critical to building a strong, scalable, and sustainable early learning system in Washington state, one that will be supported locally long after the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge funds are exhausted. It is for this reason that we respectfully urge you to consider making the invitational Priority 5: Encouraging Private Sector Support an absolute priority of the grant. We respectfully urge DOE and HHS to consider including two examples of private sector support (a) private funding demonstrated in terms of grants and in-kind assistance, and (b) a public-private partnership, working with the state agency to fund and sustain key projects.
In terms of the absolute priorities, we are confident that the work we’ve done developing and testing our QRIS and a kindergarten assessment process in Washington will form the basis of a strong proposal for Washington. We have been focused on getting the models right, validating and evaluating, ensuring we have completed sufficient outreach, and making informed revisions before statewide roll-out. We are creating a deliberate system, one that is well researched and tested, and then scaled. We are proud of these efforts, and are excited to highlight these efforts and others in our Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge proposal.
Jackie Bezos
President, Bezos Family Foundation
Chair, Thrive by Five Washington
Private sector may be more
Permalink Submitted by Farzana (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-11 17:10
Private sector may be more inclined to participate in providing financial and other resources if this program can decrease crime, gang wars, poverty, and raise the level of civic awareness in the general masses. It is a daunting challenge but it is doable if everybody is on the same page.
Along with including the
Permalink Submitted by Monica (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-11 11:59
Along with including the private sector resources, please remember that there may be local municipal efforts that could be included in providing resources as part of a state-wide plan.
Unfortunately, all too often
Permalink Submitted by SKrashen (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-11 02:27
Unfortunately, all too often the private sector will help out only when they see something in it for them, supporting approaches that lead to profits for them in the future. DOE Chief of Staff Weiss recently wrote an article in which she emphasized the potential financial payoffs for the private sector because of the national standards and tests. Nothing was mentioned about the payoff for children.
Why is the Sec of Education so interested in this?
Too often, those of us at the
Permalink Submitted by Janice Gruendel (not verified) on Thu, 2011-07-07 06:24
Too often, those of us at the state level assume that private support means we have to go out and round up businesses to put money behind early education. While that is helpful when possible, it is neither sufficient nor essential. Business leaders can give much more than money, including their considerable policy and political voice in the benefits of early investment.
In addition, so much of early care and education is paid for now by parents and supported by the philanthropic sector that we must include and tap into a fully engaged partnership with them.
Outside entities will never fund the sustainable operation of early care and education. They can, however, provide influence and support, strategic communications and accountability expertise on an ongoing basis.
Further, they can (and will, I believe) fiscally support start up and early infrastructure costs including training, data systems development and refinement, research and evaluation, and some flexible funding for entrepreneurial approaches to systems development.
Let's be sophisticated in our thinking here.
JM Gruendel, CT
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And where else but in comic books? Frank Johnson's "Little Tomboy" of the 1950's was a little "He-Girl" -- hanging out with boys and acting like one, even fist-fighting with them -- long before such things became generally acceptable in society. Here's one little 5-page story that would be no big deal if it weren't 60 years old!
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And BTW, there was a real (i.e. not fictional) feminist kid in the 1930's, who hung out with boys and acted like one -- fighting and playing rough -- and later became an advocate for women's rights. Guess who?
Oh well, it's not a thing that anybody could guess. But many people are surprised to find out that the great tomboy of the 1930's was Shirley Temple. That was one helluva kid. She had a genius-level IQ, and was a tomboy, a movie star, a women's rights crusader, and an ambassador. That's a lot of accomplishments for one lifetime! Not many women -- or men either -- have done that much.
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires non-grandfathered health plans in the individual and group markets to cover certain preventive/screening care services received from in-network providers, in full, without member cost-sharing (i.e., without co-pay, deductible and/or co-insurance). In general, eligible services include preventive/screening care services which have received an “A” or “B” rating from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) or have been set forth in comprehensive guidelines supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), as well as immunizations recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). For additional information about these guidelines and recommendation, please click on the link(s) below:
https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/uspstf-a-and-b-recommendations/
https://bphc.hrsa.gov/policiesregulations/preventiveguide.html
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/
Effective 1/1/2018
Updated Instructions for Anesthesia for Colon Cancer Screenings to Providers for Coding Claims for ACA Mandated Preventive Care Services:
Preventive/Screening Colonoscopy
Services provided by the in-network endoscopist, anesthesiologist and pathologist associated with an in-network preventive/screening colonoscopy are eligible for coverage without member cost-sharing.
With the understanding that a preventive/screening colonoscopy may become diagnostic or therapeutic due to unforeseen findings, the AMA CPT Code that most accurately represents the procedure performed should be reported. The appropriate preventive/screening ICD diagnosis code (e.g., V76.51) should be entered into the first claim diagnosis field.
Anesthesia services should be reported with any specific findings entered into the first claim diagnosis field. The second claim diagnosis code should be reported with the appropriate preventive/screening ICD diagnosis code (e.g., Z12.11). CPT code 00812 MUST be used if the screening colonoscopy becomes a diagnostic colonoscopy and/or if the screening colonoscopy is stopped due to poor preparation and a sigmoidoscopy is done. While modifier 33 may be reported along with the anesthesia CPT code, it is not used in making preventive care benefit determinations; EmblemHealth considers the procedure and diagnosis codes when determining whether preventive care benefits apply. Pathology services should be reported with the appropriate screening ICD diagnosis code (e.g., Z12.11) entered into the first claim diagnosis field. Pathology services should be reported with the appropriate screening ICD diagnosis code (e.g., V76.51) entered into the first claim diagnosis field.
Additionally, the American Medical Association (AMA) has published coding changes effective 0101/2018. Please note the following additions and deletions to the Preventive Care Services Table:
Deleted CPT/HCPCS codes as of 12/31/2017:
Q2039 - Influenza virus vaccine, not otherwise specified
G0202 - Screening mammography, bilateral (2-view study of each breast), including computer-aided detection (CAD) when performed
00810 - Anesthesia for lower intestinal endoscopic procedures, endoscope introduced distal to duodenum
New CPT/HCPCS codes effective 01/01/2018:
90756 - Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (ccIIV4), derived from cell cultures, subunit, antibiotic free, 0.5 mL dosage, for intramuscular use
00812 - Anesthesia for lower intestinal endoscopic procedures, endoscope introduced distal to duodenum; screening colonoscopy
G0513 - Prolonged preventive service(s) (beyond the typical service time of the primary procedure), in the office or other outpatient setting requiring direct patient contact beyond the usual service; first 30 minutes (list separately in addition to code for preventive service)
G0514 - Prolonged preventive service(s) (beyond the typical service time of the primary procedure), in the office or other outpatient setting requiring direct patient contact beyond the usual service; each additional 30 minutes (list separately in addition to code g0513 for additional 30 minutes of preventive service)
0500T - Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), human papillomavirus (HPV) for five or more separately reported high-risk HPV types (eg, 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 68) (ie, genotyping)
J7296 - Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine contraceptive system, (kyleena), 19.5 mg
Please refer to the EmblemHealth Preventive Care/Screening Services Table.
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Woodside propels Scarborough ahead
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ExxonMobil puts offshore Australian assets up for sale along with other regions
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Uniper lines up for Woodside’s Scarborough supplies
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Partners sought to saddle up on Equus
Australia’s Western Gas is seeking partners to bring its Equus LNG project into production by 2024. The company has a plan for gas from the offshore Equus fields to be transported, via a 160 km pipeline, to a floating LNG (FLNG) facility near the shore.
Total concessions win PNG approval
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has approved Total to proceed with the Papua gas project – but subsequent projects will be carried out under a new system.
Shell sued by Australian tax office over Browse stake, report says
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Shell dives into Australian power market with $418m ERM bid
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McDermott, BHGE win Ichthys subsea deals
US energy services giants McDermott and Baker Hughes GE have been awarded contracts for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project off Western Australia.
VIDEO: Yoga on board the world’s largest offshore vessel
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Xodus Group to buy Australian environmental support firm
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Shell ships first LNG from world’s largest offshore facility Prelude
Shell has shipped the first LNG cargo from Prelude, the world’s largest offshore facility ever constructed.
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Palatella is the founder of liquor distribution company Preservation Distillery.And they know that.He was limited to 44 games, and his post-up game needs a lot of polish, but he showed himself to be a quality rim protector and rebounder.
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Read More >> The Memphis Grizzlies wrap up a brutal four-game stretch on the road with a stop at EnergySolutions Arena this Saturday night to square off against the struggling Utah Jazz.Washington has walked 5 times this year and they have struck out on 36 occasions.Can he play consistently enough in the starts he gets to earn more chances?She requested funds for more detention beds, medical teams and processing facilities but specified no dollar amounts.
His pitch wasn’t quite as big of a hit as the caps, though, as it bounced wide right of the batter’s box.It proved to be the right decision.Is he even close to being able to play in an NFL game?Sometimes, being a young team, we stop trusting it.Phil Jackson: Carmelo Can Play Jordan, Kobe Role In Triangle If He Doesn’t Hog Ball Dec 7 10 AM Phil Jackson said Carmelo Anthony can play the role that Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant played in their teams’ triangle offenses, but he believes that Anthony sometimes breaks a team rule by holding on to the ball for too long.
Samuel first heard of T.A., as he calls him, through his Instagram account which has more than 153 followers.With 40 games left, there’s time to figure out these options while climbing the Central Division standings.Rodon threw 65 pitches in the first two innings and walked four as Tampa Bay grabbed a 4 lead.Instead, corrections will be made in a blog post or in an article.
Derick Brassard scored the game-tying goal in the third period and Jake Guentzel scored the game-decider in the fifth round of the shootout.Wells is obviously not coaching the game, but he still intends to be involved in the game planning and even plans to be on the sideline for the bowl game.That victory officially puts the Pens into the postseason for a 13th consecutive year.�?Earned first career Player of the Month Award in 2015, garnering NFC Special Teams Player of the Month for November after leading the NFL in scoring and field goals .To no one’s surprise, this was a one-goal game.
Since Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby came out in 1975, there have been 18 players drafted by the NBA directly out of high school, 14 in the first round.He’s just awesome at tracking the football through traffic down the field, and his hands are magically more consistent in those situations than when he’s created separation.ISLANDERS LINES:.Listen, we all started this journey together.
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Here's Some Stupid For Afternoon Tea
In which Ted Cruz opens a tab at The Stupid Cafe and buys a round for the world.
Jim Radcliffe via Google Images
As we know, Ted Cruz went down to Jerry Falwell's creationist diploma mill today and announced that he was running for the chairmanship of the Sanhedri...er...president of the United States, thereby opening a running tab here at the Cafe from now until whenever it is that the Republic definitively spares itself from his attempt to lead it. He brought the Jesus early, of course, because that's the way he rolls. But, later on, when he got to the policy positions, that was when the freak flag reached the top of the staff.
Instead of a tax code that crushes innovation, that imposes burdens on families struggling to make ends met, imagine a simple flat tax...(APPLAUSE)... that lets every American fill out his or her taxes on a postcard.(APPLAUSE) Imagine abolishing the IRS.
Imagine you and Steve Forbes -- or Mother Cruz's colleagues at Goldman Sachs -- paying exactly the same federal income tax rate. Imagine that there's no mechanism in the place to insure even that grotesque upward geyser of the nation's wealth. Imagine what a sucker that makes you.
By the way, Tailgunner? John Lennon called from the Beyond. He wants his refrain back. And he thinks you're quite the wanker.
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Unearthed Classics
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1st of the Unearthed Classics! THE UNNAMABLE
RESTORED AS A BEAUTIFUL 4K SCAN AND COLOR CORRECTED FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE, THIS BEAST WILL BE UNLEASHED ON BLU-RAY AND DVD OCTOBER 9, 2018 FROM UNEARTHED FILMS. THE STEREO, 5.1 AND DTS SURROUND SOUND WILL BLOW YOUR FACE OFF.
College students from Miskatonic University who retreat to an early 18th-century mansion for a weekend of lust are stalked by a fatalistic female in this horror film taken from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The demon delights in tearing the limbs off her human victims to carry out a centuries-old family curse. Bloody graphic violence and nudity is combined with some campy comedy.
The 1st 2,000 units ordered come with a limited edition slip sleeve!
“Limited edition to 2,000 units with a slip sleeve cover for the Blu-ray, and then we go to the normal cover everyone knows from the 80’s after 2,000 units have sold. The DVD is the cover everyone has seen and loves. Slip sleeve is purely limited to Blu-ray.”
-Stephen Biro, CEO of Unearthed Films
• Video interview with actors, Charles Klausmeyer and Mark Kinsey Stephenson
• Video interview with actor, Eben Ham
• Video interview with actor, Laura Albert
• Video interview with actor, Mark Parra
• Video interviews with R. Christopher Biggs, special makeup effects artist and makeup artist, Camille Calvet
• Audio commentary with Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Stephenson, Laura Albert, Eben Ham, Camille Calvet and R. Christopher Biggs
Jean-Paul Ouellette
Re: Unearthed Classics
4k Transfer and restoration for The Grand Tour: Disaster in TIme is in the works. Just went over the restored scenes for dust and blemishes last night and it looks amazing. Yes, I know it is Sci Fi and starring Jeff Daniels but hey, part of the UF Classics line up. What can I say... were growing.
The Dark Side of the Moon is hitting June 11th from our offshoot, "Unearthed Classics".
1st pressing blu comes with a limited edition slip and booklet... Filled with features from a 4k restored scan from the negatives. Loads of features.... also comes with a flip-able cover with the original artwork!
Your innermost fears lead you inexorably to a dream of death… your own death!
Using sensory deprivation techniques, a doctor of parapsychology provokes his students to examine their own deaths in evermore horrifying circumstances. Roles are exchanged and shuffled as reality and fantasy become indistinguishable and each new dreadful death proves more terrifying than the last. Their paranormal explorations lead them to an abandoned mansion in a desolate area that natives call the “Valley of Fear” where years of drinking chemically tainted water have lead to a genetically damaged population and mutant wildlife. Local legends also tell stranger stories of extraterrestrials which the students attempt to explore.
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In-Depth Program Grant for New York & New Jersey Schools
The IDP grant gives middle and high school History, Government, Civics, and ELA educators in the greater New York City metro area access to professional development and materials valued at more than $10,000.
Bullying & Ostracism
Explore a list of Facing History resources as well as other digital tools focused on combating bullying and ostracism.
Additional Resources for the Film Reporter
View a list of articles, photos and more that will help you further explore the themes covered in Reporter.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is the principal at Wilson Middle School in Natick, Massachusetts. She is also an adjunct professor at Framingham State College.
Bullying: A Case Study in Ostracism - About This Project
The Ostracism Case Study grew out of the Harvard-Facing History and Ourselves research on improving inter-group relations among youth funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Civic Dilemmas Glossary
Our readings about religion and immigration contain terms that may not be familiar to all students. Use this glossary to brush up on the definitions.
Civics Dilemmas Publications
Featuring the personal narratives of young migrants, this resource challenges students to reflect on the ways that migration affects personal identity.
Connections for Investigation One
What is empathy? What is compassion? When have you felt empathy and/or compassion for something or someone? What provoked this feeling in you? Did you do anything as a result?
Connections for Investigation Three
1 : Carolynne Burkholder, “Citizen Journalism.”
2 : “Transcript: Caring About Congo.”
Connections for Investigation Two
If you had the opportunity to interview Nicholas Kristof, what would you want to ask him?
Crisis in Little Rock
In the early 1900s, "race" was the lens through which many Americans viewed the world. It was a lens that shaped ideas about who belonged and who did not. These were years when only a few people resisted "Jim Crow" laws.
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A Boy of Old Prague
In this tale of tolerance, a young serf named Tomas discovers unexpected kindness in the Jewish ghetto after being sentenced to servitude for stealing.
Pre-war Jewish Life
A Day in Warsaw
The spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Warsaw is captured within this short documentary through meaningful images of daily life as it was before the Nazi invasion.
A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Birthday Trip in Hell
The photographs of German soldier Wermacht Sergeant Heinz Jost bring the Warsaw Ghetto to life in this film, capturing the surviving culture despite disease and death.
A Force More Powerful
Nonviolent power has overcome oppression and authoritarian rule all over the world. This six-part documentary explores nonviolent movements in various countries.
Memory and Memorials
A Jew Among the Germans
Holocaust survivor, Marian Marzynski, sets out to find out how Germans are willing to build a memorial to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
Victim and Survivor Voices
A Journey with Purpose
Nine-year-old Joshua journies to Auschwitz with his grandfather (Opa) Martin Becker, a Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned there at age nine for four years.
A Teacher’s Resource to The Children of Willesden Lane
Use this guide to teach the memoir The Children of Willesden Lane and its powerful story of a woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport.
A Voice Among the Silent
"A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald" is the first documentary to shine light on James McDonald's remarkable efforts to warn the world of Adolf Hitler's plan for the Jews. The incredible story of McDonald's foresight was almost lost to history until his meticulously kept diaries were discovered in 2003.
The essence of the Holocaust is depicted in one single incident: the gassing of unsuspecting innocent school children, using an ambulance to lead them to their death.
America and the Holocaust Study Guide
Use this guide to the documentary film America and the Holocaust to help students think critically about the ways Americans reacted to the plight of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.
America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference
This episode of The American Experience considers the role of the United States in the Holocaust and the restrictive immigration policies of the time.
Anton the Dove Fancier: And Other Tales of the Holocaust
This collection of autobiographical true stories illuminates the experiences of a teenage Polish boy before World War II.
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FAST LANE BLOG
Here at Fast Lane, we've launched a new blog to keep you updated with the lastest company news and events. In additon, our blog will cover trending topics in the classic car industry and reveal the history behind special models in our inventory.
1965 Chevelle Restoration Project
The Fast Lane Classic Cars restoration department was proud to deliver this 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle to Ron. This project has been going at Fast Lane since 2018, but Ron has been working towards this for over 10 years!
Ron bought his Chevelle in 2006. He started the restoration in his garage. He tore the car down and rebuilt the frame, but as he puts it, he ran out of the time and skills to continue working on the build.
The car sat for 12 years while Ron and his family battled serious health...
2020 Supra Coming to Cars and Coffee
After 20 years, the iconic Toyota Supra returns! Our friends at Twin City Toyota are raffling off their first special edition 2020 Supra GR to benefit Mary's House of Hope at A Safe Place. There are only 1,500 of these vehicles being made in the country, and they are selling 1,500 raffle tickets for just $100 each.
We host Cars and Coffee events at Fast Lane Classic Cars on the second Saturday of each month from 8AM - 10AM. Everyone is encouraged to bring their cars, trucks, bikes, and other...
31st Annual Cobblestone Nationals Car Show
The annual MEMORIAL DAY car show is back for 2019! Kustom Auto Show Promotions presents the 31st Annual Cobblestone Nationals car show on MEMORIAL DAY May 27 at Fast Lane Classic Cars!
Come see hundreds of classic cars, hot rods, muscle cars, and exotics for FREE! There will be food, fun, and entertainment for the whole family!
Pre register for $15 by mail by downloading the entry form below or in person in the Fast Lane Classic Cars gift shop before May 19.
Missouri Bicentennial Commercial
We were so proud to work with the Missouri Department of Revenue and Discover Saint Charles to create the commercials and matching posters for Missouri's new bicentennial license plates! Watch the video and try to spot all the Fast Lane cars!
The new bicentennial license plates feature red and blue waves on the plate to symbolize our Missouri flag and rivers, which figure prominently in the state’s historic role as a gateway for American exploration.
The commercials will air...
Build Your Custom Backdraft Cobra
We are proud to announce that Fast Lane Classic Cars is now an authorized Backdraft Racing dealer! We have always had one of the nation's largest selections of pre-owned Cobras in stock, now we can order your very own completely customized Backdraft Cobra. Design your car with any custom color combination you can dream of and choose among multiple engine packages. We can make your dream car become a reality!
Between 1962 and 1968 Carroll...
Classic cars, muscle cars, and exotics at Cars & Coffee event
This weekend we hosted a Cars & Coffee event to celebrate the grand opening of our newest showroom and service department. The air was chilly and the skies were gray, and there were several other automotive events happening around St. Louis on the same day; and still over 100 cars and several hundred people came to visit!
Working with the Cars & Coffee St. Louis team was a great experience. We hope to host...
1963 VW Beetle Herbie at Fast Lane Classic Cars
Herbie the Love Bug is a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle who is the star of several Disney movies and TV series. The lovable VW has a mind of his own and he is a serious contender in auto races where he often drives himself! His look has often changed slightly since his introduction in the late 60’s, but he is distinguished by red, white and blue racing stripes that run from front to back, a racing style number 53 on the front trunk lid, doors,...
Mercedes-Benz 500E Is A True Modern Classic
1993 Mercedes 500E for sale at Fast Lane Classic Cars
In the early 1990’s, German sports car manufacturer Porsche was facing hard times. Sales were slumping in the US, their largest market. The company was small and their only three models - the 911, 944, and 928 - were viewed as boutique sports cars. Competition in the market segment from cars like Acura NSX, Toyota Supra, BMW 3-series sports cars like the Z3 and Z8, and even upstarts like the Dodge Viper was intense. Porsche was...
30th Annual Cobblestone Nationals Car Show
The annual MEMORIAL DAY car show is back for 2018! Kustom Auto Show Promotions presents the 30th Annual Cobblestone Nationals car show on MEMORIAL DAY May 28 at Fast Lane Classic Cars!
Come see hundreds of classic cars, hot rods, muscle cars, and exotics for FREE! Hot Rod Grillers will be running the grill and Fast Lane will have water and refreshments for sale!
Register in the Fast Lane Classic Cars event center (above the gift shop) from from 8am to 11am...
Fast Lane is Growing!
David and Laura Williams with St. Charles Mayor Sally Faith, Greater St. Charles Chamber of Commerce President Scott Tate, and Fast Lane Classic Cars employees
David and Laura Williams were joined today by St. Charles Mayor Sally Faith, Greater St. Charles Chamber of Commerce President Scott Tate, Greater St. Charles Chamber of Commerce staff, ambassadors, and members, as well as Duggan Contracting representatives and the rest of the Fast Lane family to break ground on the newest building...
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Javotti Media
Talib Kweli - Gravitas (2xLP - Blue/White Splatter)
Gravitas, Talib Kweli's sixth solo album, began to take shape in May, during the weeks following the release of Kweli's fifth solo album, Prisoner of Conscious. Loaded with guests, Prisoner of Conscious was well received and reviewed, and gained Talib many new fans to add to his already large following. However, Kweli soon found himself wanting to record more personal material and really document his journey thru music. When singer Ryan Leslie, who created the platform that Kweli is using to sell Gravitas, approached him with the idea of selling direct to fan, songs that were just rough ideas began to fully form in Kweli's head.
"One of my favorite things about today's hip hop is the honesty," says Kweli. Today's most popular rappers aren't always politically correct or deep, but the best are unflinchingly honest. While my story may be documented, I have never truly told my story thru music. My true fans have heard bits and pieces thru the years, but Gravitas sums up my experience until now."
The new songs reflect a continued determination and drive in Talib Kweli, impressive because of the fact that Prisoner of Conscious was released less than six months ago. Considered one of the top tier lyricist of all time and name dropped in songs by everyone from Jay-Z to 2 Chainz, Talib Kweli has defied the odds and remained relevant while never compromising his art, quite a feat in today's music business. The respect he is given is evident when Raekwon from the Wu Tang Clan drops by to spit on Violations. Talib Kweli has also showcased new artists throughout his storied career, giving breaks to people like Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole long before they were embraced by the mainstream. This streak continues with Brooklyn's own UnderAchievers, who pop up on the Statik Selektah produced New Leaders. The OhNo produced Art Imitates Life features classic lyricism from Kweli, Rah Digga and Black Thought from the legendary Roots, and Austin's guitar prodigy Gary Clark Jr. shows up for Demonology. All of this leads up to Gravitas' final track, Colors of You, featuring Mike Posner and produced by the late, great J Dilla of Slum Village fame.
Rare Portraits
What's Real
Art Imitates Life
Lover's Peak
Colors of You
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The beauty of overhead ceiling tracking hoist systems lies in their ability to be configured and customised to meet individual needs. There are several factors to be balanced when choosing the right one.
What should I consider when choosing a hoist?
Type of transfer – what other care equipment is involved? Is a multi-room layout required?
User – what is the weight, size and mobility of the user?
Environment – is the hoist for a single- or multi-user usage?
Installation and property type – will the hoist be fixed to the wall or ceiling? What ceiling height is required?
This is where experience matters. Over 40 years, we’ve installed literally thousands of overhead hoists and each and every one is bespoke. You can be confident we will specify the right solution, whether it’s a single track system in a private home or a large, multi-room new-build project.
As a family business running for over 40 years, we bring a wealth of experience with us. But we’re not complacent – we’re using that experience to challenge the status quo and shape the future of care.
With a culture of hard work and creativity, we’re a team of like-minded people who give 100% commitment to what we do.
Our passion runs deep and we strive to give professional service with a positive, problem-solving culture.
Robin Overhead Ceiling Track Hoist
The only overhead ceiling track hoist without a spreader bar.
Voyager Overhead Ceiling Track Hoist
Automatic charging and a return-to-charge function.
Voyager Portable Overhead Ceiling Track Hoist
Can be used across hoist tracks and rooms thanks to a quick release strap.
Spread the cost with our finance options, specially developed for businesses.
Request a brochure Call 01473 741144
What can be achieved with a ceiling track hoist?
Overhead ceiling track hoists are incredibly versatile, both in the care needs they can meet and the care environments they can be used in, including private homes, care homes, hospitals, schools, leisure facilities and hygiene rooms.
The illustrations below demonstrate the flexibility of ceiling hoist tracking. A straight track can be used to transfer a patient from point A to point B, for example from a wheelchair to the toilet, while track bends and turntables can be installed to reach precise pickup points.
An XY track, or H track, system is the most adaptable, having a sliding transfer track mounted on two parallel tracks, which enables a patient to be picked up from virtually any point in the room. Overhead hoist track can also be taken through doorways, for example to allow transfers between a bedroom and bathroom.
In many situations, the track can be recessed into the ceiling if preferred, creating an extremely neat and unobtrusive finish to the installation. This is ideally implemented during a refurbishment or new-build project to allow for full integration with the fabric of the property.
Hygiene room to swimming pool
XY Full room track system
Single track system
What are the benefits of a ceiling track hoist?
Floor-standing mobile hoists need manoeuvring into position to perform a transfer (a potential issue on carpeted or uneven floors) and require dedicated storage facilities when not in use. By comparison, an overhead ceiling track hoist, positioned unobtrusively above waiting for use, is more convenient and less obstructive.
Other specific benefits include:
Overhead hoists provide greater range of movement, making it easier for patient transfers and positioning.
Overhead hoists can be used in areas where there is insufficient space to manoeuvre a mobile hoist.
Transfers using overhead equipment can usually be achieved by one care giver.
The capability for users to participate more fully will promote confidence and independence.
Working with overhead hoists is easier, minimising the risk of back injury for the care giver.
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Saxo Inks Major Deal as Brokers Feel ESMA’s Squeeze: Best of the Week
It was an exciting last week before Christmas as Saxo Bank bought Binckbank, Citi lost $120 million and ActiTrades left
David Kimberley | Analysis ( Retail FX ) | Sunday, 23/12/2018 | 09:29 GMT+2 2018-12-23T07:29:13+00:00 2018-12-24T12:45:46+00:00
Photo: FM
It’s been a bit rip-roaring past seven days, with huge crypto deals, brokers closing offices and regulation renewals. So before you wander off to eat turkey and celebrate Christmas, here are the most scintillating stories from the past week. Sit back and enjoy.
Citigroup shakes up FX prime brokerage division amidst fallout from $180 million loss
Reports on Wednesday suggested that investment banking giant Citigroup will be making changes to its prime brokerage business.
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An internal memo seen by Bloomberg and Reuters suggests that the company’s FX prime brokerage service will be separated from its currency trading division and moved to its prime financing and securities services business.
The news comes amidst further reports that Citi is about to suffer a $180 million loss stemming from a loan given to an Asian hedge fund which made some poor trades in the FX market.
Waves making waves
More craziness in the blockchain world this week as Waves Platform, a company that is fast emerging as a competitor to Ethereum, announced that it had secured $120 million in funding.
News of the deal saw the company’s cryptocurrency, Waves, increase in value by more than 50 percent. As of Friday, the token was trading at $4.11.
Dolfin, a London-based asset manager, was the main source of cash for the firm but private investors are known to have taken part in the investment round.
Thus far, Waves Platform has used its Vostok system to enable companies to launch initial coin offerings.
With a huge stockpile of cash in the bank following that round of investment, the company is going to start working on building private blockchains for corporations and government agencies.
ESMA bites
It’s been four months since the European Securities and Markets Authority’s product intervention measures came into effect and brokers in Europe are starting to feel the bite.
Volumes have been declining for European brokers, and we’ve started to see a mass movement of funds offshore.
But it’s not been bad for everyone. Finance Magnates’ research indicates that Australian brokers may be benefiting from ESMA’s regulation.
IC Markets and Pepperstone have both seen increases in trading volumes in the past twelve months. The latter broker’s volumes have been particularly conspicuous, with trading on its platforms increasing concurrently with a decline in European volumes.
Saxo Bank goes Dutch
The Danish trading firm Saxo Bank announced on Monday that it had acquired BinckBank, an online discount broker based in the Netherlands, for €425 million ($485.2 million)
As reported by Finance Magnates, the Danish firm bought all of BinckBank’s shares in cash, valuing each share at €6.35 ($7.25).
The move seems to be a result of stiff competition in Europe and the fallout from ESMA’s aforementioned product intervention measures.
In an effort to stay ahead of the pack and diversify out of FX and CFD trading, brokers are starting to offer stockbroking services.
Replicating the success of Robinhood in the US, Trade212 and BUX have both launched stock trading services for their clients.
Saxo Bank’s acquisition seems to be a move in the same direction, but they aren’t likely to be the last company to try their hand in equities. Watch this space.
Goodbye Dubai
Finance Magnates learned this week that retail broker ActivTrades had returned its license to the Dubai Financial Services Authority.
The broker has also shuttered its office in the Middle Eastern jurisdiction.
Speaking to Finance Magnates, an ActivTrades spokesperson said that political tensions had made doing business in the region more difficult.
At the same time, the spokesperson said, the broker is also trying to strengthen its European business and plans to expand in South America via its recently acquired Bahamas license.
Dukascoin is go
After filing for regulatory approval for its cryptocurrency back in September, retail broker Dukascopy announced this week that it had been given the go-ahead by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority to put Dukascoins on the market.
The retail broker, which is based in Switzerland, will be launching two cryptocurrencies; Dukascoin and Dukasnotes.
The first of these is supposed to be a regular cryptocurrency which traders can also use as a form of payment and which the broker looks set to use as a reward for new customers.
It is less clear, for the moment, what Dukasnotes will be used for. Company statements indicate that it will act as a stablecoin akin to USDC or Tether.
Surprise Surprise
This week’s most expected news came on Wednesday when ESMA announced that it would be renewing its product intervention measures for another three months.
Implemented in August, the rules, which put caps on leverage and prohibit certain marketing practices, have to be renewed every three months by the pan-European regulator in order for them to stay in effect.
Almost no one expects that the regulator will ever stop renewing them and many national regulators have already taken steps to make the rules permanent.
Indeed, this Thursday, BaFin, the German financial regulator, announced draft rules that would see ESMA’s regulations becoming permanent in its jurisdiction.
Risk pays off
Given its reputation as being a minefield of scam artists, con-artists and wideboys, it’s unsurprising that most financial institutions have stayed away from investing in cryptocurrency.
But, as Finance Magnates reported this week, firms which did invest in digital assets made big returns in 2018.
Revenue declarations made by Metropolitan Bank, Silvergate Bank, Cross River Bank, and Signature bank all indicate the cryptocurrency payments can pay off.
Metropolitan Bank, for example, saw a 300 percent increase in crypto-related conversion fees and doubled its non-interest related income over the course of the third quarter of this.
Will these results encourage the JP Morgans of this world to start getting involved in Bitcoin? Don’t count on it just yet.
Trade.io heads to the Caribbean
Blockchain company Trade.io released more information regarding its plans to open an FX trading platform this week.
People that sign up for the service will be able to trade in more than 130 different CFD and FX instruments.
And, being the regulation-conscious people that they are, Trade.io will be launching its platform in that hub of financial activity – St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The new entity will be called TIO Markets and traders that sign up to use the service will be able to ply their trade on MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 or PAMM.
Brokers feeling the squeeze
Speaking exclusively to Finance Magnates this week, Antelope Systems CEO Ori Hazan said that brokers in Europe are feeling the pressure from both ESMA’s regulations and payments providers.
Hazan also discussed some of the changes taking place in the lead management and customer relations industry at the moment.
With a broad base of retail brokerage clients, Hazan has a solid overview of what’s going on in the industry today.
Fixi out
Fixi PLC, a forex and CFDs broker, announced it would be shutting down this Friday.
According to the announcement, the broker decided on the closure after consulting with the FCA and professional advisers. The company requested that the UK regulator imposes restrictions on the company and its business.
After the FCA honored the request of the firm, it mandated Fixi PLC to immediately cease all regulated activities. The UK regulator will be allowing the broker to close any open positions it holds for itself or clients before the 28th of December.
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Don't Expect 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' to Hit Theaters in 2013
While a sequel featuring The Girl on Fire will hit theaters next November in the form of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the adaptation of The Girl Who Played with Fire is another story. Though it had been discussed that the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo would hit theaters late in 2013, EW now has word that this is not the case as Steve Zaillian is still touching up the script, and nothing will move forward until that screenplay is locked down. In addition, while Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig are supposed to return, director David Fincher is still not officially attached to helm the sequel, though he's the first choice.
The first film wasn't exactly a hit, but in a recent sequel round-up, studio executive Doug Belgrad said it was enough for them to move forward with the sequel. For those who don't know, the next book follows Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander (Mara). Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past. Sounds just as intense as the first film, so hopefully it'll get off the ground sooner than later for a release in 2014.
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I thought they already completed the whole series a few years ago?
JerseyBoy on Aug 22, 2012
HA! You're a riot.
Reznik on Aug 22, 2012
the whole series was complete in the foreign film. this has lots to go yet... LOL you have to watch all 3 of the original one. I myself thought they wouldn't do the "American" versions.
Antonio B. Coria on Aug 22, 2012
i'd rather see an " American version " as i think Rooney was much better than Noomi in fitting the role . The director of the Swedish adaptations thought she was too pretty for the part , in the beginning ; she had to sell him on her being able to act dark enough . I like Craig better as Bloomkvist too ; rather than the paunchy , kinda-doughy other actor . The story is tighter too ; tho the Swedish version does go into more detail , following the book more tightly . Case in point why i like Rooney : she sleeps with Michael only after he is shot . Noomi sleeps with him after a long car ride and a visit to one of the old crime scenes - softer edge . Noomi has a hard edge only in movie 3 .
Dominic A on Aug 24, 2012
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FARNBOROUGH: CFM predicts $3-4 million cost advantage for Leap engine on A320neo
By Stephen Trimble2012-07-08T09:39:00+01:00
CFM International predicts a $3 million to $4 million advantage in net present value for each A320neo powered by a Leap-X instead of a Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1200G geared turbofan.
The cost claim announced at the CFM press briefing on 7 July marks CFM's most public attack on the fuel burn and maintenance cost promises made by P&W on behalf of their new turbofan that is assisted by a direct drive gear system.
So far, both engine makers have struggled to establish a dominant position on the one narrowbody platform - the A320neo - where each is offering a new product.
Airlines that have made engine selections on A320neo orders are split almost evenly between the two products, with the Leap-1A enjoying a tenuous 2% edge.
Since both engines remain in development, airlines are making decisions based on the engine maker's promises instead of operational data.
In private discussions with airlines for the past 18 months, CFM has touted its analysis of the Leap-1A's cost savings, but until now remained largely silent in public forums.
"Maybe we were too shy at the beginning [of the Leap sales campaign]", says Jean-Paul Ebanga, CFM chief executive officer.
CFM predicts the Leap-1A will deliver a 1.5% fuel burn advantage and require 50 fewer maintenance man-hours per aircraft each year, CFM says. Over a 15-year aircraft lifespan, those two factors alone account for a $3 million to $4 million advantage in net present value compared to the same A320neo powered by the competition, CFM says.
P&W has not publicly released a similar estimate of its net present value analysis of the PurePower engine family, but has claimed the engine family will generate a fuel savings of $1.5 million per aircraft per year when compared to "today's best airplanes".
Meanwhile, CFM also has started releasing drawings to suppliers to begin building the components for the first Leap engine-powered aircraft made in either Europe or China.
The General Electric/Snecma joint venture completed the design freeze milestone, or Tollgate 6 in CFM nomenclature, on 28 June for the Leap-1A and Leap-1C.
The Airbus A320neo is powered by the Leap-1A and the Comac C919 is driven by the Leap-1C, but both engines have identical turbomachinery.
The two aircraft types are each scheduled to enter service in the second quarter of 2016.
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Australia is leading the world in disability-inclusive aid strategy
CBM calls for the funding to match it
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Today is International Day of People with Disabilities – a UN-sanctioned day that exists to promote the rights and the capacities of people with disabilities, aimed at galvanizing support towards achieving a more disability-inclusive world.
This year’s theme is the empowerment of people with disabilities. At CBM Australia, an international development organisation focused on ending the cycle of poverty and disabilities, they’re highlighting the role that the whole community has in empowering people with disabilities, simply by addressing their preconceptions. The campaign hashtag? #Don’tUnderestimateMe. (You can check out CBM’s video here).
Erin Ryan, from CBM’s Policy and Advocacy team, knows better than most people exactly how capable and strong people facing disability can be – even when they face the additional constraints of poverty.
“Last year, I had the privilege of visiting some of CBM’s Australian aid-funded work in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Jharkhand is beautiful, but incredibly poor, primarily indigenous and deeply troubled by gender-based violence including public lynchings on the basis of witchcraft,” she says.
“There, I met with an incredible group of women living at the intersection of disability discrimination and gender inequality. Many had survived sexual violence, having been raped because they were seen as ‘easy targets’ who couldn’t identify their rapists because of vision impairment, or intellectual disability.”
But with support from the Australian aid program, many of these women with disabilities had accessed information on the justice system and were now fighting in the courts to see justice done.
“People with disabilities aren’t just vulnerable: they’re also agents of change.” – Erin Ryan
“These women remind me that people with disabilities aren’t just vulnerable: they’re also agents of change, with many defying expectations to achieve their own goals, and those of their communities.
Ryan explains that people with disabilities living in low- and middle-income countries do face deeper poverty, higher barriers and unique challenges in their daily lives. However, they also have unique strengths and capacities and are making incredible contributions in ending poverty, promoting human rights and fighting climate change.
Ryan says that the Australian Government has long recognised these rights and capacities and has shown leadership in putting disability-inclusive development at the forefront of our aid program.
In fact, Australia became a world leader when the nation’s first dedicated strategy for disability-inclusive development was introduced by Labor Minister Bob McMullan in 2009 and the commitment has continued to receive bipartisan support, enduring changes of government, and being renewed by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in 2015.
Since then, governments like the UK and Germany have adapted Australia’s strategy for disability-inclusive development in their own aid programs.
Ryan describes this as “a clear case of Australia placing values at the forefront of policy and achieving real impact as a result”. However, she says that whilst these commitments have been unwavering, the strategy hasn’t been adequately supported by funding.
Since 2015, dedicated funding for disability inclusion within the Australian aid budget has been frozen at $12.9 million – with no CPI increases.
In fact, since 2015, dedicated funding for disability inclusion within the Australian aid budget has been frozen at $12.9 million – with no CPI increases. And, whilst people with disabilities make up 20 per cent of the population in low- and middle-income countries, only 0.3 per cent of the aid budget is dedicated to their empowerment, support and advocacy.
Today, on International Day of People with Disabilities, Ryan spent the day at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra, meeting with MPs and urging them to increase funding dedicated to disability inclusive within the Australian aid budget.
CBM has also launched a petition online supporting the same ask of increasing aid funding, which will be delivered to the Foreign Minister in the new year in the hope that she will take it to the expenditure committee at budget time.
As she met with MPs, Ryan says she carried the story of the women in Jharkhand with her, saying, “I think it really shows that people with disabilities, particularly women and girls with disabilities, can be incredibly vulnerable.”
“More than anything, these are people who have incredible capacities that often aren’t understood.” – Erin Ryan
“They face barriers that are further heightened by their disability and by their gender. But more than anything, these are people who have incredible capacities that often aren’t understood.”
“So it comes back to that core theme of not underestimating them,” Ryan explains.“They’re not easy targets they’re far from it they’re well-educated and they’re prepared to go out and fight for themselves.”
In developing countries, 18 per cent of people have a disability. Yet 0.3 per cent* of Australia’s aid funding is dedicated to supporting the rights and wellbeing of people with disabilities. This isn’t fair, and it means people with disabilities are being left behind.
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German Bill to Cut Asylum seekers from North Africa, Georgia
Germany's government launched a renewed attempt Wednesday to declare three North African states and Georgia "safe countries of origin", which would raise the hurdles for asylum requests by its citizens.
Ετικέτες Africa, asylum seekers, Germany, safe countries of origin
'Fighting Traffickers': EU Commission Launches New Migration Programs in Africa
The European Commission said Friday it had approved three new programs worth 90.5 million euros ($106 million) to strengthen border management and protection of migrants in North Africa.
Ετικέτες Africa, European Commission, human traffickers, migrants
Italy, France call for EU to set up migrant centers in home countries
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday called for the European Union to set up centers to process migrant asylum claims in their home countries, and the proposal was backed by French President Emmanuel Macron, AFP reported.
Από xronos - June 15, 2018 No comments:
Ετικέτες Africa, France, Italy, migrants, refugee reception centers
UN Says World Not at Peace without African Conflicts Solved
The United Nations on Saturday highlighted the importance of solving African conflicts to world peace and development.
Ετικέτες Africa, Antonio Guterres, conflicts, peace
Libya alone cannot handle illegal immigration: PM
Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj said Wednesday that Libya alone cannot deal with illegal immigration.
Ετικέτες Africa, immigration, Libya
Libya slavery scandal overshadows EU-Africa summit
Libya has agreed to a deal with European Union and African leaders to allow refugees to be evacuated from the North African country.
Ετικέτες Africa, European Union, Libya, refugees, slavery
Au Burkina Faso, Emmanuel Macron fustige encore les «crimes incontestables» de la colonisation
A Ouagadougou, le président a affirmé sa volonté de refonder les relations entre la France et l'Afrique. Gage de cette détermination, Emmanuel Macron a promis de déclassifier les documents liés à l'assassinat du président burkinabè Thomas Sankara.
Ετικέτες Africa, assassinations, colonialism, crimes against humanity, Emmanuel Macron, FR, France
EU migrant collaboration with Libya inhuman: UN rights chief
The UN Human Rights chief on Tuesday expressed dismay at the sharp increase in the number of migrants held in horrific conditions at detention facilities in Libya.
Ετικέτες Africa, Detention Centers, Europe, Human Rights, immigration, Libya, migrants
EU states to pump "sufficient" money to stem illegal migration: Tusk
Member states of the European Union (EU) will pump "sufficient" money into a trust fund to stem illegal migration from North Africa, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday.
Από antixronos - October 20, 2017 No comments:
Ετικέτες Africa, European Union, IOM, Italy, Libya, Mediterranean, migrants
Des préhumains ont-ils foulé la Crète il y a 5,7 millions d’années?
Des scientifiques ont découvert des traces de pas qui auraient été laissées par un préhumain il y a 5,7 millions d’années en Crète. Si la découverte se confirmait, elle forcerait les chercheurs à réviser la théorie qui fait de l’Afrique le berceau de l’humanité…
Ετικέτες Africa, anthropology, Europe, FR, greece, la Crète, le berceau de l’humanité, Lucy, préhumains
On Mandela Day, UN calls for actions to improve world
Marking Nelson Mandela International Day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for actions across the world in promoting peace, sustainable development and lives of dignity for all.
Ετικέτες Africa, Nelson Mandela International Day, United Nations, world order
Morocco king boycotts West Africa summit to avoid Netanyahu
Morocco's king has cancelled plans to attend a West Africa summit this weekend in Liberia due to the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the foreign ministry has said.
Ετικέτες Africa, Benjamin Netanyahu, ECOWAS, Israel, Morocco
FAO, WFP warn against ignoring famine alarm in Yemen, Africa
The leaders of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) called on the international community to urgently step up action to prevent further hunger deaths in four countries stalked by famine: north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
Από Unknown - May 01, 2017 No comments:
Ετικέτες Africa, conflicts, famine, FAO, funds, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, WFP, Yemen
Mediterranean migrant death toll for 2017 tops 1,000
Around 100 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean according to shipwreck survivors, raising the death toll for the perilous crossing to Italy to over 1,000 victims in 2017, the U.N.’s refugee agency said Friday.
Από xronos - April 22, 2017 No comments:
Ετικέτες Africa, deaths, European Union, Italy, migrants, refugees, UNHCR
Hundreds of migrants under "slave market" conditions in North Africa, UN agency says
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday warned that hundreds of migrants are being held under "slave market" conditions in North Africa, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at UN headquarter.
Ετικέτες Africa, human traffickers, human tragedy, IOM, migrants, modern slavery
Over 300 migrant deaths on way to Europe in first two months of 2017, UN reports
An estimated 366 migrants died at sea during their Mediterranean journey to Europe in the first 53 days of 2017, down from 425 of the comparable period of last year, the United Nations migration agency said Friday.
Ετικέτες Africa, deaths, European Union, IOM, Mediterranean, migrants
Germany sued in US for massacring over 100K people in Namibia in early 1900s
In the US, descendants of Namibia’s Herero and Nama tribes have reportedly filed a compensation lawsuit against Berlin over the tens of thousands of people slaughtered by German troops in the African state early last century.
Από Unknown - January 06, 2017 No comments:
Ετικέτες Africa, colonialism, compensation, concentration camps, Germany, Hama, Herero, lawsuits, masacre, Namibia, survival, tribes
Refugee boats should be sent back to Africa, according to Bavarian allies of Merkel’s party
Refugees arriving in Europe via the Mediterranean should be sent back to Africa, and the current migrant policy must end, Germany’s CSU party, a junior partner in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition, demanded in a leaked policy paper.
Ετικέτες AfD, Africa, CSU, deportation, Germany, ISIS, migrants, refugees, terrorism, Tunisia
Italy remains on frontline of Europe's migration crisis in 2016
As the year's end approaches, the latest data on Europe's refugee crisis showed the overall inflow of people fleeing war and poverty has sensibly dropped, compared to 2015.
Ετικέτες Africa, European Union, Italy, Middle East, migrants, refugees
German Interior Ministry Accused of Treating Refugees Like 'Contagious Disease'
The German Ministry of the Interior is planning to send migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea back to Africa. The officials believe that the measure will have "an effect of deterrence" as refugees will understand that the European coast cannot be reached, German newspaper Die Welt reported.
Ετικέτες Africa, Australia, deportation, European Union, Germany, migrants, refugees
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Green NGO did not misuse funds, top German court rules
By Florence Schulz | EURACTIV.de | translated by Daniel Eck
According to the association's annual report, Umwelthilfe received almost €2.2 million in 2017, about a quarter of its total proceeds.. EPA-EFE/MATTHIAS RIETSCHEL [EPA-EFE/MATTHIAS RIETSCHEL]
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Deutsche Umwelthilfe, an environmental association, was cleared yesterday (4 July) from accusations that it misused funds raised through the numerous legal cases it won before German courts. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Did Deutsche Umwelthilfe misuse or misappropriate the funds it earned through the legal cases it won before German courts?
Germany’s highest court, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, decided on Thursday (4 July) that this was not the case.
Even if Deutsche Umwelthilfe makes a profit from its court actions, it is not clear that there is an economic interest behind the legal claims raised by the environmental association.
The case had been brought by a car dealer who had received a warning from the association because the fuel consumption levels and carbon emissions emitted by its cars were incorrectly labelled.
The car dealer refused to pay the fine and went to court to have the environmental association’s business model examined.
The car dealer alleged that Deutsche Umwelthilfe is more interested in using proceeds from the warnings and claims issued to finance their political campaigns than in protecting consumers.
German courts already took a different view on the matter. In 2016 and 2018, judges from lower courts found that Umwelthilfe did not misuse or misappropriate its funds.
On Thursday, Germany’s highest court agreed.
As long as there was a high number of infringements of consumer protection, “the number of warnings and claims, as well as the surpluses achieved as a result alone, could not justify abuse,” the court held.
Merkel promises new legislation to ward off diesel driving bans
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, campaigning for her Christian Democrats (CDU) to retain control of the crucial state of Hesse in next Sunday’s election, promised legislation to ward off the threat of air pollution leading to driving bans.
Christian Democrats vs Umwelthilfe
Deutsche Umwelthilfe is controversial because of its extensive practice of issuing warnings, as well as its calls to ban the use of diesel cars.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Armin Laschet called Umwelthilfe a “warning association” with non-profit status and around 100 employees.
In fact, Umwelthilfe actively uses its right to sue and sends out around 1,500 warnings every year.
According to its own statements, it is legally active in around 40 German cities. At the end of June, it even filed a lawsuit against the Free State of Bavaria for excessively high nitrogen dioxide levels in Nuremberg.
Especially, the conservative Union of CDU and CSU do not seem particularly fond of Umwelthilfe.
“If a ‘warning association’ with 278 members and 100 permanent employees pursue the sole goal of paralysing our cities because of diesel, then we need to start being clear and not tolerate this any longer,” the CDU’s vice-president Laschet told a federal party conference in November.
By way of a request submitted by the district association of North Wurtemberg, the CDU now wants to examine whether Umwelthilfe can continue benefitting from its non-profit status.
Whether an association is charitable or not is ultimately decided by Germany’s fiscal courts.
In January, for instance, the Federal Fiscal Court denied the anti-globalisation organisation Attac its non-profit status, and the citizens’ movement Campact might also suffer from the same fate.
Umwelthilfe remained calm as responsible tax offices have been confirming the association’s charitable status for more than 40 years.
German charities fight to stay ‘politically active’ despite ATTAC ruling
A German court stripped anti-globalisation association ATTAC of its charity status last January. Environmental groups now fear they could be next because they are politically active, EURACTIV Germany reports.
A quarter of their proceeds come from warnings
In fact, a considerable part of Umwelthilfe’s proceeds come from the settlements that followed the association’s warnings.
According to the association’s annual report, it received almost €2.2 million in 2017, about a quarter of its total proceeds.
“Deutsche Umwelthilfe finances its content campaigns through donations, sponsoring memberships or even subsidies, which we receive from the Federal Government, the Länder, the EU Commission or international foundations,” assured Umwelthilfe’s managing director Jürgen Resch in April, after the Federal Court of Justice’s hearing.
Umwelthilfe has also been repeatedly criticised by the public for the private donations it has received.
In 2005, Resch publicly admitted that the association had received donations from the relevant filter manufacturers for its campaign to introduce diesel particulate filters.
In January 2019, Toyota also announced a 20-year partnership with Umwelthilfe. The Toyota Group had been publicly criticised for trying to gain market advantages by cooperating with the German environmental association.
[Edited by Zoran Radosavljevic and Frédéric Simon]
German lawyers advise against Dieselgate class action suit
Two of Germany's largest consumer protection groups have launched a class action lawsuit against the VW Group over Dieselgate. With proceedings set to start in September, some lawyers have warned plaintiffs of the risks they run by pursuing the case. EURACTIV Germany reports.
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79 The Hope Hotel.
One of the oldest inns on the seafront. Built in 1791, it was originally 'Capon's Coffee House and Hotel', changing its name to the Hope in 1798.
80 The Esplanade.
This began life as a restaurant with an attached shed-Iike structure called The Shades, where beer was served. In this photograph, various amusements are associated with the restaurant, including a shooting range and jockey scales.
81 The HotelVictoria.
This town centre landmark was built in the late 1880s, and its ornate façade was familiar to generations of Southenders and visitors alike, until it was swept away as part of the town centre's redevelopment in the 1970s. The top end of the High Street was known throughout the Edwardian period as Broadway.
82 The Shoeburyness Hotel.
Standing adjacent to the entrance to Horseshoe Barracks at the end of Shoeburyness High Street. The Shoeburyness has had a long association with boxing. Shoeburyness's other historie tavern is the Cambridge Hotel, named after the Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904). who was Commander-in-Chief of the Army when the School of Gunnery was first established at Shoebury.
83 Southend Technical College.
This imposing edifice stood at Victoria Circus in the heart of Southend. Opened in 1902
by Countess 'Daisy' Warwick, it was extended in 1905. At fITSt accommodating the Southend Day Technical School, the first component of what was later to become the municipal college was the School of Art, opened in 1908, with a 'Junior Art Trade Department' opening in
1918. A new site near the Civie Centre was completed in the 1960s, and this original building was demolished in the 1970s. The site is now oecupied by a car park.
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84 Southend High School forBoys.
This school began life as the Southend DayTechnical School in 1 895, a co-educational secondary school with premises in Clarence Raad. Theschoolmovedtathe Technical College after it opened in 1902, and the girl's school split off in 1 91 3; the remaining boys then formed Southend High School for Boys. A new building on a grand scale was built in 1 939 in Prittlewell Chase, seen here on a snowy day.
85 Garon's.
Though best known as a seaside resort, Southend is also an important shopping eentre. Many of Southend's Victorian and Edwardian civic fathers were prominent tradesmen, who founded dynasties still prominent in town life today. Henry Garon established his first shop at 64 High Street in 1885, and his first café in 1890. The business expanded rapidly, and in 1 950, there were nearly fifty shops, ten restaurants, a bakery, a cinema and a hotel in the Garen's empire. This rare postcard shows a striking display of meat; onlookers are uncertain whether to stare at the camera or the display:
H. GllR0N'S XM1S SH0W, 1905.
86 Heddle's.
William Heddle founded his drapery business in 1 873 in Park Street, and died aged 101 in 1948. His son ]ames Heddle and grandson Maurice Heddle continued the trade, and, like William, spent much of their lives involved in Southend's civic life. William Heddle, a Scat, was for many years leader of the Peculiar People, an Essex-based evangelical denominanon. This photograph dates from 1914.
87 May's and Dowsett's.
These shops stood in Alexandra Street in the 1890s, which was originally Southend's main shopping thoroughfare. Thomas Dowsett was very much involved in public life; his gift of Southchurch Hall and Gardens to the borough saved it from housing development and Dowsett High School for Girls bore his name for many years, though it has disappeared as aresult of recent re-organisation.
88 OvercliffHotel.
The hotel trade was also an important part of the tewn's business and, particularly in Westcliff, there were numerous large and well-appointed hotels. As the holiday trade has changed since the war, many have disappeared, notably the Queen's, which stood in Hamlet Court Road, and this building, the Overcliff, with its splendidly ornate cast-iron balconies. Pulled down in the 1950s, it offered in 1935 'terms from 4 gns. per week, 15/- daily'.
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SAU 49 presents tuition arrangement abstract to Middleton School Board
By Joann COSKIEtjc@tjcoskie.com
MIDDLETON — The Middleton School Board met Nov. 29 at the Municipal Building in a public review and discussion of a Tuition Arrangement Abstract from the SAU 49 Superintendent.
Although not much notice was given in advance of the meeting, many e-mails and phone calls were sent to inform as many people as possible, resulting in a number of residents attending. An abstract is defined as a brief summary of a research article. The Abstract gave an outline of a tuition agreement offered by SAU 49, specific to Middleton students in grades 7 through 12, to attend the Governor Wentworth Regional Schools.
Emotions ran high as residents discussed the topics of changing schools versus accredited, diversified curriculum and other pertinent issues. While the Middleton School Board is considering alternative options, AREA agreement talks are expected to resume with Farmington in January. Residents were reminded by the Board that their charge is to investigate all options, but that the final decisions of how and where Middleton students are schooled are up to them. The Middleton School Board will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 6:30 p.m. for their regular monthly meeting. Thursday, Dec. 20 at 6 p.m. is scheduled for community input on the existing and proposed draft AREA Agreement with Farmington for grades K-12.
We have a beautiful treasure in our area that is open to the public for hiking, hunting and passive recreational enjoyment, the Moose Mountains Reservation. While most people are respectful and abide by the rules, there are also a few criminals among us who do not afford the same respect for property and nature that others do. Sometime before Wednesday, Nov. 28, vandals ripped down and damaged signs along the Burrows Farm and Phoebes Nable Trails. These signs were hand-made by volunteers to help guide hikers. A Forest Society representative who discovered the damage reported that someone had carved the initials “MKM,” into one of the signs. If you have any information about the incident, please contact The Forest Society at (603) 224-9945 or through their website www.forestsociety.org.
This Saturday, Dec. 8, all residents are invited to the Town Hall from 1-4 p.m. for a free Harvest Dinner. Bring your appetites and a donation of a non-perishable food item which will be given to the Fire Department Association and used to fill holiday baskets. There’s still time (and need) for volunteers to bake, prepare the tables, serve and clean up. The Recreation Commission has gone to a lot of effort to make this a success, so bring the family, enjoy a good meal, and help out the community. For more information or to volunteer your help, call Joe Bailey at (603) 755-3225.
Events such as the Harvest Dinner would be impossible without the Old Town Hall. The Middleton Historic Preservation Advisory Commission is working to see that it is maintained for generations to come. MHPAC has invited Maggie Stier, Field Service Representative for the NH Preservation Alliance and Arron Sturgis, Preservation Timber Framing, to answer questions concerning the process of Historic Commission, fund raising, building structure and rehab processes. Preservation Timber Framing is the contractor that did a building study on the Town Hall. The Commission will be meeting Wednesday, Dec. 19 at the Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. to plan a public meeting sometime in January.
The Middleton Library continues to add members checking out books, tapes and videos. However, at present there are only a few volunteers available to staff the library on Saturdays. Please consider giving a few hours to help out. From mysteries to romance, board books to books by the National Geographic Society, you’re sure to find something for the whole family. Recent additions include more than 30 Nancy Drew books. If you can help out, call Evelyn Campbell at (603) 755-9446 or stop by for coffee Wednesdays between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Nov. 5 — General police service, New Durham Road.
Nov. 5 — Dog control law, running at large, Drew Drive.
Nov. 5 — Suspicious person/MV/activity, Kings Highway.
Nov. 5 — Suspicious person/MV/activity, Pine Ridge Road.
Nov. 5 — VIN verification, Kings Highway.
Nov. 5 — Mutual aid, White Mountain Highway, South Milton.
Nov. 6 — Paperwork relay, Kings Highway.
Nov. 6 — Incident, Deer Run Road.
Nov. 6 — Sex offender registration, Kings Highway.
Nov. 6 — Welfare check, Gary Road.
Nov. 6 — Alarm activation, New Durham Road.
Nov. 7 — Fire Department assist, Beech Tree Drive.
Nov. 7 — Motor vehicle complaint, Kings Highway.
Nov. 8 — Civil issue, Deer Run Road.
Nov. 9 — Incident, Gary Road.
Nov. 9 — Second degree assault, Silver Street.
Nov. 9 — Missing person, Route 153.
Nov. 10 — Alarm activation, Lakeshore Drive.
Nov. 10 — Police information, Lakeshore Drive.
Nov. 11 — General police service, Kings Highway.
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The two remain in constant contact, though the texting might have slowed this week
MSU’s Bell, Blount remain friends after being teammates The two remain in constant contact, though the texting might have slowed this week Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2jM2Lq5
Associated Press Published 12:41 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2017
In only 12 regular-season games, Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell racked up 1,268 rushing yards and 616 receiving yards.(Photo: Fred Vuich/Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH – The football player and friend in Le’Veon Bell understood why LeGarrette Blount walked off the job that cold night in Nashville more than two years ago, jogging to the locker room with the clock still running as Bell and the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers reveled in a crucial victory over Tennessee.
For the teammate in Bell, things were a bit more complicated. Here was a guy who was supposed to have his back instead of pouting his way out of town while Bell was in the middle of a breakout season.
“It made me think a little more differently (about him),” said Bell, the former Michigan State standout. “But LeGarrette’s doing his thing.”
Blount’s just doing it for the New England Patriots, not the Steelers, who cut Blount two days after his hasty retreat. Blount was back with New England by the end of the week and three months later earned a Super Bowl ring while Bell sat at home recovering from a hyperextended left knee injury that forced him to miss Pittsburgh’s playoff loss to Baltimore.
Yet Bell holds no grudges. The two remain in constant contact, though the texting might have slowed this week with the Steelers (13-5) set to face Blount and the Patriots (15-2) tonight in the AFC championship game.
It wasn’t supposed to work out this way.
The Steelers signed Blount in the spring of 2014 believing the hulking Blount could be the bruising change-of-pace back they needed to complement the rapidly maturing Bell’s decidedly pragmatic style. And if Blount happened to become a mentor of sorts along the way, even better.
Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount led the NFL with 18 rushing touchdowns in the regular season, running for 1,161 yards. (Photo: Steven Senne, Associated Press)
Neither happened.
In August 2014, Bell and Blount were picked up by a police officer after he noticed the scent of marijuana smoke coming from a car Bell was driving, leading to a DUI charge for Bell, a drug charge for Blount and suspensions by the NFL for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.
The two split carries early that season, but as Bell’s touches went up and Blount’s productivity went down, the future became apparent to both. Blount’s frustrations bubbled over as Bell finished off a 204-yard performance in a Monday night game. By lunchtime Wednesday, he was released. The sting in the locker room was palpable.
“For him to walk out on his team, yeah it hurt,” right tackle Marcus Gilbert said. “Whenever LeGarette Blount was over here, it was hard for him to fit into the offense because Le’Veon was on such a roll. He wanted more touches. It was just hard.”
Too hard apparently, though for Blount the ends ultimately justified the means. He helped push the Patriots to a championship shortly after re-signing and ran for an NFL-high 18 touchdowns this season, including two in a 27-16 victory in Pittsburgh in October. Bell had 149 total yards, 81 receiving and 68 on 10 receptions in the loss, a showcase of the versatility few backs in the league can match, Blount included.
“No, I’ve never seen anyone do that — to be as effective as he is,” Blount said. “It’s just something that he does. It’s his style. That’s all I can really say about it. You can’t really describe what he can do.”
Matchup: Pittsburgh (13-5) at New England (15-2).
When: 6:40 tonight.
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass.
TV: CBS (Channel 62 in Detroit).
Line: Patriots by 6.
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DRED releases revised map of lease area at Mount Sunapee State Park
By FOMS on February 12, 2015 in latest news
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DRED (Dept. of Resources and Economic Development) has released a revised map of the lease area at Mount Sunapee State Park. The map is based on the Merrimack Superior Court decision of July 8, 2014. According to the State website, DRED has filed the revised map with the Superior Court.
See: Revised Map Lease Area Mount Sunapee 2015 (pdf 713Kb) – Original lease line is shown (red dotted line).
In a decision that still mystifies many, including the Friends of Mount Sunapee, the Court found that the western and northern leasehold boundaries of the ski area are the same as the State Park boundaries.
The Concord Monitor, in its editorial “State should say no thanks to Sunapee” (December 28,2 2014), wrote:
“Nearly a decade ago, this paper’s editors met with the leaseholder and his team, scrutinized documents and maps, and debated their meaning. We were unanimous in our decision that their interpretation of the maps and lease history was self-serving and wrong. The state’s intent was always to retain a buffer of public land between the ski area and the park’s boundaries, and no right to expand was ever granted. Unfortunately, in a decision that mystified us, Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Larry Smuckler disagreed.”
See: Merrimack Superior Court Order – 2014 July 10 – Sunapee Difference, LLC vs. The State of New Hampshire (pdf 127Kb)
See related information via… https://www.friendsofmountsunapee.org/okemo-legal-brief-reveals-real-estate-intentions/
See related Letter to the Editor published in InterTown Record (Feb. 10, 2015)
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STARBUCKS IS NOW WELCOMING DEAF CUSTOMERS AT ITS STORE IN THE US
By Geetika Raleh . 26th October 2018 09:00am
The famous coffee shop in the world, Starbucks, has opened its first sign store in the US, meaning its staff will be the employees who will be able to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL).
It was in the month of July that the company had announced that it was converting the Starbucks near Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. into a sign store. Gallaudet is one of the main universities for students who are deaf or suffer hearing impaired.
Actress Marlee Matlin was the first customer who tweeted about her visit to the sign language store.
Starbucks made a statement which said, “The store will create a distinctive retail experience for all customers while offering a unique store format that promotes accessibility and offers employment and career advancement opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing people.”
The Seattle based company’s first Signing Store was first opened in Malaysia in 2016. A group of employees working at American Starbucks traveled to Kuala Lumpur to celebrate the shop’s one year anniversary and also to study the sign store. Now after almost a year, the Washington D.C. Signing Store has finally opened.
"The National Association of the Deaf applauds Starbucks for opening a Signing Store that employs Deaf and hard of hearing people," Howard A. Rosenblum, CEO of the National Association of the Deaf, said in a statement. "Starbucks has taken an innovative approach to incorporate Deaf Culture that will increase employment opportunities as well as accessibility for Deaf and hard of hearing people, while at the same time educating and enlightening society."
Baristas at the store at 6th and H Streets wear “I Sign” aprons and buttons illustrated with the word "Starbucks" spelled in sign language. The aprons were embroidered by a deaf supplier. The coffee shop had customized and re-designed its store, from exclusive artwork to a mug and all of these were designed by a deaf artist.
Low-glare reflective surfaces which are a special feature for deaf have also been incorporated in the store. These initiatives were created by the Deaf Leadership of Starbucks Access Alliance.
And the company also welcomes the customers who aren’t deaf. Starbucks said, "For customers new to sign language, the store will offer communication options for ordering and receiving beverages at the hand-off counter."
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Imagine you lived in ancient Rome at the height of the Roman Empire.
One of the most exciting times in history. A time everything was changing at an enormous pace. Where such inventions as paved roads meant you could travel further and faster than ever before. The Romans also invented the aqueduct system allowing water to be transported 100’s of miles. A major disruptive because it had massive ramification for such things as urbanisation, agriculture and sanitation.
Rome, 2000 years ago, was a time when inventions and ideas were disrupting and driving the world. It was a time when you may have been asking yourself ‘what could they possibly think of next?’ And that’s not just rhetoric because one of Rome’s chief engineers, Sextus Julius Frontius, is known as saying ‘Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.’
Now imagine you live during the industrial age.
One of the greatest times of change in human history. A time when things were changing faster than ever before. A time when you’d wake in the morning and find another factory built down the road from where you lived. It was a time when great ideas disrupted the very fabric of society. Henry Ford’s idea of the mass production line influenced industry and commerce forever. It was also a time when a gentleman named Thomas Edison had one of the most brilliant ideas in history. The light bulb. Such a brilliant idea that it’s image has become symbolic of ideas themselves. What an exciting time to live.
But you and I live in today’s world, which is surely one of the most exciting times in history because we live in a time of great change and massive disruption, where things such as smartphones, social media and all forms of digital technology are disrupting and shaping our world. Yet when you think about it, that’s no different to any other time in history apart from the fact that we now label it as ‘disruption’ and the world of business has become obsessed with the very idea of it.
But is our view of ‘disruption’ impeding us from achieving it?
Roads, aqueducts, production lines, light bulbs, smartphones and social media are all game changes. No doubt about it because each changed the world. Yet in those very examples lies a problem with disruption because if it is seen as big, paradigm shifting, one off, expensive, risky and hard to keep doing then it is viewed as unachievable for most.
But what if disrupting an industry is a game of inches? What if it could happen in small steps, incrementally?
John McGrath didn’t build one of the world’s best (if not the best) real estate companies by reinventing the real estate industry, he did it by being obsessed with constantly improving and doing everything better than everyone else. Toyota didn’t invent the motorcar but they disrupted the industry through their philosophy of Kaizen (constant improvement) and by innovating on a small scale, again and again and again.
To be groundbreaking doesn’t mean you need a massive earth mover to disturb tons of dirt because you can break ground one clod at a time. To disrupt you don’t need to invent the next iPhone, you just need to do something no one else has never done or do something in a way or do it better than anyone else has done before.
So we need to expand our view of disruption from being one of ‘big’ and ‘out of reach’ to one of being ‘consistent steps’ and ‘achievable’.
What if you focus on doing the little things better than everyone else and work hard at finding innovative ways of improving things? What if you seek clever, new avenues of revenue, or focus hard on finding gaps within your market and your own processes. And if you keep doing that, maybe, just maybe one day you will notice you have disrupted your industry one step at a time.
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Riot Games: "Wherever players are, we plan on being there"
We spoke with Riot Games' Vice President of IP and Entertainment Greg Street about the recent expansion, including Riot Forge.
Last week we brought you the news that Riot is launching the Riot Forge label, which will reveal its first title at The Game Awards later this week, and in Bilbao this past weekend we caught up with Riot Games' Vice President of IP and Entertainment Greg Street to hear about what's going on at the company.
"We wanted mostly to reach out to players, both players who play League of Legends today and players that we think might enjoy Riot Games in the future, and say 'look, we've only had one game out, but our future is going to have lots of different games'. We want to be a multi-game studio, we want to make lots of genres. You know, wherever players are, we plan on being there with a game that hopefully they'll love," Street said.
"We're looking for great developers who really understand their particular genres," he continued when asked about Riot Forge's label. "For the most part these are small, indie studios, sometimes only a few employees, but they really are good at making great games, and we think if we take one of their games, evolve it, add the League [of Legends] IP to it, and let Riot help them publish it, that these could be very successful games with lots of players that love them."
"What we do is partner with them. We don't tell them what to do; we're not hiring them to make a game. We want to collaborate with them, so we want them to tell us what kind of game do they think they can do, what kind of characters they think they can feature, and we'll try to make that happen."
"We do want to make sure the League of Legends characters are recognisable and act the same way. I mean, each studio will have its own different art style, so we're fine with different styles, but a particular champion should be recognisable and should feel like the character players are used to."
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Garden Club Listings
Garden Club Listings has been created to connect Horticultural Speakers, Horticultural Judges and Gardening Clubs or Societies throughout the UK.
Gardening Clubs often struggle to find new speakers so with Garden Club Listings you will be able to search for speakers where ever you are located in the UK. But we have a dual purpose as we also offer all Gardening Clubs or Societies a FREE listing to help promote their club too.
If you are a Horticultural Speaker and or Judge then we can offer you the opportunity to promote your talks here too.
Website: Garden Club Listings
Contact Email: listme@gardenclublistings.co.uk
Garden Organic
At Garden Organic, we are dedicated to preserving our valuable organic heritage. We undertake targeted activities to protect diversity and encourage seed conservation.
Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library (HSL) aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties, mainly of European varieties, that are not widely available. We are not a gene-bank and all our collection, once we have enough seed, will become available through our annual catalogue.
We believe that the best option to protect our food supplies, environment, health and wellbeing is to use organic growing methods. These harness the natural cycles and processes that promote plant growth.
We provide practical advice for organic growers. From seed to harvest, from soil preparation to slug management – we have over 50 years’ experience in growing organically.
Website: Garden Organic
Contact Email: enquiry@gardenorganic.org.uk
Postcode: CV8 3LG
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Wolston Lane
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Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society is the UK’s only charity dedicated to helping people who work in horticulture when times get tough. A charitable organisation helping disabled or retired gardeners for over 160 years. We provide free and confidential advice, support and financial assistance to people of all ages working in, or retired from horticulture.
Website: Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society
Contact Email: info@perennial.org.uk
Postcode: KT22 7SU
Address: Perennial, 115-117 Kingston Road, Leatherhead. Surrey
Hardy Plant Society
Hardy Plant Society – We love hardy perennials for their variety, colours, shapes, sizes and longevity. We help each other to grow them better, to try different species and we exchange and spread information about them.
Most of us are in the UK but some garden outside it. Some of us are experts, like our President, Roy Lancaster, the renowned plant explorer, some of us are beginners and most of us are somewhere in-between, but we all want to learn more to make our planting more satisfying and to enjoy our gardens more.
Being members of the Hardy Plant Society gives us more opportunities to meet others, in local groups and special interest groups focusing on a particular plant family or growing conditions; to attend National Society events; to obtain a wide range of perennial plants and take part in our Seed Distribution Scheme and, by being involved in our Conservation Scheme, help keep garden-worthy plants in cultivation by as many people as possible.
Joining the National Hardy Plant Society means you can join other members in a wide range of gardening activities.
Once you’ve joined us we’ll invite you also to join the local group or minigroup nearest to you. There are over 40, so one will probably be reasonably close by. Each group sets its own programme but will usually include talks by local or national speakers, garden visits and plant sales. Some also organise plant sales open to the public and short garden tours. Most produce a newsletter.
Website: Hardy Plant Society
Phone Number: 01386 710317
Contact Email: hello@hardy-plant.org.uk
Address: The Hardy Plant Society,
15 Basepoint Business Centre,
Crab Apple Way,
Evesham.
Heather Society
The Heather Society covers every aspect of this world, from the wild heathers of European heaths and moorlands to the rare and unusual splendours of South African or “Cape” heaths, from everyday cultivation, including choosing, growing and propagating hardy heathers, to scientific studies and nomenclature.
It now has members throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as elsewhere in Europe, and in Africa, the Americas, Australasia and the Far East. Members receive an informative yearbook, as well as three newsy Bulletins which contain a diary of events to keep members in touch with Society activities and new developments. It organizes regional groups, visits to heather gardens, an annual week-end gathering and the occasional field-trip, and provides free advice to members on heather-garden design or any problems they may have.
Website: Heather Society
Contact Email: admin@heathersociety.org
Postcode: SO40 9BN
Address: 84 Kinross Road, Rushington, Totton, Southampton.
Hebe Society
The Hebe Society promotes the cultivation and conservation of hebes and other New Zealand native plants. The Hebe Society was founded in 1985. It is affiliated to the Royal Horticultural Society, New Zealand Alpine Garden Society and Tatton Garden Society. Most members are in the British Isles, but some are in the rest of Europe, North America and New Zealand.
Although initially formed for those interested in hebes, the Society now supports the cultivation and conservation of all New Zealand plants.
Website: Hebe Society
Postcode: SK10 2ER
Address: Mr Tony Hayter – Secretary
20 Beech Farm Drive
Macclesfield.
Herb Society
In 1927 Hilda Leyel founded the Society of Herbalists, which would later become the Herb Society, with the aim of supporting the practice of herbal medicine in Britain.
The Herb Society is an educational charity which aims to encourage the use and delight in herbs for all ages. To this end we work with a number of school and community groups throughout the year to support their herb related activities, whether it be creating a garden or herb use in cookery.
Website: Herb Society UK
Contact Email: info@herbsociety.org.uk
Historic Roses Group
Historic Roses Group – Founded in 1990 by members of the Royal National Rose Society (RNRS) with a particular interested in roses of historical importance, including those no longer widely grown and rose species and their hybrids.
The Group publishes the Historic Rose Journal twice yearly, mounts exhibits relating to the history of the rose at horticultural shows, arranges garden visits both in the UK and abroad and organises conferences. Currently it is engaged in a project to establish a national collection of British bred roses.
Membership of the Group can be independent of the RNRS.
What are the benefits of joining The Historic Roses Group ?
Meeting other historic rose enthusiasts – sharing their knowledge, ideas and ways of using historic roses in a garden setting.
Receiving twice yearly the Group’s Historic Rose Journal containing a wealth of informative and interesting articles by internationally acknowledged authors on the history of the rose – plus the annual Group Newsletter.
The opportunity to join fellow members on tours of outstanding rose gardens in Europe and the UK.
The opportunity to attend conferences with a wide range of expert speakers on all aspects of the history and cultivation of the rose
Opportunity to assist on the HRG stand at horticultural shows.
Website: Historic Roses Group
Contact Email: info@historicroses.org
Postcode: BN18 OPG
Address: Historic Roses Group
Grasmere Cottage
Arundel.
International Water Lily & Water Gardening Society
The International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society promotes knowledge, leadership, and standards of excellence in water gardening and related aquatic plant areas.
The Society is a non-profit organization of multinational membership dedicated to the furtherance of all aspects of water gardens and their associated plants. As an organization we support and promote education, research, and conservation in these areas.
The mission of the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society has remained constant. However, services now include education, research, and conservation. The tools used to disseminate the latest and best information have also grown over the years. The nucleus is still the Journal, annual Symposia, and a strong network of knowledgeable people. However, there are now ongoing research grants, an extensive reference library, international registries of Nymphaea and Nelumbo, and certified collections of Nymphaea.
Many of the original volunteers continue to help plan the Society’s future. They share their passion along with others from around the world. In spite of (or because of) their diverse backgrounds and knowledge, they strive to grow a Society committed to enhancing and expanding the information available about waterlilies and water gardening. Members now have a place to turn, no matter what their situation may be, whether they’re retailers looking for suppliers, growers improving their techniques, hybridizers testing new lilies, or hobbyists hoping to learn. The original seed has blossomed and the Society continues to educate thousands of water gardeners around the world.
Membership is free! As an individual member, you’ll enjoy full acess to our website, our online quarterly Water Garden Journal, and access to our “Let’s Talk Water Gardening” message board.
Website: International Water Lily & Water Gardening Society
Contact Email: iwgsmail@gmail.com
Address: International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society
P.O. Box 546 Greenville, VA 24440 USA
Irish Garden Plant Society
The inaugural meeting of the Irish Garden Plant Society took place on 7th July 1981, a draft constitution was discussed, amended and adopted and a committee elected.
We take the lead in researching, finding and propagating Irish plants to ensure their survival.
We research great Irish gardens and garden history.
We have a hands-on role in a number of garden restoration projects.
We actively promote Irish horticulture, with recognition for our exhibits at major international shows, including the Chelsea Flower Show.
Last but not least, we enjoy Irish gardens through regular talks, lectures, workshops and garden visits.
Membership of the Irish Garden Plant Society is open to anyone interested in its work, living in Ireland or abroad. Members are enthusiastic gardeners, many of whom have a special interest in Ireland’s great horticultural heritage.
Website: Irish Garden Plant Society
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A New Paradigm for Diagnosing Contributions to Model Aerosol Forcing Error
To address a recognized, persistent uncertainty in aerosol radiative forcing, the authors performed a systematic evaluation of the impact of radiative parameterization errors across the diversity of aerosol distributions resulting from the same experiment in global climate models.
The change in direct, unadjusted radiative flux that would result from instantaneously removing all aerosol from the atmosphere was evaluated for two different models, as a proof of concept.
Results show that the models’ aerosol radiative bias is of the same magnitude as the persistent range seen in IPCC models cited (~1 W/m2), and also varies spatially and with intrinsic aerosol optical properties.
This approach to evaluating radiative parameterization error can be used to address errors in climate models, resulting in more accurate simulations of the climate’s response to radiative forcing.
A.L. Jones, D.R. Feldman, S. Freidenreich, D. Paynter, V. Ramaswamy, W.D. Collins, R. Pincus. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075933
Aerosol radiative forcing and its uncertainty are seen as major challenges that climate models face in reproducing observed temperature records. Climate models, such as those reporting results for the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, exhibit a persistently large range of aerosol radiative forcing, both natural and anthropogenic. For this research, the authors carried out a systematic evaluation of the impact of radiative errors on simulated aerosol radiative effect across the diversity of aerosol distributions resulting from the same experiment, to address a persistent ambiguity in climate sensitivity.
Given the divergence of spatial, temporal, and optical properties of atmospheric aerosols, their actual contribution to forcing is particularly challenging to quantify. The large range of aerosol radiative forcing implies that diagnostics of climate sensitivity over the 1850–2005 historical period are hampered by an imprecise understanding of forcing agents. It is not known whether the ~1°C of warming seen over that period might be due to large negative aerosol forcing in a high-sensitivity climate or small aerosol forcing in a low-sensitivity climate.
The authors evaluated the aerosol instantaneous radiative effect (IRE) – defined as the change in direct, unadjusted radiative flux that would result from instantaneously removing all aerosol (both natural and anthropogenic) from the atmosphere. This was completed for two different models (GFDL’s AM4 and NCAR’s Community Earth System Model 1.2.2), as a proof of concept. The authors helped to quantify persistent sources of biases in the IRE and hope to provide modeling centers with the detailed information necessary to uncover sources of error.
Instead of prescribing atmospheric conditions and aerosols, as in prior intercomparisons, native snapshots of the atmospheric state and aerosol optical properties from the participating models are used as inputs to an accurate radiation solver to uncover model-relevant biases. These diagnostic results show that the models’ aerosol IRE bias is of the same magnitude as the persistent range seen in IPCC models, and also varies spatially and with intrinsic aerosol optical properties. The findings underscore the significance of native model error analysis and its utility to diagnose global biases.
The authors ran a line-by-line model coupled to an absorbing and scattering multi-stream radiative transfer solver at every grid point for each climate model on specified dates. The individual model benchmark calculations, when compared to that model’s native calculations, elucidated that model’s radiative parameterization error. This enabled visualization of error both spatially and as a function of aerosol optical properties, allowing for robust hypothesis formulation of error sources.
This new, rigorous approach to evaluating radiative parameterization error can be used to address errors in climate models, resulting in more accurate simulations of the climate’s response to radiative forcing.
Diurnally averaged aerosol IRE on absorption of solar radiation in the atmosphere for the GFDL model (a) and the corresponding radiative radiative parameterization error (b). The same is shown for CESM (c and d).
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CDC Advises Delayed Breastfeeding To Boost Vaccine Efficacy
January 23, 2012 by Kristen Michaelis CNC 249 Comments | Affiliate Disclosure
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Ten researchers from the CDC’s National Centers for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (NCIRD) released a paper arguing that because the immune-boosting effects of breastmilk inhibit the effects of the live oral rotavirus vaccine, nursing mothers should delay breastfeeding their infants.
This, dear readers, is the kind of convoluted logic that permeates the pharmaceutical industry. To be fair, the paper does not recommend that mothers stop breastfeeding, merely that they delay nursing at the time that the vaccine is administered. It also says that other avenues for boosting the vaccine’s efficacy should be explored.
Honestly, I don’t care how nuanced their recommendation is. Do they not realize what they have stumbled upon? In demonstrating that breastmilk counters the live vaccine, they’ve shown that breastmilk counters the virus.
A live vaccine contains a weakened form of the virus that causes the disease. The idea is that by presenting the weakened virus to your body, your immune system will develop an immune response to the virus sufficient to help you fight off a more virulent attack of the virus later. In other words, when your body is fighting off the live virus, it is effectively fighting off the virus itself, just in smaller quantities.
If breastmilk’s immune-boosting properties fight-off the live vaccine, then that means that breastmilk is fighting off the virus itself (just in smaller quantities).
Yet instead of recommending that the best way to fight this disease in infants is to encourage mothers to breastfeed, they’re recommending that mothers refrain from breastfeeding so that the vaccine can work!
I’m troubled by the underlying assumptions these researchers are making. They’re assuming, for example, that the vaccine should be used regardless of its efficacy. They’re assuming that the vaccine is better for the baby than breastfeeding. They’re assuming that the vaccine is safe.
Or, perhaps they’re not assuming any of those things. They are single-minded scientists after all. Their sole goal in this paper seems to simply be to measure the inhibitory effects of breast milk on the vaccine. They compared the breastmilk from mothers in India, South Korea, Vietnam, and the U.S. Indian mothers had the most potent breastmilk in fighting the vaccine, while U.S. moms had the weakest.
(I wonder if that’s because of our poor diets of overly-processed, industrialized food?)
I think it’s interesting to note that the researchers aren’t asking about what’s best for the baby. The question they have in mind is quite focused: just how much does breastmilk neutralize the vaccine?
Arguably, it’s a win for nursing mothers everywhere since it proves just how effective breastmilk can be!
And yet, these researchers didn’t stop there. They took their snazzy results and had the audacity to call them a “negative effect” of breastfeeding.
Clearly, they have one goal in mind: to sell more vaccines.
And therein lies the rub. The pharmaceutical industry could care less about actual health and wellness. After all, if you are healthy, they don’t make any money off of you. It is in their financial best interests for you to be perpetually sick.
I doubt that these researchers sat in their break room clad in black leather, sipping spiked coffee sporting evil grins as they plotted about how to take over the world. Most likely, they’re family folk feeling quite proud about the fact that they are developing vaccines to use in poor, undeveloped countries.
And yet despite their noble intentions, they can’t see how their assumptions influenced their recommendations. For if they were truly all about the health of the baby, they’d look at their findings and recommend that more women breastfeed. Or they’d look at their findings and ask why Indian breastmilk is so much more effective than American breastmilk, then start creating studies to unpack all the implications of that.
But who would fund those kinds of studies? Surely not the drug companies who are creating and selling vaccines? Surely not the universities who are also funded by grants from those same drug companies? Surely not the U.S. government which also receives large sums of money (as well as employees) from those same drug companies?
Nobody would fund those kinds of studies. (And that’s why they’re not done.)
It’s been said that good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars.
Too true, that. Too true.
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Kristen Michaelis CNC has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2008. Founder and CEO of Food Renegade, she's a passionate advocate for REAL FOOD -- food that's sustainable, organic, local, and traditionally-prepared according to the wisdom of our ancestors. She earned a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from Dallas Baptist University in Philosophy and Biblical Studies, then began her post-graduate journey as a researcher in the fields of health and nutrition. While she adores hats & happy skirts, nothing inspires her quite like geeking out over nutrition & sustainable agriculture. Nutrition educator & author of the go-to book on nutrition for fertility, she's also a rebel with a cause who enjoys playing in the rain, a good bottle of Caol Isla scotch, curling up with a page-turning book, sunbathing on her hammock, and parenting her three children as they grow into young adults.
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Peter at Healing Center of Maine says
Reductionism at its finest.
daltontrundle says
Yeah, Scientists are EVIL CORPORATE shills trying to KILL all of us for what! just for MONEY! I for one know that baby Jesus is the only protection I need! That’s why after 30 years on this planet I still buy Mother Mary brand breast milk. It’s organic and GMO free and makes my skin tingle. Some of it I drink, but the rest I rub all over my body to keep the TOXINS OUT! Thanks you for shedding the light on this evil conspiracy to use the systematic study of reality to get me to change my behavior! Not all SHEEPLE can be as smart as we ARE!
Michael Steiner MD says
I’ve not seen the primary article, but from how it was paraphrased, it appears that the authors of the publication that was sited were not careful with how they worded their advice.
The conclusions by Ms. Michaelis are incorrect. The protective effects of mother’s milk are PASSIVE. This means, that there is no immunity bestowed on the child by consuming the milk. There is only an enhanced ability to combat infection. For our children to grow up healthy, they must develop active immunity against thousands of things. Vaccinations are designed to spare the child the damage and suffering that results from exposure to the disease, while providing the immunity protection that results from such illness. To conclude that mother’s milk could somehow substitute for the vaccine might be logical, but it is incorrect. There are no such magical properties inherent in the collostrum.
From what I’ve read, it sounds like the intent of these authors was merely to point out that the potency of the vaccination could be blunted by the ingested gamma globulins from mother’s milk because the milk leaves baby’s immune system less challenged.
There is so much misleading material on the internet concerning vaccines. It would be a shame if this were to become another piece of anti-vaccine propaganda.
Vaccinations are given at such a young age because it is infants who are at the greatest risk to succumbing to the disease. If this paper shows that mother’s milk can handle the infection then breastfeeding would be safer than a vaccine. It is safer for a baby to have a passive response to an infection than to illicit such a strong immune response by vaccination. Most of the deadliest effects of getting a disease are caused by our own immune system causing inflammation. Passive immunity of a mother’s milk would assure no inflammation and would be a much better alternative for an infant. Most of the vaccinations are to protect infants but do often cause inflammation which is very dangerous. It would be better if infants were breastfed to protect them from pathogens and then vaccinated when they are older so that the inflammation does not pose such a risk.
Ed Ski says
first, when you misspelled the word cited in your first sentence, i could tell you were not quite all there. went to med school for 8 years and you cannot correctly spell the word cited- a word used in medical journals worldwide. more likely you work for the VACCINE INDUSTRY, Big Pharma. second, infants should never be vaccinated. period. end of story. pregnant mothers should never be vaccinated. period. end of story. vaccines for infants causes AUTISM. don’t EVEN try and deny it, a CDC doctor has publicaly admitted this, and the continuing coverup of this fact. it is more than criminal that you are recommending infants to be vaccinated. third- if you read the label on these vaccines that you recommend for children, horrendous side effects are listed. fourth- every ear there are outbreaks of whooping cough, flu, measles, etc., and these outbreaks occur mostly among the children who got the vaccination. coincidence? nope. even polio outbreaks all over india follow the same trail as the vaccines. fifth- these vaccines you recommend contain mercury levels thousands of times higher than recommended in drinking water. mercury is completely toxic to humans. you are discredited as a shill for the vaccine criminals.
I just want to say a lot of respect to Edi Ski. It seems most people leave med school more asleep than when they went in. He is totally awake. we need more people like him in the world and coming out of med school!
Another thing is Breastmilk is one of the most important thing a mom can do for her baby. This is another criminal act by pharma to discourage the importance of bonding and sell more vaccines and poison more people so they can have lifelong patients and further their agenda to depopulate the world. the sad thing is people will actually go along with this.
J Maughan says
They’re also no magical properties inherent in vaccines either, otherwise individuals would not need boosters every few years to top up the vaccines.
JM says
I’m glad you commented. Stated better than I could have. Rants without complete facts don’t do anyone any favors.
Christian Mueller says
Wow, who do you work for????
Michael, they were very careful with how they worded their advice. this blogger is not careful with how she is relaying information. it is very misleading.
Jane Jones says
There is actually a wealth of great information concerning vaccines on the internet. People are getting wise to the facts that vaccines are not all we’ve been told and the RISKS associated with them has also been completelt ignored or downplayed. Vaccines are not a religion and should not be touted as such. The truth is vaccines are neither safe nor effective. There has not been one safety study done on our current vaccine schedule and they don’t intend to do one. Why would they not do the actual science on our schedule? Why keep adding to it with no safety studies? Our government has given the pharma industry a free pass on all liability. We don’t live under a rock–vaccine damage is real and prevelant now in every community. People are wising up to the corruption that is allowed at the CDC. Drs. push the propaganda for monetary gains. No Dr. and no organization should be able to make a profit and turn their backs on the people they have taken an oath to protect. The truth is out there–in every damn Drs. office –vaccine damage. It cannot be denied-vaccine damage is real! Learn the Risks! Every reputable DR. should be looking into this themselves—if you don’t and if you receive vaccination kickbacks then you should also be on the line. Remember this–the pharma industry is protected-individual Drs. are not. When you ignore vaccine damage then you should lose your liciense to practice!
Danno says
Lol…the only propaganda here is what you just spouted!!
It is impossible to achieve any immunity from vaccines,if vaccines conferred immunity , you would not need to inject the toxic concoctions multiple times.
Vaccines have never saved anyone let alone eradicated any diseases!
The whole history of vaccines is nothing but lies written by the criminals(Big Pharma).
The antibodies that are created from the vaccine is due to the chemical attack that’s in these junk shots, which if a person cuts themselves, their body will produce the same antibodies to fight infection, yet have no immunity from that infection!!
But vaccines are somehow magical right….lol!!
Serendipity says
There is a difference between the PASSIVE IMMUNITY of breast milk and the ACTIVE IMMUNITY of vaccination.
The protection of breast milk is TEMPORARY. It protects he baby for around 3 months, and then wears off.
Breast milk contains anti-bodies that temporarily protect the baby, but it doesn’t TEACH the baby’s immune system how to make more.
Once they break down, the protection is gone.
Vaccination is a SIMULATION OF INFECTION; a non-dangerous version of a germ is shown to the immune system, which “learns” how to fight it.
Because the vaccine germ “looks” like the real germ, the baby is now able to fight the real germ effectively.
The immune system LEARNS and REMEMBERS how to make antibodies (and other immune responses).
What breast feeding does is to help clear away the vaccine rapidly. The baby’s immune system is given less time to learn immunity from the vaccine, and so the vaccine is less effective.
Rotavirus causes diarrhea. It’s really not a health issue in the US at all–and wasn’t before the vaccine was developed. It’s not dangerous to anyone but newborns. And breastfed babies are far less likely to cone down with rotavirus. So, in all honesty, the only US babies for whom it might make sense to receive this vaccine are formula-fed newborns. But the media’s favorite vaccine doctor, Paul Offitt, makes money on every dose administered.
Please stop with your lies
Vaccines do NOT confer any immunity, never had, and there is no proof that they ever did.
Is this Dorit the Pharma lobbyest Reese to put it nicely spreading lies?
Lol…what I find humorous in vaccine junk science is, they claim a child can’t handle one disease, but can handle 8 differant ones at one time with multiple chemicals!
But yet the body was never designed to deal with multiple diseases at one time.
I’ve never heard of someone catching the Wild measles and mumps at the same , except from the vaccine!
That is why children die and have auto immune disorders from vaccunes, because a child’s immune system is going crazy from the attack of these toxic multiple shots and the immune system starts attacking itself!
Wow…what a great straight for the corrupt corporations to create return business.
Yeah, this had me pretty steamed, too. When I posted the info on Facebook, some folks suggested that if they were asking mothers not to breastfeed for a couple of hours, that wasn’t so bad. I don’t agree, as breastfeeding is a form of comfort as well as nutrition. Also, if you look at the related paper this study references, they discuss how colostrum inhibits the vaccine even more, which to me suggests that they are implying that babies forgo colostrum in order to make vaccines more effective, which is just completely nuts.
Breastfeeding has undeniable emotional and protective benefits. Vaccination is more effective if the baby isn’t breast feeding, because the antibodies in the colostrum help the baby’s immune system to clear away the vaccine before it has time to “learn” immunity. I agree with you that it seems inappropriate (and even bizarre!) that the conclusion is to delay breast-feeding .. surely, it means that early vaccinations simply require a booster.
The only exception I could see is if the baby is at high risk of exposure to a dangerous disease – for example, if parents are planning to travel to a place with poor water quality, they may choose to delay breastfeeding to ensure greatest protection from a polio vaccine.
Julie D. says
Please cite where in the study the researchers recommend that “nursing mothers should delay breastfeeding their infants.” I see them saying that “Strategies to overcome this negative effect, such as delaying breast-feeding at the time of immunization, should be evaluated.” There is a huge difference between recommending something and saying that something be evaluated.
Emiliano Jordan says
Thanks Julie, this article from the title to the content is misleading. ”Strategies to overcome this negative effect, such as delaying breast-feeding at the time of immunization, should be evaluated.” This means the paper recommended further evaluation of delayed breast milk feeding as a means to support the findings of the study. The paper never tries to recommend anything and Food Renegade is trying to drum up controversy to gain readership. In fact the study if brought to conclusion could be a step in the direction of supporting breast feeding for the reasons the article mentions. In fact, to date, the CDC still advises to continue breast milk feeding and encourages it in it’s General Recommendations on Immunization. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6002.pdf
PLW says
Yes! Yes! Yes! This blog post is terrible because it completely misinterprets the article and its context. This is not a recommendation, it is a scientific article trying to understand why a vaccine doesn’t seem to work in some contexts. Given what they have found, they suggest that future trials should be conducted to better understand the problem. I figured you guys would be all over research to better understand the interaction between breastfeeding and viral infections.
KristenM says
Did I not make this clear when I said, “Their sole goal in this paper seems to simply be to measure the inhibitory effects of breast milk on the vaccine. They compared the breastmilk from mothers in India, South Korea, Vietnam, and the U.S. Indian mothers had the most potent breastmilk in fighting the vaccine, while U.S. moms had the weakest.”
How is that misinterpreting the study? I simply choose to take offense at the recommendations at the end of the study — at the questions the researchers AREN’T asking. Why, when presented with such proof that breastmilk inhibits the virus, do they interpret that as a “negative effect” of breastmilk rather than something worth more investigation? Why don’t they try to figure out how to improve breastmilk’s efficacy against the virus, rather than how to improve the vaccine’s efficacy by delaying breastfeeding? They take some neat information and ask all the wrong questions about it — questions skewed by the agenda of vaccine manufacturers.
Why, when presented with such proof that breastmilk inhibits the virus, do they interpret that as a “negative effect” of breastmilk rather than something worth more investigation?
They are not saying that breastmilk is, in and of itself, negative, or that breastmilk has a negative effect in general. Their study wanted to find out why the vaccine was less effective in developing countries, and they found out that it was because breastmilk in those developing countries had higher antibody levels. Higher antibody levels in the breastmilk meant that the breastmilk had a negative effect on the vaccine. The term, as used in this paper, has a very specific meaning that you are either ignorant of or are willfully misinterpreting to suit your preconceived notions.
The paper doesn’t recommend anything in terms of practical advice for mothers. It is a report on their findings with recommendations on how to further frame studies based on those findings, which is exactly what you’re criticizing them for not doing.
Let me summarize their summary so that its meaning can be clearly understood:
Hey! We wondered why rotavirus oral vaccine wasn’t working as well in developing countries, so we looked at the breastmilk in those countries and found out that it is pretty awesome at fighting rotavirus by itself! If we want to see all the implications of this information, studies should probably be done where we have some moms with this super milk wait a little while between the vaccine and their baby’s next feed, just to see what happens.
Nowhere in that paper is there any mention of public health recommendations on any level, so your headline is completely incorrect. This is an article on PubMed, which is intended for students and researchers so they can stay abreast of recent developments and see recent findings to guide their own research. You deliberately, with your headline, make it seem like the CDC sent out a notice to hospitals yesterday saying NO MORE BREASTFEEDING BECAUSE PFIZER SAID SO!
Actually, the paper *does* recommend that mothers wait at least an hour after vaccinating their kids to breastfeed. It then suggests that varying times should be further investigated to see if they are more or less efficacious.
I am sorry that you don’t like my headline, but I am limited by space. This one is already about 15 characters longer than I like mine to usually be. While some bloggers won’t have a problem with a headline that reads “Researchers in a recent CDC report find breastmilk inhibits rotovirus vaccine and recommend delaying breastfeeding to increase the vaccine’s efficacy”, I do. Writing headlines is difficult because I must balance confined space with enough substance to get readers to actually click through to the article. I also have to make sure the title is keyword rich so that it shows up in searches when readers want to come back to it later, or when new readers want to know my opinion on the subject. Balancing a tidy length with keywords and enough message to get people to click is a precarious endeavor indeed! The headline is not meant to convey actual information or my opinion. (That’s why I write a whole post and not just headlines!) It’s meant to get people to click through to read the post. I apologize if you find some of them misleading, but I do the best I can with what I’ve got.
The title length has nothing to do with it. The title is severely misleading. Something that could easily be fixed in the same character count.
As for the recommendation at the bottom it is strictly in reference to the study. NOT a general recommendation. Please read the CDCs current and official recommendations in regard to immunization.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr6002.pdf
semaj leachim says
” I must balance confined space with enough substance to get readers to actually click through to the article. ”
clearly, you have one goal in mind: to get more clicks.
The issue is you still got yournfacts wrong.
The logic is not convoluted. Delaying by an hour a breastfeed, which only provides passive protection, to ensure a child has long term active protection is perfectly logical.
There is almost no risk in a short delay of a breastfeed, in fact if you time your visit correctly there may be no delay at all. The benefit is enhanced long term immune reposnse to a deadly disease.
The one with convoluted logic is you
Nicholas Barnard says
“Why don’t they try to figure out how to improve breastmilk’s efficacy against the virus, rather than how to improve the vaccine’s efficacy by delaying breastfeeding?”
Because people don’t breastfeed forever, and even if you are breastfeeding its better to have two protections (the vaccine and breastfeeding) than just one.
It is true that people don’t breastfeed forever! What does that have to do with anything? If a mom has natural immunity to a disease, she passes it on to her baby in her breastmilk. So, why not wait to vaccine until babies are no longer breastfeeding and have actually developed an immune system strong enough to respond to the vaccine?
When Japan delayed all vaccines until children were at least 2 years old, they were much more successful at getting the vaccines to “take” (needing less booster shots to create “immunity”). They also eliminated almost all cases of SIDS (interesting coincidence, huh?).
Dreiske Arnold says
I exclusively breastfed my son for 7.5 months. Breastmilk continued to make up the major part of his nutrition for his first year. He still got rotovirus. Scariest time in my life, watching my almost-lifeless son vomit for six straight days. Breastfed babies still get rotovirus. Please don’t tell people otherwise.
Daniee says
I don’t believe KristenM is stating kids still can’t get the diseases. In the study, it did show milk from other countries seemed to be more effective. Perhaps, in Japan, the case is the same, and we need to investigate why milk here isn’t as effective.
Ophelia says
Yes & my best friends fully vaxed child was hospitalized with it..and he was breastfed…but my unvaxed breastfed child was not. Go figure. NOTHING is 100% and for ANYONE to imply it that anything is 100% would be completely foolish. Less than 100% does NOT make it ineffective though…because if that were the case you’d have to call EVERY vaccine ineffective as well.
I am sorry you went through that. While we never dealt with that specifically, my one child did contract a norovirus that was nasty (we all did, he just didn’t bounce back so quick) and vomited 10 days straight…it was hideous & scary. Norovirus is unfortunately just a regular tummy bug & they come around periodically, but he just got that one extra rough for some reason. I was told the ONLY reason he didn’t need hospitalization is that he was still heavily nursing at 20 months & it was keeping his electrolytes up despite the vomiting. Thank God for that.
Yes babies and children occasionally get sick. Yes it is scary, but part of life. In these parts, in this day and age when your baby has a gastrointestinal infection it can be supplemented with IV fluids and monitoring, and do just fine. By breastfeeding your baby you probably helped him get back to health more quickly. My first baby could not be breastfed and was vaccinated as required, and is the only one of my now 4,6,8 year olds that has really had any type of gastrointestinal bug lasting more than a few hours.
Francois says
You`re going by the assumption that the vaccine would make any difference. The immune system is way more complex than titers of immunoglobulin. Vaccines are often the source of these outbreaks always automatically blamed on the non-vaccinated.
Exactly, Kristen! A few years ago, when I took our *then* puppy to a VERY pro-vaccine vet for puppy shots, I told him that the breeder had already given her her first round of shots. He shook his head and said those first vaccines were a complete waste because the momma’s milk counters the viruses in the vaccines and that vaccination should start after the pups have been weaned for at least a couple weeks if not longer. It makes perfect sense. Why would humans be different?
Now, this was from a vet who was so pro-vaccine he pressured me into way more vaccines than I wanted (and I changed to a holistic vet to help pull our poor dog out of the vaccine reaction she got from way overkill of shots, but that’s another story)!
She doesn’t pass on long term immunity to the baby!
Do you have any idea how passive protection works? The mother passes on antibodies only. The child’s immune system does not learn how to create those antibodies from the mother’s milk. It provides protection, a mild protection only, from the disease onkynwhile the child is breastfeeding. We can’t make this better, or make it long term.
The way to make the immunity better and king term is tomgice a vaccine
Nevra says
Nicholas – as with many other vaccine-preventable illnesses, Rotavirus is an example of one that is only severe in the first year or two of life. If one plans to breastfeed their child during this stage and doesn’t put the child into daycare, then I can see why some people choose not to administer this vaccine. Also, I would agree with your comment about it being “better to have 2 protections,” if only the vaccine were simply another protection. But the unfortunate reality is that Rotavirus vaccine is not entirely risk-free. For one thing, it contains some controversial ingredients, like monkey kidney cells and fetal cow blood, which some believe could introduce other infectious diseases. Also, there are a number of documented side effects that were discovered during the clinical trials of this vaccine. Sure, the probability of having one of these side effects is low, but hopefully you can see why some people choose not to double-up on their protections after evaluating the full risk/reward equation.
Rotorix specifically was removed from market in 2007 because it was found to have pig RNA (viral DNA if you don’t know) as a contaminant. It was “tested” found to be safe & rather than reproducing it without any pig viral RNA, re-released as is & it is the most common rotovirus vax given at present.
So? Rotavirus is infant diarrhea. And breastfeeding is free from risk for the baby, while vaccines certainly are not. In this case, I suspect that breast milk with more antibodies belongs to mothers more likely to have been recently exposed to the virus. Rotavirus isn’t really an issue in the US, and wasn’t before the vaccine, either.
Rota virus is a terrible disease that causes enormous amounts of morbidity and large costs to parents and society.
Breastfeeding is not a magic shield against rota virus. Which is why right up until the vaccine was introduced nearly every childmgotmrota virus by age 5.
It is misleading and inflammatory because the TITLE OF YOUR POST in YOUR OWN WORDS says “CDC Advises Delayed Breastfeeding To Boost Vaccine Efficacy”.
The CDC DOES NOT advise any such thing. In fact, the actual CDC recommendations pertaining to the vaccine in question say just the opposite.
One can open a dialogue about the implications of this paper without sensatioalizing it.
I am disappointed in seeing how REAL FOOD advocates, whom I respect deeply and from whom I have learned so much, resort to tactics like this. It is no different than real milk detractors writing about the horrors of infection from raw milk without ever actually looking raw milk’s safety record.
The credibility of the whole movement–at least for me—is at stake. I’m a WAPF member but if this kind of material keeps pouring out of the community, I will no longer be part of it because I won’t be able to trust the science any more than that of the medical-agricultural-industrial complex.
Do not become what you battle.
Hi Susie,
Please see my response to Valerie above to understand how and why I title my posts the way I do. I am sorry that you don’t like how I title my posts. You are always free to stop reading.
I found your reply to Susie to be disingenuous and dismissive. She makes a legitimate point, and I don’t know her from Adam. In order to earn the respect of critical thinkers and scientists who try to be as fair as possible in evaluating questions pertaining to health, we must be extremely careful, deliberate, and meticulous in drawing conclusions from research. We don’t want to lose the people with the brains and the good judgment and connections that will move us forward.
It seems that pride is an issue because Susie and the others are correct; the headline is sensational and apparently does not reflect an actual, CLINICAL recommendation at this point in time. The recommendation that is made is for researchers as they continue to probe into this area of study.
I just thought it was dismissive to say, “If you don’t like it, you’re free not to read”. That just, with a wave of the hand, attempts to get rid of Susie instead of engaging with her. That isn’t polite! I’m from northern NJ near Manhattan, and this is a very “New York” way to talk to someone, but I have never liked it. If you have a blog that invites comments, you need to be prepared to receive comments that are constructively critical, as well as favorable…And to respond to them as graciously as possible. I’ve never read your blog before this, and seeing the way the commenters are being replied to, is actually having the effect of alienating me from the blog. So please keep in mind that it’s not just Susie who will stop reading your blog, as you invited her to do. It will be others who are “observers” of the comments section who see how defensive your replies are to the legitimate concerns raised. I didn’t think the objectors were dismissive of you; they were forthright, logical, and respectful. This just doesn’t feel inviting to the reader.
Thank you for letting us know what questions researchers are looking at, re: breastfeeding and inoculations.
Bayley says
Thank you so much, Kristen. I follow you on Facebook and while I find you to be groovy, I also find you to be informed, informative and most importantly, without alterior motives.
I recently made the decision to adobt the no shots, no way policy for my children, and it’s because of this kind of stuff. It’s my children’s lives; it’s these people’s jobs.
I have a degree in marketing and marketing materials are all I found on The CDC website.
Saskia says
The reason you are being misleading is that you have taken a simple, ordinary everyday scientific study of an important but very specific question (“why does the rotavirus vaccine seem to be less effective in some of the countries that need it the most?”) and skewed it to sound as though the CDC recommends delaying breastfeeding following vaccination. This is not CDC policy, this is just one study, looking at one very small question about the effects of breastmilk on vaccination. The researchers didn’t even say that breastfeeding should be delayed, they just said this is one possible option to evaluate. To spin it out into something much bigger than it is is simply sensationalism and makes you look like you don’t understand how to interpret scientific research. If you have a point to make, and you want people to take you seriously, articles like these don’t help your cause.
Also I’m really confused by your point “do they not realize what they have stumbled upon? In demonstrating that breastmilk counters the live vaccine, they’ve shown that breastmilk counters the virus” – it seems pretty clear to me that the whole reason they were studying breastmilk was because they realised the immunological properties may be responsible for reducing vaccine effectiveness. The fact that breastmilk helps to protect against pathogens is scientific consensus, but you make it sound like the scientists must have been unaware of this fact, or even that this fact goes against their nefarious aims!!
So yes, this is a confused & misleading article, although thank you for drawing my attention to this study as it’s quite interesting and thought provoking.
” could be a step in the direction of supporting breast feeding”
Wow, that’s great. Cutting edge science.
The study actually does recommend waiting at least an hour after administering the oral vaccine to breastfeed. What they implied needed further study was the exact time frame necessary to have the desired effect (Would 20 minutes be sufficient? How about 30? Would it be more effective to wait even longer — say several hours?).
this kind of poor writing is what happens when a blogger doesn’t know the difference between a preliminary study, an actual study, and recommendations. Wow. I can’t believe the lack of critical thinking by the people who swallowed this article as truth, and the sheer irresponsibility of the writer. People, Google is a SEARCH engine, not a REsearch engine, and clearly this writer has no idea what she even read. SMDH.
Zephyr says
There is an obvious slant and missed connection that the researchers are missing. While there may be a bit of taking the study as “conclusive” rather than preliminary findings, there is clearly a narrow and largely technology biased direction being taken that is not considering in its recommendation moving forward, that more breast feeding may actually be the solution.
From the CDC abstract: “Live oral rotavirus vaccines have been less immunogenic and efficacious among children in poor developing countries compared with middle income and industrialized countries for reasons that are not yet completely understood” coupled with…..
“Breast milk from Indian women had the highest IgA and neutralizing titers against all 3 vaccine strains, while lower but comparable median IgA and neutralizing titers were detected in breast milk from Korean and Vietnamese women, and the lowest titers were seen in American women”
A well known scientific fact is that “extinction” of traits can occur when the biological imperative and practice that it evolved from is no longer present. In other words, it is a well known fact that….due to technology, lifestyle and lack of disease pressure, natural immunity can pass by the wayside. What’s really interesting is that IgA obviously has a superior general disease fighting ability that biologically views the vaccine itself as a potential threat indicating that it has a greater and superseding immunological benefit and yet……the slant is that it is in fact the “negative” culprit against what the researchers…..want in the outcome.
We are talking about 200,000 years of natural evolution (this is only the acknowledged time period of what is considered “homo sapien” and does not include the carry over genetic history of all life as we know it) vs. the metrics of scientific “progress” which is essentially a flat line of relativity up until the mid 19th century and the practice of research only since the beginning of the 20th Century. This is a a scientific fact that science fails to truly incorporate into its own “wisdom” and therein, adjust itself in humility
Vaccines still have the dubious measure of bypassing all of the body’s normal channels of pathogen/viral/bacterial defenses which is one of its main detractions (not to mention from a toxicological perspective all of the NASTY adjuvants used to evoke a “proper” immune response will be directly resulting the in immune dysfunction mainly via damage to the CNS) Vaccines are, will be, and will always be of questionable to outright worthless value… immune competency is much more effective without being enslaved to the pharmacuetical paradigm.
Vaccines actually use the body’s immune system. It doesn’t bypass the defenses, instead it stimulates them. Although it is a valid possibility, that it might not come up with as strong set of antibodies as a natural infection would.
Nevra @ ChurnYourOwn says
My understanding is that the immune response triggered by a vaccine is *not* the same as what you get from natural infection. I attended a talk by Dr. Thomas Cowan, who explained that the problem with vaccines is that they “only affect the cell’s mediated response, but not the humoral response…which has led to an epidemic of people with compromised cell mediated response.” I suspect he’s explaining what has been observed in studies, like Poland and Jacobson’s ’94 study entitled, “Failure to reach goal of measles elimination”, which show that measles vaccination “produces immune suppression which contributes to an increased susceptibility to other infections.” In other words, people who contract illnesses like the measles or rotavirus may be less susceptible to sickness later in life.
Your understanding is faulty
It is the same immune response to the same antigens
JennyS says
“Vaccines are, will be, and will always be of questionable to outright worthless value”. This is an unbelievable statement coming from someone who quite clearly does not work in public health. Vaccines have saved so many lives. How is that worthless?
Vaccines have destroyed more lives that saved. Social conditions and access to food are the main drivers of disappearance of disease. Watch the third world countries starve and drink their own piss. Vaccinating them and renaming Polio to a flacid paralysis something won’t change reality. Vaccines are voodoo-science, and they’re fully exposed as fraudulent. Now that people have access to information, the day of the vaccine is near it’s end.
A much wrong
Sanitation did zero tomreduce the incidence of mumps, measles, rubella, tetanus, Hib, dipthehiria etc. there was no drop in incidence of these disease u til the vaccine.
Sanitation is great for stopping cholera but not measles. Measles is an airborne droplet disease. Clean water and flushing toilets make no difference
Vaccines have saved the lives of literally millions of people.
Very interesting post. I am especially intrigued about the differing effectiveness of the breastmilk from different countries. And I am so glad that I nursed my kids for a long time. Thanks for sharing.
One Facebook commenter said something interesting about that. She proposed that rather than it having to do with diet, the increased efficacy of breastmilk in Indian women may have to do with the fact that the women themselves are/were unvaccinated and have a stronger natural immunity to pass on in their milk. I like that theory!
That theory actually makes sense.
American moms are unvaccinated for rotavirus too. Rotavirus vaccines have only been on the childhood schedule from 1998-99 and then 2006-present. Adults do not get the rotavirus vaccine.
Unfortunately by having so many unvaccinated it also meant that about half of children died before age 5
Not a lot to like about that theory, you want mother’s to have more antibodies, but at the cost of half the childhood population dying!
Crystal - Prenatal Coach says
Thank you Food Renegade! Shared on my FB page 🙂
Kristen, I was appalled when I saw this yesterday, but you make a very good point. This should be encouraging us to promote breastfeeding over vaccines all the more! Thanks for the reminder and keeping positive.
Augie says
Maybe they will patent breast milk
Oy vey, Augie. You do say the most trying things! ;p
i can’t wait to see how many sick, autistic and learning disabled kids are produced when they vaccinate them without prior fortification of breast milk!
can our social safety net handle a generation of sick kids?
The supposed link between autism and learning disabilities has been quite thoroughly debunked.
If it weren’t for vaccines we’d still have people dying or disabled due to polio, and small pox would be running rampant!
I am assuming that you meant “between autism and vaccines” or “between (autism and learning disabilities) and vaccines” not “between autism and learning disabilities”, as autism is by definition a learning disability.
That being said, this is still a very inflammatory comment that is based on sensational claims without the studies to back them up. Although according to epidemiological data, the incidence rates of many diseases decreased faster than they had been (as most diseases with vaccines were already dropping in prevalence pre-vaccine) following introduction of a vaccine, the mortality rates do not show the same decrease. Smallpox is a prime example of this, along with others like measles, rubella, and chickenpox.
One possible explaination for this is that the vaccine helped to prevent the otherwise healthy individual whose naturally functioning and stimulated immune system would otherwise be perfectly capable of handling said disease from getting it in the first place, while not conveying the same level of protection to the person who really needed it, ie the person who couldn’t fight off the disease in the first place. While the concept of “herd immunity” sounds really nice, placing all people on the front-lines in the “War Against Bugs”, there are holes in it. One example is that even people who have received a vaccine for a disease, like the flu for example, can still catch, harbor, and spread the virus responsible for the disease in amounts significant enough to cause infection, even if they are not expressing symptoms, which can actually increase the spread of disease in certain circumstances.
Although polio’s epidemiologic data does not fit the pattern described above, of interesting note is the simultaneous drop of polio morbidity and mortality, linked with an increase in the morbidity and especially the mortality of aseptic meningitis following the introduction of the polio vaccine, as diagnostic criteria for polio were changed such that if someone had recieved the vaccine, they “couldn’t have gotten” polio, and so were automatically lumped into a catch-all diagnosis.
Casey says
Autism is not a learning disability. Autism is its own separate disability consisting of a combination of up to 13 separate symptoms.
Josh, you are correct, I intended to say “between autism and vaccines” – I was commenting at 3 am my time.
That being said Wired did a series which included a through article on vaccine timing.
Mammaduck7 says
Doubtful considering most diseases we immunize for were in sharp decline long before the vaccines were introduced.
http://www.whale.to/a/graphs.html
Laureen says
“To be fair, the paper does not recommend that mothers stop breastfeeding, merely that they delay nursing at the time that the vaccine is administered.”
You were pretty clear, I’d say. Thanks for the well-written post that asks just the right questions. Too bad no one at the CDC will ever have to answer them.
I too would love to see some research into the questions that haven’t yet been answered. I think the study results, and in fact that this particular study was done at all, are remarkable, but it would be great to see some conclusions that have the mother and baby first, not the vaccines (and by extension, the pharmaceutical industry).
Thanks for thinking about this stuff! 🙂
JBAR says
I tried to look up the offending article and finally found it. Everything states that there is no change in efficacy of the vaccine when the recommended dosage is given (i.e. all three doses.) When reading what the CDC says on the subject, they clearly state that mothers should continue to breastfeed their children and no mention of delaying breastfeeding have been officially made in the hopes of making the vaccine more effective. In fact, in the articles I read, they stated that breastfeeding was one of the best ways to prevent rotavirus and the vaccine should be used in conjunction with breastfeeding to build the child’s immunity. I know I breastfed both my children immediately after they had the vaccines and no one told me not to. If I have another child, I’ll do the same. You have taken one study and run with the misinformation that the CDC says to hold off breastfeeding when the CDC officially says nothing of the sort.
Ugh. My prediction: doctors will no longer be nice and accomodating about mamas nursing their babies in the doctor’s office after shots. Babies will be crankier because they don’t receive comfort/pain relief as quickly. Nursing moms will feel guilty whether they nurse their baby immediately or whether they wait while their baby fusses.
but cool that the study showed another cool disease-fighting feature of breastmilk!
Hebe says
Thank you Julie, Emiliano, PLW, Valerie, and Susie, for helping other readers like me look at the big picture and not just at an inflammatory statement.
Thank you Kristen, for letting us know the good news that are found in this study (breastmilk helping fight viruses).
I’m completely in favor of breastfeeding, completely against having a healthcare system that makes profits out of healthcare.
If you are ok with constructive criticism, I would definitely choose a different headline, not because I don’t “like it” (as in a matter of style) but because it does say something different from what the rest of the post says. Headlines are difficult, and so are many things in life, but that doesn’t mean they should say something that does not correspond to the actual news or information provided. The evaluation of the recommendation to delay (not a recommendation, but evaluation to recommend) considers an extremely temporary delay compared to the big-picture of all the time nursing, not significant enough to be called a “delay” as in “stop nursing so we can make money out of vaccines”.
I also believe many of the misunderstandings commented here come from the fact that you’re jumping to contradictory conclusions. Your post, in fact, says that ” the paper does not recommend that mothers stop breastfeeding, merely that they delay nursing at the time that the vaccine is administered”. How is that, in any way, going against breastfeeding just to sell vacciens???
However, later you state that:
“Yet instead of recommending that the best way to fight this disease in infants is to encourage mothers to breastfeed, they’re recommending that mothers refrain from breastfeeding so that the vaccine can work!” {…} “They’re assuming that the vaccine is better for the baby than breastfeeding”.
Mmm… No, they are not assuming the vaccine is better for the baby than breastfeeding, unless you meant it is better during one hour of the baby’s life (the time when it is being administered). And no, they are not recommending that mothers refrain from breastfeeding, they are only considering evaluating delaying nursing A BIT while the vaccine is being administered.
Stealthy Mom says
I think I’ll file this information under “WTF did the makers of formula pay for this?”
Both of my son’s nursed within minutes of birth- as soon as they were weighed by the staff and handed back to me, they started right in. Our youngest was overdue so a bit dehydrated. He nursed for an hour right after birth.
There is no freakin’ way these kids were getting needles within a minute of their birth!
C. Aoyagi says
I have two little girls.
My eldest had almost all her shots, had skin issues, iron deficiencies, and some emotional issues all remedied by diet (eliminated almost all grains and I limit high starchy and sweet foods for us all)
She was breast fed till she was 3.5 years old
Littlest has had no shots, with no issues (although she has been on our above diet pretty much since birth) She is still breastfeeding (she is almost 2)
I do notice that the littlest one gets sick more often (maybe due to having an older sister out and about?) and when she does get sick, it seems to last a little longer than her sisters bugs ever did or do
BUT- Even though it is quite miserable for parents when your little one is throwing up for a week straight, or has a raspy, gooey cough for 2+ weeks- especially when the mother gets sick too- Maybe the trade off is acceptable? It’s too early to tell, but like one response above pointed out (in different words), maybe getting sick while young is better? I know it’s anecdotal, but I know quite a few really old, healthy people (and not so old, my dad!) that had quite a few of these childhood disease when young, and don’t get nearly as sick as often as I see my generation getting.
(And yes, I know that there are some disease I don’t want my kids getting, like polio and TB- but some scientific evidence exists that point to these diseases being prevented and protected against through diet; it is a risk, and not one I’ve determined worth taking yet..)
As a note to parents who freak out about their kids getting sick- you need to know what you’re looking for, and you need to know the protocol with dealing with sickness- I’m not a doctor, but with these simple steps I’ve taken on the worst bugs with no doctor or hospital visits. (And know quite a few nurses and other non-hypochondriac medical professionals who follow this as well)
If your child has the sniffles, cough, flu symptoms with a fever bellow 103(not lasting for more than a day or two) and they aren’t catatonic, leave them be with the over the counter crap (no fever suppressors or chemical loader cough suppressor) and doctor visits and antibiotics. Use breastfeeding, comfort, trust, and maybe some safe simple herbal remedies to help with the discomfort, but try not to meddle too much! Fevers are meant to burn off the bad stuff, coughs are meant to clear out the lungs. Stomach flues are bad, but making sure the child is hydrated (I know it sucks seeing your child throw up your breast milk for the 4th time that day.. but) that is the only thing the doctors can do for a child in the hospital anyway (IVs suck and your child has the potential to come down with something worse!)- the cause of deaths due to stomach flues (the rotavirus included) are mostly due to dehydration and it’s complications- if you don’t panic your child will be uncomfortable but fine in a few days.
Sorry for the little rant, but seriously, if you have children, don’t just think it’s other people’s jobs to take care of them (doctors), ‘school’/raise them (schools), and indoctrinate them in everything from food to what to think (government).
Educate yourself, keep an open mind, and question eveything (well almost everything) that comes your way. That way you teach you children that as well.
I love Food Renegade’s posts, and the fact that she bluntly points out the weaslely way this paper minces words to ‘prove’ it’s theory (i.e. twisting the questions and answers to get the conclusion they want)
People as a mass can be easily swayed by things calling themselves science and people calling themselves experts.
Thank you for another glimpse!
india loses almost 100,000 children a year to rotavirus. this fact negates pretty much everything in your post. if breast milk were as effective as the vaccine, that would not be the case. if western mothers were endangering their kids with their poor diets and leading to lower, vaccine reliant immune systems in their children, that would not be the case. what is actually the case is that poor kids in india die every day because the vaccine is only available privately and their mothers cannot save them simply breastfeeding.
molecule says
This is such a hugely important subjet. Through no fault of their own, mose American women don’t really understand what the function of breastfeeding is. The main purpose of breastmilk is not to supply the totality of baby’s “food” or nutrition support. Breastmilk is not about baby’s diet. That is way too huge a subject to cover in a comment.
In the 1860s an evil man named Jenner was doing research in England on use of vaccines. Whether it was his intent or not, I personally believe his research became the foundation by which vaccines could be adopted for use in warfare. (This was back when the political horizon was being ploughed in preparation for mass exterminations of WW-I and II, largely by disease. Another huge subject.)
Jenner was working with diseases of the time, being smallpox, syphilous, and tuberculosis. He found that when one of the four teats of a cow was painted with the pus from an open infection, or with the saliva of an infected patient, then, that particular teat (and only that teat) would produce a strange and powerful kind of milk. That milk, when put in a petri dish with the virus in question, would kill the virus. (This was before antibiotics.) He also observed that milk drawn from the three other teats of the same cow would not kill the virus. His studies started when he noticed that milk drawn by milkmaids who had encountered cowpox infections were cured by that milk.
It may be too radical for this site, but the CDC and MDs are part of a depopulation agenda, and toward that end, they are well aware that purpose of breast milk is to build and protect baby’s immune system, in accord with the environment that he finds around his mouth. The first thing a baby does is put everything from his or her environment on its mouth. 350 million years ago, he might put poop from sabre tooth tiger on his mouth. Today, he puts whatever on his mouth. Then baby attaches to his mother to nurse.
Baby does not have an immune system of his own for the first two years. This proves the fraud of baby vaccination. Baby does not yet have an immune system for the vaccine to tweak. For the frst two years, baby’s antibodies are produced by the thymus gland behind the breast sternum in front of the mother’s heart. These antibodies flow across the breast gland where they are homeopathically tuned to build baby’s immune system. The nipple of the breast gland is a homeopathic sensor. When baby attaches to it, it immediately senses what is in baby’s environment, and what is safe and not safe. Baby’s vibrations on the nipple then instruct the mother’s breast gland how to produce the milk fats in the milk in such a way as to assist baby in strengthening in his environment. (All diseases have frequencdies (Royal Raymond Rife … Rife machines) Homeopathy cures (C-word!) diseases by useing the same frequencies to destroy a virus … right there I’ve lost many people if they are not seen or are not familiar with the powers of vibrations, essential oils and homeopahtic remedies.)
The breat nipple is a vibrational sensor. It tells the breast gland how to vibrate the mother’s milk, so as to prepare exactly immune system that baby needs for his environment, as measured by baby’s mouth and the exchange of saliva during attachment.
What this means is that the mother’s breast is detecting the true nature of the vaccine … it’s making baby weaker … it’s designed to do that. The true weapon is the serum itself, but the mercury and formaldehyde and aluminum, and squalene (which mimicks serotonin and thus tricks baby’s growing immune system into thinking that his own serotonin is a hostile for foreign protein) are no help. If the mother’s diet is lacking in nutrients, especially minerals and oils, or her endocrine system is off and she’s not producing antibodies for herself, she won’t be able to produce the antibodies that her baby needs as well. Also, suction pump (breastfeeding without attachment) does not communicate baby’s health to the nipple sensor system. I’m suspicious that the 100,000 babies die in India each year from a rotavirus due to solely to inadequacy of mother’s breast milk or breastfeeding technique. Arghhh … hurriedly … so please forgive misspelling etc
Cholla N says
The next time you take your pet to the veterinarian ask them why they always wait until a puppy or kitten is fully weaned from breastmilk before they vaccinate! It’s common knowledge is the animal health industry that vaccines do not work effectively while infants are nursing….the studies have been done and the logical conclusion is to wait to vaccinate until infants are fully weaned. Not the other way around! Human doctors take a hint from veterinarians maybe you’ll learn something new!
Chandni says
Why what the Indian mother’s breast milk better? That’s easy, because they are exposed to more types of Rotavirus more often so they have more antibodies, it’s not because they have some super better organic diet, you can’t even get organic food in India, they use tons of chemicals there.
Actually, part of the reason babies in other countries have more resistance is that their mothers have more resistance. Breastfeeding mothers pass on their immunities to their babies. So mothers in India have more immunities to give since they are not vaccinated for everything under the sun as we are in our “developed” world. I hate GMO’s, too, but have read that diet is not much of a contributing factor.
sandy peterson says
This was copied from another website…
Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea and dehydration in young infants worldwide. Each year, rotavirus illness is responsible an estimated 453,000 deaths among infants around the world. Before the introduction of a rotavirus vaccine, rotavirus illness caused in an estimated 55,000 to 70,000 hospitalizations and 20-60 deaths in children under 5 years of age in the United States each year…
So if I need to delay breastfeeding my infant by 2 hours after the vaccine, so be it! Im glad to do it if the spread of rotavirus is less likely. Cheers.
joyce wang says
hi Kristen，
i have been following your blog on eating real food and home natural remedies but now a new thing came up and i really would like to seek your opinions.
i am 28 weeks pregnant, doctor has recommended that i receive the tdap vaccination stating that if i don’t take it, and if the baby gets the whopping cough within his first month after birth it could cause serious problems and babies die from it.
i don’t want to be vaccinated and especially not during pregnancy but then i don’t want to live with that risk of what it could potentially do to my baby, what should i do? i feel like i won’t be able to sleep at night no matter which i choose!
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Jane Johnson via Facebook says
Oh good gravy that’s the worse advice ever…
Jennifer McGonagill via Facebook says
Leslie Walden via Facebook says
And what’s sad is some mothers will just nod their head and do as they’re told. My way of thinking is this, if the government recommends one thing, do the opposite 🙂
TC Miray Kapuska Dayton via Facebook says
OMG i hope docs never recommend this. Breastmilk already fights with viruses and boosts baby’s immune system. Why would delay it. DELAY THE FRICKING VACCINE keep your baby away from strangers until vaccinated.
Emmanuel Guivas says
Well.. Actually breastmilk only fights against the specific viruses of which the mother has immunity. Breast milk is not antiviral, it’s simply a means of transmitting antibodies. If the mother is not immune to the rotavirus and the infant is exposed to it and has not been vaccinated, reality is that child will most likely die if it was born in a third world country.
Kyra Holmes via Facebook says
The CDC are a bunch of idiots….
Rebekah 'Lawrence' Engebretson via Facebook says
My goodness!!
Danielle Nelson via Facebook says
The CDC needs to STFU already.
Terri McAllister via Facebook says
Totally irresponsible and ignorant.
Paul Carson via Facebook says
Breast feed ladies….it better for your baby..
Claudia P. Blum via Facebook says
Oops, I messed up. I nursed while they got vaccinated, because then they wouldn’t cry or be in distress. My bad, lol.
Kristin Lindsey via Facebook says
Remember Doctors used to tell women that smoking was “good for the digestion” and that bottle feeding was healthier for the child (because breast feeding was unsanitary and less nutritious). They aren’t always wrong but they sure aren’t always right either.
TifnGreg Johnson via Facebook says
The vaccine will only be more effective in harming your child!! Gah. Heartbreaking that some will follow this “advice” because they truly believe the “alphabet agencies” care about health and not $$$. ~Tif
Jason Hussein Askelini via Facebook says
“Strategies…should be evaluated”. They are not advocating the delay of breast feeding.
Tammie Graff Pruitt via Facebook says
Miriam Halbrooks via Facebook says
Maybe my opinion will be unpopular here, but this article made me very uncomfortable to read. The paper says ” Our findings that mothers in America and Korea had no or only modest titers of neutralizing activity in breast milk also indicate that breast-feeding may not have a substantial negative impact in these high income settings. ” That means that Americans don’t fall into this category of possibly suggesting delaying breastfeeding. Also, if you read the paper, they’re not talking about delaying breastfeeding as in “don’t breastfeed until X age”, they’re saying “if you’re getting the vaccine at 2pm, don’t breastfeed after 12pm or before 4pm”. This paper also says more studies should be done and ” the potential negative impact of breast-feeding is likely to vary by setting and could be greatest in poor developing country settings with the highest burden of rotavirus and frequent maternal exposure to natural rotavirus infection. “
Curly Grain via Facebook says
Why would you get a vaccine that they have already said doesnt work??? I’m 70 and would never get one
Sandy Champagne via Facebook says
We can always trust the cdc, right? (Sarcastic laugh)
Kelly Curry-wills via Facebook says
This is just ridiculous! Its all about $$!
Kate Muckenfuss via Facebook says
I am beginning to not trust ANYTHING the CDC says. This is one of the dumbest things I have read.
Amanda Kowal via Facebook says
Could it be turmeric and garlic? Article says Indian mother’s milk is most potent for fighting the vaccine. What is different about their milk? I read a study that said babies prefer breast milk of mothers who consumed more garlic.
Monica Hoffman Fintel via Facebook says
I call bs. All my kids BF. All had vaccines on time. Guess what- they are all healthy and smart and sick less than their peers. ‘Course we don’t usually eat crap food either
Sheila Vives via Facebook says
Well then if everyone breastfeeds it should negate any alleged need for vaccines.
Shanna Blumhoff via Facebook says
The CDC…… You should trust them………..
Havah Armstrong Walther via Facebook says
Lame CDC, lame.
How about if we delay vaccinations until breast feeding is nearly over?
Roxanne Elise via Facebook says
Oh my gosh… Isn’t the first breastmilk the most important for establishing natural immunity? Isn’t there something called colostrum that is only present at the beginning?
Karen Branson via Facebook says
Hell no!
Lisa Klear via Facebook says
Hell no and this is BS!!!!!!
Tammy Lindy Roberts via Facebook says
Oh my gosh! How stupid do they think we are???
Laura Fischer Kovats via Facebook says
Kara Soderquist – yikes!
My non vaxed & non poisoned child is very healthy. Don’t buy their BS! There have been over 200 plus man made chemicals found in the cord blood of babies. Our children don’t need more chemicals.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/newborn-babies-chemicals-exposure-bpa/
Rose-Marie Fiske via Facebook says
Renee Turula via Facebook says
Oh my, now I’ve heard everything stupid !!!! Good thing we are getting smarter girls !!
Netta Lou via Facebook says
Amanda Main via Facebook says
Rachel, A whole new level of stupid right here!
Jessie Grinnan via Facebook says
Now I’m wondering why Indian breastmilk is so much more potent!
Kara Soderquist via Facebook says
Crazy!!!
Carolyn Walker via Facebook says
You’ve got to be kidding me! What about colostrum and the inherent immune benefits there? What idiocy!
Kimlin Landers via Facebook says
BE GONE, CDC!!!
When will organizations stop telling parents / care givers how to do for their kiddos? We’ve been birthing and nursing babies a LOT longer than the CDC has been around!!!
Chadorlisa Infirmier via Facebook says
let me put on my tin foil hat and say something here…..are they trying to dumb us down to control us better er something….
Theresa Thompson via Facebook says
They can “advise” all they want…
Michelle Grant via Facebook says
But isn’t it the mother’s immune system (antibodies etc) IN the breast milk that is fighting the live vaccine rather than the breast milk itself?
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Delia Marie via Facebook says
Hahahahahahahahahah Boobies always Win !!!!!! Take than man made garbage 😀
Christy Hicks via Facebook says
No, I’d delay vaccines…
Dawn Gifford via Facebook says
That’s just nuts… SMH…
Rachel Sabedra via Facebook says
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Lanna Mercer Barbaroux via Facebook says
Sounds like this is from The Onion.
Erika Davis via Facebook says
Candace Davis
Lindsay Haczynski via Facebook says
Greg Haczynski remember Jim bob talking about this?? Smh
Frank Krueger via Facebook says
Who makes this shit up?
Jennifer Thompson via Facebook says
Maria Menounos Lambrakis via Facebook says
RI-DI-CU-LOUS
MaryAnn Davis via Facebook says
CDC is advising to delay breastfeeding for what reason? Because breastfeeding kills the live virus?
Read about it here –> https://www.foodrenegade.com/cdc-advises-delayed-breastfeed…/
Would you delay breastfeeding after reading this?
Cathy Kley via Facebook says
Interesting I can find NOTHING on the CDC website to support these claims which leads me to believe this is bogus.
Kieran Jones via Facebook says
Stupid f$&@?!$&ing cdc modern medicine dumba$$es!
This article is fake.
Elinor Gawel via Facebook says
It doesn’t say it’s the CDC’a recommendation. Just ten researchers.
Laura Wheeler via Facebook says
Given what the Hib vaccine is, I’d skip the vaccine and nurse a child every time. Bacteria cannot be vaccinated for, so they took a piece of the bacteria and inserted it into a virus, creating a genetically engineered disease that is far worse than the illness it is supposed to protect against. Gives you a NASTY flu illness that sets up a chain of secondary infections in the sinuses, ears, throat, lungs, etc. And it is very contagious.
The CDC is completely cracked. As in, BROKEN, and INSANE.
Leah Weintraub via Facebook says
Breasts make milk, for a reason. We should use what we’re made with, and for. Period.
Leslie Rice Castaneda via Facebook says
Total crap!
Holly Bowan via Facebook says
That’s when the mind control starts
Lisa De Nike via Facebook says
The CDC did NOT recommend delaying breastfeeding. http://skepchick.org/2012/01/cdc-says-postpone-breastfeeding/
Please check things out before you pass them along.
Ellen Bognar via Facebook says
1. CDC is not advising to delay breastfeeding. Did you even read the paper?
2. Not sure why you’re posting a paper from October 2010 as if it’s news.
3. Four of the paper’s authors are from the CDC, not 10.
4. They’re not “advising” anyone to delay breastfeeding, merely *suggesting* near-simultaneous breastfeeding *could be* *one of* the causes of decreased vaccine efficacy in developing countries.
5. They suggest a “transient delay” in breastfeeding might help because mothers in third world countries frequently breastfeed at the clinic during their babies’ vaccine appointments. Transient, as in minutes or a couple of hours.
6. The authors maintain that breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months is best.
7. This is an issue because mothers in third world countries have pre-exposure to the rotavirus, so it’s kind of like their breast milk contains a mini vaccine to the vaccine.
8. Again, because the mothers are pre-exposed to the rotavirus, not because “breastfeeding” itself “kills” the virus and not because their diets are healthier or antibiotic- , hormone-, or pesticide-free.
9. So this doesn’t apply to those of us in the developed world.
10. Nearly half a million children in the third world die from rotavirus annually. Clearly breastfeeding does not magically protect against the virus.
11. The authors are not “assuming” the rotavirus vaccine is efficacious. It’s 85-98% effective in first and second world countries. That’s a fact.
12. The follow-up report from 2013 states that its findings and conclusions are those of the authors and not the CDC.
13. It also states that they don’t have any funding or conflicts. And if you look at their credentials it’s clear they’re not the people selling vaccines but the people trying to save kids’ lives.
14. This paper is specifically applicable to the rotavirus vaccine in a specific population. Even if the authors (who are not the CDC) were advising (which they are not) a (transient) delay (around the time of vaccination) in breastfeeding (which they heartily recommend), that advice wouldn’t be about all vaccines and it wouldn’t apply to anyone who is reading this ridiculous article.
*slow clap*. This is a brilliant response for every single reason you listed. I just had to leave a group (couldn’t stand the stupidly of these women) where the women took the blog posting as the gospel of the CDC and condimed the CDC. I doubt that any of them read the original findings.
The CDC is good for nothing in a lot of cases but, well, see everything written above for a good defense.
Secondly, these leading articles are contributing to the stupidly of our Face Book culture. The average FB user gets their information from a head line alone, without bothering to read where the original information came from or the blog ariticle itself. Your opinion about a factual matter is now being spread as fact. People are actually saying that the CDC wants people to delay breast feeding for this vaccine. They are not but people believe it. We cannot turn our world into a place where people follow the opinions of others because they’re too damn lazy to do the research and make up their own opinions. It’s your blog, but I believe in encouraging people to draw their own conclusion.
Exactly. This “article” is so wrong. Propaganda, actually.
Sean Elliott via Facebook says
Sounds like somebody didn’t look deeper into this before they passed it on. Many many discrepancies here. So long FR.
Jamie Leigh Chami via Facebook says
Amy Haithcock Phinney
Elizabeth Huebert via Facebook says
So dumb
Joyce van B via Facebook says
Reganne Denton-Giles not a very good article at all actually but interesting about the recommendation
Angie Lynn via Facebook says
Seriously???? This is beyond crazy!!
CJ Chen via Facebook says
DeeDee House via Facebook says
I find this SO evil and troublesome! They are determined to deprive us of a healthy life and make us sick. how dare they!!!
Dixie Rose Nies via Facebook says
Oh. My. God. Screw. This.
Jessica Constantino via Facebook says
That deserves a giant EFF YOU CDC!!! Seriously?!?!?!
Pam Bentley via Facebook says
Perhaps another question that should be asked is why so many baby boomers are so fit and healthy – despite how few vaccines we have received. Instead we had ‘mumps parties’, measles parties’, etc when mothers would ensure that their child had contact with a child who had the illness in order to catch it. I don’t recall anyone having anything more than temporary discomfort but after vaccination, one boy I knew became severely disabled, his life ruined by vaccination.
Sherry Elaine Cummings via Facebook says
We don’t vaccinate. Therefore, I’m not concerned. I’ll keep nursing.
Sam Stanton via Facebook says
Amanda Woods-Osman via Facebook says
What?!? Uh, no!
Shanna Samul via Facebook says
Insanity.
Crystal Mazey via Facebook says
Leah Mackey via Facebook says
Wow. That sounds like a terrible idea.
Joselyn Bayliss via Facebook says
Pls feel free to send any requests for recipes or ideas with all restrictions and I’ll do my best, Happy Christmas from https://www.facebook.com/contactthenaturalkitchen?fref=nf
Kirsten Taylor via Facebook says
Heck no. I nursed my babies immediately upon giving birth. Our bodies naturally produce what babies need most. Fools!
Mary Light via Facebook says
Someone should do a satire of a culture that poisons their people through medical fearmpongering, serving up lousy toxic food, and injecting them with substances which cause disease and repress the immune system, like a production line, at the other end is a hospital, clinic and huge cash register. Oh wait- We already have that!
Simona Goldin-Borzouyeh via Facebook says
Last time I checked no such recommendation exists in that study, this is totally made up anti-vax bs.
James Pressley via Facebook says
My wife breast fed all four of ours. Never used a bottle. They’re sick half as much as their friends.
Kristin Rusch Severson via Facebook says
I’m sorry Food Renegade, but this blog post you have shared is full of misinformation. Please read the PSA that was shared by Lakeshore Medical Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic when the misinformation went viral a few years ago too:
“Just to clear something up. My inbox has been flooded with questions about a study about the Rotavirus vaccine and CDC recommendations about breastfeeding. It’s interesting, since the article was published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal in October 2010. Misinformation went viral, I guess. And that sucks.
First, the study was done in vitro, which means it was done experimentally and not in a live “my kids is actually breastfeeding” situation. And they only brought up the possible clinical implications of their findings in the discussion section of the paper, meaning it was not what they tested, they have no results to back it up and they are guessing. They guessed that the live oral rotavirus vaccine would be more effective if the next feeding of breast milk were somewhat delayed. It’s not a recommendation to stop breastfeeding or even feed anything else, but to slightly delay a feeding, most likely by a few hours. And that’s a guess too. They even say “It is not possible to directly translate these findings into the real-world impact as this will be affected by many other factors such as the timing and amount of breast milk in the gut at the time of vaccination.”
So, if somebody says that the CDC says stop breastfeeding, you can educate or ignore. Makes no difference to me. Much ado about nothing. Lakeshore Medical Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic”
Nancy Flaws Hart via Facebook says
I say breastfeed and delay the vaccines.
Keri Hessel via Facebook says
That is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Stop breastfeeding (temporarily) to make the vaccine work better? Breastfeeding protects the baby from viruses like Rotovirus because the mom passes the antibodies to the baby passively. Don’t they teach immunology in med school at all? SMH!
The study to which you refer is from 2010; that is the first problem. And some misinterpretation on your part is already noted by other commenters. More work has been done since this article was published. It is also important to note that Rotavirus kills many hundreds of thousands of babies in poor countries every year, including babies who are breastfed. Let’s tone down the emotions and figure out how to enable all children to grow to healthy adulthood.
Christopher Kelly via Facebook says
Did you actually read the paper? “These data should encourage clinical trials to investigate whether delaying breast-feeding for a short period before and after giving the vaccine could reasonably improve the immune response and protective efficacy.”
“Rotavirus disease is responsible for an estimated 527,000 deaths per year worldwide, with >85% of these deaths occurring in low-income countries”. If breastfeeding was the answer these children wouldn’t be dying.
Erin Bosco via Facebook says
Lame. That vaccine actually gave my son diarrhea it was then and there I started questioning vaccines in general. He never got the second round of this.
Gillian McBain via Facebook says
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Abi Abbott via Facebook says
Dear science, stop treating us like f ing idiots so we buy your bullshit products. thanks.
Victoria Kelly via Facebook says
Don’t let the trolls get you down Food Renegade!! There are a lot of trolls polluting your comments, and it sucks, but people who have the ability o think critically see through their crap! Thank you for this valuable info!!!
Kimberly Alyssa via Facebook says
UMMMM….NO! worst thing ive ever heard. Please tell me people don’t listen to this and this is fake.
Jessica Simone Millsap via Facebook says
Kristi Corder No words 😡
Sarah Quinnelly Cornett via Facebook says
Amy Callaway McCauley, thought you might be interested in this!!
Biological Science Teaching says
Okay you are just drawing causation from correlation which should never be done because this kind of research gives no accuracy if you interpolate its conclusions onto your own biases. The point of getting vaccinated while you’re young is not so that you will contract tetanus when you are 11 months old, but to prevent it in later life when say you step on a rusty nail…I realize your website is fueled by putting blame onto modern pharmacy and conventional medical beliefs, but it cannot be helped; the industry has special interests. Anyway, I have supported that breast milk is highly beneficial as opposed to any other kind of substance of infants due to its high immunoglobulin content (as well as the other good stuff) so I am not saying your surprise is totally unfounded because of single paper. *Sigh* don’t you have time to go bash something else? While you’re on it why don’t you start your own research and to prove your own biases.
Chloe Bowman via Facebook says
Dying laughing. Thanks.
Tanya Brunnelson via Facebook says
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Christian Mangrum Alsider via Facebook says
Can’t help but wonder if this is more about the formula companies losing money due to renewed interest in breastfeeding. It’s very sad that bottom lines of so many corporations are tied into our health.
SusanFordKeller says
You might be interested in reading this article, then. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-baby-milk-scandal-food-industry-standards
And the original 1974 report on breastfeeding versus baby formula in 3rd world countries. http://archive.babymilkaction.org/pdfs/babykiller.pdf
Wendy Pertain Holman via Facebook says
Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard . Breast feeding would kill the live virus if the baby were exposed . Duh!!!!
Janet Snyder Asher via Facebook says
That’s it! The world is officially INSANE!!!!
Megan Joy Skeuse via Facebook says
This is a bit sensationalized
SebbieDue says
A bit?
K. Ann Seeton via Facebook says
In every other mammalian species the vaccination schedule is changed to avoid interfering with the healthy protection from the mother’s milk. Why is it so dog gone difficult for the medical community to give the same consideration to working WITH breast feeding instead of acting like the normal and natural is somehow BAD? With every child I raise my respect for the medical profession goes down.
Katie Healey via Facebook says
Jescah lol
Jescah Chapman via Facebook says
Fools!
Richard Rosenthal says
Let’s get some perspective here. This study is about oral vaccines – vaccines which are taken by mouth. These vaccines are less effective in certain areas than others, and the theory presented here is that women are more likely to breast feed in the crowded clinics as they wait for the vaccine, thus causing the orally administered vaccine to literally mix with breast milk in the child’s stomach. Not surprisingly, the breast milk is able to kill the virus in the stomach before the child’s immune system is involved, thus stopping the vaccine from actually doing anything.
Secondly, and, this is really important – the types of vaccines and the viruses in this study are NOT A PROBLEM IN WEALTHY COUNTRIES. There is not money to be made here, which is why this research is still sitting and doing nothing. Your assertions that this is all some grand conspiracy to make money are quite ridiculous, not to get into the other reasons that your comments are inconsistent with/exaggerate the statements found in the paper.
I am very disappointed in the sensationalist bent you’ve taken on. I used to trust you. Now you’re twisting the facts to pursue an agenda. Or to increase you hit count. Did we even read the same paper? SMH. I wont be back. Such a shame too.
Kate's Plate via Facebook says
WTH????
God I hate that antiscience crap. I doubt Kristen Michaelis (or the majority of those posting responses) even read the article, much less have the background to interpret it. Over 100,000 children die from rotavirus a year in India… despite being breastfeed. That’s 1 in 242 children who will die from rotavirus before they turn 5 years old… DESPITE BREASTFEEDING.
A mere suggestion for a TRIAL STUDY to examine a potential increase in the effectiveness of the vaccine due to not breastfeed for a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME (like while you are at the clinic) is not unreasonable.
The CDC does NOT dismiss the huge benefit of breastfeeding: “One of the most highly effective preventive measures a mother can take to protect the health of her infant is to breastfeed.”
http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/promotion/index.htm
Tona Fulton via Facebook says
Ridiculous! Absolutely not!
Shannon Watson via Facebook says
We just realized what an idiot you are!
Leah Nass via Facebook says
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/rota.html
The CD recommends breastfeeding and cites it as a reason that newborns have a low level of rota virus infection. And the study Food Renegade is speaking of is not CD endorsed and the summary simply stated that delayed breastfeeding and its effects on vaccine efficacy should be further researched. Not a recommendation to delayed breastfeed.
This kind of sensationalist article is doing your readers a disservice. The misinformation is basically libelous against the CDC, causing your readers to develop a deep mistrust of an agency that in the future could have information that will save their lives in an emergency epidemic situation. Given your following, you should check the facts of a topic before creating a sensational headline to generate site views.
I urge FR readers to do their own research on topics presented here since we now know FR is not performing due diligence before presenting information.
Ada Counsman says
Not, we might not need vaccines if we breastfed our babies.
No consideration of the noted risks of feeding a baby artificially, that they themselves have put out papers on.
Charise Cole says
This makes complete sense to me. My son started to regress into autism after we stopped breast feeding at a year….along with dose of antibiotics. Turns out my son’s autism is Lyme induced. So the breast milk was protecting his body from the Lyme and once we removed it, it allowed the disease to take over. Hind sight can cause terrible grief.
Henrietta says
How irresponsible of the author to go on this rant. It is not what the paper released says it is not a cdc recommendation. It doesn’t state breast milk reduces rotavirus. Research, people. Don’t be lemmings, do yourself a favor and read the original document before you jump on the ranting bandwagon.
Say, did the CDC get bought by Nestle? You remember them, Nestle made a killing in 3rd world countries in the 1970s by foisting Nestle baby formula on new mothers and telling them breastfeeding was out of fashion. But then, nobody had clean water to make the formula….and babies died.
The U.S. vaccination schedule has added so many vaccines for diseases which are not dangerous or fatal in America to bolster vaccine marketing in overseas markets. Other countries don’t want products that are not in use in the U.S.
“Dr. Albert Kapikian, the NIH scientist whose research led to the [Rotashield] vaccine, was told by one health minister, “If it was not good enough for U.S. kids, it was not good enough for their infants either” (Roberts 2004, 1891). Dr. Stanley Plotkin, a distinguished American vaccinologist, pointed out, “No country was willing to place public health above possible criticism for using a vaccine rejected by the United States. This was not exactly a profile in courage” (Allen 2007, 324). Despite the efforts of the CDC and ACIP members to emphasize that their judgments for U.S. policy ought not to be applied elsewhere, their decisions effectively ended any possibility of the vaccine being used internationally.”
Sue Keller via Facebook says
Say, did the CDC get bought by Nestle? You remember them, Nestle made a killing in 3rd world countries in the 1970s by foisting Nestle baby formula on new mothers and telling them breastfeeding was out of fashion. But then, nobody had clean water to make the formula….and millions of babies died.
On reading more of the content of this site, my conclusion is that this lady is what we might call a “quack” if she were a doctor. Instead, she’s simply under-educated to be writing within any such forum.
Teresa Norman says
Blah..blah..blah… that’s all I hear from you Mikie!
As a pharmacist, I’m going to jump in here to add better information about the rotavirus vaccine. The vaccine is not labeled to prevent rotavirus infection; in fact, the label that comes with the vaccine states that it is intended to lessen the effects of rotavirus–to give you a less serious case of it. Rotavirus in the US is not a fatal infection, and pretty near every child will get it at some point, vaccinated or not, and they will all recover pretty easily, as they do from most gastrointestinal infections. The vaccine has been proven to cause cases of intussusception, which can be fatal. My pediatrician will not give it. If his patients’ parents want their children to have it, he sends them to the health department. He’s not alone in his concern about serious side effects from a vaccine that doesn’t even prevent the disease, only makes it “less bad.” Many of us in healthcare do not recommend this vaccine, even if we do support other vaccines. Whether or not this blog is inflammatory, I don’t really care.
The article is mostly concerned with the 85% of rotavirus deaths that occur in low income countries.
Diane Kathleen Dressler via Facebook says
What everyone is reading is a blog by FoodRenegade, who has completely misread and reinterpreted the paper. Here is the link to the actual paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20442687.
What I got out of it … and I’ll stick to is this, lay off the vaccines. Breast feed your babies, live healthy and stop being a puppet to BIG PHARMA!!!!
what a Joke! The article is worded that way so idiots twist it in such a way to make it look like it’s a harmless article.
Really it’s just another shot a mothers who want real true health for their children. Anyone who thinks that real health comes from a needle or a drung is nieve at best. Real heath comes from nutritional biochemical inviduality. Anyone who claims a one size fits all scenario is trying to sell you something.
Drug companies are corrupt just like our banking system is corrupt. Sure their are good people in these institutions however their ethical and moral beliefs don’t make those companies money. Pharma only profits from disease and not health. If everyone were to become healhty the next day those companies would parish along with all the jobs in the industry it provides. The world would face economic collaspe worse then when all the industries started to close down. If you can’t understand this logic then maybe you should stop taking so many vaccines because it’s clouding your judgement.
Mark Smith,
Thank you, well said!
Rudy says
These types of articles certainly do bring the vaccine trolls out of the woodwork, don’t they?
ciccio says
this article is full of assumptions and forceful links between concepts which simply do not belong together. I hope it is just sheer ignorance writing this article, otherwise it is a clear case of intellectual dishonesty. Just to be on the safe side I will report the article to CDC so they can evaluate what kind of legal actions to take.
Thanks for polluting the web.
Cicco,
I really hope that you are not a mother! Do your own research for heavens sake… big pharma has you by the short hairs! Sheesh!
Awesome article. Big pharma will say and do anything to get people (women in this issue) whom do not do research on their own to believe just about anything! So sad when there’s so many babies with mothers who simply believe what these so called “studies” show. How about this … skip the vaccines, breast feed your babies and have a happier and healthier family?????
Did you read the full article linked to here in this post? if you go to the link you can then download the pdf. This blog piece is very misleading.
The anti-human cdc want to brain damage your children, by depriving them of colostrum, and bombarding their developing brains with heavy metals and toxic additives.
Elisabeth Roche says
A paper from CDC researchers does’t necessarily mean CDC advises delayed breastfeeding, does it? If you delay breastfeeding till after vaccinations, there won’t be any breastfeeding. Maybe Indian womens breastmilk is more effective because they have more antibodies for more viruses. Now another detrimental gossip against breastfeeding to counteract ignorance of giving vaccines.
Maloney says
This article makes a few too many radical assumptions about the intentions of this paper which just isn’t helpful to anyone. Breast milk contains critical IgA antibodies passed on from mother to infant which helps protect them from infection in their early months/ years of life (first line of defense or innate immune system). However, in order for any human infant, child or adult to form a strong and lasting immunologic response to any virus they must develop their IgG antibodies (second line of defense or adaptive immune system). What this study points out is, yes, a mothers breast milk is doing it’s job but it’s also rendering the vaccine ineffective and preventing the infants from developing their own immune systems to fight the virus independently. It also points out that women in the United States have the least amount of IgA in their breast milk as compared to women in India, Vietnam and South Korea so your child is probably developing a stronger IgG response. And finally, the paper does not outright suggest that women delay breast feeding, it merely suggests that options to reduce this effect and improve vaccine efficacy should be explored.
450,000 children under the age of 5 die each year in developing countries due to rotavirus infections and millions more become severely ill. If breast milk were capable of providing long lasting protection to these children like a vaccine can, this wouldn’t happen. So these scientists are exploring ways to best protect these children. These are just preliminary findings and are in no way definitive answers at this time. There is no pharma conspiracy here, just people trying to save children from dying around the world. Please stop condemning scientists and public health liaisons for their efforts in trying to save these children. Please be more considerate of your potential influence.
Ugh. These pharmaceutical companies really disgust me. My baby is 13 months old has, never had a vaccine & has never even had so much as a runny nose! Still breastfeeding strong, & stopping is Not in my near future (:
MORENA says
GO YOU! Were in the same bout, vaccine free and breast fed till 18 months. 🙂
Joshua Jagt says
You should also stop breathing, drinking water and eating.
Joseph says
Hi Kristen Michaelis: Withholding breastfeeding for fifteen minutes to half-an-hour after receiving oral polio vaccine is advised, in order that the attenuated virus may go through its normal course without being destroyed by antibodies in breast milk. (Also for Rotavirus and others).
It is important to follow World Health Organization and CDC instructions on these matters.
Joseph (MBBS) INDIA.
Steve Harsh says
Wrong, so wrong. You do NOT stop breast feeding for a moment. By your statement alone you have contradicted the true statement behind the whole blogg. It would be nice if people such as yourself understood and realised that an infant has almost no ability to develop its own anti-bodies to infection that is why it is so important for mothers to start breast feeding ASAP and not to stop for at least for 12 months. You actually supported the blog by your comments that mothers milk anti-bodies hinder and /or destroy the anti-bodies from the vaccine. Perfect, this is as it should be in nature. A child’s immune system does not even mature for close enough to 3 years old. Two points here for you to understand. A vaccine does not cure people from disease. There is NOTHING in a vaccine that is beneficial to the Human cell. The total job of an antigen/adjuvant combo is to falsely fire up the bodies OWN immune system to destroy the Pathogen/Virus. so in effect it is still our own immune system that supports our being. As far as the Rotavirus vaccine is concerned, this is the love-child of Dr. Paul Offitt who is a disgrace as a Human and as a doctor. Hippocrates would be turning over in his grave with some of the medical filth pumped into the worlds children. What ever happened to “Do No Harm”. It is true that Rotavirus kills many children in third world countries through diarrhoea due to very poor nutrition and putrid water so what does Offitt do? Creates a vaccine that stops Diarrhoea and causes a lot of other Gastro-Intestial problems. He doesn’t stop it by nutrition, clean water. Then makes millions by selling his licences and patents off and does not put any of that money back into improving true health of kids. As a final point, I don’t know if you remember the disgraceful Thalidomide debacle. I am old enough to see my Mother witness the true ramifications of this drug, for crying out load, a Morning Sickness DRUG destroying children and families alike. I am NOT ANTI-VACCINE, I am fully vaccinated but when people want to play God with our generations to come, you had want to be very aware and informed and leave your egos in your back pocket. There are 2 principles here, the KISS ( Keep It Simple Stupid) and Einsteins – It should be as Simple as possible BUT NO Simpler!
CATRYNA WHITE says
hahahahaha I, personally, would not follow any recommendations made by WHO or the CDC. They are a pack of unethical eugenicists, who care nothing for the common man.
Shanni says
Of course makes perfect sense. Don’t offer your child any form of protection against their poison so they can continue making money off of your baby. Shows just how much we’re all being “pharmed”
The vaccine works
Breastfeeding immediately after the vaccine can lower the immune response.
Breastfeeding does not give long lasting immunity like the vaccine does. Breastfeeding offers less protection for a shorter time than the vaccine.
So use the vaccine, and don’t breastfeed immediately afterwards, but breastfeed otherwise for best protection
How is this convoluted logic?
Stupid morons throwing crap out there that they really know nothing about. All the more reason to not listen to the CDC, WHO, FDA or anyone else of their moronic mentality.
GregB says
The study shows that breast milk attacks the weakened virus in the digestive system. And they only suggest not breast feeding when the oral immunization is give not for weeks or months. It does not show that breast milk will help once the virus is in the blood stream. You attack them for assuming but you Mack so many assumption with no linkage of biology it is disgusting.
That is not what the study said. Nowhere on the CDC site do they say anything about delaying breastfeeding. There was only one study that made mention of something like that but never concluded women should not breastfeed. Read it yourself.
Brenda Jones says
I want to see the link to the original article that this is supposedly taken from.
Nova Dames says
My baby just had her 4 month shot. I’m happy I came across this and decided to finish our feeding!
please do not vaccinate your child any longer. You may lose her, and regret it for the rest of your life.
This is criminal – they are doing their best to create lifelong health problems for these babies.
Why are babies being vaccinated at birth?
Breastmilk contains valuable antibodies and support for the baby’s immune system. So strong they counter vaccines?
I had 3 children between 1978 and 1985. No vaccines were administered until at least 8 weeks of age and I limited vaccines because I was paralyzed by a vaccine.
I know vaccine injury is very real.
I hope everyone protests this, these people are truly evil.
Heather Stacy says
I wonder to, how breastfeeding after vaccines affects the mothers health. With lack of sleep, my immune response can be lowered and be more susceptible from baby shedding to take more of the toxic load. Oddly i was diagnosed with Lupus after i nursed my full vaccinated 1st born. Now with baby #2 he has genetic predisposition and i want to bw cautious for my own sake. My his ped.doc is nkt hearing my concerns.
Walter says
The CDC got it backwards…again.
“Delay Vaccination (forever) to Boost Breastfeeding Efficacy.”
THE LANCET: BREASTFEEDING IS NATURE’S VACCINE
“Breast milk makes the world healthier, smarter, and more equal: these are the conclusions of a new Lancet Series on breastfeeding. The deaths of 823,000 children and 20,000 mothers each year could be averted through universal breastfeeding, along with economic savings of $300 billion. The Series confirms the benefits of breastfeeding in fewer infections, increased intelligence, probable protection against overweight and diabetes, and cancer prevention for mothers.
The Series represents the most in-depth analysis done so far into the health and economic benefits that breastfeeding can produce.
However, although the Series is comprehensive, the message is not new. In 2013, a Lancet Series on maternal and child nutrition established that 800,000 child deaths could be prevented through breastfeeding, and called for further support. Despite consolidation of evidence for breastfeeding’s benefits in recent years, in particular the economic gains to be reaped, global action has stalled.
Why has so little progress been made? THE INFANT FORMULA INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00210-5/fulltext
When you delay breast feeding, you may not get baby to attach (especially if vaccinated with hep b on day one), and your milk may not come in. Screw everything the CDC says. They own vaccine patents.
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canine science
force-free trainers
Infos français
The aim of the Initiative for Force-free Dog Training is to make available to a wide audience a science-based, ethical and empathetic way of living and working with dogs, above all during their training. The Initiative for Force-free Dog Training is a combined effort (see position paper) by qualified professionals, whose methods correspond to current scientific knowledge (432 people to date, 5.12.2019), together with international organisations such as the Swiss Veterinary Society for Behavioural Medicine, The Pet Profesional Guild, The Pet Dog Trainers of Europe, Foundation for the Animal in Law (Stiftung für das Tier im Recht) to name but a few.
Our aims in detail:
To sensitise the public to the use of force in training, and to the way dogs are treated in daily life: to recognise where force begins, what forms it takes and why it should never be used - even, and most particularly, in cases involving behavioural issues.
To make information available about non-aversive dog training (articles, videos and book recommendations), i.e about science-based training which is ethical and free from the use of pain and fear. To make available a code of conduct for dog trainers participating in the Ticket Exchange Campaign, where you can get a free training session in exchange for a (used) ticket to a TV trainer’s show.
To spread knowledge about the methods used by trainers, such as well-known TV trainers, in their broadcasts and videos. The intention is to enable individuals to make informed decisions, based on facts, about choosing to support this treatment of dogs or not (such as not buying tickets to events or purchasing publications.)
To lobby the authorities in countries where several aversive tools are forbidden by law (e.g. Switzerland, Germany and Austria) to prohibit such trainers’ public shows, as they patently violate these laws as is clear from the content of the videos.
New Study about the relationship between training methods and dog-owner attachment
More Studies on the page Canine Science
Have a look at this great summary of canine science literature on dog training methods
By the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Author IJ. Makowska, M.Sc, Ph.D.
Review of dog training methods: learning ability, welfare and current standards
Author IJ. Makowska, M.Sc, Ph.D.
British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
dog-training-methods-review.pdf
Have a look at this interesting study (PDF available until 9th June)
Why don't use more people positive reinforcement to train dogs?
Well done UK! Shock Collars - the sale and use will be banned soon
Initiative for force-free dog training
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First Capital Savings and Loan/ Swiss Providence
Thread starter Steverby
Steverby
This company has failed to pay investors for seven months, although they haven't disappeared, their trades seem to be legitimate, and many of the investors who know the owner seem to be willing to give him and them the benefit of the doubt.
The owner took funds that were supposedly the profits of forex trades with investors money and used them to start a newspaper instead of paying back investors.
The cold facts are that they have millions of dollars that they planned to pay out by the 5th of January, and the investors have heard nothing, and received nothing.
I remain hopeful that they will pay out, and apparently their new program (cds at 24% apr) is paying. I would caution against anyone investing here until thy show that they are willing to keep their word and at least come up with a plan to pay and share this plan with investors.
sakane
First Capital Savings and Loan
It is true that it has been nearly 8 months since FCSL has processed any payments to current investors. They are now signing up new investors and apparently paying them thier monthly payments. Unfortunately the 500+ early investors are not getting interest payments and have no access to their principal as well.
Investors beware!
...still waiting...
The fund manager for First Capital Savings and Loan, Jeff Lowrance, has not made any explanation to date regarding where the funds are, or even if he still has them. Mr. Lowrance claims that he is preparing an update for investors. To date, Mr. Lowrance is communicating with one investor and has allegedly given part of this update to the investor for review before sending it out to the rest of the investors.
A blog was started (see First Capital Savings and Loan Client Weblog) for investors in First Capital to get together and discuss action plans on moving forward with this ordeal in a productive manner.
Allegedly, another investor spoke to Mr. Lowrance on the phone and inferred that Mr. Lowrance would pay back some of the more desperate current investors with new investor funds (Ponzi scheme) and Mr. Lowrance's reply was, "A bank can pay people and do with their money however they wish." Mr. Lowrance was reminded by the investor that he didn't own a bank. Mr. Lowrance said, "It's a financial company, and a financial company can invest their money how they wish and pay people with whatever money they want."
There are a range of speculations regarding why investors have not been paid, but without an update from Mr. Lowrance, that is all we have...
The Ominous Update
The long awaited update came out a couple days ago. It is a book (something like 47 pages long). In the update, Mr. Lowrance gives religious commentary, rants about different individuals who have called him out/criticized him publicly, etc., with maybe 1/4 of the update as relevant/pertinent information (ie what happened, what is the plan for the future). I will attempt to recap the highlights and have left out the personal attacks and religious ramblings.
Mr. Lowrance claims that he is not the same as Mr. Madoff because his intent was different. He claims that because he did not intend to scam investors from the start, that his scam (my word- not his) is more noble somehow. Mr. Lowrance states, "after reviewing the records of FCSL, they (and you) would not find me to be guilty of fraud. But honestly, you would find me to be guilty of mismanaging the funds that were on deposit at FCSL. That is what I would be “guilty” of. But not of defrauding my clients." Then he goes on to say, "To the best of my knowledge, the mismanagement of funds is not necessarily a crime either." I wonder what the SEC or FBI think about his mismanagement of funds? For Mr. Lowrance's sake I hope he doesn't find out.
Mr. Lowrance goes on to criticize investors who have lost their life savings in his investment by saying “You need to face the fact that you made a bad decision by investing everything you had into one place. That was not my fault. You did the wrong thing with your investing portfolio. That was your mistake, so you need to face the consequences of your actions head-on, just as I have to face mine as well.” Mr. Lowrance then says that it is still his intention to pay those investors back, even though he says it would not be difficult for him to hide behind bankruptcy protection.
Mr. Lowrance blames the currency market for the failure of FCSL by saying, “I could not have known in advance, and neither could my chart readers have known in advance, that the Forex business was a con-job by the major banks of the world to lure innocent people into the “business” of “currency trading”.” Mr. Lowrance had been sending emails to clients (who requested them) of trades that FCSL had been placing to show investors that they were continuing to trade profitably, however Mr. Lowrance claims that the trading signals were produced by two expert Peruvian chart readers and were not actual trades. It is ironic then that he later says that forex trading is part of his proposed solution to pay investors back. He says that his two Peruvian traders are now ready to do live trades and that is his strategy to pay back his investors the tens of millions that he owes them.
Mr. Lowrance says that he believes he owes about $26 million for invested principle only and about $42 million if you include principle plus interest accrued since FCSL stopped paying investors. Mr. Lowrance admits he told at least one person in November 2008 that the $42 million was still in tact, but now claims that he lied to that individual and that there is no money left.
A blog was started late 2008 for investors to deal with the FCSL situation and to come together to discuss solutions. Mr. Lowrance claims that this blog hindered his efforts to raise new capital to pay back the most “needy” clients. Isn't using new investor funds to pay other investors the very definition of a ponzi? Maybe I misunderstood, but here is the quote from the update so you can decide for yourself, “I started a program that was paying much less than what we had been paying for the first 4 years to FCSL Premiere Clients. We brought in about 24 clients during the months of Sept. 2008 through December, 2008, those last 4 months of the year. I believe we had brought in about $480,000 during that time. The FCSL records will show this to the penny. However, by that time in early October, the “blog” had already started to do major damage to FCSL bringing in new clients. Without interference from the blog, we were set to bring in about $2.5 to $3 million by the end of 2008. We could have easily set aside a small portion of that to pay the most-needy clients right away, pay some pressing bills, and apply the majority of the rest of that money to trading.”
Mr. Lowrance admits that besides owing millions to investors, he still owes money to employees in Panama and vendors in the United States (he had a national newspaper called “USA Tomorrow”) for services already rendered and claims he will pay them back as soon as he can.
Mr. Lowrance gives a long history about his fund and says that he tried several systems and signals but none were successful. This leads one to wonder how investors have been paid for the last 4 years...
Mr. Lowrance claims that he has projects that he is currently working on and that he will pay the most desperate investors within 2-3 months. Then his time frame for paying everyone else will be 9-12 months. He goes on to threaten “I know that I am the asset here and that if anything happens to me, no one will ever get a dime.”
Mr. Lowrance never states outright what happened with investor's money, but there can be two conclusions drawn from this update. Either Mr. Lowrance has truly lost the funds by paying investors from new investor's principle (read ponzi), or his trades were real and profitable and that Mr. Lowrance doesn't want to part with his stolen millions. It is as Mr. Lowrance put in his update- only an audit of FCSL accounts and time will tell.
no news- FXPA please help
It has been over a month and no further communication from Mr. Lowrance to his investors. FXPA Scam Investigation/Resolution, please help if you can.
There are some 500+ investors with a total of $42 million or more at stake and nobody has seen a penny for several months. Thank you.
MerlF
Last Investor
Unfortunately it appears that I was one of the last , if not the last invetor to have had the misforune of ever hearing about Jeff Lowrance and First Capital SL. I sent a large investment to his organisation in September of last year. He even called me to confirm the veracity of the venture. Unfortunately like everyone else involved I too have not recieved a dime. I knew the investment was not insured but in January of this year, speaking with his senior salesperson in Panama a Joseph Love, I was assured that if I invested more monies, the CD the investment was in could be broken, the new monies added to it and the whole thing insured with a company in Cyprus, apparently the one he was supposed to get debit cards issued from. This of course has not happened. Foolishly, I sent more money knowing nothing of the problems wth the organisation nor even getting a hint of it from his man Joseph Love in Panama. I have recordings of the conversations!
It is one thing to lose money in any investment, another to knowingly continue taking money from investors knowing there is nothing to pay from, and yet another to continue to take funds from an investor and in a conversation I had with him in February be told he had to use the funds I sent to live off because they were all the funds he had and without them he would be penniless. The latter alone should be enough to send him to jail!! That is outright theft!
This guy, and his accomplice in Panama really need to be behind bars.
4X Trader
Feds Finally Nailed Lowrance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Home Page)
Also stories in the Chicago Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune, as well as Star-Tribune.
Questions to Tyson:
How did you come to find about this and get involved? I know the victims in Minnesota primarily got lured in via the Ron Paul hype. How about you?
Others, how did you come to get involved?
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Red Bull drivers must be patient - Helmut Marko Q&A
Ricciardo
Red Bull came into the 2017 season with high hopes of mounting a title challenge, but after three races they’ve managed just one podium finish, with Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen struggling to match the pace of their rivals from Ferrari and Mercedes. Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko acknowledges the team have plenty of work to do to catch up - but, as he explains in this exclusive interview, until they do, the drivers will need to bide their time…
Q: Helmut, before the Bahrain race Daniel said that Red Bull Racing are 1.3 seconds behind Mercedes and that this is the gap that is between him and the title. Is that the reality, or is he painting things a little too black?
Helmut Marko: Let me get our pace history straight: in Australia we were 1.8 seconds behind, in China it was 1.3 seconds and in Bahrain something in the range of nine-tenths. So we are improving and step by step closing the gap - but it is, of course, not enough. And looking at qualifying where the cars show their sheer speed, we know that Mercedes has a qualification mode - and to a certain extent also Ferrari - and that helps them a lot. And by constantly closing the gap to them I would say that the direction we are moving in is promising. And as you don’t get any points in qualifying, it is good news that in the race we are usually stronger if problems don’t stop us like on Sunday when Max suffered a brake issue.
We are improving and step by step closing the gap - but it is, of course, not enough
Helmut Marko on challenging Mercedes and Ferrari
Q: Barely 10 weeks ago at the Barcelona tests things looked very different for Red Bull Racing. Or were Mercedes and Ferrari sandbagging and not showing their full potential?
HM: Well, at the first test we were pretty optimistic that the three teams were pretty even, but already at the second test we had to swallow the fact that we were behind. So Melbourne and Shanghai were not really the wake-up calls they probably were for outsiders: we knew what the situation was.
Q: You have two super talents in your cockpits, and with Max maybe one that comes along only once in a decade. However, at the moment it seems all in vane - at least for this season…
HM: We have two problems: Renault had some reliability issues, which have slowed them down in the development; and we didn’t deliver the chassis that we should have done. But we are working day and night to pick up our shortcomings. We are pretty optimistic that we will make a significant step forward in Barcelona where a big change of parts is coming. So sometimes patience is the best virtue a driver can have!
Q: So is it fact that in Barcelona you will have a massive chassis update and the engine update will follow in Montreal?
HM: Yes, the chassis will be ‘revamped’ in Barcelona and Renault is planning something for Montreal.
Q: But by then Mercedes and Ferrari are up and away…
HM: Who says that? When we fought for the championship with Sebastian (Vettel) against Alonso [in 2012] we were 42 points behind still after the summer break - and won! So we are the masters of ‘catch-up’! (Laughs)
We are pretty optimistic that we will make a significant step forward in Barcelona where a big change of parts is coming
Q: Is that the kind of adrenalin that the team needs to show their best performance?
HM: Ha, not really, but we know what we can do.
Q: An engine customer will always depend on his supplier - you have probably learned that the hard way in the last four years. Is there any ambition from your side to change that situation one day?
HM: Of course - and not 'one day'. The latest must be 2021 that an independent engine supplier comes into F1. This is more than necessary - and the engine has to be simple, noisy and on the cost side below ten million. We are talking about a much less sophisticated engine to what we have now - a simple racing engine. There are enough companies around that could supply. So we expect from the new owners together with the FIA to find a solution at the latest by the end of this season. If that doesn’t happen our stay in F1 is not secured.
Q: Right now you are fighting for P3 in the championship…
HM: …and that can’t be our goal! But in terms of the chassis we also have to point at ourselves.
Q: If you had a magic wand to change your car for the better, which part would you want to change first?
HM: Ha, I don’t need a magic wand. We just have to go our own way by constantly reducing the gap - then we don’t need any ‘fairy tools’! (Laughs)
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Microsoft unveils its Super Bowl ad, starring a 9-year-old gamer and the Xbox Adaptive Controller
by Kurt Schlosser on January 31, 2019 at 7:14 am January 31, 2019 at 7:58 am
One of Microsoft’s favorite gamers will be back in action during the big game on Sunday. And he brought friends.
The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant unveiled its 60-second Super Bowl ad on Thursday, titled “We All Win,” and it again shines the spotlight on a 9-year-old boy named Owen and the company’s Xbox Adaptive Controller.
The ad continues Microsoft’s commitment to showcasing empowerment and inclusion, specifically as it relates to getting gamers of all physical abilities playing. Owen was born with a rare genetic disorder called Escobar Syndrome, and he was previously featured in an ad before the holidays called “Reindeer Games.” This time the ad features a number of kids who all express the joy they get from being able to interact with friends.
“Our intent with our ads is to illustrate a product and a human truth and deliver on our mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more,” said Kathleen Hall, Microsoft CVP of Brand, Advertising and Research. “In this instance, the Xbox Adaptive Controller helps the children enhance their gaming experience and compete in new ways. What better message for a premiere sporting event?”
The controller was launched in May 2018, and born out of Microsoft’s continued push for accessibility, with input from that community, including help on design, functionality and packaging. Users can create a custom controller experience that is uniquely theirs by connecting external devices such as switches, buttons, mounts, and joysticks.
Time magazine named the controller one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2018.
Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility Initiative is a five-year, $25 million project aimed at developing artificial intelligence-powered technologies to help people with disabilities deal with challenges in areas like employment, human connection and modern life. It’s part of a broader focus on accessibility technology at the company under CEO Satya Nadella.
“We All Win” will air during the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game on CBS and across assorted digital social platforms.
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If we are taking about Golden Ratio,can this mean new birth into a Universal knew consciousness.???
I really believe that it is God’s fingerprint.
You’re very close to correct. It’s his right thumbprint.
Lucien says
Can you please provide a reference for this quote. I cannot find ELFRAD online.
The ELFRAD site still exists at http://www.elfradgroup.com. I didn’t find the quote, but this content has been on goldennumber.net for quite some time so ELFRAD may have changed its site content. The next best strategy is to look at the historical archives or their site at https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.elfrad.com or contact them directly. If you find the information is no longer accurate please let me know so I can make changes.
Here’s an update. The page with the quote is at http://elfradgroup.com/elfinfo.htm.
Irvine cooksey says
Is this not the same frequency that our heart beats at?
Tank says
No, human heart beat is around 70 hz.
kamalakannan m says
Very usefull and abnormal
Because its syncronise with our nature,galaxy,And out planet velocity.
Bernard says
I’m not sure if this is a valid point – after all the second as unit of time was arbitrarily set in the 10th century, it is by no means a constant, but a human invention.
Of course this doesn’t make the coincidence(?) less intriguing..
I agree, which is why I point out that “it must be kept in mind that “seconds” are a manmade measure.” But yes, it is still intriguing.
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The Day of Creation (US Edition)
by J. G. Ballard
Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
USA First Edition
‘Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact’ William Boyd
In parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges up-river in an old car ferry, clashing with hostile factions as he tries to find the source of his own creation.
This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith, Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.
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Go South was founded in response to two challenges:
The systemic lack of funding and human capital available to Southern organizations and communities working for positive change
The large number of students at Northeastern colleges who do not consider the South when choosing where to live and work
Go South believes we can turn these challenges into an opportunity. By providing Yale students with an exciting, financially viable, and clear way to pursue work in the South, we aim to simultaneously support nonprofits in the vital work they already do and expand Yale students’ understanding of and commitment to the South.
This exchange not only facilitates relationships today, but also has the potential to alter the flow of resources tomorrow. Ivy League graduates are disproportionately represented amongst leaders in philanthropy and public policy. As long as such leaders are ambivalent towards the South, its particular challenges, and its diverse and dynamic communities, our region’s nonprofits and grassroots movements will continue to be overlooked on the national stage. Regardless of where they choose to live, Go South program alums will become leaders who are invested in the work of Southern people and places.
Go South Summer: Our inaugural program, an 8-week summer fellowship that places undergraduates in public service job placements in the South at no cost to organizations and engages them with local alumni communities. We currently recruit from Yale College and host GSS fellows in Savannah, Georgia.
Go South Network: An informal partnership connecting nonprofits to career offices at Ivy League universities in order to better promote job opportunities in the South.
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City Adjusts Scope of Land Needed for New Water Plant
GRANTS PASS – The Grants Pass City Council approved a new resolution declaring a public need for acquisition of property for a new water treatment plant at their meeting Jan. 15. The new resolution supersedes a previous resolution adopted March ...
Merchant Meeting Emphasizes Unity
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Tyler Flaming Re-elected Council President
GRANTS PASS – The Grants Pass City Council re-elected Councilor Tyler Flaming to a second term as council president at their meeting Wednesday, Jan. 15. Council members choose a president in January of each year to serve a one-year term.
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City Seeks Citizen Input on Storm Water Management
GRANTS PASS – The City of Grants Pass is rethinking its stormwater system and city staff is seeking public input. The city is proposing a Stormwater Management Manual that will facilitate best practices for stormwater mitigation techniques, whic...
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The City of Grants Pass will be conducting a meeting to discuss next steps in trail planning for Dollar Mountain. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 1:30 pm in the City’s Council Chambers.
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CDBG Request for Proposals Public Services
The City is now accepting proposals for Public Service Grants funding from the City’s CDBG program for the 2020-2021 Program Year. The time to submit your application begins today, January 8, 2020 with the deadline date of Friday, February 21, 2...
Council to Survey Merchants Regarding Adult Use Businesses
GRANTS PASS – Grants Pass City Councilors directed city staff to conduct a survey of businesses and interested parties regarding restrictions on adult use businesses in the city’s Central Business District (CBD). At their Jan. 6 worksh...
Applications Accepted for Planning Commissioner
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Mayor Moves Public Comment
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Chris Hedges’ counter-revolutionary advice for revolution
RAINER SHEA—By applying his familiar dishonest framing tactics to demonize militant anti-capitalist strains in modern America, Hedges is trying to undermine the strains of our society that seek to carry out practical steps towards revolution. The overthrow of the bourgeoisie, especially in the highly militarized United States, will require some amount of violent struggle. As Lenin concluded while he was participating in an actual anti-capitalist revolution, “The replacement of the bourgeois by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution.” But Hedges attacks both those who acknowledge the necessity of violence, and those who seek to apply Lenin’s other lessons for building proletarian power.
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The Seattle WTO Uprising & the Indymedia Movement, Twenty Years Later
KOLLIBRI T SONNENBLUM—The Seattle Indymedia website had been set up by anarcho-techies (using open-source code originated in Australia) with the intention of just providing a tool for reporting the WTO protests. But when the on-the-ground, from-the-people, non-corporate coverage proved so popular, they gladly and graciously helped it spread. The worldwide network that emerged was based on the anarchist principles of mutual aid and individual liberty. Local sites ran things their own way and network-wide decisions were made by consensus. Though Indymedia was popularized in the US, it was animated by the spirit of the worldwide anti-globalization movement whose rallying cry was Otro Mundo Es Possible—”Another World Is Possible.”
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The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
JOHN PILGER—When asked about Assange recently, the current Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, said, “He should face the music”. This kind of thuggery, bereft of any respect for truth and rights and the principles and law, is why the mostly Murdoch controlled press in Australia is now worried about its own future, as The Guardian is worried, and The New York Times is worried. Their concern has a name: “the Assange precedent.”
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Impeachment: Another Democratic Fiasco
RENEE PARSONS—Not surprising it has been Tulsi Gabbard as the Only Democrat who understands the need to cease the fragmentation of American society. While not prone to hyperbolic overstatement, she suggests a more rational strategy, encouraging voters to do their job in November. The party’s hierarchy, and apparently much of its base, however, prefer to follow its Reptilian instincts strewing divisiveness and animosity far and wide.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Pete Buttigieg is one of the candidates who proposes a public option, such as Barack Obama did but promptly abandoned it as soon as he won the election in November 2008. Obama knew that offering a public option wouldn’t be corrupt enough to suit his preferences (or his major funders), so he just dropped it stone-cold on election-day, and assigned to the conservative Max Baucus in the U.S. Senate the design of what would become Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act.
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Ryan Jares, Windsor’s pitchers have the right medicine as Windsor opens 4A state baseball tournament 2-0
Bobby Fernandez
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Braden Peninger
LAKEWOOD — During a lightning delay that lasted an hour and eight minutes and interrupted Windsor’s critical second round game of the Class 4A Baseball Championships on Tuesday, senior ace pitcher Ryan Jares carried around a medicine ball to keep his shoulder and pitching arm loose.
But, it were the balls he threw when he was back on the pitcher’s mound moments later that provided the medicine needed for the Wizards to get one step closer to curing the severe case of state title deficiency they have had throughout their history.
After the weather delayed the start of the state tournament four full days — and a brief thunderstorm delayed the conclusion of Windsor’s second round game even further — the top-seeded Wizards capped an emphatic opening day of the tournament with an 11-2 win against No. 4 Cheyenne Mountain at All-Star Park.
In pursuit of its first state title in program history, Windsor opened the double-elimination tournament with a defensive-minded 2-0 win over No. 8 Roosevelt on Tuesday. It then brought some prolonged offensive thunder to go with the brief lightning hours later against the Indians.
“They just came out aggressively and attacked the baseball,” Wizards coach Brad Deal said. “That is huge for us when we do that.”
Windsor (22-1) advances to the third round at 3 p.m. today at All-Star Park against No. 7 Pueblo West (18-4), which beat No. 2 Valor Christian 3-2 in the second round Tuesday.
That matchup this afternoon will pit the last two teams unbeaten in tournament play, and the winner will have a decisive advantage entering the final two days of the tournament — Tuesday and Wednesday — guaranteeing itself a spot in the finals.
Even with the late-game offensive surge against Cheyenne Mountain, the Wizards positioned themselves to be in such ideal position largely behind the pitching trio of junior Logan Thornton, junior Owen Lockner and Jares. They allowed just two runs all day, including only one earned run.
Many members of Windsor’s team just kicked back at picnic tables adjacent to the baseball field, others sipped on sports drinks, while some huddled together to play simple, improvised games to pass the time during the Game 2 lightning delay. Meanwhile, Jares kept loose, focused and strategized for how he could continue to shut down the Indians, knowing his fastballs couldn’t possibly have the same zip as they did before the long delay.
“I just tried to throw off-speed pitches for strikes and keep them guessing,” Jares said. “I was just trying to throw strikes and give our defense a chance to play.”
Jares went the distance, threw just 93 pitches, struck out six, walked one and allowed just one earned run on seven hits.
Shortly after the game resumed, Jares again had to endure another prolonged break, but this one was much more bearable.
The Wizards took complete control of the game with an eight-hit, eight-run top of the sixth inning to turn a 3-2 nail-biter into an 11-2 onslaught.
Senior leadoff batter Braden Peninger provided the key hit. After Windsor loaded the bases, Peninger ripped a double along the left-field line to clear the bases and put his team up 7-2.
“With all the postponements of the tournament, we really stayed focused and worked on getting better,” Peninger said. “Once we finally got the time to play, we took advantage of it and played our game — especially in the second game when we started beating the ball around the park a little bit.”
Factoring in both games, senior two-hole batter Jake Barker was certainly the most productive player at the plate. He went 5 for 8, scoring three runs and driving in a run.
He had two of Windsor’s three hits in Game 1 before going 3 for 5 in the Wizards’ explosive second-round game.
The Wizards’ eight-run sixth inning emphatically paved the way for Windsor’s 2-0 day.
At 3 p.m. today, Windsor faces Pueblo West in the third round.
A refusal to ride away?
Though Roosevelt suffered a heart-breaking loss Tuesday morning, the eighth-seeded Rough Riders (17-5) can keep their season alive if they go 2-0 today with a game against No. 5 Evergreen (15-7) at 9 a.m. today at Metro State, followed by a potential game against Valor Christian (19-3) at 11:30 a.m.
Evergreen lost in the first round to Cheyenne Mountain 7-3.
Windsor 2, Roosevelt 0 (first round)
RHS 000 000 0 — 0 5 1
WHS 001 001 X — 2 3 0
RHS — Connery O’Donnell (W, 7-2, 3H, 2ER, 1BB, 9SO) and Tannor Shuffler.
WHS — Logan Thornton (W, 8-0, 3H, 0ER, 3BB, 2SO), Owen Lockner (7th, 2H, 0ER, 0BB, 1SO) and Keegan Vialpando. 2B – Zach Watts; RBI – Lockner, Watts.
Windsor 11, Cheyenne Mountain 2 (second round)
WHS 100 208 0 — 11 16 1
CMHS 101 000 0 — 2 7 2
WHS — Ryan Jares (W, 8-1, 7H, 1ER, 1BB, 6SO) and Vialpando. 2B – Braden Peninger 2, Bailey Brachtenbach, Braden Martinez, Lockner; HR – Watts (solo in 4th); RBI – Peninger 3, Martinez 2, Watts 2, Jake Barker, Josh Barker, Brachtenbach, Lockner.
CMHS — Cam Buckler (L, 1-3, 5H, 3ER, 1BB, 2SO), Grant Mondejar (4th, 3H, 3ER, 3BB, 0SO), Bo Iacobbo (6th, 3H, 3ER, 0BB, 0SO), Brad Helton (6th, 3H, 2ER, 0BB, 0SO), Bryan Reich (7th, 1H, 0ER, 0BB, 1SO) and Jason Randall. 2B – Hank Morley; 3B – Jack Denker; RBI – Aaron Berkhoff, Denker.
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Inner peace: Volkswagen e-Golf driven
by Antony Ingram
Good: Quick, quiet, enviable brand image
Bad: Anonymous styling
Price: from £25,845
Car adverts are often economical with the truth, but one of the biggest lies they propagate is that of the empty city street.
Just think about it – how often does a car commercial feature vehicles swanning around urban centres mysteriously devoid of vehicles? In which Utopian country do these car-free cities exist? Why are there no endless queues of traffic, double-parked delivery trucks and pedestrians carelessly flitting across the road not twenty feet from a pedestrian crossing?
Until I’m granted a meeting with the sort of marketing type who conjures up these adverts – at which point I shall punch them squarely in the face – I have at least found an alternative to Utopian, traffic-free city driving: the new Volkswagen e-Golf.
Driving it around Berlin on the car’s launch, the German capital’s heavy traffic grated not a jot. All was serene inside the car, and not just because of the e-Golf’s typical German solidity and logically arranged cabin.
No, it’s the electric Golf’s powertrain, rendering it silent against a backdrop of droning diesels. Other electric vehicles are equally silent and soothing in the city of course, but there’s something very compelling about the combination of a Volkswagen badge and electric power. Something reassuring that, for myriad reasons, the average customer may not get from a Nissan or a Renault. Volkswagen’s reputation for quality, warranted or not, will go a long way.
Luckily, the e-Golf backs up reputation with ability. At its heart is a 24.2 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, a scant 200 watt-hours larger than that you’d find in a Nissan Leaf. Range is a little less than the Leaf’s official combined total of 120 miles, at 118 miles, though in reality both will do a solid 70-100 miles on a single charge.
Prices for the e-Golf start at £25,845 after the £5,000 contribution of the Plug-in Car Grant, or about £4,575 more than a mainstream dealer like Bristol Street Motors is asking for a five-door Golf BlueMotion. A mid-range Leaf costs £23,490, by way of comparison, and also offers the option of battery leasing to cut initial outlay. There's no equivalent buy-plus-rent route into e-Golf ownership.
In terms of power, the e-Golf is a little friskier than its Japanese rival, with an 85kW (114bhp), 270Nm electric motor propelling, as ever, the front wheels. It’ll reach 62mph in 10.4 seconds and Volkswagen has set a sensible top speed limit of 87mph, to help preserve range.
VW also provides an acceleration figure of 4.2 seconds to reach 36mph (a more logical 60km/h for those raised on the metric system), and that’s the number you notice most in the city.
Throughout my test drive I secretly wished for red lights. Every one was an opportunity to leave the hordes of beige Mercedes taxis and blacked-out BMWs wheezing in my wake. The e-Golf’s initial acceleration is satisfyingly punchy and, like all electric cars, near-silent. If anything, the e-Golf is even quieter than some of its counterparts, with no audible whine from the electric motor under acceleration or deceleration. There are no histrionics – just linear, brisk acceleration.
Slowing down means either coasting, or using one of four different levels of braking regeneration. With the transmission slotted simply into D, the car will coast forward smoothly whenever you lift your foot from the throttle pedal. But choose D1 to D3, by tapping the gear lever left and right, and you’ll experience noticeably different levels of energy recuperation, the electric equivalent of engine braking.
Alternatively, maximum recuperation can be summoned up by pulling the stick backward into the slot marked B. This is where I left it most of the time, allowing for real one-pedal driving around town. Deceleration in the more energetic levels of regen will trigger the brake lights, even with your feet off both pedals, so you shouldn’t alarm any following drivers with your sudden lack of speed. When I did choose more traditional braking methods, pedal feel was more than adequate.
The benefits of careful driving and the strongest regen setting were clear by the end of my urban test. Despite a 24-kilometre journey through busy Berlin, indicated range had dropped from around 98km at the start of the test to 91km by the end. City-based drivers won’t be recharging all that often, I suspect. When they do, an optional VW-supplied 3.6kW wall box can fill the battery in eight hours. Optional DC fast-charging, as part of a CCS ‘Combined Charging System’ connection, provides the usual 30-minute, 80-percent fill.
Elsewhere, the Golf EV is little different from any other Golf. A little more aerodynamic – it has a 0.28 drag coefficient rather than 0.29 – and has been granted a set of distinctive LED daytime running lights, but otherwise it’s unlikely to set heads swivelling. Inside the tachometer makes way for an energy use dial, the central touchscreen features several electric-specific information screens, and you get (truly excellent) full LED headlights as standard.
It also handles nicely, rides very well and is as practical as any other Golf – it comes with full set of five doors, rear seat space is unchanged and at 343 litres, the boot is only a little smaller than a conventional Golf’s 380-litre volume.
It is, to state the obvious, an electric Golf. If you’re unexcited by other Golfs then electric power may do little to change that, but that VW badge has a strong draw and Volkswagen’s play-it-safe styling means it might hold more appeal for customers than other, slightly weirder electric vehicles currently on sale.
And if you spend most of your time in the city, the smooth power, classy cabin and cosseting ride really are the next best thing to those Utopian, car-free streets of La-La Land.
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DIALOGUE: BIS + LA BETE 2012-2013
Jan Martens
BIS © Anna van Kooij
DIALOGUE is a double bill in which two solos, BIS with Truus Bronkhorst and LA BETE with Joke Emmers, are shown together. Arranged as two solos that mirror each other, Jan Martens’ DIALOGUE lets the bodies and voices of Truus and Joke resonate in one another, revealing the beauty of unconventional bodies and personalities.
BIS is a solo for and with Truus Bronkhorst, a dancer and choreographer who reigned supreme in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s. It is a performance about starting over, about keeping going and not giving up. It is a raw performance, a mesmerizing portrait in which Truus gets to grips with her demons. It is a work about a strong, expressive and lonely woman. BIS is by far the darkest piece in Jan Martens’ oeuvre: intensive minimalism peels off more and more layers, arriving at nothing more (or less) than the essence.
In LA BETE, the young talented actress Joke Emmers surrenders to a sung ritual. Immersed in an inner monologue, she wrestles her way through a song: she deconstructs it, tastes it, spits it back out. LA BETE is a rhythmic performance in which voice, text and movement are connected with one another: a ritual that gradually leads to an (anti-)climax.
More info and dates for BIS > click here
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BIS (2012)
PREMIERE: 17 October 2012, Frascati Amsterdam (NL)
BY: Jan Martens
WITH: Truus Bronkhorst
LIGHTING DESIGN: Steffie De Haan
ADVICE: Marc Vanrunxt
TECHNICAL SUPERVISION: Michel Spang
PRODUCTION: Frascati Producties
INTERNATIONAL DIFFUSION: A Propic / Line Rousseau and Marion Gauvent
THANKS TO: ICKamsterdam
LA BETE (2013)
PREMIERE: 10 April 2013, CDC du Val-de-Marne Vitry-sur-Seine (FR)
WITH: Joke Emmers
PRODUCTION: ICKamsterdam and DansBrabant
CO-PRODUCTION: La Briquetterie - CDC du val-de-marne
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: workspacebrussels / Les Brigittines
theater kikker
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stadsschouwburg brugge
BRUGES (BE)
(december dance)
cc de werft
GEEL (BE)
GENK (BE)
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Mirjam van der Linden, De Volkskrant, 25.05.2013 ****
DIALOGUE: BIS + LA BETE (2012-2013)
“The solos that he created for the 62-year-old dancer Truus Bronkhorst and the young actress Joke Emmers in SPRING were uncompromising theatre rituals about topical themes that cut through the soul. Jan Martens is the revelation in an otherwise rather resigned dance season.”
Sander Hiskemuller, Trouw, 04 July 2013
“BIS is intense heartache, sadness at separating, fighting against old age, inexhaustible power: it is Truus Bronkhorst.”
Mirjam van der Linden, De Volkskrant, 25 May 2013****
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Report: String of Massive Blazes at Sea Worrying Shipping Industry
By Tom McKay on at
International shipping concerns are worried about a wave of major nautical blazes that have resulted in death and injury among crew as well as damage to ships and cargo running in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Per the Journal, major fires at sea have included the loss of the Italian carrier Grande America, which sunk in the Atlantic in the Bay of Biscay with 2,000 cars on board, causing a massive oil slick and necessitating the rescue of dozens of crew members by a British naval frigate. The blaze started on 10 March and ended two days later with the loss of the vessel; afterwards, Porsche was forced to renew production of its limited run of 911 GT2 RS cars, of which four were on board.
[#GrandeAmerica] Le violent incendie sur le #GrandeAmerica est toujours en cours. Le navire présente une inclinaison sur son côté droit qui s’aggrave au fil du temps. Plus d'information : https://t.co/GFt6RNXscl @SGMer @MarineNationale @OuestFrance @LeTelegramme @sudouest pic.twitter.com/JYm6n9bhNh
— Premar Atlantique (@premaratlant) March 12, 2019
It was the fourth such incident in the last four months, according to the Journal:
The disaster was the fourth big ship fire in the past four months, and followed a handful of fires last year that included one that heavily damaged the megaship Maersk Honam, owned by Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s largest container ship operator by capacity, and killed five crew members.
Maersk officials say the string of incidents is likely a coincidence, but it has raised alarms among operators, insurers and shipping customers, and focused more attention on the safe handling of the big quantities of goods that move on increasingly large and packed oceangoing vessels.
Another blaze overtook the Japanese car carrier Sincerity Ace on New Year’s Eve while 3,500 cars were on board, resulting in five deaths. In January, other incidents included a blaze on Hapag-Lloyd’s Yantian Express off the east coast of Canada, an explosion on Vietnamese tanker Aulac Fortune near Hong Kong that killed one sailor, and a fire on the Singapore-registered APL Vancouver near Vietnam that burned for days.
According to the Journal, no cause in the 2018 fire on board the Honam has been determined, but its operator, Maersk, has since banned stowing dangerous goods and those that could be difficult to extinguish if they caught fire under deck. Transport and logistics insurer TT Club told the paper they estimate approximately two-thirds of ship fires are the result of “poor practice in the overall packing process” of such dangerous cargo, which they said comprised six million containers annually or around 10 percent of all shipments. Out of those six million, 1.3 million are believed to be improperly stored or mislabelled, the Journal wrote.
The issue has grown worse in the era of mega-ships, the Journal added, because the scale of some cargo vessels (sometimes carrying tens of thousands of containers) means that screening cargo is more difficult:
Products like barbecue charcoal can burst into flames when the temperature rises and others like fish food and pool-cleaning agents generate oxygen that can intensify the blaze.
The National Cargo Bureau, a surveying body that assists the U.S. Coast Guard to enforce safe navigation, said 4% of 31,000 boxes it checked in 2017 contained dangerous cargo that wasn’t properly secured... Another survey of 1,700 vessel stowing plans said 20% of the plans weren’t in line with existing dangerous-goods rules.
“The numbers of containers and stow plans we check are very small,” Ian Lennard, president of the National Cargo Bureau, told the Journal. “So if you extrapolate them for the whole industry, the problem is immense.”
Ship Technology wrote last year that misdeclared cargo is a major issue in maritime shipping, but also noted that regulations concerning fire suppression technologies in use on cargo ships were “originally designed for smaller general cargo ships of a bygone era, and aren’t suitable for today’s megaships.” The publication noted that in particular, carbon dioxide systems used to flood cargo holds are often ineffective due to large amounts of oxygen held in containers, and that fires that move to deck are difficult to suppress. Fire detectors are also not mandated on deck, Ship Technology wrote, and on very large vessels that means crew may never see a fire before it develops into an inferno.
Massive fires on huge ships also raise serious environmental concerns, as toxic chemicals and other pollutants are often dispersed over a large area. According to Hakai Magazine, owners used to beach destroyed vessels or ship them to Africa or Asia to be junked, though they are increasingly deciding to clean up and repair the vessels rather than dispose of them. [Wall Street Journal]
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Kaizer Chiefs' Middendorp 'not obligated' to wish Orlando Pirates coach Zinnbauer well
Austin Ditlhobolo
7:46 pm AEDT 18/12/19
The 61-year-old indicated that his Bucs counterpart should be given a chance to lead his new club before he is judged
Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp has disclosed that he does not know much about Orlando Pirates' new coach Josef Zinnbauer.
The German tactician surprisingly took charge of the Buccaneers last week, replacing interim coach Rhulani Mokwena.
His compatriot Middendorp, who has been named PSL Coach of the Month for November, made it clear that they are two different coaches.
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“I have to be very clear-structured – I know him by name, but you must understand that he is nearly 20 years younger," Middendorp told the media.
"Meaning that he came into another era when I had already left Germany years prior."
The veteran tactician insisted that there is no obligation to wish the 49-year-old Zinnbauer all the best at Chiefs' arch-rivals Pirates.
“Of course, it’s not that you are not capable of understanding a certain person in this coaching [industry]," he continued.
"But let’s give him a very clear chance and opportunity to manage the team adequately – that’s it.
“I don’t have any obligation to wish him all the best or any obligation to assess or make comments about [his job].”
However, Middendorp admitted that it was good to see two German tacticians coaching two of the biggest clubs in the country.
“It’s nice to have two Germans coaching the Soweto derby‚ we are global players as coaches‚” he said.
“It doesn’t matter if it is South African coach‚ you are coming from Zambia or from Zimbabwe – because we are [all] global players.”
Zinnbauer is the first German coach to take charge of Pirates in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) era.
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Arsenal's Montemurro opens up on Australian bushfires, confirms interest in Foord
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12:14 AM WAT 16/01/2020
The Gunners boss admits the blazes in his home country have been hard to see but he's heartened by the support that's been shown
Arsenal Women's coach Joe Montemurro has opened up on the Australian bushfires that have plagued his native country for the past several weeks.
Montemurro grew up in Victoria, one of the states most badly affected by the recent blazes, prior to moving to north London in 2017 when he took over at the Gunners.
Forced to watch the bushfire crisis from afar, Montemurro admits it's a situation he's become all to accustomed to as he praised the support that's been shown for those directly affected.
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"It is a tragic situation. It's something that having grown up in Australia, it's a commonplace every summer," Montemurro said.
"There's very little surface water and our fauna is very combustible. It's a situation where unfortunately communities are ripped apart.
"My heart goes out to all the people who have suffered from the situation. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about the people affected like the fire-fighters, the volunteers.
"The worldwide support that's been given is great and every little helps. It's just great to see everyone coming together to help.
"I haven’t had any personal experience, but they are very close to Melbourne. The air quality over there right now is abominable.
"I’m speaking to my family every day and there is a real struggle there at the moment. It’s really up to everyone to make sure we prevent these things going forward."
Brighton's Australian goalkeeper Mat Ryan recently donated AU $500 for every Premier League save that was made last weekend directly towards bushfire recovery efforts.
Montemurro is set to face off against Matildas star Sam Kerr on Sunday when his Arsenal side take on Chelsea in the Super League.
While he's under no illussions about her quality, the Aussie manager declared he's not scared by the prospect.
Montemurro also confirmed his interest in signing an Australian star of his own at the Gunners, with attacker Caitlin Foord recently linked with a move to the club.
"Caitlin Foord’s been a player of interest for a while. She’s a player that we are interested in and there’s a couple of other elements that we’re looking at also," he said.
"I don’t want want to speculate on things that aren’t happening or aren’t solid, but we are going to be bringing in some elements during the transfer window."
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Zak’s Story | Getting to know the community of Île à Vache
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By AntoniaMay 01, 2019No Comments
All of us here in Haven are delighted to welcome Zak Rapoport who has recently joined our team in Haiti. A third-year student in International Development at University College Cork (UCC), Zak has just started his student placement with our team and...
Johanna’s Story | “I can scarcely believe my placement is almost at an end”
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Coming to the end of her placement with our team, University College Cork (UCC) student Johanna Murray looks at how her time in Haiti causes her to rethink our relationships with gadgets and technology. Welcome back everyone: another week down, and now...
Johanna’s Story | “I found myself in the hospital this week”
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Our Programmes Support Intern, University College Cork (UCC) student Johanna Murray, recently went through a difficult bout of food poisoning. Thankfully, she is recovering well and, as she tells us in her latest blog, her experience is giving her new...
Johanna’s Story | “My time here is flying”
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Almost a month in to her placement with our team in Haiti, University College Cork (UCC) student, Johanna Murray, tells us of some of the ongoing work on the small island of Île à Vache off Haiti’s south-west coast, where many of our projects...
Johanna’s Story | “The last week has gone by in such a whirlwind”
After a busy week with our Volunteer Programme, University College Cork (UCC) student, Johanna Murray, tells us her experience of it as she continues her student placement with our team in Haiti. Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog! Over the last...
All of us here in Haven were delighted to welcome Johanna Murray to Haiti just last week. A third-year student in International Development at University College Cork (UCC), Johanna is swapping her native Tipperary for Haiti over the next three months,...
Celebrations and new beginnings for our livelihoods programme
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Our Programmes Manager, Ailish O’Reilly, takes a look at a busy few weeks for our livelihoods programme, with December’s graduation ceremony marking the successes so far and new participants looking forward to new, exciting opportunities!...
We are hiring! | Apply for our Programmes Manager role in Haiti today
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By HavenJanuary 05, 2018No Comments
At Haven, we are seeking a highly motivated and organised individual to join our dynamic team on the ground in Haiti. We are seeking a Programmes Manager to develop and implement our community development projects in Haiti. The successful candidate...
“Our exciting news is the work we are doing on developing our Sustainable Livelihoods model” | Summer 2017 in Haiti
By HavenSeptember 19, 2017No Comments
Ailish O’Reilly, our Programmes Manager in Haiti, returns to Haiti after a short holiday in Ireland, with a tense journey back as Hurricane Irma threatened the country. Here, she shares all the latest news from our projects over a busy few months....
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Our Programmes Manager in Haiti, Ailish O’Reilly, gave an insight into the impact of Hurricane Irma in Haiti on an interview with Galway Bay FM today. Speaking on the Keith Finnegan Show, Ailish described her experience of returning to Haiti, knowing...
Hurricane Irma brings some damage to north Haiti
Hurricane Irma – the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic – hit Haiti over the past 24 hours, and our team on the ground has been closely monitoring its impact. Thankfully, the hurricane veered further north than first forecast,...
Hear our former Country Director speak about the impact of Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma is currently making its way towards Haiti, and is expected to affect the country within the next 24 hours. Our Ambassador, George Hook, spoke to our former Country Director, John Moore, on the ‘High Noon’ show on Newstalk FM...
Sophie’s Story | “I can’t believe how fast these last few months went”
By HavenAugust 15, 2017No Comments
University College Cork (UCC) student, Sophie O’Sullivan, recently completed her three-month placement with our team in Haiti. Now back in Ireland, she tells us of her last few weeks on the ground and reflects on her experience. From all of...
We are hiring! | Applications for our Finance Assistant role are now open
By HavenJuly 31, 2017No Comments
At Haven, we are seeking a highly motivated and organised individual to join the team in our Dublin Office. We are seeking a Finance Assistant to handle our day-to-day accounting and to ensure the smooth operation of our finance and auditing requirements....
“The recovery process from last year’s hurricane is going strongly” | June 2017 in Haiti
As our Programmes Manager in Haiti, Ailish O’Reilly, tells us, June saw a lot of activity for our projects in Haiti, as recovery programmes from last year’s hurricane come to a close and more local people join our literacy training. Take...
Sophie’s Story | “I have had the opportunity to see the different sides to this beautiful country”
With just three weeks left in Haiti, Sophie O’Sullivan tells us what a typical day therelooks like for her, from carrying out surveys and completing paperwork to showing visitors around our projects. Sophie has been working with our team in Haiti...
Sophie’s Story | “You could see in his eyes the disbelief and joy”
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Six weeks into her three-month work placement with us, Sophie O’Sullivan tells us how she got on during our recent Volunteer Programme, and bids farewell to our Country Director, John Moore, as he leaves Haiti for home. Saturday, 22 April saw the beginning...
“The official handover brings another successful project to a close” | April 2017 in Haiti
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Our Programmes Manager, Ailish O’Reilly, shares the latest news from the ground in Haiti in her regular blog. In this month’s blog post, Ailish fills us in on the 2017 Volunteer Programme. We march into April with the preparations for the Volunteer...
Sophie’s Story | “You wouldn’t believe the challenges that many of the people here face”
Sophie O’Sullivan arrived in Haiti two weeks ago to begin a three-month internship with us as part of her studies. It’s been an eventful introduction to the country for her, and, here, she gives us an insight into just some of what she’s...
Sophie’s Story | “I wanted to go somewhere that doesn’t get as much aid or attention”
We were excited to recently welcome Sophie O’Sullivan to the Haven team in Haiti. Sophie is a student in University College Cork (UCC) who is joining us for her three-month student internship. She’ll be keeping a regular blog during her...
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Through these powers and stable funding, established ESDs have considerably reduced fire and medical response times, provided stable funding for volunteer and other fire and EMS departments, and allowed local entities to provide enhanced services – thus saving lives, property, and funds for local citizens.
ESD’s are created under Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 775 as a means to better provide public funding for urban, suburban and rural emergency services organizations. ESD’s are practical ways to adequately support local emergency services in many Texas municipalities as well as suburban and rural areas of the State.
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Breed Profile: The Field Spaniel
M.J. Nelson - December 16, 2014
At one point not long ago, a fine sporting breed, the field spaniel, was on the verge of joining the passenger pigeon on the "no longer with us" list. Only the efforts of a few dedicated breeders in England kept the breed alive. In fact, there were no field spaniels in the AKC's registry from 1942 until 1967, when a few were imported and the revival of the breed in the U.S. began.
While field spaniels remain rare in this country — they ranked 140th on the AKC's breed registration list in 2013 — there is a growing recognition among spaniel-loving hunters that this is, for the most part, a healthy, good looking and versatile breed with an excellent desire to hunt and a really good nose.
"They have fabulous noses and hunt at a speed that is comfortable to walk behind," says Karen Balinski. "They do a good job of hunting in a variety of covers from thick to wide open and they automatically adjust their style, speed and range to whatever type of cover you are hunting.
"They will hunt all day with enthusiasm. They also have an on/off switch, which means they are easy to live with. They are typically slower and more methodical in the field than, say, springers, but the trade-off is that they find birds that other dogs have passed."
Neal Winters also cites the field spaniel's ability to find birds as one of the traits that makes the breed special as a hunting dog. "They have truly exceptional noses," he says. "I've often seen experienced dogs begin scenting birds when they were 50 feet away from them, depending on the wind. They don't overrun their nose and with their soft mouths and solid work ethics, they quickly locate and bring downed birds to hand.
"We live and hunt mainly in the upper Midwest where a lot of hunting is on preserves, 'put and take' public grounds or small farms. Since field spaniels were developed to hunt the blackthorn of the English midlands, they adapt well to these conditions and excel working in tight cover or small fields. But they also work equally well on wild pheasants in the open prairies and fields of South Dakota."
Mike Gregory says that one of the reasons he has field spaniels is because he likes the idea of living and hunting with a rare breed. Another virtue of the breed, he said, is that field spaniels have not split into "field" and "show" types, which means he can take his good-looking hunting dogs to conformation shows and have a reasonable chance of winning.
In addition, field spaniels have a hunting style that Gregory appreciates. "They are slower than a field-bred springer," he notes. "'Deliberate' would be a good way to describe their style. They cover the field until they scent game and then they go right for it. They are also willing retrievers from both land and water. But they do have their training quirks.
"They seem to have their own ideas on how to hunt, which aren't always the same as the ideas of the person carrying the shotgun. They are a bit 'soft' and do not respond well to harsh corrections. You can use an electronic collar on them but only on very low settings and quite candidly, the dogs don't like them.
"I do train a forced retrieve on my dogs just so there's no question about their duties. Once they learn their responsibilities, they are pretty solid. 'Firm but fair' is good advice when training a field spaniel."
Pam Boyer made the switch to field spaniels from American water spaniels when a friend became ill and wasn't able to raise a field spaniel pup he had coming from a breeding. The field spaniel proved to be adept at finding game as well as retrieving from land and water and did it naturally.
Pam and her husband also loved the calmer temperament of the field spaniel. "As our AWS got older and was no longer able to hunt, we really started to realize the amazing talents of fields," she says. "Their game finding and swimming could not have been better and over the years, we discovered that the dogs remained in gun range even as puppies. But we also discovered that training a field was very different from many other breeds we'd been exposed to.
"Fields take to the birds and retrieving very quickly but you can't put any pressure on a young dog. Field spaniels don't want to disobey. They try very hard to follow the rules and do what makes you happy. They were never bred as a competitive trial dog but as a companion hunting dog, which means they're not as hard-running as a springer. They're great house dogs and are happy to nap on the couch until the shotguns and the hunting vests come out. Then it's chaos, so be ready!"
Neal Winters says that training a field spaniel requires an open mind and the ability to use a variety of techniques. The bigger the trainer's "bag of tricks" the more successful he will be. "Field spaniels have softer dispositions than many other hunting breeds and they do not tolerate heavy-handed training techniques," Winters notes. "Often, a stern word is enough to stop unwanted behavior or produce the desired response.
"While patience, consistency and persistence are the keys to training, field spaniels are intelligent dogs and repeated drilling is unnecessary. However, they can be creative and will find innovative ways to solve training challenges. I often hear Frank Sinatra singing 'I did it my way' when I'm working with one of my field spaniels.
"They adapt well to most new situations," Winters continues. "Field spaniels and kids go together very well but, as with any other breed, you need to teach your kids how to make it clear that they rank above the dog in the 'pack order.' These are social, people-oriented dogs who want to be with people, which makes them poor kennel dogs. But as is the case with any dog, they need to be taught to mind their manners. Left to their own devices, they can find ways to entertain themselves that may not always be appreciated.
"In other words, they need a job. Field work, of course, is the ideal outlet for their energy but some of the other dog sports like obedience, rally or agility also work well when field work is not particularly appealing like during the winter in my part of the country. Even going for walks with you or playing with the kids seems to work for them."
Don't Force It
Karen Balinski also notes that the breed's soft temperament can be an issue in training a field spaniel. "They are a soft, sensitive breed but they can be stubborn and they get bored very easily," she says. "This combination can get quite frustrating at times. If you try to use only force and get heavy-handed, they will simply shut down. The key is making training fair, consistent and understandable for the dog.
"I do use the e-collar in certain training situations but they are smart and they get collar-wise very easily. If you get overzealous with the e-collar, you will just wind up with a dog that refuses to work. While there is no field/show split in the breed, there are some fields that will not be great hunting dogs. Some have zero interest in birds and I've seen others that lacked the ability to mark and find game. I've also seen a few that despite fair and consistent training just become unraveled in the field.
"The problem is that it's such a rare breed that the gene pool is small and that makes it difficult to breed away from undesirable traits while getting desirable traits into the breed. Very few people hunt with their fields so often we don't know how good or poor the hunting instinct is in a particular line. I've heard some breeders say that all fields can hunt but this is not true. Some can be phenomenal in the field while others can be a complete dud."
Boyer says that in her opinion, the field spaniel is an ideal dog for a beginning trainer. "They really don't need a lot of training to be effective hunting dogs. I have had many first time hunting dog owners who are very happy with the results they've achieved training their dogs themselves. However, I am concerned that we may be losing that 'gentleman's hunting dog' temperament as some are breeding for a harder-driving dog, more like the field springer. While this is great for springer enthusiasts, it will change a breed this small and we will lose that extremely easy-to-train temperament."
Hunt for Show
Winters notes owning a rare breed has both benefits and drawbacks. "When you look in the catalog at spaniel hunt tests, you'll see that the vast majority of field spaniels running in these tests are also conformation champions. So hunting dogs show and show dogs hunt, which is a wonderful situation for those who like a dog that meets both the conformation and performance standards for the breed.
"In a practical sense, this means that any litter of field spaniel pups can produce hunting prospects. Unfortunately, very few field spaniels breeders are active in field work so looking at pedigrees to help select a hunting pup is not usually very productive. The best approach, if you can, is to evaluate a pup's prey drive.
"The other drawback is the lack of puppy availability. There are around 100 to 120 field spaniel puppies born in the U.S. in a given year. Looking for a field spaniel requires more patience than with many other sporting breeds but the wait is worth it.
"If you think this is the breed for you, your search should start early and you should talk with the breeders on the Field Spaniel Society of America's Breeder Referral List."
In the beginning, Airedales were hunting dogs. The working class people in the West Riding of Yorkshire, who developed the breed, needed a dog that could scent game, had the size to be able to tackle larger animals and could be taught to retrieve. The answer to this need turned out to be the Airedale.
In the days before France became known as the cradle of artists and the center of the fashion world, it was a superb upland hunting destination. The hills of the French countryside were planted with a variety of agricultural crops and the forests and mountains were teeming with wildlife. Grouse, pheasants and partridge were common in the farmlands and wild birds were a staple food for many rural families.
At the same time, pointing dogs were becoming more popular in Europe and a select group of French breeders set out to develop a breed that had the athleticism necessary to hunt hard all day and the instinct to point and retrieve birds. Using Spanish pointers and various European hounds as their root stock, these breeders began to develop dogs that embodied all of the qualities they desired.
The result of their efforts was the Braque Francais. The Braque became known for its keen determination and overwhelming desire to please its master. Careful breeding resulted in a dog that could be relied upon to obey commands in the field and hunt hard all day long, a dog that had intense prey drive and could also serve as a family companion, playing with the children, yet acting as a watchdog in the dark of night.
With textured curls and a sleek frame, the curly-coated retriever often triggers double-takes from onlookers. At a distance, the curly-coated retriever is often mistakenly identified as a Labrador because the curly shares the Lab's conformation and passion for finding, flushing and fetching gamebirds. But surprisingly, the curly was not descended from the Lab. Rather, the curly is thought to have been bred from the English water spaniel, the St. John's Newfoundland, the retrieving setter and the poodle, according to the American Kennel Club.
Up close, the curly is much different from a Labrador: Its coat is made up of short, stiff hairs tightly wound into ringlets covering the main body, the top of the head and the ears.
Once upon a time, when English gamekeepers reigned supreme on the estates of the nobility, they needed a dog that could find and retrieve birds that might have been missed after a driven shoot. But their mortal enemies, poachers, also needed a dog to find and retrieve birds'¦only in their case, in the middle of the night. In both instances, for the law-abiding and lawbreaker alike, the flat-coated retriever was often the dog of choice.
For whichever task they were assigned, the dog needed to have an outstanding nose, be exceedingly biddable, and when they were working for the poachers, be fast and agile enough to escape the bull mastiffs the gamekeepers employed to patrol the estate during the hours of darkness. These traits, still present in the breed today, are a not-so-well-kept secret for this relatively rare retriever breed, which has achieved the highest levels of success in all of the AKC's dog sports except for retriever field trials. Flat-coats were in 90th place in 2011 on the American Kennel Club's 'œpopularity list' of the 173 breeds recognized by the AKC.
'œSome French Brittanys can be drama queens when training pressure is applied,' notes Jim Keller from Keller Gun Dog Kennels near Lincoln, Neb. 'œBy '˜drama queen' I mean this breed sometimes tends to overreact with a lot of emotional outbursts when specific behavior is required of them.
'œFor example, when being taught to force fetch, some French Brittanys will squeal and squirm in an effort to get the trainer to leave them alone. And some trainers will back way off and let the dog have its way,' Keller says.
Portugese Pointer
Ralph Fedele told me his first choice was a whippet, not a Portuguese pointer. He'd been a bird hunter in a previous life, before children. He now wanted a small dog with short hair — less mess in the house — that was good with kids. Then his wife got into the act.
'œMy wife said, '˜Look at this dog I just happened to come across on the internet,'' Fedele recalls. 'œI looked at the pictures and said, '˜That's the dog. Let's call this guy and get that dog.' My wife, just completely coincidentally, is Portuguese, although she had no prior experience with the dogs.'
From the Middle Ages, Europeans have always considered the standard poodle a hunting dog. According to Canadian breed historian Emily Cain, Europeans categorized it as a spaniel. However, the French breed name, caniche, comes from chien canard, or 'œduck dog,' so they have also classified it a retriever.
If you ask the owner of an Irish Red and White Setter what makes these dogs special, almost uniformly the answer is, 'œThey are natural pointers.' Many say their dogs have earned a junior hunter title with absolutely no training at all and never having had any exposure to birds prior to the time they started running in the tests.
German shorthaired pointers have been particularly popular in the U.S. with gamebird hunters looking for a do-it-all versatile gun dog. There are approximately 10,000 German shorthairs annually registered with the American Kennel Club and the United Kennel Club. Likewise, shorthairs are the dominant breed in NAVHDA and have produced top scores in Natural Ability, Utility, and Versatile Champion testing for the past several decades.
German shorthaired pointers are also one of the main dog breeds in many kinds of field trials and a variety of hunting contests. And all across North America, shorthairs are the common pointing breed for the average gamebird hunter just about anywhere there are gamebirds to be hunted.
'œBeannaithe' (Blessed) is how the old Gaelic hunters in Ireland viewed the Shannon spaniel that later became known as the Irish water spaniel. Developed to retrieve waterfowl and upland game, the breed proved to be so versatile it could do just about anything except dance Irish jigs and reels. But there are those who contend that given proper instruction and the appropriate music, an IWS could probably master these intricate step dances, also.
Llewellin Setter
There's no sight more classic than a pair of gun dogs working a gamebird with one dog pointing and the other backing.
The canines in this case were two Llewellin setters on a South Dakota pheasant hunt last fall. The two dogs stood frozen with heads and tails high in a picture-perfect pose. As one of the hunters walked in to flush the pointed bird, two hens and one rooster rocketed out of the prairie grass. One well-placed shot brought down the long-tailed ringneck and one dog ran out, picked up and brought it in.
Leave the open country birds and serious waterfowling for the dogs that are bred for that kind of stuff, the pointing and retrieving breeds. Spaniels really shine for small-water ducking and thick-cover upland birds — bobwhite quail, woodcock, ruffed grouse'¦and, oh yes, pheasants.
If ever a dog was created to hunt pheasants, it is the springer spaniel. I simply can't understand why the breed isn't more popular, given the vast number of rooster hunters in the U.S., but there you go. The really good ones — and I had one like that — can be almost wizard-like in the way they approach the game.
Developed by 19th-century market hunters in the Upper Midwest, the American water spaniel has always been a dual-purpose dog, equally talented for waterfowl and upland gamebird hunting. From the beginning and continuing to this day, AWS owners have been determined to maintain the breed's dual résumé. Ironically, that determination has prevented them from displaying the AWS' versatility in the field events of the American Kennel Club (AKC).
These events come in three distinct formats: one for pointing breeds, one for retrievers and one for spaniels. Thus, for a breed to participate, it must not only be AKC-recognized as a Sporting Group breed, but must also be grouped in one and only one of AKC's three classifications: pointing breed, retriever or spaniel. AKC doesn't allow dual classifications.
The Weimaraner, from the beginning of its breed history more than 100 years ago, has been known as the 'œGray Ghost' — a good nickname for a gun dog with a silvery coat and somewhat spooky-looking yellow-amber eyes. Originally developed in Germany at the court of Weimar (hence its name), the Weimaraner was successfully bred to be a versatile hunter of upland gamebirds, waterfowl, predators, and big game.
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Age, years figure 3-6 Cross-sectional means of distance and velocity curves. An example of two boys. (Data from Chrzastek-Spruch's unpublished report on the Lubin Longitudinal Growth Study.53)
data. The two subjects differ in timing of their adolescent growth spurt, the age at maximum increment in height being at, respectively, 12.5 and 14.5 years of age. By taking the averages of the heights at each age, without taking account of this difference in timing of the adolescent growth spurt, one comes up with an average curve that does not show the steep slope at adolescence, seen in each individual curve. The effect of taking the cross-sectional mean becomes even more striking by a comparison of the yearly increments in height of the two curves with the average of these yearly increments. While the two individuals show a clear adolescent spurt with a maximum yearly increment in height of respectively 9.9 and 7.8 cm/yr, the cross-sectional mean of these curves is much flatter. The peak of the mean velocity curve is lower than in the individual curves and the "spurt" is spread out over a longer period than in the two individuals, a phenomenon denoted as the "phase-difference" effect.7
Although the example shown in Figure 3-6 is based on averages of longitudinal growth data, it is exactly what happens with the pattern of the means in cross-sectional growth data and the pattern of the increments of the means. By the way, the mean velocity curve in Figure 3-6 corresponds exactly to a plot of the increments of the means. This illustrates that the pattern of individual growth differs a lot from the pattern of cross-sectional mean growth, especially during adolescence. It is also the reason why the growth records of an individual over time do not match any of the centile lines shown by cross-sectional growth charts and why such charts are not useful to evaluate the normality of the pattern of growth over time. Pure cross-sectional growth standards are also called unconditioned for tempo. The differences between individual and average growth have long been recognized (Boas, 1892, and Shuttleworth, 1937, are cited by Tanner28), but it was not until the mid-1960s that Tanner, Whitehouse, and Takaishi7,54 introduced tempo-conditioned growth standards for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity based on longitudinal data of the British population. In addition to the classical centile distribution for attained size and velocity at each age, these references also show the "normal" variation in the shape of the growth curves. Their technique to produce the latter reference curves (the so-called tempo-conditioned standards) was based essentially on an analysis of the longitudinal growth data after centering each individual's growth data around the age at peak velocity.
Figure 3-7A illustrates this technique and its effect on average height velocity of the two boys shown in Figure 3-6, after their height measurements were peak height velocity centered. The so-obtained mean velocity curve indeed has a pattern that can be considered representative for both individuals; that is, with an age at peak velocity and a peak velocity that is the average of the two subjects. Later on, Tanner and Davies4 produced clinical longitudinal standards for height and height velocity in North American children using the same graphical principle as in their 1966 British standards. Wachholder and Hauspie,2,3 on the contrary, used a technique, derived from curve fitting, to achieve similar goals when producing clinical standards for growth and growth velocity in the Belgian population. They used "mean-constant" curves to estimate the typical average pattern of growth in the population. The mean-constant curves were obtained by fitting the Preece-Baines model 1 to each individual in the sample and feeding the mean values of the function parameters into the model. The resulting mean-constant curve represents the growth pattern of the typical average child in the population; that is, with a peak velocity and an age at peak velocity characteristic or typical for the group.12 Hence, a mean-constant curve is very much like the average of peak velocity centered curves. Figure 3-7B shows the PB1 velocity curves of the same two boys together with their mean-constant curve. Note that the PB1 curves slightly underestimate peak velocity, a minor weakness of the PB1 model that has been acknowledged elsewhere.16
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(+30, -1) [vote for,
I was thinking about dimension, specifically, Kata and Ana directions in 4D.
According to theory, what we see in 3d are protrusions of 4D objects in the 3D plane. And as you move about ana and kata (4th dimension direction) the protrusions into 3D change, in our perspective, because the objects have been moved slightly in the fourth dimension direction.
Let me borrow an example from a book.
Imagine a 2D plane, with 2D people. Now, stick your hand through the plane slightly, so that your fingers go through, but not your palm. A flatlander (2d person) would see 5 circles. Then move your hand so that the palm goes through.
The flatlander would see the "circles" change shape, and merge into something else. But in reality, the hand just moved in a dimension that the flatlander couldnt, and the poor guy just couldnt see it.
Apply this to a 3D game, in which the character can move ana and kata (4D directions) slightly, and have the landscape change when he moves so.
Say the character is standing on a hyper-sphere to him it is a sphere. He moves a bit Kata, and the sphere shrinks. He moves a bit further, and it vanishes (like removing the hand completely).
This would make a good basis for a platformer/adventurer. The landscape would shift every time you moved ana/kata, and you would have new ways to get across gaps! (Pssst! Move kata! A bridge then protrudes into this dimension! But you'd better jump! Your platform disappears!)
Enemies could be complicated, but you could have 3D and 4D enemies. I'd imagine that the character would have some sort of glasses which let him see where the enemy would be if they shared the same ana/kata plane as him.
Going through a 4D world seen as 3D displayed on a 2D screen.
— DesertFox, Dec 20 2005
Adenaxis by Mushware http://www.mushware.com/
4D space shooter. In development but available as a playable demo. [st3f, Sep 23 2006]
Very Large Numbers http://www.search.c...ge_numerals?redir=1
and their names [DesertFox, Sep 24 2006]
(?) Nintendo Wii (don't laugh) http://wii.nintendo.com/controllers.html
Wave it like you just don't care. [Veho, Sep 25 2006]
(???) Rotational Axis' in a 4D object http://www.madsci.o...159202681.Ph.r.html
I asked the "Madsci" website [apocalyps956, Sep 26 2006]
(???) 4DTRIS (tetris in 4 dimension) http://www.illusions/4dtris
Hello, i've just rewritten one of my old pascal game. It is a 4 dimensional tetris. [Simzer, Jan 19 2008]
Miegakure http://marctenbosch.com/miegakure/
4d puzzle platformer under development [iaoth, Jun 14 2011]
Shadowmatic http://www.appunwra...-walkthrough-guide/
Rotate 3d objects to produce 2d shadow [bungston, Nov 17 2015]
YouTube: Designing a 4D World : Miegakure https://www.youtube...watch?v=vZp0ETdD37E
[zen_tom, Aug 04 2017]
Since 3D TV is finally being trialled early next year, will we soon be moving on to 5D games displayed as 4D on a 3D screen? Coz I think I might melt. +
— moomintroll, Dec 20 2005
Hah! Im having a hard time visualizing something displayed as 4D on a 3D screen in the first place, much less 4D representation of a 5D world! My head is melting, too.
[+] I'd never heard of Kata and Ana before.
— zen_tom, May 05 2006
Have you read Spaceland, by Rudy Rucker? Good stuff. (+)
— GutPunchLullabies, May 05 2006
I've not read Spaceland, but I have a copy of Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, a Square. And really enjoyed that.
The sci-fi adventure "The Dig" used this for a bit (although not very explicitly) - quite a bit of the technology was based on objects that appeared or disappeared when shifted in this 4th dimension.
There are some problems with a game where you could freely travel in this 4th dimension. It would be very hard to provide "borders", and limit the player (see also: Klein bottle). And what would happen if while travelling kata for a bit the player encounters an object appearing in the middle of his head? Bet you didn't see that coming! And finally, there'd be the choice between fully visualizing this 4th dimension in a 3D game on a 2D screen (which would be extremely confusing) or simply presenting a 3D world that would change when pressing one of two buttons (which would reduce travel in the 4th dimension to a kind of magic, or worse, "turning objects on or off").
— Forthur, May 22 2006
That's an interesting point - we can see a 3d representation 'projected' onto a 2D surface using apparent perspective, where things converge toward one (or more) vanishing points as they go off into the distance. How would you show this perspective effect if you were tryng to project a 4D situation into a 3D space - you still ought to be able to see in that 4th dimension, or at least, some kind of projection of it.
//some kind of projection of it.//
In what direction are you looking at your screen? Kata or ana? Kata always gives me headaches...
Is there a name for "normal 3D", which is a zero movement in the 4th dimension?
Oh yes, that's a good point. In a 2D projection, it is our position in relation to the screen that actually does all the projecting. I forgot about that.
How about some kind of shimmery effect around all objects, that permeates into all directions/views etc, in order to give some clues as to what's off stage ana/kata.
I'm not so sure about Forthur's point regarding the difficulty of delimiting the environment as the characters are still only moving in the standard 3 dimensions.
If the 4th dimension can be expressed mathematically then a PC shouldn't have too much trouble rendering it. However, the person who designs this world will probably have to spend months in therapy afterwards and I don't envy anyone who sits on the game's support desk.
— DrBob, May 22 2006
//characters are still only moving in the standard 3 dimensions// I understood they were to be free in the 4th dimension too, which means they could pass walls at that place in the 4th dimension where the walls wouldn't be there, or differently shaped.
//If the 4th dimension can be expressed mathematically then a PC shouldn't have too much trouble rendering it.// Not too much trouble *calculating* it, you mean. Rendering is quite something different. Although... Maybe kata should be a kind of fading overlay of the object in one color (say green), and ana in another color (say red). This would limit how far you could "look" in those directions, just as much as your 3D eye is limited. Shimmering would be optional.
If an enemy is 3D, does it have to be the standard three dimensions? Or could it be 3D (1, 3, and 4) without 2, so that moving up or down would remove the enemy from play?
— phundug, May 22 2006
Drat. I was hoping this would be a game that could be used to train the mind to 'see' in the fourth, like in that Greg Bear story [Goes off to find 'Tangents'] 'Tangents'.
— stilgar, May 22 2006
A game like this would be training the mind as much as participating in a NASCAR race would be training for your drivers license.
Very slick. I do not think that such a game would be best suited for a primary fighting game, but rather one of those puzzle solving games.
[Forthur]'s comment (does the 's go inside or outside brackets?) about an object appearing inside your head is pretty nifty too. I think that there should be a limited set of 4D objects - maybe 40 or 50. Players will get a feel for where these things are in 4D space by their 3D appearance, and understand which ones have projections liable to appear at head level after this happens a few times. Unlike the real hapless 3d adventurer who would learn very little after having his cerebrum share space with a shifting 4D object, the gamer would note what happened and learn from it.
3D simulations are so good in video games I do not think this would be so hard to do.
I do not think boundaries would be so hard either - just make it wrap in 4D.
I am wondering about the mass of a 4D object. Is it determined by the aspect projecting into 3D space, or is it the mass of the whole object?
— bungston, May 22 2006
[bungston], are you planning to write a physics engine for the 4D game? Better buy a lot of aspirin first. ;-)
I would think the "mass" as we know it for a 4D object would be the mass of its current 3D projection. It may help to see the 4th dimension as "time": an object may increase or decrease its mass over time, but its current mass is, well, the mass it has *right now* (which is the current location in the 4th dimension in our game).
[bungston], I also like your idea of not having too much 4D objects. The (cliche) plot for the game could be something like: The first warpdrive powered manned probe to another galaxy fails; the lone survivor (surprise! It's you) ends up in an empty cave on a barren planet. Here he discovers the remains of an alien with a curious amulet, which enables him to travel in the 4th dimension, which he uses to pass some rocks that blocked off the deep end of the cave. Behind them, he discovers a city with friendly aliens, that are desperate for his help since their planet is destroyed by <generic catastrophe> and they're running out of <generic resource>. They're simple 3D, but have some 4D artifacts that they don't know how to use. There's a task for you...
If we assume there to be 4 dimensions, then *everything* is 4D, not just specific objects. Maybe we should make a distinction between objects that change when going kata or ana, and objects that do not. But how would the player himself change when going kata or ana? Do objects at different locations in the 4th dimension affect the player? What would a NPC alien see when the player moves past him in the kata direction? would the player "appear" and then "disappear"?
// I understood they were to be free in the 4th dimension too//
<re-reads idea properly>
Ah, yes. So it does. You're right.
/If we assume there to be 4 dimensions, then *everything* is 4D, not just specific objects./
Not necessarily. A 2D creature could move about on flat surfaces in a 3D world. I would propose that the player remain 3D.
One job in the game could be to manipulate 4D objects from 1 3D vantagepoint. I think players could catch on to this fairly quickly - manipulating an object through shapeshifts is standard stuff.
Consider, though, a 4D object. One might give it a push so that a different 3D aspect appears in your current 3D plane. That different aspect might not appear in front of you. It may be thousands of miles away. If I pick up a 3D manifestation of a 4D object and carry it with me, or if the object falls toward a gravitational body, does the rest of the 4D object appear to move from the perspective of other 3D viewers at different 3D vantagepoints? It might, or it might not, or it might rotate in 4D. This would be more advanced stuff, needless to say.
The top level would be the one in which the player actually moved through the 4th dimension. If gravity only works on the aspect of an object currently in your own dimension, that means mass is not a fixed number for the object. It also means that the forces on the object as a whole determining its motion in 4D must be the vector addition of all the different 3D gravities. It might be possible to push an object through 3D planes into one which contains a very massive 3D object, which gravitationally seizes the 3D manifestation of the object and whisks it away.
I think that in the game, the 4D objects should be rare, to keep it simple. Maybe of a given color to help identify them. I am sure the aliens would know which things they were. Moving through 4D early on in the game should find fairly barren and empty dimensions - no gravity, no inhabitants, and only the other 3D maifestations of the current 4D objects. Later, these other 3D planes might have things in them important for solving the puzzle - gravitational masses, other 3D objects, or even other NPCs..
I think that an excellent adaptation of this concept would be 4D Tetris. Just as there are a limited number of blocks in tetris, so would there be a limited number of 4D puzzle shapes. One could peruse these in advance in a learners mode.
4D Tetris! Brilliant! I get dizzy thinking about it - I know a few people who hated Blockout since they couldn't think 3D.
The target of 4D Tetris would have to be to create 3D cubes, which then disappear, after which all blocks ana to the cube would fall a ways kata.
Could someone create a concept screenshot of 4D tetris? I'm very curious.
Maybe we could use a 3D representation of a series of cubes (each consisting of 6 x 6 x 6 cells), a bit diagonally from eachother (in all 3 dimensions), and each a distinctive color. "Filled" cells would be nearly opaque, empty cells would be nearly transparant. Blocks falling through the 4th dimension would change color on each step, and move diagonally a little. As soon as one of the cubes of a certain color is filled completely, the cells in it are emptied again, after which every cube shifts its contents to the next one.
In 2D Tetris there was one rotational axis. In 3D, three. How much for 4D? Does anyone know?
And would the blocks be 3D or 4D? In the 3D Tetris variant "Blockout" you could choose from a few block sets, of which one was classic 2D. Maybe we could do something like that here too.
I propose that as soon as we have 4D Tetris coded, we start working on a 4D Arkanoid clone.
A simple 4D adaptation would be to have simultaneous 3D tetris games on 4 screens. These would correspond to different 3D planes through which the 4D object extended. A turn would turn the block in all 4 views.
Initially one would remove the 5th dimension - time. The player would get used to the blocks. Then reintroduce the falling aspect at higher levels. Then reduce the number of screens at the highest level. One must remember the configuration of the sitting 4D blocks in order to properly place the currently falling one.
I wonder if it is possible to truly see in 4D. Imagine a 2D creature. It can only percieve the plane in front of it. Even if it learned to angle itself off its usual plane, it could still only see a new plane at a different angle, I suppose because its eyes would be 2D. We, with 3D eyes, probably can't see a 4th dimension, only 3D views of it, as previoiusly suggested for 4D Tetris.
Even if the 2D creature could bend itself so each eye was on a different plane, it'd be seeing two different planes, and probably unable to put them together into anything meaningful. I suppose we should consider what would happen if it bent itself at the eye, and if it might be able to learn to make sense of what it was seeing.
— JoshM1217, Sep 23 2006
I like the multiple-view 4d Tetris idea. I think another approach, perhaps more suited to an adventure, is to allow the player and objects to move ana or kata in discrete units. For the most part, the 3D sections of the game that exist in different spaces in the fourth dimension are seperated from each other by "walls". However, there are "holes" in these walls through which the player can put his or her self, objects, or maybe the business end of a 4D periscope. Some of the holes are doorways that can't be opened until certain conditions are met. 4D objects would have to be moved or rotated from one 3D space to make something attainable in another.
Think of the controls for that game. Keyboard+mouse to move through 3D, and the scroll wheel on the mouse fot kata? Where would you put ana? I would suggest playing the game with two mice, both with scroll wheels, for precision dimension manipulaton.
— Veho, Sep 23 2006
Adenaxis (linked) is a playable demo of a 4D space shooter. I didn't find it particularly intuitive, but that probably says more about my spacial awareness in four dimensions than it does about the game.
— st3f, Sep 23 2006
I wonder how one could make a 5d game in which there is a 3d plane and two different kinds of time, rather than a 4d plane with normal time.
Would all of the objects be constantly multiplying?
— apocalyps956, Sep 23 2006
Hm, if one of the dimesions represented time, you could introduce a living element. Like where you would need a herd of rabbits to accomplish a task, so you move to a future where an initial pair of bunnies has procreated enough to help you with your task. Or you have to move backwards in time to get enough dinosaurs (ad-libbing here) to solve some other puzzle. So living objects multiply or diminish depending on your movement through the time dimension(s).
//In 2D Tetris there was one rotational axis. In 3D, three. How much for 4D? Does anyone know?//
For two and three dimensions the number of rotational axis' can be expressed with the following function:
R(d)=(d-1)+(d-2) ... (d-d)
according to that formula, a four dimensional object would have six rotational axis'. I don't know if that formula is accurate, though.
Maybe it would be easier to fight enemies if you moved kata or ana a little bit so that they would be a little smaller and wouldn't be able to inflict as much damage.
Perhaps you could make it ten-dimensional (11 including time) and one could gain the ability to move in more dimensions as he progress through the game. That would be really complicated. There would be 2048 posible locations if you only move to two different places in each dimension. If you could move to 100 different locations in each dimension, then there would be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1e+22 or 10 sextillion) possible locations and with 1,000,000 posible locations in each dimension there would be 1,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1e+66 or one unvigintillion) possible locations.
/ there would be 1,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1e+66 or one vigentillion) possible locations./
Most of them would be boring, I bet.
Are there any fighting games where players manipulate swords or other weapons realistically? That is, the position of the sword in space really matters, and one can parry etc. A fighting game with some 3D and some 4D weapons might be cool. I can imagine a 4D sword or a 4D mace and chain.
— bungston, Sep 24 2006
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sp: vigintillion
And one vigintillion is equal to 10^63, not 10^66
See link
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*prepares for math feud*
— DesertFox, Sep 24 2006
//Are there any fighting games where players manipulate swords or other weapons realistically? That is, the position of the sword in space really matters, and one can parry etc.//
Oblivion does a reasonable job of this although it's an adventure game rather than a fighting game.
— DrBob, Sep 25 2006
//Are there any fighting games where players manipulate swords or other weapons realistically? That is, the position of the sword in space really matters, and one can parry etc.// Nintendo's new console, Wii (don't laugh), has a controller with solid-state motion and tilt sensors (gyroscopes), which gives the console feedback on the position and angle of the controller, as well as normal controllery feedback (buttons). This allows the movements of a sword in the game to follow the movements of the controller, which in this case emulates the sword hilt. See link.
//And one vigintillion is equal to 10^63, not 10^66// I guess it would be one unvigintillion then
I was watching Adventure Time, and the hero Finn created a 4D bubble that had a tremendous gravitational pull. This did not seem right to me and I began thinking again of this thread. How does gravity behave in 4 dimensions?
/How about some kind of shimmery effect around all objects, that permeates into all directions/views etc, in order to give some clues as to what's off stage ana/kata./ — zen_tom, May 22 2006
It does not seem right that mass could change for a 4D object depending on what aspect what projecting across our 3D perspective - just as a Flatlander trying to move a circle along might find it inexplicably massive if it were actually a sphere.
A 4D object in our dimension would be more massive than it would appear to be because its gravity would be based on all of its 4D mass, much of which would not be apparent to a 3D viewer. Imagine this object were pushed out of our 3D plane. It then could not be seen or felt, but its gravity would continue to attract to the mass center. Thus an out of phase 4D object would simply appear as a gravitational attraction.
I wonder if this model could explain dark matter?
— bungston, Jun 03 2011
If you had a 4D object, the mass which was not in the same 3D plane as you would have no gravitational effect.
To take the 3D/2D analogy:
Imagine a dense 3D ball hovering above flatland. A flatman is standing underneath it, but he will feel no upwards pull, because he's constrained to the flat surface. (A pull has to create a displacement, and there is nowhere for him to be displaced to, if he's stuck on the plane.)
Now imagine that the sphere just dips into flatland, making a small circle, and imagine that the flatman is standing just to one side of this circle.
We (looking at it from a 3D viewpoint) would say that there is a large gravitational force pulling the flatman in a mostly upwards and slightly sideways direction (ie, the centre of mass of the sphere is above him and just slightly off to one side).
However, from the foregoing, it's clear that the vertical component of the force will have no effect on the flatman. Instead, he will only feel the very small sideways component of the vector, commensurate with the small circle next to him in flatland.
As the sphere sinks lower into flatland, it's "3D" force becomes angled more and more towards the horizontal until, when the sphere's equator intersects flatland, all of its gravitational pull is directed sideways, and the flatman feels all of the force.
As the sphere continues downward, its pull has a greater vertical component (now downwards) and a correspondingly smaller horizontal component (which is the only component felt by the flatman). At the same time, the circle in flatland becomes smaller and smaller.
So, in a sort of a kind of a way, it all makes sense from both perspectives: we see a sphere whose gravitational pull is constant in magnitude but changing in direction. The flatman sees a circle which grows and then shrinks while its force on him increases and then declines.
— MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 03 2011
Could you escape the coils of the kataconda, sneaking up from be-underhind you, by anapulting yourself to safety?
Also, would you like to meet Anna and Katya, being the outmost and inmost shells of a four-dimensional matryoshka?
— pertinax, Jun 05 2011
Nice explanation Max. Vectors. It makes sense. But what force would act on the constrained flatman if he quickly affixed a set of flatlander tricycle handlebars (with a bell) to the 3d sphere and hung on to them? Since he is immune to that vector pulling the 3d sphere out of his plane, could he stop the motion of the entire 3d object? Could he slide it along, using only a force necessary to move the mass of the aspect in his plane?
Well, wouldn't the tricyclist be frustrated by the difficulty of finding a 2D fixative that could interfere in any way with movement in the third dimension? In other words, wouldn't 2D glue (or weld, or whatever) just slide off as the sphere moved away?
//what force would act on the constrained flatman if he quickly affixed a set of flatlander tricycle handlebars (with a bell) to the 3d sphere and hung on to them?//
He couldn't do it. By definition, he can only attach something to the circle in his plane. If the sphere descends or climbs, the circle gets larger or smaller and "escapes" the knot he'd tied around it. I think.
My analogy isn't perfect, though. For instance, if the entire sphere is slightly above Flatland, but well off to the left of him, then its gravitational vector will still pull him strongly leftward even though there is nothing visible in Flatland.
(Which point, I suppose, harks back to a discussion elsewhere about "dark matter" - stuff which pulls but is not visible.)
This would work much better as a VR game. Also this idea makes my head hurt [+]
— Voice, Jun 05 2011
Having considered this game I now permanently think in 4 dimensions. Thank you.
/harks back to a discussion elsewhere about "dark matter/
I was getting excited about thinking about this today. Imagine not some funky 4D sphere but normal 3D objects, each in their own 3D planes. OK, for illustration instead consider a series of flatland planes stacked like shelves. Objects on different planes at some 2D distance from each other attract each other because most of the vector is the 2d distance. Objects in different planes but at no 2D distance (right on top of each other) exert no gravity on each other. One could gravitationally detect extraplanar objects at a distance but not close. That is just like dark matter.
Now is where my physics gets sketchy. Gravity between planes would not obey the inverse square law because the extraplanar vector component is subtracted. Objects in various planes gravitationally attracting each other would still "orbit" one another but it is not clear to me how those orbits would behave: a stack of flatland shelves would be predictable, but what if some flatland planes are perpendicular to each other, or they wrinkle on 3D space. One could have one flatlander be in the same 2D location as two extraplanar others, who themselves were far distant from each other on their own plane which they perceive as flat but is actually very wrinkly in 3D.
It seems like 4D objects as dark matter should be modelable and testable.
Actually I have personal evidence of a kind of absolute Platic form dimension where things can be more or possibly less the amount of their actual absolute meaning of being.
Thus moving along that cline a cigar would go from just a cigar to an absolute essence of cigarness.
It does seem to have something to do with perception. how is it that a sky blue car differs from a white car, yet physically two white cars have similar meanings yet radically different masses. yet two of the identical versions of a make of car at different colors carry the greater perceived platonic amplitude difference.
Receptivity to those platonic like absolutes of form appears to adjustable. Ive seen those that can adjust the amount of activation be able to do things like teleportation or action at a distance which are the kind of activities some people that strive to appreciate higher dimensionality like.
Ive thought of some plausible reverifiable actions to test dimension of mind. Like if you have a radiant form then surround it with people each wearing a different shape of shield, can you then write up their perceptions, where a mathematical description would show that the shapes of the shields affected the received perception. Or, if you put something amazing at the center of a circle of persons, each wearing a different variety of tinfoil hat, could you show that the people that had (circle, square or wavy) similar gaps at their tinfoil hats of the same shape has similar impressions of the core radiant
I imagine the reactions to this as ranging from polite perplexity to enthusiasm that there is a way to test what Jung called synchronicity with the use of synchronicity gap filters
You could also use some of the amplifiers ive noticed to see if they could affect people perceptions as well.
Truly, get an equitalented group of people, then have them do a precision task while wearing variously G A or P letterized shirts each either Green, Blue or Red, then measure the effect on performance of rotating the shirts. I predict Blue G would always have greater precision than red A on average as the actual humans rotated through the platonic costumes. regardless of what I predict, its the isolation of platonic forms that creates new technological possibilities.
a reverifiable description of a dimension of mind that goes beyond Jung would be beneficial
here is another one: test the emotional visual reflex of persons to a scene made up of the phrase "sea squill squill" as well as a sphere plus a cube. see if persons that have different emotional reactions (if any) to that have absence or presence of reactions to phrases like "I know you dont see it" Regardless of what this means to readers these seperable groups of reactors could well have different reactions at the letterized color shirt test. The purpose being to find reproducible variations on dimension of mind.
— beanangel, Jun 13 2011
//If the sphere descends or climbs, the circle gets larger or smaller and "escapes" the knot he'd tied around it. I think//
For a sphere, yes, But imagine a 3D dumbell passing through 2D flatland. If Mr Flat runs round the small circle when the dumbbell is halfway though, and then ties a nice tight knot, has he not "caught" the 3D object?
Could we not similarly trap a 4D dumbbell in a box?
— pocmloc, Jun 13 2011
// imagine a 3D dumbell passing through 2D flatland. If Mr Flat runs round the small circle when the dumbbell is halfway though, and then ties a nice tight knot, has he not "caught" the 3D object?//
If the 3D-object's velocity is at an exact normal to the plane then it could be trapped by a *partially* pulled 2D-cord. Otherwise, if it was coming in at an angle or if the cord was pulled tight, it would just cut the object in half.
However an intelligently directed object could indeed be trapped by giving it the choice of staying put or being sliced.
— FlyingToaster, Jun 14 2011
You (mostly) seem to be treating the 4th dimension as special, but in a 4D world, ana/kata would be just like up/down, left/right and back/forward; ie. not special, just another diection to move.
<Flatland analogy>
If a flatlander were able to move in 3D (in a 3D world), he would still only see in 2D; a 'slice' of the 3D world, that he can re-orient (because he can move 3D). He doesn't 'lose' a particular direction (like 'up/down'), he can see a slice of 3D where-ever he looks. His viewplane can be in any direction, unconstrained.
/<Fa>
Extend this into 4D - the 3D character can move in 4D, but only sees a 'slice' in 3D (projected in 2D on screen etc). His direction of view (and motion) is orientable among all 4 dimensions. It's up to you to understand the 4D world you're looking at (which would be very difficult) as you move and look.
(Aside: most videogame controllers have 2 joysticks - 4D control already built in!)
In the game, you would have to constantly shift your view direction, to make sense of where you were, and moving rapidly would be hazardous; so it would be a puzzle-type game, not fighting/combat or racing.
Hmm, this drivel may have confused me more than you, just by writing it...
— neutrinos_shadow, Jun 14 2011
Bean, why is Blue G the best? Also, the synchronicity gap filter, which I googled to no avail.
//it would just cut the object in half//
Aah - does an object that exists in (x) dimensions behave as a kind of ultimate knife when wielded in (x+1) dimensions?
Or is it all just about field of view?
//act as a knife in x+1 dimension//
Well, dealer's choice on the assumptions, but if a dim(x+1) object's x attributes are the same as a native dim(x) object, a solid would block it's passage, while a liquid or gas would be moved aside.
An x+1 hyper-needle, traversing a 3D scene might appear to the eye as a tiny globe that gets bigger then remains the same size for awhile.
Reading this one again after Inyuki posted 4D Tetris.
Braid is a videogame which does a nice job with 4D puzzles except the 4D is time. The linked video has an editor screen which I had no idea was part of the game. Time direction experienced by the character is depicted by speed/direction of musical accompaniment.
Max, are you there? Take a look at your analogy with the Flatlander that you posted. This part: /However, from the foregoing, it's clear that the vertical component of the force will have no effect on the flatman. Instead, he will only feel the very small sideways component of the vector, commensurate with the small circle next to him in flatland./
The Flatlander feels a sideways component when the 3D sphere intersects his plane. He feels nothing when the sphere is just above him, out of his plane because the out of plane vecotr does not count. But does he feel a sideways component when the sphere is out of his plane but to one side? It seems that he should, and this component should be weaker as he gets closer, and be zero when directly underneath.
I don't believe any of this more-than-3-spatial dimensions stuff. It sounds like nonsense. Analogies to imagined 2D people do not create a true understanding of something in reality. A vague idea of what some imagined thing may be like does not a valid scientific or mathematic idea create. Yeah, yeah, sure, MAYBE there are 10 dimensions or whatever, and we just can't "see" them. But such ideas will always be meaningless to humans, such maths cannot represent anything we actually know. Scientists need to accept that science itself is limited by human perception.
— EdwinBakery, Jun 07 2012
hmmmm..., OK, I came up with a good way to say what I'm trying to say.
Science is a kind of philosophy, a method, of answering questions/ describing phenomena. Implicit in "phenomena" is phenomena that humans OBSERVE.
It's oberve-> describe-> theorize-> test-> come up with theory. Along with of course, an assumption of the validity of deductive reasoning/pattern-forming (as in, it is entirely possible that every once in a while something falls UP and it's just that nobody's seen it, but that's doubtful and we assume it's not true and that the idea of gravity makes sense)
But that OBERSVE part is the kicker. It needs to be observable by humans. All ideas in the first place need to be within the scope of human perception/understanding, and our ability to understand things/ideas is limited by our perception. This is why we can only come up with weird, vague analogies for imagining more than 3 dimensions. In reality it's not something we observe.
Sure we can observe phenomena that these theories are meant to describe, but perhaps these theories are wrong and there are much simpler explanations. And the ideas that the theories are based on should eventually be directly testable/observable. And they sure as hell should actually make sense in terms of human perception.
things being drawn together by some force that just exists, that's imaginable. Electric fields creating magnetic fields creating Electric fields and thus make electrmagnetic waves makes sense, hell, we've all SEEN waves. All these things are within the scope of our sense and thus our imagination. But more than 3 spatial dimensions? What would that even mean? What the heck would that be?
//What the heck would that be?// Have you ever read Plato's Allegory of The Cave? It's a thought experiment over 2500 years old that covers just this thing. It doesn't provide any answers to your question, but it does (potentially) put it into context.
— zen_tom, Jun 07 2012
yeah, like I said, vague anaolgies to imagined 2-D only people/actors and what they would see in a 3-D world. I covered that. Something tells me people are going to keep bringing stuff like that up anyways in response to what I've said
Yes, you covered it, but you've missed the analogous point - that it is conceivable to see one thing and think it is true, when *in reality* it might just be a projection. Take proven (i.e. observed) wierdness in quantum dynamics, spooky action at a distance, apparent breaking of causality etc. Without recorse to theory, there's no real way to explain those observable phenomena. If you can theorise something, and provide the mathematics to prove it, and using that mathematics, be able to predict future applications and behaviours within acceptable tolerances - i.e. make your theory testable and refutable - then it may well be the case that the underlying model might be a better description of reality, despite what common sense might dictate.
Take radio for example, nobody can directly observe it, but the mathematics holds up - and pretty much all of us accept it to be true - despite there being some frankly unusual and unexplainable properties of radio waves; Inverse square law, speed of light, bending of waves around gravitational "lenses", dopplar shift being proportional to distance, suggesting the ability of "space" to change shape, self-interference of individual photons, quantum tunnelling...it all gets pretty far out
Now interestingly enough, there *is* a mathematical theory that might suggest that there are a limited number of dimensions, *and* which points towards that number being a sort of 3+1 configuration. There are the Real numbers, which are 1-dimensional, for which addition is the opposite of subtraction, division is the opposite of multiplication etc. Furthermore, if you multiply 5x4, you get the same number as if you multiplied 4x5, the order doesn't matter. There are other properties as well. Then there are the Imaginary numbers, for which all the above properties hold, which extend out into 2 dimensions. If you try to come up with an algebra with *only* 3 dimensions, it all goes a bit wrong. But with 4 (i.e. 3+1) you get back to a working number system - only with Quarternions (which is what this 3+1 system is called), 5x4 does not equal 4x5, i.e. it's noncommutative. If you take that and consider it as a physical model, it might have something to say about the arrow of time. Finally, you can sensibly continue to divide 20/4 and get 5. But why stop there? There's a wider system of numbers called the Octonions, which is sort of analogous to an 8-dimensional space (or perhaps a 7+1 dimensional space) at which point, division stops making sense. It just doesn't work any more. In fact, it's proven that you can only divide in 1, 2 or 4 dimensional systems. In fact, as you add more dimensions, more and more of the common rules of mathematics break down and stop making sense. That *might* prove fundamentally important in terms of describing physical systems - then again, it might not, but it is interesting all the same.
/All these things are within the scope of our sense and thus our imagination./ which itself is a product of our culture and place in history and biological phenotype.
The test of any model is whether it makes accurate predictions about what really happens. I revisited this 4D thing to speculate how gravity would interact with extraplanar objects and see if an additional spatial dimension could explain dark matter.
A separate issue is whether this would make a good video game.
hmmm... indeed with the accurate predictions thing, but there is also the element where the theory needs to make sense according to all the other theories, because in the long run if they don't match it can cause screw-ups when you're dealing with things that involve different kinds of science/engineering. All the classical physics work together perfectly well, but then quantum mechanics is all screwy, and negates a lot of rules created in the classical physics. Frankly, if quantum mechanics starts actually getting used more in engineering one day, they're going to run into problems. I can just imagine the scientists arguing about what elements of a machine are going to cause what effect because their own fields say different things about the world.
A good, simple example would be electrons "orbiting" around the atom. Numerous physics teachers will tell you different things, but the reality is we DON'T KNOW what's going on. All they know is the bubble/shape an electron might be in at any one time. They don't know if it's zipping around in there, or disappearing and reappearing here and there, or what. And if it IS orbiting, according to classical physics it should release electromagnetic radiation and lose its energy and slow down. There quite simply isn't an answer. Even Niels Bohr, writing his theory, when asked why the electron doesn't fall into the proton, simply said "It just doesn't". Even Schrodinger's cat was meant as an example of the practical ludicrousness of some aspect of quantum theory.
Frankly I think part of the problem is that all this stuff is on a much more smaller, more specialized scale that is just results from lab experiments. There isn't enough of these phenomena around and common enough that we could really see what's going on and be sure about our theories. With this kind of stuff, this theory or that theory COULD be true, or in 50 years it could turn out to be something completely different; some kind of theory that no one thought of.
I'm partial to some sort of theory like the one came up by Blacklight Power, basically a guy who came up with a completely different theory that most scientists are saying is wrong, and he claims he's invented a way to make power by utilizing some lower energy state of hydrogen lower than what we already know, and supposedly using a mix of Rainey nickel and a metal hydride can produce excess power. I don't know the details of the theory, but he claims that the electron orbits are not electrons orbiting, but the whole orbit is the charge. That it isn't a point charge/particle like we're used to describing. I'll bet the reality is it's something LIKE that.
// the reality is we DON'T KNOW what's going on. All they know is the bubble/shape an electron might be in at any one time.//
Actually we do know what's going on, it's just that we don't like it. We know what's going on with an electron much, much, much more precisely than we know what's going on in the turbulence behind and aeroplane, or what's going on in the economy. In fact we know what's going on orders of magnitude more precisely than we know the distance between London and New York.
What you mean is that we don't have an intuitive understanding of what's going on. Well, if what's actually going on does not lend itself to an intuitive understanding, that's our problem rather than reality's.
I think of this concept occasionally. A nifty approach would be to adapt the Shadowmatic concept (see link) where floating 3d objects are rotated to produce a desired 2d shadow. I think 4d objects would be hard to render but you can render a 3d object and then rotate it thru 4 dimensions to produce desired 3d object.
Really that would not be too hard: it would be a 3d shape that morphs smoothly into other 3d shapes along a continuum as you rotate thru 4th dimension. Once you understood where each shape was along the continuum it would be doable. The trick would be to position the item in your dimension such that rotating it in 4d will produce the desired 3d shape(s) relative to shapes in your plane.
Early levels would have 3d shapes that change smoothly into other 3d shapes. But shapes that are irregular in the 4th dimension might have 3d aspects that pop into view at a distance.
5d objects would appear as a 3d shape with a different series of 3d shapes when rotated thru 4d, depending on its orientation in the 5d.
An dark Lovecraftian world of non-Euclidean geometry would be the setting for such a game. This game could be called Demention.
— bungston, Nov 17 2015
//5d objects would appear as 3d shapes// so... werewolves, vampires (that can change into bats and wolves), political campaign promises, et cetera.
— FlyingToaster, Nov 17 2015
Pondering this one again. 3d objects portrayed in 2d happen all the time on computer screens. Flipping the square depicting the 3d scenario such that it is now at 45 degrees to the viewer would be doable. It would portrayed as a page in a book, showing the object. One could then have a series of such pages with 3d depictions which would represent a 4 dimensional object.
5 dimensions is hard for me so far. Still thinking...
— bungston, Dec 08 2016
I have built (from scratch) a 3D wire-frame model display in Q-Basic (many moons ago). The conversion from the 3D co-ordinate system to the 2D (screen) co-ordinates was pretty simple; the hard part was keeping track of all the points and lines as they drew and re-drew.
I would suggest you do the same, only from 4D (space) to 3D ("character view") to 2D (screen). Create some simple 4D shape to wire-frame, and trust the equations (assuming you can figure them out...).
— neutrinos_shadow, Dec 08 2016
//Going through a 4D world seen as 3D displayed on a 2D screen.// using signals sent down a 1D wire carrying electrons which are, to all in tents and porpoises, zero-dimensional points.
— MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 09 2016
My imagining for a game of this type would be not to try and display the 4D shapes at all, stay in 3D with only the volumes to play with. The character in the game would be able to find 4D shape descriptions and then manipulate the volume, with Ana/Kata, once the intrusion volume is correctly orientated with shape description. This opens up different 4D shapes to teleport characters to closed rooms, crush enemies and turn on unreachable switches or physics cascades.
The whole principle would be to stimulate thought about the 3D volume changes with respect to chosen movement of a 4D shape.
— wjt, Aug 05 2017
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Kaletha’s walk-off lifts Hoosiers over Boilers, 7-5
April 8, 2018 Mike Miller Baseball 30 comments
Logan Kaletha wasn’t sure just how far it would go.
The Indiana leadoff man knew he put a good swing on Cameron Williams’ 2-2 curveball in the bottom of the 13th inning. Yet, throughout the afternoon, he’d also watched several other hard-hit balls linger and die in the cold April air.
This one, however, didn’t disappoint.
Kaletha drove Williams’ one-out breaking ball over the left-centerfield fence for a two-run homer, helping the No. 16 Hoosiers walk off 7-5 winners and clinch a series victory against Purdue before an announced crowd of 2,265 at Bart Kaufman Field.
“I just kind of watched it the whole way and was pretty excited when it went out,” Kaletha said.
That much was clear by his home run trot, with Kaletha swinging his arms and motioning to his Hoosiers as he galloped around the bases. As Kaletha approached home plate, his teammates were already there waiting to swallow him whole.
They certainly did, jumping up and down, electric from the jolt of their latest comeback victory.
In a game where IU (22-6, 3-2) trailed 5-1 midway through the fourth inning, the Hoosiers offered the latest reminder of their resiliency, depth and balance.
They made several clutch defensive plays in the latter innings, received outstanding bullpen contributions from Matt Lloyd and Cal Krueger and, eventually, found the one big swing from Kaletha, who has excelled in this situation before.
Kaletha provided the homer that lifted IU to one of its earliest come-from-behind wins of the season, hitting a walk-off grand slam against South Alabama on Feb. 18.
Sunday’s big swing was unquestionably more satisfying.
There was the rivalry component, of course, and the fact that Kaletha, a Michigan City native, grew up playing with and against a few Boilermakers, including Purdue Friday night starter Tanner Andrews.
Perhaps best of all was what this win meant to the players around Kaletha — a delightful result on a day when nearly everyone seemed to contribute.
“That was probably one of the better team wins we’ve had so far,” Kaletha said.
The winning effort began on the mound.
After starter Cam Beauchamp and reliever Connor Manous struggled through the first few innings, Krueger and Lloyd largely shut down the Boilers (15-12, 4-2) across the final eight frames.
Krueger tossed three perfect innings, notching four strikeouts before yielding to Lloyd, who locked in over five impressive innings of work.
Lloyd, Indiana’s closer and super utility man, seldom pitches more than an inning or two. On Sunday, a day that he started at second base, Lloyd more than doubled his workload.
“It gets tough with Lloyd, too, because he becomes the DH and you’re taking that out of the game,” IU coach Chris Lemonis said of sticking with Lloyd longer than usual. “You have a 27-man roster for the weekend, so I’m scratching my head and we’re looking at the rule book to make sure we have everything right because you want to pinch run somebody and do some different things, too. You’re kind of limited when it’s Lloyd because he came off the field, just from a rule standpoint.”
Sticking with him on Sunday worked well.
With Krueger and Lloyd handling Purdue’s lineup, Indiana mounted its comeback at the plate.
It started with a pair of RBI singles by Elijah Dunham and Justin Walker in the bottom of the fourth. Matt Gorski followed with his own run-scoring base hit in the fifth, cutting Purdue’s lead to 5-4.
Then, in the seventh, Scotty Bradley continued his recent torrid streak at the plate with a solo homer to right field that tied the game at 5-all.
“That pitcher (Trevor Cheaney) had a really good breaking ball and he got through Ryan (Fineman) and Logan (Sowers) relatively quick,” Bradley said. “At that point, with two outs, he’s spinning a lot of breaking balls. I figured he wanted it to be a quick inning. I went up there sitting fastball. Getting my swing off, I got a good piece of it and got (it). Anything to help the team. Glad I could do it. What an unbelievable win it was.”
It was made all the sweeter by the defensive gems Indiana enjoyed late.
Walker, who moved from short to second when Lloyd went to pitch, made a pair of athletic plays in the field to help the Hoosiers escape the 10th.
The best defensive play of the day belonged to shortstop Jeremy Houston in the top of the 12th.
After pinch hitter Nick Evarts led off with a double down the left field line, Houston got IU out of the inning with a great play in the hole. He spun to snag a ball to his right, then shot up and threw a strike to first base for the third out.
Runner stranded. Tie preserved.
“That’s our biggest strength of our team,” Lemonis said of IU’s depth. “As a game goes on like that on a Sunday, we’re running out Cal Krueger, Matt Lloyd. I’ve got B.J. Sabol, who doesn’t pitch on the weekend. He’s been as good as anybody. That’s one of the strengths of our team. Our players, too. I mean, who’s bringing Jeremy Houston in off the bench to make those plays? That’s one of the keys for us. It’s hard for me to manage sometimes because you’re trying to keep them happy, but they’ve played really well.”
Well enough to send a message.
With the talent, depth and experience Indiana enjoys, these Hoosiers are never out of it.
“That’s the trademark of this group,” Lemonis said. “… It’s just an older mature (team) and a good bullpen lets you keep playing and fighting in those games. We’re pretty offensive. I think they all thought somebody was going to hit a home run starting about the eighth inning and they were swinging for it. Somebody finally got it.”
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Surprised that no one is commenting on IU’s baseball team, now ranked in the top 20 and coming off a series win over Purdue. I’m excited to see IU back amongst the top teams in college baseball after having our previous coach poached by Arizona State a few years ago. It’s a major accomplishment for a “northern” team to be ranked this high in a sport dominated by teams located in the southern part of the country, where weather and fan support is a huge advantage (ever see an SEC baseball game?). If IU can keep Lemonis, given the excellent baseball facilities and the fact that IU is located farther south than all other Big Ten teams, maybe IU baseball can become the dominant Big Ten baseball program like men’s soccer has over the years.
Interesting that the conference has awarded Omaha the baseball tournament championship for the next 5 seasons. It’s a very nice facility but Omaha has no Big Ten ties. Nebraska hasn’t made a blip on the conference baseball radar since joining. No other school is anywhere near Omaha.
Sure, Indy has had multiple championships but Indy is a Big Ten town with two conference members nearby and several others a reasonable drive away. You could even make a case for Chicago to a lesser extent.
Omaha? May as well be in Oklahoma City.
I live in the Four Corners area of Colorado. New Mexico is a half hour away. Arizona and Utah are about an hour.
I am, quite literally, hundreds of miles closer to Omaha than some Big Ten schools.
Hoosier Clarion says:
Good thoughts I agree with.
1 thing Chet and I believe I read it in the last couple weeks that College Park is farther south than Bloomington.
Harvard for Hillbillies says:
Don’t really know if Smith was poached….How can anyone forget his son getting involved with the Mellencamp thugs in a rather ugly incident that finally got settled via the straightforward judicial process in Monroe County (wink-wink)?
Getting away from that was probably a necessity. It should have also been a necessary in taking the name of Mellencamp off of anything at IU.
Donating shouldn’t allow for offspring to run around town in gang-like fashion.
Throw in the recent unveiling of the despicable corporate culture existing at Cuban’s Dallas Mavaricks’ organization…? Do we really value such primitive people attached to the IU name?
I must admit…we have our variety. chokers …thugs….misogynists…and carnival clowns pitching televangelists. Are you sure we’re in the “northern” sector of the country? Sure sounds like southern hospitality to me.
Double Down says:
Po, I’d love to talk baseball and I’ve been following just about every match up. MM & Andy are still tweeting away during the games, which has been a blast.
I haven’t commented on baseball much because there seems to be little appetite for people to actually talk about the game. It always devolves in to Mellencamp and horrible Tracy Smith and his gangster sons.
Oh, and there it is. Literally refreshed and saw Harv’s comment pop up. Not a single word about the game, the series or the walk off homerun (which was enjoyable watching Purdue’s CF run into the wall awkwardly). Copy and paste from some earlier thread about beatings and misbehavior.
So yeah. Happy to chat about baseball.
If Chesterville ever produces another college athlete we’ll hear all about it.
Otherwise, it’s all whine all the time.
a. Nobody knows if Smith was “poached.” He had a very nice situation at IU…until the ugly night his son and the Mellencamp boys decided to throw thug behavior in the laps of IU and IU baseball.
b. There is a tendency for Podunker to sell coaching departures as always having to do with finances(e.g. Fred’s inability to put dollars in anything other than basketball). I doubt Smith’s departure had anything to do with a “poaching” over finances/salary.
c. There is a tendency for Podunker to paint IU fans as some sort of out-of-the-norm fan base for not getting equally passionate over the “other” sports outside of men’s basketball. That shouldn’t really be acceptable. All colleges have their trademark…and their traditions. But if you want to consider such targeting at our fan base as fair, then he should (1) provide evidence that he attends baseball games…and (2) not leave out facts that could have influenced a coaching departure(e.g. campus scandal, playing players hurt, horrific quality of coaching, etc).
If this spin artist would simply offer congrats to the baseball team without the snide aimed at the fan base or Scoop participants, then you would not have received my rebuttal.
Seems to me the kettle and pot are both charred.
I U South says:
We have season tickets for the I U Baseball games, the atmosphere is great and Kaufman Field is a great facility. The attendance will get better once the weather gets warmer. tough watching the game in forty degree weather, feels like football in late November. Tracy Smith is having a tough season at ASU, their record is 14-18, and 10 and 13 at home, their baseball fans are like I U’s basketball fans, expect greatness every season. Maybe the grass isn’t so green at ASU.
^^^Sounds like a frying might be following a poaching.
Tracy Smith left IU for ASU because ASU offered to pay him about 50% more than IU was paying him, and he thought he could pursue National Championships at ASU. Call it poaching, call it luring, call it whatever you want, but ASU hired a great recruiter and our most successful baseball coach away from IU. Although Lemonis seems to be filling his shoes quite nicely, I wonder if he’s maintained the Southern California recruiting pipeline that Smith established? Anybody know how many California HS graduates there are on IU’s roster this year?
Sure, he got his cake and ate it too….Doesn’t mean he was still not seeking to leave because of matters at IU outside of finances.
And as stated by IU South, maybe the grass isn’t so green at ASU(along with current record).
I don’t think Lemonis is the one with the California pipeline problem, ASU has only 9 California players on their 34 man 2018 baseball roster.
Attaboy IU South…Tell it like it is.
Ton of Indiana kids on the IU Baseball roster. Great to see them getting it done with homegrown talent. Maybe it isn’t just a basketball state…Long time ago, but I recall two of the greatest athletes from my hometown high school were multi-sport all-stars. The pair played varsity football, basketball, and baseball by their sophomore years…They were phenomenal in all three sports. One got very close to a pro baseball career. Unfortunately, the other all-state/all-star blew out his knee in a football practice…He was never the same. He had power and size.. He was originally a starting qb but the head coach put him at running back(pounded the hell out of him) because he wanted his son at starting qb.
I think Indiana and the Midwest can probably produce all the talent IU needs to put a very competitive team onto the field.
thinkaboutit says:
I must admit I am pleasantly surprised to see all the commenting regarding the baseball program. Po stole my thunder when he started the discussion. The difficulty for a cold weather school to present a quality program of this magnitude shouldn’t go without notice. The disadvantages of being north of the Mason-Dixon line are difficult to overcome. Most of the warm weather teams have as much as 4 months more of time to be outside working on your game in the spring alone.
Hats off to the team and the program.
But for every HS prospect north of Indpls., Springfield, Cincy, KC and Pitt Bloomington is a favorable distance proximity from home and a better climate to boot. Precisely where about 70% of Coach Lemonis roster is from. The Mellencamp facility is a terrific advantage for IU baseball. Something many southern programs don’t have and the last time I was down south it frequently rains. In fact I hold high hopes Mellencamp is expanded or multiplied in the next 3-4 years. Why not multiple the advantage for all outdoor sports?
Division 1 baseball teams are limited to 11.7 scholarships per year and can be spread over 27 players, that works out to .43 per player, of course some of the better players will get a full scholarship. If the roster has 34 players you need 7 walk-ons to complete the roster. The coaches in the non football and basketball sports are trying to get the NCAA to allow more scholarships for their teams.
Interesting fact there, IU South…So maybe it’s more a quantity thing than a quality thing…? The South simply has more baseball players and scholarship disparities (compared to the numbers filled for football and basketball) are less an issue with a bigger pool of baseball talent. Deeper teams…but not necessarily higher caliber players at every position(and this could go the same for California)?
You may have just unveiled the most important detail in this entire conversation.
It always feels to me that there isn’t a state in the country that gets more rain and yuk weather than Indiana…..but I wouldn’t trade the changes in seasons for anything. Football ain’t football without the cool Canadian air bringing autumn to the doorstep of Friday nights.
The seasons are such a wonderful metaphor for all things of the human existence. We are rarely a constant and the ever-changing portrait of the calendar’s landscape is the variety so often taken for granted on this beautiful and unique planet. May the heat of the summer sun thaw the cold dread of mortal anguish …May the rains of spring be defied by the blossoms of all things that can be reborn. May the dormancy of winter allow us to rest and warm by the fires and dream of things to come.
More scholarships for baseball means more scholarships for women’s softball, or whatever women’s sports a particular school has. I’d love to see more scholarships going to baseball and softball, and other non-revenue-producing sports, but the limits are there to protect schools that don’t have lucrative football programs that could fund scholarships for the other sports. Can you imagine if the wealthiest football schools like Alabama, Michigan, OSU, Clemson, etc. were not limited in the scholarships they could provide athletes competing in non-revenue-producing sports? Those schools would have a huge advantage, and schools like IU, that don’t produce huge football revenue, would soon be outspent across the board. Unless all schools were required to share all their athletic revenues with all the other teams in their conference, college athletics would quickly become a two-teared system, with the haves and the have-nots.
I get so tired of hearing “non-revenue” this…and “non-revenue” that. Hells bells, a college education puts many families in more debt than a home mortgage. Some students will need the next 20 years before their heads even begin to get above water…They all step into the swamp of expenses that they believe will be easy to crawl out. Somebody is making some damn huge revenue somewhere. 90% of the student population are walk-on’s. There isn’t a thick checkbook…There isn’t a scholarship or free ride. There isn’t any source of revenue to pay for the mountain of costs piled onto their future pursuits of happiness.
When will these cash cows of big time athletics and mega salaries offered coaches and millions awaiting every one-and-done ever mean an ounce of relief for the broke-ass average student putting their foolish ass in a seat to cheer the rich?
All those words with no point whatsoever.
Back in the day…I used to make great points when I went to sharpen my pencil.
Zach Osterman wrote a really cool piece about how things have changed for the baseball program.
I won’t get into details because it is boring and I’m assuming many of you didn’t come here to cure your insomnia, but I walked on for a few months in the late 90’s.
My high school field was better than Sembower field. Actually, about 50% of the little league fields I played on were better. I love how Zach described in that piece how you actually had to throw up hill from right field to reach 3rd base. That was absolutely true and it was a total joke.
The athletic department prior to Knight leaving was an absolute joke. It was run worse than most high schools. Even at the time, we used to laugh at how cheap everything was. Even Yeagley was running the vastly more successful (at the time) soccer program on a shoestring budget. We used to make half-jokes that we should have a bake sale so we get someone to level out right field.
Tracy Smith took the job and got IU back into Big Ten contention before the new stadium was built. I couldn’t believe it. It was incredible. Then, the much maligned Fred Glass delivered that stadium after the Big Ten Network revenue started flowing in. That channel changed everything.
Tracy Smith invited every single player to come back and join the program when that stadium opened up. It was a personal invitation. I was a nothing nobody who contributed nothing. But I got an invitation. When I was in B-Town, I took him up on it and got to see Schwarber’s team play and Tracy Smith took us around personally. He was incredibly gracious and he didn’t look at past players with any sort of disdain or condescension. I was really happy to see the results of the investment. The new stadium is so sweet. But I knew the program was in great hands. Smith was building a program that was sustainable beyond the “Head Coach/Manager.”
So you’ll have to pardon me if I’m tired of reading our resident Eeyore repeatedly dragging his name through the mud over and over again. He’s been called on it repeatedly, but without fail, if a baseball discussion gets going past 3 comments, it’s “Mellencamp,” “gangsters,” “he left Bloomington for ASU because he’s shady!!” And our reporters and writers get a landslide of posts decrying them for not reporting on it the way he wants it. Harvard, you’re a constant conclusion in search of evidence.
Furthermore, Harvard. Straight talk. Your act is old. I’ve tried to just ignore it. But I worn out by your baseless nonsense. They say “suffer fools gladly.” Not today.
Osterman- Remember him well from Basketblog days. Excellent writer. I don’t know how many times I expressed such an opinion on Basketblog while he was barely wet behind the ears and pumping out nice little pieces for IDS. Remember one I particularly liked after he watched the Kelvin recruits play in some sort of preseason event in Noblesville…. He can sell. He can write. And he knows who he works for….Access, baby. Access. It was also fun when he used to be a guest speaker on ScoopTalk.
One other line I particularly remember from him came after his graduation and he was coming back to Bloomington on visit(or maybe work)…..”Lock up your daughters…Zack is in town.” He thinks rather highly of himself and maybe he should. Who knows..? Being humble gets you nowhere these days.
I used to call him the Osterizer….The dude could power blend a story and give it the feel of a long ago time.
If you’d been on the receiving end of the thug attack, I’d suspect you’d feel a bit differently.
Funny how I never remember any public apology for any of it ….Yet, every single kid who played under Kelvin were the objects of hatred and racism…all the while being cloaked in the ‘Good Book.’ Double Down must have never learned about double standards. Do you really think any of Sampson’s players pounding the living daylights out of the wrong face on someone’s front porch would have been offered second chances and a 2-year judicial process to play itself out? You are damn naive….or damn purposefully complacent in playing it stupid.
Lastly, I don’t care about your pigeonholing my viewpoints on the matter. I’ve been around long enough to have seen far worse here. I’ve seen singular comments filled with more vile than a thousand of my rants(e.g. telling someone they have spent their lifetime in a waiting room …or wishing someone in a body bag…or hoping someone slits their wrists).
You best look all your buddies and email contacts just as straight in the flawless eye….or I shall have to remind just how many have been thrown under a bus at their whim.
I didn’t return anything vile. Just gave my personal experience and you returned fire with more of your same ‘ole, same ‘ole. You’ve managed to pivot to Sampson in one pirouette away from derailing the thread again. That means a Crean-chasing comment is coming in a follow-up. Again, nothing of relevance. Just you trying to hang your hat on some kind of moral superiority over everyone else that doesn’t share your view.
All you the rest of the way.
Excellent posts, DD. I attended IU in the late 70’s and had a friend on IU’s baseball team. I went to a few games back in the day to watch him play. The field was a disgrace back then. Twenty-or-so years later, I returned to IU and saw Sembower field. I was embarrassed for my alma mater! It looked like it had not changed since I was a student. Credit to Fred or whoever was responsible for creating the Big Ten’s best baseball facility. The baseball facility went from worst to best.
As for our resident eyesore, just ignore him. Don’t read his posts. Don’t respond to anyone else who refers to his posts. You remember the old saying, “feed a cold, starve a fever?” Well, the resident eyesore is this site’s infection that causes the fever, so starve it by not reading his posts or addressing any comments to him. I’ve gotten in the habit of just passing right over his comments; haven’t read one of them in a long time. Doing so makes this site so much more enjoyable. It’s not hard to do. If you try, you’ll get the hang of it soon enough and will be glad you did it.
It appears your “ignore him” strategy was excellently employed in the 10 years you convinced yourself Crean could coach. Practice makes perfect.
You guys should critique the resident halls in the same manner you go after fields of Hoosier dreams.
Foster Quad makes a prison facility look luxurious. Jodie Foster hung out in nicer accommodations as a hooker in Taxi Driver. Last time I was in Bloomington, it was its same half-century old moldy dugout self. Have they replaced the asbestos floor tiles installed in ’63?
Poor disadvantaged baseball players….waa..waa…waa.
I would suggest reading up on Lester Chambers…..and then go cry in some beer for guys subjected to the terrible fate of a sloped outfield. Find yourself some time.
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Home Hurst Careers
People are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure that we value and invest in our team and in return they take pride in their work and provide the highest standards of service. We strive to deliver the best in everything we do and to provide a great place to work for everyone.
We are always looking for enthusiastic people that are willing to learn. If you want to open the door to a fantastic new opportunity and become part of a supportive team, read on to learn about life at Hurst and some of the incredible journeys our staff have been on over the years.
Stock Control and Warehouse Administrator
We have a vacancy for a Stock Control and Warehouse Administrator.
Please read on for further details.
This is a one year, full-time (40hrs/wk) contract covering maternity leave.
Various Fabrication Roles
We currently have vacancies for a number of fabrication roles within our Composite Door Fabrication department, please read on for more details.
Direct applicants only, no recruitment agencies or job site enquiries please.
Hurst Team Testimonials
Sharon Nixon Finance Manager
Arriving at Hurst over 20 years ago as a junior accounts assistant, armed only with a newly acquired AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) certificate, was a daunting prospect for me.
However, with an eagerness to progress coupled with the proactive support and encouragement of the business, I steadily progressed through various roles. Taking on more responsibility and team members along the way.
Now, as the accounts controller and having achieved my Chartered Institute of Management Accountants qualification, I’m more than ready for the next exciting and challenging chapter at Hurst.
Mark Atkinson Sales Director
Why Hurst? Well, the honourable, professionally driven, business traits of this established family business are clearly evident and have certainly served to underpin my career at Hurst.
The last 20 years for me has seen an ever evolving, challenging marketplace and these core values have been integral in helping the business, and indeed my sales career, develop and flourish.
Hurst recognise the value of skill, knowledge and a ‘can do’ attitude and these traits are actively encouraged, acknowledged and rewarded.
Phil Orr
It’s always a busy time manufacturing composite doors at Hurst and I’m responsible for getting these made and ready for dispatch as quickly and efficiently as possible.
My time at Hurst has given me the insight to know that quality and service here really means something and I’m proud to be a part of the team delivering just that.
My role is in a fast paced, factory environment with daily operational and technical challenges thrown in for good measure – just the way I like it!
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US agency announces US$24.7m in infrastructure grants
By Tony Esposito2019-06-21T13:15:00+01:00
Money is available for local governments, port agencies, private marinas and boat clubs
The US government is putting up some US$24.7m in Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) money for local governments, port agencies, private marinas and boat clubs to make improvements that will help stimulate local economies in part by attracting visiting boaters.
The US Fish & Wildlife Service manages BIG, which returns federal fuel taxes paid by recreational boaters back to the states to fund improvement projects like secure overnight dockage, moorings, fuel docks, navigation aids, restrooms, utilities and breakwaters along with some limited funds for dredging.
The competitive matching grant program requires a minimum of 25% of funds from state, local and private sources. Waterfront communities can use BIG funds to welcome passing boaters for the day, a weekend or up to 10 days in port. The key is the facilities must target transient recreational vessels 26ft in length and larger.
The associated visiting boater spending that BIG projects draw can increase economic development and bring additional revenue to local restaurants, shops, boating, service and tourism-related businesses.
Since inception, more than $215m has been provided for BIG projects, adding more than 5,400 transient berths across the US.
Projects funded most recently include replacement of a 40-year-old fuel float with a modern concrete float at a marina in Washington State; 10 docks ranging from 66ft-85ft at a New Jersey port along with a two-storey transient marina service building with bath, shower and laundry; protected state-operated safe harbor with 36 transient slips and community building on the Texas Gulf Coast; and a 334ft floating wave-attenuating dock at a private marina in Maine.
US powerboat registrations increased in late 2019
A strong second half of the year for US boat sales helped boost powerboat registrations to 275,00 units through last November, up 6% on a rolling three-month year-over-year basis, but down 1% on a rolling 12-month year-over-year, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA).
NMMA, Transport Canada reach MOU to streamline boat importation regulations
The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian government which will reduce paperwork for manufacturers exporting boats to Canada.
More Marinas
Fire destroys Quebec marina
Up to 100 boats were destroyed in a fire at a Quebec province marina on Saturday.
Chinese investors to fund building of 10 marinas in Crimea
Plans part of a wider push to develop boating tourism in region
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Registrar Advisory Concerning Handling of Expiring Domain Registrations
In recent discussions within the ICANN community concerning expired domain registrations, statements have been made indicated that registrars are not currently subject to any contractual requirements relating to the handling of expiring domain registrations. These statements often cite a provision (Section 3.7.9) of ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) stating that registrars "shall abide by any ICANN adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registrars", but then go on to note that no specification or policy has been adopted under this provision.
Contrary to these statements, there are several requirements that registrars must observe in handling expiring domain registrations. Although no specification or policy has been adopted under Section 3.7.9 of the RAA, several other provisions of registrars' agreements with ICANN place limitations on how registrars handle expiring registrations.
The purpose of this advisory is to assist registrars in understanding their obligations under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement in matters related to expiring registrations. After summarizing the applicable contractual provisions, this advisory describes two recent programs involving expiring domain names that illustate the operation of these provisions.
Pertinent Provisions of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement
3.7.3 Registrar shall not represent to any actual or potential Registered Name Holder that Registrar enjoys access to a registry for which Registrar is Accredited that is superior to that of any other registrar Accredited for that registry.
3.7.5 Registrar shall register Registered Names to Registered Name Holders only for fixed periods. At the conclusion of the registration period, failure by or on behalf of the Registered Name Holder to pay a renewal fee within the time specified in a second notice or reminder shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in cancellation of the registration. In the event that ICANN adopts a specification or policy concerning procedures for handling expiration of registrations, Registrar shall abide by that specification or policy.
3.7.7 Registrar shall require all Registered Name Holders to enter into an electronic or paper registration agreement with Registrar ...
Two separate programs launched by different registrars or their affiliates in recent months have raised issues under these provisions of the RAA: an "auction" of expired names promoted by Afternic.com, and a sale of expired names promoted by SnapNames.com.
Afternic.com Expired Domain Auction
On 19 October 2001, Afternic (a subsidiary of ICANN-accredited registrar Register.com) announced in a mass e-mail to its customers that it was going to begin "Auctioning Expired Names." In the e-mail, Afternic reported the implementation of a "test bed," which it explained as follows: "When a registrar's names expire, they become Afternic auctions. During the auction, members can claim any names they find valuable. Those unclaimed at the end of the auction are returned to the pool of available names. The first registrar participating in the test bed will be Register.com. We hope to add more registrars in the coming weeks."
Visitors to afternic.com were invited to place binding "back-order" reservations on expired domain names that Afternic's "registrar partners" had "agreed to release through Afternic.com." Afternic further explained that "When a back-ordered name is not renewed by the original registrant after a reasonable amount of time, the back-order holder's credit card is charged the posted price plus the applicable DNEscrow fee. The back-order holder then becomes the new registrant and a customer of the registrar partner with whom the name was originally registered."
ICANN was concerned that these descriptions of the program made it appear that the registrar contemplated taking possession to the rights to expired domain registrations and offering the names for auction, with the proceeds going to the registrar. In ICANN's view, such a program would be in coflict with a registrar's obligations under the RAA, including the provisions outlined above. After discussions with ICANN, Register.com agreed that it would issue statements clarifying some aspects of the "auction" program. In a posting to the Registrars Constituency list on 22 October 2001, Register.com stated as follows:
[registrars] Afternic back-order auction
To: "Registrars-ICANN" <registrars@dnso.org>
Subject: [registrars] Afternic back-order auction
From: "Elana Broitman" <ebroitman@register.com>
In response to some questions that have arisen, Register.com would like to clarify its intentions related to the Afternic testbed of back-order auctions. In this program, Register.com would not renew expiring names under Register.com’s (or an affiliated party's) name (unless such name were used for its or such party's business or personal use), but would follow the same procedures and schedules (such as for cancellations, grace periods, charge backs, etc.) as Register.com has ordinarily followed for registrations for which renewal fees have not been paid. If the registrant did not renew and/or transfer the name to a bidder in a timely manner, then pursuant to Register.com’s regular practice, the name would be returned to the registry. Register.com would not represent to any customer or prospective customer that it has access to the registry that is superior to that of any other registrar with respect to a domain name listed in the back-order auction testbed.
Also, Afternic.com issued a statement on its website, as follows:
Statement on Back-Order Auctions
Afternic’s back-order auctions will operate in the same manner as other Afternic auctions. Bidders’ interest in back-order auctions will be communicated to the current registrants, who may choose to accept or reject the offers. If a registrant rejects a bid and does not renew the name, then such name will be treated in accordance with registrars’ ordinary procedures for registrations for which renewal fees have not been paid.
Afternic is committed to an open and competitive registration market. Back-order auctions will provide fair and equal access to all participating registrars.
Afternic will allow back-order auction winners to transfer the registration to the registrar of their choice, in accordance with registrars’ transfer policies. For example, as with all registrar transfers, back-order auction winners will be responsible for the payment of registration fees for an additional year or years, based on the chosen registrar’s domain name fees.
Essentially, the program (as clarified) is a service that communicates to registrants offers to purchase the rights to domain registrations that have expired but are still in a grace period. If the registrant does not accept the offer, renew the registration and transfer the name to the bidder, then the registrar cancels the registration -- making the name again available for anybody to register through any registrar on a first-come/first-served basis.
Based on Register.com's constructive response to ICANN's concerns, and the representations in their public clarifications, ICANN believes that Register.com can offer such a program to its customers (with their consent) within the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement.
SnapNames Expired Domain Sale
On 7 December 2001, SnapNames (which is not an ICANN-accredited registrar, but partners with registrars to offer expired domain registration services) sent a mass e-mail to its customers announcing the availability of "over 1 million" domain names that were soon to be deleted and were being made available on a preferred basis directly to SnapNames customers. Customers were invited to download a list of the names included in the special offer at www.snaplistings.com. An excerpt from the e-mail follows:
Dear SnapNames Customer:
Over the next few weeks, an unusually large number of domain names will become available for new registration. One of the largest sources of these names is NameZero, a domain name service provider that will alone release over 1 million names.
At least 800,000 of these names are flagged for deletion on December 15, with the remainder becoming available over the following weeks. In a one-time opportunity for SnapNames™ customers only, SnapNames has arranged with NameZero to offer fixed-price SnapBack™ positions on these names, with the difference that SnapBack orders on these names are virtually guaranteed--a 99% chance--to successfully get you the names you want. (Because of modest latency in database synchronization, there's a very slight chance--about 1%--that a name you back-order may already have been deleted or transferred to someone else receiving this e-mail.)
Please act quickly. This is offer will be available only through 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time (6:30 p.m. GMT) on December 14. These names are not listed for sale on any aftermarket sites but NameZero may sell some of these names itself at higher prices, so don't delay in placing your pre-emptive SnapBack subscription if you are interested in any of these names. SnapBack subscriptions, as always, are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Because of the considerable size of this "Million Name List", we've set up a special page where you can download and scan it for names you'd like to reserve. To download, click on www.snaplistings.com
Though SnapNames' success rate is normally very high, we can never fully guarantee that we will be able to capture a newly available name. However, because additional benefits will be included and names from the list are 99% guaranteed to be captured, processing and pricing for names secured from this inventory will be different from our usual SnapBack subscriptions:
Normal SnapBack · Success rate for securing deleting names: 70%+ · Registration period included: 1 year · Price: $49 · Registrar: Choice of registrar
Million Name List · Success rate for securing deleting names: 99% · Registration period included: Between 17 and 22 months, typically · Price: $49, plus $25 processing fee · Registrar: NameZero / VeriSign Registrar* · In addition, all purchased names will be hosted by NameZero and include their popular standard service features like e-mail forwarding, unlimited e-mail addresses and domain forwarding.
Under normal circumstances, customers of SnapNames' back-ordering/wait-listing service are not assured of successfully registering a domain name that has expired and is being deleted since it is possible that the domain will be first registered by someone else through some other competing registrar. Under the special terms announced in the SnapListings offer however, customers were promised that "orders on these names are virtually guaranteed--a 99% chance--to successfully get you the names you want."
Although the announcement did not detail the exact method that SnapNames intended to employ to secure the names for its customers, it was apparent that such results could only be achieved by means of a direct change of registrant processed through the registrar, instead of by canceling the registrations and allowing them to proceed through the normal registry deletion process.
The domains in question were reported in the offer to have been registered to NameZero. NameZero is an ICANN-accredited registrar, but it is not currently operational with the .com/.net/.org registry. The domains were registered to NameZero through Network Solutions Registrar (also known as VeriSign Registrar). Many of the names included in the offer had already expired and were beyond any applicable grace period.
Based on the descriptions of the program in the e-mail and at SnapListings.com, ICANN was concerned that SnapNames' ability to make such an offer was dependent on the cooperation of NSI Registrar, which under the circumstances could only be offered in violation of subsection 3.7.5 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. In other words, the SnapListings offer created the impression that instead of being deleted following non-payment of a renewal fee after expiration, that the registrar was instead complicit in a plan to directly re-sell the rights to the names to third-party buyers.
ICANN raised these concerns with NSI Registrar, and was assured by the registrar that it was not a knowing participant in any such program. NSI Registrar acknowledged that it would continue in its policy of (eventually) deleting any registration for which the registrant had not paid a renewal fee. NSI Registrar has committed to reducing its backlog of registrations that have expired, but not yet been deleted. NSI Registrar has not, and will not, take possession of the rights to expired domain registrations, either to use, sell or auction.
Upon becoming aware of ICANN's concerns, SnapNames voluntarily did further investigation into the circumstances of the registrations included in the offer, contacted ICANN, and reported that they had decided not to conduct any transactions involving the transfer of rights to registrations that had expired. SnapNames has since removed the entire offer and list of names from www.snaplistings.com.
It should be noted that SnapNames is not a party to any contract with ICANN, and is therefore not directly required to follow ICANN agreements or consensus policies. In light of this fact, ICANN commends SnapNames for their constructive and cooperative response.
This advisory is being published to both inform the Internet community about these two specific incidents, and also to promote understanding about registrars' obligations under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement with respect to expired domain registrations. In summary, the RAA imposes the following obligations on registrars:
Registrars are required to have a contract with a registrant for every domain name they sponsor in the registry (3.7.7);
Registrars are required to cancel the registration of any domain name for which the registrant fails to pay a renewal fee at the conclusion of a fixed registration period (3.7.5); and,
Registrars are not allowed to represent to any current or potential customer that they have superior access to the registry with respect to the registration of any name -- whether it is un-registered, registered, or registered and expired (3.7.3).
Interested members of the community should also be aware that ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement specifically provides that two issues that are subject to the establishment of consensus policies binding on all registrars are: "procedures for handling expiration of registrations" (subsection 3.7.5) and "prohibitions on warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registries or registrars" (subsection 4.2.5.) ICANN's bottom-up, consensus-based policy making system has not yet produced policies on these subjects despite these "placeholders" in the accreditation agreement. Anyone interested in contributing to the development of such policies is invited to participate; please visit <http://www.icann.org/en/participate/> to learn how to get involved.
ICANN would also like to take this opportunity to remind domain registrants of the importance of monitoring the expiration date of registrations in order to prevent unintentionally losing the rights to names that are in use. Registrants who fail to pay a renewal fee at the conclusion of their registration period face having "their" name registered by some third party. Retrieving the rights to a name under such circumstances can be difficult, expensive, and sometimes impossible.
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Chris Stapleton appeared to be one of those overnight storybook sensations: a troubadour who came out of nowhere to become a major star in the autumn of 2015 on the strength of his debut album Traveller. Like most overnight sensations, Stapleton had a long, hard road behind him. He had been laboring behind in the scenes in Nashville for years, leading the progressive bluegrass group the SteelDrivers and working as a professional songwriter, scoring hits with George Strait ("Love's Gonna Make It Alright"), Kenny Chesney ("Never Wanted Nothing More"), Luke Bryan ("Drink a Beer")... Read more
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DIDIER DROGBA LEADS ATTACK THAT SENDS IMPACT TO TOP OF THE TABLE
Montreal Impact striker, Didier Drogba, led the resilient attack of the team that forced a draw with Columbus Crew SC despite their lead.
The draw sent Montreal Impact to the top of the table. Columbus were sitting pretty while holding a three-goal lead early in the second half at MAPFRE Stadium but the Montreal Impact mounted an impressive comeback to grab a share of the points in an improbable 4-4 draw.
Kei Kamara scored the first in the 16th minute for Columbus but the Ex-Chelsea centre forward assisted Ignacio Piatti as he equalized for Impact ten minutes later. Before the first half ended, Kei Kamara scored in the extra minutes sending the hosts into wild jubilation.
The second half started with the 2-1 score line but changed very quickly in the 48th minute when Federico Higuain (Napoli’s Higuain elder brother) scored his first of the game. The goal increased the lead for the hosts and nobody would have expected what happened next as all was well for a deserved victory.
In the 53rd minute, Crew SC won a penalty and Federico Higuain took the kick and converted but there were arguments as Federico Higuain didn’t allow Kei Kamara score his first career hat-trick. Same Kamara had been confirmed to be traded by MLSSoccer before Wednesday’s MLS trade deadline.
Manager Gregg Berhalter admitted at Tuesday’s training session that there’s plenty of interest as Wednesday’s MLS trade deadline approaches. He said:
“I won’t get into any specifics. But there’s been teams that have reached out to us. I think that’s normal, given that type of story and that type of profile player and what impact he can have in this league.”
The “type of story” Berhalter referenced was Kamara blasting teammate Federico Higuain after the Argentinian playmaker as he took a penalty kick. Kamara responded by calling Higuain “selfish” and saying he doesn’t “depend on him for anything,” suggesting his No. 10 doesn’t provide him enough assists.
Impact won their own penalty which Drogba converted, then Ignacio Piatti and Dominic Oduro scored in the 58th and 93rd minute to seal the draw for Impact.
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Asgard ăs´gärd [key], in Norse mythology, home of the gods, also known as Aesir. It consisted of luxurious palaces and halls, in which the gods (whose chief was Odin) dwelled, conferred, and banqueted. One of the most beautiful of these halls was Valhalla . Entrance to Asgard could be gained only by crossing the rainbow bridge Bifrost, which was guarded by Heimdall, the watchman of the gods. See also Germanic religion .
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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The Common Pitfalls of Cloud Native Software Supply Chains
Daniel Shapira talks about some of the common security vulnerabilities found in cloud-native environments, and why it is important to take security measures immediately to protect instances in the cloud.
InfoQ Homepage Guides The InfoQ eMag: Gender, Race, Age and Neurodiveristy for Software Developers
The InfoQ eMag: Gender, Race, Age and Neurodiveristy for Software Developers
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InfoQ.com is facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development. InfoQ content is currently published in English, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. With a readership base of over 1,400,000 unique visitors per month reading content from 100 locally-based editors across the globe, we continue to build localized communities.
The data is clear: diversity improves financial success. The presence of more women and minorities on boards and in the C-suite are positively correlated to financial success across industries. Diverse teams outperform their more uniform counterparts. Diversity extends beyond simply looking at gender, race, and age into ways of thinking, background, experience and everything that makes up “culture”.
This eMag draws together ideas that have been published on InfoQ over a number of years, presenting a wide range of aspects of diversity and ways that individuals, teams and organisations can create environments where diversity thrives, people are respected and outcomes are more successful.
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11 Oct 2018 News
US Arrests Alleged Chinese Spy
Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine
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The US authorities have arrested and charged an alleged officer in China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) with trying to steal aviation secrets from American firms, in a move likely to enrage Beijing.
The charges were announced on Wednesday and reveal the alleged intelligence officer as Yanjun Xu (aka Qu Hui, aka Zhang Hui), a deputy division director with the MSS Jiangsu State Security Department, Sixth Bureau.
They claim that from at least December 2013 until his eventual arrest in Belgium, Xu targeted experts working at US aviation firms including GE Aviation. He recruited them to travel to China, often under the pretense of giving a university presentation, before paying travel costs and stipends.
The individuals were then allegedly asked to provide blueprints and other materials, which were handed over to engineers at a leading Chinese university.
“Innovation in aviation has been a hallmark of life and industry in the United States since the Wright brothers first designed gliders in Dayton more than a century ago,” said US attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Benjamin Glassman.
“US aerospace companies invest decades of time and billions of dollars in research. This is the American way. In contrast, according to the indictment, a Chinese intelligence officer tried to acquire that same, hard-earned innovation through theft. This case shows that federal law enforcement authorities can not only detect and disrupt such espionage, but can also catch its perpetrators.”
The arrest of a Chinese intelligence officer is unprecedented: the US has indicted PLA officers in the past for allegedly hacking American companies, but that’s where it ended, as the individuals reside in China.
The latest move will do little to calm boiling tensions between the two superpowers, which are involved in a de facto trade war, amidst widely disputed reports that Chinese spies have infiltrated the supply chain for server components in a major espionage campaign against government and corporate targets.
If the news is true, it would seem to sound the death knell for an agreement between former President Obama and Xi Jinping in which China agreed to cease economic cyber-espionage.
Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of CrowdStrike, confirmed China's re-emergence as the world's most prolific cyber-espionage actor.
"From a cyber perspective, China is actively engaging in targeted and persistent intrusion attempts against multiple sectors of the economy, including biotech, defense, mining, pharmaceutical, professional services, transportation, and more. Currently, the MSS is the primary government agency engaged in the majority of cyber-attacks ... CrowdStrike has observed multiple intrusions demonstrating their sophisticated tradecraft," he explained.
"We believe China poses a long-term and strategic threat to the global economy, and today’s arrest of a senior MSS officer responsible for industrial espionage is an important deterrence tool in keeping the perpetrators accountable.”
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INMA releases Media Subscriptions Blueprint
LONDON (3 May 2018) – A reader-focused business model with digital subscriptions at the core represents the news industry’s best hope to replace a declining print business model and maintain scalable journalism, according to a new report released today by the International News Media Association (INMA).
This was the key conclusion from “The Media Subscriptions Blueprint,” a report based on presentations and feedback from the INMA Media Subscriptions Week April 16-19, 2018, in London.
Across 25 case studies, seven keynote presentations, a 40-question benchmark survey, a town hall, and hundreds of questions and comments from the 230 participants from 33 countries, the INMA summit found the cutting edge on seven broad themes:
Value proposition: While content is often the trigger for a subscriber relationship, publishers must realise that community, cause, and convenience are arguably equally important in the emerging subscription game.
Freemium: The rise of data in media companies provides publishers more options on when and how to lock content. The freemium model is displacing the metered model, which is best for high quality and high quantity content ecosystems.
Moving to dynamic: A personalised dynamic model and hybrid freemium/meter models will soon displace simpler models.
Cultural galvaniser: Digital subscriptions are not a task for a department. They work best when there is a clear growth mission and a total-company approach.
Where newsrooms fit: Newsroom participation amid the art and science of content economics helps maximise digital subscription success.
Improving retention through engagement: Companies far down the road of digital subscriptions are finding that while there is upside in sales efforts, the next growth wave will be retaining subscribers at a higher rate through tactics that are just now emerging.
Authentic voice content: While surveys and best practices point to varying genres that trigger subscriptions, the one commonality no matter a global brand or a community brand is content with an authentic voice.
Beyond a distillation of global best practices, “The Media Subscriptions Blueprint” includes looks at what media companies are doing best in the digital subscription space: The New York Times, Times of London, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Schibsted, NZZ, Fairfax Media, Politiken, BILDPlus, Dennik N, Dagens Nyheter, Helsingin Sanomat, Boston Globe, Amedia, Telegraph Media Group, Immediate Media, Sky Media, The Guardian, and the Financial Times. Presentations by Facebook, Google, Membership Economy author Robbie Kellman Baxter, University of Oxford senior research fellow Grzegorz Piechota, Piano CEO Trevor Kaufmann, and others also are included.
INMA members may download the report and non-members may order the report at www.inma.org/reports.
The International News Media Association (INMA) is a global community of market-leading news media companies reinventing how they engage audiences and grow revenue in a multi-media environment. The INMA community consists of 8,888 executives at 701 media companies in 68 countries. INMA is the news media industry’s foremost ideas-sharing network, with members connected via conferences, reports, webinars, chat, and an unparalleled archive of best practices. INMA has offices in the United States, Belgium, India, and El Salvador.
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Kristen Stewart: Smoking Pot Is No Big Deal
Dan Evon
If you’re a big fan of Kristen Stewart you may already know that she’s known to smoke a joint or two. The Twilight actress was photographed as early as 2008 smoking pot. In a recent Vanity Fair interview the actress admitted that she smokes marijuana and doesn’t think that it’s that big of a deal.
Stewart described herself to the magazine as a “weirdo, (a) creative Valley Girl who smokes pot.”
Stewart said that the revelation shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to her fans. The star of Snow White And the Huntsman said that when you Google her name one of the first images you see is of her smoking pot with her boyfriend.
Stewart said:
“You can Google my name and one of the first things that comes up is images of me sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe with my ex-boyfriend and my dog… It was taken the day the movie came out. I was no one. I was a kid. I had just turned 18.”
The actress said that the image changed some people’s perspective about her.
Stewart added:
“The next day it was like I was a delinquent slimy idiot, whereas I’m kind of a weirdo, creative Valley Girl who smokes pot… Big deal.”
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Home / Business News / Infosys rolls out salary hike, majority to get mid to high single-digit jump
Infosys rolls out salary hike, majority to get mid to high single-digit jump
Infosys on Friday announced revised salaries for 85 per cent of its employees starting April. For the rest of its workforce, the revised compensation will be effective from July 1.
business Updated: Apr 13, 2018 19:28 IST
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Friday’s announcement means a majority of Infosys employees in India will get salary raises from mid-single digit to high-single digit, the company’s chief operating officer said.(Reuters File Photo)
Infosys on Friday said it has rolled out salary hikes ranging from “mid-single digit to high-single digit” for a majority of its employees, effective from April onwards.
“We are also pleased to announce compensation revision for 85 per cent of our employees starting April. For rest of the employees, primarily middle management and senior management, it will be effective July 1. This is for both onsite and offshore,” Infosys COO Pravin Rao said.
He added that similar to last year, there will be much more focus on differentiation based on performance and contribution.
“Majority of employees in India will get raises from mid-single digit to high-single digit,” he said.
Infosys had a total headcount of 2,04,107 people at the end of March 31, 2018. While the gross addition stood at 12,329 people, the net addition was of 2,416 employees.
Besides, the Board has appointed Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Independent Director as the Lead Independent Director of the Board.
Rao said the attrition at the company for the March quarter had increased to 16.6 per cent as compared to 15.8 per cent in the previous quarter.
“However, the high-performers attrition has come down dramatically at 9.4 per cent,” he added.
Talking about the business, Rao said revenues from digital services have increased to 26.8 per cent in the fourth quarter and for the entire fiscal, it stood at 25.5 per cent.
“During the (March) quarter, we also saw 10 large deal wins with total contract value (TCV) of USD 905 million. This is the highest quarterly TCV win in this particular year. Total TCV win for the year crossed USD 3 billion,” he noted.
The executive also emphasised that the deal pipeline remains healthy, while the utilisation rate (excluding trainees) was stable at 84.7 per cent.
(This story has not been modified from its original version.)
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Home / India News / Jay Panda joins BJP, 9 months after walking out of Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal
Jay Panda joins BJP, 9 months after walking out of Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal
Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, who was first suspended and then quit the party last year after being marginalised in the organisation, has joined BJP on Monday.
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Former Biju Janata Dal MP Baijayant Jay Panda greets BJP national president Amit Shah after joining Bharatiya Janata Party, in New Delhi, Monday. (PTI)
Panda took to Twitter to announce his joining BJP, saying he had made the decision after nine months of introspection and widespread consultations with colleagues and the public. He would now work under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Nine months of introspection & widespread consultations w/colleagues & public.
Grateful for support recd from all over.
On auspicious #MahaShivratri I've decided to join @BJP4India & work under the leadership of @narendramodi Ji to serve Odisha & India to the best of my ability🙏
— Baijayant Jay Panda (@PandaJay) March 4, 2019
He joined the ruling party in the presence of Union minister and BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi. He later met BJP president Amit Shah at the BJP headquarters in the capital.
At a press conference, Panda tore into his former party, saying the governance under Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik had deteriorated sharply in recent years.
“I have admired Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership and direction in which he is taking the country and also BJP president Amit Shah’s leadership that has made this party not just the largest in the country, but the largest and the most effective party in the whole world,” he said.
“In the early years, when it (BJD was an ally of the BJP, there were certain norms that had been followed which have been lost in the recent years,” he said.
Panda stressed on the crimes against women and children and corruption in Odisha and recalled “disappointing sights” which needs changing and said BJP is the only party that can change this.
Panda, who won from Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 on BJD ticket, was first suspended in January last year over charges of anti party activities. He subsequently resigned from the party as well as Lok Sabha in May and June last year following serious differences with chief minister.
The articulate and widely networked MP became the most visible face of BJD’s dissenters in mid 2017 after he called for ‘introspection’ in the wake of BJP’s sterling performance in 2017 panchayat elections. Since Modi became PM, Panda has been heaping praise on him while questioning Patnaik’s working style.
The BJP has identified Odisha as one of the priority states ahead of the polls. The assembly polls and the parliamentary elections will be held simultaneously, and the BJP hopes that Panda will brighten its prospects, especially in coastal Odisha.
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Gaby Natale Joins the Sprint Latino Family as Brand Ambassador
— Gaby Natale Joins the Sprint Latino Family as Brand Ambassador —
October 11, 2017 12:18 PM EST
AUSTIN, TX – October 11, 2017 – (HISPANICIZE WIRE) – Three-time EMMY winner Gaby Natale is joining the wireless family as a Sprint Latino brand ambassador and social influencer. The wireless carrier and its multicultural public relations agency, APC Collective, have tasked the SuperLatina host with developing organic content for the brand’s upcoming campaigns bringing the community closer to their favorite events, celebrities, artists and movies.
“The work that Sprint Latino and APC Collective are doing is the type of groundbreaking campaign I’m always looking forward to being a part of. Sprint is a company that not only supports the Latino community to experience their passion points at the palm of their hand but also closely collaborates with content creators like me to share the latest news in a fun and organic way! I can’t think of a better use of my time, my creativity and my influence,” said Natale.
Natale’s duties as a Sprint brand ambassador will involve leveraging her audience and creativity to produce culturally relevant content for the brand.
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“Gaby aligns closely to our mission at Sprint and we are happy to have her as part of our family to continue building relatable content, empowering and bring recognition to our community and brainstorming and creating unique experiences for our customers,” said Kymber Umaña, Hispanic Marketing Manager at Sprint.
The partnership calls for a holistic, multi-layered campaign that will build on Natale’s motivational speeches and keynote addresses, supporting her personal endeavors and a number of Sprint-sponsored campaigns and sponsorships.
“We believe that Gaby is a perfect example of the entrepreneurial spirit, relatable personality and creative mind that our client recognizes and celebrates in the Hispanic community. We are honored to continue executing campaigns hand in hand,” said Audrey Ponzio, Founder of APC Collective.
Past collaborations between Natale and Sprint Latino include customized amplification campaigns for Sprint initiatives amplifying the Hispanic community’s passion surrounding music, sports and entertainment.
About Gaby Natale
Gaby Natale is a three-time Emmy award-winning journalist, speaker, bestselling author and entrepreneur. She is the executive producer and host of the TV show SuperLatina that airs nationwide in VME TV, a member of the PBS family. She is one of the few women in the entertainment industry who owns not only the rights to her TV show but also a television studio.
Natale is also the co-founder and President of AGANARmedia, a marketing company with a focus on Hispanic audiences serving Fortune 500 companies such as Hilton Worldwide, Sprint, Ebay and Amazon, to name a few.
In 2017, Natale launched her first book “El Circulo Virtuoso” in partnership with HarperCollins Espanol. The book debut as Amazon #1 Hot Release in the inspiration, self-help and business categories.
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Glacier Bay National Park, Gustavus, Alaska, USA
(Siberian scenes)
Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Leadenhall Market, Lime Street, Broadgate, London, England, UK
London, England, UK
Painted Hall, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England, UK
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
(studio)
Tower Bridge, London, England, UK
Windsor Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
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The novelization mentions a TVR - was there one in the film, Robi?
Yes, but very far background, I'll try to find a view of it.
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Happened to watch this again today, and I believe there is also an Elise in one of the shots in the garage when Lara is on the motorbike. Silver and parked behind the Aston. There's 2 shots of it: from the front and the rear passenger side.
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Texas' Plains Bearing Reclaims Independence, Re-Joins IDC
Acquired by Kaman Industrial Technologies in 2011, the Lubbock, Texas-based full-line bearing and power transmission distributor is now back with IDC-USA, which it first joined in 1990.
Plains Bearing, a full-line bearing and power transmission distributor in Lubbock, TX, loyally serves its customer base in the petrochemical, agricultural and food processing industries. They joined IDC-USA in the fall of 1990 and over the years became a great asset to their fellow distributors. However, in 2011, Plains Bearing made the decision to sell a portion of their assets. During those years, they operated in conjunction with another company (Kaman Industrial Technologies).
Now they are reclaiming their independence! Operating as they had in previous years, one of their first decisions was to rejoin IDC-USA.
“We know the value of IDC-USA firsthand. For us, it’s access to IDC Preferred Supplier products and IDC Select, the proprietary brand of IDC Members,” stated James Grusendorf, president of Plains Bearing. “It is good to be back amongst my fellow independents.”
“We are ecstatic that Plains Bearing is operating independently again,” commented George Graham, executive vice president of IDC-USA. “We welcome them back with open arms and look forward to the value they bring the rest of the IDC family.”
Established in 1988, IDC-USA is a distributor-owned purchasing and national marketing cooperative of independent distributors of industrial bearing, power transmission and industry related products. The cooperative is comprised of over 200 independent distributor locations across North America representing over $1 billion in annual sales. IDC-USA's Distribution Center, IDC University and corporate offices are headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. IDC-USA serves the western half of the United States from its Reno, Nevada distribution center.
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sbe Entertainment Sells 50% Stake to AccorHotels
By Hotel Business on October 5, 2018 Acquisitions, Brands
NEW YORK—sbe Entertainment Group—owner of major hospitality brands including SLS, Delano, Mondrian, Hyde, Katsuya and Cleo—has closed on the strategic sale of a 50% interest in the company to Paris-based AccorHotels in a transaction valued at $319 million. The deal closed today. Pryor Cashman represented sbe in the deal.
In June, AccorHotels and sbe Entertainment Group signed a letter of intent and entered into exclusive negotiations with AccorHotels. AccorHotels will acquire the 50% of sbe’s common equity held in part by Cain International for $125 million. Sbe founder Sam Nazarian will continue to own the remaining 50% of sbe and run the company independently. In addition, AccorHotels will invest $194 million in a new preferred debt instrument that will be used to redeem all existing preferred units, also held in part by Cain International.
AccorHotels owns, manages and franchises a broad portfolio of more than 4,500 hotels and properties across the globe, with a focus on Europe and Asia-Pacific. The transaction will enable sbe to enhance its presence in its core markets in North America and strengthen its ongoing expansion into new hospitality markets, including Latin America and the Middle East.
The Pryor Cashman team—led by partners Todd E. Soloway, John J. Crowe, Michael Dunworth, Teresa Lee, Ed Rayner, Rich Levy, Jr., counsel Rebecca Schmutter, and associates Michelle Pham, Kyle Miller, Gene Levin, Edward Cohen, Taylor Weinstein and Matt Repetto—advised sbe on the transaction, as well as a variety of complex related issues, including the parties’ joint venture arrangement, equity and transaction tax structuring, financing and recapitalization.
“This deal will propel sbe’s brands and Sam Nazarian into the upper echelons of the hospitality industry. The growth and market presence will be explosive. We at Pryor Cashman are proud that sbe placed their faith in our firm to deliver on such a complex and mission-critical deal,” said Soloway.
This transaction supplements the firm’s long track record of working with sbe and Nazarian, including representing sbe in negotiating management, license and development contracts as part of sbe’s global expansion; the disposition of the Hudson Hotel in New York City; the monitoring, enforcement and disposition of the companies’ intellectual property; and the disposition of the Clift Hotel in San Francisco.
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The gold monetization scheme appears to be a good scheme. Then why did it not take off in a big way?
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I thought that gold hardly moves, so what is the point in putting money in gold. Am I not better off putting in equity or bonds?
Indigo has given very good results for the fourth quarter. Can I buy shares of Indigo since Jet Airways is now not operating?
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/ MWC 2015: Citrix announces XenMobile support for Android for Work
MWC 2015: Citrix announces XenMobile support for Android for Work
EMM solution to integrate with Google’s workplace data-segregation solution
by Stephen McBrideFebruary 28, 2015, 12:00 AM
Citrix has announced XenMobile support for Android for Work, in a follow-up to its collaboration with Google on virtual app and desktop delivery for Chrome devices and enterprise mobility management (EMM) support for Android smartphones and tablets.
"Together, Citrix and Google empower both businesses and government institutions with a secure, scalable, app-centric, mobility solution that delivers exceptional user experience, providing people with new ways to work better," the Citrix said in a statement released ahead of the company's attendance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Citrix' latest offering is aimed at the bring-your-own-device culture, in which sys admins struggle to secure networks against notebooks, tablets and smartphones that cross the divide between the private corporate network and the public Internet.
XenMobile is an EMM solution for Android-based tablets, smartphones and desktops. Android for Work was developed by Google to allow users to maintain a dedicated work profile with sharing restrictions, to keep business and personal data separate.
Citrix also said it was continuing to expand support for Samsung KNOX, many features of which can be used in conjunction with Android for Work, to enable enhanced management and control on Samsung Galaxy devices. Citrix claims XenMobile is "unique in its ability to offer consistent security and policies across all mobile device platforms, including its support for FIPS 140-2 encryption and compliance standards".
"With complementary visions and strategies, Citrix and Google are collaborating on a number of initiatives in mobility, app virtualisation and cloud to deliver a comprehensive best-in-class secure mobile workspace solution that offers customers the most seamless, business-ready experience on Android and Chrome devices over any network," said Brian Dye, group vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms, Citrix.
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Another week, another tablet
Inside the Enterprise: Not to be outdone by Microsoft's Surface launch, Google has now announced an own-brand tablet. Is it good to have more choice?
by: Stephen Pritchard
Nexus 7. It sounds rather like a space ship from a late Seventies TV show. In fact, it is Google's own-brand, tablet device.
Made by Asus, the Nexus 7 will run the latest Jelly Bean version of Android. But, unlike previous Google Nexus devices, which have been unashamedly high end, the Nexus 7 looks to be a bit of a bargain. UK prices for the device which can be ordered now start at 159 for the most basic model.
Google's move, at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco, comes just after Microsoft announced its Surface tablets. Google's move could be seen as a direct response, aiming to inject some life into the Android tablet market in the face of a new, more vigorous competitor.
The most interesting aspect of the Nexus 7 may well turn out to be its price. The seven-inch device is pitched at around the price of Apple's iPod Touch, but offers a larger screen and, among other features, a near-field communications (NFC) chip for services such as Google Wallet.
It is significantly cheaper than the iPad, and compares favourably with the plethora of cheap and questionable quality Android tablets out there. Plus it comes with the latest version of the OS.
This could well tempt buyers who like the idea of a tablet, but maybe feel unable to pay Apple's prices, to buy one. The iPad might offer more screen real estate and more memory, but it costs twice as much.
Tactically, by bringing a well-specced tablet to market at a low price, Google might have deflated enterprise interest in Microsoft's offering (with no price or release date confirmed). And it sets a high bar for other Android manufacturers. There is little point in selling a tablet that cost more than the Nexus 7, unless it has a significantly better specification.
And with a Google-branded tablet for a price close to that of a "no brand" device, businesses are likely to see plenty of IT-savvy users bringing Nexus 7s to work. Companies might well also want to buy the devices themselves: if an application can be written for Android Jelly Bean, and work on a seven-inch screen, the cost could well sway corporate buyers.
This could boost the enterprise ecosystem for Android, too. Device management is key for business devices. It is one area that even Apple has started to pay more attention to recently, and one where Microsoft's Surface, when it comes to market, could be expected to have an edge. But Android developers are an active bunch, and if enough Jelly Bean tablets are out there, then MDM vendors will bolster their capabilities.
The downside, though, is that greater diversity can lead to more complexity. Using MDM solutions from Google for Android, Microsoft for tablets and Apple for iOS s not what most IT departments want. If nothing else, a revived Android tablet market could be a boost for the vendor-independent MDM companies.
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Hackers can 'talk to your children' through connected toys
Four out of seven IoT toys use insecure Bluetooth connections - report
by: Dale Walker
New research has found that many leading internet-enabled toys contain security flaws that allow hackers to talk directly to a child, prompting calls for retailers to pull affected products from the shelves before the Christmas rush.
Tests revealed that four out of seven of some of the most popular IoT toys could be hacked in a way that let strangers manipulate built-in voice modules to communicate with a child.
The report by Which?, supported by German consumer group Stiftung Warentest and a body of security experts, found that the Furby Connect, i-Que Intelligent Robot, Toy-Fi Teddy and CloudPets toys were all susceptible to this hack.
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The toys rely on Bluetooth connections to enable some of their features, including using a toy's voice to replay anything typed into a text box, but these were found to have been misconfigured and as a consequence could be easily hacked.
These unsecure connections meant that researchers didn't need a password or a PIN to access the device and that very little technical know-how was needed to take control of the voice module.
Bluetooth is typically limited to a distance of 10 metres, meaning that any immediate threat is likely to be from someone nearby. However, the report highlights that the range could be extended and picked up by hackers further away, such as in a vehicle on a nearby road.
The Furby Connect, perhaps the most well-known toy on the list, was found to contain the Bluetooth flaw that let anyone within range connect to the toy. Researchers were then able to upload a custom audio file to the toy, which could be anything given the lack of restrictions, including inappropriate material.
Furby manufacturer Hasbro told Which? that it takes the report "very seriously", although it claimed that the discovered exploits would require someone to re-configure the device's firmware, something that would take expert knowledge.
The Toy-fi Teddy, which is available from Amazon and a number of other online retailers, allows children to send and receive recorded messages created using a smartphone or tablet app. It was found that hackers could send their own voice messages to the toy, and receive the replies from the child.
It was also found that hackers could take control of the voice unit in CloudPets toys that allowed them not only to talk to children, but even issue commands to a nearby Amazon Echo speaker.
This isn't the first time CloudPets has been accused of failing to protect its users. Earlier this year it was discovered that almost 2.2 million voice recordings created by children and stored on CloudPets toys had been leaked online.
IT Pro has asked for comment from Spiral Toys, which makes the Toy-fi Teddy, and CloudPets, but the companies have yet to issue a comment on Which?'s report.
Argos, which sells the Furby Connect and I-Que Intelligent Robot, said in a statement to IT Pro: "We haven't received any complaints about these products but we are in close contact with the manufacturers, who are already looking into these recommendations."
The issue reflects a wider concern in the security industry that basic protections are being ignored in an effort to push out as many connected devices as possible.
Earlier this year, Symantec EMEA CTO Darren Thomson remarked that the security industry had so far "fundamentally failed" to educate people to the risks of IoT hacking and that the idea that end users would have the inclination to check their devices were secure was evidently flawed.
Which? has called for all connected toys with known privacy or security issues to be taken off sale before parents begin their Christmas shopping.
Alex Neill, managing director of home products at Which?, said: "You wouldn't let a young child play with a smartphone unsupervised and our investigation shows parents need to apply the same level of caution if considering giving a child a connect toy."
"While there is no denying the huge benefits these devices can bring to our daily lives, safety and security should be the absolute priority. If that can't be guaranteed, then the products should not be sold."
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The third quarter wraps up in the week ahead with stocks just slightly higher for the period, after a summer of zigzag moves. The market faces some of the same challenges in the final quarter of the year, including Brexit, the trade war with China, sluggishness in the global economy and the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. By mid-quarter, the U.S. presidential election will be just a year away, and it could become a factor that could start to trigger market volatility. Stocks were lower in the past week, with the S&P 500 down 1%, finishing at 2,961. For the year to date, the S&P 500 is up 18.1%, but in the third quarter, so far, it added just 0.7%. The S&P started the quarter at 2,752, went as high as 3,028 before falling back. It has chopped in a range down to about 2,860, and has repeatedly struggled to get back to its high.
“We think you stay within the range — 2,820 to 3,030,” said Julian Emanuel, BTIG head equities and derivatives strategist. Emanuel’s year-end target has been 3,000. “We see new highs, whether they happen in the fourth quarter or in 2020, as a function of geopolitical developments. From our point of view, the developments of the last several weeks, particularly [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren rising in the polls, increases in our mind the probability you get some sort of deal with China,” he said. Analysts said there could be more volatility because of the efforts by House Democrats to impeach Trump. The investigation into the president has to do with his withholding of aid to Ukraine and whether it was tied to a request to get dirt on front running Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Warren, D-Mass., whose tax and other policies are viewed as unfriendly to markets, is catching up with Biden in the polls, and some strategists see her benefiting from any negative news on Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Ukraine gas company. Emanuel said if Warren continues to gain, that may encourage China to move forward with a trade deal with Trump, for fear making a deal with Warren would be more difficult.
Besides political headlines, there is some key data coming out in the week ahead, including Friday’s September employment report, and ISM and PMI manufacturing data on Tuesday. The economy is expected to have added 145,000 jobs, above the 130,000 last month, while the unemployment rate is expected to stay steady at 3.7%, according to Refinitiv. “We expect another month of census-related hiring to push public sector payrolls higher and, as a result, we forecast only 120k increase in private sector payrolls,” notes Michael Gapen, chief U.S. economist at Barclays. “Our forecast for private sector employment gains in September would represent some improvement relative to August, but our forecast overall remains consistent with our outlook for slower employment growth on the heels of deceleration in economic activity.”
There are also a number of Fed speakers scheduled for next week, including New York Fed President John Williams; Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren. Trade will remain a major topic for markets, as U.S. and Chinese negotiators get closer to Oct. 10 talks. Headlines Friday that the White House is considering blocking or limiting U.S. investments into China sent stocks lower, after optimism about the talks lifted them early in the day. Emanuel said the fourth quarter may have a different tone from that of the third quarter, after the wild move lower in rates during August and early September. He expects bond yields have bottomed, and he favors some of the cyclical names, like financials and energy. “The likelihood is long-term yields move higher, and you could see some form of switching out of bond exposure and into stock exposure. That type of embracing of the stock market is typical of final innings,” for markets, he said.
Strategists said the impeachment efforts against Trump may ultimately not have a negative impact on stocks. Even if he is impeached by the House, the Senate would be expected to acquit him. Analysts liken the possible reaction to be more like when President Bill Clinton was impeached and acquitted by the Senate than when President Richard Nixon was facing impeachment proceedings. Nixon resigned before he was impeached. Stocks gained 28% in the year after impeachment efforts began against Clinton, but lost 39% in the year after they were begun against Nixon. Emanuel said the 2020 presidential election could also come into play this quarter, and Trump may take actions to boost the economy, such as finding a solution to the trade war with China. A resolution could give a boost to stocks. “People are very nervous and in general reasonably well-hedged because they remember the fourth quarter of last year so well, and from our point of view, we don’t necessarily see this trading range resolve itself any time soon,” said Emanuel. Markets will also be watching the Fed’s repo operation Monday. The Fed has been conducting open market operations to assure there is enough cash in the short-term funding market, which was under stress at the start of last week. The Fed has calmed the market, but market pros are watching to see how much activity there is and whether rates rise. The final day of the month typically sees a surge in cash requirements, and on Monday, investors may require cash for the settlement of $113 billion in Treasury securities.
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Lafayette General Southwest becomes Lafayette General Orthopedic Hospital
By: Jordan Lippincott
LAFAYETTE – (PRESS RELEASE) Through a multi-phase approach, Lafayette General Health (LGH) has transformed Lafayette General Southwest (LGSW) into Lafayette General Orthopedic Hospital (LG Ortho), an orthopedic center of excellence and post-acute facility.
This transition allows LG Ortho the ability to use staff dedicated exclusively to orthopedic care, including general orthopedic and reconstructive surgery as well as sports medicine. LG Ortho, located at 2810 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy., will maintain its emergency department and continue to provide full imaging and diagnostic services.
Lafayette General is recognized as the only center of excellence to have earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval in three joint replacements certifications- knee, hip and shoulder – in a four-state area: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
In order to establish LG Ortho, Lafayette General Medical Center (LGMC) has absorbed all cardiac services previously performed at the former LGSW campus. With a catheterization (cath) lab renovation and expansion project recently completed, LGMC now offers seven cath lab suites and 27 short-stay patient rooms.
Simultaneously, LG Ortho has undergone an upgrade to the operating room (OR) and ancillary space. These improvements have allowed for any OR to accommodate orthopedics. In addition, two ORs will be dedicated to the use of the Mako Robotic-Arm assisted surgical technology for knee and hip replacement. LGH is currently the only health system in the Acadiana region to use Mako.
“These changes will result in more patient care at both campuses and add needed inpatient capacity at LGMC,” stated Patrick W. Gandy, Jr., LGMC CEO. “The move enables orthopedic services to centralize and adds greater convenience for patients by providing all care on one campus, from pre-operative services to post-surgery needs, such as physical therapy and rehabilitation,” continued Gandy.
Moving all cardiology to LGMC and all orthopedic services to LG Ortho will boost coordination of resources and improve clinical protocols. Similarly, LHC Group has relocated its existing long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital from LGMC to LG Ortho. Also, LHC Group will open a skilled nursing facility inside LG Ortho early next year. LHC Group will manage LG Ortho’s physical rehabilitation unit as well.
“Aligning all of our post-acute services with a partner like LHC Group that focuses on person-centered care emulates very successful health systems across the U.S. and leads to better patient outcomes,” said David L. Callecod, FACHE, LGH President. “Through these moves and transformations, we’re expanding access to care and creating a better care model for our patients, which furthers our mission to restore, maintain and improve health.”
With an operating room geared toward orthopedics, orthopedic surgeons will receive dedicated OR time at LG Ortho. For patients, this means less time waiting to schedule surgical procedures. This will also free up OR time at LGMC to better optimize patient care. Orthopedic trauma will continue at LGMC, which houses the region’s only Level II trauma program.
“Coming together as a team to deliver the best care to our patients will result in better patient experiences,” said John Schutte, M.D., LGMC Principle Medical Director of Orthopaedic Services. “We are creating the best orthopedic facility in our region, and with the type of care, technology and experience we provide, patients will make us the go-to destination.”
Surgeries at LG Ortho started in May, and orthopedic physician clinics will make the move to the facility’s campus in early fall. Renovations continue at LG Ortho and the attached medical office building, but patients will not be impacted during beautification efforts.
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Animal bandit makes off with Squishy the turtle from Houston Zoo
Updated: 8:59 PM CDT May 30, 2019
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One of the turtles in a tank where Squishy was allegedly stolen
SOURCE: KRIV
Houston Zoo is missing one its beloved residents.In March, a thief allegedly acquired Squishy, a rare snake-necked turtle valued at more than $2,500, unlawfully from the "Natural Encounters" exhibit.According to a Houston Police Department report, Houston resident Jaden Andel, 21, posed for a souvenir photo taken by a zoo photographer before leaving with the turtle in an Uber.The Uber driver reported the turtle-toting passenger to the zoo. He said the his passenger was excited about "liberating" a turtle from the zoo, according to court documents.Andel's apartment managers said they saw him with the turtle. Andel reportedly boasted that it was stolen from Houston Zoo, according to court documents.By the time police tracked down Andel, he was no longer living at the apartment complex. Andel reportedly told the manager that the turtle had been released to a safe place."The Houston Zoo will not tolerate the theft or endangerment of any of our animals, big or small," Houston Zoo said in a release."On March 5, a visitor stole a 16-year-old Siebenrock's snake-necked turtle named 'Squishy' from our zoo. After extensive investigation by HPD detectives, we are prepared to prosecute to the furthest extent the law allows and do everything we can to get Squishy returned safely."Anyone with information on Andel's whereabouts should contact Crime Stoppers of Houston.
HOUSTON —
Houston Zoo is missing one its beloved residents.
In March, a thief allegedly acquired Squishy, a rare snake-necked turtle valued at more than $2,500, unlawfully from the "Natural Encounters" exhibit.
According to a Houston Police Department report, Houston resident Jaden Andel, 21, posed for a souvenir photo taken by a zoo photographer before leaving with the turtle in an Uber.
The Uber driver reported the turtle-toting passenger to the zoo. He said the his passenger was excited about "liberating" a turtle from the zoo, according to court documents.
Andel's apartment managers said they saw him with the turtle. Andel reportedly boasted that it was stolen from Houston Zoo, according to court documents.
By the time police tracked down Andel, he was no longer living at the apartment complex. Andel reportedly told the manager that the turtle had been released to a safe place.
"The Houston Zoo will not tolerate the theft or endangerment of any of our animals, big or small," Houston Zoo said in a release.
"On March 5, a visitor stole a 16-year-old Siebenrock's snake-necked turtle named 'Squishy' from our zoo. After extensive investigation by HPD detectives, we are prepared to prosecute to the furthest extent the law allows and do everything we can to get Squishy returned safely."
Anyone with information on Andel's whereabouts should contact Crime Stoppers of Houston.
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Sagana centre
Last Updated: Saturday, 29 September 2018 10:11 | Written by Super User | Print | Email | Hits: 18246
Sagana Centre is located about 2 km within Sagana Township in Kirinyaga County, approximately 104 Km Northeast of Nairobi City. It lies at latitudes 0019’S and 37012’E and at an altitude of 1231 metres above mean sea level. The Centre occupies an area of approximately 59.37 hectares with 109 operational ponds of which 72 (150m2) are research ponds, and the rest used for spawning, fingerling production and grow-out production. The farm is supplied with water from River Ragati by gravity all-year round.
KMFRI Sagana Centre Offices
The Sagana Centre was started by the colonial government in 1948 as Sagana Fish Culture Farm (SFCF) later changed to Sagana Aquaculture Centre (SAC) by the Kenyan government at independence. Since independence, the Farm has played a critical role in aquaculture development in Kenya. In 1993, rehabilitation of the farm was done, under the sponsorship of a project funded by the Belgian Government. Renovation of old ponds as well as construction of new ones took place through 1996. In 1997, the PD/A CRSP project was initiated at Sagana. Farm operations under both projects were partly funded by the Government of Kenya. In 2009, Sagana Fish Farm was transformed to the National Aquaculture Research Development and Training Centre (NARDTC) to spearhead the implementation of the Fish Farming Enterprise Productivity Project under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP).
Technical Expertise and Human Resource Capacity
KMFRI team at Sagana Centre has been involved in various activities with local and international impact. Locally, there is a continuous effort to educate investors about the development and growth of sustainable aquaculture enterprises of all scales. The Centre further engages in aquaculture capacity building and community outreach activities. Among the outreach activities currently being undertaken by the Centre include establishment and authentication of hatcheries, monitoring of quality seed production and certification, monitoring of quality feed production and certification, establishment of cottage fish feeds, development of feed guidelines, standards and SOPs for seed, feed and fish quality, training of farmers and hatchery managers. At the national level, the Centre is involved in various projects, including Nile tilapia and Catfish seed and Broodstock improvement through selective breeding programs, feed formulation and production, hatchery development and operations techniques, recruitment of new species into aquaculture and development of value added aquaculture products.
Dr. Edward Kimani representing the Director KMFRI presenting certificates to the participants on the closing ceremony of STI 2016
The Centre has a staff establishment of 30 officers comprising of four (4) aquaculture research scientists, 7 technical staff tackling the several fields in the aquaculture value chain and 19 support staff in various departments including administration and human resource, accounts, supplies chain management, mercantile, ICT and Security.
On capacity building, KMFRI Sagana continuously support training and education. The Centre recently collaborated with Ghent University, Belgium in hosting the Short Training Initiative (STI) Course on “Solving the Bottleneck: Improved Practices for Larval Production of Freshwater Fish in East Africa Program” involving hatchery managers from 7 African Countries.
a) Students sampling water for water quality and b) counting Artemia nauplii in the hatchery
The Centre encourages career growth in consultation with the Institute management from time to time and currently has two scientist pursuing their PhD at Kenyatta University, a technologist pursuing a BSc in Fisheries and Aquaculture at Karatina University and two supplies chain management staff pursuing a degree and diploma at Karatina University town campus on a part-time basis. This aimed at strengthening the staff capacity with growing dynamism in the entire value chain. The Centre further engages in community capacity building and outreach activities. The Centre is widely sort by attachment students from across the country’s middle level colleges and Universities including Karatina, JKUAT, Maseno, Egerton, UoN, Kenyatta, TUM, TUK, UoE, Pwani, Kisii andSEKU Universities among others. Middle level institutions closely working with Sagana Centre on student attachment include Kenya Wildlife Service's Institute-Naivasha, Gusii Institute, Nairobi Technical Institute and Ramogi Institute. The Centre has 6 post-graduate students (2 PhD and 4 MSc) from Karatina University, Egerton University, UoE, JKUAT and Kenyatta University whose research work is either on-going or have successfully completed. Among the outreach activities currently being undertaken by the Centre include establishment of hatcheries, monitoring of quality seed production and certification, monitoring of quality feed production and certification, establishment of cottage fish feeds, production of guidelines, standards and MSOPs for seed, feed and fish quality, training of farmers and hatchery managers.
STI training recently successfully conducted by Dr Nyonje and Ms Mary Opiyo at NARDTC Sagana involving hatchery managers from 7 African Countries
The Centre has a strong scientific aquaculture team and has networked with regional and global partners in proposal writing with the current funded project being INSIFEED coordinated by ICIPE. Previous projects just conclude include KAPAP, VICRES, NCST, USAID and ASARECA as the lead institution as well as a collaborator with other aquaculture value chain players.
KMFRI researchers at Sagana have initiated aquaculture research projects aimed at increased fish growth, higher yield, greater productivity, improved survival, or a lower feed conversion ratio. For the consumers, these innovative research efforts translate into increased availability of better quality, less expensive, tastier, nutritionally beneficial, and safer fish food to purchase.
Recent and On-going Research Projects
Nile tilapia selective breeding and distribution of F7 progeny to hatcheries and farms
Funding: KAPAP and KMFRI GoK Seed Fund
Brief Summary: The research project is aimed to produce genetically improved tilapia seeds and brood-stock to be used in aquaculture in the country. The Nile tilapia selective breeding program has been undertaken up to the 7th generation. The distribution of the improved fish to the different agro-ecological zones in Kenya is to ensure sustained productivity from aquaculture in all parts of the country.
On-station multiplication of reciprocal breeds of three catfish strains (Kenyan, Indonesian and Dutch).
Funding: KAPAP / KMFRI GoK Seed Fund
Brief summary: The study aims to address the availability of quality seed for catfish to increase fish production through production of fast growing strain of catfish. The three strains (Indonesian, Dutch and African) have different traits resulting to differential growth. The growth, survival and size homogeneity have been compared between the different crosses in order to solve the problem of heterogeneity which results to cannibalism in African catfish.
Introduction of indigenous species, Labeo victorianus and Oreochromis jipe into aquaculture
Funding: KAPAP / KMFRI
Brief Summary: Studies on recruitment of new species into aquaculture from the wild is ongoing and trials in captive culture of Labeo victorianus, Ningu (Boulenger, 1901), and Oreochromis jipe has been executed at KMFRI Sagana Centre. These indigenous species are traditionally a delicacy and improving their farming under captivity will lead to provision of quality seed to interested aquaculture farmers as well as restocking of rivers and lakes.
Evaluating Costs and Benefits of Prophylactic Health Products and Novel Alternatives on Smallholder Aquaculture Farmers in Asia and Africa
Funding: Newton Fund Global Research Partnership (GRP) In Aquaculture AND KMFRI
Brief Summary: The high demand for fish and fish products for domestic and export markets is driving intensification of aquaculture which is still dominated by small-holders in Africa. Ensuring effective health management has become the single most important challenge for sustainable intensification of the smallholder sector just as restrictions on antibiotic use are being imposed. Farmers are increasingly dependent on a proliferating range of prophylactic products (including pre and probiotics), often of uncertain provenance and efficacy. An independent cost-benefit assessment of the efficacy, costs and benefits of such products is urgently required. The project will assess the potential for novel low-cost alternatives to contribute to improved animal health and profitability of intensified smallholder operations. A study on probiotics is being carried out in Sagana to determine its efficacy in low input ponds having received much attention as a new strategy in fish feeding and health management.
Integrating insects in poultry and fish feeds in Kenya and Uganda (INSEED Project)
Funding: International Development Research Centre (ICDC), Canada
Brief summary: The project is aimed at developing and testing insect-based feeds for the sustainable, safe, and cost-effective production of fish and poultry. The findings from this research will inform policy and support the development of appropriate national standards for use of insects as feed ingredients for poultry and fish.
Strengthening Regional Capacity in Research and Training in Fisheries and Aquaculture for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Eastern Africa (STRECAFISH)
Funding: Austrian Development Cooperation (under APPEAR funding Program)
Brief Summary: The project goal is to build capacity in higher education and research institutions towards improved response of education to the fast moving aquaculture and fisheries industry. The project is funding a PhD study by Mr. Kevin Obiero and will be implemented for 3 years starting July 2015 to 2018 coordinated by University of Eldoret and Makerere University.
Upscaling Use of ICTs and Innovations to Support Aquaculture Market Development
Funding: KAPAP/KMFRI
Brief Summary: The project is aimed at mitigating aquaculture markets constraints through developing an Aquaculture Marketing Information Platform (AMIP) which is a web based tool to link up aquaculture stakeholders on real time (www.amip.nardtc.org).
Post-Harvest and Value Addition Technologies to Reduce Fish Losses in Aquaculture
Brief Summary: KMFRI Sagana is currently engaged in research on innovative technologies for value addition and reduction of post-harvest losses with the aim of enhancing aquaculture economic benefits. The Centre has developed 13 value added products, trained fish traders and hoteliers in the value chain on preparation of value added products to enhance farmer entrepreneurship. The value added products include, fish fingers, fish balls, fish pies, samosas, fish skewers, smoked, fried fish, sausages and fish gel, fish soup etc.
Opportunities for Collaboration, Partnerships and Community Engagement
KMFRI Sagana welcomes collaboration and partnership that will enhance knowledge generation for the benefit of the resource users. In the past, the Centre has collaborated with several institutions at local and international level. The Centre has networked and partnered with regional and global partners in proposal writing with the current funded project being INSIFEED coordinated by ICIPE. Previous projects collaborators include BOMOSA, KAPAP, VICRES, NCST, USAID and ASARECA as lead institution as well as a collaborator with other aquaculture value chain players. This partnership enables KMFRI to conduct trials of products in farmers’ ponds, dissemination of fish farming information, frequent visits to fish farmers by KMFRI scientists/Technicians and farmers visiting KMFRI aquaculture stations.
Conducted growth trials to improve quality of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) seeds and Broodstock through a selective breeding program. The Centre has developed F7 and F3 in Nile tilapia and catfish and distributed the selectively bred F6 and F2 to farmers in 21 Counties for on-farm growth performance to promote higher yields.
Developed thirteen value added products and a recipe book for fish products and an improved fish smoking kiln.
Fish feed ingredient research, focusing mainly on agricultural and industrial by-products to assess their suitability for incorporation in the preparation and formulation of fish feeds. Six types of feeds have been formulated using locally available feed ingredients and farmers trained on how to formulate and produce the feeds and the farm level.
Investigating culture potential of new and adoptive culture species e.g. Labeo victorianus and Oreochromis jipe and techniques for enhanced fish production in ponds, tanks, raceways, cages and pen culture.
Installation of an Internet Server at the Centre and development of a website (amipnardtc.org) for users to link aquaculture farmers with markets.
Conducting a baseline survey on cage status in the lake (Kenyan waters) and working closely with regional research institutes (NAFIRI and TAFIRI) and other stakeholders of the East Africa Community partner states in developing cage culture guidelines and regulations.
Collaboration and Partnerships with a number of institutions at international, regional and national levels to mobilize resources develop and implement projects and build human and technical capacity at the institute and share skills, experiences and research outputs with various stakeholders.
The Centre is intensifying its efforts towards diversifying aquaculture through commercially viable indigenous species in the different agro-ecological zones to maintain ecological integrity of the natural water bodies. There is also need to upscale production of dams in Central and Eastern Kenya already stocked with Large Mouth Bass and Common Carp for commercial aquaculture. There are plans to intensify on feed production for various species and fish sizes to accompany live fish sales to grow-out farms and hatcheries. To improve on information dissemination, there is need to develop a simple manual/ farmers guide for grow-out farmers considering management challenges associated with fish farming. A gene bank with well secured facilities is a necessity since KMFRI Sagana has the facilities and constant water supply.
Center Director
Ms. Domitila Kyule-Muendo
Sagana Research Center
P.O Box 451-10230
Sagana, KENYA
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Marine and Coastal Systems
The Marine and Coastal Systems (OCS) research directorate has two departments namely marine and coastal fisheries, and oceanography and hydrography.
Marine and Coastal Fisheries
The Marine and Coastal Fisheries is one of the core research departments for KMFRI. The overall goal of both departments is to provide competent scientific information and data on the sustainable management of marine and coastal fishery resources through ecosystem approach. The Department is responsible for inventorying and assessment of fish stocks: their spatial and temporal abundance and distribution, fish ecology and biology, and population dynamics. Post-harvest technology and value addition research is also undertaken by the two departments. Post-harvest technology and value addition covers fish handling and processing and investigating and isolating active substances from aquatic plants and animals for medicinal and nutritional values. It also undertakes studies on fish safety and quality assurance.
Fisheries resources are an important source of food in Kenya and fish forms part of the daily diet for our people. Fisheries exploited include the marine or coastal. Thus it is important to manage these resources for sustainable use and develop new ones where appropriate.
Oceanography and Hydrography
This Department deals with physical, chemical, biological and geological oceanography of the offshore, inshore and near shore waters. Sea level monitoring is carried out to generate data to forecast tidal variations along the Kenyan coast and to detect extreme oceanic events such as storm surges, cyclones and tsunamis. This Department is also responsible for: research on sustainable use and protection of aquatic resources in marine waters, critical habitats such as mangroves, seagrass beds and corals, monitoring and documenting the physical (including geological) and chemical characteristics (water quality, pollution and nutrient dynamics) of the various aquatic ecosystems to discern natural and/or human induced changes. In addition, the Department undertakes studies on the interrelationships between biota and their aquatic environments in relation to fisheries, aquaculture and conservation of biodiversity. The department promotes integrated coastal Zone Management (ICZM) approach in the management of coastal and marine resources.
The Assistant Director in charge of Oceanography and Hydrography department is Dr. Joseph Kamau
Fisheries Research
This is one of the core research programs for KMFRI. The programme is responsible for inventorying and assessment of fish stocks: their special and temporal abundance and distribution. The program also undertakes studies on the interaction between fisheries organisms and their environment, fish population dynamics, fish diseases from natural causes and due to environmental degradation, and investigates adaptive fishing technologies conducive to our environmental conditions.
Fisheries resources are an important source of food in Kenya and fish forms part of the daily diet for our people. Fisheries exploited include both freshwater and marine or coastal. Thus it is important to manage these resources for sustainable use and develop new ones where appropriate.
The Assistant Director in charge of Marine and Coastal Fisheries department is Dr. Nina Wambiji
Mariculture Research
KMFRI has adopted a multidisciplinary programme approach in research based on six research programmes namely, Fisheries, Aquaculture research and development, environment and ecology, natural products and post harvest, socio-economics and information and data management. Two of these programmes namely fisheries and aquaculture are core programmes of the institute. Each programme is headed by a coordinator of which there are 12, six for each research division.
The programme is responsible for investigating new and adoptive culture species and techniques for enhanced fish production in ponds, tanks, raceways, and through cage and pen culture. Similarly, the program undertakes studies on the following: integrated aquaculture production in irrigation systems, -Appropriate seed (fingerlings) production.
Feed formulation and production.
Hatchery development and operations techniques.
Appropriate stocking levels for different production systems.
Genetic and hormonal manipulation for increased fish production in aquaculture systems.
The Assistant Director in charge of Marine and Coastal Fisheries department is Dr.. David Mirera
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Keeneland Sales Graduate Bound for Nowhere among Saturday Entrants on Closing Day at Royal Ascot
Horses from Keeneland sales and racing – led by trainer Wesley Ward’s Bound for Nowhere – are entered in Saturday races on the final day of competition at Royal Ascot in England.
Bound for Nowhere is to run in the Diamond Jubilee (G1), which awards the winner a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1), for his third start at Royal Ascot. The 5-year-old son of The Factor was fourth in the 2017 Commonwealth Cup (G1) and third in last year’s Diamond Jubilee.
Ward, who has 10 wins at Royal Ascot, owns Bound for Nowhere, who sold for $310,000 to Cromwell Bloodstock at Keeneland’s 2015 September Yearling Sale. He won Keeneland’s Shakertown (G2) in 2018 and was second in the race in April in his 2019 debut.
The leading trainer during Keeneland’s 2019 Spring Meet, Ward on Saturday also will send out Ice Wine Stables’ Joker On Jackin the Chesham for 2-year-olds.
Bound for Nowhere and Joker On Jack will be ridden by Tyler Gaffalione.
Here are horses with Keeneland connections entered in Saturday races at Royal Ascot:
Chesham at 9:30 a.m.:
Ice Wine Stables’ Joker On Jack (by Declaration of War) is a juvenile trained by Ward who won his debut at Keeneland in April by 2½ lengths. Ward bred the colt, who ran at Newbury in England in May. Tyler Gaffalione will ride.
Jersey (G3) at 10:05 a.m.:
King Power Racing’s Bye Bye Hong Kong (by Street Sense) was offered by Select Sales, agent, at the 2017 September Sale.
Mrs. T. Marnane’sOn a Session (by Noble Mission [GB]) sold to Amy Marnane for $50,000 at the 2017 September Sale. He was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent.
Derrick Smith, Mrs. John Magnier and Michael Tabor’s So Perfect (by Scat Daddy) sold to Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier for $400,000 at the 2017 September Sale. She was consigned by Select Sales, agent for breeder Machmer Hall.
Tabor, Smith and Magnier’s Western Frontier (by Scat Daddy) was offered by Dromoland Farm, agent, at the 2017 September Sale.
Diamond Jubilee (G1) at 11:20 a.m.:
Bound for Nowhere (by The Factor), owned and trained by Ward, is set to make his third start atRoyal Ascot. Fourth in the 2017 Commonwealth Cup (G1) and third in last year’s Diamond Jubilee, Bound for Nowhere sold to Cromwell Bloodstock for $310,000 at the 2015 September Sale. He was consigned by breeder Ashview Farm. Bound for Nowhere, second in Keeneland’s Shakertown (G2) in April, will be ridden by Gaffalione.
Wokingham at noon:
Doreen Tabor’s Cenotaph (by War Front) sold to Norman Williamson for $125,000 at the 2013 September Sale. He was consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, agent.
Smith, Michael Tabor and Magnier’s Gossamer Wings (by Scat Daddy) sold to Magnier for $500,000 at the 2017 September Sale. She was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.
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Flood victims collect their belongings from a damaged house hit by floods in Kathmandu. AFP
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 16 million people have been affected by floods in South Asia, aid workers and officials said, with heavy rains and damaged roads hampering relief efforts amid severe food shortages and a growing risk of waterborne diseases.
Heavy monsoon rains in Nepal, Bangladesh and India have killed more than 343 people, officials and aid workers said.
“This is fast becoming one of the most serious humanitarian crises this region has seen in many years,” said Martin Faller, deputy regional director for Asia Pacific at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
“Millions of people face severe food shortages and disease. We fear it will get worse in the days and weeks ahead.”
More than a third of Bangladesh and Nepal have been flooded, Mr Faller said.
In Nepal, 27 of 75 districts were either submerged or hit by landslides, leaving villages and communities stranded without food, water and electricity.
Home Ministry official Shankar Acharya said 131 people had been killed and 30 were missing.
“We need donors’ assistance and support from social organisations,” an official statement said.
Aid workers are rushing to deliver tarpaulins for temporary shelter, food and water, said Dev Ratna Dhakhwa, secretary general of the Nepal Red Cross Society.
Residents face “severe food shortages” as food crops have been wiped out in the worst floods in 15 years, he said.
The risk of a “significant public health crisis” from waterborne diseases such as cholera is also high, charity WaterAid said.
In Bangladesh, flood levels have reached record highs. At least 56 people have been killed and about 4 million are affected, the Red Crescent said Thursday.
The situation could get worse as swollen rivers carry rainwater from neighbouring India downstream into the low-lying and densely populated country
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New ISIS Leaks Reveal Particulars of al-Qaida Strategy
Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, January 12th, 2014
by Matthew Barber
A new Twitter account that appeared last month is making waves within the jihadi community and rebel groups of Syria. It has not yet been noticed by the international media, but if the author’s claims are legitimate, it may significantly help to shape our understanding of ISIS.
The author of the @wikibaghdady Twitter account claims to be leaking inside information about the background and activities of ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, the most powerful al-Qaida force fighting in Syria). He started posting on December 10, and continues up to today. He presents a cursory sketch of the history of the Islamic State in Iraq (al-Qaida in Iraq), Jabhat al-Nusra, and the background leading up to ISI’s attempt to subsume Nusra within a larger, unified jihadi command, the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
The first question that emerges is whether this posted material is authentic or cleverly-composed fiction. If it is the latter, it is very clever indeed. The author doesn’t give information that would identify himself. Did he belong to ISIS/Al-Qaida in Iraq and defect? One thing that seems possible is that the account may take a position sympathetic to Jabhat al-Nusra. The author is ready enough to reveal all information about ISIS, but he never frames Nusra in a negative light. In responses to angry accusations by ISIS members on Twitter that the leaks are spurious, some connected observers have asserted that the author’s knowledge is real and all the material is true. It waits to be seen whether the account represents internal dissatisfaction with ISIS or part of the recently-deepening rift between ISIS and Nusra.
Though not highly detailed, the leaks do present us with some interesting insights into the structure of al-Qaida in Iraq, including protective strategies used to insulate key leadership figures, as well as al-Qaida’s readiness to embrace thievery and extortion to fund their own operations. What is also interesting is the claim that Nusra was created by al-Qaida in Iraq, not because they were serious about fighting the Syrian front, but merely as a measure to preserve their own powerbase in Iraq, which they feared might erode if too many became enthusiastic about participation with the jihad in Syria. Nusra’s fame would then grow to overshadow ISI’s, and the U.S. adding Nusra to the terror list further bolstered their prestige, fueling an eventual competitive clash between the two factions. The author of the leaks also claims that ISI ordered Nusra to attack FSA commanders.
One of the most significant insights that the leaks can provide is the alleged role of a previously-unknown figure, Hajji Bakr, who ostensibly acted as al-Baghdadi’s right-hand, but who in reality seems to have been the real power and mastermind of the group. (For background on al-Baghdadi and al-Julani, the leaders of ISI and Nusra, respectively, see these posts by Pieter van Ostaeyen: 1, 2) Unconfirmed reports have recently claimed that Hajji Bakr has been killed in Tel Raf’at, in Aleppo province, in clashes with other rebels. It’s all a bit odd; no one had ever heard of this person before this twitter account went live, and soon after he is reported dead. His death was reported by some Islamic Front rebels. There is still a question about the existence of this individual and we need more information that can confirm these claims. Following reports of Hajji Bakr’s death, a video parody participating in the online “Hitler meme” appeared online; all the names used in this parody rely heavily on the @wikibaghdady tweets.
We can’t establish the authenticity of the leaks, but as they do appear reasonably credible and likely true, we are posting selected translations of the leaks, below. (While we were preparing this post, al-Akhbar released an article reporting on these leaks.)
The author began his twitter feed (December 10) with a series of prefacing questions that he planned to answer:
The first account to expose the secrets of the Dawlat al-Iraq wa al-Sham organization [ISIS] and who runs it… Who is al-Baghdadi? Have you seen his picture? The names of his council? What are his plans? Wait for us soon…
He tweeted that message several times, tagging well-known anti-ISIS/pro-jihadi figures on twitter, then asked more rhetorical questions:
Why did al-Baghdadi come to Syria?! And when?! Who was the first to welcome him?! Who are the sharia’a legislators who gave fatwas saying bayaa should be given him?! Who is the Iraqi officer that accompanies him?! Soon, here…
Who are the closest people to al-Baghdadi? What are their names?! Who are they who support him from outside, especially from Saudi Arabia?! Who manages the anonymous twitter handlers that support him?! Soon, here…
Where does al-Baghdadi get his money from?! Is [his organization] infiltrated?! And How?! Who gives him the fatwas for killing?! Soon, here…
Who supports al-Baghdadi in Saudi Arabia: who is the former Saudi officer Bandar al-Shaalan?! What is his role in moving and supporting the Daesh movement in Saudi Arabia?! Soon, here…
On December 14 he began to provide answers to the questions he laid out:
We will now start tweeting with Allah’s permission.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a real person but who uses a fake name and title, and everyone around him does the same thing. There’s no member of al-Baghdadi’s council [his inner circle] who uses his family name or real title.
Everyone of al-Baghdadi’s council are 100% Iraqi; no other nationality is accepted because he doesn’t trust anyone.
The size of al-Baghdadi’s military council increases and decreases between 8 and 13 people.
al-Baghdadi’s military council is led by 3 people from the former Saddam army who belong to the Ba’ath party.
Those three are led by [the chief of the 3 is] Staff Brigadier General Hajji Bakr who was a former officer in the Saddam Baathist army.
Who is Hajji Bakr?! And what is his relationship to al-Baghdadi and when did it start?! That’s what we’ll talk about an hour from now with Allah’s permission.
[Briefly in the meantime,] Who writes under fake, Daesh names?
Here he gives a list of those twitter accounts supposedly corresponding to members of ISIS:
Who is Abu Doujana @almohajer9225
Who is AlHezbr @Alhezbr_
Who is Haqiqat Al Sororia @hnt1433
Who is Qorin Kalash @K_L7
Who is Gharib @kmkmmmsmsm
Who is Salafi from Iraq @abdalrahmaniraq
Who is Al Sarouria Tabor Khames @bmr8000
And the list goes on. We’ll reveal 5 names to you every so often.
1) As we said, al-Baghdadi’s military council is led by 3 [individuals] and those 3 are headed by a former officer in the Baath party named Staff Colonel Hajji Bakr.
2) Colonel Hajji Bakr joined the Islamic State in Iraq when the state was led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. [former ISI leader]
3) Hajji was a military member who offered his military service along with his experience in the Ba’ath army to al-Baghdadi’s organization.
4) Staff Colonel Hajji demonstrated his commitment and his repentance from the Ba’ath party and he is considered the most important military commander close to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.
5) There was no previous acquaintance between the two; he was recommended to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Hafs al-Muhajir by middlemen and he was accepted under the condition that he connect them with leadership [commanders] and useful information in the army.
6) The Staff Colonel was brought close to the leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq as a military advisor for Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Hafs al-Muhajer.
7) The Colonel Hajji Bakr provided the leadership with military information and plans and connected them with former military commanders from the remnants of the Ba’ath party.
8) Within a few weeks, Colonel Hajji Bakr became closer and closer to the leadership of Dawlat al-Iraq because he was a military treasure and an important commander.
9) The strange thing about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Da’esh today, is that he wasn’t present in the command council of the previous leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi [he didn’t join the council] until [around the time of] the death of the latter.
10) Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was a member in the organization of Islamic state of Iraq outside of the organization’s command. He resided in western Iraq, specifically in Al-Anbar Province, specifically in Falujah.
11) He had been in the command as an adviser for al-Baghdadi and Al-Muhajer for nearly 50 days when the catastrophe hit the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Baghdadi and Abu Hafs were targeted with a shell and they all died.
12) Colonel Hajji Bakr was not harmed but the top commanders of the Islamic State were all killed at the same time and all the command was vacant [وكلمت حجي تقدير الجميع – ?]
13) There is another Colonel who is a friend of Hajji Bakr named Mazen Nahir and he often visits Hajji Bakr. He went with him to Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi one time as a collaborator with the organization and an unofficial member.
14) This other colonel Mazen Nahir is regarded by Hajji Baker as a trustworthy agent who [can be used] to inflitrate the regime; [therefore] he doesn’t like to appear in the organization’s leadership or its councils.
15) After the assassination of the leaders, colonel Hajji Bakr told people close to him and from the leadership that he gave bayaa to a new emir to lead the Islamic state of Iraq and that being Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
16) The news was a surprise to everyone! In another meeting soon we’ll talk about the Islamic state of Iraq under the leadership of the new emir Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his constant companion Colonel Hajji.
Addendum: Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the companion of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is Egyptian and his name is Abd Al-Moneem Izz Al-Din Badawi. He had two other nicknames before he joined al-Baghdadi: 1. Abu Ayub 2. Abu Hafs
The next meeting with deal with the new commander of the Iraq State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the real engine behind his state: Colonel Hajji Bakr
The new era of Dawlat al-Iraq under the command of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Staff Colonel Hajji Bakr – Part 1
1) When Colonel Hajji Bakr suggested the emirship to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a private meeting in the first hours after the death of the leader al-Baghdadi (the first) and al-Muhajir, Abu Bakr expressed concerns.
2) Colonel Hajji Bakr gave assurances and said that he would provide support and assistance from the background; this is what al-Baghdadi has confided to those close to him since the begining of his leadership.
3) A new era began for the Islamic State in Iraq with two leaders, the leader in the front, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the leader in the shadow, Staff Colonel Hajji Bakr.
4) ISI began to work amid concerns about the presence of an emergent figure, Haji Bakr, who is very close to and the right-hand man of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
5) The image of the clean-shaven Colonel next to the leader disturbed the members of the State and both leaders, al-Baghdadi and the Colonel, noticed it.
6) The Colonel started growing his beard and changing his appearance and the way that he talked in the first weeks, and no member was allowed to question anything about the leadership,
7) because questions plant doubts and planting doubts is breaking the ranks which might permit blood and assassination in one way or another.
8) Nobody in the Dawlah organisation knew the Colonel 2 months prior to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi taking the leadership.
9) Colonel Hajji Bakr started meeting privately with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to restructure the new State and the first agreement was to give attention to two apparatuses:
10) An apparatus that could protect the cohesion of the State and protect it from the inside through security units that eliminate any threat to the entity and another apparatus that guarantees financial resources.
11) First, the security apparatus: the first secuirty steps were taken by the Staff Colonel Hajji Bakr to protect the leader in the front, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by keeping him from meeting the leadership of the subdivisions,
12) so as not to affect him with influence or guidance [so that other commanders wouldn’t influence al-Baghdadi]. And the emir’s orders came through the leaders of the Shura Council, which was formed by the Colonel later.
13) Colonel Hajji Bakr became a permanant fixture next to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and doesn’t leave his side anywhere, like a personal minister, but in reality he is the leader in the shadow.
14) The second step in creating the security apparatus was to set up security detachments that carry out eliminations and secret assassinations. It was created by the Colonel with 20 people in the beginning.
15) It then reached 100 people; these detachments take their orders directly from the leadership and do not follow any regional emir.
16) These people were selected by the Colonel. Most of them come from his former occupation within the desolved Iraqi Baathist regime and are highly trustworthy.
17) Their mission is to secretly eliminate anybody showing signs of dissent or disobedience: whether members of ISI or even field commanders or sharia legislators.
18 ) So that assassination orders don’t go through the chain of command of the men of ISI and then become leaked, the Colonel appointed these detatchements to an officer and a former colleague of his named Abu Safwan Rifai.
19) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi started to feel very safe and was grateful to Colonel Hajji Bakr and he started seeing him an as indispensable man,
20) to the point that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi felt that he couldn’t remain in control without Colonel Hajji Bakr because, with his military background, he plays the role of both the defense and intelligence ministries.
21) Second, the financial resources: the State of Iraq with the leadership of the former commander Abu Omar al-Baghdadi made great strides in bringing in high financial resources based on the following:
22) First: Confiscating the money of all Shi’a, Christian, and Druze minorities, and all regime agents, even if they were Sunnis.
23) Second: The takeover of oil resources and generation, power and oil stations, government factories, and any governmental financial resources because [they consider] its money as owned by Dawlat al-Iraq.
24) Third: Any companies that have contracts with the al-Maliki regime are agents [of the regime], whether a maintenance or cleaning company, or fuel stations, or telecommunications companies.
25) And if something can’t be seized completely, the owner receives a death threat or a threat to blow up the company or the store, if monthly taxes are not paid and the money gets paid in fear for his [the owner’s] property.
26) Fourth: Placing checkpoints on long roads to take money from commerical trucks, as high as $200 in some cases
27) Under the leadership of Abu Bakr and the Colonel, Dawlat al-Iraq came to possess very large and very alluring amounts of money that increased salaries and rewards and military operations.
28) With the increase in financial stature and a large income, the love of joining al-Dawla grew and the Iraqis were the most loyal.
29) A financial command was put in place for Dawlat al-Iraq and oddly, this command was handled by Colonel Hajji Bakr himself along with his military command, and he positioned 5 other managers with him.
30) During this period, the colonel put together advisers and called them the Shura council of Dawlat al-Iraq. They were between 7 to 13 [members] with no non-Iraqi among them, out of fear of a breach.
31) I will leave Dawlat al-Iraq for now and move to:
32) What is the origin of the idea for Dawlat al-Iraq wa al-Sham; who made the suggestion; al-Baghdadi’s entry to Syria 3 weeks before its announcement; and where did he live
33) Why was the announcement rushed? [This is in reference to the public declaration of an Islamic state in April of last year that involved Ayman al-Zawahiri and which Nusra felt was premature, earlier post here] And why did he chose to live by the Turkish borders before the announcement?! And why did he choose to live in a portable room made of steel not too far from refugees?!
34) And what is the threat that he sent to Abu Mohammed al-Joulani [leader of Jabhat al-Nusra] before the al-Dawla announcement? What did he ask of al-Joulani to do, either nullify Jabhat al-Nusra or dissolve it?!
35) There’s a picture of al-Baghdadi with his advisers taken at the Turkish borders a week before the announcement of Dawlat al-Iraq wa al-Sham and the dissolution of Jabhat al-Nusra that we will publish later if it helps you.
We’ll answer all these questions in a coming meeting….
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n1sefj [the author compiled his own tweets here]
1) The Syria revolution started and the attention of the members of Dawlat al-Iraq turned to Syria, especially among the non-Iraqis and the Syrians.
2) Colonel Hajji Bakr feared losing members of Dawlat al-Iraq [to Syria] which would cause a weakening and fracturing in the State and an excuse
3) for some members and commanders within Dawlat al-Iraq, who were looking to defect, to use Syria as their escape door from al-Dawlat.
4) Colonel Hajji Bakr advised Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to instruct all the commanders not to think about going to Syria and that anybody that went would be considered a defector and an outsider.
5) Indeed, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did deliver that instruction, loaded with the threat, the apparent reason [stated in his instructions] being that the situation is not clear and that they should hold off on Syria.
6) There was a boiling excitement within Dawlat al-Iraq which pointed toward possibilites of defections and leaks and flight, especially among non-Iraqis, to Syria, out of control.
7) Colonel Hajji Bakr suggested the formation of a group of non-Iraqis that would go to Syria under the command of a Syrian, in order to block any Iraqi commander in al-Dawla from going.
8) He saw that this would protect Dawlat al-Iraq from defections and the new command in Sham would bring in non-Iraqis and attract new members from outside.
9) Jabhat al-Nusra was established and started to grow under the leadership of Abu Mohammed al-Joulani until its name grew and swelled and the name of Abu Mohammed al-Joulani rose up internationally.
10) Many mujahidin from the Gulf, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Europe, and Yemen started flocking to Jabhat al-Nusra in great and frightening numbers.
11) This surge in numbers became alarming to the Colonel and al-Baghdadi because there was no loyalty to Dawla al-Iraq or to al-Baghdadi within the ranks of Jabhat al-Nusra.
12) Colonel Hajji Bakr was afraid of the growth of Jabhat al-Nusra and al-Joulani which might threaten Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Dawlat al-Iraq [due to their own] absence from the field.
13) Hajji Bakr compelled al-Baghdadi to order al-Joulani to annouce with an audio clip that Jabhat al-Nusra officially belongs to Dawlat al-Iraq under the command of al-Baghdadi.
14) al-Joulani promised to think and ponder the issue. He took days without releasing anything. al-Baghdadi sent him a rebuke and censure and he [al-Joulani] promised to think and consult those who are around him from mujahidin and scholars.
15) al-Joulani sent a letter to al-Baghdadi that said that the annoucement would not be in the interest of the revolution, in the opinion of everyone in his Shura council.
16) The Colonel was outraged and al-Baghdadi was angry and they sent spies in the disguise of mujahidin and Shura from al-Baghdadi’s branch, to be close to al-Joulani and monitor his movements.
17) Out of fear of any [unwanted] orders or [an order to] merge with another group, al-Joulani was very worried and started limiting his movement and actions, and would praise Dawlat al-Iraq and al-Baghdadi to those that sit with him.
18) [He made a pretense of complimenting al-Baghdadi as a practice of] taqiya, fearing that mistrust in him would grow and that he would get assassinated. His worries grew and his fear for his safety grew very strong.
19) America started droning on about adding Jabhat al-Nusra to the terrorist list and al-Joulani to the top wanted list.
20) It was an opportunity for al-Joulani to hide from the people sent by al-Baghdadi to monitor him and to isolate himself in a closed command circle of people of his choosing.
21) America adding Jabhal al-Nusra to the terror list and al-Joulani to the most wanted list in Syria increased the fears and worries of Colonel Hajji Bakr and al-Baghdadi about Nusra competing with al-Dawla.
22) Abu Mohammed al-Joulani was a rational politician trying to walk a middle ground to reassure al-Baghdadi.
23) But the fears of the Colonel and al-Baghdadi outweighed al-Joulani’s assurances, which made the Colonel consider advanced steps to merge Jabhat al-Nusra with Dawlat al-Iraq.
24) Colonel Hajji Bakr advised al-Baghadi to direct al-Joulani to carry out a military operation against the commanders of the Free Army during any meeting in Turkey that would contain any possible targets from among commanders of the Free Army [in other words, to hit any FSA commander they could reach]
25) And al-Baghdadi did indeed send an urgent letter to al-Joulani ordering him to carry out two bombings, one in Turkey and one in Syria, the two of which would target gatherings of Free Army commanders.
26) And this was justified as the targeting of future Sahwat, agents of America, and eliminating them before they built themselves up in al-Sham and their popularity became strong.
27) Commanders of the Free Army were specified for assassination by name (we withhold the names) [author’s words, not SC] and the orders were received by the command of Jabhat al-Nusra like a lightning strike [i.e., the order was too much to handle].
28) A meeting of the Jabhat al-Nusra Shura was convened and the order was rejected in the meeting. A detailed reply was sent to al-Baghdadi that Nusra with its Shura had rejected it.
29) It justified the rejection on the basis that they’re Muslin and because Turkey cannot be targeted because it is a very sensitive country and a big supporter of the revolution and it would disrupt the march of Jihad,
30) and that the Jabhat with its councils sees the reality up close. The anger of the Colonel Haji Bakr and al-Baghdadi grew and they saw in this an explicit rejection of obedience (الطاعة).
31) The Colonel and al-Baghadi sent a strongly-worded letter and gave al-Joulani two choices: either execute the orders or Jabhat al-Nusra will be dissolved and replaced with the creation of a new entity.
32) al-Joulani stopped replying and the Colonel and al-Baghdadi waited for a reply and the wait was long. al-Joulani appeared reasonable in ignoring them because the sweetest of the two choices was sour.
33) al-Baghdadi sent a messenger to meet with al-Joulani and hear from him and al-Joulani tried to apologize for not meeting because of his situation and the messenger waited for a long time and went back.
34) al-Baghdadi felt the real danger, that Jabhat al-Nusra saw itself as a bigger entity than him and outside of his control, so the Colonel suggested to al-Baghdadi what follows:
35) To send Iraqi subdivision commanders to meet the subdivisions of Jabhat al-Nusra and test their pulse and suggest the dissolving of Jabhat al-Nusra and see how receptive they are to al-Baghadi and how popular he is.
36) And indeed that happened; the Colonel and al Baghdadi sent tens of Iraqis to Jabhat al-Nusra and they entered the ranks of the mujahidin for 2 weeks.
37) And they met with the mujahidin and a few influentional people in Jabhat al-Nusra and especially the khalijis [Gulfers] and particularly the Saudis. The feedback was mixed between support and rejection.
38) There was a large group that supported the ambition and general Islamic dream of a state that stretched from Iraq to Sham under one leadership.
39) And the most supportive group were the new members in the Jabhat and those who had a history of conflict with the command of the Jabhat, in cases where the Jabhat would prevent the declaration of takfeer [applying the theological category of “infidel” to enemies] and would punish for doing so.
40) There were those who felt supressed by Jabhat al-Nusra for expressing inflamatory and takfiri feelings or who were punished for doing so by the Jabhat and who would love any entity that would give them more freedom.
41) Nusra imprisoned, punished, and confiscated the weapons of its memembers who propagated takfeer.
42) Of those imprisoned by Nusra were Abu Ritaj al-Sussi and Abo Omar al-Abadi (Tunisians), Abu DamDam al-Husni and Abu al-Hajaj al-Nuri (Moroccans), and Abu Bakr Omar al-Qahtani (Saudi).
43) The Saudi Omar al-Qahtani was punished by Jabhat al-Nusra who took away his weapons and imprisoned him 3 times on account of spreading a takfiri and inflammatory ideology against those who opposed Jabhat al-Nusra.
44) This group that was punished by Jabhat al-Nusra and people like them were the core of support for al-Baghdadi’s inclinations, which found an echo inside Nusra.
45) This last Saudi became a general Sharia councilor in Dawlat al-Baghdadi later on and was the first to defect when al-Baghdadi annouced the dissolving of Jabhat al-Nusra.
46) Two weeks later, the 10 spies of al-Baghdadi returned to Iraq with a foggy image about the acceptance of members of Jabhat al-Nusra were it to be dissolved [and folded into] a one-state entity.
47) Colonel Hajji Bakr suggested to al-Baghdadi not to make any decision to dissolve Jabhat al-Nusra and that the Colonel and al-Baghdadi himself travel and see the reality on the ground,
48) because the announcement of Dawlat al-Iraq wa al-Sham with Baghdadi not in Syria wouldn’t give it flare and [attract] many followers, since the people would wish to see al-Baghdadi and that his presence is effective.
49) al-Baghdadi accepted the Colonel’s idea and sent those who would arrange a place of residence and prepare a secure and secret place. He was called and a safe place near the Turkish border was selected.
50) The departure of al-Baghdadi from Iraqi was arranged by his personal bodyguard and Colonel Rokn Hajji Bakr and only three others.
51) What did al-Baghdadi do after entering Turkey, what location did he live in exactly, and how many days did he stay before announcing the dissolvement of Jabhat al Nusra?!
52) What did he do before the announcement?! Did Julani known about the arrival of Baghdadi or not?! And who did al-Baghdadi meet before the announcement?!
When did Baghdadi enter Syria? Where did he live? Who did he meet? And how was the annoucement of the dissolving of Jabhat al-Nusra made? And what role did Saudi officer Bandar Shaalan play in creating Baghdadi’s new state?
1) Baghdadi and Hajji Baker and their company entered Syria 3 weeks before the dissolving of Jabhat al-Nusra. They headed directly to the residence quarter at the Turkish border.
2) The preparations were as follows: Portable metal rooms were reserved in a place not too far from a Syrian refugee camp that was more secure for him and away from prying eyes.
3) Baghdadi and his company lived in these rooms on the basis that Baghdadi would meet Jabhat al-Nusra’s subdivisions’ commanders and make them feel like they’re dependents of his.
The account continues at great length and translating it is time consuming. We’ll stop translating for now, but we may provide more translation later, depending on how useful readers find it to be.
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Nice work, Matt. You nailed it! I smell a rat, too. Maybe the Saudis can tell us more.
ghufran said:
The growth of Islamist terrorist groups speak volume of how confused and immoral many seemingly religious people in the Middle East have become, they are the only group of people today that uses religion to justify killing, rape and theft. in that sense the NeoIslamists represent a fascist movement comparable to Nazism. Nusra, ISIS and similar groups are not just being financed by GCC official and semi official sources but they are also receiving aid from ordinary people especially in GCC countries and that is the troubling part. Journalists in countries where Islamist terrorist groups have a considerable presence reported that those groups indeed have some support from ordinary Muslims who are typically followers of Wahhabi version of Islam. The level of support those terrorists have in Syria is debatable but I would like to believe that it is far less than the GCC, Pakistan and other Wahhabi havens. I read posts claiming a link between those groups and the rise of Iran and the oppression forced by dictatorships in Muslim countries but real events on the ground make those claims weak, I still believe that the main reason for the emergence of those groups is poverty and illiteracy and that the main sponsor for those terrorist groups are dirty Bedouins with money.
Joshua Landis said:
Great work, Matthew. Excellent translations. Thanks also to AJN
Likomik said:
You absolutely must continue translating!!! This could explain ISIS’s aims and strategy. Please continue translating!
Ghufran
I agree with most of your posts, and would like to add something about poverty and illiteracy. Not all the poor and illiterate are violent and so easily manipulated.
The problem is that Islam is now at a threshold very similar to the crisis of Christianity that led to the emergence of Protestantism.
Either the clerics and governements themselves admit that djihad cannot be considered as relevant for modern societies anymore, or they will continue their walk towards complete mutual destruction.
The whole way religion is taught in schools of the Gulf and the Middle East has to be reformed to let space for THINKING. To do that, one has to stop enforcing a literalist approach to the text.
Is crystal clear that the foreign policy of the KSA through Bandar pursues and embrace the path of training and financing the export of terrorism and a full mouth and the west bless behavior of Saudi Arabia, even been consulted and coverage of operational and logistics for some of those activities by the United States ! It is the political lowliness of America
This is extremely helpful.
What, I think, is particularly interesting is the very idea that an ex-Ba’athist Colonel may be in a leadership role in Al Qaeda in Iraq. Of course the Colonel may simply be a committed (or converted) jihadi. But it may also put the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq in a whole new light. Namely, it may make the Al Qaeda insurgency seem much more of a direct consequence of the US destruction of the Sunni Iraqi state, rather than an indirect consequence of the ensuing chaos.
This would be an important lesson in a few ways.
First, it shows that the destruction of a regime like Saddam’s doesn’t just cause chaos and in that way space of extremists, but that powerful forces in the regime themselves will continue for many years in their efforts to achieve their national purposes. It would be comparable, say, to destroying the Iranian regime and imposing a non-Shi’ite government, and subsequently facing a Hezbollah-like organization attempting to carve out a Shi’ite state for over a decade.
Second, relatedly, it makes the ISIS attempt at a Sunni state across Syria/Iraq seem to have nationalist Iraqi Sunni overtones that were not, to me, evident before. That is, it may seem that upon the Iraqi Sunni community’s loss of the state apparatus, some of the regime’s forces are making an effort to create a Sunni state in a slightly different location (namely East Syria and West Iraq). To that degree, the ISIS effort would be more nationalist in overall effort than purely Jihadi.
Of course this is speculative on various levels. But more translations would clearly be great.
Tobias Lang said:
great work-please continue, it provides so much exclusive information!
Obama Sabotaging Syrian Peace
Obama initiated war on Syria. He wants regime change. He wants continued bloodshed, destruction and human suffering to get it. He deplores peace.
He bears full responsibility for nearly three years of conflict. He began it. He wants it continued. He says one thing. He does another. His policies speak for themselves.
On January 22, so-called Geneva II peace talks are scheduled to begin. Mid-2012 Geneva I talks ended in failure. Washington prevented success.
http://www.bobtuskin.com/2014/01/12/obama-sabotaging-syrian-peace/
norman said:
I see no chance for Geneva to lead anywhere, only the people on the ground have the final say, the Islamists and the army, the army will never surrender power after what it went through in the last 3 years, they can dream but the Syrian army will stay in power ,
-You translate: “The first account to expose the secrets of the Dawlat al-Iraq wa al-Sham organization [ISIS] and who runs it… Who is al-Baghdadi? Have you seen his picture? The names of his council? What are his plans? Wait for us soon…”
-“Wait for us soon…”
The mere attempt of posing rhetorical questions and tweeting multiple times “wait for us soon…” in an attempt to illicit readers’s curiosity sounds to me like fake theatrical performance of very poor quality in a dire time when the relationship of the regime and ISIS is being questioned. It is a quite simple and easy task for a Syrian intelligent officer to create a fake mujahid account, using some info known to the intelligence that created ISIS, creating vivid stories to make ISIS sounds like a legitimate jihadi group, not a regime creation. The goal is to distract people from investigating any possible connection.
The author apparently is playful. He posed several intriguing questions on different occasions and asked followers to wait for answers. It is very difficult to imagine that former “Islamists ” behave this way?
-The translation continues: “8) Nobody in the Dawlah organisation knew the Colonel 2 months prior to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi taking the leadership.
And if nobody in Dawlah organization knew the colonel Haji Bakr”, why would the organization followed his “bayaa” to the new ISIS leader? If Haji Bakr was no one before as evidence by his need to ” 6) The Colonel started growing his beard and changing his appearance and the way that he talked in the first weeks”, why would the organization follies his bayaa?
-“9) Colonel Hajji Bakr started meeting privately with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to restructure the new State and the first agreement was to give attention to two apparatuses:
10) An apparatus that could protect the cohesion of the State and protect it from the inside through security units that eliminate any threat to the entity and another apparatus that guarantees financial resources.”…15) It then reached 100 people; these detachments take their orders directly from the leadership and do not follow any regional emir….17) Their mission is to secretly eliminate anybody showing signs of dissent or disobedience: whether members of ISI or even field commanders or sharia legislators….18 ) So that assassination orders don’t go through the chain of command of the men of ISI and then become leaked, the Colonel appointed these detatchements to an officer and a former colleague of his named Abu Safwan Rifai.
This sounds to me like a copycat of Assad security apparatus, not a way a sharia-motivated terrorist group operates. I yet to hear that al Qaeda-style organizations are a miniature copy of the Assad regime. In my opinion, the Islamist terrorists are motivated by a twisted understanding of Shariia and Islam and I just simply doubt the existence of such security system in those terror groups.
I can go on finding many holes in this . I could be mistaken but it simply appears to me that the whole thing is written by some Syrian intelligence officer intoxicated by few shots of Arak.
-” Everyone of al-Baghdadi’s council are 100% Iraqi; no other nationality is accepted because he doesn’t trust anyone.”
– “5) There was no previous acquaintance between the two; he was recommended to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Hafs al-Muhajir by middlemen and he was accepted under the condition that he connect them with leadership [commanders] and useful information in the army.”
So in one breath, he tells us that Abu Omar al-Baghdadadi council are 100% Iraqis yet his companion and first adviser was Abu Hafs. In another breath, the author (suffering from a short term memory loss) tells us that Abu Hafs, the closest person to Abu Omar al Baghdadadi is an Egyptian.
-“Addendum: Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the companion of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is Egyptian and his name is Abd Al-Moneem Izz Al-Din Badawi. He had two other nicknames before he joined al-Baghdadi: 1. Abu Ayub 2. Abu Hafs”
On a lighter note, I am liking this. As I am suffering a mid life crisis, I now want to change my profession to an FBI agent. If…and only if, I do not get a pay cut. I am a Sunni girl and I was taught on this blog by loyalists that we, the Sunnis, are very good on money matters. Hence, I can’t possibly risk our collective reputation
More contradictions:
In the first episode we were told:
And therefore:
“4) Colonel Hajji Bakr advised Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to instruct all the commanders not to think about going to Syria and that anybody that went would be considered a defector and an outsider. 7) Colonel Hajji Bakr suggested the formation of a group of non-Iraqis that would go to Syria under the command of a Syrian, in order to block any Iraqi commander in al-Dawla from going. 8) He saw that this would protect Dawlat al-Iraq from defections and the new command in Sham would bring in non-Iraqis and attract new members from outside.”
In the second episode, the author of the tweet, inflicted again by a short term memory loss, makes a 180 degree turn and suddenly sends Haji Bakr and Baghdadi to Syria. They, at that time were no longer concerned about “a weakening and fracturing in the state of Iraq” as cited in the first episode, but rather blinded by envy of the Jolni’s international reputation:
I found this clicking on “Hitler meme” linked by Matt.
I am, as an American citizen, ashamed of this American soldier inflaming a Sunni-Shias war. He is a disgrace!. Not only he is inflaming a religious hatred but his contempt to those he is training is obvious. What a shame!! I am glad that the US has not invaded Syria.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VqByx9N-l74
amal said:
Syrian opposition
القاء القبض على أمير جبهة النصرة في الرقة أثناء محاولته الفرار إلى لبنان
http://www.dampress.net/index.php?page=show_det&select_page=6&id=37662
Matthew Barber said:
I think you’ve brought up a lot of good questions about the account of the author. I saw a few other apparent contradictions as well; after reading several times, I realized I was misinterpreting a few of them and that there was actually harmony in the account where I had thought there was conflict. But now you’ve brought up more issues that deserve attention. I’m limited in the degree of analysis that I can provide on this; I think we would all benefit by those who know more about the history of al-Qaida in Iraq to weigh in.
Regarding your last message, I don’t think there’s a conflict on those issues. He’s claiming that there used to be a policy against going to Syria, and that that policy changed, for specific reasons. He was afraid of losing high-level players to Syria, so he created Nusra as a token force to participate in the Syrian front, with manageable numbers of fighters. The notoriety and success of Nusra changed the game for him, since the arena overshadowed Iraq in terms of relevance.
That envy drove him to go to Syria and reclaim the glory of the battle for himself seems perfectly believable; jihadism is all about ego and playing into idealized heroic archetypes.
If this is fake propaganda, then I think the question to ask is who benefits? If ISIS is serving the regime’s purposes in causing division among Syrian rebels, then would the regime want to go to creative lengths to discredit it now, especially when attacking ISIS could unify the other rebel factions? Further, is there really anything here that’s more incriminating for ISIS than their own behavior on the ground? I’m not sure if there’s anything that damaging here.
There are plenty of questions still to be answered, and the authenticity of all this still isn’t established. That other rebels reported the death of “Hajji Bakr” does suggest there’s something to this, though it doesn’t entirely authenticate it either. Some people will likely interpret all of these elements as part of an elaborate scheme, though if that were the case, I’m not sure who it would serve… the regime? Nusra? FSA? Who has the most to gain by damaging ISIS’ image?
Lastly, going back to the first thing you said, about “a dire time when the relationship of the regime and ISIS is being questioned.” I just want to ask you: do you think that Ayman al-Zawahiri works for the Syrian regime? Was al-Qaida in Iraq something created by the regime? How about Nusra (who have engaged in some of the most successful campaigns against regime targets, not sitting around in-fighting with other rebels)? Ayman al-Zawahiri has been pioneering the new jihadism for decades, building al-Qaida, working with Bin Laden, etc. It’s clear from his own statements that he’s directly involved with al-Qaida in Iraq (now ISIS). So unless you can demonstrate that he’s on the Syrian regime’s payroll, you’ll have a hard time convincing me that ISIS is a “creation of the regime.” Letting extremist prisoners out of prison (or allowing jihadis across the border during the Iraq war) is one thing, but to equate that with engineering/directing AQI and Nusra is something else entirely, and not very tenable in my view.
There is a great deal of denial about the role of Islam in the region’s troubles. Religious Muslims refuse to admit that militant Muslims today are the most serious threat to global security and peace which put them in the same camp as militant Zionists (who are focused on Israel and are not sending suicide bombers to other countries) and drug cartels. If the piece above got it right about ISIS foundation, it simply tells us that militant Islam is today a large container that can suck in all types of thugs who just need to grow a beard and call for the death of infidels and Rafidas !!
edjazairi said:
Who in the world cares about either Al-Nusra Front or ISIS in Syria. Both Al-Qaida affiliates. Both are the creation of the Syrian Secret Service Ala-Assad. Both are hated by most if not all Syrians. Mister, get a life. Do not waste you time discussing these people. The Syrian people and their Free Syrian Army are fighting ISIS now, Next, it will be Al-Nusra Front. Followed by Hezbollah and the Iranians “Shiites” Corps. Auslander Raus.
Ed Jazairi
Sami said:
ISIS might not be a creation of the regime but the Syrian Moukhabarat did not just “release extremists from prisons and led them across the border into Iraq”. That is honestly just a lazy answer for it brushes aside any culpability the regime might have as nothing but mere accidental release of bad guys that came back to bite them.
My opinion is that ISIS is very much likely infiltrated by the Moukhabarat or they would’ve never released them from jail. Releasing Jihadis from jail would contradict Havez’s style of jailing them till they die as he did with all his opponents, Alawites included.
Is it a coincidence that both the regime and ISIS are going after the very same civil activists and journalists?
Is it a coincidences the regime never attacked a single ISIS stronghold but the next day one of these strongholds is taken over by the FSA they barrel bomb it as they did in Idlib?
This is a sinister regime that would go to any length to further its diabolical cause. The ugliness and extremism engulfing Syria is a direct result of its policies.
Ferhat said:
Please continue to translate… The most interesting thing I’ve read about ISIS and Nusra.
The fact that Nusra punished takfeer and takfeeris left to join ISIS explains the differences in behaviour. Baghdadi appears to be more like a king protecting his dawlah, rather than a Caliphate thinking about all Muslim world. I also heard assassination attempts at Julani from other sources. I believe what is written here is mostly credible.
Overall, amazing work, continue translating please.
January 13th, 2014, 1:04 am
Great job, Matthew. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
ShowME said:
I enjoy reading the translations.
Can we get the source/context for the German-language video in comment #16?
apple_mini said:
Man, those opposition people are just so special. Everything bad that is happening in Syria is “credited” to the regime. For instance, if the notorious ISIS is not a creation by the regime, then it is nourished and strengthened by the regime.
When ISIS and other Islamist factions are fighting for turf, power and influence, the opposition duly claims that it is FSA fighting against the ISIS.
Can we find any opposition member who is man enough to admit there is something wrong in their revolution and they should take blame for it?
SYRIAN HAMSTER said:
Great Work Matthew.
I hope you continue to update English Readers on the leaks. There are of course additional contradictions with realities in the more recent leaks (concerning the popular uprising against Da’esh).
If one is to assume that the tweets are genuine, then Tara’s concerns can be partially explained by the fact that Twitter does not provide for a coherent structure. It is obvious that the writer designed each tweet for its independent impact as well as for the impact of the sum of the tweets. However, impacts of each individual tweet seems to be the more important issue to the writer.
If these tweets are not authentic, then I would fully agree with you that they are a clever production. The most dangerous part of this would be to give a flawed impression about the characters that move this gang and its structure.
In the end, many of the points you have raised are not new to people on the ground, i mean those no one listens to. They have known through first hand experience that Alqaida will resort to thievery and extortion. Stories of that were commonplace on facebook as well as in other Arabic written articles a while before the leaks. Heck, everyone knows that like its sister terrorist organization Hizbuallah, much of the “running” budget of AlQaida comes from Drug money and illegal activities with Hizbullah having the primacy with respect its seemingly legitimate covers as normal businesses in the US, Canada, Africa, and the Middle East.
habib said:
19. Sami
As Barber said, and you guys ignored, are you claiming Zawahiri is a puppet of Assad as well?
In that case, I’ll be rolling on the floor laughing.
More than twenty djihadists from Belgium have died in Syria in the recent months (out of 200, just from Belgium and just for the ones that have been identified). Maybe it’s high time for the technocrats in Brussels to start actually working on youth’s unemployment in the EU? Or address hate speech, wherever it comes from?
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/1273219/ynews1273219?xtor=RSS-176
Sigh… Two smartasses that can’t be bothered to read carefully, and who cannot rebut without their wanton arrogance getting in their way.
I neither claimed ISIS is nourished by the regime nor did I claim Zawahiri was paid by the regime.
If you two cannot read or don’t comprehend the English language properly it is not up to me to teach it to you.
To the Agents of Death and Dictator Apologists on this blog,
Why would the regime release Jihadis that it claims to be fighting from its jails, all the while it tortures civil activists in its dungeons?
Why is Tal Malouhi still in jail? Or Iyad Sharbaji? Abdul Aziz Khayer? Anas Shagouri? Islam Dabbas? Khalil Matouk? or the thousands others just like them?
Why was Omar Aziz killed in jail? Giath Mattar? Dr. Abbas?
Nice piece of detective work Mr. Barber. Follow the money to get the bottom of it.
Adam Neira said:
Yarmouk is a test case. The Assad Regime must allow aid in by road or air ASAP. A ceasefire nationwide must take root.
Prayers for Syria.
31. ADAM NEIRA bla bla bla
Who benefits? The regime of course. I don’t believe that the regime created ISIS to divide the rebels as you tried to suggest. And I do not believe that Zawahiri is an Assad ‘s puppet. I believe OBL and Zawahiri are genuine authentic non-mercenaries terrorists and I do not believe that a prototype Islamic terrorist is egotistical figure looking for fame and notoriety. I believe an authentic genuine Islamist terrorist is motivated by twisted understanding of Islam.
I think the regime planted the seed for ISIS creation and protected ISIS to validate its narrative that the Syrian revolution is not a revolution for freedom and dignity but rather a global enemy i.e. terrorism. In another word, the regime did not protect ISIS to divide the rebels. The regime help building it to validate its narrative and hence the benefit of creating stories to make ISIS sounds a “legitimate” (if you will) Islamist terrorist organization when it is not.
Syrian revolution erupted 3 years ago in response to the brutal oppression Syrians were subjected to for over 40 years during the rule of the father and the son. The regime immediate response was not to call it as it is: a revolution for freedom and dignity but rather an American-Israeli-Saudi-Qatari-Alqaeda-global conspiracy. Slowly but surely the regime changed the above narrative to an improved one that the regime is fighting against global terrorism. It did not take the regime long to take Israel, the US, and the west out of the equation as it would be impossible for it to Batta and co. To fabricate data in an attempt to prove the west culpability, so what is better than to go under the cover of fighting terrorism? After all terrorist organizations remained shadowy and much of their structure, operations, and organization is not known.
The regime released notorious terrorists it has used in the past to destabilize Iraq few months after the revolution erupted while continued to imprison and torture peaceful activists such as Tal Al Malouhi, the 17 yo activist. Why? The regime made sure not to obstruct those terrorists from reconnecting with their old friends and co-terrorists and to establish their own organization on Syrian land. The regime never bombarded ISIS establishments in Raqqa! Why? The regime gave Raqqa on a silver plate to ISIS. Why?
The FSA is now fighting ISIS and losing some ground to it. The regime has been providing artillery shelling of those areas under the FSA control to help ISIS advancing and taking them over again. Why?
Long story short, the regime is not fighting global terror. The regime is fighting a revolution for freedom and dignity. What is happening on the ground tells as that the regime is willing to support, nourish, and protect Islamist terrorism as long as it collides with its agenda whatever that agenda might be whether it is for protecting its own As* or destabilizing another country to maintain Batta’s regional power play.
33. Tara
The ISIS see FSA and their ilk as doing the bidding of the US, and the FSA has to turn against the Jihadists if they want western help. That is the caveat.
So who benefits if FSA wins? The US. The Jihadis have an obvious interest in annihilating the FSA now, because the FsA will turn against them if Assad falls.
It is so obvious that it hurts to see people grasp at straws for explanations that will make the FSA look good.
And if anyone doubt that Salafists would kill their own just to make Assad look bad:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/afghan-suicide-vest-girl-treated-like-a-slave-by-family-who-tried-to-make-her-blow-up-police-checkpoint-9055479.html
Salafism is pure Satanism.
There is Controversy question: Is Mr. Barber has a Charter of these Islamists with all their diversity / And specifically Islamic Front supported Saudi Arabia/ to identify the future of Syria in freedom, democracy and dignity? let’s come the start from the curriculum vitae of the warring forces to know what are the ideology of each of them to knoe what future will syrians have especially the integrity of their heads, their women and children, and their material possessions!
Habib,
“So who benefits if FSA wins? The US. ”
How does the US win if the FSA wins and the Assad falls?
What would the FSA gives to the US that Assad did not?
Let me see how you answer this very simple question? But please do not say Israel security. Israel was never as secured as it was with Batta.
37. Tara said:
Do you even follow the news? Western leaders have done nothing but prop up “moderate rebels” the last few years, without western funding they would be nothing. The West and Qatar supports FSA over Jihadis, that is common knowledge.
The Jihadis are funded by Saudis and friends. It is now a war between these two sides, and Assad can look on from the sidelines. Bandar is not pleased with the US, therefore he supports the Salafists.
سورية.. مسلحون يطلقون النار على قافلة إنسانية تابعة للأنوروا ويمنعونها من إيصال المساعدات إلى مخيم اليرموك
http://arabic.rt.com/news/640458/ :روسيا اليوم
This strike a different tone than the usual propaganda sponsored by Le Monde, talking about 1,200 prisoners taken by the army from Yarmuk “to an unknown destination”
http://syrie.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/01/11/a-lapproche-de-geneve-2-le-regime-syrien-redouble-de-ferocite/
‘You need to go to Geneva’: Opposition source reveals threat made by Britain and US over Syria peace talks
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/you-need-to-go-to-geneva-opposition-source-reveals-threat-made-by-britain-and-us-over-syria-peace-talks-9057247.html
“A new Twitter account that appeared last month is making waves within the jihadi community”, says Matthew Barber.
Back to basics: whoever is behind this account, how come a Twitter account plays a role in the communication between jihadists in Syria? Can we accept that Twitter and Facebook are ACTORS in a conflict that has caused the death or the expatriation of millions of people? What would be the consequence on the ground if suddenly all these accounts were suspended? Wouldn’t it be better?
Syrians err – it is the first part of Step A
keep talking about revolution, democracy or freedom in the spirit of 2011 – this is a naive move! Now for Syrians no choice except one: defeating terror which especially incoming from outside.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/damascus-yarmouk-starves-relief-convoys-attacked
“Palestinian ambassador to Syria, Anwar Abdul-Hadi, told Al-Akhbar, “We will try for the sixth time to deliver aid to the people under siege. In previous attempts, militants created problems and prevented the trucks from entering. Two days ago, militants prevented us from pulling the wounded … out of the camp.” “
mjabali said:
Questions one can not but think about regarding this twitter account:
1-The timing of this account coincides with the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. It is obvious that the Islamic State wanted a big piece of the pie. This angered someone so they are putting up their history.
2- All of these tweets should be put together so it makes an article. The man, or men, behind it, meant to write something like an article in the form of answers to questions they pose themselves.
3- The one behind the tweets is kind of trying to show that al-Nusra is good guys and ISIS is bad, where in reality they are the same outfit at the end of the day.
4- the Arabic of the man behind these tweets is not that good. (he is not religiously educated as obvious)
5- This twitter account should be read in Arabic to get a real reading, with all due respect to the effort of mr. Barber.
I love these tweets from this feed:
البغدادي في نفسه لايحب الخروج من الشام فقد وجد فيها حرية واتباع وجنود ومملكة على الارض تجعل منه يشعر بأنه فعلا أمير
بدلا بدلا من كون البغدادي سابقا متخفيا في العراق اصبح أكثر حرية وتنقل في سوريا مما جعله يميل نفسيا ويقتنع بسرعة بالمطالبين
له بالبقاء
I saw a video of two of the soldiers of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham standing on the roof of a government building in al-Raqqa, and I know what the first tweet means. When the Islamic State’s soldiers found a city with a governor’s office, a public library, many churches, many Shia mosques, many Sunni mosques, the biggest dam in Syria, and some oil fields why not declare a state?
The Syrian opposition was lost: some in hotels and jet lagging, while others stealing what they can, not to forget the many al-Assad killed. The Islamic State saw an opening and they took the chance. They had been controlling many good assets for over a year now. Why not have a state?
Remember: the Syrian Opposition disappeared and let these goons rule. The Syrians were busy with something while The Islamic State of al-Iraq and al-Sham was setting up a state.
Anyone saw any video with the schools they set up and what they are teaching the Syrian children?
The Islamic State showed their cards fast…and it was ugly…
These foreigner takfiri fighters did nothing but mayhem upon Syria…
yeah because it is the rebels besieging Yarmouk and denying anything to either enter or exit…
What’s just so dumbfounding is this same person dares to lecture about propaganda while quoting a Hizballah mouthpiece, known for churning out propaganda from the likes of Amal Ghoryab and Sharmine Narwani.
Now this same person wants to get rid of Twitter and Facebook because Facebook and Twitter killed some many civilians in Syria and not the regime barrel bombing, and gassing them with Sarin…
i am not going to discuss with people who have hailed victories of “rebels” whose only succesful weapons in the last few years have been suicide bombers (usually imported ones, even from rich western countries, and more than once very young people).
you probably consider the story of this afghan girl as hezbollah propaganda as well?
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25711953
Uzair-8
Syria: Categorized as a “Failed State”
The atrocities committed against the Syrian population by the US-NATO sponsored Free Syrian Army (FSA) create conditions which favor sectarian warfare.
Sectarian extremism favors the breakup of Syria as a Nation State as well as the demise of the central government in Damascus.
Washington’s foreign policy objective is to transform Syria into what the National Intelligence Council (NIC) calls a “failed state”.
Regime change implies maintaining a central government. As the Syrian crisis unfolds, the endgame is no longer “regime change” but the partition and destruction of Syria as a Nation State.
The US-NATO-Israel strategy is to divide the country up into three weak states. Recent media reports intimate that if Bashar Al Assad “refuses to step down”, “the alternative is a failed state like Somalia.”
One possible ”break-up scenario” reported by the Israeli press would be the formation of separate and “independent” Sunni, Alawite-Shiite, Kurdish and Druze states.
According to Major-General Yair Golan of Israel’s IDF “Syria is in civil war, which will lead to a failed state, and terrorism will blossom in it.” The Israel Defence Forces are currently analyzing “how Syria would break up”, according to Major General Golan (Reuters, May31, 2012)
In November, United Nations peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi intimated that Syria could become “A New Somalia” ,… “warning of a scenario in which warlords and militia fill a void left by a collapsed state.” (Reuters, November 22, 2012)
”What I am afraid of is worse … the collapse of the state and that Syria turns into a new Somalia.”
“I believe that if this issue is not dealt with correctly, the danger is ‘Somalisation’ and not partition: the collapse of the state and the emergence of warlords, militias and fighting groups.” (Ibid)
What the UN envoy failed to mention is that the breakup of Somalia, was deliberate. It was part of a covert US military and intelligence agenda, which is now being applied to several targeted countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, which are categorized as “failed states”.
The central question is: who is failing the failed states? Who is “Taking them Out”?
The planned break-up of Syria as a sovereign state is part of an integrated regional military and intelligence agenda which includes Lebanon, Iran and Pakistan. According to the “predictions” of the National Intelligence Council, the breakup of Pakistan is slated to occur in the course of the next three years.
SANDRO LOEWE said:
Mathew,
I have been studying like you for long years the Syrian Issues. Long time ago I left libraries and got inside reality. Suffered from reality and enjoyed it too. I was on the ground.
Last week near north syrian borders, very near to Ras Al Ain I was in a restaurant and the guy working there (syrian peasent 19 years old) had come 5 months ago from that area now controlled by AL QAEDA.
When I asked him about ¨who¨are those Al Qaeda, he answered in less that half a second: ¨they are the men of Assad, we know them, they are there to destroy the revolution. They are being paid and promoted by Assad, Russia and co.¨
Sometimes the simplest people will give the clearest view of reality. Those who apparently know less will theach reality.
Al Qaeda was CIA in Afganistan, Al Qaeda was a mixture of Wolkovitz-Mossad-Pakistani Sercret Services at 9/11. Now Al Qaeda is the Assad-Russian branch.
Al Qaeda as we want to imagine it does not exist. It is being orchestrated by different centres of power using mercenaries and stupid militants in cover ops.
I hope Assad the sucker is soon out of power. This bastard deserves the worst destinty. Probably a bomb will end his life in coming years.
Today I read drugs are being used by rebels to get resistance against stress of war, lack of food, etc. The issue of the new was the testimony of a criminal oficial from the Assad Regime explaining:
¨We detain them and hit them but they do not feel the pain and smile. So we have to wait until the effects of drugs disappear and then follow ïnterrogation¨.
So the new is that they took drugs. The fact that Assad is torturing detainees is totally asumed as natural. God fuxxx the Assads and the Ayatollas.
Firstly, when you ask me a question that translates to further discussing with me.
Secondly, I have only advocated from day one peaceful means in toppling the regime you so gladly cheerlead for.
Thirdly, the BBC is not a mouthpiece for Hizballah and is considered one of the most balanced news sources out there. The same CANNOT be said of Akhbar.
Fourthly, shou jab tozz 3a mar7aba? Afghanistan is not my concern. Syria is, the fact you so quickly distract from the subject at hand show how little you know or care about Syria.
ضاقت بهم جميع السبل، ولم يبقَ أمامهم إلا انتظار الموت، ليس بواسطة الأسلحة التقليدية أو بالقصف العشوائي، بل من الجوع أو من نقص التغذية في جنوب العاصمة السورية دمشق جراء حصار فرضه النظام السوري منذ أكثر من عام.
بعد كل هذه المعاناة قرر نحو ثلاثين ألفا من سكان المنطقة الجنوبية التجمهر والتوجه إلى حاجز البيرقدار -والمعروف أيضا بحاجز الوحش وهو الذي يفصل بلدة يلدا عن بلدة حجيرة- لعلهم يستطيعون الضغط على عناصر الحاجز بكثرتهم فيفتحوا لهم الطريق ليفروا مما وصفوه بالجحيم.
موت محتم
وبالفعل، نجحت صيحات الرجال والشبان وأجبرت عناصر الحاجز على فتح الطريق أمام ألفين فقط منهم، فظنوا أنهم قد نجحوا أخيرا بكسر حصار لطالما كان مطبقا على صدورهم، ولكن ما حدث بعد ذلك يلخص الموقف بكلمتين فقط: الموت المحتّم.
فالمنطقة التي ذهبوا إليها هي بلدة حجيرة، التي سيطرت عليها المليشيات الشيعية منذ نحو الشهرين، فاستقبلهم عناصر من أفراد لواء أبي الفضل العباس العراقي، وحزب الله اللبناني وغيرهم بالرصاص الحي بحسب ناشطين، وأكدوا وجود حالات اغتصاب وثقوا منها نحو عشرين ضحية.
ويؤكد المتحدث باسم مجلس قيادة الثورة في دمشق فاروق الرفاعي خروج أعداد كبيرة من قاطني مخيم اليرموك الذي يعاني سكانه الأمرّين جراء الحصار المفروض عليهم، تُجاه حاجز الوحش لدى سماعهم بفتحه.
ويضيف الرفاعي في حديثه للجزيرة نت أن الناس خرجوا من مخيم اليرموك ومن جميع أحياء جنوب العاصمة وتوجهوا نحو حاجز الوحش بعد سماعهم أن العناصر المتواجدة عليه قد فتحته بوجه الأهالي الغاضبين، وخصوصا أهالي المخيم لأنهم يعانون ما لا يمكن وصفه من الجوع ونقص التغذية، حيث بلغت حصيلة الوفيات في مخيم اليرموك جراء الجوع ونقص التغذية 46 شخصا موثقين بالاسم من أصل 68 في كافة أحياء جنوب العاصمة.
ويروي مراسل شبكة دمشق في جنوب العاصمة أبو محمود نصر بصوت متهدج قصة إحدى السيدات التي نجت هي وابنتها من الموت، فيقول إن إحدى النساء الناجيات من موت محتم حدثتنا قائلة بأن جنود النظام حاولوا الاعتداء على ابنتها مرارا، وأنهم ضربوها وابنتها أثناء محاولة الاغتصاب حتى جاء بعض الشبان الذين كانوا يحاولون الخروج من المنطقة معهما وصرخوا بالعناصر في محاولة لإنقاذهما، فكان نصيبهم الضرب المبرح من العناصر، ومن ثم تم إعدامهم ميدانيا رميا بالرصاص الحي.
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/pages/0a7271b0-afab-46d0-8efd-30eb6acab02e
As I feel helpless reading unbelievable stories of brutality, I can’t do anything except wishing Bashar and all those who participated or cheered the killing of Innocent Syrians to fare a horrible death Qaddafi-style.
1. DOMINIQUE :
Nice work, Matt.
3. J L:
Great work, Matthew.
4. LIKOMIK:
You absolutely must continue translating!!!
8. TOBIAS LANG :
great work-please continue,
23. JOE :
Great job, Matthew.
24. SHOWME:
26. SYRIAN HAMSTER :
54. Alan
MATVEY ! OCHEN HOROSHO BUBBLE! At the Arabs: excessive of praise is the defaming!
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U.S. diplomats say they blacklist the Syrian Kurds for a number of reasons:
They accuse the Syrian Kurds of not cooperating with the opposition.
They accuse the PYD’s leader Salih Muslim of cooperating with Bashar al-Assad’s militias.
They accuse Rojava of marginalizing other Kurdish groups.
And the State Department is wary of offending Turkey’s sensibilities by recognizing another Kurdish entity on Turkey’s borders.
None of these are good reasons and, indeed, in many cases, they are simply wrong.
The Syrian Kurds do cooperate with the opposition, although they also have warned the United States repeatedly about the growing radicalization of the opposition. This is a message that the State Department has not wanted to hear, and so they have effectively punished the messenger. They also demand that the opposition recognize their own right to autonomy, a demand Iraq’s Kurds long made.
Salih Muslim strongly denies cooperating with Bashar al-Assad’s militia, although he acknowledges talking to all groups. That is effectively what John Kerry has blessed by pushing for Geneva II. Given how the Syrian Kurds have suffered under Baathist rule, PYD officials take special umbrage at the notion that they favor Assad.
The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq does not like Rojava because it does not like competition. Masud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, has never been able to shed his tribal mindset. Many Syrian Kurds do not like the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq because its tribal policies are unattractive to the Syrian Kurdish mindset. In addition, many Syrian Kurds—indeed, the vast majority it seems—favor political groups closer to Turkey’s Kurds. Barzani has the State Department’s ear, however, and seems intent on having the United States take sides in what is effectively an internal Kurdish political dispute.
Turkey, of course, hates Rojava because it opposes Kurdish autonomy and because Rojava maintains close relations with the Kurdistan Workers Party which for years waged an insurgency against Turkey. That insurgency is over, however, and Turkey itself has entered peace talks with the former insurgents. How ironic it is that the State Department bends over backwards for Turkey, a state which has supported al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria, pursued policies that compromise NATO systems to China, and has helped Iran avoid sanctions.
The last thing the United States should do is undercut the only stable, secular, democratic, and functioning section of Syria. But that is exactly what President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry seem intent on doing. Rather than treat Rojava like a pariah, it’s time the United States treats it like a model.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/01/13/repeating-the-iraq-mistake-in-syria/#.UtSEW0qAFdA.twitter
http://www.maysaloon.org/2014/01/dying-for-big-picture.html
heartbreaking piece by Maysaloon
“Take a good long look at this man photographed by the Watan Syria team as they distributed blankets to internally displaced people in Deir al Zor, Syria. This is what a broken man looks like. He has nothing except the time left before he dies. It doesn’t matter what his name is, or what his story is. He’s a man who was born in the wrong part of the world and with the wrong type of passport. Because that’s how it is. People like him are not allowed to change their own condition, to ask for freedom or dignity. They have to crouch down beneath military boots and the “big picture”, or freeze and starve to death quietly in bare hovels.”
Assad is the stupid president of a stupid generation of stupid politicians and stupid corrupt militars and officials.
What we see in Syria happen today is the result of 50 years perverting and eroding the basis of syrian civil society by the Baath Party first, by the Alawite Mafia later, and by the Assad Ring of Power at the end.
Lies and more lies from a regime based on crime and fear, tortures, assassinations, executions, fear, corruption, clan organization, etc. That was Syria and nothing of that will remain. Maybe even syrians will disappear.
When was I that they “stroke Israel”?
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/91544/World/Region/Lebanon-Qaeda-loyalists-will-continue-striking-Ira.aspx
Turkey cracks down on charity suspected of arming Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/terrorism-security/2014/0114/Turkey-cracks-down-on-charity-suspected-of-arming-Al-Qaeda-affiliates-in-Syria
In Damascus, starvation claims Palestinian refugees As siege on Yarmouk camp enters eighth month, its poorest residents run out of food; sides mull letting in aid ahead of talks (Times of Israel)
Yarmouk is a test case/microcosm. The Assad Regime must allow aid in by road or airdrop ASAP. A ceasefire nationwide must take root.
As the saying goes “Truth is the first casualty of war” and the reports coming out of Syria about Yarmouk are not clear. In siege situations like this, the fighters inside the besieged camp have some real concerns about aid trucks coming in. If the trucks coming in from outside are manned by people “scoping out” the vantage points of the fighters who are hidden from aerial and lateral view in various buildings in the densely built up urban zone, think “Trojan Horse” method of war.
Also, some of the fighters may have some real concerns for their safety if they surrender and “safe passage” is promised. (Case in point…Grozny Feb. 2000).
So what needs to happen from here is the following…
(Assuming that the actual population of the camp/suburb is reported to be approx. 20,000, but it may be higher. It is definitely less than the pre-civil war 125,000 as many people have fled.)
Calories Required @ 2,500 min. per person per day = 50,000,000 total calories required. (Water may not be as much of a concern due to existing storage, bottled supplies and snowmelt, but obviously the water supplies must be boosted. Energy for cooking, lighting etc. plus medicine, blankets, clothing etc. are obviously needed as well.)
As a bare minimum (based on 100 grams = 500 calories of concentrated high energy emergency food ) what is required is 10,000 kgs of food plus extras, water medicines, clothing etc. of 40 tonnes which would make 50 tonnes per day.
To build trust, the Assad Regime must allow, for a minimum period of ten days (leading up to and including the talks in Montreaux) a minimum of ten (10) fully loaded 5 tonne trucks, into the camp per day. The drivers should come from inside the camp themselves and they must be guaranteed safe passage on their exit, return and round trips.
The cost of this operation, which could be provided by the international community if the Assad Regime is a bit short of a buck, should be no more than $150,000 per day. This amount is a pittance to shift the dynamic in the conflict, and to allow some breathing space. (The cost of housing and feeding the refugees in various countries that have enough problems of their own is connected to this dynamic. The long term objective is to make sure that the temporary refugees do not become permanent ones. Ideally they must return to their country.) If the various international “players” in the cage fight/proxy war that is the current Syrian Civil war cannot in their wisdom see to it that the above plan is worthy of consideration and implementation then we are all in trouble. I repeat…When there is no disgust at evil you no longer have a civilisation.
A warning for various people who think they can hide behind their hermetically sealed borders and ignore what is going on…The world is interconnected in quite amazing ways right now. Various “genius” strategist may think they have covered all the threat bases, but polio, a microscopic bacteria that can spread from one region to the next very quickly, may be the killer that gets under everyone’s radar. Also countries that have immunised their tribe’s children, should realise that polio can mutate and evolve into other strains that are impervious to their vaccines.
P.S. Some disingenuous people are claiming that the opposition SNC fighters and their allies inside the camp are “besieging” the residents, when it is clear that the people outside the camp have much more food options than those inside. Thus the people inside the camp are the ones being besieged by those outside. Think medieval castles, forts and moats.
More “leaks”
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-qaeda-leaks-ii-baghdadi-loses-his-shadow
ADAM NEIRA : a descendant of Kings David and Solomon!
Why suddenly appeared and expressed concern about the Yarmouk refugee camp , a small area of the all map of the Syrian Arab Republic? And why depends source (Times of Israel) to inquire about the Palestinian issue, and does not depend Palestinian source?
You are cheat!
Why talk about Grozny and not talking about Baghdad or Kabul?
That was the subject of interest from the perspective of publicity and Israeli interest 100%
remove the mask. the role does not fit you!
You M U S T search for the listeners on the excellent shores of Australia
You know perfectly Assad and Ru$$ia is behind Al Qaeda branch for Sham and The Levant in a higly developed covered op. Or is still Bin Laden monitoring the world from under the sea?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Let us stop letting cheating ourselves please.
The SNC has agreed not to attend to GENEVA CIRCUS 2.
There is no need to legitimate the WAR and OIL games of dirty yankee lobbies and dirty russian mafias.
In other terms: Fxxx them all.
In addition to the usual destinations for Syrian officials, ex officials and their families (Lebanon,the UAE and Russia/ Ukraine), more people from Assad circle and their relatives are applying for “political asylum” in Western Europe and even the US taking advantage of new changes in immigration law that were put in place to help Syrians abroad who can not go back and Syrians inside Syria who are afraid for their lives.
Syrian major fm channel, sham fm, is flooded by calls from people in coastal areas who can not get basic assistance, jobs or even salaries from the beloved regime, that includes widows who lost their husbands in the war fighting rebels.
I said that before but it may be helpful to repeat the obvious:
This is a war where the poor are the first to die and the last to be rewarded. Rich Syrians, pro and anti regime, are the least likely to send their kids to fight but they are the first to incite violence and the fastest to collect the spoils of war.
If you really care about Syria forget the politics and do what you can can to help the millions who need you, the GCC, the West, regime people and thawrajiyyeh have decided that what matters is who wins and nothing else, for most Syrians they can only hope for help from God and true charitable individuals.
Ghufran,
Nice comment. But we cannot stop fighting inside or outside syrian borders, by intelectual, media or waepons. Everyone must fight as everybody must help the needed too.
Had we stopped fight on 20 march 2011 then Assad and their excrements would be even harder to destroy. Now their end is near and those syrians who survive will probably one day know what some kind of freedom or civil rights mean.
Syria had to face this change sooner or later. By 90´s I interviewed one of the only oppositors to the regime at his home, an elected parlamentary, and he told me: sooner or later there will be a blood bath since the stupids in charge are unable to reform the system from inside.
“a lose-lose situation…”
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/91589/World/Region/Turkey-president-urges-shift-in-Syria-policy.aspx
The descendants of Kings David and Solomon are worried that their power is slipping because of growing public awareness of their terrible achievements in the past, such as the destruction of Iraq. They were thwarted in their planned destruction of Syria and are now determined to show their power over at least sixty cowardly US senators to achieve the destruction of Iran.
The descendants of Kings David and Solomon in America say they are a tiny minority – just two percent – yet they are able to control sixty percent of the US Senate in any important matter, such as maneuvering the US military to attack Syria or Iran – in the middle of negotiations!
http://youtu.be/VNcSfHrtzJE?t=40s
This is a U-turn in Turkish government policy on Syria:
Turkey should re-calibrate its Syrian diplomacy and security policies in the face of realities, President Abdullah Gül urged Jan. 14 in his address to Turkish ambassadors convened in Ankara for an annual conference.
“The key for the settlement of both internal and external issues is common sense, collective mind, dialogue and the empathy. I am of the opinion that we should re-calibrate our diplomacy and security policies given these facts in the south of our county and given the threat perception of (political) centers around us,” Gül advised. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was also present during Gül’s speech.
“We are pondering what to do for the realization of a win-win situation in the region; the way for that is patience, calmness, insistence and when necessary silent diplomacy. But I believe difficulties could be overcome through diplomacy and I am confident that Turkey is playing and will play very important roles thanks to its rooted tradition of diplomacy and diplomats,” he said.
(Gul may be grooming himself to take the PM seat)
Palestinian minister says Syria rebels blocking Yarmuk aid
Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Jan-14/244035-palestinian-minister-says-syria-rebels-blocking-yarmuk-aid.ashx#ixzz2qQ8TeS6V
I cannot imagine how would react the world if Israel was blocking a palestinian camp killing its population of starvation.
If Assad does then no problema, go on, Russia, Iran and the US will cover your crimes, Mr AKHOU SHARMUTA AL ASSAD.
When you can read so many dogs writing on forums, on newspapers, on diplomacy defending the killing of civil populations on the name of Status Quo and global stability then you realice that you do not need to believe in God to let yourself explode in front of a power center or in the middle of politicians and militars.
US is playing with RUSSIA a very dangerous dimplocay that could explode in their face at any moment soon. Obama will hate the moment he was elected for ending wars because he is the main cause of the worse humanitarian disaster in the last 50 years.
Amir in Tel Aviv said:
Sandro #54,
Conspiracy theories have never brought any good for the Arabs. That of the peasant boy is no different.
This tragedy (the so called “Syrian revolution”) should now be called off. Sane Syrians who love their country, should reunite behind Assad (believe me, I’m not a fan of his) to save Syria from the Salafi jaws that are closing on Syria (and as a consequence, on Iraq and on Lebanon).
As bad as it may sound; First fight and destroy the Salafists and their sick ideology, then find a better, less costly way to remove the Assads. Extreme Islamism is much greater danger to Syria than the Assads.
I believe you mislead the whole scheme. Al Qaeda, Islamists and all that shit are the result of criminals and dictatorships. Sometimes it has been directly created by the regime and allies like Iran and Russia, and sometimes is the natural reaction of people under wild pressure and death.
You in Israel have crazy and mad people but as a result of democracy you do not have extremist solutions to extreme problems.
Once Assad is destroyed then all that extremesit movement that has been created to fight extreme dictatorship will erode and evaporate like a drop of wáter under the desert sun.
By suggesting the idea of following the egyptian scheme you just condemn syrians to be slaves and dogs for 40 years more. Maybe this is the best for Israel, Iran, Russia and US.
The whole system of Assad dictatorshit was created to avoid anyone being able to destroy it:
¨Assad or Chaos, Assad or Nothing, Assad Forever¨
Now we know the real meaning of those we think childish slogans. They were not childish they were evil.
Maybe now we can better understand why Bush chosed the Total Destruction Option against Saddam Regime. If he failed it was because Russia and Iran worked hard behind the scenes to avoid any stability. But the fact is that now Iraq is not as unbreakable as in the years of Saddam. It takes time. Just persist on the idea. Finally these dogs will fall.
“Extreme Islamism is much greater danger to Syria than the Assads.”
Every major massacre against civilians has been perpetrated by the regime. The regime gassed innocent civilians with Sarin. The regime barrel bombs schools and bread lines. The regime shoots SCUDs at civilians (without the luxury of Patriot missiles to protect them). The regime released many of the Jihadists leaders from its own dungeons and attacked moderates and killed civil activists in order to bolster its sick rhetoric that they are fighting jihadists. The regime has turned two out of the three major cities in Syria into rubble with its indiscriminate and systematic attacks.
Btw your comment can so easily be mistaken for an Assad propagandists that with me just changing one vowel you would’ve sounded like every Assadists nutter out there:
“Sane Syrians who love their country, should reunite behind Assad (believe me, I’m not a fan of his) to save Syria from the Salafi jews that are closing on Syria”
Among opponents of the Syrian regime has become clogged in thinking! Stop everything at the regime hatred. They still have hyperbole and come up on the ruins of Syria!
51. SANDRO LOEWE
If he was a sucker, he wouldn’t be able to pound your Salafist friends into submission and defy the West on a daily basis.
Maybe you should ignore the lies of that Qartari dictatorial mouthpiece then.
Sandro,
This is exactly where we differ. If I could agree with what you said, then I’d say fight till the end (of Assad). But I’m worried that once the Jihadies are established, nothing and no one will be able to remove them. There will be no Syrian army to take control over the post Assad Syria. Look at Gaza, look at Iran. The minute the Islamists are established, the battle of the moderate elements is lost beyond recovery. “Erode and evaporate”? … think again.
This, BTW, has nothing to do with Israel. Israel can live with a Salafi Syria. They are more dangerous to you, Arabs than to the Jews.
81. Amir in Tel Aviv
Our amnesiac friend Sandro seems to have forgotten what happened to the Jihadis in Afhghanistan.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/14/214444/on-scene-in-damascus-war-devastates.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/14/syrian-palestinian-refugee-egypt-mahmoud?CMP=twt_gu
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/14/meet-the-32-year-old-militiaman-holding-libyas-oil-hostage/
The Salafi Militant Muslims are danger to the whole world. They are danger to Arabs, Jews, “moderate” Muslims, Americans, Europeans….etc… They are even a danger to themselves.
Anyone who does not see how these guys do not want to live with the rest of the people of this world you would fooling yourself/selves…
omen said:
surreal…even un media news outlet is acting to protect assad.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/14/gag_order
84. mjabali said: The Salafi Militant Muslims are danger to the whole world.
agreed. that’s why it’s a mistake for the west to cater to iran & assad needs to be toppled. they’re the head of the snake.
NOW investigates the fraught ties between Iran and al-Qaeda members
Iran’s interest in the Abdullah Azzam Brigades is nothing new: it also underlines the paradoxical relations the Islamic Republic maintains with al-Qaeda and Palestinian salafi groups.
Rich syrians fled and do not care about Syria anymore.
Journalist were all killed or kidnapped.
Brave men died first.
Poor people is the last witness of Assad-Iran-Russia-US wild cruel and dirty politics. Starvation until death.
Great Powers against rebels and trying to drive Assad to an international agreement without the agreement of Syrian Populatuion,
No one there to defend the poor and the needed, now 75 % of syrians.
Great Stupids defending the Status Quo owners.
Real rebels (not fake russian funded), islamists or not, are 100 times better and more human than Obama itself. Obama is now a total shit in the face of world politics history.
speaking of the poor:
Teenager Mazen al-Asali hung himself in late December after returning home without food to feed his starving mother.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/91678/World/Region/Syria-regimetolerated-opposition-to-boycott-peace-.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/91675/World/Region/Hamas-urges-militants-to-leave-Damascus-camp.aspx
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/91665/World/Region/Syrian-rebels-kill-Belgian-commander-linked-to-AlQ.aspx
i’ll pray for you, mina.
Haven’t seen Omen for awhile, guess he/she was on a Pop Secret mission sent by Orvile Redenbaucher!
Jokes asied welcome back.
Now it looks that the anti-imperialists are posting BBC, CNN, etc. Now all Mass Media promoting the War Criminal Assad as their sollution to the syrian problem.
Now everything make sense: world powers have agreed to cooperate against any other popular revolutions. They will always be one united shit. From Putin the homosexual lover to Obama the junky pacifist to Assad the emtpy head King. All of them are the same enemy of the people of Syri
The Politics of the Islamic Front
Posted by: Aron Lund
http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=54204
Don’t forget to pray for Aron Lund as well.
Do you know a single country where an armed-opposition says “sorry, we won’t participate to negociations unless we have the upper hand on the battlefield”for six months and then when it is a bit defeated says, “sorry, we can’t negociate, it would be a suicide” ?
Civil wars have only one exit: negociations.
George @ArtWendeley 3h
There are real efforts by the #Syria|n regime to appease secular rebels and divide them from Jihadists.
Aboud Dandachi @AboudDandachi 3h
@ArtWendeley I am a secular rebel,and Ill see the devil take the country before Ill reconcile with the Eye Doctor butcher.
There are real efforts by the #Syrian regime to appease secular rebels and divide them from Jihadists.
ISIS needs to be taken out quickly otherwise they could do some real damage to the Syrian rebels.
Saudi must intervene with fighter jets targeting ISIS positions in coordination with Syrian rebels. Assad can’t do much as his air defences are probably knocked out in the north and east and around rebel held areas of Aleppo. I don’t know.
Iraqi government and Sunnis of Anbar can squeeze ISIS further by going after them in Iraq, as they already seem to be doing. Concerted and intense pressure in Syria and Iraq could help knock ISIS off balance and cause panic in the organisation.
About Saudi intervention, I remember Sh. Yaqoubi predicting over a year ago aerial intervention by a friendly power(s) very soon. It hasn’t happened, however, could it still happen but against ISIS?
It’s possible. The Islamic Front is said to be a Saudi project to unite the rebels and distance the opposition from the extremists (ISIS). Will Saudi stand by and watch the Syrian rebels lose precious manpower to an ISIS fight back and suicide bombs?
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Btw, ISIS scum probably martyred Abdul Qader Saleh too, as I read yesterday.
http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2014/01/geneva-ii-washingtons-plan-b-regime-change-syria/
ISIS IS ASSAD-RUSSIA-IRAN-SADR-NASRALLAH
This is not conspiration theory. This is the most probable theory.
The conspiration theory is that of a world organization called Al Qaeda ruled but dontknowwho, from dontknowwhere and funded dontknowhow.
Conspiration Theory is believing that 8 young arabs ruled by a bearded man in the caves of Afganistan are able to hit the heart of the Empire provoking the invasión of Afganistan, Iraq, etc.
Please use your brain.
Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi @Shaykhabulhuda 6h
أدعو قادة الجبهات والثوار لسحب الاعتراف بالائتلاف وتشكيل وفد جنيف وحشر النظام في الزاوية وإملاء شروط الثورة عليه خلال المفاوضات.
I call on the leaders of the fronts and the rebels to withdraw recognition of the coalition and the formation of a delegation of Geneva and Hasher system in the corner and dictate the terms of the revolution during the negotiations.
Do you know what?
Address by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
Cordoba Conference of the Syrian Opposition 9/1/14
In the Name of Allah, The Merciful, The Compassionate
Your Excellency, representative of the Foreign Minister of the host State, brothers and sisters, peace be upon you.
We meet here, while blood is being shed in our country, in an attempt to save it from more destruction, killing and bloodshed. We have come from several countries, despite the differences in opinion amongst us, to come out united with one position, to remove some of the disparity and conflicts that have stormed this uprising and the politicians representing it.
Let us make the title of this meeting the Words of Allah All Mighty in The Holy Quran: “Cling to the rope of Allah all together and do not disperse”.
The rope of Allah is The Quran, it is The Truth; it is not men nor institutions, not the coalition- nor this or that. It is the Truth for which our people stood up to defend and to reach.
We sit here to discuss, but the real makers of the revolution are the ones who are carrying guns and standing behind canons in the land of jihad in Syria.
To those noble revolutionists, mujahids, who rose up again, I send the words of Allah All Mighty, “Those who answered Allah and His Messenger, after being touched by calamities, for those who do good amongst them and practice taqwa: there is indeed ample reward”.
It is an uprising after an uprising to correct the channel of the uprising. [?]
However, we all, whether we sit in political arenas or in the trenches of revolution, are but servants of the people and guards of this country. No one is a guardian of this people no matter how much they carry of guns or opinion.
War is a necessity-it is not a business; as a poet says, “if there is no way other than spears to ride, out of necessity one has to ride them”.
You will not find a people or a sane person being choosing weapons and killing while being able to reach his goals through dialogue and words.
The Lord of the worlds tells us in the Holy Quran about peace, He says: “If they opt for peace; opt for it and rely on Allah”. Nevertheless, we forget that before this Verse is what He Almighty says, “And prepare for them whatever you can of strength and stallions of horses, to deter the enemy of Allah and your enemy”.
Negotiations which stem from weakness will not beget but defeat. Our poet al-Mutanabi, set forth from Aleppo words that should be written with gold, when he says,
“To bear up harm and see its perpetrator
Is a food that makes people’s body very lean.
No one should wish for the life of the
As some way of living is worse than death.
Every pardoning that comes from weakness
Is a pretext that only mean people use.
Concessions are easy to make by people without honor;
A wound does not hurt a dead person”.
We are tired of trading the causes of our people and the revolution of our community. We are exhausted and frustrated seeing money elevating some people and relegating others; and seeing the media putting forward some and backward others. It is Allah All Mighty who brings forward or backward, it is jihad that elevates or relegates.
Voices and votes are being sold- others are being bought. The voice of our people is almost disappearing. It is the voice of our people that cannot be sold or bought because the price of it is the blood that has been put forward in the fields of war and battle, in defense of liberty, dignity, religion and honor.
Syria is an Islamic state, whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not. The identity of this state puts together religions, cultures and ethnicities. Syria’s history is the best example of tolerance, forgiveness and mutual coexistence. We do not accept using arms to force this identity or to negate it. Our people have not lose anything despite all of their sacrifices, because they still carry their belief and their dignity. These are the two most important elements a person needs for triumph in any battle.
I hope that this meeting comes out with serious steps introducing the way to victory, whether in battlefields or in negotiation arenas. We thank the Spanish government for this initiative. Some countries far in distance bring togetherness, whilst others close by in distance bring disparity.
The last word is to the regime and its mercenaries, I say, “Do not think Allah is heedless of what the oppressors perpetrate. “The oppressors will know for sure where they will end”.
Thank you for listening, peace be upon you.
https://www.facebook.com/shaykhabulhuda/posts/10152219393437580
Related to the the Sh. Yaqoubi statement in #103:
Syria opposition holds first “unified” meet ahead of peace talks
By Oliver Holmes
CORDOBA, Spain | Thu Jan 9, 2014
(Reuters) – Disparate Syrian opposition groups, including several Islamist rebel representatives, met for the first time in the Spanish city of Cordoba to seek common ground ahead of peace talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s government later this month.
After nearly three years of conflict the opposition has fractured into competing groups with different regional backers and the West is pushing to gather a unified body of opposition members to attend negotiations on January 22, dubbed “Geneva 2”.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/01/09/uk-syria-crisis-opposition-idUKBREA080PA20140109
¨Civil wars have only one exit: negociations.¨
Do not be navie. You are talking nonsense declaring universal rules like the one above. Most civil wars end with:
– One winner side
– One loser side
– Population killed, tortured, stolen, abused, starving, freezing
– No negotiations, new rules and history written by the winner
2:38 thank you, sami. that made me hungry actually.
95. Mina said: Civil wars have only one exit: negociations.
i’m sure you’re familiar with some version of this:
the parable of the scorpion and the frog.
A scorpion enlists a frog to take him on his back across a stream, even though the frog is astute enough to protest that the scorpion “will surely sting me and I will die.” The scorpion points out that if he stings the frog, he will die too. The trusting frog thus takes on his passenger, is stung by him, and the two creatures drown together. But before the frog drowns he asks, “Why did you sting me, Mr. Scorpion, even though it costs us both our lives?” to which the Scorpion replies, acceptingly, “It is my nature.”
99. Alan said: Finian Cunningham
alan, would a regime afraid of western plots engineering its removal agree to meet with european intelligence agents as reported today in wsj?
96. Uzair8
Lol, I guess he’ll get what he asked for.
The hubris of the pathetic “FSA” is its downfall.
Let’s test the early MSM narrative, how many Alawites in the delegation?
– Walid AL-MOALLEM, vice-premier ministre et ministre des affaires étrangères et des émigrés (chef de la délégation),
– Omran AL-ZOUBI, ministre de l’Information, vice-président (chef adjoint de la délégation),
– Bouthayna CHAABAN, conseillère politique et médiatique du président de la République (chef adjoint de la délégation),
– Faysal AL-MIQDAD, vice-ministre des affaires étrangères et des émigrés,
– Housameddin ALA, ministre adjoint des affaires étrangères,
– Bachar AL-JAAFARI, représentant permanent de la République arabe syrienne auprès des Nations unies à New York,
– Ahmed ARNOUS, conseiller du ministre des affaires étrangères et des émigrés,
– Louna AL CHEBEL, chef du bureau de presse du président de la République,
– Ousama ALI, bureau du ministre des affaires étrangères et des émigrés.
Ils seront assistés par une délégation technique dans laquelle figurent :
– Ahmed KOZBARI, député à l’Assemblée du Peuple,
– Mohammed Khayr AKKAM, professeur à l’Université de Damas,
– Hicham AL-QADI, membre du cabinet du ministre des affaires étrangères et des émigrés,
– Abdel-Karim KHWANDA, membre du cabinet du ministre des affaires étrangères et des émigrés,
– Amjad AISSA, bureau de presse du président de la République,
– Tamim MADANI, représentant permanent de la République arabe syrienne auprès des Nations unies à Genève,
– Mohammed MOHAMMED, membre de la représentation permanente de la République arabe syrienne auprès des Nations unies à Genève.
Observer said:
Here is the difference between Sharon and the iPad Retard
Sarin, used by who exactly?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/01/15/214656/new-analysis-of-rocket-used-in.html
Syria minister says Geneva II ‘won’t solve crisis’
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/syria-minister-says-geneva-ii-39-won-39-165119358.html#OJyEUIM
Not a single scholar would consider as part of djihad to boobytrap houses until soldiers come to search them
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/urgent-ia-soldiers-asking-to-be-rescued-from-under-the-rubble-in-anbar/#axzz2pxyG10wO
Can anyone confirm that members of the ruling regime are now in various European countries or even in the US. I heard that the family of Kheir Bek is in the US. Others have put 750 000 dollars in European bank accounts per person by the way to get a residency position such as Jamil Alassad daughter.
Rumors are one thing confirmations are another.
I would bet it is true. No Western bank would refuse a little tip, in these days of fragile economy. Switzerland has always been hailed as a model of stability and neutrality.
After 9 years of an “investigation” that was full of scandals, leaks and manufactured witnesses,etc, the trial for Hariri assassination started with the sole purpose of framing Iran and Hizbullah, after sticking it to Syria did not work. We have a bunch of highly paid incompetent UN employees who really need to justify the ungodly price tag behind the investigation of the murder of Hariri, however, the latest statement from the chief prosecutor made things even more confusing, the man said that Hariri was killed by a suicide bomber who was inside a van.
That will raise many eyebrows since it took the plaintiff 9 years to spell the beans and draw a scenario that is more characteristic to Al-Qaida type attack (suicide bombing) than an attack by Hizbullah who gained nothing from the killing of a moderate and accommodating Sunni politician like Hariri.
The whole thing is a circus, my favorite part was when Lebanon was forced to pay “its share” for the cost of the investigation !!
http://news.yahoo.com/lebanese-forces-capture-second-leader-al-qaeda-linked-150131333.html
how many days will this one last?
Western diplomats said to seek Syrian help against al-Qaeda militants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/western-diplomats-said-to-seek-syrian-help-against-al-qaeda-militants/2014/01/15/4771ee8e-7e2f-11e3-97d3-b9925ce2c57b_story.html
A top Syrian government official said Wednesday that Western intelligence officials have visited Damascus to solicit cooperation against militants linked to al-Qaeda, a claim that appeared intended to buttress the regime’s attempts to win back international support in the name of fighting terrorism.
The assertion came as the fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) retook control of many areas in Syria that the group had lost to more-moderate rebels this month, dashing hopes of the Syrian opposition that the extremists’ influence could be quelled ahead of crucial peace talks in Switzerland next week.
The young commander Shaker Wahib
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/01/iraq-isis-shaker-wahib-zarqawi.html
John Kerry – Secretary of State , Briefing Room, Washington, DC
http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/01/219915.htm
Saudi-Qatar rivalry divides Syrian opposition
http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-qatar-rivalry-divides-syrian-opposition-194432541.html
As per Alan’s link in #121, John Kerry states:
The Syrian people need to be able to determine the future of their country. Their voice must be heard. And any names put forward for leadership of Syria’s transition must, according to the terms of Geneva I and every one of the reiterations of that being the heart and soul of Geneva II, those names must be agreed to by both the opposition and the regime. That is the very definition of mutual consent.
This means that any figure that is deemed unacceptable by either side, whether President Assad or a member of the opposition, cannot be a part of the future. The United Nations, the United States, Russia, and all the countries attending know what this conference is about. After all, that was the basis of the UN invitation send individually to each country, a restatement of the purpose of implementing Geneva I. And attendance by both sides and the parties can come only with their acceptance of the goals of the conference.
We too are deeply concerned about the rise of extremism. The world needs no reminder that Syria has become the magnet for jihadists and extremists. It is the strongest magnet for terror of any place today. So it defies logic to imagine that those whose brutality created this magnet, how they could ever lead Syria away from extremism and towards a better future is beyond any kind of logic or common sense.
The bottom line is that Assad not acceptable to the opposition and therefore will not participate in the transitional government and of course If Arour is nominated and the regime does not approve, he is out too.
He he, راحت عليك يا بطة
And also, please note that Kerry acknowledges that Batta’s brutality creatures extremism so it is is unimaginable that Batta can lead Syria away from extremism.
I say the coalition must go to Geneva II and simply states Assad is not acceptable to the Syrins.
http://youtu.be/Z_2DeScLQzc?t=1s
In reality, Bandar bin Sultan is the protégé and successor of Bin Laden; he has deepened and systematized global terrorism. Bandar’s terror network has murdered far more innocent victims than Bin Laden. That, of course, is to be expected; after all he has billions of dollars from the Saudi treasury, training from the CIA and the handshake of Netanyahu!
Kerry has just declared that the only acceptable outcome for the coming Syria negotiations is for Assad to be replaced by the US-backed transitional government. This despite Syria’s compliance with the Russian deal to remove Syria’s chemical weapons. Of course, the only reason Syria is in such violence is the US covert support for the hired mercenaries that have tried and failed for nearly three years to overthrow Syria’s government. The problem is that these hired mercenaries see themselves as the new government of Syria, and will likely turn on the newly installed US puppet regime, meaning the violence will continue.
Obama Style fighters
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeBiGnaIEAE0kD5.jpg:large
http://youtu.be/RFugl4fBhHc
It looks like some of you still do not understand that Geneva 2 is a circus and a photo op, the real work is done by Russia and USA. Syrian government team does not have a single military or security chief and nobody with guns from the opposition side has accepted the concept of Geneva to start with. what you will see on paper and in press releases is a pile of garbage that means nothing. Kerry can say anything he wants but he knows that for a deal to be reached Russia needs to be on board. Mr Kerry has been selling hot air to Syria’s opposition for 3 years.
here are some events we’ve read about in the latest weeks
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/world/middleeast/syria.html?referrer=
(or here:
http://www.myantiwar.org/view/271489.html )
and here is how le monde twists it
http://mobile.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/01/16/syrie-plus-de-1-000-morts-dans-les-combats-entre-rebelles-et-djihadistes_4349399_3218.html
(they don’t give any explanations on the civilians killed in the al kindi hospital, so that quick readers may think it is the army)
Hopeful said:
# 128 Ghufran
I disagree Ghufran. You need to watch this again:
http://bcove.me/f30s4tuw
The outcome of Geneva II is binary. The two parties will either agree on a name to lead the transitional government, or they don’t. If they do, there is hope, if they do not, there is continued war.
The opposition has the upper hand in this process. They will be able to produce tens of names to suggest for the transitional government, including people who are currently affiliated with the regime. They will show the world that they are flexible and willing to compromise.
The regime side will not be able to produce more than ONE name, which will be voted down by the opposition. They will show the world how rigid the regime structure is.
If this is the outcome (Assad and only Assad), no one will be able to block action in the United Nations anymore, including Russia and China.
I think it is game over for Assad and his cronies. I hope the opposition will jump on this chance. Kerry made this statement specifically to assure them.
I think it is game over for Ordinary revolutionaries! There has been a consensus on the need to put end to all forms of Takfiri Wahabi radicalism and destructive! This is the moment of truth! All countries of the world have become afraid of contagion into its territory! Enough winding and turnover!
http://youtu.be/GFOTpMwgExk?t=13s
http://intellihub.com/2014/01/16/greeks-cypriots-protest-syrian-chemical-weapons-burial-in-mediterranean/
While Greek (and Cypriot) leaders exclaim the recovery in their economies (factual data aside), the reality is that they remain low-man-on-the-totem-pole among the European Union (despite holding the Presidency).
Nowhere is this better illustrated than the world’s decision to sink two ships carrying Syria’s chemical weapons in the waters near Greece and Cyprus. As KeepTalkingGreece notes, the first stage of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons has reportedly already begun with the aid of Norway, Denmark, Russia, China, Finland, UK and USA, among others. The chosen dumping ground for more than 800 tonnes of chemical weapons… Crete./………….
NIGHTMARE!
Hopeful,
Brilliant ! That is exactly it.
The coalition must go. Kerry’s statement can not be more definite and they have it now publicly.
I think that Batta is praying for the coalition to refuse to go to Geneva II. If the coalition doesn’t the war will go forever and the West will not support the opposition anymore and that what Batta wants. He thinks that Iran and its tail HA will be able to win the war and as long as Asma can shop, Syria will be fine.
It would be a historical mistake not to go. While I understand the emotional part of not sitting with the killers on one table, going to Geneva II can’t hurt the Syrian people. Had we, the Syrian people, won the war military ; we wouldn’t sit with those sub humans, but the fact of the matter is that we did not and perhaps we couldn’t. It is imperative to go. As long as the coalition team insists on Batta and his clique not be included in the transition, we can’t lose. It is either Batta out or the war continues. And if the war continues because Batta wants in, the world will realize then that Batta must be forcefully removed.
Hope this materializes:
Syria’s foreign minister said on Friday that his country was prepared to implement a ceasefire in the war-torn city of Aleppo and exchange detainees with the country’s opposition forces as confidence-building measures before a peace conference next week in Switzerland.
( question: who has authority over rebels ? )
AJE blog this afternoon:
Some key points from yesterday’s interview with SNC spokesman Khaled Saleh:
– We have doubts on the initiative proposed by Walid Mualim about ceasing operations in Aleppo, especially it does not cover other provinces. It is only meant to buy time and continue to kill.
ISIS is back in control of Jrablos, this is according to aksalser which also published pics of severed heads of rebel fighters who were slaughtered by ISIS and had their heads posted on the wall of the cultural center in the city:
استعاد ” تنظيم البغدادي ” السيطرة على مدينة جرابلس، بعد ساعات على تحريرها من قبل الثوار، و قام بإعدامات ميدانية طالت عدة أشخاص أبرزهم ابن عم الشهيد يوسف الجادر ( أبو فرات ).
و قالت مصادر ميدانية إن المدينة تم تطويقها بعد أن سيطر الثوار على المركز الثقافي آخر معاقل التنظيم في المدينة، و قامت قوات ” داعش ” القادمة من الغندورة و تل شعير، باقتحام المدينة و استعادة السيطرة عليها.
و أعدم ” تنظيم البغدادي ” بعد سيطرته أربعة قياديين في الجيش الحر، بالإضافة إلى عدة عناصر، عرف من بينهم ابن عم الشهيد يوسف الجادر ( أبو فرات )، كما قام بقطع رؤوسهم و تعليقها على أسوار المركز الثقافي.
This is not a good time to be a Muslim, I genuinely feel sorry for Muslim kids in western countries today, the animals of ISIS could not have survived without the support of some Muslim individuals and Muslim governments, before you accuse non- Muslims of attacking Muslim countries and Muslim interests look in the mirror !!
Even when it comes to freedom and democracy, Arab Spring countries are regressing, Egypt is taking a U-turn and seems to be ready for a military junta rule again, Islamists are being chased around and jailed all over Egypt, and less than 40% of Egyptians voted and a 98% of them approved the new constitution, this is more like an Assad election except that the Bedouins of the GCC are as silent as a house mouse over this since Sisi is not a Rafidi !!
The Politics of the Islamic Front, Part 4: The State
Anger in Italian town over Syrian chemical transfer
Plans for the disposal of Syrian chemical weapons at an Italian port are meeting with local opposition. 560 tonnes of Syria’s most toxic chemicals are to be transferred from a Danish ship to an American one. The so called ‘priority one’ chemicals are changing ships at the Calabrian town of Gioia Tauro. But inhabitants of the town are worried and angry over the consequences if anything were to go wrong in the transfers of the dangerous chemicals.
http://youtu.be/FITwe5smtVE?t=1s
Akbar Palace said:
Fortunately, that’s one town Assad won’t be able reduce to rubble. One of those small little
benefits of a free society.
Tawfeeq Dunia, an alawite anti regime activist , suggesting that most alawites are worried abut their existence and their well being if the regime is gone, if he is right, forcing Assad and his family out may not be as hard as some here say if a deal that preserves employment of second and third tier army and security officers and an agreement to combat Islamists are reached.
Mr. Dunia believes that alawites fall into 3 groups:
The first group is willing to support a new Syria without Assad.
The second group is the silent majority that is fears the regime’s security forces but also sees islamists as a big threat to their existence.
The third group includes people who are connected to the regime, many are low ranking army and security officers who are afraid of losing their jobs (and probably their freedom)if the regime is removed, some are big players who are deeply involved in corruption and brutality, etc.
آ- الغالبية العظمى من المسيسين يرفضون ادعاءات النظام ويرفضون الانجرار خلفه, وهم ضد عملية التحريض الطائفي, وضد قتال شعبهم تحت أي يافطة أو شعار من شعارات النظام . وهؤلاء دفعوا وما زالوا يدفعون أثماناً غالية نتيجة هذه المواقف . وهم معارضة علنية لكنها مجزأه مثلها كمثل غالبية المعارضة الوطنية الديموقراطية واليسارية والليبرالية و القومية … و … وهم جزء من الأحزاب والتجمعات السياسية الوطنية السورية .
ب- توجد شريحة واسعة صامتة تعاني من الخوف والرعب ، استطاع النظام من خلال أجهزة قمعه اخراسها . وهذه الشريحة تزداد انحيازاً للنظام بازدياد التحريض الطائفي للنظام ، وازدياد نفوذ المنظمات الطائفية ( داعش ، النصرة ، … ) التي على شاكلته في الجهة الأخرى .
ج- شريحه ثالثة – وهي كبيرة – من الناس التي ارتبطت بالنظام . وهذه الشريحة اكثر من قسم …. فمنها من هو شريك عائلة الأسد منذ البداية ومارس النهب والفساد والقمع وكل موبقات النظام. وقسم ثان ارتبطت لقمة عيشه بهذا النظام مثل الضباط الصغار والموظفين في أجهزة الأمن والجيش وضباط صف وجنود , وهذه الشريحة تكونت لديها قناعه أن ذهاب النظام هو ذهابها , لذا فهي على قناعه أنها تقاتل دفاعاً عن مصلحتها وليس دفاعاً عن آل الأسد . أضافة الى وجود شريحة من الناس استطاعت الديماغوجيا أن تقنعهم أنهم يدافعون عن وحدة سوريا وعن الوطن السوري , وهذه الشريحة قليلة العدد لكنها موجوده .
I do not know many people who think Geneva 2 will change things quickly but the idea that Syrians from different backgrounds with conflicting political positions will sit down and exchange ideas, even through a mediator, is a step in the right direction.
For Geneva to achieve anything, parties involved need to admit that they can not shape Syria to perfectly fit their needs and their friends needs. Personally I would like to see a time table for Assad’s departure, the release of all political prisoners, POWs exchange, an end to the siege of many syrian towns, a coalition to fight the islamist terrorists called nusra, Isis ,etc and an agreement where alawites receive reasonable guarantees that the new regime will not be a cover for a witch hunt that will target them when Assad is gone.
Regime media is spreading news showing that Assad does not expect, and probably doesn’t want, Geneva 2 to succeed:
نقل زوار الرئيس السوري بشار الاسد لصحيفة “الراي” الكويتية، عنه قوله:”إننا ذاهبون الى مؤتمر جنيف – 2، وقد أرسلنا أسماء الوفد وكل التفاصيل المتعلقة به الى الأمم المتحدة، غير أننا نعتقد ان المؤتمر وفي حال انعقاده في موعده لن يأتي بشيء لأحد، عازياً السبب الى اننا سنجتمع مع أشخاص لا يملكون الأرض ولا أي سلطة على المسلحين، وإذا قدمنا لهم قدرات معيّنة او شراكة ما، فلن يستطيعوا القيام بأي شيء لأنهم لا يملكون المبادرة ولا القدرة على التعاون مع السلطات الحالية القائمة”.
NC vote :
Half of the members did not show up, those who did voted as follows:
58 yes. 14 no. 1 blank. 2 abstain
نتيجة تصويت أعضاء الائتلاف على الذهاب إلى جنيف 2 : 58 موافق – 14 غير موافق – 1 ورقة بيضاء – 2 ممتنع عن التصويت
Come on Assad the democrat will show now his democratic skills in Geneve 2. By the way someone must remind Assads that weapons (even chemical) and torture tools are forbiden in the conference hall.
http://youtu.be/LxXCgOeVrZ4?t=26s
It appears that John Kerry having learned nothing from last August’s embarrassment, the US is back to playing their propaganda games, and getting caught at it.
I welcome the coalition decision to go to Geneva II. I am sure it is a sad sad day for Batta and company.
We are now at the end of the rope. The coalition is playing by the book and Batta failed to convince the western world that he is fighting Islamists. To the contrary, the US and France have publicly acknowledged ge that his brutality brought on the extremists and that it is inconceivable that he can stay and lead Syria out of extremism. France had also suggested that he is feeding extremism to taint the revolution. The regime in Geneva II has literally nothing of substance to offer. How could it offer anything of substance when Assad is convinced that he own Syria and her people are his slaves? It will fail miserably! The regime will not transition the power. There is actually no regime. It is Batta and Batta alone. No one will dare to offer a thing and the world will soon realize that Assad can only be removed by using force because he understand no other language. The Syrians learnt that long time ago…. In Hama 1982. It is the Western world who will learn that in Switzerland.
#146 Alan
This reminded me of the 1970’s Soviet Union propaganda videos….
It took the world powers 3 years to bring parties of Syria’s war to sit down and talk peace but it will take some Syrians another 10 years to understand why it was wrong to use violence to change a regime and why it was wrong to use terrorists as allies. What both the regime and KSA backed rebels are doing is trying to convince big players that they are better than the other side in fighting Islamists, freedom, democracy and the well being of syrians are not the primary motivation for Geneva , those of you who think Geneva is about a radical regime change are naive. Yes Assad may have to go, and I support that, but what those big players want is another Assad to fight their wars. They see the regime as a lesser threat than Islamists and they may keep Assad if they can not find another chief they can entrust with fighting the new war. Wake up
حياتي اته
الغفران أقوى من الانتقام
This video with some cretins chanting Assad slogans is really pathetic, it makes me feel sorrow for you and your past. What has happened to you in your childhood to become this?
Assad confirms he will never leave power or talk about leaving power. This is his answer to Geneva 2. Last time the mothafaxxar of his father Hafez was in Geneva was to say goodbye to the US, he met Clinton and one year later died. Let´s hope history repeats.
And let´s hope the fake prophet Nusf Allah of Hezb Zbele Party invasors of Lebanon, follow his track.
Mr. Bashar Al Assad should be impaled in the Malki Square of Damascus. And later coverded in liquid bronze to remain forever as a statue of who should never return in the future generations.
Once again we have a typical Arab Elections Result: 98%
Here is a nice comment from Juan Cole on it
http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/shame-danger-egypts.html
The worst of the commentators here are closet pro regime Shabiha that claim that they fault the regime for its use of violence but again and again and again portray any dissent as destabilizing. These would find peaceful protest too much all in the name of a fake stability; these closet Shabiha would have found the “Damascus Spring” and the Declaration of Damascus in 2001 “too much” and it is the same closet Shabiha that argued that we needed to have emergency state for more than 50 years in the name of a fight with Israel that was non existent.
This is not stupidity. This is criminal acquiescence of the illegitimacy of the regime.
The regime is illegitimate from its very foundation from its very essence and from its very nature and is the ONLY source of instability and radicalization of the society.
Juan Cole posted on the revolution within the revolution when he noted that the Syrian people revolted against both the regime and ISIS and organization that was and remains brutal and dictatorial.
Geneva 2 will show what we say in Damascus: Follow the Liar to his doorstep. That is at Geneva 2 let see if the regime is willing to have an agreement on the very principles of Geneva 1 of a transitional government
Today they are saying that they are not giving up power. If they go and show their true face I wonder who will continue to support their stance.
It is not the person of iPad Retard; it is the security house of cards that need to be dismantled brick by brick and for a truth and reconciliation commission to take over and to prevent endless revenge killings and a genocide of the Alawi community.
If they think that they can continue to rule the country like they did they are criminally insane towards their own supporters.
If the regime fails to deliver this time; we will have full blown 20 year civil war and millions of dead and wounded.
It boggles my mind why people continue to talk of the regime instead of talking of asking what the Syrians want.
It boggles my mind why people continue to talk of the regime instead of talking of asking what the Syrians want. It comes from people who are not free themselves and who have nothing but an elitist contempt for their fellow human beings. I know that first hand as many members of my feudal family continue to think that the riffraff are not worthy of making a contribution to public life.
Spare us the fear of Islamists. No one can defeat the extremist Islamic thought except Muslims. No one can defeat the extremist Sunni or the extremist Shia that have taken over from Kabul to Marakesh except their fellow Muslims. Not the US not Israel Not the regimes Not the drones. The people empowered and free Kapish Comprende?
Islamist Rebels Reject ‘Hollow’ Syria Peace Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/01/19/world/europe/19reuters-syria-crisis.html
Mannaa’ described how Lavrov responded when asked about rebels advances around Damascus (last year):
روسيا تنظر إلى الأزمة السورية من واقعين .. الأول هو انتشار الجماعات التكفيرية المتطرفة، والثاني مجريات الواقع السوري، ففي إحدى اللقاءات مع وزير الخارجية الروسي سيرجي لافروف، كان الوضع الميداني في الغوطة لصالح الثوار وهم على أبواب العاصمة، وقال له الدكتور عارف دليله، ماذا تنتظرون، حتى يدخل الثوار إلى القصر الجمهوري.. عليكم أن تتحركوا الآن، فرد لافروف: إذا دخل الثوار إلى القصر الجمهوري لن نرسل طائرة لإنقاذ الأسد.. فهم بذلك يكونون حسموا الصراع
On one hand, the Russians were ready to accept a new regime (in theory) but on the other hand they seemed unconvinced that rebels have enough power and support to finish the job.
Mannaa’ asked Lavrov how the USA and Russia will be able to force Assad to step down if they could not make him release political prisoners like dr AA Alkhayer !!
I used to admire and respect Mr. Manaa’ but in this interview http://youtu.be/XiSLqIEUous he sounds like a bitter loser. He claims that the US and Russia are forcing the rebels and the regime to come to the negotiation table kicking and screaming. Well, after three years of destruction and killing, shouldn’t we be thanking them instead of complaining?
157. GHUFRAN
مضمون التعليق ضرب من الوهم !
الروس لن يتركو سوريا أبدا حتى لو اضطروا اللجوء الى القوة ! ان فشل مخططات التحالف غير المتجانس ،المصطف بعناد للاطاحة بالنظام الحاكم في سوريا تعتبره روسيا انتصارا لها بالفم الملآن !!!
لن تفلت الأمور من يد روسيا أبدا! و من يعرف الروس يدرك أن نفسهم طويل و يتمتعون بالحنكة و لا يوفرون جهدا في الوصول الى مصالحهم ! سورية تقع في مجالهم الحيوي! كما أنه توجد علاقة مصيرية بين صلابة دمشق و صلابة موسكو و لن تفشل سوريا لأن روسيا دولة ليست فاشلة و لذلك انتحر هتلر 🙂
Do you find all this problema with syrian people demanding freedom and dignity and a dictatorship destroying the whole country funny? I think who find it funny is an idiot.
Jihad Maqdisi gave an interview to the NY Times, here is a piece about Christians in Syria:
Q. Christians are widely seen as staying close to the regime, believing it is the source of their security. Do you agree?
A. Nobody managed to read well the real position of Syrian Christians, and everybody started accusing them of siding with one side against the other. Syrian Christians believed in the change and that this change is inevitable in Syria, but they wanted evolution instead of armed revolution. Today after all this blood and the real threat of jihadists, the majority of Syrian Christians chose to be among the silent majority of Syrians, and that is so different from siding with any side. We can’t blame them, because the future is really still uncertain. I see Christians in Syria as the best to play the role of the bridge between other Syrian communities
141. Asghar Palace
After every game there are other game Revenge!
Shimon Peres said: (punish Syria because it did not make peace with Israel), he did not specify a succession of by whom? There is no war without loss, but we know from history that the victory of the Nazis when they arrive to the outskirts of Moscow was followed by a disaster for Germany and it master!
It’s a matter of time…. ..
The concept of Ummah is a myth and the Baathist slogan of One Arab Nation is a lie.
Many Muslims are still mentally living in the middle ages, this is why a thug with a beard, Arifi, has this stat on facebook:
الصفحة الرسمية للشيخ د. محمد العريفي .
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160. SANDRO LOEWE
Jesus said from the cross: I pray for them!!! I pray for U 2 !
The “Hook is in the jaws of Magog”
http://youtu.be/UPiMzSQCtG8?t=19m35s
Here’s a picture of a suit talking to a head-wrap:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25799942
I see this guy Ken O’keefe is a bright light bulb of information. A 9-11 “truther” and follower of David Icke, who believes in the Protocols and that the world is controlled by a group of reptiles. Yes, reptiles.
You won’t find Ken questioning why Gazans (Hamas) need to fire missiles into Israel instead of building up their own infrustructure.
freedom for prisoners in Israeli jails! Stop the Judaization of the remaining Palestinian Arab land, Stop building settlements , stop assassinations, stopped all that can be reflected upon you evil!! Greeting to Mr. Newton!
Are you trying to be at the level of Jesus?
First you should be Christian then you should be with the poor, the needed, the sick and the peacefull instead of defending criminals and assassins like the dictatorship who bulleted peacfull demonstrators (including children and women) during long months.
If Jesus was born in Syria on in 1978 he would have died at under tortures in a Baathist Assad prison in march 2011 at the age of 33.
Please do not forget your pills.
Sandro Loewe,
(Reuters) – A powerful alliance of Syrian Islamist rebels rejected upcoming peace talks on Sunday, meaning that even if the talks reach an unlikely breakthrough in the three year old civil war, it will be harder to implement it on the ground.
(the NC can now claim that they have nothing to do with the Islamic rebels, who will continue to fight, this will also allow KSA to fund rebels with one hand and play the diplomatic game with the other hand since rebels will not be part of any agreement the NC may reach with the regime)
Allowing Islamists more control in Syria will only make things worse, look at Libya:
Libyan army chief of staff killed in clashes with Tripoli gangs
Mohamed Karah becomes latest official to be killed in Libya, dying from a gunshot wound to the head, say security sources
I hope they solve things in Geneva 2 although many signs point to the other way, like having 30 people representing the opposition and the hard stance of al-Assad.
Again: I hope they agree on something and call for immediate cease fire and have all the Syrians unite to kick these crazy jihadi goons out.
US making things worse in Mid-East
By Fareed Zakaria
Read more: US making things worse in Mid-East – Columnist – New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/us-making-things-worse-in-mid-east-1.466133#ixzz2qtWedPXd
The NC changed its mind 2 days before Geneva 2
أعلنت الهيئة السياسية للائتلاف، تعليق المشاركة في مؤتمر “جنيف 2” والذي سينعقد في سويسرا، الأربعاء القادم، وذلك بعد دعوة بان كي مون، الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة لإيران.
/why Gazans (Hamas) need to fire missiles into Israel instead of building up their own infrustructure/.
Israel and the Logic of Violence in Palestine
http://journal-neo.org/2014/01/19/israel-and-the-logic-of-violence-in-palestine/
Assad denies all massacres he did by saying he never killed civilians.
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Agree with Mjabali that the Syrians need to unite and kick the jihadi and the regime goons together out.
This regime and its mirror image are two sides of the same coin.
What goes around comes around. Pretending to be against the regime in name only will not cut it. They have to give up power, face the courts, and spend time in jail and have their illegal possessions confiscated.
Then a period of about 20 years of truth and reconciliation and perhaps payment of reparations to all the houses destroyed and the loss of income and the loss of life will have to be considered on the wealthy members of the community of regime supporters.
750 000 $ to get a residency permit per person in the EU is what the regime families are paying these days. They can therefore afford to pay reparations.
This is just the beginning. I hope and pray and implore that the iPad Retard runs for election again and that the Drum in Geneva tells all that there is no such thing as sharing power.
Let the truth come out of how depraved this regime is. To its very core.
Atassi said:
Why Iran cannot be invited to GII! KSA, Qatar, Russia, and USA are invited!
– Iran has a deep hand in Iraq
– Iran has a DEEP, effective LONG Hand IN LEBANON “Hezbollah”
– Iran is Part of the struggle in the Syrian conflict
– Iran is the Syrian government deep pocket and money talk
– Iran proved to be a regional power and can’t be ignored
If Iran left on the sideline this regional power play will not be obligated to observe of any of the GII outcomes.
The KSA, SNC and the Obama administration are creating additional mistake and will be prolonging the suffering of the Syrian people ..
“US Secretary of State Kerry, white courtesy telephone, please!!”
So much for a puppet transitional government the US wants to install before the election.
Now, the only shot the US government has (literally) is an assassination of Al-Assad before elections are to be held this May.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/ru/content/syria%E2%80%99s-president-bashar-al-assad-%E2%80%98significant%E2%80%99-chance-i%E2%80%99ll-seek-new-term
/Moscow has insisted on Iran’s participation in the talks and said that not inviting the republic would be “an unforgivable mistake.”/
http://rt.com/news/iran-syria-peace-geneva-916/
Mr JL ! I think that the Russians were right far-sighted!
What is your view about this?
CIA-connected Terror Group Issues Threat Ahead of Russian Olympic Games
http://www.infowars.com/cia-connected-terror-group-issues-threat-ahead-of-russian-olympic-games/
http://youtu.be/OqZXakDjpR8?t=55s
Bloody, violent global redistribution of property
speeches Western rulers plaintext!
http://youtu.be/La3hEUPfsW0
Kerry’s “Framework Agreement” – The End of Palestine?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/kerrys-framework-agreement-the-end-of-palestine/5364924
The whole thing is diabolical. The Israelis—with, of course, active and critical US connivance—have managed to completely shift the debate and shape the agenda. The only issues now being discussed are the Jewish state and the Jordan Valley, which, in terms of the international consensus for resolving the conflict, never figured at all. (Even in prior bilateral negotiations presided over by the US, such as at Annapolis, these were at most peripheral issues.) The key issue (apart from the refugees), in terms of the international consensus and in prior bilateral negotiations, has been the extent of the land swap along the border: Will Israel be allowed to annex the major settlement blocs and consequently abort a Palestinian state? But the debate has completely shifted, because annexing the settlement blocs is a done deal.
Sorry Alan,
I am near to vommit after reading too many posts from Russian Propaganda System. It is simply the same fxxxing soviet style but even worse with smell of gas-oil mafia and vodka drunken pedophile Putin mafia.
Those ¨terrorists guys¨in the video are KGB members acting like very bad actors. This is very low if you think we are going to swallow it.
Freedom for Syria, Assad go !!! Iran out of Geneva !!!
What will Assad now do without Iran ??? Maybe he will be forced to stage a huge ¨terrorist attack¨ in Damascus with hundreds of victims … probably.
The Guardian now has a large file, also available at akslaser, about torture of prisoners that allegedly took place in Syria’s prison:
“Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the “systematic killing” of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers.
The three, former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime security forces from March 2011 to last August.
Most of the victims were young men and many corpses were emaciated, bloodstained and bore signs of torture. Some had no eyes; others showed signs of strangulation or electrocution.
The UN and independent human rights groups have documented abuses by both Bashar al-Assad’s government and rebels, but experts say this evidence is more detailed and on a far larger scale than anything else that has yet emerged from the 34-month crisis”
Decent people should not disagree on the fact that torture was and still is a commonly used tool in Syria’s prisons to keep the regime “in control”, however to pretend that the only torturers in Syria now are the regime people or to suggest that other Arab and Muslim countries are less likely to use torture is simply a fallacy. I hope that I will see the day when human life is respected in Syria and to watch the kings of torture in and outside Syria face justice.
The report is painful to read and the pics are heart-breaking regardless of where you might be in the political spectrum.
It is unreasonable to be nervous in all your comments! Do you think that this could serve your point of view? You are mistaken!
You go out frequently of courteous, and your words makes readers averse!
You are mistaken if you think your are going to get something positive by defending crimes against syrian populations. At the end your consicience will pay for it. This is written in the Bible.
When I see scenes like the famine and starvation in children of Yarmouk I cannot keep calm.
Those who try to argue in cool and stable mode because they have no feelings towards suffering populations are despicable.
I really believe the sons of responsable of human suffering will suffer as punishment of natural events.
So please stop thowing your garbage in the SC and try to explain why there is no democracy and no freedom in Syria. Why people has been tortured, stolen and mistreated during 40 years of Assadism..
Try to do it come on.
To loyalists: if you continue to support the regime after reading this, please now that you are criminals.
Evidence are now out documenting industrial scale torture and killing of prisoners by the Syrian regime… Thanks to a defector who imaged the tortured and butchered detainees after their death during his employment by the regime. The defector saved 55,000 digital images of 11,000 victims on a memory stick. The 55,000 images were examined by forensic experts and painted a picture off gruesome war crimes.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-industrial-scale-killing-syria-war-crimes?CMP=twt_gu
“The procedure was that when detainees were killed at their places of detention their bodies would be taken to a military hospital to which he would be sent with a doctor and a member of the judiciary, Caesar’s function being to photograph the corpses … There could be as many as 50 bodies a day to photograph which require 15 to 30 minutes of work per corpse,” the report says.
“The reason for photographing executed persons was twofold. First to permit a death certificate to be produced without families requiring to see the body, thereby avoiding the authorities having to give a truthful account of their deaths; second to confirm that orders to execute individuals had been carried out.”
Families were told that the cause of death was either a “heart attack” or “breathing problems”, it added.
“The procedure for documentation was that when a detainee was killed each body was given a reference number which related to that branch of the security service responsible for his detention and death.
“When the corpse was taken to the military hospital it was given a further number so as to document, falsely, that death had occurred in the hospital. Once the bodies were photographed they were taken for burial in a rural area.”
Three experienced forensic science experts examined and authenticated samples of 55,000 digital images, comprising about 11,000 victims.
“Overall there was evidence that a significant number of the deceased were emaciated and a significant minority had been bound and/or beaten with rod-like objects,” the report says. “In only a minority of the cases … could a convincing injury that would account for death be seen, but any fatal injury to the back of the body would not be represented in the images … The forensics team make clear that there are many ways in which an individual may be killed with minimal or even absent external evidence of the mechanism.”
The inquiry team said it was satisfied there was “clear evidence, capable of being believed by a tribunal of fact in a court of law, of systematic torture and killing of detained persons by the agents of the Syrian government. It would support findings of crimes against humanity and could also support findings of war crimes against the current Syrian regime.”
De Silva told the Guardian that the evidence “documented industrial-scale killing”.
He added: “This is a smoking gun of a kind we didn’t have before. It makes a very strong case indeed.”
Calls for Assad or others to face justice at the international criminal court in The Hague have foundered on the problems that Syria is not a member of the court, and that the required referral by the UN security council might not be supported by the US and UK or would be blocked by Russia, Syria’s close ally.
Nice said: “It would not necessarily be possible to track back with any degree of certainty to the head of state. Ultimately, in any war crimes trial you can imagine a prosecutor arguing that the overall quantity of evidence meant that the pattern of behaviour would have been approved at a high level.
“But whether you can go beyond that and say it must be head of state-approved is rather more difficult. But ‘widespread and systematic’ does betoken government control.”
Crane said: “Now we have direct evidence of what was happening to people who had disappeared. This is the first provable, direct evidence of what has happened to at least 11,000 human beings who have been tortured and executed and apparently disposed of.
The UN withdrew Iran’ invitation.
High time that the Iranians understand how much contempt we have for them.
Iran used Taqqyieh ( ie deception) with the UN. They lured Ban to invite them to Geneva telling him that they support the peace conference and shortly after the invitation, they declined it. He he…They miscalculated… They did not imagine that despite the invitation, they will be booted out. Are they going to declare victory this time too? A victory of being booted out is well deserved in my opinion.
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-invited-syria-peace-conference-ban-234314580.html
The UN leader said Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had repeatedly assured him that he “understood and supported” the aim of the peace conference to set up an interim government.
“The secretary general is deeply disappointed by Iranian public statements today that are not at all consistent with that stated commitment,” said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.
“He continues to urge Iran to join the global consensus behind the Geneva communique.
“Given that it has chosen to remain outside that basic understanding, he has decided that the one-day Montreux gathering will proceed without Iran’s participation,” Nesirky added.
Ban was “dismayed” by the storm growing around the peace conference, the most intense diplomatic bid yet to end the near three-year war.
UN officials said Zarif had apparently promised Ban a statement accepting the Geneva communique would be made.
But just before the UN announcement, Iran’s envoy to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, reaffirmed his government’s rejection of conditions for attending this week’s meeting.
“Iran has always been supportive of finding a political solution for this crisis,” Khazaee said in a statement.
“If the participation of Iran is conditioned to accept Geneva I communique, Iran will not participate in Geneva II,” he added.
Ban had contacts with the US and Russian foreign ministers before excluding Iran again.
The Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition, welcomed Ban’s about turn and said it would be in Switzerland this week.
Criminals,
Please know that 55,000 images were taken of the11,000 tortured and then butchered detainees were to confirm to Batta and his regime that execution took place!!
I quote
“second to confirm that orders to execute individuals had been carried out.” Now this is not a conspiracy theory. These were 55,000 images physically present and examined by forensic expert that are documenting war crimes.
I called you shabeeha before. Now and after this, I can’t call you anything but criminals!! I honestly pity your mothers! Did your mothers know they were raising criminals.
Here is the story again, in Arabic:
كشف صور تعذيب أسرى تدين النظام السوري
إحدى الصور التي نشرتها وكالة أنباء الأناضول التركية (الجزيرة+وكالات) كشف فريق من المحققين الدوليين في جرائم الحرب وخبراء الطب الشرعي عما سموها أدلة مباشرة لعمليات التعذيب والقتل الممهنج التي يقوم بها نظام الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد، ورأوا أنها تشكل أدلة دامغة لإدانة النظام بارتكاب جرائم حرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية.
وقال فريق المحققين إنه تلقى صورا بلغ عددها نحو 55 ألف صورة لـ11 ألف ضحية لعملية تعذيب وقتل ممنهج.
وأشاروا في تقريرهم إلى أن مصدر الصور ضابط شرطة سوري يعمل في توثيق قتلى التعذيب سلّم هذه الصور إلى المعارضة السورية.
وقالت وكالة الأناضول التركية للأنباء إن مصدر الصور خدم 13 عاماً في سلك الشرطة العسكرية التابعة لنظام الأسد، وتمكن بالتعاون مع عدد من أصدقائه من التقاط 55 ألف صورة، لـ11 ألف حالة تعذيب ممنهج حتى الموت، قامت بها قوات النظام على مدار عامين ضد معتقلين لديها.
وقال أعضاء الفريق -الذين سبق لهم أن عملوا في لجان تحقيق تابعة للأمم المتحدة في دعاوى مشابهة- إن الصور تشكل أدلة دامغة لإدانة النظام السوري بارتكاب جرائم حرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية.
وأظهرت الوثائق بعد التدقيق، أن الضحايا تعرضوا للتعذيب وهم موثقوا الأيدي والأرجل، مع وجود حالات خنق متعمد، بواسطة أسلاك أو حبال، في حين أظهرت حالات أخرى أن بعض الضحايا فقدوا حياتهم بعد أن تم خنقهم بواسطة أحزمة مركبات مسننة، فضلاً عن استخدام الجوع كأسلوبٍ للتعذيب.
وأوضح الخبراء أن الصور سيكون لها تأثيرٌ على مسارات الحرب الأهلية في سوريا ومستقبل الأسد، ومحادثات جنيف.
Read the full report and watch the 10 sample images. Note the size of the chest of the dead tortured detainees. It is the size of a chest of an 8 year old. This happens from starvation in case some one is stupid enough not to know. May Allah curse the regime and those who support this criminality. May Allah inflict a punishment worse than the act on these criminals.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2014/jan/20/torture-of-persons-under-current-syrian-regime-report
Assad crimes undisguised:
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/20/exclusive-gruesome-syria-photos-may-prove-torture-by-assad-regime/
Watch the middle clip.
So excluding Iran in the farcical Geneva II is considered to be victory to the opposition and its “friends” and backers.
Does it make sense if anyone has any serious mentality to resolve the killing in Syria?
It has become so clear that the opposition and its goons are trying to use this ruse to score a point before even the conference actually takes place.
Seriously, is that they are hoping they could do defeat the regime this way while the regime is gaining more ground on the battlefield?
Bahrain is in the conference, a country whose ruling monarchy family invited Saudi military to brutally crush a peaceful protest demanding human rights and democracy. Of course, Saudi is invited.
Let’s hope Russia can lead the way to play with those clowns and hypocrites.
Hardly a massacre is back again.
Here is the document 32 pages of it for Hardly a Massacre Regime insider supporter and ultimately responsible for covering up and distracting the world from the heinous crimes of these unbelievable animals and their sectarian hate filled theocrats in Tehran and Beirut
I QUOTE:”Bahrain is in the conference, a country whose ruling monarchy family invited Saudi military to brutally crush a peaceful protest demanding human rights and democracy. Of course, Saudi is invited.”
This is how the people of Syria started their protest only to be met by incredible brutality. The difference with the intervention in Bahrain is that in Syria the regime does not have the means to crush the protest quickly and effectively and therefore the protests degenerated into a a civil war that was initiated and stoked by the regime and in typical arsonist fashion even created more mayhem than ever.
Read the 32 page report perhaps a ounce of humanity can take root in a soulless Hardly a Massacre apologist that has dehumanized the other a la KSA method.
Here we go again. Our sectarian opposition members are riding moral high horse.
Yet they ignore the fact that everyone is fully aware of the brutality and impotence of the regime. But in order to stick to their revolution, those “innocent” and “devoted” opposition people introduced the radical Islamists from around the world to lead the bloody war.
The painful and scary reality is that those backward monsters are far worse than the regime when it comes to butchering human beings.
While the opposition in true color is a puppet of countries like Saudi, Qatar and Turkey, plus those crowns of hypocrites like US and UK, we really do not take them seriously when they start talking about representing Syrians with unheard voice.
Obama/kerry transitional government for Syria
One of the biggest strategic mistakes of the armed opposition movement was to change the “revolution” from a revolt against a brutal and corrupt regime, that most Syrians were happy to get rid of, to a campaign against Alawites and minorities. That mentality made it much easier for those minorities, and even many moderate Sunnis, to put their hatred of the regime on the back burner after what they saw what the new thugs were up to.
In few months after the uprising turned bloody, mouthpieces of the rebels started making plans for alawite-free army and security forces and declared that the whole thing has to be uprooted only for Syrians to find out that the replacement offered was a bunch of new comers financed by the GCC and in bed with Islamists.
The new awakening that you see where ISIS is targeted was dictated by a change in politics not a change in heart, Syria was simply too small for the two competing forces, ISIS Versus non ISIS, to share. There is still a way out where previous enemies unite against a common foe, Islamists, and try to save what can be saved. A number of towns around Damascus have joined a new effort to stop the killing spree for the sake of Syria’s children who are more important than Assad, The GCC, Iran,etc.
Expect a lot of “new” info to suddenly appear implicating both parties, especially the regime, with one goal: PR.
The truth is that there are no clean players in this dirty war.
Most Syrian, indeed, are not players they are toys and actual victims
Wilayati of Iran attacks Geneva 2 and called it “illegitimate” if it is based on Geneva 1, he also said that the idea that the new Syrian government will be an equal mix of the regime and the rebels mean that half of the Syrian government will be supportive of terrorism.
أعلن علي أكبر ولايتي مستشار المرشد الأعلى للثورة للشؤون الدولية أن “إيران لن تقبل تلبية دعوة الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة للمشاركة في مؤتمر جنيف 2 إن كانت الدعوة مبنية على قبولها البيان الصادر عن جنيف واحد” واعتبر أن “قبول جنيف واحد يعتبر شرطاً مسبقاً وإيران لن تقبل بأي شروط مسبقة”.
ولايتي في تصريح لوكالة الأنباء الإيرانية الرسمية أكد “أن ما يبطل صحة بيان جنيف واحد هو مساواته بين الحكومة السورية التي تعتبر عضواً هاماً وملتزماً في الأمم المتحدة كطرف للحوار وبين الإرهابيين الذين ينتمون إلى جنسيات مختلفة ومعهم بعض الإرهابيين من سورية المدعومين من قبل الدول الإستكبارية
والإستعمارية مما يعني أن نصف الحكومة الإنتقالية ستكون داعمة للإرهاب”.
ولايتي شدد على “أن العقل و المنطق يرفضان أن تعطى شرعية للإرهابيين المدعوميين من كيان الإحتلال الإسرائيلي و بعض الدول الرجعية والإستعمارية”.
excluding Iran and insisting that the conference is a “funeral” for Assad (Jarba’s statement)means that the conference will be, as expected, a mere photo op and a theatre.
The hardline position by the NC is matched by Assad who hinted that he will run in 2014 and that he will not accept a PM from the NC.
The idea that an army that lost 30,000 soldiers, at least, will give its command to GCC employees and Nusra sympathizers is laughable, even if Assad says yes, the army will not follow.
It seems to me that both parties are raising their tone to shield themselves from future concessions and a potential backlash from their constituents. For a deal to be reached both parties have to look at their real size and consult the big daddies who are probably more flexible than the parties they support.
January 21st, 2014, 1:49 am
President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Agence France Presse
http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2014/01/president-bashar-al-assads-interview-agence-france-presse/
http://youtu.be/_Q6JNUKvsYU
202 Ghufran said:
“One of the biggest strategic mistakes of the armed opposition movement was to change the “revolution” from a revolt against a brutal and corrupt regime, that most Syrians were happy to get rid of, to a campaign against Alawites and minorities.”
Yes, I agree. But any dictator ruling a diverse society, who studies a bit of history, knows how easy it is to turn a freedom rebellion into a civil war. Many have done it before him, and he took a chapter of that book.
It was the inevitable result of a systematic campaign that the regime intentionally led. The real mistake was not recognizing that Assad will play this card, and moving quickly to stop him from doing so – by any means.
Majed97 said:
The timing of this report by three FORMER war crimes prosecutors is highly suspect, coming a day before peace talks are due to begin in Switzerland.
“The report by the former war crimes prosecutors was commissioned by Qatar, which supports Syrian rebel and opposition groups.”
The timing in releasing the report might be political but its content for anyone who bothered to read it is not.
A brilliant move by the Qatari’s to 1) fund the investigation that led to the report, and 2) making sure that the most credible legal people carry out the investigation. Amateurs would have simply leaked the photos to the press.
This may prove to be the single most effective move against Assad so far!
This report is timed for the Geneva conference.
Qatar wants to spoil Geneva.
Qatar funded extremists groups in Syria.
Qatari citizens funded extremists in Syria.
Now Qatar goes and buys some western lawyers and pr to write a FANCY report.
Their paid agents in Syria lost.
Waiting to see the next stunt.
The old fat ruler is a sore loser. Let him retire for real before he is standing up in front of an international criminal court for what he did in Syria.
Syria needs a solution not these fake stories, as if we do no know what the Assads did to Syrians.
Syrians need smart people to lead them to safety not people playing with their emotions.
I personally hate those playing us Syrians like fools.
I hope Geneva gets us somewhere.
#209 Mjabli
I tend to agree
Qatar wants to make sure Geneva leads to Assad’s ouster
Qatar funded FSA not the extremist groups
Yes, it is possible. There are Al-qaeda sympathizes all over the Muslim world
Lawyers are expensive, good lawyers are very expensive
They do not have paid agents in Syria. They have some outside Syria.
He did not order the torture or killing of anyone. He won’t stand any trial.
A solution cannot be found with Assad and his thugs in power
I hate what Syrians have done to other Syrians.
Me too my friend.
Maysaloon : Why is Jihad Makdissi being interviewed about Geneva 2? And why now? And why at all? These are all very important questions that need to be asked, and they need an answer. I don’t agree with people who say that Jihad Makdissi represents the kind of people we want in Geneva 2, not because I have anything personal against him, but because he and the current he represents are irrelevant. There are two parties that need to be in Geneva 2, the regime and the Syrian opposition – the real Syrian opposition, however clumsy and divided it is.
It is important for us to clarify what we mean by the Syrian opposition, especially with regards to Geneva. People who refer to the Syrian revolution as a “crisis” are using a codeword that is acceptable to the regime and therefore makes them immune to its wrath. When they use the word “crisis” they tread a thin line, and acknowledge a very real problem that Assad is facing, but avoid using a term that de-legitimizes his rule. Mr Makdissi uses the word crisis. And as far as I know the man has never used the word revolution to describe what is happening in Syria, even before it became armed.
http://www.maysaloon.org/2014/01/jihad-makdissi-talks-elephants-and.html
Mjabali,
Are you doubting the substance of the report? And yes, I ask you to read it, watch the images, listen to the CNN interview that I linked last night with the former war crimes prosecutors that produced the report, and to think about the word “integrity” before answering.
I know how it is in Syrian jails. I met people who were in those jails. Some friends of mine went through the same jails. Some of my friends are now in those jails. This Fancy expensive report is not going to tell me anything I do not know. Why Qatar orders this? Who are they? This is not an innocent report. When I read the headlines, I knew that these ex goat herders, current Jet setters, can not write these sentences, and when I saw who did it and who paid the money and how they released it before Geneva it was all obvious….
Would love to see a part two of these leaks. Even if they’re not proven to be true, they’re still very fascinating.
What do the leaks say about the recent infighting?
Syrialover said:
HOPEFUL and TARA good answers to MJABALI who really is very uncomfortable about what this report confirms.
MJABALI says in #214 “This Fancy expensive report is not going to tell me anything I do not know.”
Normal people would see it as very strange to know all about the industrial-scale brutality and murder of ordinary civilians by a regime, and yet not want the rest of the world to know it. Especially when there is forensic information which will help in getting it stopped and justice done to those responsible.
What kind of thinking is that? Shame?
For those who say “why didn’t they give this information to an NGO to report, why have the report sponsored by Qatar?”
The answer: the way it was done makes good sense.
It needed money and resources for sophisticated preparation – and it needed to be done fast. It probably had to be done at top speed to get it finished and out there pre-Geneva rather than post-Geneva, which is logical. Qatar helped make it happen because it had the funds available.
In contrast, we know the process would have taken much longer, taken a lot of scarce NGO resources, and it is unlikely to have been as legally and forensically watertight as the one we now have which can be said to be “war crimes tribunal standard”.
It is also likely that with an NGO the sources could not be guaranteed confidentiality(and in all likelihood protected and recompensed for their efforts).
Interesting, today the pro-Assad spammer has been posting an instant 12 thumbs up for comments on their own side, and the same neat measure of thumbs down to those who are not.
What a dishonest, pointless and ridiculous way to invest your time!
For those interested in more translations of the @wikibaghdady leaks, the folks over at reddit continued them, here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/1wj5za/completed_english_translation_of_wikibaghdady/
February 1st, 2014, 2:21 am
ISIS – Beginnings to Present – Part 1-8 | Cii Broadcasting said:
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|Pump them into the private sector, as we've seen with the NHS, companies start turning a profit on running a prison.
"What's the worst possible thing that could happen to that business model? Because I don't think Liz Truss will mention this later today. People are making money out of running prisons right. What's the worst possible thing that could happen to that business model?
"The worst possible thing that can happen to your business model is that the prison population is reduced.
"The Justice Secretary today will pledge not to reduce prison populations. And she'll dress it up in the usual way by saying these wicked, wicked people, these uber-meanies need to be locked up forever.
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Laois student baker wins national Odlums CEIST Bake-Off competition
Tara Maher, Scoil Chríost Rí, Portlaoise, winner of the Junior category with her Home Economics Teacher Aine Thornton
Odlums mills begun in Portlaoise, Laois and now a young Portlaoise student has baked her way to become Odlums Ceist Junior Bake Off champion for 2018.
Tara Maher, 14, a 2nd year student in Scoil Chríost Rí, created a Spongebob Squarepants cake that wowed judges in the national final of the competition, held in Árdscoil na Tríonóide, Athy on March 9.
One of seven regional finalists, she was stunned to win, she told the Leinster Express.
"I didn't really believe it at first, there were loads of really good cakes," she said.
She had to bake, cool and ice her novelty Spongebob Squarepants lemon madeira cake with lemon buttercream icing, in the three hour competition time.
"I got it done and cut just in time. I was very happy, it turned out better than my practices," said Tara.
Tara is already baking occasion cakes to order in the family kitchen in Market Square, with a growing customer base. She thanked her school, Scoil Chríost Rí, teachers and family for their support.
"I might go down the career route of baking," said Tara, a daughter of Cora and Joe Maher.
She was presented with an Odlums hamper, a certificate and a cash prize of €150, which she plans to put towards her savings for a high spec mixer.
Her Home Economics teacher Aine Thornton is delighted for her student.
"She is fantastic, a very talented baker and decorator. The future is bright in Portlaoise if Tara continues her business and work ethic. It is a fantastic achievement. Our Home Ec department really encourage our students to enjoy the subject and be creative," she said.
Scoil Chríost Rí to Cupcake Carnival for Irish Cancer Society's Daffodil Day.
Below: Tara shows her amazing Spongebob cake, with judge Catherine Leyden.
Hundreds of submissions were made to the Junior (1st to 3rd year) and Senior (4th to 6th) competitions from 110 schools nationwide. The senior event was won by Tipp student Niamh Doyle.
Catherine Leyden is Odlums’ brand ambassador, a home baking expert and one of the competition judges.
“It is always encouraging to see the high calibre of entries we receive every year from student’s around the country, and this year was no different. Watching our 2018 finalists pour their heart and soul into their designs, their passion for perfection and desire to create something truly unique has been eye-opening. We have a highly skilled and talented number of bakers across the country. Well done to everyone who submitted entries, to those shortlisted and our overall winners Niamh Doyle (Senior 5-6th year winner) and Tara Maher (Junior 1-3rd year), it has been a fantastic effort by all," she said.
Odlums remains based in Laois, from their mill in Portarlington. CEIST, the ‘Catholic Education, An Irish Schools' Trust’ is the Trustee body for 110 Voluntary Catholic Secondary Schools in Ireland.
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Dottor Tretti
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DR. MATTEO TRETTI CLEMENTONI
True beauty lies in the beholder’s eyes
Born in Piacenza on 29 April 1968, Dr. Matteo Tretti Clementoni graduated in July 1986 from the Scientific High School “A. Calini” in Brescia, an experimental high school specialising in physics, mathematics and natural sciences. In June 1993 he graduated with first-class honours from the University of Bologna, presenting an experimental thesis in Plastic Surgery entitled “Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate: timing and new therapeutic protocol”. Fully qualified in the medical profession, in 1993 he also won a place at the University of Pavia’s School of Specialisation in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He finished the course in 1999 with maximum honours (50/50), presenting an experimental thesis entitled “Noma: etiopathogenetic aspects and reconstructive experiences”. During the specialisation course he was also a Medical Officer in the Arma dei Carabinieri (Italian National Military Police) and began undertaking humanitarian missions in Bangladesh and Africa, primarily carrying out reconstructive surgery on burn injuries and congenital malformations. In September 2000 he became Level 1 Medic in the Plastic Surgery Functional Unit at the Multimedica general hospital in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan), directed by Dr. Massimo Signorini. Having left that position, together with the whole team, in January 2004 he took up the same position in the Plastic Surgery Functional Unit at the Casa di Cura Santa Rita in Milan, also directed by Dr. Massimo Signorini, where he remained until 2007. His private professional practice, which had begun parallel to his hospital practice, then became his exclusive activity from 2007 onwards. In 1996 he began working with lasers and has progressively expanded into this field.
Teaching Positions
2005 – 2006: lecturer at the Laser Surgery School of the National Institute for the Study and Cure of Tumours in Milan
2006: lecturer at the International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
2008 – present: lecturer at “Agorà”, the Superior Post-University School of Aesthetic Medicine in Milan
2008 – present: lecturer at “Agorà”, the School of Aesthetic Laser Surgery in Milan
2009: lecturer on the II Level University Masters in Aesthetic Medicine at the Univeristy of Siena
2009 – present: lecturer on the Masters in Aesthetic and Corrective Dermatology in Rome
2012: lecturer on the 1st theoretical-practical course in Advanced Biomedical and Laser Technologies in Medicine and Aesthetic Surgery
2012: lecturer on the advanced course “Laser Technology and Methodology in Surgery” at the University of Genova
Memberships of Scientific Societies
Fellow of American Society for Laser in Medicine and Surgery
SICPRE
Italian Society of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery(associate member)
ISCLS
International Society for Cosmetic Laser Surgeons
IALMS
International Academy for Laser Medicine and Surgery
World Association for Laser Therapy
AICPE
Italian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (Founding Member)
European Society for Laser Aesthetic Surgery
ASPDT
American Society for Photodynamic Therapy
ESLD
European Society for Laser Dermatology
SASDS
South African Society for Dermatologic Surgery (Honorary Member)
DASIL
Dermatologic and Aesthetic Surgery International League (Founding Member)
Academia Brasileira de Laser e Fotomedicina (Honorary Member)
Italian Association of Aesthetic Physicians (Founding Member)
SIDCO
Italian Society of Surgical Dermatology and Oncology
Go to publications
He is the author of 196 publications (including some book chapters) and has participated in 251 National and International Congresses. He was an invited speaker at 138 of these Congresses.
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California to give struggling cannabis businesses more time on provisional permits
Workers tend cannabis plants in a California greenhouse.
(Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
By Patrick McGreevyStaff Writer
Reporting from Sacramento —
In another sign that California’s legal cannabis market is in deep trouble, state officials plan to extend the period that growers and sellers can operate with provisional licenses by five years, giving them a delay in complying with stricter rules for regular permits.
But the proposal faces opposition from environmental groups. They object that it would allow cannabis farms to remain out of compliance with laws aimed at protecting waterways, land and the public.
The change is included in legislation related to the state budget. Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed it as hundreds of pot farmers faced the expiration of temporary licenses and the prospect that they would have to shut down operations, industry officials said.
Cannabis firms have complained that California’s rules and bureaucracy are so complicated and taxes are so high that growers and sellers are discouraged from coming out of the black market. Illicit operations are not complying with environmental rules or paying taxes, licensed growers say.
So far, only 208 growers have obtained regular, annual licenses, while another 1,532 are still operating on provisional permits as they go through the cumbersome paperwork that requires detailed environmental reviews. Among cannabis retailers, only 39 have received regular licenses while 2,751 are still operating on provisional or temporary permits.
Industry officials, including Hezekiah Allen, welcomed the delay in requiring regular licenses.
“Slowing things down is probably the most important thing that can be done to help smooth the transition to a regulated market,” said Allen, the chairman of Emerald Grown, a cooperative of 130 licensed cultivators.
Pot entrepreneurs are running out of patience and money while waiting on L.A. permits »
The state had hoped to move cannabis businesses from temporary licenses to annual, or regular, licenses after a year. There is disagreement between the state and industry over what is behind the delays.
Staffing problems appear to be an issue, according to Josh Drayton, spokesman for the California Cannabis Industry Assn. Cannabis growers wanting a regular license must complete a detailed environmental review that shows how their farm will affect area water supplies, vegetation and wildlife.
As a result, some cannabis firms were having to wait 10 months to a year to get approval of regular licenses, long after temporary permits were set to expire.
“We have started to see that the processing of annual licenses was clearly taking much longer than the licensing authorities had anticipated,” Drayton said. “For cultivators, we were seeing our members falling into expiration of their temporary licenses in huge numbers.”
The five-year extension was proposed in part because the agencies responsible for administering the licensing program “say they are overwhelmed with the workload that has poured in,” said Cathy Mudge, spokeswoman for Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), a coauthor of the bill.
The division that licenses growers is authorized for 151 positions, but 60 of them are still unfilled, leaving the office 39% below its budgeted staffing level.
Still, the California Department of Food and Agriculture denies that staffing has been an issue in processing permit applications.
“Many of them are submitted in an incomplete state,” said Rebecca Foree, a department spokeswoman, adding that more staff time must be spent when applicants fail to file required documents, such as those needed to comply with environmental rules.
“In addition, applicants often take up to 90 days to respond to our requests to resolve deficiencies in their applications,” Foree said.
Drayton said state agencies have often been slow to respond to applicants trying to complete their documentation.
Black market cannabis shops thrive in L.A. even as city cracks down »
The change providing five more years to use provisional licenses would take effect July 1 if signed into law this month by Newsom, a leading proponent of Proposition 64, the 2016 initiative approved by voters that allowed the sale of marijuana for recreational use by firms licensed by the state.
The Newsom administration noted that the changes also allow more cannabis firms to get new licenses, removing a requirement that they hold a temporary license during the first year of legalization.
The new system will “strengthen the mandate that operators move diligently towards annual licensure,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state Department of Finance.
“The restructuring of provisional licensure allows a provisional license to serve as a ‘step-up’ license for operators newly entering the licensed system, allowing operators to legally do business in the licensed market while concurrently navigating local approval processes, including the environmental review requirements,” he added.
The proposed change in the law would also provide a two-year delay in the requirement that local governments complete detailed environmental studies before adopting local regulations, potentially allowing more cities to allow cannabis operations.
Three-quarters of cities have not approved cannabis sales.
However, a coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife is pressing lawmakers and the governor to reduce the extension to two years, to 2022, according to Kim Delfino, California program director for Defenders of Wildlife.
She said the bill’s proposal to give cannabis firms five years to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act creates “a significant risk of harm to the public health and environment, but it also is inconsistent with Proposition 64.”
CEQA, she added, is an “essential” part of the cannabis rules.
“Preventing the discharge of toxic chemicals, dewatering and pollution of waterways, and destruction of natural landscapes is significantly more effective and less costly before projects are implemented than having to remediate environmental and public health problems after they occur,” she said.
The new legislation would also address a concern by the state’s permitted businesses that they face unfair competition from thousands of unlicensed growers and sellers. The bill sets a new $30,000 fine for firms caught operating without a license.
Tougher enforcement is welcomed by Drayton, who noted a lack of enforcement has hindered legal operators, reducing the amount of tax revenue they generate for the state.
“We’re now 18 months in and we’re not reaching our tax revenue goals,” Drayton said. “The industry is not as successful as folks were anticipating, and there need to be some solutions on how to get this industry back off the ground.”
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Patrick McGreevy
Patrick McGreevy is a reporter covering California state government and politics in the Sacramento Bureau. He previously worked in the Los Angeles City Hall Bureau for The Times. He is a native of San Diego and a graduate of San Jose State University.
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