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DOCUMENT: Florida, Crime
Man Blames Obama For His Battery Arrest
Cops: Floridian pushed pregnant girlfriend to ground
"Obama Is Right"
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/obama-right
OCTOBER 23--An intoxicated Floridian who allegedly battered his pregnant girlfriend told police that he was being unfairly arrested since “Obama said cops always listen to women.”
John Henry Shiffner, 18, was collared Saturday evening after he tangled with Lakesha Tolbert, his 30-year-old girlfriend, on a street in Century, a town in Escambia County.
According to a sheriff’s report, Tolbert told deputies that Shiffner (seen at right) pushed her to the ground. The woman, who said that she landed on her back, told investigators that she is 2 ½ months pregnant.
Tolbert, who declined medical attention, said that Shiffner had been drinking all day “due to he was upset about a death in the family.”
After being handcuffed and placed into an Escambia County Sheriff’s Office squad car, Shiffner yelled at Tolbert (whom he denied touching). Shiffner then “began rambling on about how Obama is right,” noted Deputy Matthew Bevins.
Regarding the 44th president, Shiffner observed that, “Obama said cops always listen to women.” This purported Obama observation does not appear to have previously been recorded by any journalists or authors.
Though he smelled of booze, Shiffner “denied drinking any alcohol tonight and refused to state how he obtained the alcohol,” reported Bevins, who added that Shiffner’s mother denied purchasing alcohol for her underage son.
Shiffner was charged with felony aggravated battery and disorderly intoxication, a misdemeanor. He was booked into the county jail, where he remains locked up in lieu of $3500 bond. Shiffner is scheduled for a November 8 Circuit Court hearing. (2 pages)
Barack Obama, domestic abuse, drunk
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December 12 to December 18 – This week in Denver weather history
Sunday, December 12th, 2010 3:39am MST
December 12 to December 18 - This week in Denver weather history.
We all know weather can be dangerous but usually we don’t associate that with winter weather conditions. However, our look in Denver weather history for this week shows that the common winter conditions of wind and cold can not only cause injure, it can lead to death.
In 1939…more than 2 weeks of unseasonably warm weather made the month the 3rd warmest on record. Seven daily temperature records were set…including the all time record high temperature for the month of 79 degrees on the 5th. Daytime highs were balmy with 14 days in the 60’s and 70’s. Low temperatures dipped to freezing or below on only 5 days. The period was dry with only a trace of snow on the 12th.
In 1972…a protracted cold spell held an icy grip on metro Denver when maximum temperatures never reached above freezing for 10 consecutive days from the 3rd through the 12th and minimum temperatures dipped below zero on eleven consecutive days from the 5th through the 15th. Daily low temperature records were set with 15 degrees below zero on the 5th…17 degrees below zero on the 6th… And 18 degrees below zero on the 10th. Daily record low maximum readings were set with 3 degrees on the 6th and 6 degrees on the 9th. The very cold temperatures were caused by 3 to 5 inches of snow cover and a Canadian air mass.
In 1932…the second longest sub-zero period on record in Denver occurred. The temperature fell below zero shortly after 1:00 pm on the 8th and remained below zero for 92 hours until 9:00 am on the 12th. The lowest temperature recorded during this period was 13 degrees below zero on both the 9th and 11th. That temperature on the 11th was a record low for the date. High temperatures of 4 on the 8th…5 below zero on the 9th…1 below zero on the 10th… And 6 below zero on the 11th were record low maximum temperatures for those dates. Light north winds at 5 to 10 mph were accompanied by occasional light snow…which totaled only 2.2 inches.
In 1961…cold arctic air produced a protracted cold period. The temperature plunged to 16 degrees below zero on the 10th…establishing a new record for the date and the coldest reading since 25 degrees below zero on February 1… 1951. Low temperatures dipped below zero on 5 consecutive days with 9 degrees below zero on the 9th…16 below on the 10th…10 below on the 11th…and 12 below on both the 12th and 13th. High temperatures reached only 3 degrees on the 10th and 6 degrees on the 11th.
In 1903…a sharp cold front on the 11th plunged temperatures from a high of 59 degrees to a low of 15 degrees…produced northeast winds sustained to 42 mph along with gusts as high as 60 mph…and produced 1.3 inches of snow overnight. The high temperature on the 12th was only 25 degrees.
In 1968…strong winds buffeted the eastern foothills and plains and caused light…but widespread property damage. Wind gusts of 50 to 75 mph were reported. West winds gusted to 52 mph at Stapleton International Airport.
In 1940…5.4 inches of snow fell across downtown Denver. This was the only snowfall of the month. Temperatures were quite cold on the 13th with a high of 6 degrees and a low of 2 degrees below zero.
In 1984…up to 6 inches of new snow fell over metro Denver… Hampering flight operations at Stapleton International Airport where snowfall totaled 3.8 inches and east winds gusted to 25 mph on the 11th.
In 1937…a thunderstorm…rare in December…produced 0.09 inch of rain in advance of a cold front.
In 1973…high winds occurred across all of metro Denver with the foothills area being hit the hardest. A wind gust to 120 mph was recorded in Boulder where damage to residences…mobile homes…fences…and buildings totaled 100 thousand dollars. A northwest wind gust to 66 mph occurred at Stapleton International Airport.
In 1988…strong winds were recorded in Boulder. Peak wind gusts reached 70 mph at Table Mesa and 61 mph in east Boulder. West winds gusted to 31 mph at Stapleton International Airport.
In 1916…snowfall totaled 5.7 inches in downtown Denver. Northeast winds were sustained to 27 mph with gusts to 28 mph on the 12th.
In 1992…an upslope snowstorm whitened metro Denver. While snowfall totaled only 4.1 inches at Stapleton International Airport…7 inches of new snow fell in Morrison…with 12 inches measured in Castle Rock. North winds gusted to 23 mph at Stapleton International Airport on the 13th.
In 1995…strong winds gusting to nearly 100 mph whipped across the foothills west of Denver. The strongest wind gusts included 98 mph atop Squaw Mountain and 75 mph at the Eldora Ski Area. West-northwest winds gusted to 41 mph at Denver International Airport on the 13th.
In 1921…downslope Chinook winds produced warm temperatures in the city…which resulted in 4 temperature records. High temperatures of 72 degrees on the 13th and 68 degrees on the 15th were record maximums for the dates. Low temperatures of 47 degrees on both the 12th and 13th were record high minimums for the dates. West winds were sustained to 38 mph on the 12th and to 25 mph on the 13th.
In 1955…strong winds raked the foothills. A wind gust to 72 mph was recorded at Rocky Flats northwest of Denver. Some damage occurred in Boulder. Northwest winds were sustained to speeds of 23 mph at Stapleton Airport.
In 1988…high winds again occurred in Boulder where winds were clocked to 66 mph. West winds gusted to 43 mph at Stapleton International Airport.
13-14 in 1902…heavy snowfall totaled 6.4 inches in the city overnight. North winds were sustained to 18 mph with gusts to 20 mph on the 13th.
In 1925…heavy apparent post-frontal snowfall totaled 7.8 inches across downtown Denver. Northwest winds were sustained to 34 mph with gusts to 42 on the 13th… And north winds were sustained to 33 mph with gusts to 38 mph on the 14th.
In 1951…heavy snowfall totaled 5.9 inches at Stapleton Airport.
In 1987…a snowstorm dropped 2 to 8 inches of snow along the Front Range foothills. Eight to 12 inches fell just south of Denver. Icy streets and highways contributed to many traffic accidents across metro Denver and flights were delayed at Stapleton International Airport where 2.7 inches of snow fell and northeast winds gusted to 17 mph.
In 1991…high winds pummeled metro Denver. Wind gusts to 93 mph were recorded at Rollinsville. Wind speeds across metro Denver were generally 35 to 50 mph. Northwest winds gusted to 48 mph at Stapleton International Airport on the 13th.
In 1926…an intrusion of cold air resulted in temperatures remaining below zero. The high temperature of one degree below zero was a record low maximum for the date. The low temperature was 11 degrees below zero. North winds were sustained to 17 mph.
In 1985…a wind gust to 61 mph was recorded at Table Mesa in Boulder.
In 1996…high winds gusting from 60 to nearly 80 mph moved off the Front Range foothills and over the northeast Colorado plains in the wake of a fast moving cold front. The strongest wind gusts included 79 mph at Golden Gate Canyon and 70 mph near Table Mesa in southwest Boulder. At Denver International Airport…west-northwest winds gusted to only 39 mph.
In 1988…a snow storm again whitened metro Denver. Snowfall along the Front Range was in the 6 to 12 inch range. Snowfall totaled 5.8 inches at Stapleton International Airport where north winds gusted to 38 mph.
In 1990…high winds howled across metro Denver behind a strong pacific cold front. Boulder was hardest hit by the high winds. A wind gust to 120 mph was recorded in south Boulder where winds stripped the roof off a garage…a vacant gas station…and a house under construction. Elsewhere in Boulder…several trees were blown down. In Boulder Canyon…the winds toppled two cinder block walls on a house under construction. Four Boulder County women were treated for injuries caused by the wind. The injuries were confined to a broken wrist…a mild concussion…bruises…and facial cuts. Two semi-tractor trailers were blown over by the fierce winds south of Boulder. Another truck rollover occurred southeast of Golden. Drivers of all three trucks suffered only cuts and bruises. Several vehicles were trapped in a blinding dust storm on the Denver-Boulder turnpike near Broomfield. Drivers were forced to stop along the highway for several minutes during the storm and witness their vehicles being pelted with sand and gravel. A wind gust to 97 mph was recorded in Golden. High winds were also reported in Arvada…Boulder…and Lakewood. Winds toppled a number of utility poles and wooden fences…blew out windows…and caused structural damage to a large apartment complex on the west side of Golden. Wind gusts of 70 to 100 mph caused considerable damage to several large billboards north of Golden…as well as damaging the paint…trim…and glass on numerous vehicles in the area. A west wind gust to 51 mph was recorded at Stapleton International Airport.
In 1999…high winds developed in and near the foothills as a strong upper level jet moved into the area. Although most wind gusts were in the 70 to 80 mph range…a weather spotter located 1 mile south of Fritz Peak near Rollinsville measured a peak wind gust to 124 mph. Other wind reports included wind gusts to 77 mph at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and atop Blue Mountain and 70 mph at the national wind technology center on Rocky Flats south of Boulder. West winds gusted to only 32 mph at Denver International Airport.
In 2000…high winds developed in the foothills of Boulder County…but winds were strong across all of metro Denver. Winds gusted as high as 72 mph at the National Center for Atmospheric Research on the mesa just southwest of Boulder. West winds gusted to 44 mph at Denver International Airport.
In 1964…high winds raked metro Denver…causing considerable damage. Wind gusts to 81 mph were recorded at Rocky Flats northwest of Denver…94 mph at Jefferson County Airport near Broomfield…48 mph in downtown Boulder…and 70 mph in Littleton. West wind gusts to 67 mph were recorded at Stapleton International Airport. A man working on construction in downtown Denver died from injuries after being struck by a 5-foot by 8-foot section of plank runway blown by the strong winds. Several people were blown down by the strong winds or hit by flying objects. Buildings… Roads…trees…and power equipment were damaged. Roads were closed east of Denver due to blowing dust.
In 1981…wind gusts to 60 mph were common in the foothills northwest of Denver. West wind gusts to 47 mph were recorded at Stapleton International Airport where the visibility was briefly reduced to 3 miles in blowing dust.
In 1996…strong pre-frontal winds developed in the foothills of Boulder County ahead of an arctic cold front that moved into northeastern Colorado late on the morning of the 16th. Wind gusts of 70 to 75 mph were clocked at Table Mesa in southwest Boulder.
In 1912…northwest winds were sustained to 44 mph with an extreme velocity of 45 mph.
In 1921…north winds were sustained to 46 mph with gusts to 50 mph behind a vigorous cold front. Only a trace of snow fell.
In 1954…a vigorous cold front produced sustained north winds to 45 mph with gusts as high 54 mph. Visibility was reduced to 1 mile in blowing dust at Stapleton Airport.
In 1955…sustained west winds to 44 mph with gusts as high as 58 mph were recorded at Stapleton Airport.
In 1994…a wind gust to 108 mph was recorded atop Squaw Mountain west of Denver with a gust to 92 mph in Rollinsville southwest of Boulder. West winds gusted to 48 mph at Stapleton International Airport.
In 1996…a vigorous arctic cold front moved across metro Denver. Heavy snow and strong winds accompanied the front as near whiteout conditions in snow and blowing snow developed suddenly. Northerly winds gusted from 40 to 60 mph behind the front. Dozens of accidents occurred as roads and highways quickly turned to a glaze of ice. Snowfall amounts ranged from 4 to 6 inches across metro Denver and in the foothills. The exception was at Eldorado Springs south of Boulder where 8 inches of new snow were measured. Snowfall totaled only 1.8 inches at the site of the former Stapleton International Airport. Officially…this was the only measurable snow of the month in Denver. At Denver International Airport…north winds gusted to 34 mph.
In 1999…another brief round of high winds developed in and near the foothills of Boulder County. Peak wind gusts included 83 mph at the National Center for Atmospheric Research near Boulder and 74 mph atop Niwot Ridge and at the National Wind Technology Center on Rocky Flats south of Boulder. West winds gusted to only 33 mph at Denver International Airport where the temperature warmed to a high of 54 degrees.
In 2000…high winds in the mountains spread into the foothills west of Denver. Winds gusted to 87 mph at Georgetown lake and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Winds gusted to 72 mph at the national wind technology center south of Boulder.
In 1908…heavy snowfall totaled 7.9 inches in downtown Denver where north winds were sustained to 20 mph on the 17th. Temperatures were in the teens and 20’s.
In 1939…low temperatures of 49 degrees on the 16th and 43 degrees on the 17th were record high minimums for the dates. High temperatures of 65 on the 16th and 72 on the 17th were not records.
In 1980…Chinook winds blew through the night in Boulder with a peak reported gust to 75 mph. Northwest winds gusted to 30 mph at Stapleton International Airport on the 17th. The strong Chinook winds warmed temperatures to record daily highs of 70 degrees on the 16th and 73 degrees on the 17th.
In 2000…high winds gusting from 60 to 74 mph howled across the northeast plains of Colorado.
In Parker where winds gusted to 60 mph…a 20-foot by 40-foot piece of roof was ripped from a building. West winds gusted to 53 mph at Denver International Airport. This was the highest wind gust of the month at the airport. An intense…but very localized wind gust to 112 mph was measured near Georgetown lake in the foothills west of Denver.
In 1924…a prolonged cold spell occurred after mild temperatures during the first half of the month. Most low temperatures dipped below zero with the coldest reading of 15 degrees below zero occurring on the 24th. The high temperature of only 5 degrees on the 18th was a record low maximum for the date.
In 1901…north winds were sustained to 52 mph with gusts to 58 mph behind an apparent cold front.
In 1973…a brief blizzard dumped heavy snow across metro Denver. Snowfall totaled 9.2 inches at Stapleton International Airport where north winds gusting to 53 mph produced much blowing snow. The storm forced many schools and businesses to close.
In 1996…a homeless man in Denver was found unconscious in his car suffering from exposure. The man’s body temperature was only 85 degrees when he was discovered. He died several hours later. Early morning temperatures had dipped to 9 degrees below zero.
In 1999…high winds were reported for a brief time in the foothills. Winds gusted to 72 mph in Golden Gate Canyon and to 71 mph at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the foothills southwest of Boulder. West winds gusted to only 39 mph at Denver International Airport where the temperature warmed to a high of 53 degrees.
In 2002…only a trace of snow fell at the site of the former Stapleton International Airport. This…along with the trace of snow on the 5th…was the only snow of the month…ranking the month the 2nd least snowiest on record.
In 1998…a vigorous cold front with north winds gusting as high as 38 mph at Denver International Airport on the 18th dropped temperatures from a high of 51 degrees to a low of just 6 degrees before midnight. The arctic air mass that settled over metro Denver produced intermittent light snow and a week-long protracted cold spell that caused low temperatures to plunge well below zero for 6 consecutive nights. The coldest temperature was 19 degrees below zero on the morning of the 22nd. High temperatures climbed only into the single digits on 4 consecutive days…from the 19th through the 22nd. At least 15 people…mostly homeless… Were treated for hypothermia at area hospitals. The bitter cold weather was responsible…either directly or indirectly… For at least 5 fatalities. Three of the victims died directly from exposure. The cold weather also caused intermittent power outages. Following the cold snap… Thawing water pipes cracked and burst in several homes and businesses…causing extensive damage. Only one temperature record was set. The high temperature of only 7 degrees on the 19th set a record low maximum for the date.
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A driverless red Hummer snagged the pole position Wednesday in a government-sponsored sequel race across the Mojave Desert that will pit 23 robots against one another. The finalists were chosen after an intense, weeklong qualifying run at the California Speedway, where the self-navigating vehicles had to drive on a bumpy road, zip through a tunnel and avoid obstacles. No human drivers or remote controls were allowed. The Hummer named H1ghlander, built by Carnegie Mellon University, flipped during practice a few weeks ago when it struck a rock. But it still managed to complete all four required semifinal runs. Last year, only half of the 15 autonomous robotic vehicles that ran in the so-called Grand Challenge passed the semifinals. No team claimed the $1 million inaugural prize because all the contestants broke down within a few miles of the starting gate. So this year, the sponsor, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, doubled the purse with the hope that a vehicle would finish Saturday"s $2 million race. This year"s finalists completed the hilly qualifying course littered with hay bales and parked cars at least once. Five of the vehicles finished it four consecutive times. Those included H1ghlander; a converted Humvee Sandstorm; a modified Volkswagen Touareg by Stanford University; a six-wheel truck; and a Jeep Grand Cherokee. "I"m inspired by all the robots," said William "Red" Whittaker, a Carnegie Mellon robotics professor. "Never discount or diminish any of them." The race is part of the Pentagon"s effort to fulfill a congressional mandate to have a third of all military ground vehicles unmanned by 2015. The Defense Department envisions using robotic vehicles to bring supplies in combat zones. DARPA, the Pentagon"s research and development arm, spent $9 million on this year"s event. The agency would award the prize to the first team whose computer-driven vehicle can traverse a rough and winding desert course of up to 175 miles in less than 10 hours. There are several reasons why this year"s field is more competitive. Teams had more time to prepare for the race. Many spent the past 18 months focused on the vehicles" computer "brain," beefing up their artificial intelligence through improved computer algorithms. Teams also had the advantage of practicing in various parts of the Southwest desert under race-like conditions. Even before the semifinals, some robots had already driven hundreds of continuous miles during practice, including some that tested on last year"s course between Barstow and Primm, Nev. "Nobody was ready last year," said Bill Kehaly of Westlake Village-based Axion Racing, whose Jeep Grand Cherokee named Spirit is racing in the finals. "Everybody feels a lot more confident this year." Because the vehicles must be self-navigating, they are equipped with GPS tracking. Mounted sensors, radar, lasers and cameras feed information to onboard computers to orient the vehicles and help them avoid obstacles and traps. The exact route that vehicles must follow is kept secret until two hours before the competition. Organizers said the course, which will loop from and to the casino town of Primm will feature rugged desert and mountain terrain. Vehicles have to average 15 mph to 20 mph to finish in time. "The worst vehicle we have is as good or better than the best vehicle last year," said DARPA director Anthony Tether. Carnegie Mellon"s workhorse, Sandstorm, traveled the farthest in the Mojave Desert last year despite trekking only 7 1/2 miles. It will start third in this year"s race. Of the vehicles that successfully coursed the speedway four straight times, an off-road, six-wheel truck built by Oshkosh Truck Corp., had the slowest time. But team leader Jim Fravert did not think that was a problem. The desert will be tougher and the truck was designed to handle 60 percent grades and push through five feet of water, he said.
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Duluth’s 1889 Manhattan Building. (Image: Duluth Public Library)
410 – 416 West Superior Street | Architect: Henry Raeder | Built: 1889 | Lost: 1941
When Chicago architects Raeder, Coffin and Crocker were selected by Duluth’s Chamber of Commerce to build a grand office building, Henry Raeder created this high Victorian design: two almost identical six-story wings separated by an open court but joined by a first-story arched entrance of elaborately carved rock-faced stone. The ornate structure was topped near the back with a 140-foot Gothic tower complete with turrets and a balcony. Façades featured brick, red tile, sandstone, polished granite, terra cotta, and copper. Columns with carved capitals standing three stories tall decorated both wings.
Because of its owners—who occupied the top three floors from 1889 to 1903—the Manhattan Building was commonly called the Chamber of Commerce building. The Chamber merged with the Duluth Commercial Club in 1902 and moved to the Torrey Building. In 1909 the organization would build the Commercial Club at 402 West First Street, which was renovated into the Duluth Athletic Club in the 1940s. After the Chamber left the Manhattan, attorneys, real estate firms, mining companies, and forest product businesses occupied the building’s many offices.
By the 1930s its popularity dropped and many of its offices sat vacant. The building was razed in 1941. In 1942 the Northland Building was built on the site of the Manhattan; it remains there today.
From Lost Duluth: Landmarks, Industries, Buildings, Homes and the Neighborhoods in Which They Stood by Tony Dierckins and Maryanne C. Norton (Zenith City Press, 2012), featuring over 400 historic photos, illustrations, and lithographs. Click on the cover to preview the book.
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SUPERNATURAL -- The Brothers Winchester
Re: SUPERNATURAL -- The Brothers Winchester
by TonyWilson on Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:54 pm
When it comes to spoilers any discussion of them needs to be in tags. As for what counts as a spoiler then I think pretty much any info on unaired episodes about the plot of the show, so for example, if a particular actor is cast then it's ok to talk about it sans tags but if there's info on who the actor is playing, that part needs to be marked with a spoiler warning.
I like Bobby but I think he's been doomed from day one in the show. He'll do make some awesome brave sacrifice and go out like a hero to be with his wife. It's the best way for the character to wrap up.
by Shermdawg on Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:00 pm
My apologies, since it happened earlier in the season, I didn't think anything of it.
Shermdawg
by TonyWilson on Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:03 pm
Sorry Sherm, I just covered that because it pertained to the person everyone was talking about. I'll get rid of the tags on that.
by A for Aristocrat on Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:39 pm
Did I miss something on last weeks Dollhouse talkback? I know several of us were threatened by Lisa Bent but I didn't see anything from Herc about a ban.
A for Aristocrat
by Shermdawg on Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:00 pm
Herc didn't publicly say anything, and he shouldn't have to. Like I've told others, if you were banned, email him and see if you can work it out, but any offtopic posting to the extent we were won't be tolerated anymore, and as much as I love the show and discussing it with the talkbackers, it's not worth getting banned over. Should Herc have thrown us a bone and gave the show a talkback? I still say yes. But after talking to him, it's clear that will never happen. So I'm not gonna waste my time asking for one, other than the locked one he said he'd toss up for the finale directing people to this thread. Were we in the wrong in what we were doing? Looking back on it, absolutely. But, I'm assuming it doesn't have as much to do with Lisa and her alts complaints, as it does with the people we kinda spoiled things for in a talkback where they didn't expect or want to stumble upon them. But now, that will no longer be a problem....I'm hoping.
I'm also hoping people that do move over don't make their introduction by questioning why we're here, and jump right into Supernatural talk. I'll be linking my initial post in any talkback posts directing peeps here, there's been more than enough info already explaining the situation, so from this point on, I won't be acknowledging any further discussion on the matter.......that is, unless, in the next episode featuring a certain character named Chuck, this little debacle is somehow parodied. But the chances of that happening are slim and none, so...for me, it ends here.
New episode tomorrow night, I expect this place to be hopping afterwards.
by Trik_Ster on Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:39 pm
Welp, I'll hang out as long as there is no fan fic and shipping
btw this is Melvin_Pelvis using my original handle
Couldn't register with Melvin, I think Pelvis is disallowed
Trik_Ster
by bulla on Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:01 am
Hey, What is up with the different color of eyes for the demons? Is for age, origin, hierarchy, esthetic?
by A for Aristocrat on Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:59 am
Bulla, I think it is power levels. Black are the rank and files, Red are the deal makers that can pretty much offer anything, and White are very powerful and can TK people around and flash fry them. Yellow eyes might have been the most powerful since he is the only one that had that color.
by maelstrom218 on Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:26 pm
I'm eager for tonight's episode. Seems like Castiel will be the major focal point of the episode, and considering how amazing the character is, it should be pretty awesome.
Personally though, I thought that last week's episode was rather weak and uninteresting. Aside from the episode being another vehicle to display the growing tension between Sam and Dean, the whole "3rd Brother" development was kind of pointless. They could have used a random family with a teen orphaned by monsters (and therefore exposed to the whole supernatural universe), and it would have been equally effective. Instead, they spent time developing a dead-end plot point, and kind of ruined the character of John Winchester. For a righteous guy that endured torture for 100 years, he sure was quick to start a secret family.
maelstrom218
by travis-dane on Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:22 pm
Shermdawg wrote: Herc didn't publicly say anything, and he shouldn't have to. Like I've told others, if you were banned, email him and see if you can work it out, but any offtopic posting to the extent we were won't be tolerated anymore, and as much as I love the show and discussing it with the talkbackers, it's not worth getting banned over. Should Herc have thrown us a bone and gave the show a talkback? I still say yes. But after talking to him, it's clear that will never happen. So I'm not gonna waste my time asking for one, other than the locked one he said he'd toss up for the finale directing people to this thread. Were we in the wrong in what we were doing? Looking back on it, absolutely. But, I'm assuming it doesn't have as much to do with Lisa and her alts complaints, as it does with the people we kinda spoiled things for in a talkback where they didn't expect or want to stumble upon them. But now, that will no longer be a problem....I'm hoping.
Is Herc contra Supernatural and if so why?
Sorry to bring this up again, but I dont follow the TB's anymore, but Supernatural is loved by many people and I dont get why Herc would fuck you guys and dont give you room to discuss the show.
So can anybody clear this up?
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by RogueScribner on Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:14 pm
I pop in the TBs every once in a while, but as far as I can tell, Herc only promotes (i.e. creates a talkback for) shows he likes and watches. Any show with a tenuous Whedon connection will automatically get play and every thing else is up to the gods. So if Herc doesn't watch Supernatural (and he doesn't) he isn't going to create a TB for it. The Coaxial section of the AICN main page isn't a general discussion forum, so I don't know why people try to treat it as such. Yeah, it sucks that a show you love gets no play on a site you love, but rather go crazy about it I'd go somewhere else to get my fix. I think coming over here to the Zone is a fine solution, but for some reason people prefer the TBs. I prefer my conversations to have a modicum of reason and intelligence, which is often in short supply in the TBs.
by Trik_Ster on Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:22 pm
Season 4, Episode 20: The Rapture
pretty much stinks so far
by Shermdawg on Fri May 01, 2009 12:11 am
You are correct Mel. It just wasn't on the level of recent episodes.
Castiel's backstory was weak, and nowhere near as clever as most of the setups you get with the monster of the week installments. Also, Misha showed why he's perfectly cast to play a stiff.The Heroes nod wasn't needed either.
Sam's "coke" trip was dreadful.There really should've been a whole episode for his demon blood cravings, instead of that plot point getting rushed at the end of the season. We should've got an episode where Ruby tells Sam that she may not always be around, and he takes it upon himself to fill his hunger. Something to really drive in the fact he's slipping to the darkside, because his initial reveal he was going vampire was nothing more than kinky. Good ending tonight though, but like I said, the buildup to that just hasn't been consistent.
Hopefully they can get their groove back for the last two eps.
by laivine on Fri May 01, 2009 1:00 am
I thought it was excellent. It has a sort of spaciousness and etherealness I thought was perfect for an episode focusing on an angel and the man who carried him around for a year. I also like that in the end Castiel has been reprogrammed a bit, and I loved his final line to Dean. While the final two episodes are always ass-kickers (and the promo certainly is setting them up that way), Supernatural has done these more delicate episodes before. I thought Misha was just great and I love the flexibility of this show to be more than one thing.
laivine
by maelstrom218 on Fri May 01, 2009 2:50 am
I actually thought that the episode was fantastic. I mean, I did feel that the episode dragged a bit, but overall, it was still entertaining. It was poignant seeing how when even in the service of angels, Jimmy was just another soldier, and basically, another casualty--sure, he could talk all he wanted about fulfilling God's plan and purpose, but at the end of the day, he had to sacrifice himself for his family and give up his future.
Reprogrammed Castiel scares me. Heaven hasn't exactly been kind to humanity, and if Castiel's lost whatever empathy/compassion he had for Dean, then the future won't look very bright. At least not for Dean and Sam, anyways.
by Big Jim on Fri May 01, 2009 2:17 pm
Hey, there really is a Supernatural discussion going on in The Zone. What's the policy on spoilers? I've seen a few posts that look like excerpts from the Watergate tapes; some contain casting information which might result in who is or isn't long for the show, while others seem to mention events from last night's episode. I've always been of the mind that if the episode has aired it is no longer a spoiler and ok to freely mention. Is that ok or do I need to learn how to black-out my text?
by so sorry on Fri May 01, 2009 2:45 pm
Big Jim wrote: Hey, there really is a Supernatural discussion going on in The Zone. What's the policy on spoilers? I've seen a few posts that look like excerpts from the Watergate tapes; some contain casting information which might result in who is or isn't long for the show, while others seem to mention events from last night's episode. I've always been of the mind that if the episode has aired it is no longer a spoiler and ok to freely mention. Is that ok or do I need to learn how to black-out my text?
When you make a post, there is a "SPOILER" button (its right above what you're typing. Just highlight your spoiler copy, and click on that button.
by A for Aristocrat on Fri May 01, 2009 3:33 pm
Im not going to go into any great spoiler detail but last night was the first episode where I knew every single twist before it happened. It was a good episode but it didnt have the WOW factor.
by Mr_X on Fri May 01, 2009 11:03 pm
i have been served with bannation... for my love of supernatural. I wear this bannation with pride.
Mr_X
by wixmmm on Fri May 01, 2009 11:52 pm
looking foward to getting in on the conversation. I'm going to watch it after the milwaukee brewer game ends tonight. I have been banned twice. The first time, I deserved it. I'll admit that. But I couldn't resist speaking up in the office talkback. I made it clear that I have made peace with the fact that we won't get a talkback for supernatural. But I had to ask--he listed three other shows that were on last night--one of them was SURVIVOR! He'll remind people about survivor but refuses to take two seconds to list supernatural??? I thought I was pretty level headed with that post, but not only did i get banned--he deleted my posts!
I've come to the conclusion that there must have been some sort of convention or something and one of the showrunners or actors was a dick to herc. I don't understand why herc won't even acknowledge the issue! no talkback? fine. its his part of the site. But to go out of his way to list survivor and ignore supernatural just seems petty.
wixmmm
by V'Shael on Sat May 02, 2009 10:03 am
Look, can I just chip in a tiny tiny bit on the whole Herc/Supernatural thing?
I think it should be dropped from discussion, even here in the Zone. I know I got majorly annoyed at the way Herc was using the Ban Hammer even on people who didn't deserve it, but ranting about Herc and his decisions here in the Zone isn't acceptable either. (I was politely warned by one of the mods, so I dropped it and calmed down.) Hey, at least the mod here in the Zone gave me a warning first, right?
So, just as a friendly reminder to any SN fans who are just arriving in the Zone : The Zone isn't as acerbic as the Talkbacks. Politeness is seems to be the rule of thumb. And it might take a brief period of decompression coming from the "say what like as vulgurly as you like" talkbacks.
As for the episode on Thursday, I didn't dislike it, but it wasn't great. Quite predictable. As soon as the demon left the woman, it was obviously gone into the wife. She was the only one offscreen when they got to the car. And the panic room ending was also predictable as heck. Still, I take it as a set up for a kick ass final 2 episodes.
V'Shael
by Seppuku on Sat May 02, 2009 11:20 am
V'Shael wrote: ranting about Herc and his decisions here in the Zone isn't acceptable either. (I was politely warned by one of the mods, so I dropped it and calmed down.) Hey, at least the mod here in the Zone gave me a warning first, right?
Hey, I am a mod and I will happily say that Herc is an unspeakable bastard. Spamming the main page with his utter bullshit (has anyone ever checked up on his "This offer only lasts for 1 day" comments? I have. And it's always turned out to be total malarkey!). Then banning people and deleting their posts for daring to bring up his tactics. There are two types of bans, the type where your posts remain and the type where they don't. Guess which one he invariably opts for?
If anything, I reckon you guys are taking your banishment remarkably well. Once again, all you did is dare to criticise him, and he banned you at a drop of a hat. You will never get banned for anything like that here. 99% of people we ban are spammers and unabashed trolls. The other 1% are people who personally insult other Zoners time and time again. Other than that, it's all jazz to me what you do here (in a good way- I like jazz).
Hey, sorry Dude. I didn't know you were a Mod. I was referring to the post made by Lord Voldemoo.
Anyway, I wasn't banned on the talkbacks (dodged a bullet possibly). And I'm prepared to play nice in the Zone.
by Peven on Sat May 02, 2009 11:45 am
reading this kind of shit only makes me feel better about not giving the main site any hits since last year
and if memory serves doesn't H@rry whore for Amazon as well with his dvd column, it isn't as if Herc is alone in that practice
by wixmmm on Sat May 02, 2009 1:06 pm
as for getting mad at herc--i admitted, the first time, i was asking to be banned. So i got over it... he's such a douche, because he clearly is reading our comments about supernatural, and for some reason i just can't figure out, he doesn't even take a second to chime in and tell us why or even just say 'guys, you're not getting it. stop asking.' ANYTHING would have been ok.
But he hit an all time low by listing that Survivor is on at 8, which is also the time supernatural is on. Would it have killed him to take literally 1-2 seconds to type: supernatural 8pm. Listing survivor and leaving out supernatural seems childish petty small and spiteful.
This episode was ok, but still good, its just that supernatural sets the bar for itself so high. I think Cass, the angel, is one of the best characters in the show. Cass as an angel grew on me and became my favorite supporting character, even though bobby is awesome. Human Cass just isn't as intriguing. I'm just grateful they turned him back into an angel. if they didn't, I would have had a big problem with the episode.
zone could be better... (not really able to modify this, but) there's not as much conversation, especially after a full day or two (talkbacks stay alive longer)
Also, I wish there was a board for each show, instead of just one topic for each show. First--you wouldn't need to scroll past a thousand posts to find where the new episode discussion happens. Second-- if each show had a board, you could create different topics related to different things about the show to discuss. After a day or two, the conversation about the new episode pretty much dies, but if there were other threads about different topics regarding supernatural, those would last longer. The episode discussion would end, but in the middle of the week someone could post something not directly relating to the newest episode, but it would go unmissed. If there was a board for each show, we could pop into the zone during the week, go to the supernatural board, and immediately notice a new topic for discussion.
I learned HTML in fifth grade, Freshman year of highschool I had taught myself Perl. I also learned how to create high quality cgi messange boards, and more basic message boards with Perl. Perl boards fit nicely into the design of my website, but the cgi ones had their own look, but with more features. The reason I'm saying this is because, it is not hard AT ALL to create sub-message boards. Someone said this once, and I would ask the same question. They said something along the lines of: 'does aintitcool have a shortage of webpages?' A popular site like this, with all the traffic it gets, plus, i'm sure it makes a pretty fair amount of money. Creating sub-message boards would take about an hour, if that, if the programmer was moderately capable.
by travis-dane on Sat May 02, 2009 3:00 pm
wixmmm wrote: zone could be better... (not really able to modify this, but) there's not as much conversation, especially after a full day or two (talkbacks stay alive longer)
AICN makes money Topside, not in here.
And I think H@rry forgot about The Zone.
Weekends are always slow in The Zone.
by Ribbons on Sat May 02, 2009 3:15 pm
We actually have tried it a couple different ways; we did some individual episode threads for Lost and BSG last year, and people have started topics devoted to specific aspects of a show rather than the show itself in the past, and this method of one topic per show/season seems to work the best. It ain't perfect, but it's, uh... I don't know where I was going with that. But anyway, while you're waiting for discussion to resume in here, you could always check out some of the other fabulous threads the Zone has to offer.
well even if the money isn't made here, the site still makes money, and it would not cost much to add sub-boards... actually, it could very well not cost anything. There's a good chance that they could do sub-boards in less than 15 minutes... actually, theres a REALLY good chance they could create sub-boards, as there already are sub boards (obviously) because, the coax board being one of them. As a matter of fact, the thing that would take the longest would be making a list of all the sub boards for tv shows they already have threads for. The other sections of the zone, such as movies, don't need sub boards at all, and the benefits wouldn't be nearly as great as they would be for coax.
thanks for the information, ribbons. I've been on the zone for less than a day and i've already received more responses from a 'person in power' per se, than I have EVER received in a coax talkback. (read: Herc doesn't give a shit and refuses to even attempt to explain why he does things the way he does... his silence to talkbackers who ask him simple, easily explained questions is soooo frustrating.
To clarify--I'm not suggesting that individual threads for each episode of a show should be created in the coax message board, and i certainly understand why it wouldn't be done that way (it would clutter the coax boards terribly). I could very well be wrong about how easy or difficult it would be to implement my suggestion, but what I would really like to see is a message board for each show. (i'm sure this doesn't need to be explained to you, but i'll say it anyways) In the way that there is:
Board index -> main forum -> coaxial
I would really like to see:
Board index -> main forum -> coaxial -> television show
In my experience with web design, including creating PERL and CGI message boards, to creat sub boards like i'm suggesting, wasn't too difficult at all, and actually (with the CGI ones) once a board is created and is operating, creating a sub board could be done by someone who has zero knowledge of programming or webdesign.
Again, thanks for the reply, i apprecaite it
by RogueScribner on Sat May 02, 2009 4:01 pm
Also, I wish there was a board for each show, instead of just one topic for each show. First--you wouldn't need to scroll past a thousand posts to find where the new episode discussion happens.
There's a little orange square next to the topic titles that if you click it will take you to the first new post in a topic since the last time you read the thread. Also, there aren't a million people here posting a million different things every day. Individual threads for each episode would just clutter the board with a bunch of threads with 15 or fewer posts.
I said that same thing-- individual threads for each episode would, without a doubt, clutter the coax board, turning it into chaos. Go back and read what I'm suggesting, but I'll say it more clearly here. I would really like to see the zone work like this:
Board Index -> Main Forum -> Coaxial -> tv show board -> tv show topic (for new episodes and/or other topics not relating to a single episode -> individual posts and replies pertaining to topic
The reasons I would like it this way are because: a) it would actually reduce clutter b) it would streamline the zone and c) (an example) I posted a new topic in coax relating to the lana guest starring story arc. I wanted to bitch and complain with other people regarding how furious i was with lana coming back, as the first half of smallville's new season was spectacular (too bad so many bailed and gave up on it) up until Lana came back and absolutely destroyed the momentum the show had going for it, especially because it killed the ACTUAL relationship that was starting up, which we actually are interested in--the lois/clark angle. We all know Superman and lois are THE relationship that matters, while we know that the Lana relationship was doomed from the start, yet we had to sit through 8 fucking seasons watching a relationship that we all knew was going nowhere. (even now I get worked up about this issue, although thankfully, smallville has turned back around, even though Chloe has become quite stupid, although she has a semi-legit reason for watching over Davis (to protect davis from becoming doomsday and killing clark)
ANYWAYS (sorry for the tangent) my post was moved to the smallville thread at something like post 1200. Only three people wrote something after me over the course of a week and two of them weren't even responses to my post.
and, rogue, thanks for the tip about jumping to the first post i haven't read.
by A for Aristocrat on Sat May 02, 2009 4:35 pm
I cant really complain about the banning. I bashed Whedon as much as anyone and I never got banned or even threatened with it. Worse thing was some idiot said she was going to report me. I did notice some Supernatural threads got deleted so maybe Herc went ban crazy this week. So I will pretty much drop this. The Zone isnt bad. The talkbacks are just a little flashier and draw more people in. In fact what motivated me to post is that I found there were actual fans of Supernatural on this site. Supernatural is truely an exceptional show. Im amazed it has actually been able to stay on this long without attention from the entertainment media. Its a good and bad thing that this show ends next year. We get a complete story but we dont get any further adventures of the Winchesters. And I will always miss those 6 episodes we lost last year.
i'll reiterate this once again, because it pisses me off so much:
I was going to follow shermdawg, who led us here by example, and because he showed class, it would only make me (or any others bitching about supernatural) look like losers who just want to fight for the sake of fighting. I totally accepted not getting a talkback, and said as much (on the office thread), but i could not resist posting on that talkback just because Herc showed his true colors as a douche, a tool, uninformed, pretensious, spiteful, petty, unprofessional, biased and holier than thou (i'm not just throwing these words out because they are all insults, i'm throwing them out because I genuinely believe he fits the bill of all of those words) In the office talkback, he lists 30 rock, office, parks and recreation, and what does he list that's on at 8pm??? Mother Fucking Survivor. He knows when supernatural is on, yet he plugs a old and past its prime REALITY SHOW. Why, WHY would he plug survivor but not supernatural??? Its literally one MAYBE two, seconds of his time. A week or two ago, someone defended herc by saying not every show that people like can get a talkback... and that talkbacker actually cited, as an example, that Survivor has tons of fans, but doesn't deserve a plug. Then herc comes out and plugs it. I mean, you have got to be kidding me. He banned me and deleted my posts, which were not aggressive at all. He gives all supernatrural fans the silent treatment, when he could have so easily squashed the issue weeks and weeks ago.
He only cares about the show he likes and watches, and acts like nothing else exists. And is not in touch with what's on tv... basically, he's terrible at his job. He lets sexist, racist and homophobic insults go, but heaven forbid someone brings up supernatural!
I remember when he didn't even acknowledge that The Office existed... until three seasons in, he gives it a chance. Now there's a weekly talkback for it. They guy is unbelievably self centered, and also shows how much a douche he is by using the 'penultimate/antepenultimate' words to death. What a tool. Many I just like venting.
Herc probably started watching/liking The Office when Joss Whedon directed an episode . . .
Yeah, I was right. The earliest mention of The Office that I can find (other than as a relative reference in another article) is when Joss Whedon was slated to direct an episode. So there ya go.
by Peven on Sat May 02, 2009 10:33 pm
RogueScribner wrote: Herc probably started watching/liking The Office when Joss Whedon directed an episode . . .
fucking browncoats.....
by wixmmm on Sat May 02, 2009 11:13 pm
WOW Thats unbelievable (yet, since its herc, is believable) Herc ignores office until whedon does an episode. Further evidence that Herc is a complete douche and an even bigger tool (along with all the other words for him I listed above).
Guy has the easiest and most fun job you could ask for, yet he is soooo biased AND doesn't even do his fucking job--which is simply to watch everything (and in this day and age with internet downloading/networks webpages, dvds and dvr, that really isn't that difficult of a task at all). He's pretensious and uninformed and completley out of touch with what the great things on TV are, currently. Also, on what seems to be every single TV talkback, people have had it with the fact that he uses 'penultimate' every chance he gets.
Another douche move he's made several times, is to create a talkback whenever he gets the chance to l et us know that T:SCC is going to be cancelled, yet doesn't create a talkback for it when it clearly had tons of fans, as evidenced in the dollhouse talkback. His most recent source for T:SCC's possibly impending doom was from a questionable source, at best. Then, when he hears from a fairly higfh-up source that Dollhouse might be cancelled, he reminds us at least three times that 'nothing is certain yet' when he's been creating talkbacks about how T:SCC for months, now, might be cancelled. If he was smart, he would have promoted T:SCC more and given it talkbacks, to get people watching FOX on fridays, which very well could have led more viewers to watch Dollhouse.
by Shermdawg on Sat May 02, 2009 11:45 pm
wix, maybe you should go revive that "It's Herc's fault" thread that was linked earlier in the post, because the more the conversation continues on this path, I'm afraid he won't even allow me to post invites in the talkbacks to get the rest of the gang over here.
by wixmmm on Sun May 03, 2009 12:39 am
i've said all i have to say about herc. just had to get all that shit out of my system, and now it is. I've moved on in the dollhouse talkback and actually have been posting ON topic there all day... now I've said all i want to say here, so i'm moving on in the zone now... only supernatural related talk from me from now on.
by TonyWilson on Sun May 03, 2009 8:54 am
Really good episode if it was a little predictable (though I near jumped out of my seat when the mother slaps the little girl, did not see that coming). The show handles the Angel/Heaven stuff so well where it could be really cheesy or sentimental. And even though I'm an atheist I like that it's portrayal of faith wasn't snark filled and was taken seriously but naturally too.
I completely agree. It would be quite easy to make the whole Angel/Heaven stuff lame. But the angels are badass, and aren't sentimental like 'touched by an angel' Cass is also torn about whether this god he serves yet has never spoken to is worth following or not.
For me, though, the explaination of Hell was the best plot point of the show-- torchered every day all day, but being offered to stop getting torchered and torcher someone else. The fact that dean went 30 years makes Dean's character even more tough, but the fact that their father lasted a hundred years, and never gave in, took the awesome factor of his character to a new level.
by Peven on Sun May 03, 2009 11:46 am
sorry, hate to be nitpicky here, but i can't help it, the word is "torture"
by Seppuku on Sun May 03, 2009 12:03 pm
Considering Hell's meant to have more flames than a Script Girl talkback, I think "torcher" might be quite appropriate.
by Peven on Sun May 03, 2009 12:09 pm
Seppuku wrote: Considering Hell's meant to have more flames than a Script Girl talkback, I think "torcher" might be quite appropriate.
by Big Jim on Sun May 03, 2009 5:09 pm
wixmmm wrote: In the office talkback, he lists 30 rock, office, parks and recreation, and what does he list that's on at 8pm??? Mother Fucking Survivor. He knows when supernatural is on, yet he plugs a old and past its prime REALITY SHOW. Why, WHY would he plug survivor but not supernatural???
Isn't Supernatural on at 9:00, or is that just where I live?
I have a theory that Herc doesn't do Supernatural talkbacks because it is on opposite The Office, which he does promote.
by wixmmm on Sun May 03, 2009 5:11 pm
Peven -- THANKS. as i was typing that i knew it looked wrong... on talkbacks/blogs i have TERRIBLE spelling... i'm actually even worse at spelling in text messages, where i'm so bad its even a bit embarrassing. I type fast, often don't finish sentances, could care less about spelling and never read my posts before i'm making.
i got no problem with someone pointing out a spelling mistake, but would prefer to have the mistake pointed out AND some kind of response to my post.
Big Jim wrote:
actually, you're right, it is on at 9. But i'm in the central timezone, so its at 8 for me.
My theory is that at some lame convention, herc got snubbed or the shaft by one of supernatural's showrunners or maybe one of the actors. The most likely reason he doesn't make supernatural talkbacks is simply because he's terrible at his job, and doesn't care to educate himself.
ok, i got baited into herc talk... at least it wasn't a long rant.
somebody want to tell me why scriptgirl talkbacks are filled with flame wars? never read a scriptgirl article, much less a scriptgirl talkback.
one quick thing--
I don't know if this was supernatural or the move role models, but this year, one of the things on tv or movies that made me laugh hardest was when Dean (or Stiffler in role models) was filling in as a gym teacher and having the class play dodge ball and throws the ball as hard as he can at a kid, point blank. I rolled out of my seat.
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Awards Season 2009/2010/2011
Re: Awards Season 2010: The Zone vs. The Oscars!
by Bloo on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:03 am
Baldwin and Martin were weak hosts
I'm shocked that Hurt Locker won, really thought they'd give Kathryn the best director and Avatar best picture
should have been district 9 or Basterds but we all knew they never had a chance
by RogueScribner on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:03 am
Up had a brilliant first act. Everything else, meh. It did absolutely nothing interesting with its villain.
by Fried Gold on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:04 am
Did that seem like a botched ending to anyone else?
It was:
"Please welcome Tom Hanks....Hurt Locker....yhay.....good night everybody...." in the space of two minutes.
by Jabbadonut on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:04 am
Hell Frakkin' Yeah! The Academy got it absolutely right, all the way down the line, this year. Every frakkin' award went to the right people. Damn, that was fantastic. For those who are pissed "The Hurt Locker" won over "Avatar," be serious. If you saw both films, you know which one was more deserving. Give it up.
Look! Even Steve is throwing chocolate snowballs . . . oh . . .
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by Leckomaniac on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:04 am
RogueScribner wrote: Up had a brilliant first act. Everything else, meh. It did absolutely nothing interesting with its villain.
Damn it, Rogue, why must you be such a villain!
You are my Oscars Lex Luthor.
Leckomaniac
by tangerine on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:05 am
Fried Gold wrote: Did that seem like a botched ending to anyone else?
Yah what the hell happened there, I blinked and it was over. Anyhow I'm off to bed, goodnight dudes
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I think every rational person is in agreement that Moon should've won Best Picture.
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I speak the truth!
by Fievel on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:06 am
I actually liked Martin & Baldwin. The opening jokes made me laugh.
Having said that, they seemed useless after that.
Why even have a host? Just do an opening number and then let the announcer introduce the presenters.
by John-Locke on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:07 am
Fuck, my head hurts, night all
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I've only been watching for the last hour and a half or so. I think I saw them for about 30 seconds total. So yeah, why even bother having hosts? Hire someone to open the show, then just cycle through the various presenters.
by Al Shut on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:08 am
I think I shall retire for now
by King Of Nowhere on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:09 am
It was a good laugh watching it with you lot on here (& twitter) doing real-time commentary, but the show it's self was shit.
You Europeaners are a hardcore lot!!!!
Fried Gold wrote: I think every rational person is in agreement that Moon should've won Best Picture.
by Seppuku on Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:41 am
The one cool moment for me was Jeff Bridges winning and his very stoned sounding acceptance speech. The only thing that would have been cooler would have been if, just once, he'd replaced one of those mans with the word "dude." It wouldn't have to be obvious or anything. I love that guy though, always puts in stalwart fucking performances and doesn't cowtow to that circle jerk shit.
Other than that, I thought it was pretty cold and lame. I'm glad the BBC didn't spend my license fee (that I haven't paid) on that.
by bastard_robo on Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:07 am
Well, Just about everyone I called won.. Hurt Locker for best pic and Director, The Dude for best actor, Waltz for Supporting, Sandra and Mo"Nique (which what ever shit ball movie she has done now can now claim Academy Award Winning Actress in it) UP for best animated.
But the Screenplays.. Fuck those wins. Hurt Locker was great on its visual, acting and directing, but was a weak ass script. Precious was bleh.. Just.. Bleh.. The movie panhandled to lowest common denomination of guilt. fuck it.
Huzzah to Bigelow though.. for A) being the first female director to pull an oscar, and B) up staging your Ex Husband.. I love Irony.
and People who are saying that AVATAR will stand the test of time.. I wouldn't count on that. It opened the door for more epic fantasy movies, but in 20 years more people will remember LORD OF THE RINGS than Avatar. Avatar will be looked at the beginning of MoCap and over the top fantasy sci fi films.
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by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:14 am
The Cock Hurter won.
Well that just shows doesn't it? And now is the final nail in the coffin of my view on Oscars now. Damn you Katherine Bigelow. All you did was weaken a universe today.
I am retiring from this stupid biased ceremony and never bothering with Oscar anymore.
You guys who say you watch it out of Tradition need to grow up. All traditions can suck so much that they need to be bucked and abandoned. People do it to Christmas, you surely can do it to this insult to integrity and deservation farce.
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by Brit Pop on Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:20 am
I'm kinda glad Avatar only collected 3 Oscars, and they were pretty much technical gongs.
I was getting wound up because the Avatar winners who made speeches, did them fairly early in the show and they were toungueing Cameron's bung something fierce.
You cringe when a guy collects an Oscar and spends three minutes talking about 'the genius that is James Cameron', and how much he is 'honoured and priveledged' to be part of such a 'journey'.
Comon guys!!!! You may never get to win another Oscar! So instead of putting all the praise on JC, why not think 'hey, I did the work that won me this... maybe I deserve this!' - and take credit for it.
The early Avatar winners seemed to be priming the crowd for the inevitable clean sweep that the film did not achieve - I think back to Return Of The King Oscar night, where at the end you pretty much had the whole cast and crew surrounding a Christ-like PJ - all basking in the greatest night of their lives (including that Struggling Background Artist Sean Astin crying).
Cameron watched that Oscar night and probably thought 'Oh man! Thats totally gonna be me in a few years!'
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by DaleTremont on Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:10 am
For reals that sucked. I know they're trying to keep a schedule but honestly they couldn't have even named the nominees? Even for something as uselessly self-gratifying as the Oscars, I thought that was a little disrespectful. If you don't keep the people sweating in their seats you've taken away the best part of the show!
Also, I'm sad I.B. wasn't recognized, except for Waltz, but I'm happy for Bigelow.
And not sure if Sepp already mentioned it in his magically vanished post, but they left out Bea Arthur of the In Memoriam!
It's like the Star Wars holiday special never even happened!
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by so sorry on Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:27 am
DaleTremont wrote:
They rushed thru what the Academy has deemed the most important award!
Here's a thought, cut out one of the non-essential numbers from earlier on. For example, the rediculous dance number. Waste.Of.Time.
Also, I'm sure it was mentioned earlier, but that tribute to "Horror movies" was terrible. Fucking Beetlejuice and Twilight in the montage???? C'mon. That's just...C'MON!!!
by TheBaxter on Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:28 am
the theme song for this year's oscars should have been radiohead's "no surprises"
by Vegeta on Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:39 am
The most predictable Academy Awards I can remember.
Did anyone else find the cameras desperately seeking a reaction shot of every black person in the theatre when Jeffrey Fletcher won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for for PRECIOUS to be vaguely racist? Seriously, it was kind of weird... here's a shot of Lenny Kravitz, here's a shot of Morgan Freeman (what did they have to do with Precious beyond having the same skin color of the writer?). I also found the loud speaker announcement that "Could this be the first year for an African American to win an Best Director?" to be cringe worthy. It was more like the Academy pointing out how inclusionary they are rather then just honoring the guy for his achievement. Instead it's "oh and he's black too, look how we included him, aren't we so very progressive".
The God awful ego stroking speeches by co-stars (or former co-stars) of the Best Actor/Actress nominees... then coming out and announcing all their names again before presenting the actual award was incredibly redundant and stomach churningly unnecessary.
What in God's name was with the interpretive dance presentation for Original Score... EGADS!
by Fried Gold on Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:09 pm
Best Picture is The Main Award.
The mistake they made was announcing the nominees for it throughout the show. That should've been the final 10-15 minutes. Instead, they went big on this character reference thing for each Best Actor nominee. Then just kinda chucked the last couple of awards out there on stage.
by so sorry on Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:27 pm
Fried Gold wrote: The mistake they made was announcing the nominees for it throughout the show. That should've been the final 10-15 minutes. Instead, they went big on this character reference thing for each Best Actor nominee. Then just kinda chucked the last couple of awards out there on stage.
I'm not bothered by the Best Picture nominee stuff during the broadcast... it's supposed to keep my interest during the "boring parts" and I suppose its to build some drama for the end. Which unfortunately, they blew. It's the equivalent of chatting up some chick at a bar, putting in tons of effort to get her to come home with you, convincing her to sleep with you then you *NSFW* in 20 seconds and she's all like, "I stayed up for THAT?"
by Pacino86845 on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:17 pm
Vegeta wrote: The most predictable Academy Awards I can remember.
I'm completely with you on all points, and I will extend the weirdly racist attitude to include sexism as well. I thought Streisand's excitement seemed real enough, but they were mentioning the first female/black director shit in the pre-show already. It was very lame.
I also didn't like how Gabourey Sidibe was everyone's long lost best friend all of a sudden (including Oprah). It reminded me of the bullshit surrounding the cast of Slumdog Millionaire last year, where as it turns out a bunch of them were still living in the slums despite being in an internationally successful film. As if Hollywood has roles for actors like Gabourey Sidibe, what is she gonna become a teen heartthrob all of a sudden? Yeah. Right. The irony is that Hollywood will continue to perpetuate the narrow and impossible fantasy that Gabourey's character in Precious escaped to in her life, and this will be done exactly by never casting Gabourey in any kind of "princess" role.
Perhaps it's because this year's Oscars seemed particularly lame, but all the ego-stroking and hypocritical empathic behavior stuck out more than normal.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were terrible as the hosts, the jokes they were making in the beginning were either weirdly embarrassing or simply fell flat. Later on there were a couple of funny bits, one of which was obviously improvised:
1. I thought the Paranormal Activity parody was funny
2. When Steve Martin said that he wrote Jeffrey Fletcher's speech, that made me LOL
But I am also bitter about the winners, it just highlighted one huge problem with how these awards are handed out:
Oscars are decided based on momentum. Pixar's Up was very good, but if the Academy wasn't in the habit of giving the animation award to Pixar then The Fantastic Mr. Fox would have deservedly received it, or maybe even The Secret of Kells (while I haven't seen the film, I've seen only praise for it).
The momentum they follow is often just the by-product of other award shows: great, 10 Best Picture nominees and everyone knew for a few weeks now that it was a 2-film competition, essentially.
And because of the bullshit momentum-following films which would get maybe one or two awards end up taking loads of categories, and others end up with nothing!!!
I might be bitter here, but I think there is some sense to what I've said. I was hoping Up would not get the Best Animated Feature award, and I was hoping that Inglourious Basterds would actually pick up the Best Screenplay award at least, in addition to Christoph Waltz's well-deserved, if not predictable Oscar.
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by so sorry on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:21 pm
You guys complaining about the predictability of the awards is so predictable.
Let me close this thread by saying this: Catherine Bigelow is a serious MILF.
by minstrel on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:32 pm
I'm with those who say that, in a few years, The Hurt Locker will be forgotten and Avatar will be remembered. I have the Hurt Locker DVD, and it took me three tries to sit through it. For one thing, it's pretty boring once you get past the fact that what these guys do is dangerous. They just keep doing it over and over until I'm yawning and turning it off. I have no desire whatsoever to see Hurt Locker again. I have, however, paid real money to see Avatar three times in theaters so far and I might do so again, and when it's released on DVD I'll buy it and watch it more times. I like being in that world.
So in my view, it should have been Avatar over Hurt Locker, no question. But I haven't seen some of the other nominees (Inglorious Basterds being one of them).
by BuckyO'harre on Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:35 pm
I still haven't seen all of the animated nominees,but I'm fairly confident that 'Mary and Max' is better than any of them and it didn't get nominated.
As for 'The Secret of Kells'- Spectacular animation and a good film,but there just isn't enough of a story for it to have deserved winning.
BuckyO'harre
by Tyrone_Shoelaces on Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:01 pm
James Taylor? Really?
by TheBaxter on Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:10 pm
Vegeta wrote: Did anyone else find the cameras desperately seeking a reaction shot of every black person in the theatre when Jeffrey Fletcher won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for for PRECIOUS to be vaguely racist?
personally, i found it very inspiring that a mildly retarded man was able to write an oscar-winning screenplay.
by Al Shut on Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:12 pm
Wow, former President James Taylor
so sorry wrote: You guys complaining about the predictability of the awards is so predictable.
she's definitely the hottest of james cameron's various former and current wives. suzy amis looked like the crypt keeper sitting next to him. and have you seen linda hamilton lately? she makes even the crypt keeper look sorta hot.
i thought it was funny that cameron was sitting directly behind bigelow, so he had to spend the whole night staring at the back of her head. i wonder if it gave him deja vu?
by Seppuku on Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:15 pm
Al Shut wrote: Wow, former President James Taylor
Don't you mean former soft rocker Zachary Taylor?
by Lord Voldemoo on Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:16 pm
I skipped it altogether this year and watched Zombieland with some friends instead. Had fun with that one.
My lack of interest in the awards themselves notwithstanding, I'm enjoying how divided everyone is this year. Makes for some interesting discussions.
I'm glad Avatar only won technical awards. It deserved those completely, and deserved nothing else.
by Leckomaniac on Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:38 pm
Has this been brought up yet?
I was wondering what the fuck was going on there.
I don't know if it was mentioned here, but definitely that was the WTF Moment of the night.
Pacino86845 wrote: I don't know if it was mentioned here, but definitely that was the WTF Moment of the night.
I love how the woman is claiming that the guy's mother prevented her from going up there by using her cane. Crazy.
by Nachokoolaid on Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:39 pm
But according to Academy rules, the director was supposed to accept the award, no one else. The fact that she was even up there was in bad taste, not to mention cutting him off, Kanye style.
How about a magic trick?
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by Marksman230591 on Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:47 pm
Well, this year's oscars were pretty boring, at least compared to last year's, namely for the following reasons:
-Alec Baldwin and Martin Short: while I got some good laughs from them, they weren't even nearly as cool and charming as Hugh Jackman last year.
-Too many things were predictable: I mean, really, everyone was thinking that for Best Pic it would be Avatar or Hurt Locker, and that's just how it played out, as well as all the other actor winners. But I'm glad Waltz got it, though. He absolutely deserved it.
-The big winner of the show had a few awards TOO MANY!: look, I liked The Hurt Locker. Really. But it was not that fucking good. While I understand some may not have liked Inglourious Basterds, you gotta admit, Tarantino's movie had a FAR better script and dialogue than the generic documentary-style Iraq War screenplay. It just goes to show you how most of the Academy members were just sucking on the Hurt Locker's cock because they thought it was the "cool" thing to do, since now this year they had a legitimate and good opportunity to give the Best Director and Picture award to a woman, and because its "themes" and its political relevance these days, with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and all that. Face it, it was pure and utter ass-kissing and you know it.
You know what movie would've made me happy the most if it won? Inglourious Basterds. Why? Well, while it's good to see that the Academy thinks that a big-budget is not necessary to make a good film (and I loved Avatar, by the way. It entertained me more than any other film of 2009, even IB. But before you think I'm a hypocrite, just keep reading on), they would've given the same message and given the award to a more deserving film had they given it to Inglourious Basterds, and it would've also meant that politics didn't really factor into anything because, let's face it, IB was probably the least politically relevant film of the list.
In the end, compared to last year, this ceremony was pretty damn weak and held almost no surprises. But I am glad that The Cove won for best Doc. Feature. And that Star Trek won at least something.
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by Al Shut on Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:23 pm
Marksman230591 wrote: you gotta admit, Tarantino's movie had a FAR better script and dialogue than the generic documentary-style Iraq War screenplay.
That's what Tarantino got for his poor spelling
stay in school kids!
by Fried Gold on Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:40 pm
Leckomaniac wrote: Has this been brought up yet?
Apparently it wasn't just a creative disagreement. She was actually removed from the credits of the film about a year ago, at her own request after a lawsuit, and technically wasn't even a producer. But some loophole meant that she could qualify to be on the Academy's list as a producer. So she shouldn't even have been there.
Annoying thing #451 - They let Ben Stiller do an unfunny five minute Avatar intro for the special effects award....yet were cutting the lesser known winners off mid-speech due to a lack to time.
Odd thing #92 - Martin & Baldwin were the presenting the show. Yet they were only on for about ten minutes in total. Why do they even bother having hosts?
Moderately Interesting thing #16 - In his intro thingy, Chris Pine came across as quite a good orator.
by The Vicar on Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:53 pm
"-Alec Baldwin and Martin Short:"
by Bloo on Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:30 am
what awards do we have left?
Tony's and MTV?
by Marksman230591 on Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:21 pm
Bloo wrote: what awards do we have left?
In my mind, the awards season ends with the oscars. After Twilight won most of the awards in the MTVMAs last year, I lost all credibility in that show. And Tonys? Yeah... Don't care about those either.
I guess we can finally wrap this thread up and start the Awards Season 2010/2011 one around December or so.
by Bloo on Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:23 pm
yeah the Twilight sweep of MTV will probably be repeated this year with New Moon.
The Tony's though, are totally legit. Although I haven't been following real closely to see what new shows have opened this year
by minstrel on Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:35 pm
The Tonys may be legit, but most of us don't have the opportunity to see the shows, at least without extraordinary expense of time and money. I wish I could see more live theater, but if you're not close to Broadway or London's West End or a few other hotbeds of theater, it's pretty tough to do. So it's hard to maintain interest in them.
by Jabbadonut on Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:55 am
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote: The Cock Hurter won.
Personally, I loved The Hurt Locker and felt it deserved the Best Picture Oscar, but I hear you. I've been very disappointed in the past with some of the so-called "Best Pictures." Don't give up on them yet. Wait til next year, at least.
by Leckomaniac on Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:29 pm
The Vicar wrote: "-Alec Baldwin and Martin Short:"
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!
TWOWILDANDCRAZYDUDESILASH!
by Bloo on Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:25 pm
minstrel wrote: The Tonys may be legit, but most of us don't have the opportunity to see the shows, at least without extraordinary expense of time and money. I wish I could see more live theater, but if you're not close to Broadway or London's West End or a few other hotbeds of theater, it's pretty tough to do. So it's hard to maintain interest in them.
I hear ya, I like watching them because it lets me know what's new and I can find the music for it. For example, I doubtr I would have been interested in NEXT TO NORMAL if I hadn't seen their performance on The Tony's last year, but I did and while it's not an album I listen to regularly, I find it to be an amazing show. It also gives me a heads up to look for what shows will be going on tour at some point.
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Wendy’s Roasted Bands on Twitter, Was Absolutely Savage
Tyler Sharp
Wendy's is known for its aggressive Twitter presence and it's taking full advantage of National Roast Day (Jan. 4). The account has been lighting up anyone that tweets at it, and a number of bands have made the call.
First, Wendy's used screamo mainstays Hawthorne Heights and hardcore stalwarts Terror to roast an unlucky individual.
Hawthorne Heights chimed in on the action.
Afterwards they went for the jugular on pop-punk band State Champs. Much like other new-wave pop-punk bands of the 2010's, the New York group take much inspiration from classic acts of the early 2000s, such as Blink-182, Yellowcard and, like Wendy's pointed out, New Found Glory.
Next, and perhaps most impressively, they placed a target on metalcore band The Browning. "Haven't had a track worth listening to since the rapper quit," the account wrote. The Browning originally formed in 2005 as the crunk-core side project of former As Blood Runs Black vocalist Jonny Mcbee. Rapper Matt Keck was the only other member at the time of the band's formation, but soon left to pursue a career as a comedian.
Our friends over at Lambgoat also received a zesty one-liner, with whoever writing Wendy's tweets obviously aware of their ridiculous comment sections.
Chicago pop-punk band Sleep On It also took some direct heat.
Metalcore band Miss May I took a missile that referenced Hatebreed.
Then they came for Hopeless Records:
Attila vocalist Fronz was next to take a hit:
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Then, GWAR got a taste:
Atreyu asked to be roasted, and they received:
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The Colorado Eagles quest for their second Kelly Cup resumes this evening in Florida.
The championship series kicked off this past Friday at the Budweiser Events Center as the Eagles, fresh off their Western Conference Championship against Fort Wayne, took advantage of home ice and beat the Everblades 3-1 in game one. In game two, the Eagles were close wrapping up the win, but the Everblades slapped in the winning shot with :36 seconds left in the game. Florida won 4-3 and tied the series at one game a-piece.
The next three games will be in Florida. If need be, game six will be at the Budweiser Events Center on June 6th, but that will be their last home game of the season and their last in the ECHL as the will be moving to the AHL next season.
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“I think if you do things differently, you make people think differently,” shared Van Zyl from South Africa. “Cause normally someone my age doesn’t train as much as I do. Or change careers and work twice as hard as he’s normally done in his life!”
“The last 40 years consisted of four careers and now I’m on my fifth one,” he explained, citing his time spent in the air force, defense industry, working in an investment bank and as part of a small corporate finance team facilitating transactions for small companies and listing them on the local stock exchange.
Looking at retirement, Van Zyl decided he: “wanted to contribute to other people’s lives with no expectation.” So he began sifting through volunteer opportunities from around the globe on the internet. But the more he looked, the more Van Zyl felt God telling him he was supposed to stay where he was in South Africa. One night at his church’s home group, he spoke with another member about the organisation she served with. As she described her role in financial development with OM, Van Zyl was amazed and said: “That sounds like what I’m doing in the finance world. Do you have a job for me?”
The answer was yes.
It was the link between faith and his work experience that interested Van Zyl. Now, he helps teams raise funds, plan strategically and communicate with donors to help further the work God is doing in 13 countries across southern Africa. “I have found that, working with the different fields, I can help the young people grow in their roles and support the Field strategically – aspects of my career that I loved to do, and now continue to do so,” said Van Zyl.
“I had lunch with one of my clients and he said: ‘So, what are you doing? Are you getting paid for [working with OM]?’ And I said: ‘No. You don’t realise that what I’m getting is much bigger – you can’t comprehend it in terms of money returns. It’s multi-dimensional. It’s much bigger than anything money can give you.’”
Van Zyl started cycling at the age of 53 as a way to stay in shape but it quickly became something more. “When I’ve got something, then I use it – it’s not going to collect dust in the corner,” he said. “So I got a bicycle and I cycled.”
Today, Van Zyl cycles a minimum of three times a week, covering around 200 km total. The mornings he rides he sends out a WhatsApp to a group of cyclists describing the route and people join if they can. “I can see that it has changed some people’s lives in a different way because they hang out in that group,” said Van Zyl.
The group is made up of riders of different fitness levels and goals; some are riding to improve their overall health while others are training for races. “The group provides this environment – you’re never alone on your own fitness journey whilst being involved in the journey of others,” explained Van Zyl. Cycling together—sometimes for hours—also provides time to talk. “I have found that there’s a lot of counselling happening on these long rides,” Van Zyl said. “I just listen and try and provide a different perspective on the situation that [the person] finds themselves in.”
In 2019, Van Zyl joined Ride 2 Transform Malawi (R2TM) – a seven-day cycling trip through Malawi with the purpose of praying for and ministering to the unreached people groups living there. “The cycling is actually easy,” remembered Van Zyl. “For me it’s more about spending time with missionaries, seeing what people do and engaging with them.”
It impacted Van Zyl to see missionaries’ dedication to—and excitement to continue serving—the rural people of Malawi by sharing the gospel in different ways.
Faith can’t be a hybrid
Van Zyl grew up in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. There was a period in his early twenties when Van Zyl wasn’t very committed to going to church but “somewhere along the line I decided you either take your faith to a serious level or just ditch it – it’s not like a hybrid.”
So he took his faith to a serious level.
In living out his life for Jesus, Van Zyl became involved in serving within the various churches he attended over the years; usually as an elder, deacon or by being on the church board. “Now I’m a car guard,” he said. “I smile at people and make small talk in the parking area.”
Van Zyl said that while the job might not be what the average church-goer would volunteer for, he enjoys it. “I’ve had some serious chats on relationships with other guys on the team, whilst on duty! Oh, and I do manage to welcome the people!”
‘Doing things differently’ has helped Van Zyl start conversations and share Christ’s love with the people around him and he urges others to do the same.
“Walk out of your comfort zone. See what opportunities God opens up for you; and with His guidance and assurance, embrace them and get involved. It’s a world full of surprises – like me ending up in my current role in OM!”
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Joe Budden & AraabMUZIK Are ‘Rage & The Machine’ On New Album — Out Now!
blame it on Shake October 20, 2016
After being rather quiet the first half of the year, Joe Budden turned everything upside down when he launched an assault on Drake with “Making A Murderer pt.1” back in June.
On the same day, Budden also announced Rage And The Machine and released the project’s first single, “Flex” with Tory Lanez and Fabolous.
Now, after going at Drake three more times (“Wake,” “Afraid,” “Just Because“) and trading rhymes with Styles P, the Jersey emcee comes through on his word and delivers his new album with AraabMUZIK.
At 11 tracks, Rage And The Machine includes features from Joell Ortiz, Jazzy (“By Law“), Stacy Barthe, Emanny, and the aforementioned Tory Lanez and Fabolous.
Check it out below and cop on iTunes.
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By Roderick on February 27, 2007 3
I’ve seen the following anecdote in a number of versions of Sidney Morgenbesser’s obituary:
He joined his students in an anti-police demonstration during the 1968 student unrest at Columbia. The police broke it up with a baton charge, and Morgenbesser got hit over the head. The experience led to one of his most quoted but least revealing bons mots.
He was asked whether the police had treated him unjustly or unfairly. “Unfairly yes, unjustly no,” he said. “It was unfair to be hit over the head but not unjust since they hit everyone else over the head, too.”
This struck me as just the wrong way around. Equal treatment all around might plausibly be considered fair, but if that treatment involves aggression then it’s certainly unjust.
Anyway, I’m pleased to see that Morgenbesser was misquoted; Gil Harman informs us that Morgenbesser really said the reverse of what the obituaries quoted:
He actually said the opposite: “It was unjust but not unfair. It was unjust for them to hit me over the head, but it was not unfair since they hit everybody else over the head.”
Hooray! Morgenbesser’s honour has been saved.
(Of course I still disagree with Morgenbesser; as I’ve argued elsewhere, aggression can never really be equal treatment, and so injustice in fact always involves unfairness though not necessarily vice versa – so the cops were being unfair in addition to being unjust. But this convicts Morgenbesser only of a subtle mistake, not the gross mistake that the obituaries saddled him with.)
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Daniel J. D'Amico February 27, 2007 at 7:44 pm #
Roderick,
Friday is Murray’s birthday and Saturday Molinari’s. What would you vote as the most Molinarian film of all time?
Lester Hunt February 28, 2007 at 5:34 pm #
Rod, thanks for this information. I’ve always told the story with the correction silently made, but this is the first time I’ve seen that there is actual ear-witness testimony that my correction is correct.
It never made any sense to tell it as the Times reported it.
It always gets a laugh from students and makes a point in a memorable way.
Administrator March 2, 2007 at 6:11 pm #
Most Molinarian film? Hard to say, but there are some good possibilities here.
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Malibu cafe offers free Thanksgiving meals to thank community after Woolsey Fire
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MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- The Malibu community was hard hit by the Woolsey Fire and many homes and businesses remain without power on Thanksgiving.
One local restaurant decided to give back to the first responders who helped save homes and businesses, as well as the residents who endured the devastation.
The Beach Café in Malibu was giving out free meals on Thanksgiving as a reward to firefighters, law enforcement and local residents.
Like much of Malibu, the café is without power, so massive generators helped keep the lights on and the kitchen cooking.
"It's the right thing to do," said café owner Bob Morris. "This is my life and we want to share it with the people who saved our lives. That's what it's all about."
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"We haven't had power for two weeks," said Malibu resident Michelle Miller. "On Thanksgiving you wake up in the morning, you're hungry. Usually I'm cooking. Today I'm enjoying someone else's cooking and it's really wonderful."
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AV Reporter Blamed For Northfield Pony Poisoning
Aberdeenshire, Featured 8 Responses »
Suzanne Kelly reports the latest claims from controversial commercial farm-cum-rescue for farm animals – an alleged break in, vandalism and deliberate ‘poisoning’ of a young Shetland pony.
As has been demonstrated in previous AV articles, Northfield Animal Haven owner, Kelly Cable has engaged in some bizarre fundraising schemes, and animals have been injured, frozen to death and overfed to death at the New Pitsligo premises.
On the afternoon of 15 November 2015, a woman named Jackie Dow posted on facebook that Northfield Animal Haven had suffered a break in on the night of 14 November.
“hello to the evil people who went to Northfield Animal Haven last night. hope you are proud of yourselfs as you cut all the wire so the sheep could get out. and you poisoned my pony who sadly died today. call yoursels animal lovers. I don’t think so. This vendetta needs to stop before any other animals suffer and thanks to you I will have to spend a fortune on vet bills. what did my boy do to deserve it…. and if the people who did this are reading this hope you are proud of yoursels.”
– Jackie Dow on NAH’s facebook page, 15 Nov 2016.
Aberdeen Voice sent Ms Dow an email to clarify why she thinks she knows who did this act, why she thinks they are animal lovers and what vendetta she is referring to. When / if she replies, we will print her response.
Northfield also echoed this allegation; on its Facebook page owner Kelly Cable wrote:
“got up this morning to find fencing cut out onto main road for the sheep and horses, lovely little auguero who everyone met at the Super Saturday locked in a portacabin and sadly he was very toxic, no gut sounds at all so he had to be pts [put to sleep]. Very evil twisted people out there and when they get caught I hope they throw the book at them.”
– Northfield Animal Haven Facebook page.
It seems that Ms Dow and Eric Cable had suspects for this very odd crime in mind – and Eric decided to name me and blame me for this event:
“Well the haters have really done it this time. A 22 month old Shetland pony poisoned last night after locking it in a feed store I hope that cowbag Suzanne Kelly is f**king happy with her work now the most evil bast///on on this planet I believe that she is now encouraging activists and it looks like they decided to pay a visit last night cut fence wire let sheep out locked a trusting wee pony into a portakabin and poison the wee toot… the vets want to speak to the police when they arrive.”
The Cables assert in their posts on the incident that the press and police were informed.
However, when alerted to this development, I telephoned the Police Scotland media arm – the spokesperson could find no such report. On Monday 21 November the police now have an incident report – which only concerns a fence. No pony is mentioned.
The police have been asked to say when this incident was reported considering there was no such report on their books when Eric Cable’s post claimed the vet wanted to speak to the police when they arrived. It currently seems that while Cable wrote those words about police arriving, the police had no information whatsoever about the incident.
Sources associated with local newspapers were unaware of anyone contacting them about a poisoned animal or vandalism. No news reports have been published about this alleged incident which was meant to have happened 6 days ago. There was no outreach from Northfield to other shelters in the area to warn them of potential vandals in the area.
The very idea of the crime is a bizarre one. There are many incidents of livestock being stolen, and last year there was a horrific attack on a mare in a field.
But to cut a fence and then, oddly, to sneak past the CCTV system it is understood operates at NAH, for the purpose of taking one of the 170+ animals and locking it inside a feed store beggars belief.
In the past, two animals at Northfield were allowed to overeat with fatal consequences. In a separate incident, an elderly horse was left to freeze to death in a field. Could this possibly be yet another instance demonstrating that a woman with health issues (in her own words) might not be best able to look after 170 animals?
Things took a dark turn following Eric Cable’s post. Several people made threatening posts, and one man who had in the past made threats, shared Jackie Dow’s post over 2 dozen times. The threats were reported to Police Scotland. Many have since been deleted from facebook.
Two of the more concerning threats were:
“They won’t be so smart when we get hold of them. Silent justice and as for that f**king reporter and her pals it’s on f**kers”
“I will find you. I will hurt you.”
There are many times over the course of investigating how the Cables operate that I have been called a liar by Eric and Kelly Cable. I have asked them to apologise for the defamatory remarks – or to at the very least point out what portions of my articles they consider to be ‘lies’.
All of my claims have sources – very often I am quoting back contradictory claims that Kelly Cable has herself made over the course of time.
One day she will say NAH rescues all farm animals; the next she claims everyone knows they also sell animals at the Thainstone market and it’s not her affair what happens to such sold animals.
She will one day say that no animal will ever be put to sleep whilst her fundraising appeals clearly say that unless money is found, animals will be put to sleep.
The Cables have been asked to apologise on Facebook, Twitter and to the Aberdeen Voice for publication of a full apology, or I will have no choice but to seek legal remedy for the ongoing, serious defamation – and not least this latest unfounded attack by Mr Cable which seems to have led to threats of violence.
In a previous facebook post, Kelly Cable had gave her permission for me to see her veterinarian’s records; I wrote to the vet at the time, who refused to release any information.
After this alleged pony poisoning and Eric Cable’s post saying the vet wanted to speak to the police (who had not been told about a poisoned pony it should be remembered), I emailed the vet once again. A source made me aware of The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ position:
‘The duty of confidentiality is important but it is not absolute and information can be disclosed in certain circumstances, for example where the client’s consent has been given, where disclosure can be justified by animal welfare concerns or the wider public interest.’
Considering Northfield has been asking the public for money for years and, as previous articles demonstrate, sometimes doing so under false pretences, and considering the number of animals injured and neglected at Northfield over time, it is hoped the vet will release information.
Since this poisoning tale appeared on Facebook, someone was in touch concerning a pony that died there of blood poisoning – how many avoidable deaths and injuries will it take for the vet to raise concerns with the authorities and let the donating public know what is going on?
I posted this request for apology and many questions about the incident on the Northfield Animal Haven Facebook page. The page is now offline.
Aberdeen Voice will follow this story and report any and all updates.
Aberdeen Voice is sorry to hear that yet another animal has had an avoidable death at Northfield. If indeed vandals cut a fence, snuck in, and put the animal in a feed store – then we are confident the CCTV will have caught them, and we hope they will be brought to justice.
Should it be conceivable that the truth is still to be determined and information has been withheld or warped, possibly to cover a further incident of fatal animal overfeeding and/or other form of negligence, Aberdeen Voice is equally hopeful that the truth will come out. In the mean time, we are receiving yet more stories from people who have had business/animal welfare dealings with the Cable family.
Anyone with any further information is invited to please contact Aberdeen Voice in strictest confidence.
Posted by Suzanne at Aberdeen Voice at 14:28 Tagged with: Abuse, Animal, Care, Cruelty, Defamation, Fraud, Horse, Neglect, Northfield, Pet, Poison, Rescue, Sanctuary, Scam, Vandalism, Veterinary
Northfield Animal Haven: Cannabis Accusation Made To Court
Aberdeen Voice can reveal that Fiona Manclark, former Facebook Page Administrator for Northfield Animal Haven made an accusation of cannabis use at the farm by the owner, and claims drink and other drug use by others took place there too. Cannabis might be a means to alleviate symptoms of serious illness – but is someone using it regularly able to safely look after 170+ animals on a working farm and animal sanctuary?
In the second article in a series concerning NAH, Suzanne Kelly explains her doubts, and looks at other claims made in Manclark’s remarkable letter to the court, written in response to Suzanne Kelly’s legal action to stop Manclark’s defamation of her. By Suzanne Kelly
After a drawn out court procedure, defamation action I instigated against Fiona Manclark resulted in my being awarded £10,000 plus costs.
Manclark had run out of road with regard to my lawsuit which sought damages and an apology for her defamation of me which spanned Twitter, Facebook and email. She had applied for legal aid and was denied (the process took months).
Legal aid is normally denied where the applicant either has sufficient funds to cover their costs or where the applicant does not have sound grounds for bringing or defending legal action.
Despite Fiona Manclark having numerous opportunities to issue an apology and remove the various social media slurs without having to pay any damages, she chose to contest the legal action. It took months before the offensive comments were deleted. Eventually her legal firm announced to the courts it would no longer be defending Manclark; no reason was supplied.
When a hearing was scheduled in mid August, Manclark chose not to appear or send a legal representative: she did however send the court a most remarkable letter. Two members of Aberdeen Voice attended the sheriff court to look at the letter, and a shorthand transcription was made of it. All Ms Manclark needed to do was to put forward her side of the argument to the court as the defendant in the defamation action. She went much, much farther.
“…if there is money for drugs, she should not be asking the public for handouts”
Manclark’s letter openly accuses Kelly Cable of using cannabis, and of permitting others living on the farm to drink, use cannabis and ‘to be addicted’ to prescription drugs.
Manclark talks about first meeting the owner of Northfield, Kelly Cable. Manclark visited the farm to buy a pet rabbit – as an aside, reputable animal charities do not breed or sell animals; Cable managed to bridge the gap between rescue, breeding for sale, and running a commercial farm all from the same premises; an ethical dilemma and one unique in the rescue sector in Scotland as far as I can determine.
Aberdeen Voice has asked NAH about selling pets. In response, Northfield Animal Haven owner Kelly Cable told Aberdeen Voice:
“We do not breed or sell rabbits we rehome them and accept a donation of the persons choosing. The only connection with that is that Ms Manclark rehomed a rabbit from us then sold it.
“….since Sept last year Ms Manclark has had nothing to do with Northfield Animal Haven.”
After Manclark and Cable talked, Manclark and her children visited the farm. The children ‘helped build up the farm’ and ‘put in fence posts’ (presumably they were properly supervised, given personal protective clothing, and a safety briefing).
It was then Manclark alleges Cable:
“also smoked cannabis, but that was for medical reasons.”
This would certainly be consistent with a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia – one of an astonishing number of debilitating conditions a variety of sources, including Cable herself, claim she suffers from.
Kelly Cable responded:
“You state that a letter from Ms Manclark declares all of this but I had a private message conversation with ms Manclark from a few days ago where she states I was never mentioned in any letter…”
Fibromyalgia and cannabis:
Fibromyalgia is a serious illness – one with totally unpredictable symptoms and widely ranging levels of pain. Cannabis and cannabis/hemp oil derivatives seem to alleviate pain in some cases.
Some forms of cannabis oil (which do not contain the intoxicant thc) are legal in the UK; at present cannabis is still considered illegal. This is a situation that needs addressing, but in the context of NAH, allegedly, a Fibromyalgia sufferer is running a farm and using cannabis while caring for 170 animals.
Kelly Cable had this to say:
“My personal health is of no business to anyone but what I will say is just because your disabled doesnt mean you give up and lie in bed all day. I am on prescribed medication from my doctor so I cannot give you an answer as to whether cannabis is a useful treatment for my health as its not prescribed.”
NAH also seeks donations from the public because there is not enough money to support the rescues; sometimes it says animals may have to be put to sleep if funds aren’t donated. (NB the commercial arm of the farm sells animals at market all the while).
In this resect Northfield and Cable are again in an unprecedented situation in the animal welfare sector. A report has been made to the police and other relevant authorities, and other witnesses agree with Manclark’s assertion.
A fibromyalgia sufferer would in all likelihood find properly caring for 170 animals at a sanctuary/commercial farm even a more formidable task than a healthy adult would, yet it is claimed Kelly Cable runs the farm with little or even no help at times.
One occasion when her father helped resulted – by Kelly Cable’s own admission – in 17 horses being cut while they were to be transported from one field to another. Eric Cable was also injured in this incident. Inexplicably, Kelly Cable chose to link Aberdeen Voice to this worrying event– clearly with no foundation in reason or fact. In a rambling rant concerning a variety of allegations, Kelly Cable wrote:
“… I arranged alternative grazing for the animals here some of which should not even been attempted to load and moved and what happens my Dad who is 73 gets knocked over and trampled by horses that are so scared, so now I have 17 terrified horses all with cuts etc from trying to be loaded and they are now stressed and very anxious.
“I would suggest that anyone who has shared the articles from the Aberdeen voice or anyone who has jumped on the bandwagon and spouted this crap had better remove all information as Monday morning even if I have to sell my car to do it I will be going after everyone who has done damage to this sanctuary.
“I am also going to the national press and quite a few revelations will be disclosed to the press which can be backed up by various websites….”
Precisely how the horses were scared, who else was helping, whether the horses’ legs bandaged for shipping (as would be good practice) is unknown; NAH has been asked to explain.
Kelly Cable rsponded:
” I have already explained what happened there, if one horse gets spooked it will set off others in the fields, beside them, and in stables but if we had managed to raise funds for hay we wouldnt have had to move them but as our reputation was in tatters this did not happen so we had no choice but to move them a couple of miles away to grazing.”
The NFU Scotland was asked to comment on potential issues of cannabis use on a farm; the request was something of a first for them. They commented:
“Farmers, crofters and their staff are no different from other sectors of society and existing laws around the misuse of drugs would apply. That said, farming is a hazardous occupation and as an industry our record on health and safety is poor.
“If we are to cut the number of deaths and serious injuries in farming, then anything that impairs someone’s judgement when working with equipment or dealing with animals or potentially places themselves and others at risk must be avoided at all costs.”
Let’s say for argument’s sake there is nothing at all wrong in terms of safety and risk with having THC in the bloodstream and being seriously ill while looking after 170 animals.
Let’s assume that a person with a number of debilitating medical conditions, who allegedly smokes cannabis, and her father were perfectly capable of transporting 17 horses. How then did Eric Cable get trampled, and how did 17 animals suffer cuts in the incident?
Is it somehow Aberdeen Voice’s or my fault considering Kelly Cable leads directly from describing the injuries to AV? One last bit of food for thought:
Northfield is also offering animal assisted therapy: would you be comfortable utilising their service?
Fiona Manclark’s letter continues to say that after the revelations regarding drug use, she decided to cut ties with Northfield, not wanting her children around drugs, and saying:
Manclark appears not to have shared her concerns with police or animal welfare organisations that Aberdeen Voice is aware of; we will publish her response to the question when it is received. It is as if her concern was limited to her own children and not other visitors or donors.
Dismissing Manclark’s claims, Kelly Cable said:
“Claims regarding cannabis first came about in ms [Suzanne] kellys nativity story last year and now ms manclark has used them as defence in a defamation case, as ms kelly had won I think that question has already been answered but it has been discussed with the police on the 3 seperate occasions I have had these claims made against me.”
Illness:
What was the relevance of Manclark’s illness to the court? Did it prevent her making an apology, prevent her submitting evidence to back up the hacking claim?
Evidence of the illness was asked for as part of the legal process. No evidence was supplied because in Manclark’s words:
“The reason I have no legal representation any more is that I was requested to get a report from the doctor regarding my health, …..I really didn’t want this dragging on any longer than necessary as this has been a contributing factor to my state of mind.”
For someone who did not want the action dragging on, she did her best to prolong it.
The power to end the legal action always rested with Fiona Manclark. She chose to seek legal aid when a simple apology and deletion of offending posts – without having to pay any damages – was still possible.
“So sue me” were her words on the matter early on, and later repeated to my lawyer. Apparently she only phoned his office to issue that challenge because she was having medical issues. However, only towards the conclusion of the defamation action is there a reference to illness. More can be found in a previous Aberdeen Voice article.
Manclark’s slurs against me were seen by thousands. She remained defiant that she was telling the truth about me and had evidence – it never materialised. Her slurs have quite possibly stopped people coming to me with stories that I might have otherwise been able to research this past year. The longer her remarks remained visible on the internet, the more time they had to seep in and damage my reputation.
If I am somewhat unsympathetic to the idea that her undocumented illness claim should have been considered by the court, I hope that is understandable. The court’s position is ultimately the last word on the question of illness. It sided with me.
That Mystery Hacker:
Fiona Manclark says in her letter that she agreed to be a Facebook administrator for NAH on the back of the first visit to buy the rabbit.
“I agreed, and she gave me all her passwords and I gave her mine. (I do understand it was a stupid thing to do)”
Kelly Cable has since posted on Facebook that she had never had Manclark’s passwords. Aberdeen Voice has asked each of them to clarify this anomaly.
Kelly Cable told Aberdeen Voice:
“Ms manclark and her family helped out with the haven and Ms Manclark was made admin on my page, I gave my passwords so that she may access anything she needed, why would I need hers. I have emails confirming that I myself was removed as admin and the page was hacked and resulted in my original page being deleted.”
Around the time the legal action against Manclark started, a dialogue appeared on the Northfield site concerning an alleged hacking attack. The conversation involves Cable and Manclark – and at one point they named me as the possible hacker.
Manclark: “My own fb was hacked too tho, so maybe it’s someone with a grudge against me. Which again makes me think of Suzanne. She was spitting feathers over me calling her an alkie”
Cable: “Yeah very true. I have told the police about the hacking as well maybe they can find out who hacked it and have them done xx”
Hacking is considered a serious crime. If there had been a police report or investigation, it certainly did not result in any contact with me or Aberdeen Voice.
On the other hand, as reported in the first article in this series, Manclark refused to help me get the police to investigate the hacking crime.
If the police had investigated the hack, then I would have accepted there was a bona fide attack and stopped my lawsuit. I would also have expected the victim of a hack to remove material posted by a hacker; this took ages – during which time the hacker (so we are led to believe) posted refusals to retract, claimed they had evidence to back up the slurs, and told me to sue.
We are looking for a pro-NAH hacker with the ability to hack Fiona Manclark’s twitter, facebook and email over a period of six months, who had a particular desire to attack me. Anyone with any suspicions as to the identity of such a skilled hacker should please contact the police and/or Aberdeen Voice.
Amnesia?
Manclark initially told my solicitor she had no idea who I was; and yet she had an exchange with Cable concerning hacking, which mentions me.
On 13 October 2015 as part of an exchange about ‘hacking’ with Kelly Cable Manclark posted:
“Yes because I don’t want that bitch getting off with anything. And I was getting private mails from her until I blocked her. Still waiting to hear from her solicitor too J J J “
The two women had mentioned me by name by now, but perhaps it is some other person who they accuse of hacking them who had threatened legal action Manclark is referring to? Ms Manclark is at liberty to explain who else could be under discussion if not me. Perhaps amnesia is another illness Ms Manclark has, for on 20 November, she wrote to my lawyer to say she’d never heard of me:
“Message Received: Nov 20 2015, 02:04 PM
“Subject: Suzanne Kelly
“To whom.ot may concern,
“I have just received a letter saying that I have been slanderous towards your client. I do not know your client and I have never heard of the voice.
“My social media was hacked, and due to a disagreement with Kelly Cable, I had only been admin of the page for 2 weeks. I had never posted as admin on the page. My hacking was reported, and I closed down both Facebook and Twitter as people were getting spam mail. I have since reopened other accounts.
“I have been in touch with Kelly Cable to ask if she knows of your client, and apparently the police have been contacted due to a dispute between your client and her. I have again reiterated to Kelly Cable that I do not want her to contact me again.
“Again, I do not know your client, and I certainly would not get into a slanging match online for everyone to see.
“I have absolutely nothing to do with Northfield Animal Haven, and haven’t for a long time, and I do not wish to be associated with them in anyway.”
Perhaps having to clarify how she knew me in October but didn’t know me in November was one of those things that made her uncomfortable with appearing in front of the court.
I started this investigation after Aberdeen Voice published an innocuous press release with my byline calling for standards for animal rescues. I had heard of Northfield Animal Haven and its split personality when it comes to rescuing Animal A while selling Animal B at market, and its sans souci attitude about the future of the sold animal.
“I have explained quite a few times now as to how we work here. Yes we have a flock of 26 ewes in size by no means a commercial flock we also occasionally buy a couple of bull calves and raise them. This is our income and also goes towards feed for the rescue animals. No rescue animals are ever bred from or sent to slaughter.
“Yes my sign says all farm animals so therefore if we take in a farm animal then it is a rescue, not an animal that has been purchased then claimed to be rescued. The animals that are here all live together interact with each other but you also get the welfare benefits of grazing these animals together, ie worms, ticks, flys etc these counteract with the other animals.
“With having farm animals we are regulated by animal health and seerad because we have rescue animals here they also have to be included in the forms for vet medicines, feed, nitrogen deposits on the ground.”
After a bit of research I published an article, and was soon inundated with emails suggesting further areas for investigation about the farm and the Cables.
I discovered Kelly has a conviction for benefit fraud. I discovered how she eventually got out of repaying a £5,000 loan, at one point claiming her signature was a forgery (a forensic handwriting expert soon put paid to the claim).
I soon found myself the target of abuse in varying forms from the Cables and their administrator Fiona Manclark across social media. A year long battle to get Manclark to apologise and remove her damaging remarks also resulted in my being awarded £10,000 plus costs – an expense wholly within Manclark’s power to have avoided.
Manclark and Cable claim they were hacked. Their discussions also mention me as being the potential hacker – all very odd, as Manclark informed my lawyer she had only heard of me when he wrote to her, which was after I sent her one personal message asking her to remove the remarks. If you believe her, then it must have been the hacker who responded to my request across twitter, facebook and email and who said ‘so sue me’.
I take Fibromyalgia very seriously, and I am involved in a recognised SCIO which buys cannabis oil for peole with documented medical evidence of serious illness such as Fibro – as long as they are an adult in financial hardship who has done their own research and has made the decision to use legal CBD oil in conjunction with their medical practitioner.
No one of the three people in this SCIO take any money; in fact it is costing me money to run, but it is an important service and I am happy to offer it.
In the next article I will explain why it is important for everyone to be free from abusive lies, and how defending my reputation is particularly important concerning investigative journalism – Would people be coming to me with leads? Would publishers buy my work? Would readers believe me?
Fiona Manclark tried to stop me. Using legal means, I have now stopped her.
But the real concern here is for the welfare of animals – 170 animals seems a huge amount for a woman who, according to a number of posts including at least one by Manclark, is doing it on her own. Kelly Cable often says she is in dire need of funds, sometimes hinting that animals may be put to sleep if she doesn’t’ get money.
By several accounts, there are funds enough for cannabis. Assuming she has Fibro and is able to manage her large menagerie, she must be nearly super human.
I’ve worked on farms. I know how long it takes to look after – properly feeding, exercising, grooming, cleaning stalls for even a dozen horses can be. I do not see how anyone with a serious illness can safely, effectively look after such a huge number of animals. By her own words, there has been an accident with 17 horses and her father.
The welfare of the animals is paramount – but protecting the consumer from fraudulent appeals for money is important too. This is why I am researching and writing about Northfield Animal Haven, and now that my law suit – the only legal action taking place between NAH, Cable, Manclark and I is concluded, I am delighted to pick up where my legal action against Manclark made me stop.
In her defence, Kelly Cable states:
“Many children and adults have visited our place before the flooding and they could interact with all animals, learn about their welfare, learn about how to raise them free ranged instead of caged or locked in sheds. At the end of the day everything here is about the animals and educating people along the way, with animals like sheep or cows that isnt a normal everday animal to meet and interact with
“We stick to numbers on both the farm and the rescue and that way if fundraising doesnt raise the funds or preferably the goods like hay, straw, feed etc, we know with our numbers every animal will be fed and cared for. No donations will ever be used for running costs like electric, phone, wages, etc.
“Between the animals care and care of the ground, and their housing is all that donations are used for and always will be.
“there is no fraud or illegal conduct taken place at Northfield Animal Haven.”
If doubts remain about the truth of my claims, I hope my next two and final articles (unless further information comes to light) on NAH will convince readers beyond any doubt.
Footnote: Aberdeen Voice is grateful to Kelly Cable for her timely response to issues raised in this article. Fiona Manclark was also contacted and invited to comment. We still await her response.
Posted by Editor at 01:26 Tagged with: Animal, Cable, Cannabis, Defamation, Drugs, Farm, Fibromyalgia, Fiona Manclark, Haven, Illness, Law, Lawsuit, Medicinal, Northfield, Sanctuary
Suzanne Kelly Prevails In £10K Defamation Action
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One of my more volatile investigations published in Aberdeen Voice concerns Northfield Animal Haven. One of its former Facebook page administrators, Fiona Manclark, persistently posted defamatory comments about me across social media sites – and later claimed a hacker had got into her Twitter, Facebook and email accounts and made the remarks, not her.
Refusing to delete these comments – that I was an ‘alkie’ and a liar’ – and failing to submit any evidence to back these slanderous claims, Fiona Manclark dared me on several occasions to sue her. So eventually I did. And by default, I’ve prevailed. I won’t get the requested apology as it was a default situation. But the court has awarded damages to me.
Don’t feel too sorry for her: she was given numerous chances to delete the material and to apologise, all of which she refused to do over the months – but the upshot is she is to pay me £10,000 plus costs (currently being determined).
Here’s how things built up, what happened, and in a series of articles, I will lay bare the story behind the legal action, expose more concerns about NAH, and share my thoughts at having to stop writing about NAH or Manclark while the legal action was live. By Suzanne Kelly.
Fiona Manclark was an administrator for Northfield Animal Haven’s Facebook page. I was investigating NAH; this came about after a relatively innocuous article, ‘Reputable Animal Charities Initiative’ was published in early June 2015,
The piece stemmed from a press release; the Press & Journal ran the same story.
It was merely a call for standards in the animal rescue/welfare sector – a charity sector in which more than a few scams take place.
By this time, I had heard distant rumblings about Northfield Animal Haven and the family operating it.
The response to the article from Fiona Manclark’s email was this:
“I find it disgusting and absolutely shocking at how biased this paper is. I seen the remarks that your so called journalist made on one of the animal sanctuary sites, and it was disgusting. The woman that runs the sanctuary that is so very obviously being spoken about here, works very hard and does it all herself.
“Your (so called) journalist was invited up on more than one occasion. But she never turned up at all. So how she has the audacity to speak about sanctuaries this way, without knowing the facts is not only slander, but is very very poor journalism. I can only assume that she couldn’t find the time to leave the brewdog beer for long enough.
“I really really hope that some of the sanctuaries get together and sue this paper.”
The AV Editor, acting as Moderator wrote:
“[This comment is being published in full, in spite of obvious and valid reasons why some content contravenes publication criteria, as it has been published in full on a public facebook page. Therefore it appears futile to edit – Moderator]”
I had been asking Northfield (NAH) questions by this point – but they had NOT been mentioned in the article.
It was Fiona’s bringing NAH into the context of the article that sparked off a small flood of people making contact with me.
People with past dealings with NAH or its owner Kelly Cable and/or her father Eric shared concerns about animal welfare, how funds are managed, what goes on at the farm, Cable’s past conviction for benefit fraud, and other allegations. Almost all of the concerns came from people who were fearful of the Cables discovering the source’s identity.
Considering that Eric Cable chose to mention an AK47 on a Facebook post concerning my articles, I fully understand the fear that some of my sources have.
People chose to come to me with their evidence and anecdotes; if they had been convinced by the repetitive assertions I was a liar and an alcoholic, they well might have gone to other writers instead, or not come forward at all. Manclark/the alleged hacker – if unchallenged — would have damaged my reputation personally and professionally; this will be touched on in a future piece. I asked Manclark numerous times to take down her derogatory remarks. She – or this alleged hacker – refused.
What were some of the issues I found? Northfield Animal Haven claimed to ‘rescue all farm animals’ – it had for instance a sign showing a variety of farm animals, which declared it rescued all farm animals. In reality, while one arm of this family business purports to rescue farm animals; the other arm sells farm animals at market.
Some animal lovers were horrified when they discovered they were supporting a person who was involved in rescue but who was also involved in sending animals to market – which more often than not can mean sending them to slaughter.
Kelly Cable responded along the lines that ‘everyone’ knows that she also operates a ‘working farm’ and it is not her concern what happens to animals she sells (more on these issues in further articles in this series).
As documented in a previous Aberdeen Voice article, Kelly Cable responded:
“all of our supporters are aware of what we do with our sheep”
When questioned in detail about whether or not the sold animals are killed she replied:
“I don’t send them [sheep] for slaughter the people who buy them after me probably do but I don’t personally so what I stated was fact….”
Northfield was, shall we say, creative with fundraising. Using photos of Shetland ponies and emaciated cows, NAH claimed to need funds for urgent rescue and launched online fundraising appeals. When these images were put into Google search by Aberdeen Voice and other concerned parties, it emerged either the ponies depicted were happily homed and had no connection to Northfield – or in the case of the cows – were in… America.
Cable claimed to be rescuing them:
“They dumped them in a shed I’ve been feeding them since Friday”
“Thank you if I can raise about a £1000 at least that will get them here food for a few weeks and vet care”
The truth was just a bit different back in 2011 when Lycospca (based in Lycoming County, USA) wrote about the same animals:
“Thank goodness someone saw these poor animals and called us to check up on them. The owner had grain in the barn and they were ordered to get a round bale.”
If the casual observer had read Kelly’s messages about the cows, they’d have believed she had just seen them, and that they had little time in which to raise funds. As for the shetland ponies, owners of two of these were less than pleased to find their photos had been used for NAH fundraising without their permission.
There will be further analysis and revelations in the next articles.
Manclark’s comments – a timeline:
If Fiona Manclark had been hacked, the hack went on for six months. She would also appear not to have taken down any of the offensive comments the alleged hacker made over the months until late December when my legal action against her attempted smear on me was in progress.
The alleged hacker managed to get her Facebook, Twitter and email accounts and use them to communicate with people including her friends – none of which picked up on the claim Manclark made that she didn’t know me or AV, or that they weren’t speaking to Manclark but to a hacker.
Date Poster/Author Social Media/publication Comment
02/06/15 Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Aberdeen Voice – comments on article ‘Reputable Animal Charities Initiative’ – nb this story came as a press release and was also published by the Press & Journal. I find it disgusting and absolutely shocking at how biased this paper is. I seen the remarks that your so called journalist made on one of the animal sanctuary sites, and it was disgusting. The woman that runs the sanctuary that is so very obviously being spoken about here, works very hard and does it all herself. Your (so called) journalist was invited up on more than one occasion. But she never turned up at all. So how she has the audacity to speak about sanctuaries this way, without knowing the facts is not only slander, but is very very poor journalism. I can only assume that she couldn’t find the time to leave the brewdog beer for long enough.
I really really hope that some of the sanctuaries get together and sue this paper.** [This comment is being published in full, in spite of obvious and valid reasons why some content contravenes publication criteria, as it has been published in full on a public facebook page. Therefore it appears futile to edit – Moderator]
18/08/15 Suzanne Kelly Twitter Mummyalfi (Manclark’s Twitter account name) Further to my earlier tweet, I consider calling me a liar and an alcoholic to be libel. Remove your posts, apologise
04/09/15 Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Twitter SueKelly10 (Suzanne Kelly’s Twitter account name) So sue me. You are a liar and you are an alkie, so no, I will not apologise for telling people the truth.
05/09/15 (approx) Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Facebook, Northfield Animal Haven home page (Posting as Northfield Animal Haven) Fiona here. Suzanne Kelly who “writes” for the voice. She’s Sue Kelly on Twitter and is the biggest cretin I have ever come across. She is a liar, a keyboard warrior and an alkie. Dangerous combination. And for the record, it’s me (Fiona) that is saying all of this. Not on behalf of Northfield Animal Haven, or Kelly, just on what I’ve had to witness from this thing.
08/09/15 Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Aberdeen Voice – comments on article ‘Animal Shelter Operator Is A Smooth Operator’ Suzanne, please do take me to court. Your reputation means everything to you?
You haven’t even been to visit Kelly even though you have been invited many times.
And you have been seen coming out (or should I say falling out) of brewdog on many occasions. So until you remove your rubbish about Kelly, I will not be removing my truths about you.
08/09/15 Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Aberdeen Voice – comments on article ‘Animal Shelter Operator Is A Smooth Operator’ I can’t wait to hear from your solicitor. You have been seen on many occasions falling out of brewdog, so that’s not libel, that’s the truth.
19/12/15 Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Facebook, Suzanne Kelly’s home page (Fiona or the alleged hacker) sees a comment from a man she knows on my page and comments:
“… please tell me you don’t know this ahem person”
22/12/15 (approx Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) Voice message left for my solicitor Fiona Manclark (? hacker?) tells us to ‘go ahead and sue’ – Manclark later admits to making this call, but claims she was ill/stressed at the time.
Aberdeen Voice has also seen Facebook discussions between Ms Manclark and others in which Manclark mentions the threat of legal action from me, and complains I sent her a profusion of private messages.
The truth is that I sent one message to her, asking her to remove offensive comments; an Aberdeen Voice editor was on copy of the message. Fiona Manclark (or this mysterious hacker) replied refusing to retract the comments. None of the people in these discussions suspected that they were communicating with a hacker; none question Manclark’s assertion to the court that she’d only heard of me/Aberdeen Voice after hearing from my lawyer.
When someone is hacked, there is every chance that their email/social media provider will at the very least send a message of concern – login from an unusual site, unusual activity on the account, etc.
When items sent or posted from a hacker haven’t been deleted, then a hacking victim would see them in their outbox, on their home page, in their twitter feed, etc. – and know something was amiss, delete them and report a suspected hack. None of this seems to fit the pattern we are asked by Manclark to believe.
The hack allegedly went on from June through December – apparently without Manclark realising it was taking place. Sometimes the alleged hacker was able to respond very quickly (see Aberdeen Voice comments for instance).
Ms Manclark recently claimed to the court that she gave all of her passwords to Kelly Cable at Northfield Animal Haven: if there were a hack, and if the police had been asked to investigate by Manclark, I wonder where the trail would have led – to some mysterious hacker, or a computer closer to home?
Then again, should we take Manclark’s word there was a hacker over this period of time using three of her accounts?
Was there a mysterious hacker with a vendetta against me with regard to Northfield that took place for months – or was this all the work of Fiona Manclark?
Fiona Manclark refused my lawyer’s first request to remove the posts from social media and apologise publically for them. When she refused, we started the legal action against her. After months of waiting to see if she would get legal aid to fight the case, legal aid was denied, and a court date was set.
Manclark wrote a letter to the court rather than appearing before it in August. In her letter she sticks to the claim she had been hacked. She claims it was reported to the police, but she never supplied evidence to back this up such as a police incident number.
She refused to help me have the police investigate the hacking claim. I was a third party victim of the hack she claims to have suffered.
The police could have investigated it – only if Manclark had been willing to co-operate. My lawyer wanted her to go to the police with me to report it, and she refused on the grounds ‘she didn’t know me’. Well, the person using her accounts certainly knew me well enough – to respond by blocking me.
It would appear from the legal decision in my favour the courts might have at the very least had their doubts as to her claims.
Manclark had quite a bit to say in her written submission to the court, which Aberdeen Voice editors have now seen. This will be the subject of the next article.
It is my understanding now that the court’s decision is absolute. It is time for Ms Manclark – or the mysterious hacker – to think about making restitution to me. My thoughts on the defamation, the legal process, and Ms Manclark’s arguments (such as they are) will be one of the articles in this series.
Posted by Editor at 22:31 Tagged with: Animal, Defamation, Farm, Fiona Manclark, Haven, Law, Lawsuit, Northfield, Sanctuary
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Wednesday January 22nd, 2020 11:52PM
Posted 6:00AM on Thursday 14th November 2019 ( 2 months ago )
PASS Super Late Models slated for Saturday at Lanier
By Series PR
Lanier Raceplex will play host to the 2019 PASS Super Late Model Series stock car championship finale event this weekend. It will be the first time since 2012 that stock cars have competed at the track.
Photo: Lanier Raceplex/Twitter
For the first time in seven years, Asphalt Super Late Model racing is set to return to Lanier Raceplex this weekend.
The Braselton, Georgia 3/8-mile track, formerly known as Lanier Raceway and Lanier National Speedway, is slated to play host to the PASS Super Late Models on Friday and Saturday.
Throwing back to the original name of the speedway, the Lanier National 200 will pay $6,000 to win and $1,000 just to start the feature on Saturday, November 16. Along with the 200 lap contest, PASS National points leader Mike Hopkins will look to be crowned the 12th series champion.
Joining the PASS Super Late Models in action will be feature events for Legends Pros/Masters, Semi-Pros, and Young Lions, along with racing for Bandeleros.
Opened as a dirt track by Georgia Racing Hall of Famer and Gainesville, Georgia resident Bud Lunsford in 1982, the .375-mile speed plant hosted the World Of Outlaws Sprint Cars six times, with open wheel legends Steve Kinser and Sammy Swindell each taking the checkered flag twice. In 1987, Lanier National Speedway was paved and the late Darrell Brown of Alabama scored the win in the first big event there on pavement for the NASCAR Winston All-American Challenge Series.
From 1989-1992, Lanier hosted the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series with Ronald Cooper, Chuck Bown, David Green, and Bobby Labonte all taking wins. The track continued to host some of the biggest Super Late Model events in the country through the 1990s as short track pavement legends like Mike Garvey, Freddie Query, Billy Bigley, Jr., Wayne Willard, among others taking home wins at Lanier.
A new generation of drivers came up through the ranks at Lanier in the 2000s, including Chase Elliott, Bubba Pollard, Casey Roderick and Paul Kelley.
When PASS initially began sanctioning Super Late Model races in the south, Lanier was one of the first tracks to come on board to host an event. Georgia native Jason Hogan won the first PASS race there in 2006, while Maine’s Corey Williams took the checkered flag the most recent time PASS held a race at Lanier in 2007.
Now in its 12th season, Super Late series will bring drivers together from all over North America to compete next weekend at Lanier Raceplex. In addition to the grandstands being open, Lanier’s trackside parking will be available to fans for this event. The track was repaved and all infield buildings were torn down when the facility was transformed to host drifting events and Go-Kart racing for the public. All race cars will be pitted outside the track.
Joining earlier entrants like Gainesville, Georgia’s Shane Chastain and former PASS champions Derek Griffith and Tate Fogleman, Ben Ashline and Ryan Moore are entered, along with longtime fan favorite Randy Gentry.
Action begins at Lanier Raceplex on Friday, November 15 with practice for PASS Super Late Models and Legends car, with the main features slated for Saturday, November 16.
For more information, visit ProAllStarsSeries.com.
Associated Categories: Sports, NASCAR News, Other Motorsports
Associated Tags: motorsports, Auto Racing, Stock Car, Short Track, Asphalt, Lanier, Late Model, #GAdrivers
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NCAA team season with no sport parameter, Pages using CFB schedule with named parameters, Articles with hCards,
1975 Pacific-8 Conference football season
UCLA Bruins football seasons
Pac-12 Conference football champion seasons
Rose Bowl champion seasons
1975 in sports in California
1975 UCLA Bruins football team
1975 UCLA Bruins football
Pac-8 co-champion
Rose Bowl champion
Rose Bowl, W 23–10 vs. Ohio State
Pacific-8
9–2–1 (6–1 Pac-8)
Dick Vermeil (2nd season)
Rod Dowhower (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator
Lynn Stiles (2nd season)
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
1975 Pacific-8 football standings
#5 UCLA § 6 – 1 – 0 9 – 2 – 1
#14 California § 6 – 1 – 0 8 – 3 – 0
Stanford 5 – 2 – 0 6 – 4 – 1
Washington 5 – 2 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
#17 USC 3 – 4 – 0 8 – 4 – 0
Oregon 2 – 5 – 0 3 – 8 – 0
Oregon State 1 – 6 – 0 1 – 10 – 0
Washington State 0 – 7 – 0 3 – 8 – 0
§ – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
The 1975 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1975 NCAA Division I football season. Led by second-year head coach Dick Vermeil, the Bruins won their first Pacific-8 championship in a decade and were 8–2–1 in the regular season. On New Year's Day, UCLA upset previously undefeated and top-ranked Ohio State in the Rose Bowl and climbed to fifth in the final rankings.[1][2]
Regular season Edit
Coming off an injury-plagued 1974 season at 6–3–2, UCLA began the season ranked #16. A season-opening 37–21 win over Iowa State in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum saw them move up to twelfth;[3] this was followed by a 34–28 win over #10 Tennessee.[4] But they stumbled in a turnover-plagued 20–20 tie at Air Force;[5] second-ranked Ohio State traveled west and handed UCLA its first loss of the season, 41–20 on October 4.[6] After the game, head coach Woody Hayes prophetically told his team that they would be facing UCLA again in the Rose Bowl. UCLA was the only opponent to score more than 14 points in a game all season against Ohio State, and they did it twice.
The Ohio State loss dropped the Bruins out of the top 20, but they returned to #13 after wins over Stanford,[7] Washington State,[8][9] and a key win over California. But another loss, this time to Washington 17–13, dropped them back out of the top 20 and resulted in a five-way tie at the top of the Pac-8 between UCLA, California, Stanford, USC, and Washington.[10]
After a pair of wins over the Oregon schools,[11][12] the Bruins went into their season-ending game against rival USC needing a win to go to the Rose Bowl; a loss or tie would send California to Pasadena. Despite fumbling 11 times and losing 8, UCLA beat the Trojans 25–22.[13] UCLA ended up tied with California for the Pac-8 championship, but advanced to the Rose Bowl on the strength of their 28–14 win over the Golden Bears.[14] The Bruins went into the Rose Bowl ranked #11. Ironically, the 1975 USC-UCLA game was legendary coach John McKay and Vermeil's final game at the Coliseum.
It was the only bowl appearance for Vermeil in his two seasons at UCLA; a month later he left for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.[15]
September 13 8:05 pm Iowa State* No. 16
Los Angeles, CA [3]
W 37–21 31,260
September 20 12:50 pm No. 10 Tennessee* No. 12
September 27 2:30 pm at Air Force* No. 10
Falcon Stadium
Colorado Springs, CO [5]
T 20–20 33,390
October 4 6:00 pm No. 2 Ohio State* No. 13
ABC L 20–41 55,482
October 11 1:30 pm at Stanford
Stanford Stadium
Stanford, CA [7]
October 18 1:30 pm at Washington State No. 18
Joe Albi Stadium
Spokane, WA [8][9]
October 25 3:00 pm California No. 19
November 1 1:30 pm Washington No. 13
Los Angeles, CA [10]
L 13–17 29,158
November 8 1:30 pm at Oregon
Autzen Stadium
Eugene, OR [11]
November 15 1:30 pm Oregon State No. 19
W 31–9 30,203
November 28 5:00 pm vs. USC No. 14
Los Angeles, CA [13] (Victory Bell)
ABC W 25–22 80,927
January 1, 1976 2:00 pm vs. No. 1 Ohio State* No. 11
Pasadena, CA [1] (Rose Bowl)
NBC W 23–10 105,464
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
All times are in Pacific time
Game summaries Edit
Ohio State Edit
UCLA 7 0 7 6 20
Ohio State 7 21 10 3 41
See also: 1975 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
1st quarter scoring: UCLA – James Sarpy 13-yard pass from John Sciarra (Brett White kick); OSU – Greene 2-yard run (Klaban kick)
2nd quarter scoring: OSU – Johnson 3-yard run (Klaban kick); OSU – Johnson 2-yard run (Klaban kick); OSU – Greene 17-yard run (Klaban kick)
3rd quarter scoring: OSU – A. Griffin 17-yard run (Klaban kick); OSU – Klaban 34-yard field goal; UCLA – Eddie Ayers 2-yard run (White kick)
4th quarter scoring: UCLA – Ayers 1-yard run (kick failed); OSU – Klaban 42-yard field goal
Ohio State (Rose Bowl) Edit
UCLA 0 0 16 7 23
Ohio State 3 0 0 7 10
See also: 1976 Rose Bowl
1st quarter scoring: Ohio State – Tom Klaban 42-yard field goal
2nd quarter scoring: No score
3rd quarter scoring: UCLA – Brett White 33-yard field goal; UCLA – Wally Henry 16-yard pass from John Sciarra (White kick failed); UCLA – Henry 67-yard pass from Sciarra (White kick)
4th quarter scoring: Ohio State – Pete Johnson 3-yard run (Klaban kick); UCLA – Wendell Tyler 54-yard run (White kick)
Players and coaches Edit
1975 UCLA Bruins football team roster
T 73 McKinnely, PhilPhil McKinnely 7.0 !Sr
WR Reece, SevernSevern Reece 3.0 !So
QB 15 Sciarra, JohnJohn Sciarra 7.0 !Sr
LB 40 Tuiasosopo, ManuManu Tuiasosopo 1.0 !Fr
Dick Vermeil
Coordinators/assistant coaches
(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible
34 returning lettermen from Coach Dick Vermeil's first team that was 6–3–2 in 1974.[16]
Offense Edit
89 Norm Andersen, SE
70 Gus Coppens LT
73 Phil McKinnely, LG
62 Mitch Kahn, C
51 Randy Cross, RG
75 Jack DeMartinis, RT
7 Rick Walker, TE
15 John Sciarra QB
22 Wendell Tyler, LHB
30 Eddie Ayers, RHB
8 Wally Henry, FL
Defense Edit
68 Tim Tennigkeit, LT
56 Terry Tautolo, ILB
59 Pete Pele, NG
Kelly Stroich, ILB
90 Bob Crawford, RT
83 Dale Curry, OLB
87 Raymond Burks, OLB
29 Barney Person, LCB
21 Oscar Edwards, RCB
Matt Fahl, S
88 Pat Schmidt, S
Specialists Edit
34 Brett White, PK
6 John Sullivan, P
Coaches Edit
Dick Vermeil, head coach
Lynn Stiles, assistant head coach/defensive coordinator
Jim Criner, linebackers/tight ends
Terry Donahue, offensive line
Rod Dowhower, offensive coordinator/quarterbacks/wide receivers
Jerry Long, offensive line/defensive line
Billie Matthews, running backs
Bill McPherson, defensive line
Carl Peterson, wide receivers/tight ends
Dick Tomey, defensive backs
Mike Flores, graduate assistant
Awards and honors Edit
John Sciarra, QB, All-Conference, NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship, ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All America, National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Scholarship, NCAA Top Eight Award, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (2014)
Randy Cross, G, All-Conference, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (2010)
Fulton Kuykendall, LB, All-Conference
Head coach Dick Vermeil will be inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2014.[17]
Barney Person, CB, Lead nation & UCLA in interceptions, made key Rose Bowl interception
1975 team players in the NFL Edit
The following players were claimed in the 1975 NFL Draft.
Player Position Round Pick NFL club
Fulton Kuykendall Linebacker 6 132 Atlanta Falcons
Eugene Clark Offensive Guard 9 222 Pittsburgh Steelers
Art Kuehn Center 15 384 Washington Redskins
Myke Horton Offensive Tackle 17 428 New England Patriots
Cliff Frazier Defensive Tackle 2 41 Kansas City Chiefs
Randy Cross Center 2 42 San Francisco 49ers
John Sciarra Defensive Back 4 103 Chicago Bears
Phil McKinnely Tackle 9 246 Atlanta Falcons
Norman Andersen Wide Receiver 11 299 Chicago Bears
Terry Tautolo Linebacker 13 353 Philadelphia Eagles
Brett White Punter 15 412 Philadelphia Eagles
Dale Curry Linebacker 15 430 Dallas Cowboys
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Wendell Tyler Running Back 3 79 Los Angeles Rams
Rick Walker Tight End 4 85 Cincinnati Bengals
Ray Burks Linebacker 12 318 Kansas City Chiefs
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↑ UCLA 1975 Press Guide, Compiled by UCLA Athletic News Bureau, Vic Kelley, Manager
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Various startup founders and established brands come to us for mobile app consultation. They frame several questions regarding what features and technologies to introduce to their app idea, what checklist to consider for optimizing the application, how to promote their app, etc. But, there are only a few who ask how often they should update their app.
Why? Because most of them are unaware of the fact that mobile app development lifecycle does not end at launching the application or bringing eyeballs to their platform. They are still alien to the fact that updating an app can improve their app visibility and add more profits to their app plan.
For the same reason, I have decided to write this article as a mini guide – disclosing why, when and how to update your mobile app so that you could reap better outcomes in the mobile industry and enjoy the popularity like that of Facebook, TikTok and SnapChat. Later, we will look at how much does it cost to update an app.
So, without making ado, let’s begin with the first section of the article, i.e, why to update your app.
Why to Update a Mobile App?
The answer to this question lies in the fact that the second you enter the Mobile App Market, you become a part of a whirlwind of select factors that are constantly moving and getting bigger than the day before.
There are so many things that change when your app enters the market, such as:-
New Devices are Released
New Android and iOS versions come up
Programming Languages changed
The users’ demands changed
Security Standards are continuously updated
A change in these factors brings a major difference in your app visibility in the marketplace, making it necessary for you to look into the app update process.
Along with, various other factors come into play to incite the feeling that it’s the right time to update your mobile app, such as:-
1. Bug Fix
No matter how carefully you developed your app, a bug free application is a myth. There will be times when you will find a customer review saying ‘my app is acting weird’ or ‘it’s consuming a lot of battery juice’. It’s a normal occurrence, which would require an effort into the process of bug fixing and maintenance app update.
2. Introduction of New Features
The consumer base in your industry will start demanding newer, faster, and different value offering. To be in the competition, you will have to adhere to them before your competitors do.
This situation again prompt you to look into the right strategy to plan your app updates.
3. Launch of New Configuration Devices
The introduction of new mobile devices also come under the category of reasons for app updates. This is because when a new device enters the market, it comes up with some significant change in the look and feel of the device. This makes it difficult for your application to fit well and be equally in sync with all the versions, as we have seen in our earlier blog, titled: The X Factor: What is the New iPhone X doing to Your Current App Design. And thus, create the necessity to update your application accordingly.
4. Change in Business Strategy
Many times, the mobile app developers realize that they are not getting as much as traction from the target audience as recorded earlier. This makes them ponder upon the business strategy they are following and therefore, look forward to the process to make app updates.
5. Change in App Store Guidelines
Another factor that creates the necessity to invest your time and effort into app update cycle is the change in app store guidelines.
The Apple App Store and Google Play Store keep on changing their app submission guidelines from time to time. These changes, many times, bring a drastic impact on the future of your mobile application. For example, as per the Google Play Store’s updated policy, any app operating on Android 7.0 or less won’t be able to sustain in the market and enjoy its perks. This implies the app developers have to update these applications to make them ‘Android 8.0’ ready and thus, remain in the market.
Now that you know why it becomes imperative to update an app on the stores, let’s now how often should you update your app and the technicalities of it.
How to Update your App – The Technicalities
When talking about app update, the steps to follow varies with the platform considered. So, here in this section, we will dig out how to update an Android app and how to update an iOS application individually – beginning with the former one.
How to Update an App on Android
When you have designed the mobile application as per the changes, you need to follow these steps for rolling out the update on Google Play Store:-
1. Increment the Version
When you upload an app in play store, you are assigned a version number. So, the best practice for app updates in the case of Android is to change this version number in the ‘App Info’ section of the Andromo setting. Once you have updated the version there, create the app again and download its new APK file.
2. Upload the new APK
Once the new version is ready with you, sign in to the Google Play Developer Console and select your application from the list, then select APK tab there. Once there, click on ‘Upload new APK to Production’ button. You can then either save the file or send it over for publishing; reaching to the next step of the process to make app updates.
3. Update the App Description
Once you have published the new version, you need to inform the users of the change. For this, you can put in what changed data in the ‘Recent Changes’ tab of your description section.
Once you have updated the new version, it takes around 24 hours to make it visible to the users.
How to Update an App on iPhone
To update your iOS mobile application, you need to look into these steps:-
Log in to iTunes Connect
Click on My Apps
Next, click on ‘+Version’ on the left panel
In New Version box, put in the new version number and click on ‘Create’
Once you have put in all the information about the Version in the iTunes App, it’s time to upload the build.
Use either Xcode or Application Loader to upload the new version of the app
Once uploaded, the new version will now get prepared to submission. If you have gone through it, press ‘Submit for Review’.
Once uploaded, it takes maximum 30 days for the update to show to the users.
With this attended to, let’s turn towards the last section of the article, i.e. how often should you
update your app.
How Often Should You Update Your App?
As depicted from the above figure, every mobile application development company has a different answer to what is the best time to update your app. While some keep on updating their application in fixed schedule, other turn towards the process only when they are introducing a new feature or targeting a market. There is no concrete answer to this question.
Now while this gives a hint of when you can update your app, this also adds to the risk. As per the top mobile application development companies, the app update process comes with a ripple effect which is not always in your favor. There are situations when rolling out an update can bring more bugs and issues in your application or reset the existing review and rating – compelling you to restart the journey from the first day of app launch.
Knowing this infamous ripple effect, it is wise to take a deeper look into the market and check how do other companies plan for an app update.
So, let’s see:
Appbot analyzed the releases of 200 apps on the App Store and divided them in Paid, Free, and Grossing categories to get their Update picture.
Here’s what they found out.
The majority of Top Free Apps were updated at least once in the time span of 18 days and there were at least 25 updates in 75% of the free apps in both the stores, combined.
While this was for the free apps, the paid ones showed a different picture.
The paid apps on an average took 89 days break between two app updates and there were just 1 to 2 app updates in a year.
So how often should you update your app? What is the best time to update your app?
It’s safe to say that you should update your app as often as possible. Here, ‘As often as possible’ means when you have the resources, when there is a new technology in the industry, and when your competition has introduced a feature that the world is loving.
Now that we have discussed the implications of when to plan your app updates in great details and you have gotten an idea of how frequently we are supposed to make updates in the current application, let’s move on to the Costing part of the app maintenance.
How much does it cost to update an App?
Just like what we have seen in the case of calculating the cost to make an app from scratch, the cost to update an application also depend on various factors, including:-
1. Hosting Costs
The backend of your app would probably be on some third party cloud server such as Microsoft Azure or AWS hosting site. Your hosting cost alone can reach over hundreds or thousands of dollars every month. The hosting cost estimate is also directly proportional to the involvement of human resources invested in creation and maintenance of the backend.
2. Crash Analytics and Monitoring
In order to plan your app updates and execute them timely, you will need a monitoring tool to analyze the app usage patterns. While most of the crash analytics and monitoring are available free of cost, you will need to invest in people who would be responsible for extracting data for gaining business insights.
3. Play Store Optimization and App Store Optimization
After you make app updates, you will need to update the app description in the stores, for which you might need to look into a comprehensive guide on Play Store Optimization or have guidance from someone who knows how to find the right keywords, design new screenshots and videos, and write the new content.
With this, we have covered everything that will help you to know when and how often should you update your app so as to take the best advantages of the process without burning a hole in your pocket.
Hope you find this helpful with your app updates needs.
Avinash Sharma
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6 Keys to Selecting a World-Class Teleradiology Provider
By Mark Palacio
A shortened version of this article appeared in Applied Radiology 2009;38,12:22-23.
The worst-case scenario in personal computing technical support is having your call routed to some far-off call center in Calcutta, or maybe Bombay, and having all of your queries met with scripted responses and guarantees that “power cycling” your device (a fancy term for shutting it off and turning it on) will solve your problem. Situations like this leave the caller wishing she could just get someone on the phone who she could communicate with instantly. Fact is, many radiology groups are letting this type of activity transpire with their referring physicians while they are off counting sheep.
Estimates today place the number of radiology groups using some form of third-party teleradiology service at about 70%. Clearly, U.S. radiologists place a high value on lifestyle and the quality of that lifestyle. These days, a nighttime-reading solution is close to a business necessity in order to recruit radiologists. With more than 100 companies offering such services, how do you ensure that your referrings don’t come to expect a lower-quality read just because a scan was sent at 11:13 p.m.?
A teleradiology service must be considered carefully and not just evaluated on a cost-per-procedure scale. The service should be viewed as a seamless extension of the practice. Referring physicians should be able to pick up the phone and contact the radiologist who read the study at 2 a.m. the same way they can at 2 p.m.
This article will review 6 main criteria that should be evaluated when negotiating a service level agreement (SLA) for new or replacement teleradiology services. The primary selection criteria for any teleradiology provider should be:
Workflow (e.g., who reads the images and who answers the phone?)
Error rate and internal quality assurance.
JCAHO accreditation.
Value-added services (e.g., final reads, subspecialty reads and billing).
Contract terms and blackout dates.
Measures of satisfaction.
By carefully evaluating the services that other teleradiology providers bring to the table, you may realize it’s time to power cycle your old provider.
Differentiating providers
Part of the challenge to selecting a teleradiology vendor is looking past the concept of these services as mere commodities. It is true that in many cases a practice can come to the negotiating table with price as the foremost concern but simply choosing the lowest-cost provider could be sacrificing numerous value-added features.
With increasing competition, there has been downward pressure on pricing exhibited in the past several years. The competition has directly affected quality and the reduced cost is attributable to more efficient technology. Given this climate, a radiology group seeking to contract with a teleradiology provider would be able to secure high-quality reads from board-certified or fellowship-trained radiologists at extremely competitive prices. Commoditization becomes an issue, however, when the price competition forces these services to be moved off shore. On a level playing field, such that teleradiology salaries are commensurate with regular, on-site radiology salaries across the United States, the cost structure for teleradiology providers will be the same for economies of scale and efficiency. When the clinical process is moved to off-shore radiology, for preliminary reads and nongovernment payor final reports, the playing field gets less level. Further, the consumer trades the accountability of having a domestic teleradiology provider as well as having the ability to regulate and check up on that provider.
“With so many players in this space, there is significant pricing pressure,” said Rob Kill, Chairman and CEO of Virtual Radiologic Corp., Eden Prairie, MN. “While many providers can compete on price, not all of them have established reputations when it comes to quality of care and service excellence. Undoubtedly we are living in a cost-focused environment, but ultimately we are talking about patient care and you can’t make decisions on patient care based only on price.”
As the pricing structures and technology have matured, so have the services and the perceived value of a teleradiology provider.
“The initial push in teleradiology was to improve the quality of life, but now our customers are looking at us as partners in their practice,” said Timothy Myers, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Nighthawk Radiology Services, Scottsdale, AZ. “For instance, perhaps there is a small radiology group reading for a hospital and a new orthopedic surgeon moves into town and starts sending more hands, knees and toes. Suddenly the MRI volume doubles. We are moving aggressively into being able to cover subspecialty musculoskeletal and neuroradiology, and there are some areas of the country where we have had customers tell us that it is simply harder to hire good subspecialists.”
In such situations, the current imaging volume may not justify an entire FTE but in order to keep the business, the practice would still need a radiologist to cover those studies. A teleradiology provider with subspecialty services could take that workload and the practice could hire an FTE radiologist when the workload justifies it. Many radiology groups are looking to teleradiology providers, especially those that can offer subspecialty reads, as a way to alleviate workforce shortages from retirements or staffing changes.
“Instead of looking to replace 1 FTE radiologist, a group may come to us to add .75 FTE of subspecialty, fellowship-trained musculoskeletal or neuroradiology reading so they can maintain a similar level of service without incurring the full cost of hiring a new employee,” said Mark Stevens, Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Teleradiology, Atlanta, GA.
Quality assurance (QA) and final reads
Another point to consider is how the teleradiology provider handles discrepancies. In this regard, it helps to understand the provider’s quality assurance (QA) processes. Some vendors have dedicated QA committees while others will provide more ad hoc QA reviews. Additionally, some vendors will overread a certain percentage of studies in an effort to continually control quality.
“A lot of companies simply do not have the manpower to put a QA program into effect,” said Dr. Myers. “We perform random reviews of cases. In many other cases radiologists are sequestered from the issue of quality. Our radiologists are not shielded from the need to provide high-quality reads. We look at it from a group perspective. If an on-site radiologist has a consistently bad quality, his or her income will reflect that. Our radiologists similarly have their income linked to the quality of their interpretation. We read more than 9000 cases per night and our discrepancy rate is 0.3%.”
Generally, the model in teleradiology had been to provide preliminary reads overnight and then to perform final reads with on-site radiologists in the morning. As technology has increasingly improved, it is now possible to perform final reads at night and eliminate the case backlog the following morning. This shift has been echoed by government payors as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are beginning to consider preliminary reading as an inherently inefficient process. CMS is also evaluating how it reimburses for radiology and the agency will not reimburse for studies that are read in foreign countries; the rationale is that billing is done for the radiologist’s location and not the patient’s location. So it is also important to ensure that if the teleradiology provider is making claims about final billing that it has a CMS-compliant billing processes in place.
Finally, it is important that the provider can deliver on the technical integration of teleradiology. Specifically, the provider must have a way to get the report back into the hospital’s radiology information system (RIS) or hospital information system (HIS).
The same way that hospitals and departments maintain Joint Commission accreditation by demonstrating commitments to operational efficiency and safety, so too must teleradiology companies maintain a high-level of efficiency and now they can also obtain Joint Commission recognition for their efforts. A number of vendors now carry Joint Commission accreditation and this step ensures a consistently high-level of operational efficiency.
“I think the pursuit and maintenance of this accreditation holds us to a higher standard,” said Stevens, of U.S. Teleradiology. “We have an FTE who is solely tasked with ensuring we are Joint Commission compliant and up to date in all of our processes, whether it be a single event or an environment-of-care issue, this employee is on top of our policy and processes on a daily basis.”
Workflow and turnaround time
An additional factor to consider is how quickly the provider turns around images and how they route images to their radiologists. Some providers can guarantee a consistent turnaround time <30 minutes. However, longer turnaround times for nonemergent cases could help a facility better tailor an SLA to its particular budgetary needs.
“When competing for business it almost always comes down to a combination of price, turnaround time, availability and a certain QA level,” said Howard Reis, Director of Business Development at Imaging on Call, Poughkeepsie, NY. “We see that a 30-minute turnaround time has been fairly standard but the turnaround number can change as you go from preliminary reads to finals. However, nonemergent cases can be read at a slower turnaround time, perhaps 2 hours, and these specifics could be built into the SLA.”
It is also important discern how images are routed to radiologists. Some providers have elaborate routing schemes and employ radiologists who read in centralized locations vs. radiologists who read from home offices. The benefits here are that workflow coordinators can route calls so that the radiologist who interpreted the study, or another qualified radiologist, is always available to discuss results with referring physicians. In some business models these workflow coordinators also do initial review of the studies to ensure that they are complete and that the study finds its way to the proper physician.
“At U.S. Teleradiology, our radiologists read out of teleradiology centers that are supported by radiologist assistants,” said Stevens. “We can redeploy images to one of several such off-site centers that are on separate electrical circuits or fiber rings. So if there is a widespread event, we are not relying on a home-based reading model. We see more productivity this way and attribute this to their work ethic and the infrastructure that we put in place in our reading centers. We also have a live person to answer the phone and we have a radiologist available to take calls 24/7. So the referring physicians get the same level of service regardless of what time they choose to contact radiology.”
Contract terms and coverage
Several smaller teleradiology service providers require minimum weekly reading volumes. Typically the reasons for these minimums stem from the high cost to initialize service, especially when a radiology group has low night time reading volumes, said Bill Franz, Director of Business Development at NightShift Radiology, Montara, CA, radiology groups should be aware that some vendors will also charge for credentialing in order to offset the startup and administrative costs.
Most large teleradiology groups have done away with a contractual clause for a guaranteed minimum amount of cases per week or month, or with the practice of charging exorbitant credentialing fees. Some companies also provide a termination-without-cause period and these can fluctuate from 60 to 90 days or longer. The maturation of Web technology has conferred the ability to offer these flexible contract terms. In the early 2000s there was significantly more infrastructure investment to bring new groups online in a teleradiology model. Now the bandwidth has improved, and better PACS/Web integration has made it easier to retrieve images and information making it more cost-effective to add redundant systems and components (see sidebar below).
In general, radiology groups should continually evaluate the level of service they receive from their teleradiology provider. In such a competitive market, a significant portion of new business comes from competitive conversions. “We see more of our clients coming to us from previous teleradiology providers where they have been dissatisfied with the service level,” said Joe Moock, Chief Operations Officer of StatRad, San Diego, CA.
In some cases, the turbulent economy has also forced groups to reduce their number of covered hours. “We haven’t seen any groups bring services in house completely but we have seen a lot of large groups read until later in the evening,” said Moock. “We have seen some groups go from starting services at 5 or 6 p.m. to now 10 or 11 p.m. Some of the reasons for the switch are either to provide more income opportunities for group radiologists who are interested in ‘moonlighting’ or to cut costs for the group as whole.”
If looking to change the covered hours, it is important to ensure that the teleradiology provider has an appropriate level of coverage for the busier evening hours.
The teleradiology market is becoming a practice necessity across the country. With radiologists, in general, at a premium, the old contention that teleradiology services help foster a better quality of life, and thus happier and more productive radiologists, cannot be overlooked.
Selecting the right teleradiology services provider can ensure that referring physicians, and ultimately patients, receive a similarly high quality of care no matter what time they present to a hospital.
Historically, teleradiology companies have stood at the forefront of digital image delivery. These groups were some of the first to devise solutions to distribute medical images outside of the traditional healthcare chain and today many lessons can be learned from these companies as they continually develop and innovate tomorrow’s software solutions.
As PACS increasingly moved into a Web-based delivery of images, the times for teleradiology looked bleak. There was a real need to be able to manipulate and move images and get them to the radiologist, especially in environments where bandwidth is a challenge. It is not a simple matter of download speed either. Many PACS do not maintain connections below a certain bandwidth. As a solution, Voyager Imaging (Victoria, Australia) has implemented a pre-emptive download methodology, whereby the full-resolution diagnostic studies are downloaded in the background while the radiologist is reading. The technology has been optimized for low-bandwidth settings.
“Preemptive downloading fills the gap that occurs when images cannot be delivered via high-speed lines,” said Lance P. Thomas, Business Manager, Voyager Imaging Victoria, Australia. “Downloading multiple studies or high-resolution, multislice CT data sets creates an inherent latency that adds up to lost time in the radiologist’s workday. Finding solutions to this workflow challenge is of paramount importance.”
Besides delivering images, the other significant cost to teleradiology providers had been integrating new practices. With many disparate PACS solutions, the cost to integrate new practices had driven up the overall cost of teleradiology services in the past. Companies like Orion Health, Santa Monica, CA, now offer solutions to ease the integration and thus bring down the cost of teleradiology services.
Particularly, the Rhapsody Engine from Orion Health drives the technology behind such teleradiology players as Nighthawk and Virtual Radiologic Corp.
“The integration engine has been used in the radiology market for about 12 years,” said Art Ramos, Rhapsody Service Manager. “Rhapsody is a vertical interface engine that allows multiple disparate PACS or other hospital information systems to interoperate in a teleradiology workflow so that images and reports are properly routed among physicians. So when companies like Nighthawk or VRC acquire new business the hospital is integrated to their services via the Rhapsody tools. Some of the types of integrated data include HL7communications, DICOM images or any other structured data format.”
According to Ramos, the Rhapsody Engine is applicable to 15-bed hospitals or larger integrated delivery networks with 1,500 beds or more. Essentially, the solution manages, routes, translates and transports all of your data. As care networks expand across the country radiologists will see workflow benefits that are driven by tools like pre-emptive downloading and integration engines. The end result will be simplified workflow and a seamless delivery of images and information across a healthcare enterprise.
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Buddy Explores The Tyrannosaurs/Rainy Day Fight
Buddy, an adopted T. rex, wishes he knew more about his T. rex ancestors. So, Dad takes him and Tiny on the Dinosaur Train back to the early Cretaceous, to visit an ancestor: an earlier version of Tyrannosaurus rex called Raptorex. Rodney Raptorex is a kid who won't grow up to be as big as Buddy will, but the two boys find that they not only have a lot of differences, they have a lot in common, too. The kids are stuck cooped up in the nest for a long, rainy spell which leads to them fighting. Mom tells them that the rain has stopped enough that they can leave the nest but she gives them an assignment: to go find their own 'calm space,' where they can calm down enough to get along with each other again. It works - each kid finds something in nature that helps him or her to calm down and be friends again.
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Vicks‘s review (Delhi , India)
First books are always the tough ones and in the merciless world of publishing it can take a toll on the writers, yet our author took ample amount of time out of his busy schedule working for the navy and left no stone unturned to nurture this book, bringing back to life 18th century Hindustan.
The first question any Indian would ask why history?? haven’t we read in school enough already? yet ask anyone what happened to India after the death of Aurangzeb and they will rush towards British dominance; the 18th century nothing but a blur of events. Yet this century was important as we move through the pages of Sahyadris to Hindukush.
Hindustan produced many brave warriors who defended their lands from foreign forces, maratha cheiftains being some of them were crucial in building our national identity; this however was not free of its flaws as it often revolved around religion and caste, but maratha laws which dared to make a brahmin peshwa and a shepherd caste Holkar a pillar of its strength with many muslim fighters under their belt, were the reason for its success.
Our author correctly points out that 18th century India belonged to Marathas but he is no pushover, he lays out his lessons exactly the way history should be taught and read. The Mughal,Maratha and Afgan identities colliding in Hindustan and clever strategies by Peshwas and Vazirs who became more important than kings make the whole affair a cocktail of surprising facts. This is a lesser known part of history every Hindustani must know.
You will laugh at the way mughals made a mockery of themselves, be proud of maratha chiefs who showed extreme unity, learn about the artillery which has always been a problem for India, and most importantly look wide eyed at Afgan unity under Ahmed shah abdali, the progress of which proved costly for both the big powers clearing the way for the British in the long run.
The author leaves only a few parts of Hindustan untouched 70% of which came under direct and indirect maratha rule. Being a Delhiite my entire life i was surprised at the way the ancient city is described, every corner of the red fort visualized with perfection, and incidents in my city i never knew happened so much so that i found myself researching about history.
The book is a massive success for a first, it accomplishes what very few history books do, provide inspiration and hard lessons for the present and future; yet it is a pity that the publisher almost makes a mockery of it with repeated paragraphs and countless spelling mistakes, the bland cover of the book doesn’t help it either.
Finishing this great piece of writing i just hope Aneesh writes many more like these. He has the power to make school history book publishers bankrupt.
original review link : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/630895743?book_show_action=false&page=1
Swapnil Hasabnis
Aneesh in this Historical Novel has covered and presented history of the Glorious period(Neglected by most researchers as they concentrate only on Panipat war) in Maratha Empire in a beautiful way.This book has been written with lot of research and studies.Politics within the Marathas, Politics of India during that period has been covered beautifully. This book covers pre Panipat period.Language used is simple and clear.Book has covered all the powers that were present in India.A empire that extended from Cuttack to Attock deserves many such inspiring books.Aneesh through this book has attempted to open the eyes of a generation who have been kept away from this glorious period of Indian history which showed the fight back of the Marathas.A must historical novel to be kept by lovers of History, students of politics and others.Well done Aneesh..
Nakul Gote
It’s evident that Aneesh has put in a lot of efforts into researching the topic. Also, most historical novels are either too rigidly structured, thus inducing boredom, or are too flowery which distracts one from the main subject. This novel has managed to dodge both which is a testament not just to Aneesh’s command over the language, but also to his understanding of History as a subject.
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Everything You Need To Know About Liverpool FC
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Wednesday night is a crucial moment for die-hard Liverpool FC fans since this team will be competing With Everton to see who will win the title. Actually, Liverpool FC will be hosting Everton in the premier league. The game is set to start at Anfield the same spot where Everton lost to Liverpool in the last season courtesy of Divock Origi`s incredible 90th-minute goal. The starting time will be at 8:15 pm GMT. This highly anticipated football matches otherwise referred to as te Merseyside derby is between these two prominent English clubs all originating from Liverpool, Merseyside.
Liverpool FC was first founded back in 1892. This football club has recorded several success stories in different football matches. Liverpool FC has won many European and domestic trophies, therefore, boasts of incredible performance record. This club is a legendary worldwide as far as sports are concerned. With more than two hundred supporter teams in around 50 countries, then it’s obvious that Liverpool FC has made a great impact.
What are the chances for Liverpool in Wednesday`s Match?
In a few hours from now, the attention of the world will be on Liverpool and Everton as they compete against one another in a historic Merseyside derby. Though Liverpool has not been as tough as the previous years, still there is a high probability that they will take the title home. In fact, since 2010, Liverpool has never lost any match to Everton. Wednesday`s match might just be business as usual for Liverpool players. You can get lucky, if only you place a bet in favour of Liverpool FC.
What Jordan Henderson has to say on the match?
Just in case you forgot, Jordan Brian Henderson is one of the most prominent people in Liverpool club. He is indeed the premier league club captain. His opinion on the anticipated match reflects the mind of the players in the club. According to him, Liverpool is bound to win only that he doesn’t underrate Everton since he has seen what they are capable of during previous 13 encounters. He knows that these guys are giants in the sports world.
However, he maintains that it will be a wonderful game. It’s indeed a derby, a great derby which will be exciting and full of emotions. To the teams, this game is a huge one and they can’t wait to take part in it. During the derby, media will be involved and some little publicity regarding the game. However, to Liverpool, nothing seems unusual and their main focus is grabbing the title. As, a result, they are prepared to give nothing but the best.
Why Liverpool FC is said to be “Sports biggest Success story”
What would you call a club that started in despair, poor management and the terrible loss to their rivals taking 19th position in the table? At first, the glory of Liverpool FC was slowly fading until the dim light unpredictably became blazing flames, therefore, roasting their rivals alive. After the Balon d`Or awards last night, this team managed to have four players in the top 10 list of best players globally. Today, it’s the club for great players and it’s no longer acting as a bridge to prominent clubs as before. That said, let’s sit back and watch the two top-flight players’ engage in a fierce match to take the top sport’s title.
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Chateau-Fort-Liberia and the ‘Affaire des Poisons
Built in 1681 by Vauban, and linked to the town of Villefranche de Conflent by ’les milles marches’, Château Fort Libéria is today still in excellent condition, and boasts a museum of caving and archeology, along with all of its original features.
A shuttle takes you up to the chateau from Villefranche de Conflent – or if you are feeling fit, you can access the chateau on foot via the underground tunnel known as the ’milles marches (1000 steps!) Give yourself at least 20 minutes for this climb!
As a result of the murder scandal known as the ‘affaire des poisons’ (poison affair) which rocked France during the 17th century, several infamous lady poisoners were chained up in the ’prison des dames’ of the chateau Fort Liberia.
Following the trial of the *Marquise de Brinvilliers, who had conspired to poison her father and brothers in order to inherit their estates, there was paranoia amongst the nobility, due also to a number of other mysterious deaths. Louis XIV himself become alarmed and had his servants taste all his food before eating. There followed a period of hysterical pursuit of murder suspects, during which a number of prominent people were implicated and sentenced for poisoning and witchcraft.
Many of the condemned were transferred to France’s safest fortresses such as Salses, Fort les Bains and chateau Fort Liberia, where they were chained up and imprisoned for life
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Fort Libéria – 66500 Villefranche-de-Conflent
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630 – 1676)
Madame de Brinvilliers was notorious for poisoning her father, brother, and two sisters in order to inherit their property, with the help of her lover army captain Godin de Sainte-Croix. There were also rumours that she had poisoned poor people during her visits to hospitals.
After several years on the run in England and the Netherlands, Madame de Brinvilliers was tried and convicted on all charges of poisoning, having been forced to confess. She was sentenced to death and in July 17, 1676, was put to the “extraordinary question” (forced to drink sixteen pints of water), beheaded and burned at a stake.
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#Novella 5* #Review #ADeathInSarajevo by @AusmaZehanat @MinotaurBooks
So, to follow on from my #TheUnquietDead #Review by Ausma Zehanat Khan. I have also reviewed the #Novella which picks up right at the end of, The Unquiet Dead.
I am super excited to share this review and my love for this series.
From Anne Bonny Book Review #HappyAusmaZehanatKhanDay 🙂
A Death In Sarajevo by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are asked to help unlock the secrets of a woman killed during the Bosnian war in this captivating story from acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan.
An old friend from Esa’s past has reappeared in his life, reaching out to ask Esa for help solving a mystery about the woman he once loved. But before Esa can travel to Sarajevo to help his friend, he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, must make it through a government inquiry that will not only affect their futures on the police force, but also test the strength of their partnership. Ausma’s trademark complex characters, atmospheric writing, and intricate plotting will mesmerize fans and new readers alike.
Having previously read and LOVED The Unquiet Dead by the same author, I was becoming desperate for my next fix, in the series. I was delighted to see it is scheduled for an October 2017 release via publishers No Exit. I was even more delighted to discover a novella that fits between the two novels. It is possibly the fastest I have ever downloaded an Ebook ever!!!!!!
The novella opens, following on from the previous case in The Unquiet Dead. With the crimes of Christopher Drayton looming over the lives of both community police officers. Esa and Rachel are facing a week long enquiry and their personal lives are being dragged out for all to see. In particular, Esa’s personal faith and beliefs. With the court assessing if fair justice was delivered, as Esa is a practising Muslim himself. Rachel is rather angered and dismayed at this and to be completely honest I was with her 100%. Esa has proven he is a fair and just man, yet time and time again he is vilified for his faith.
Is Esa going to suffer a fall from grace?
The enquiry is wrapped up and Esa receives a call from an old friend. The friend reminds Esa of a town called Waverley and a girl named Amira. The pair arrange to meet in SaraJevo. In SaraJevo, Esa is reacquainted with his old friend Skender. He shows Esa a photo which shows Amira months after she is believed to have died, when serb forces brought down her apartment block. Not only does she appear alive and well, she is dressed in the uniform of the ‘Bluebird Brigade’ an all-female army unit. But where is Amira now? Did she survive? Can Esa solve the mystery?
The novella packs on hell of a punch. It is a moving story with a moral message. Ausma Zehanat Khan knows how to blend historical fiction, with personal stories of those involved, to create heart-breaking reading!
“forgiveness is all we have. It’s what makes us whole”
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The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
One man is dead.
But thousands were his victims.
Can a single murder avenge that of many?
Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto: the body of Christopher Drayton is found at the foot of the cliffs. Muslim Detective Esa Khattak, head of the Community Policing Unit, and his partner Rachel Getty are called in to investigate. As the secrets of Drayton’s role in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide of Bosnian Muslims surface, the harrowing significance of his death makes it difficult to remain objective. In a community haunted by the atrocities of war, anyone could be a suspect. And when the victim is a man with so many deaths to his name, could it be that justice has at long last been served?
In this important debut novel, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a compelling and provocative mystery exploring the complexities of identity, loss, and redemption.
This novel is outstanding! I cannot rate it highly enough. It is very moving and thought-provoking, with its brutally honest depiction, of the Bosnian War. This is without a doubt the most emotionally charged novel I have read this year so far!
The novel opens with Inspector Esa Khattak giving prayer. Esa is immediately identified as a Muslim police detective, working within the community policing section. I found his characterisation brilliant. He is elusive and intriguing. Esa is called to a crime scene by Tom Paley a most respected historian at the Canadian department of justice. Tom believed Esa is the only one with the experience, training and vision to lead this case but urges Esa to take partner Sargent Rachel Getty to appear neutral. This is no routine case.
Rachel Getty meets Esa at the scene and here we learn that Christopher Drayton has fallen to his death via an accident at the Scarborough Bluffs. So many questions swirled my head at this point. But the novel is very cleverly written in that it is a whole series of revelations that never let up. Christopher Drayton is well liked within his community and even referred to as generous and cultured. The scene is almost as much a mystery as the man himself. However, there are rumours and speculation within the department of justice that Drayton is not who he says he………..
Drayton is rumoured to be Drazen Krstic a fugitive war criminal fleeing a war crimes tribunal for genocide complicity, crimes against humanity, violence, murder and mass execution. Did this monster live amongst an unsuspecting community? Did Krstic seek redemption for his crimes? Was that part of his various roles in the community? Or did someone discover the truth?
There are a series of chapters from a reflective viewpoint inside the Bosnian war of 1995. They truly depict war, its victims, violence, depravity and I found it terrifying reading. As a mother myself it was hard not to picture my sons in that position, living through the horrors of a war that leads to a genocide. I am not ashamed to admit that reading this novel, moved me to tears. This is also why I am glad that novels such as this exist. To educate the readers of the atrocities of the past and how we continue to make the same mistakes of the past, via religious persecution. Either by the violence we inflict ourselves, or like the UN, stand idle as the atrocities occur.
I found this novel very literary in its content, phrases and quotations that are extremely relevant are scattered throughout the novel. One of the most frightening thing is how they could easily be poignant in 2017. For example
“Take anything a Muslim touched, add the word Jihadi to it, and immediately you produced something ugly and divisive”
These words are exceptionally powerful!
I highly recommend this novel to all readers, particularly readers of literary and historical novels. But that should not distract from the fact that this is a solid crime fiction novel, with brilliant characters and plot.
5* Genius
It is a huge pleasure to have Ausma on my blog. I was completely new to Ausma’s novels prior to April 2017. Ausma now sits in my list of favourite female authors and this is down to the pure genius behind her novel The Unquiet Dead. I cannot praise this novel enough, not only is it a solid crime fiction novel; it’s exceptional moving, with emotional scenes from the 1995 Bosnian war.
Q) For the readers, can you give a brief summary of yourself, The Unquiet Dead and the Inspector Khattak series?
A) I’m a British-born Canadian who currently lives in the United States. I used to practice immigration law and teach international human rights law, but now I write full-time. My books draw on my background in human rights, and I try to tell untold or forgotten stories about pressing human rights issues through the lens of two detectives who solve crimes. The Unquiet Dead is my mystery debut, featuring Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty who work together in Toronto’s Community Policing Section. This book was followed by The Language of Secrets, the short story A Death in Sarajevo, and the third novel in the series Among the Ruins. I’m currently working on the fourth Khattak/Getty mystery.
Q) Esa Khattak is a very intriguing character. He is well-written and I personally loved the diversity of a Muslim Inspector. Did you always plan to have diverse characters? What are your thoughts on diversity within the crime fiction genre?
A) I’m a lifelong fan of mystery fiction and it is still my favourite genre to read. I particularly love British fiction and Scotland Yard mysteries, but yes I can’t help but notice the decided lack of diversity in the genre, both among authors and characters. I do think we need more fiction that is representative of the world we live in—fiction that seems real, multi-vocal, dynamic, and that challenges a single narrative or a single way of seeing and experiencing the world. With regard to my series, I’m simply writing my reality—the world I live in and know intimately, a world that I think is plural, mutually tolerant and inclusive, where people learn from each other all the time and are enriched by that learning, as I hope my readers will witness with Esa and Rachel’s partnership.
Q) Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are police partners within the community police section. Can you expand for UK readers what the community police section are and what they do?
A) The Community Policing Section is an invention of mine, loosely based on a program run by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia. In my version of Community Policing, my two detectives operate under the aegis of Canada’s Department of Justice, and are invited to consult on investigations that involve in minority communities. They have a difficult, somewhat contradictory mandate: to represent the interests of those communities to law enforcement, but also to represent law enforcement within those communities.
Q) The novel has a backdrop of the Bosnian War of 1995. I found this exceptionally moving, in fact it moved me to tears, more than once. What was the research for this part of the novel? Did you set out to place the reader in the position of a witness to the atrocities?
A) My graduate research was on the subject of the Bosnian genocide. I wrote a Master’s thesis on the legal basis for the operation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (the ICTY)—an international criminal tribunal was ground-breaking at that time. And then my dissertation went on to examine when and where there should be international military intervention for human protection purposes. The fall of Srebrenica during the Bosnian genocide was the focal point of my research. So I was immersed in war crimes testimony, refugee testimony, statements of Bosnian representatives to the United Nations Security Council during the genocide, and though I was a tertiary witness on the side-lines, I thought it was important to remember the voices of the victims. Since writing the book, I’ve often heard from readers that they remember the dissolution of Yugoslavia, but they had no idea of the terrible crimes that were perpetrated during the Bosnian war. Telling a story like this, I hope, is an act of witness—for myself and for my readers.
Q) The novel has a theme of redemption. It is thought-provoking from the perspective of, if redemption is possible for war criminals. I adore the theme of redemption in novels, but this was the first time I felt very uncomfortable with the notion that, there can be forgiveness for such violent and sadistic behaviour. I kept having to pause the reading to digest the topics and thoughts. Was this your intention, to educate the reader and generate thought-provoking themes?
A) I think the theme The Unquiet Dead is most concerned with exploring is the nature of justice. What do we imagine justice looks like? For some time, my research touched on international criminal law. I looked at the kinds of sentences handed down after war crimes trials, and I also considered the vast numbers of genocidaires who’d walked free, escaping any punishment at all. When genocidaires live and move and work among their victims, it raises the question of what justice really is. Is it a trial in a court of law that results in a lenient sentence? What can answer for an act as devastating as the Srebrenica massacre? I think it’s for my readers to decide whether justice has been done by the time they’ve reached the end of the book. And then to ask themselves, why they might feel uncertain or uncomfortable at its conclusion.
Q) The novel also covers the theme of racial/religious persecution. Which I quote some powerful words in my review, that sadly, I feel would be relevant in 2017. I personally believe novels like this can break down barriers and as stated in my review, this is why I am so glad such novels exist. Along your journey of being a published author, have you noticed any change in your readership? What more can be done to break down barriers as a reader or writer?
A) Like my characters, my audience is quite diverse. I think if you try and tell an authentic and honest story, most people will be able to relate to it. And it’s always worthwhile to be able to introduce readers to characters and stories they haven’t seen before, and to make them question their preconceptions about characters like these. I try to do that myself, to challenge my own assumptions and to dig deeper on subjects I think I know, to see what else I can learn. One of the great gifts of literature is that it humanizes us to each other. That’s something we need more than ever today, to be able to perceive the humanity of the Other.
Q) The setting of the novel is the Scarborough Bluffs in Canada. As a UK reader, I had to search via google images, to get an idea of the location. It truly is picturesque and unique. (I shall try add some images for readers). What was the inspiration behind the setting?
A) Ah, great question! I lived on the Scarborough Bluffs when I was a child. I used to walk home from school on a path along the Bluffs, so to me the Bluffs always had a magical, almost unearthly quality. I knew even then that they’d make an atmospheric setting for a story.
Scarborough Bluffs
Q) What are you currently working on? Will there be future Khattak novels released in the UK? Do you write any other series?
A) Yes, the Khattak/Getty novels are all due to be released in the UK. I’m currently working on the fourth book in the series about the Syrian refugee crisis. And at the same time, I’m writing a fantasy series for Harper Voyager US and UK. The first book in the series is called The Bloodprint, and it will be released simultaneously in the US and the UK, this October.
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THE BLOODPRINT – AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN
A dark power called the Talisman has risen in the land, born of ignorance and persecution. Led by a man known only known as the One-Eyed Preacher, it is a cruel and terrifying movement bent on world domination—a superstitious patriarchy that suppresses knowledge and subjugates women. And it is growing.
But there are those who fight the Talisman’s spread, including the Companions of Hira, a diverse group of influential women whose power derives from the Claim—the magic inherent in the words of a sacred scripture. Foremost among them is Arian and her apprentice, Sinnia, skilled warriors who are knowledgeable in the Claim. This daring pair have long stalked Talisman slave-chains, searching for clues and weapons to help them battle their enemy’s oppressive ways. Now, they may have discovered a miraculous symbol of hope that can destroy the One-Eyed Preacher and his fervid followers: The Bloodprint, a dangerous text the Talisman has tried to erase from the world.
Finding The Bloodprint promises to be their most dangerous undertaking yet, an arduous journey that will lead them deep into Talisman territory. Though they will be helped by allies—a loyal ex-slave and Arian’s former confidant and sword master—both Arian and Sinnia know that this mission may well be their last.
*Huge thanks to the very talented Ausma Zehanat Khan for taking part in this Q&A on my blog. I wish you huge success with the release of The Unquiet Dead in the UK this July 2017.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: ‘Jaws of Hakkon’ DLC Announced by BioWare
Jon Ledford
BioWare has announced that Thedas is about to get bigger and colder in Dragon Age: Inquisition's 'Jaws of Hakkon' DLC expansion, which is coming first to Xbox One and PC.
Game Informer reports that the 'Jaws of Hakkon' expansion is coming to Dragon Age: Inquisition, making this the first major piece of DLC that the already massive game is getting. The first trailer for this new downloadable content will launch tomorrow. While BioWare's announcement Tweet didn't reveal much, we did learn that this DLC will be coming to Xbox One and PC first, which suggests PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gamers will have to wait a bit longer for 'Jaws of Hakkon.' The Twitter picture did reveal Solas, Cassandra and Cole approaching some Kashyyyk-like, treetop villages. So who, or what, is Hakkon? Well, that takes some rather lore-filled explaining to do.
Based on its name, 'Jaws of Hakkon' will likely deal with the ancient human tribe, the Avvars. The Avvars are a tribal group of people who have a long history in Thedas, dating way back before the First Blight. Dragon Age fans should recognize Andraste as the widely worshipped religious prophet who answered to Thedas' main deity, the Maker. Andraste was married to Marefath, a leader of the Avvarians, who eventually betrayed his wife for the sake of saving their people, which she accepted. This led to Andraste being burned alive in the capital of the Tevinter Imperium. Since then, the Avvars have been regarded with widespread scorn from the other peoples of Thedas. The Avvars believe in a pantheon of gods — their main ones being Korth the Mountain-Father, the Lady of the Skies and Hakkon Wintersbreath. Hakkon is revered as the god of winter and war. As a result, the Avvars embrace both the battlefield and frigid cold to appease Hakkon. Unfortunately, not much else is known about Hakkon Wintersbreath, other than we're guessing he's some kind of massive, Archdemon-y frost dragon.
Stay tuned as we'll provide up-to-date coverage on Dragon Age: Inquisition's 'Jaws of Hakkon' DLC once more information is available.
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Should we try to unify the fabrication and manufacturing proposals?
Proposals: Maker Professionals
We currently have a plethora of Area 51 proposals skirting around the subjects of fabrication, manufacturing and design of physical objects, including the tools needed to do so.
The proposals have all gathered some support, and while a highly vertical site can produce a strong vibrant community, it appears that there isn't quite enough support to get any of the current proposals into commitment, let alone into beta.
Recent experience has suggested to me that it is much easier to get a stack exchange site with a wider scope up and running than one with a narrower scope, as long as your scope isn't too wide (as I believe is the case with the Engineering proposal). It is also clear that while there is overlap in followers between these sites, there are also many people who are only following one, or a small subset, of these proposals.
To summarise, here are the proposals I think it might be worth merging:
Maker Professionals (previously Personal Manufacturing, Digital Fabrication & Fabrication & Manufacturing)
Proposed Q&A site for professionals and advanced makers who design, prototype, and fabricate physical things using technologies like 3D printing & scanning.
Has been in commitment for over 1 month and currently has 43% (87/200) committers in total, 52% (52/100) committers with 200+ rep on any other site and has a 51% commitment score
is over 1 year old and 40.2% only committed to this proposal
Repurpose Hacking
Proposed Q&A site for those who test the limits of hardware, who modify electronic devices or combine together separate components to create new inventions, and those who like to void warranties; for those who like to make gadgets do things they were never intended to do!
Has been in commitment for over 1 month and currently has 17% (34/200) committers in total, 19% (19/100) committers with 200+ rep on any other site and has an 18% commitment score
is 1 year old and 17.6% only committed to this proposal
Hardware: How to design, prototype, and manufacture a physical product.
Proposed Q&A site for *there's a large group of people starting hardware startups & projects - look at Kickstarter, Etsy, physical startups, quantified-self, makers, etc. We're all experts in some areas (plastic injection molding), but need help in others (package design). *
has 152 followers and needs 17 questions with a score of 10 or more
is 12 months old and 6.9% of followers only follow this proposal
Proposed Q&A site for active researchers, academics, professionals, enthusiasts and students in the field of engineering.
is 12 months old and 32.2% of followers only follow this proposal
is, in my opinion, far too broad a site to be viable as it stands and only a subset of these questions are relevant here
Proposed Q&A site for *drafters, engineers, designers, architects, CAD administrators and others who use or maintain software like AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks and Pro/ENGINEER. *
has 97 followers and needs 27 questions with a score of 10 or more
is over 1 year old and 21.6% of followers only follow this proposal
Proposed Q&A site for the ancient art of metal work : topics could include bladesmithing, tools, annealing, Damascus steel techniques, etc.
has 52 followers, needs 8 followers and 28 questions with a score of 10 or more
is 1 year old and 9.6% of followers only follow this proposal
Proposed Q&A site for professionals and enthusiasts of the discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science to the analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems.
has 106 followers, needs 17 questions with a score of 10 or more
is 9 months old and 21.7% of followers only follow this proposal
Proposed Q&A site for professional engineers, inventors, product designers, entrepreneurs, students, and enthusiasts, seeking the most economical and effective ways to fabricate physical things.
has been removed due to inactivity
Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science
Proposed Q&A site for questions pertaining to the fabrication and study of metallic elements and intermetallic compounds, including purification.
Proposed Q&A site for sheet metal workers, welders, coppersmiths, metal roofers, blacksmiths, sheet metal shaping, spinning and more.
Over the last year Maker Professionals has gone through a number of rounds of redefining the name and description and with the change from Fabrication & Manufacturing after we went into commitment, a new debate has sparked, but even with the highest commitment of these fabrication proposals, we are still a long way from full commitment.
I would like to see a stack exchange site which draws on the strengths of all of these proposals, and would be happy to accept suggestions and comments on how Maker Professionals could be made to fit the needs of followers and committers of all of these proposals.
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I agree, as long as the final proposal isn't too broad. One shouldn't use the excuse "the individual proposals will never reach commitment" to create a broad/disjoint proposal. – Manishearth Mar 2 '13 at 11:39
@Manishearth - Precisely, that's why I mentioned the excessively broadly scope Engineering proposal. Which would already be Engineering except for all of these other stack exchange sites. – Mark Booth Mar 2 '13 at 19:33
Mechanical Engineering does not necessarily deal only with fabrication and manufacturing, although most of these proposals (including Fabrication & Manufacturing) could be subsumed under it as sub-disciplines. Admittedly, whether or not this is viable does partly depend on the current popularity and progress of the proposals. – Asad Saeeduddin Mar 19 '13 at 7:12
@Asad - There are plenty of questions on Fabrication & Manufacturing which wouldn't be on topic on Mechanical Engineering, but I can't see any on ME that wouldn't be on topic for how I see F&M, that's why in my opinion, F&M has a wider scope than ME. Look at the questions, they define scope much more completely than the proposal title or description. – Mark Booth Mar 19 '13 at 16:59
@MarkBooth To give you a few random examples, theoretical problems involving statics, kinematics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics etc have nothing to do with fabrication or manufacturing (at least in its current state), yet everything to do with ME. Similarly, analysis techniques such as FEA or CFD would not fit on F&M. I took a look at the questions on the F&M proposal, and great number of them only deal with additive manufacturing, of which most are focused on plastic extrusion. – Asad Saeeduddin Mar 19 '13 at 18:37
@Asad - The history of the F&M proposal has left it with a bias towards additive techniques, but that doesn't limit the scope. All it would need was a couple of suitable FEA or CFD questions to bring them into the scope, so it would be great I you could propose some (since I've used up my 5 questions already). – Mark Booth Apr 4 '13 at 13:02
@MarkBooth It is my understanding that the community will continue to define and commit itself. A relevant narrowed topic of a topic that would be in a broad category related to DIY Groups was shut down after being downvoted into the negatives, and you asked people to stop voting on it in Fab/Manufacturing so those votes could get the SE through quicker. A logic is essential to a strategy, but again, I applaud a continued patience as the community determines what is best. – circuit-bento Apr 5 '13 at 9:50
@MarkBooth You're ignoring the other (more important) problem I mentioned, which is that many theoretical aspects of ME have nothing to do with F&M. To re-state, theoretical problems involving statics, kinematics (particularly sub-topics such as ballistics), fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, numerical techniques (particularly optimisation) etc have nothing to do with fabrication or manufacturing, yet everything to do with ME. – Asad Saeeduddin Jun 24 '13 at 21:36
I clearly see the need for a community around those topics. But trying to have too specialized proposals make them failing. Why not starting something broad, and in case, split them with a new proposal when one is fully accepted? Have a look to this one: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/112606/frabrication – Escain Jul 25 '17 at 9:27
That's a good list of proposed mergers. I think it does make sense with some of them. When I originally proposed CAD/CAM Software I was thinking primarily of the software used. But it does make since to broaden it to some of the application of the software too.
The Fabrication and Manufacturing, Manufacturing, topics seems like they would be good to merge with.
Blacksmithing and Sheet Metal & Welding although very specific types of fabrication could be included because there may be some overlap in the fabrication disciplines.
Engineering and miscellaneous engineering topics I think can make the entire topic a little to broad. Especially as most of the topics seem to do with preparing the documentation to produce or producing physical things. The Engineering topics seem to be very theoretical and may overly broaden the topic.
Repurpose Hacking seems like it may be a little out of scope with the topic if its including electronics/software hacking.
What would the merged topic be called to encompass this grand unification? Maybe simply:
Design, Fabrication and Manufacturing: Proposed Q&A site for people interested in fabricating or manufacturing physical things. Including 3D printing & scanning, CNC milling or cutting machines, CAD/CAM software and how we can share ideas between industry and the maker communities. Including processes, techniques, tools, and software used.
Something like would be useful for the majority people doing design, fabrication, and manufacturing in shops of any size since many of the skills and knowledge of these areas overlap each other.
Mark Booth
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Thanks RJay75, although counter-intuitive, it seems that it's actually easier to narrow the scope of a stack exchange site later if its scope ends up being too wide (some sub sections being too popular) than it is to widen the scope if it starts off too narrow (where the site never gets enough traffic to get up to steam). – Mark Booth Mar 5 '13 at 1:22
@MarkBooth I think careful consideration should be given to merging too broad an SE. There's a usefulness in being patient and taking careful consideration. Your patience will have paid off, thanks for being so passionate about refining Fabrication and Manufacturing. In the meantime, I have also created another SE proposal for DIY Groups for entirely different purposes and find this answer helpful for my purposes. This specific conversation gives me more insight into the SE I proposed. I'm new to SE, also. Thanks to everyone's patience with me. – circuit-bento Apr 5 '13 at 9:41
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Amanda Balionis
By Akku July 29, 2018
Quick Facts of Amanda Balionis
Full NameAmanda Balionis
BirthplaceUnited States
EthnicityCaucasian
ProfessionSports reporter
Eye colourBlue
Hair colourBlonde
BuildHourglass
Height5 feet 5 inches
Weight125 pounds (57 kg)
Body Measurement37-25-36 inches (94-64-91 cm)
EducationGraduated in Broadcast Journalism from Hofstra University
Online PresenceInstagram, Twitter
HoroscopeGemini
Reporters are the personalities who put the truth in front of the media so that the fans can get all the information about their star from time to time. More often, it makes us more excited to write about those personalities who are connected with the world’s most expensive sports ‘Golf’ which makes their fans to know about their lavish lifestyle, and Amanda Balionis is one of them.
32-year-old Amanda Blake is currently dedicated to reporting golf for CBS Sport and is also known for her contributions to the sporting community. Well, 5 feet 5 inches tall reporter, Amanda is also recognized as one of the most stylish people in the golf community. Her stunning looks makes her fans more curious about her life partner. Besides, the beautiful star has maintained her net worth to be a million dollars.
Let’s go deeper into Balionis’s life and find out the secrets about her age, height, boyfriend, married, husband, children, and full bio. So, stay tuned with us to collect the detailed information of the star reporting world.
Amanda Balionis- Wiki
Amanda Balionis was born on 20 June 1987, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the United States. When her age was 10, she moved to Lancaster in Pennsylvania. She holds an American nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. As of 2019, Balionis is 32 years, and her zodiac sign is Gemini.
Amanda Balionis with parents, Source: Instagram
Well, Balionis grew up in a golf-obsessed family and also used to play volleyball when she was in high school. Moreover, she was even so much fascinated by the Sports since her tender age. Similarly, Balionis joined her high school in 2000 and completed her primary education from Manheim Township High School in 2004.
Furthermore, Balionis’ passion for sports made her attend Hofstra University, where she studied Broadcast Journalism, graduating in 2008. During her studies at the university, she came out as a very bright and active student.
Terrible car accident
Furthermore, one thing Amanda’s fans might not know about her is that her parents faced a terrible car accident. The incident happened back in 2016. She didn’t post about it on social media back then. However, a year later, she updated it on Instagram. Both her parents, Anthony and Dana, were hit in the head and had to go through an intense surgery.
Amanda Balionis successfully established her career as a sports reporter. Since a tender age, Balionis had a massive interest in reporting. And she later decided to pursue her career as a reporter. During her education, Balionis interned at WRHU radio station.
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Not only this, but Balionis also made a lot of weekly online presentations on the segment with producing and redaction a compass of sporting filed. Furthermore, she later became a By-line Reporter for MSG Meshing as per the plan of the Calendar week in her high school. Following this, she worked for CBS 2, ABC News Now, the New York Jets and many others.
Later, Amanda began her career as a reporter in the local Lancaster Newspaper after graduating. Similarly, she got a chance to work as a Freelance Sideline Reporter for Verizon Sports which also made a platform for the Women’s Sports.
Amanda Balionis Reporting From Augusta, take a short look!!
Moreover, Balionis became an anchor and a reporter for the PGA Tour in March 2014. She has also worked as a host after getting the opportunity in Callaway Golf for five-year. Leading to the path, she is currently asked to be a part of the CBS Sports Golf Team, which is also taken as one of the biggest sporting broadcast stations in the U.S.
Recent Update of Amanda
In the article of April 24, 2019, by Alex Myers in the Golf Digest Podcast entitled Amanda Balionis on an epic Masters, interviewing golf’s biggest stars, and the benefits of yoga. The interview was held on the Augusta National media center. At that time, she was questioned, “if it had been awkward to ask Brooks Koepka regarding his recent weight loss.” She replied, “Nope, Brooks is great!“.
Furthermore, she has interviewed many golf stars, including Tiger Wood, a golf legend, and Scott Stallings.
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Age & Zodiac Sign
Born on 20 June 1987, Amanda Balionis is in her 32-years of age as of 2019. She celebrates her birth on every 20th of June. Currently, she is busy enjoying her early thirties. At this time, she awaits her birthday to celebrate. Additionally, her birth sign (Zodiac Sign) is Gemini.
Marital Relationship
Many fans are eyeing Amanda Balionis, and even she has a huge male following on her social media profile. Moreover, her fans are so much curious to know any detail about her relationship. Well, she is still not married. But is she dating anyone right now? Well, the answer is ‘No.’ She seems to be single right now and doesn’t have any boyfriend yet.
Amanda Balionis with her friends baby, Picture Source: Instagram @balionis
Moreover, Balionis lives a very private life and keeps a low key profile. At various times, she has clued on her relationship status through the social networking sites having an affair in the past. Well, she has tweeted a post on Twitter in 2016 where she mentioned having an ex-boyfriend. Well, it was right then the fans got shocked when she specified being pregnant with a child.
I have some ex boyfriends that may disagree with you there ? but the only child in me totally agrees so.. https://t.co/M7vP5jyCrP
— Amanda Balionis (@Amanda_Balionis) March 18, 2016
But, it is not still confessed directly by Amanda in public. So, we cannot say that she is pregnant until she discloses the exact news. Besides, there is no information about her past affairs, relationship, and any child.
Analyzing her current living, Balionis seems to be enjoying her singledom. She loves to read books, especially on Friday. Well, she might be waiting for a perfect guy who would be fit to be her future husband. Currently, she is living a happy life being free of rumors and controversies.
Enjoys $1 million net worth
As of 2019. Amanda Balionis has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She earns an extraordinary amount of money out of her reporting and hosting profession. According to the Payscale, the average salary of a CBS Corporation employees is around $71,000. So, her salary must also be around it or more than it.
Similarly, her tremendous net worth has helped her to raise the standard of living. Amanda has been able to accumulate her earnings mostly from her long-duration career as a sports reporter. Recently on June 7, 2019, she shared a picture on her Instagram. It showed that Amanda had partnered with sdtoyotadealers for a commercial ad.
Amanda Balionis in her Toyota car, Source: Instagram @balionis
The beautiful reporter also gets shoot by the various magazine, which also enables her to emerge her income to the highest. Well, she also owns several dogs of different breeds which includes Pug which is worth between $750-$1500 and Cockapoo $100-$1200.
As of now, she is an excellent earning journalist of this generation. She usually posts pictures with her close dog named Chorizo via her Instagram. We wish her to grow in her career with full of enjoyment and happiness.
Amanda Balionis has an attractive physique and an hourglass-shaped body. She has a perfect height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) and a body mass of 125 pounds (57 kg). Amanda’s dress size is 8(US). Further Balionis has a perfect body measurement of 37-25-36 inches, which include her hips, waist, and breast.
Amanda’s cup size is C and wears a bra of 36C size. She has charming blue eyes with her blonde hair color. Also, at the age of 32, she has maintained to keep her herself body structure at the optimum level. In her spare time, Amanda works out regularly and practice yoga.
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Amanda is also active on social networking sites like Twitter, and Instagram, where she has gathered an enormous number of fans and followers.
“If I can keep playing the way I am, I think I can do some great things.”@Amanda_Balionis joins Bryson DeChambeau after his win at @TheNTgolf pic.twitter.com/nroLpSeFxs
— GOLFonCBS (@GOLFonCBS) August 26, 2018
She has more than 89.6K followers on her Twitter account and over 127K followers on her Instagram account as of July 23, 2019. Similarly, she regularly updates her account. We wish her a successful career. For more updates on Amanda Balionis and new celebrity bio, keep coming back to AllStarBio.
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Louis Hynes Bio, Wiki, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Age, Height
By Ayuska Sigdel May 15, 2019
Quick Facts of Louis Hynes
Full Name Louis Hynes
Net Worth$500k
Nickname Louis
BirthplaceOxford, England,
Ethnicitywhite
ProfessionActor
NationalityBritish
Eye colourBrown
Hair colourBrown
Height 1.7 meter
Weight132 lbs
Online PresenceInstagram, Facebook
HoroscopeLibra
Louis Hynes is an American child actor. The 17 years old actor Hynes has already appeared in big hits in the Hollywood industry. Louis is known for his role as Franzl in Intermezzo and as Klaus Baudelaire in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Hynes is currently living with his family. Like other kids, he also has hobbies of playing bass guitar, listening to music, fishing, hiking, and cycling. In this article, we will discuss the details about Louis including his bio, career, net worth, and personal life.
Louis Hynes Bio & Wiki
Louis Hynes was born on 9th October 2011 in Oxford England under the zodiac sign Libra. He is the middle of three children of parents, Andrew Hynes, and Lisa Hynes. The actor grew up along with his two siblings Milo Hynes, and Lara Hynes.
Hynes has not disclosed the details about his early life and educational background. He is British by nationality and belongs to Caucasian ethnicity.
Louis Hynes Career
Louis Hynes made his debut in 2016 through American docudrama television series as Young Alaric in Barbarians Rising alongside Jefferson Hall, Nicholas Pinnock, Ben Batt, and many others. From 2017 to 2019 the actor also played in the three seasons of the Netflix mystery-drama A Series of Unfortunate Events. In the series, he played along with Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman, and others.
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Similarly, Hynes also appeared in an espionage thriller TV movie The Saint which was released on Netflix. In the film, he played the role of the young Simon Templar. Hynes started his career in the movie industry by performing the role of Franzl in Intermezzo produced by Bruno Ravello at Garsington Opera.
Is Louis Hynes Dating? Who Is His Girlfriend?
The 17-years old actor, Louis Hynes seems to be single at the current moment. He has not claimed any girl as his girlfriend till now but there are rumors that Hynes is dating his co-star Malina Weissman. However, Hynes has not confirmed the rumors yet.
Moreover, Hynes and Malina were spotted together during the screening of Lemony Snicket’s A Series if Unfoetine Events. They were even questioned about their relationship, but both of them remained tight-lipped. So, until and unless, Hynes does not confirm his relationship, we cannot say anything about his love life.
Good (and cold) way to start the new year
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Moreover, Louis is also active on social media like Facebook and Instagram. Hynes often go out to visit beautiful destinations and often shares traveling photos on his social accounts.
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Louis Hynes Net Worth
Louis Hynes has an estimated net worth of $500,000 as of 2019. Despite being so young Hynes earns a huge amount of money through his successful career. Hynes earns an average salary of around $13K-15k per episode for his appearance in television series.
Hynes has just put his steps on the entertainment industry and has a long way to go through his career. Hence, he has several upcoming projects which will certainly assist him in adding more money to his bank balance. On the other hand, one of the highest earning child actors Mark Wahlberg has a net worth of $68 million.
Louis Hynes Body Measurements
Louis Hynes’ age is 17 as of 2019. He stands tall at the height of 5 feet 6 inches and weighs around 55 kg. The actor looks handsome in his brown eye and brown hair.
"my feet are numb." – Nietzsche #giveusyashoes
Furthermore, his chest size is 38 inches and waist size in 29 inches. In addition, Hynes’ shoe size is 7 (UK).
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Jaczko defends incorrect 50-mile evacuation order at Fukushima
June 1, 2011 By Rod Adams
On March 16, five days after the Fukushima Daiichi reactors were shutdown in the wake of a large earthquake that was followed by a tsunami, Gregory Jaczko, the Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, announced that he was recommending that all Americans within fifty miles of the nuclear power station evacuate the area. That recommendation insulted the technical expertise of a key American ally, added unnecessary transportation burdens to an already stressed infrastructure, and added additional stress to an already miserable population of tens of thousands of Japanese who were not being told to evacuate by their own government.
I wrote about my disagreement with the recommendation at the time. I thought it indicated a complete lack of perspective regarding the very real dangers of trying to move a large number of people compared to the non-existent heath risk to anyone outside of the area that the Japanese government had already evacuated.
In the more than 2 months since that order was issued, it has become apparent to me that the organized opposition to the continued use of nuclear energy plans to use knowledge of the order as a basis for demanding a vastly expanded Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ) for all nuclear power plants in the United States. The current EPZ is 10 miles; expanding it to 50 miles multiplies the affected area by a factor of 25. That will add an enormous planning and coordination burden on top of currently operating reactors, may lead to several forced plant closures, and could very well be the deciding factor that halts all new nuclear power plant development for any country that goes along with the decision.
Like Jaczko’s initial order, the expansion of the EPZ would have zero benefit for public safety with regard to radiation exposure and it would dramatically reduce overall public safety because of an increasing reliance fossil fuels like coal and natural gas. Those replacement energy sources have demonstrably worse safety records – both on the basis of routine hazards like fine particulate emissions and acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide and on the basis of accident risks like fires, explosions, and waste pond floods of millions of gallons of toxic sludge.
On May 31, 2011, Chairman Jaczko once again defended his order in a press release titled NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko’s Statement on NRC’S Commitment to Safety. The document is virtually identical to Jaczko’s May 26, 2011 Huffington Post article titled Ensuring Nuclear Safety. (I used the word virtually because I have not checked the two documents side by side, but the first few paragraphs match.) Here is how the Chairman described his recommendation:
Third, during our Japan nuclear incident response, I approved a courageous safety recommendation by our most senior, expert staffers. As we were monitoring the fluid situation in Japan, NRC staff became concerned that the situation could worsen and impact Americans living there. Using all of their training, the best available data, and centuries of combined nuclear safety experience, the staff recommended to me that we needed to advise American citizens to stay fifty miles away from the troubled nuclear site, recommendations that differed from the advice of the Japanese government. The staff did not focus on what might be popular with the nuclear industry but instead recommended action in the best interest of safety.
There are a number of problems with that defense of his evacuation recommendation, including the fact that it was based on an incorrect or superficial interpretation of the document that is actually based on centuries of combined radiation and public safety experience, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Manual of Protective Action Guides and Protective Actions for Nuclear Incidents revised in 1991, reprinted in May 1992.
That document is the one that is used to train people who are responsible for implementing actions in times of crisis. The training is done on a regular basis so that if emergencies do occur, the decision makers have the benefit of practice that allows them to remain calm when others are panicking. The March 16, 2011 press release that the NRC issued to recommend the evacuation refers to the guidance contained in that document with the following statement:
Among other things, in the United States protective actions recommendations are implemented when projected doses could exceed 1 rem to the body or 5 rem to the thyroid. A rem is a measure of radiation dose. The average American is exposed to approximately 620 millirems, or 0.62 rem, of radiation each year from natural and manmade sources.
That is not what the manual says. According to table 2-1 (page 2-6) “PAGs for the Early Phase of a Nuclear Incident” protective actions that include Evacuation (or Sheltering) start with a projected dose to the body of between 1-5 rem. There are two footnotes on the table:
aSheltering may be the preferred protective action when it will provide protection equal to or greater than evacuation, based on consideration of factors such as source term characteristics, and temporal or other site-specific conditions (see Section 2.3.1).
bThe sum of the effective dose equivalent resulting from exposure to external sources and the committed effective dose equivalent incurred from all significant inhalation pathways during the early phase. Committed dose equivalents to the thyroid and to the skin may be 5 and 50 times larger, respectively.
The manual includes a range for a reason – actual situations require careful judgment and balancing other factors. Using that guidance, evacuation may not be necessary even with projected doses of 5 rem to the body or 25 rem to the thyroid.
Here is what section 2.3.1 has to say about factors to consider when weighing the decision between evacuation and sheltering:
…In addition, under unusually hazardous environmental conditions, use of sheltering at projected doses up to 5 rem to the general population (and up to 10 rem to special groups) may become justified. Sheltering may also provide protection equal to or greater than evacuation due to the nature of the source term and/or in the presence of temporal or other site-specific conditions. Illustrative examples of situations or groups for which evacuation may not be appropriate at 1 rem include: a) the presence of severe weather, b) competing disasters, c) institutionalized persons who are not readily mobile, and d) local physical factors which impede evacuation.
Evacuation seldom will be justified at less than 1 rem. The examples described above regarding selection of the most appropriate protective action are intended to be illustrative and not exhaustive. In general, sheltering should be preferred to evacuation whenever it provides equal or greater protection.
If you go back and read news reports of the situation on the ground at the time of the evacuation, essentially all of the factors that complicate and add challenges to evacuations existed. The weather was frigid, transportation infrastructure was severely compromised, there were at least two competing disasters, and there were several pockets of institutionalized persons who would be difficult to move.
Aside: I took the above quotes from the section of the Manual of Protective Action Guides that is designed to be used in the early stages of an incident. It is debatable whether the Fukushima situation still qualified for that treatment on March 16, but the section for the intermediate phase is even more cautious about using evacuation as the protective action. End Aside.
The Chairman’s recommendation for evacuation also violated another caution contained in the manual. In a lengthy discussion about computing the projected doses, the manual clearly indicates a preference for using conditions at the source that have been planned in advance as to trigger notification of off site officials so that evacuation can be implemented in an orderly fashion. The manual then states that as the incident progresses, actual measurements might be used as the basis for implementing further protective actions. It recognizes that there may be a situation with far more unknowns so it might be necessary to take action based on the results of models. However, here is what it says about using models for projected dose calculations:
The calculation of projected doses should be based on realistic dose models, to the extent practicable. Doses incurred prior to initiation of a protective action should not normally be included. Similarly, doses that may be received following the early phase should not be included for decisions on whether or not to evacuate or shelter. Such doses, which may occur from food and water, long-term radiation exposure to deposited radioactive materials, or long-term inhalation of resuspended materials, are chronic exposures for which neither emergency evacuation nor sheltering are appropriate protective actions.
All indications available in the United States showed that the Japanese government was proceeding in the same fashion as we would have proceeded in the US, with a well-coordinated effort to move people within predefined limits. Chairman Jaczko’s expanded recommended evacuation for Americans vastly complicated an already challenging situation, violated the guidelines produced by the Environmental Protection Agency, and did nothing to improve public safety. Radiation protection professionals should challenge the NRC’s emergency decision making process and find out exactly what the “most senior, expert staffers” that Jaczko says provided the recommendation were using as the basis for their conclusion that evacuation was the correct strategy.
Aside: Sources inside the NRC have told me that the decision was unilateral and not based on expert staff recommendations. Other commissioners have indicated publicly that they were not consulted before the order was issued. End Aside.
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Brian Mays says
Heh … there’s nothing like the courage of throwing the staff under the bus to cover for one’s own incompetence.
This is why the nuclear industry in the US needs to be particularly careful these days. Can you imagine what a Three-Mile-Island incident would be like with this guy in charge?
Up until his appointment to the NRC, Chairman Jaczko has never held a position where his decisions could have impacts beyond himself.
Ross says
I am sure it is not original, but I love the way he has defended the undependable by calling it courageous. All attacks on the decision are just further proof of the courage it took to make it.
I really hope I get to watch this decision end his career with the NRC. I do not believe that the “most senior, expert staffers” had anything to do with it.
‘undefendable’ not a word but what I intended.
Ross – I believe the word you are searching for is “indefensible”.
Garrett Krutilla says
To the outside observer, you appear to be frothing at the mouth. If you get no worthwhile response, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Essentially all of your political arguments against Rod boil down to cherry-picked facts or non verifiable rants. If you want the conversation to devolve into further meaninglessness, all we need is someone on the left posting Sarah Palin’s views on nuclear and how much further government loan guarantees for new nuclear plants have gone under Obama.
The most important thing you need to learn is that between left and right, we have very few true allies in high political positions. Trying to pretend that they are all on one side or the other is stupid. Spend your time confronting specific anti-nuclear politicals (politely, not like you have done with Rod) and ask them why they oppose us. Talk to people you personally know who are anti-nuclear and help them understand your position. Don’t spend your time making senseless rants on Rod’s blog.
The post this reply is responding to was deleted by the moderator as inappropriate.
I’m to the point where whatever comes out of the mouth of Chairmain Don’t-know-Jack makes me want to puke. When is he going to be fired as just another political hack/puppet for Senator Reid?
We have to get rid of these evacuation zone “radiuses”. They create the impression a much larger are is in danger than really is. They are also the source of fearmongering that insists any radiation release makes an area “uninhabitable”. Instead there should be more precise measures taken, such as giving them dosimeters and other tools (potassium idodine, flavanoids) and to all residents and training them on how to live safely in such a zone. Reports from Fukushima have shown (once again, just like with Chernobyl) that most residents WANT to stay there and are being forced out by the government. They should be allowed to stay.
Ioannes says
You’ve shown as a Demokrat how much you believe in free speech. Jackzo was put in charge by Obama. And you voted for Obama. Period.
Chuck P. says
I’d say Rod’s continued patience for you spouting venom shows quite a comittment to free speach.
Free speech is a constitutional guarantee that the government will not interfere with your right of expression. It does not apply to a privately hosted forum. Violate the standards and risk having your post deleted. Violate it too egregiously or to frequently and risk being banned.
Mike Himes says
Keep in mind several things different about Japan. 1. Corporate face saving is still part of Japanese culture. Anything short of removing oneself for failure in office is not acceptable.
2. The land of “Godzilla” is hooked on the rush that comes in both real and fictional perceptions of events.
3. Any country in shock after such a loss and tradgedy will respond mostly for self preservation rather some edict by obscure Tokyo administrators.
The imposition of a 50 mile zone for US Citizens by
Chairman Jaczko was viewed in Japan for what it was.
As a matter of fact the greater world outside the US may just ignor much of what comes from here other than our rising debt, unemployment and slugish response to advances in engineering and physics. No one makes us look like fools more than ourselves.
Joe Nuclear says
As a member of the emergency response organization at a US nuclear power plant I can say that making such an extreme protective action recommendation during an NRC graded drill and defending it as “courageous” would be justly perceived as incompetence and would be rewarded with a cited violation and probably a fine. The commissioner seems to know nothing about the standards of the industry he is charged with regulating. In a real emergency, the logistics of an evacuation fall on the local police and sheriff’s departments. To assume that the local authorities were capable of supporting this in the Fukushima Daiichi incident defies reason and to make this recommendation to Americans reeks of arrogance. A corollary would be for me to pick up my phone, should we have a real emergency, and flaunt my expertise by telling my buddies to get out of town. How would the public perceive this? I’m sure that’s the way it was perceived by the Japanese.
John Nagle says
Rod, I wonder what Jazcko would have to say about the concept of reducing the size of the EPZ based on the use of risk based analysis?
We really need solid information from Japan so that we can make rational decisions going forward.
What has been most interesting to me is that we need to revisit our communication plans in light of new technologies such as Social Networking and the 24 hour news cycle. Much like TMI, one of the biggests disasters at fukushima was communications.
Jason Kobos says
Its only my opinion but it appears that Jaczko is repeatedly defending his wrong decision more so because he does not want to admit being wrong than his former bosses desire to see nuclear shut down.
It is not in the blood of a politician to admit being wrong and it is never their fault.
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Jaime Lannister
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The Kingslayer
Lord Commander
of the Kingsguard
At Casterly Rock
Jaime Lannister known as the Kingslayer is the second child, and firstborn son, of Lord Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock and his wife Lady Joanna Lannister. He received his nickname after slaying the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen. Prior to that he became the second-youngest ever member of the Kingsguard.
1.1 Early Years
1.2 Raised to Knighthood
1.3 Kingsguard
1.4 The Kingslayer
He and his older twin sister Cersei were inseparable in their early childhood, going as far as to experiment together in a sexual manner at a young age. During one of these encounters, they were caught by Lady Joanna, their mother. Cersei was immediately exiled to the other side of the castle, and both twins were told never to do anything like that ever again.
At the age of eleven, Jaime was sent to Crakehall to become a squire for Ser Sumner Crakehall. Two years later, while still a squire, he won his first tourney melee.
Raised to Knighthood
At age of fifteen, he was knighted on the battlefield by Ser Arthur Dayne during the campaign against the Kingswood Brotherhood. He later stopped at Casterly Rock to visit his sister, who he had been separated from for those years. It was there that Cersei told him that Lord Tywin intended to marry him to Lysa Tully, second daughter of Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun. It was Cersei who suggested that Jaime become a member of the Kingsguard, replacing the recently deceased Ser Harlan Grandison to be close to her and free himself of the unwanted marriage to Lysa. After a night of passionate sex he gave his consent to Cersei's plan.
A moon's turn later, he was raised to the Kingsguard at a ceremony at Harrenhal by Ser Gerold Hightower. It was only later that night when King Aerys II Targaryen decided to send him back to King's Landing to guard Queen Rhaella and Prince Viserys, depriving him of the chance to participate in Lord Whent's tourney that he realized that Aerys had only chosen him for the Kingsguard as a slight against Lord Tywin of whom Aerys was insanely jealous. Furthermore, Cersei's ploy failed, as Lord Tywin resigned the Handship soon after, seeing Jaime's appointment as a slight by King Aerys intended to deprive him of his heir. Thus, instead of being together as they intended, Cersei and Jaime just swapped places. Jaime was left at Court, finding himself guarding a mad king while four lesser men became Hand of the King.
Kingsguard
During his time in the Kingsguard, Jaime was troubled morally by the decisions of King Aerys who was insane. Two notable examples, of Jaime's moral problems with King Aerys behavior was when King Aerys was raping and ravaging Queen Rhaella, and secondly, when King Aerys had Brandon Stark and Lord Rickard Stark executed. Jaime's trick to block out Aerys spectacularly cruel acts was to 'go away inside', something that he would later pass on to his son, Tommen as a way to deal with the harsh reality.
As King Aerys became increasingly insane, he began to see traitors everywhere and Varys was always there to point out those that he had missed. Aerys refused to let Jaime leave King's Landing and join the royal army, instead keeping him in Kings Landing to be used as a hostage against Lord Tywin who was still sitting on the sidelines in Robert's Rebellion. Lord Tywin Lannister was replaced as Hand of the King first by Lord Owen Merryweather who was exiled when he failed to deal with Robert's rebellion, and who Jaime nicknamed "the Chuckler" because he laughed at the King's witticisms. The second was Lord Jon Connington, who was exiled after the Battle of the Bells in which Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon won a notable victory over the Royalist forces.
The new Hand of the King after Lord Connington was exiled was Lord Chelsted. King Aerys began a plan with the help of his chief Pyromancers (including Lord Rossart, whom he later made Hand of the King) that would entail placing wildfire caches all over Kings Landing, intending to take the whole city with him if the royalists lost. When Lord Chelsted confronted Aerys about his genocidal plan he was burned alive. King Aerys then raised Lord Rossart, the King's favorite Pyromancer to the Handship. Meanwhile, Jaime observed the whole of Aerys's genocidal plan and knew where all of the wildfire was to be placed.
It was the Battle of the Trident that roused Lord Tywin to act. He marched his armies to the gates of Kings Landing. Even though Varys called Lord Tywin a traitor, King Aerys heeded the advice of Grand Maester Pycelle and opened his gates to Lord Tywin and his army. Once inside, Lord Tywin betrayed King Aerys and began the Sack of King's Landing. It was at this moment that Aerys gave Rossart the order to began his murderous plot to burn Kings Landing whilst telling Jaime to kill his father. Luckily, Jaime who had been privy to this plan, chose this moment to kill Rossart and then Aerys to prevent this plan from coming to fruition. At the time he killed King Aerys, Lord Tywin's men lead by Ser Elys Westerling and Lord Crakehall came into the hall, so there was no way Jaime could vanish. When asked who would be proclaimed as King, he thought about Prince Viserys or Prince Aegon but remembered that they carried Aerys tainted blood in them. It was after this that Jaime sat on the throne for a little while, before Ned Stark rode into the hall with his men to claim the throne for Robert Baratheon.
After the death of the last Targaryen king, Jaime secretly hunted down the two other pyromancers involvled in the plan to burn Kings Landing, Belis and Garigus. Jaime was pardoned by King Robert I Baratheon and continued to serve in his Kingsguard. Robert also gave him the name Kingslayer.
Jaime continued his illicit relationship with his sister, even though she was now married to King Robert, thus committing numerous acts of treason against King Robert. He fathered three children with Cersei: Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen.
Ser Jaime joined Queen Cersei, and King Robert in the journey to the North to name Ned Stark of Winterfell Hand of the King, after the death of Lord Jon Arryn, the previous Hand.
While at Winterfell, when King Robert was out hunting, Jaime and Cersei's illicit affair was observed by Bran Stark, who was climbing. As Bran began to slip, Jaime pulled him up, only to throw him out of the window, intending to kill him to keep the affair a secret.
Ned Stark did indeed accept King Robert's invitation to be Hand, and began to get closer and closer to discovering Jaime and Cersei's secret, by piecing together the fact that every time in history a Lannister had wed a Baratheon, raven haired children were produced instead of golden-haired children like Joffrey, Myrcella, and Tommen.
Meanwhile, Catelyn Stark, Lady of Winterfell captured Jaime's brother Tyrion on suspicion of involvement in a botched assassination attempt on Bran Stark. Jaime and Lannister men attacked Ned and his Northmen in the streets of King's Landing, leading to numerous deaths on both sides. Jaime fled Kings Landing and joined Lord Tywin.
Jaime then led an army of Westermen against the River Lords, smashing Edmure Tully's host at the Golden Tooth, and eventually besieging Riverrun. However, Lord Robb Stark, who had succeeded his father Ned Stark as Lord of Winterfell after the latter's execution, managed to defeat Jaime's army at the Battle of the Camps and captured Jaime. Afterwards, Jaime was imprisoned in Riverrun. Whilst he was at Riverrun, with the dismissal of Ser Barristan the Bold, Jaime became Lord Commander of the Kingsguard.
When Lord Tywin appointed Tyrion Hand of the King, Tyrion promised to help free Jaime to gain Cersei's support. Tyrion's plan to free Jaime, however was unsuccessful and thereafter he was transferred to a dungeon in Riverrun where he was kept chained and malnourished. During this period, Cersei was unfaithful to Jaime, taking their cousin Lancel as her lover.
While the War of the Five Kings raged around him, Jaime continued to be trapped in Riverrun as a prisoner until Catelyn Stark and Brienne of Tarth conspired to free him, hoping to exchange him for Sansa and Arya Stark, Catelyn's daughters who were believed to be held by the Queen in Kings Landing, after Tyrion, as Hand of the King, had sworn in open court to return the two girls for the return of Ser Jaime.
Brienne, Jaime, and his cousin Cleos Frey began the journey towards King's Landing, evading recapture by Ser Robin Ryger and his party from Riverrun, through Brienne's ingenious tactic of dropping boulders and rocks onto the chasing ship. However, they could not evade capture by the Brave Companions (also known as the Bloody Mummers) led by Vargo Hoat, who had betrayed Lord Tywin and now served the newly crowned King Robb Stark.
It was then that Lord Vargo ordered Zollo the Fat, one of his men, to chop Jaime's sword hand off, symbolically destroying everything that Jaime was. After this, Jaime lost the will to live until ironically, it was Brienne who reminded him that he had something to live for, namely, his family and for revenge. Lord Vargo then journeyed with Jaime and Brienne to Harrenhal, held by Lord Roose Bolton for King Robb.
While at Harrenhal, Jaime divulged to Brienne the events surrounding the Sack of Kings Landing, including Aerys's wildfire plot while they shared a bath in the bathhouse. Later, at dinner, Lord Bolton hinted that he would betray King Robb as long as Jaime would absolve him of the blame for the loss of his sword hand. Jaime agreed, and Lord Bolton announced that he would be escorted to Kings Landing by Steelshanks Walton. However, Brienne was to remain behind as Lord Vargo's prize.
It was after Lord Bolton had left, and Walton had begun the journey to Kings Landing with Jaime and fallen maester, Qyburn, who was charged with keeping Jaime healthy, that he fell asleep on a weirwood stump. Whilst asleep against the stump, Jaime had a dream about Brienne, and subsequently turned around and collected her from Harrenhal.
When the party arrived at King's Landing, King Joffrey had just died. As soon as he rode into the yard, Ser Loras Tyrell, who was now his brother Kingsguard, accused Brienne of murdering Renly Baratheon. However, Jaime quickly defused this situation by having Brienne arrested rather than allowing Loras to kill her. He then proceeded to the sept, where Cersei was, and there met another new brother Kingsguard, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, who was another of Cersei's lovers. Once inside the Sept, Cersei and Jaime had sex in front of their son Joffrey's corpse.
However, this was to mark the last time that he and Cersei shared intimate relations as their relationship began to fall apart afterwards. His brother Tyrion, who had known that Joffrey was in fact his son and not Robert's, was accused of poisoning Joffrey. Jaime's relationship with his father also fell apart as he refused to resign from the Kingsguard. It was at this time that he was given a Valyrian Steel Sword (later named Oathkeeper), made from Ned Stark's sword, Ice, that he would later pass onto Brienne, to aid her in her quest to find and keep Sansa Stark safe from Cersei and all those that would turn her in for the reward posted by Cersei.
When both trial by words and by battle failed Tyrion, Jaime still did not believe that Tyrion was the murderer and forced Lord Varys to arrange his escape. It was then that Jaime admitted to Tyrion that Tyrion's first wife, Tysha was not a whore but in fact a crofter's daughter as she claimed to be. Incensed at this revelation, Tyrion hit Jaime, and falsely claimed responsibility for the murder of Joffrey, and also revealed the truth about Cersei's sexual escapades with Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack.
Following the murder of his father by his brother Tyrion, Jaime remains in King's Landing and stands vigil over Tywin. During the night, Cersei comes to him and pleads for him to become the King's Hand. He refuses and Cersei leaves angrily, stating she was a fool for ever having loved him. Following the funeral, Jaime, on Cersei's command, leaves King's Landing with the intention of lifting the siege on Riverrun.
During the journey, Jaime spars with Ser Ilyn Payne during the nights, in order to train himself how to fight left-handed. Along the way he stops at Harrenhal, where he installs Ser Bonifer as castellan and releases the few prisoners kept there, including Wylis Manderly. He also stops at Castle Darry where his cousin, Lancel, confesses to having slept with Cersei.
Soon after, Jaime arrives at Riverrun. He holds a parlay with Brynden Tully, who is holding the castle, but is unsuccessful in convincing him to release the castle. He then speaks with Edmure Tully, the current Lord of Riverrun, who is held prisoner by the besieging forces. Jaime tells Edmure that he is to be released and returned to Riverrun. If he yields the castle, the garrison will be spared and all that wish to join the Night's Watch will be allowed to. If he does not, the castle will be sacked and burned, and Jaime will kill Edmure's child as soon as his wife gives birth. Edmure decides to yield the castle and is taken to Casterly Rock as a prisoner. However, Edmure's uncle Brynden escapes by swimming under the Water Gate at night. Jaime is furious at this and sends some of his men to find him but they are unsuccessful.
Soon after, Jaime receives a letter from Cersei asking for help. Cersei has been imprisoned by the High Septon and is to go on trial. Cersei requests Jaime as her champion in a potential trial-by-combat. Jaime does not reply to the letter and asks to have it burned.
Jaime is a tall man, with golden hair. He has "flashing green eyes and a smile that cut like a knife". He is widely considered to be beautiful.
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There are no men like me. There's only me.
The things I do for love. - AGOT 9
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Prominent Israeli settler rabbi calls for "cleansing" of Palestinians
Dov Lior - Chief Settler Rabbi and Neo-Nazi Rabbi Submitted
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Israelis burn a Palestinian flag and shout racist slogans, during an anti-Palestinian protest at the Gush Etzion junction in the occupied West Bank, 16 June. (Oren Ziv / APA images)
A well-known Israeli settler rabbi recently called for Israel to “cleanse” the territories it occupies of all Palestinians, according to the news website The Times of Israel.
During a visit to Israeli settlers on 30 September in the occupied West Bank, Rabbi Dov Lior said that Israel “must strive to cleanse the entire country” of Palestinians, ostensibly referring to present-day Israel, the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.
Lior, who is the chief rabbi for Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron and in the Kiryat Arba settlement, was speaking at an event at Givat Oz Vgaon, an “outpost” colony recently established in the Etzion bloc of settlements in the central West Bank.
From the time it occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) in 1967, Israel has recognized 125 Jewish-only settlements that today harbor a population of an estimated 550,000 Israeli Jews, according to the human rights group B’Tselem.
Givat Oz Vgaon is one of more than one hundred smaller colonies known as “outposts” that also dot the map of the territory. Though outposts are considered illegal even under Israeli law, they are often provided with state resources, including funding, and are protected by the Israeli military.
“There was no peace and there will never be peace, not because we do not want [peace], but because there is no one to make peace with,” Lior said, as reported by The Times of Israel.
Using even more racist and orientalist language, he added: “This is their character, they are for war, and the traits of a nation do not change.”
He also said the Israeli government ought to force Palestinians to “return” to Saudi Arabia, employing old Israeli tropes that claim Palestinians are not indigenous to historic Palestine.
History of racism
Palestinians “know how to lead a democratic government just like I know how to deal with camels,” he further commented in his speech.
These latest outbursts are part of Lior’s long history of racist and anti-Palestinian incitement.
During Israel’s 51-day massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip this summer, Lior called for the complete destruction of the besieged coastal enclave, home to an estimated 1.8 million Palestinians living under suffocating Israeli restrictions.
Israel is “allowed to punish the enemy population with measures it finds suitable, such as blocking supplies or electricity, as well as shelling the entire area according to the army minister’s judgment, and not to needlessly endanger soldiers but rather to take crushing deterring steps to exterminate the enemy,” Lior said, as reported by The Jerusalem Post at the time.
“In the case of Gaza, it would be permitted for the defense minister to even order the destruction of all of Gaza,” he continued.
Though Israeli politicians subsequently called for an investigation into Lior’s incitement, there is thus far no indication that any action has been taken. And despite having been arrested by Israeli authorities in the past, the prominent settler rabbi was not charged with any crimes and has been allowed to continue unabated.
In October 2013, Ma’an News Agency reported that Lior was one of the leaders of a campaign to ban Jewish women from working night shifts in hospitals alongside Arab coworkers.
Citing a television report by Israel’s Channel 10, Ma’an reported that one of the groups involved in the campaign was Lehava, a Zionist group dedicated to preventing romantic relationships between Israeli Jews and Palestinians.
According to Gershom Gorenberg’s book The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, Lior “once wrote that Israel should use captured Arab terrorists as guinea pigs for medical experiments.”
Lior was also reportedly the personal rabbi of Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli settler who massacred 29 Palestinians and injured more than one hundred when he opened fire on worshippers in a Hebron mosque in 1994.
Lior has said of Goldstein that he is “holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust,” Ma’an also noted.
“Gentile sperm”
Back in 2011, Lior told a women’s health conference that it is forbidden for Jewish women to accept semen donated by non-Jews in order to artificially inseminate pregnancy. Doing so, he claimed, leads to children being born with the “negative genetic traits that characterize non-Jews,” The Jerusalem Post reported at the time.
“Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring,” he said.
While calling for Israel to completely annex the occupied West Bank in September 2011, Lior referred to Arabs as “evil camel riders.”
The rabbi is a leading member of the Tekumah political faction, a group that merged with the Habeyit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party in late 2012.
Habeyit Hayehudi is home to politicians including Naftali Bennett, Israel’s current economy minister who also regularly calls for Israel to annex the occupied West Bank. “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that,” Bennett said in a July 2013 interview.
Ayelet Shaked, another prominent Habeyit Hayehudi lawmaker, gained notoriety in July after she endorsed a genocidal call for Israel kill Palestinian mothers because they give birth to “little snakes.”
Lior is just one of the many anti-Palestinian figures who hold prominent public roles in Israeli communities and political institutions. And this is by no means an exhaustive account of his anti-Palestinian incitement.
Labels: Baruch Goldstein, Dov Lior, Givat Oz Vgaon, Gush Etzion, HaBayit HaYehudi, Hebron, Jewish Home, Kiryat Arba, Lehava, Naftali Bennett
What if it was Your Child? Israeli Soldiers’ Child Abuse
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1410694442525214&fref=nf
This video speaks for itself and demonstrates how ritual sadism and brutality has become an integral part of the Occupation army’s operations.
British MPs and the Vote for a Palestinian State
Latest News: Motion Passed by 274-12
Ed Balls - Labour Shadow Chancellor
One of the key opponents of today's motion in favour of a Palestinian State is Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls. I'm sure it is a coincidence but who is named as a donor on his site but the Labour Friends of Israel
The amount of donation (total for flights, accommodation and transport) is estimated to be about £1,000. The destination of visit was Israel and the Palestinian Territories
Miliband Supported Motion Unlike Ed Balls
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-commons-debates/read/unknown/433/
The House divided: Ayes 274, Noes 12.
Division No. 54][9.58 pm]
Abbott, Ms Diane
Abrahams, Debbie
Ainsworth, rh Mr Bob
Alexander, rh Mr Douglas
Alexander, Heidi
Ali, Rushanara
Allen, Mr Graham
Anderson, Mr David
Ashworth, Jonathan
Bacon, Mr Richard
Bailey, Mr Adrian
Bain, Mr William
Banks, Gordon
Barron, rh Kevin
Beckett, rh Margaret
Begg, Dame Anne
Benn, rh Hilary
Benyon, Richard
Betts, Mr Clive
Birtwistle, Gordon
Blackman-Woods, Roberta
Blenkinsop, Tom
Blomfield, Paul
Bottomley, Sir Peter
Bradshaw, rh Mr Ben
Brennan, Kevin
Bridgen, Andrew
Brooke, rh Annette
Brown, Lyn
Brown, Mr Russell
Bruce, rh Sir Malcolm
Bryant, Chris
Buck, Ms Karen
Burden, Richard
Burnham, rh Andy
Byrne, rh Mr Liam
Campbell, rh Mr Alan
Campbell, rh Sir Menzies
Campbell, Mr Ronnie
Carmichael, Neil
Caton, Martin
Champion, Sarah
Chapman, Jenny
Clarke, rh Mr Tom
Coaker, Vernon
Connarty, Michael
Cooper, Rosie
Cooper, rh Yvette
Creasy, Stella
Crockart, Mike
Crouch, Tracey
Cruddas, Jon
Cryer, John
Cunningham, Mr Jim
Cunningham, Sir Tony
Curran, Margaret
Dakin, Nic
Danczuk, Simon
David, Wayne
Davidson, Mr Ian
Davies, David T. C. (Monmouth)
Davies, Geraint
De Piero, Gloria
Denham, rh Mr John
Dobson, rh Frank
Docherty, Thomas
Donohoe, Mr Brian H.
Doran, Mr Frank
Doughty, Stephen
Dowd, Jim
Doyle, Gemma
Dromey, Jack
Duncan, rh Sir Alan
Durkan, Mark
Eagle, Ms Angela
Eagle, Maria
Efford, Clive
Elliott, Julie
Esterson, Bill
Evans, Chris
Farrelly, Paul
Field, rh Mr Frank
Fitzpatrick, Jim
Flello, Robert
Flint, rh Caroline
Flynn, Paul
Fuller, Richard
Gapes, Mike
Garnier, Sir Edward
George, Andrew
Gillan, rh Mrs Cheryl
Gilmore, Sheila
Glindon, Mrs Mary
Goodman, Helen
Greatrex, Tom
Green, Kate
Greenwood, Lilian
Grieve, rh Mr Dominic
Griffith, Nia
Hames, Duncan
Hamilton, Mr David
Hancock, Mr Mike
Hanson, rh Mr David
Harman, rh Ms Harriet
Harvey, Sir Nick
Healey, rh John
Heath, Mr David
Hemming, John
Hendrick, Mark
Hepburn, Mr Stephen
Hermon, Lady
Heyes, David
Hillier, Meg
Hilling, Julie
Hodgson, Mrs Sharon
Hollobone, Mr Philip
Holloway, Mr Adam
Hood, Mr Jim
Hopkins, Kelvin
Horwood, Martin
Hosie, Stewart
Howarth, rh Mr George
Hunter, Mark
Huppert, Dr Julian
Irranca-Davies, Huw
Jackson, Glenda
Jamieson, Cathy
Jarvis, Dan
Johnson, Diana
Jones, rh Mr David
Jones, Graham
Jones, Mr Kevan
Jones, Susan Elan
Kane, Mike
Kaufman, rh Sir Gerald
Keeley, Barbara
Khan, rh Sadiq
Latham, Pauline
Lavery, Ian
Lazarowicz, Mark
Leech, Mr John
Leigh, Sir Edward
Leslie, Charlotte
Leslie, Chris
Lewell-Buck, Mrs Emma
Liddell-Grainger, Mr Ian
Lilley, rh Mr Peter
Llwyd, rh Mr Elfyn
Long, Naomi
Loughton, Tim
Love, Mr Andrew
Lucas, Caroline
Lucas, Ian
Lumley, Karen
MacNeil, Mr Angus Brendan
Mactaggart, Fiona
Mahmood, Mr Khalid
Mahmood, Shabana
Main, Mrs Anne
Malhotra, Seema
Marsden, Mr Gordon
McCabe, Steve
McCarthy, Kerry
McCartney, Jason
McClymont, Gregg
McDonagh, Siobhain
McDonald, Andy
McDonnell, John
McGovern, Jim
McInnes, Liz
McKechin, Ann
McKenzie, Mr Iain
McKinnell, Catherine
Meacher, rh Mr Michael
Mearns, Ian
Menzies, Mark
Miliband, rh Edward
Miller, Andrew
Moon, Mrs Madeleine
Moore, rh Michael
Morden, Jessica
Morrice, Graeme (Livingston)
Morris, Grahame M. (Easington)
Mudie, Mr George
Mulholland, Greg
Nandy, Lisa
Nash, Pamela
O'Donnell, Fiona
Ollerenshaw, Eric
Onwurah, Chi
Osborne, Sandra
Owen, Albert
Perkins, Toby
Phillipson, Bridget
Pound, Stephen
Pugh, John
Qureshi, Yasmin
Raynsford, rh Mr Nick
Reed, Mr Jamie
Reid, Mr Alan
Reynolds, Emma
Riordan, Mrs Linda
Ritchie, Ms Margaret
Robathan, rh Mr Andrew
Robertson, Angus
Robertson, rh Sir Hugh
Robertson, Mr Laurence
Rotheram, Steve
Roy, Mr Frank
Roy, Lindsay
Ruane, Chris
Ruddock, rh Dame Joan
Russell, Sir Bob
Sanders, Mr Adrian
Sarwar, Anas
Sawford, Andy
Seabeck, Alison
Sharma, Mr Virendra
Sheerman, Mr Barry
Sheridan, Jim
Shuker, Gavin
Skinner, Mr Dennis
Slaughter, Mr Andy
Smith, Nick
Smith, Owen
Smith, Sir Robert
Soames, rh Sir Nicholas
Stephenson, Andrew
Stewart, Bob
Straw, rh Mr Jack
Stuart, Ms Gisela
Stunell, rh Sir Andrew
Sutcliffe, Mr Gerry
Swales, Ian
Tami, Mark
Teather, Sarah
Thomas, Mr Gareth
Thornberry, Emily
Thornton, Mike
Timms, rh Stephen
Trickett, Jon
Turner, Mr Andrew
Turner, Karl
Twigg, Derek
Twigg, Stephen
Umunna, Mr Chuka
Vaz, rh Keith
Vaz, Valerie
Vickers, Martin
Walley, Joan
Ward, Mr David
Watts, Mr Dave
Weir, Mr Mike
Wharton, James
Whiteford, Dr Eilidh
Whitehead, Dr Alan
Williams, Hywel
Williams, Mr Mark
Williams, Roger
Williamson, Chris
Wilson, Phil
Winnick, Mr David
Winterton, rh Ms Rosie
Wishart, Pete
Wollaston, Dr Sarah
Wright, Mr Iain
Yeo, Mr Tim
Tellers for the Ayes:
Alex Cunningham
Crispin Blunt
Beith, rh Sir Alan
Blackman, Bob
Djanogly, Mr Jonathan
Dodds, rh Mr Nigel
Freer, Mike
McCrea, Dr William
Mills, Nigel
Offord, Dr Matthew
Paisley, Ian
Shannon, Jim
Simpson, David
Syms, Mr Robert
Tellers for the Noes:
Mike Wood
Question accordingly agreed to.
Resolved,
That this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a negotiated two state solution.
Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) (Lab):
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The House has voted emphatically tonight to support the recognition of the Palestinian state. That is good news, which will be well received by many people, and we should bear witness to those thousands who marched and demonstrated and those thousands who e-mailed us.
If I may, I will briefly explain why I and my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen (Mike Wood) were tellers for a position that we do not actually hold. It was to ensure that democracy could take place and that Members could record their vote, because those who were opposed to the motion declined to put up tellers. We have thus ensured democracy here tonight. The constituents whom we all represent will be able to see what influence they were able to have on their Members of Parliament, ensuring that this historic vote took place.
Mr Speaker: Residents of Islington North and the nation at large are now fully apprised of the motivation of the hon. Gentleman and of his colleague. I thank him.
Political wrangling with no diplomatic impact
At Britain’s general election in seven months, the political future of dozens of Labour MPs could be in the hands of Muslim voters.
In Opposing the Labour Party's Parliamentary Group's agreeing to support a Palestinian state (leaving to one side the question of whether such a solution is viable) we see the ghost of New Labour and Blair rearing their head.
Their arguments about not prejudging ‘peace negotiations’ are thoroughly dishonest since Israel has consistently blocked any progress in the talks in favour of building further settlement blocs.
Israel’s Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon stated that ‘Israel’s ruling party and the governing coalition are staunchly opposed to a two-state solution and would block the creation of a Palestinian state if such a proposal ever came to a vote… " contradicting statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior cabinet members who say Jerusalem is committed to the principle of two states for two peoples.’
Except that for Netanyahu, such a State would be a state in name only. Completely demilitarised, with Israeli forces stationed within it, the settlements continuing to remain and resources such as Water continuing to come under Israeli control.
The British parliament is expected Monday to vote for a motion recognizing an independent Palestinian state. The move is only symbolic; it does not oblige the British government in any way.
Still, it is causing turmoil in the main opposition party, Labour, where a group of senior members, including front-bench shadow ministers, are claiming that the motion contradicts long-standing British foreign policy, including that of Labour governments. They say it is largely motivated by local political considerations.
Two years ago, Britain abstained from a UN vote recognizing Palestine as a nonmember observer state; the official position remains that such recognition should be the fruit of a peace agreement with Israel.
The motion was submitted by a group of pro-Palestinian MPs, led by the head of Labour Friends of Palestine, Grahame Morris, who earlier this year had to apologize for comparing Israel to the Nazis. It was approved by the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander. Labour chief Ed Miliband is backing Alexander, but senior party members who support Israel have complained that they were not consulted and have asked to be allowed to stay away from the vote.
Miliband has been under increasing fire in recent weeks as the party stagnates in the polls and because few Britons, even Labour supporters, see him as a suitable prime minister. He has been struggling to stave off a split in the party over the Palestine issue.
In an unprecedented move, Miliband has crafted a strategy under which shadow cabinet members would stay away from the vote rather than defy the party line, a step that could force them to resign. Many Labor MPs are indeed expected to keep their distance.
The whips of the parties in the governing coalition — the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats — do not expect their members to attend the vote, and the chief Conservative whip, Michael Gove, one of Israel’s most vocal supporters in British politics, has advised his party’s MPs to stay away and minimize the symbolic effect of the motion’s passing.
Despite Gove’s efforts, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s low profile on the issue and the low attendance expected, the vote is still drawing a great deal of attention. This is partly due to lobbying by Labour Friends of Israel, which is trying to amend the motion to say that recognition of Palestine should only come after “the conclusion of successful peace negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.”
The motion’s supporters who say the amendment empties their resolution of meaning countered with an amendment of their own: Recognition would be “a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution.”
Meanwhile, British and European Jewish organizations have further complicated things by launching their own initiatives, calling on MPs to either oppose the motion or support the amendment. This lobbying was not coordinated with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which preferred to play down the vote rather than fight it.
A passed motion would have very little impact on Britain’s foreign policy, if at all, but it would have a whole lot to do with local politics. At Britain’s general election in seven months, the political future of dozens of Labour MPs who hold slim margins in their constituencies could be in the hands of Muslim voters. They fear that not voting to recognize Palestine could keep these voters at home or shift them to other parties.
Muslim voters, however, do not have similar weight in constituencies that are crucial to the Conservatives, and Prime Minister David Cameron has agreed with his election strategist, Lynton Crosby, that if the party courts the Muslim vote, it stands to lose many traditional right-wing voters who are already leaning toward the anti-immigration U.K. Independence Party, UKIP.
During the Gaza conflict this summer, Cameron withstood pressure from his Liberal-Democrat coalition partners who called on him to condemn Israel’s actions. He was eventually forced to accept a statement by the Liberal-Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable that during an escalation in Gaza, the government would consider suspending export licenses for British arms to Israel.
That statement, too, had little meaning (and Israel purchases very few arms from Britain anyway), but it was another sign of how the Israel-Palestine conflict is a sensitive issue in local British politics. On Monday, when parliament votes in favor of recognizing Palestine, we’ll witness another political statement with local significance but no real diplomatic impact.
LATEST: Vote on Palestinian state
363 Israeli public figures have signed a letter to the Members of the British Parliament, calling upon them to vote in favor of British recognition of a Palestinian State, to be created side-by-side with Israel.
By Anshel Pfeffer Oct. 12, 2014
[the reality of the Israeli position is that of Israel's Defence Minister Ya'alon]
Defense minister: This government will block any two-state deal
There is a zero chance of Israel agreeing to a separate Palestinian state. Its whole settlement policy has been aimed at blocking such a solution. An independent state contradicts the expansionist nature of Israeli settler colonialism. Even before the ‘peace negotiations’ began, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon attacked US Secretary of State John Kerry:
‘On 14 January, Israel's defense minister Moshe Ya'alon rejected the negotiations and insulted John Kerry, saying he was acting based upon "messianic feeling", and that "The only thing that can 'save' us is that John Kerry will get a Nobel Peace Prize and leave us alone.’
Palestinian Refugees in 1948 - expelled by the Palmach shock troops which the Zionist left led
The Guilty and Hypocrisy of the Zionist 'Left'
Mapam Founder
Tikva Honig-Parnass is one of the most dedicated supporters of the Palestinians and opponents of Zionism. In 1948 she fought for the Zionists in their War of so-called Independence. But she is wrong about the Zionist 'left's' support for the Gaza assault signifying its erasure from Israel's political map. This is to substitute wishful thinking for historical analysis.
Maki - Jewish Communist Part Election Poster 1948
Historically the Zionist ‘left’ has been equally culpable, if not more so, than the ‘right’ when it came to the oppression of the Palestinians. The Naqba was perpetrated by the Zionist left, not least of which was the ‘Marxist’ Mapam party. It was the Zionist ‘left’ which instituted military rule over the Israeli Palestinians until 1966. The whole system of Israeli Apartheid was the creation of the Zionist ‘left’. There is nothing the Zionist ‘Right’ of Likud has done which Labour Zionism hasn’t done before it.
Mapam Election Day Rally - Haifa 1986
The Zionist 'left' It supported the Lebanon War and all the attacks on Gaza, the deportations, confiscations and similar measures. See Begin and Sharon have done Nothing that Labour Hasn't Done Before Them
ZIONIST LEFT SUPPORT FOR BLOODY ASSAULTS ON GAZA SIGNIFIES ITS ERASURE FROM ISRAEL’S POLITICAL MAP
Rima Najjar with Tikva Honig-Parnass
"Israel’s Left no longer exists as a distinct political and cultural entity."
"What distinguishes this new stage of commitment to the colonial state of Israel by Left intellectuals is their departure from what remains of their weak commitment to universalistic values. They are now fully integral to the chauvinist, racist state of Israel which is the tool for the embodiment and expansion of Zionist colonial project."
Mapam Election Day Rally
by Tikva Honig-Parnass, Oct 1 2014
- The Ongoing War on Gaza
- 2008-2009 Cast Lead Massacre in Gaza
- David Grossman Praises the Army’s Restraint
- Professor Zeev Sternhell Defends the Army for Following Orders
- A New Combat Doctrine which Violates International Law
- July 2014: Operation Protective Edge
- David Grossman Does not See, Does not Hear, Does not Speak
- Zeev Sternhell’s Lack of Empathy and Moral Judgment
The aim of this article is to pinpoint the explicit and implicit support of the Zionist Left intellectuals usually identified with Labor or Meretz for the brutal attacks on Gaza since 2006. This support is a new stage in the Left intellectuals’ loyalty to the state and its oppressive policies against the Palestinian people. The viciousness of mass murder and horrid devastation of Gaza, chiefly in the recent Operation Protective Edge, have reached unprecedented levels. Their support by the “most enlightened” public figures in Israeli society amounts to total disregard for basic human rights and international lawsand erases any meaningful difference between them and the Right.
The silence of the Zionist Left majority in response to the massacres in Gaza—including the discourse of evasion and emotional detachment by the very few who did react—indicates a complete absence of basic humanitarian values and concepts of justice. The meaning of state security, stretched to include repression of Palestinian resistance by any bloody means, unites the Zionist Left with the Right in a joint war against the Palestinian people. The Left which has been recognized as the offspring of the mythological Zionist labor movement has been wiped off the political map.
One would perhaps expect opposition to such an operation from, for example, Meretz MP Haim Oron, the past general secretary of Mapam and a member of Kibbutz Lahav, affiliated to the Hashomer Hatzair stream of the Kibbutz movement. However, on Friday, 24 July, 2014, when 150 children had already been killed in Gaza, Oron declared that his party, Meretz, would not participate in the big demonstration against the operation planned for Saturday night. The daily Maariv noted:
Thousands of Jews and Arabs are expected to participate in the demonstration. They would waive the Palestinian Authority flag (sic) and raise placards condemning the military operation [in Gaza], calling for the removal of the siege of the Strip, and ending the occupation of the West Bank.
The demonstration was organized by a coalition of what’s called “Left factions” including Palestinian-Arab (Balad and Raam Taal), Palestinian-Jewish (Hadash, the front headed by the Communist Party), and Daam, the Workers Party. Jewish protest movements like Bat Shalom and Anarchists Against the Wall, as well as NGO’s like The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICHAD) and the Alternative Information Center (AIC), declared their participation in the demonstration. All in all these are very small groups which could not mobilize many participants for the few demonstrations there were against the war on Gaza. Oron explained the Meretz position, which opposed the risking of Israeli lives by landing troops inside Gaza, but not the operation itself:
Our position is essentially different from the common denominator of those groups which organized the demonstration: Meretz supports the operation in Gaza. These groups don’t accept the basic right of the State of Israel to self defense, whereas we support it. A massive majority of the Party’s board voted for the justification of the operation while voting for a resolution to oppose the landing act.[i]
One would assume that facing the mass murder and displacement which had already taken place by this time (24 July), those self-proclaimed fighters for universal human values would take to the streets and join whoever opposed the massacre in Gaza.
But they didn’t. Moreover, Oron and his party members knew well from past onslaughts on Gaza what horrific massacre and devastation were about to occur. However they did not join this demonstration or others organized by independent groups (or the Communist Party) which were violently confronted by right wing gangs with the help of the police.
The Zionist Left/Liberal intellectuals and academics did not adopt an explicit condemnation of the Israeli “combat” in Gaza, or even make public any alarm at the genocide committed there. I refer here to those intellectuals and academics who since the establishment of the State (and prior to it) have supplied the moral and “scientific” legitimacy for Israel’s colonialist policies which continue the ethnic cleansing begun in 1948.
Many of those Left/Liberal intellectuals and academics participated in articulating the guiding ideology of the State of Israel under the rule of the Zionist Labor movement in the first decades of the state. Others among them have accepted their predecessors’ teaching and elaborated on its premises.
They support the principal idea of Israel’s established political culture: “security of the state” is sanctified as a sacred
Israel’s Supreme Court Legalizes Segregated Communities
An excellent, well contextualized analysis of the further entrenchment of Jim Crow/Apartheid Israel.
By +972 Blog
The Israeli Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed various petitions against the Admissions Committees Law, which allows admissions committees in hundreds of communities in Israel to reject housing applicants based on their “social suitability.”
By Amjad Iraqi
March 8, 2000 marked a unique moment in Israeli history. In a major decision, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that the town of Katzir, which was established on state land by the Jewish Agency, could not deny the right of the Arab Ka’adan family to live in the town simply on the basis that they were not Jewish. This was the first time that Palestinian citizens of Israel successfully challenged the legality of “Jewish-only” communities in the state, generating cautious optimism that it could set an important precedent for Palestinian rights in land and housing.
Fifteen years later, on September 17, 2014, these hopes came to an abrupt end. In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court dismissed various petitions filed by human rights groups against the Admissions Committees Law, enacted by the Knesset in 2011. The law allows admissions committees in 434 communities in the Negev and the Galilee (about 43 percent of all towns in Israel) to reject housing applicants based on their “social suitability” and the communities’ “social and cultural fabric.” In effect, these committees are now legally permitted to refuse residency based on any “undesired” identity, including Palestinian, Sephardic, African, gay, religious, secular and others.
The Admissions Committees Law is the Israeli right wing’s response to the Supreme Court ruling in the Ka’adan case. Realizing that marginalized groups were increasingly challenging the state’s discriminatory practices, the Knesset under the 2009-12 Netanyahu government sought to turn Israel’s historical policies against these groups into law. Many Knesset members openly declared that the purpose of these laws was to subdue the “threats” posed by Palestinian citizens to the Jewish character of the state. The authors of the Admissions Committees Law even stated that, though deliberately written in neutral language, its main aim was to prevent Arab citizens from living with Jews.
This objective of segregation is not a new phenomenon in Israel, and has in fact been a central, ongoing practice since the state’s establishment in 1948. Legislation ranging from the Absentees Property Law (1950) to the Negev Individual Settlements Law (2011), along with the policies of the Jewish National Fund, Israel Land Authority and the government itself, operate with the explicit goal of securing maximum and privileged control of land for Israel’s Jewish citizens – a process known as “Judaization.” This runs jointly with the state’s goal of minimizing and concentrating non-Jewish communities in Israel, resulting in the mass confiscation of Palestinian land and the containment of Palestinian towns through discriminatory planning, home demolitions and unequal resource allocation.
However, what makes the admissions committees case significant is that the Supreme Court – the supposed bastion of Israeli democracy – has upheld this clearly discriminatory law, claiming that it could not determine yet if the law violated constitutional rights. Numerous petitions condemned the law from multiple angles, including nationality, race, religion and sexual orientation, but the court swept them aside. More importantly, the court directly undermined its own landmark ruling in the Ka’adan case, overriding one of the few legal decisions that set a precedent for minority rights in Israel and the struggle against state-sanctioned discrimination.
The latest ruling instead illustrates the deteriorating status of Palestinian citizens of Israel at the hands of an increasingly right-wing government and high court. Rather than introducing laws that guarantee equal rights for all of Israel’s citizens, the Knesset has worked to deepen racial inequality and consolidate its discriminatory vision for the state. Meanwhile, the judiciary has allowed the government to carry out this program, choosing not to set precedents on critical cases affecting Palestinian rights. With more discriminatory laws being introduced – including the Prawer Plan Bill, the Contributors to the State Bill, and the Jewish Nation-State Bill – Palestinian citizens and others are left fearing that, despite their best efforts to overturn it, race will continue to be the prime determinant of their rights.
It is therefore up to the public, non-governmental actors and the international community to take a principled stance against this unjust law. Racial separation, especially when engineered by a state, must elicit the same condemnation as other cases have before.
Under the segregation laws of the Jim Crow South, gentrification and ghettoization were deliberately used against black Americans in order to keep white neighborhoods economically superior and racially homogenous, the effects of which remain damaging to this day. A more infamous comparison is apartheid South Africa’s Group Areas Act, which legalized the state’s policy of designating land for separate races. Like some of the Israeli law’s proponents today, South Africa’s leaders attempted to sugar-coat their intentions by describing racial separation as a policy of “good neighborliness.” However, such claims cannot conceal the fact that the Israeli Supreme Court’s approval of the Admissions Committees Law has granted legal cover for the principle of segregation and, at worst, has permitted a housing system that disturbingly resembles apartheid.
Amjad Iraqi is a projects and advocacy coordinator at Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
Israeli Supreme Court upholds "Admissions Committees Law" thatallows Israeli Jewish communities to exclude Palestinian Arab citizens
The Israeli town of Rakefet. In 2006, the town's admissions committee rejected the application of a Palestinian couple due to "social unsuitability"; after a six-year legal battle, the couple was allowed to live there after the Supreme Court ruled that the rejection was discriminatory. (Photo adapted from Hanay/Wikimedia Commons)
Israeli Supreme Court: "We cannot determine at this stage whether the law violates constitutional rights"
Adalah: "The Supreme Court’s decision entrenches racial segregation; 434 small communities in Israel, or 43% of all residential areas, will be allowed to close their doors to Palestinian Arab citizens of the state."
(Haifa, Israel) Today, 17 September 2014, in a 5 to 4 decision, an expanded panel of the Israeli Supreme Court decided to dismiss a petition brought by Adalah three years ago against the "Admissions Committees Law". The law allows for hundreds of Israeli Jewish communities in the Naqab (Negev) in the south and in the Galilee in the north to reject applicants for housing based on the criteria of "social suitability" and the "social and cultural fabric" of the town.
The law allows the possibility of rejecting applicants who are Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, as well as other marginalized groups, solely on the basis of their race, ethnicity, religion, or other identity. The court's decision effectively legalizes the principle of segregation in housing between Arab and Jewish citizens, and permits the practice of racism against Arab citizens in about 434 communities, or 43% of all towns in Israel. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) also filed a petition against this law.
In response, Adalah stated that the Court’s decision, "gives the green light for 434 communities to exist based on the principle of segregated housing. This law is one of the most racist pieces of legislation enacted in recent years, the primary objective of which is to marginalize Arab citizens and prevent them from accessing housing on 'state land' in many communities. The court's decision upholds one of the most dangerous laws in Israel."
Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara, who filed the petition, added that: "The court's decision seriously undermines its landmark decision in 1999 in the Ka'adan case. That case allowed an Arab family to move to the town of Katzir despite their rejection by the town's admissions committee. This latest court decision illustrates the continued deterioration of the constitutional rights and legal protection of Palestinian citizens of Israel." Attorney Bishara further stated that the new decision, "allows the principle of separation in residency based on national identity, and as such, 434 communities will be allowed to close their doors to Arab citizens."
The Admissions Committees Law, enacted by the Knesset in 2011, gives "admissions committees" – bodies that select applicants for housing units and plots of land – almost full discretion to accept or reject individuals from living in these towns. The committees include a representative from the Jewish Agency or the World Zionist Organization, quasi-governmental entities. The Committees, in practice, filter out Arab Palestinian applicants and others from marginalized groups. While one of the provisions of the law states a duty to respect the right to equality and prevent discrimination, the law allows these committees to reject applicants deemed "unsuitable to the social life of the community…or the social and cultural fabric of the town," thereby legitimizing the exclusion of entire groups. The law also authorizes admissions committees to adopt criteria determined by individual community towns themselves based on their "special characteristics", including those community towns that have defined themselves as having a "Zionist vision."
In the last hearing on the case before the Supreme Court on 4 December 2012, Attorney Bishara argued that, "the law marginalizes certain groups, creating a legal, constitutional, and legitimate basis for discrimination. The law allows for division of state land based on vague cultural and social standards – and not even the state can explain which criteria admissions committees could use to accept or reject candidates. The law will open the door to arbitrary decisions based on prejudices and personal grudges."
Attorney Bishara added after that hearing that, “The law is functioning the same way it did previously as a policy, deterring many segments of the population, especially Palestinian Arab citizens of the state, from applying for housing in these towns for fear of rejection. The law has serious implications now and has had for many years, so it is not possible to say that it is not ripe for judicial ruling.”
For more information, contact Adalah Media Director Salah Mohsen at: salah@adalah.org or 052-595-0922.
For more information on the law:
Expanded Panel of 9 Supreme Court Justices Hears Case against “Admissions Committee Law” - 11 December 2012
Israeli Attorney General Supports Discriminatory Admission Committees Law - 29 January 2012
Israeli Supreme Court Hears Adalah's Petition Demanding Cancellation of "Admission Committees" - 3 February 2011
Adalah: There are now 695 communities in Israel where Arab citizens of the state are forbidden to live - 4 November 2010
Case Citation: HCJ 2504/11, Adalah, et al v. The Knesset, et al. (decision delivered 17 September 2014).
Continued Attacks on Disability Benefits
24 September 2014 newsletter
It’s hard to know which of the numbers in this nBewsletter is the most appalling.
The fact that 31% of disability living allowance (DLA) claimants get absolutely nothing when they transfer to personal independence payment (PIP).
Or that just 45% of new PIP claims are successful, if you don’t include people with terminal illnesses.
There’s the staggering 92% drop in employment and support allowance (ESA) appeals since the DWP brought in mandatory reconsiderations.
Then there’s the revelation that the PIP waiting list is still getting longer, in spite of promises by ministers to fix it. There are now 323,000 people waiting for a medical, meaning an average wait of at least 35 weeks.
Or is it that just 19% of claimants who made a new ESA claim between October and December 2013 have so far had a decision, again largely because of long delays in getting a medical?
The only mildly entertaining number in amongst all the latest statistics is that, after all this time and money, there are still fewer people receiving universal credit than have season tickets for Watford Town FC. IDs may claim that universal credit is going exactly to plan, but he must be the only person left who still believes it.
Finally, we reveal that the DWP is still refusing to say when it will publish one set of statistics that campaigners have been pursuing for a long time – the ESA death statistics. But we haven’t let them off the hook that easily.
Steve Donnison
ESA assessment crisis worsens
More and more claimants who should be in the support group of ESA are being forced to remain in the assessment phase for a year or more, because of the growing crisis in the service provided by Atos.
Fewer than one in five claimants who made a new ESA claim between October and December 2013 have had a decision made on their claim, the latest DWP quarterly statistics reveal. Just 19% have had a decision, compared to 22% in the preceding quarter, suggesting that the situation in regard to Atos assessments is continuing to deteriorate.
Over 90% fall in ESA appeals
The DWP’s attempts to make it as difficult as possible to appeal a benefits decision appear to be succeeding, according to the latest tribunal statistics. There has been a drop of 92% in ESA appeals and 93% in Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) appeals in April to June 2014 compared to the same period last year.
ESA death statistics – DWP say they will publish details, but won’t say when
The DWP is continuing to use delaying tactics to block publication of ESA death statistics, whilst claiming that they intend to release them at an undisclosed future date, we can reveal. This is the same claim that the DWP have been making for well over a year and the refusal to publish the figures is now the subject of a further challenge by Benefits and Work.
PIP NEWS
PIP waiting times continue to grow
The waiting list for PIP assessments is continuing to grow, according to statistics released by the DWP, in spite of claims by ministers that the problem would be fixed by the Autumn.
Up to the end of July this year 529,000 claims for PIP had been lodged and 206,000 had been cleared, suggesting that there was still a backlog of 323,000 claims. At current clearance rates this means an average wait of around 35 weeks.
More than half of new PIP claims fail, almost one third of DLA to PIP transfers fail
The latest statistics released by the DWP show that only 45% of PIP claims succeed where the claimant is not terminally ill. For disability living allowance (DLA) to PIP transfers, the success rate stands at 69%.
The new figures provided by the DWP show that awards for terminally ill claimants, whose death can reasonably be expected within six months, stand at around 96%.
Benefits and Work.
Steve Donnison | PO Box 4352 | Warminster, Wilts BA12 2AF, United Kingdom
In Israel, Lancet editor regrets publishing open letter on Gaza
LATEST: Lancet Editor retracts retraction!
Lancet editor regrets rift from letter charging massacre in Gaza, doesn't retract
Dr. Richard Horton, editor of the British medical journal, made a statement Thursday during Grand Rounds at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa saying that he will publish a retraction.
By JTA | Oct. 2, 2014
JTA - The editor of the British medical journal The Lancet, which ran an open letter accusing Israel of a “massacre” in Gaza, said on a visit to Israel that he will publish a retraction.
Dr. Richard Horton made a statement Thursday during Grand Rounds at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, which he also visited earlier in the week.
Horton reportedly said during his statement that he “deeply, deeply regrets” publishing the letter to the people of Gaza in The Lancet during this summer’s conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. Several dozen physicians from the West signed the letter, which also accused Israel of “cruel” and “vicious war crimes.” Physicians, researchers and Israeli officials decried the letter.
NGO Monitor last week unearthed evidence tying two of the letters’ authors to support for white supremacist David Duke.
During his statement at Rambam on Thursday, Horton reportedly condemned the contributors to The Lancet who promote explicitly anti-Semitic materials, expressed a new understanding of Israeli realities including the complexities of the Arab-Israel conflict, and pledged a new relationship with Israel.
He also invited Israelis to “tell the Israeli health story” in The Lancet, in parallel to the Palestinians’.
Following Horton’s remarks, NGO Monitor, a Jerusalem-based research institute which monitors non-governmental organizations, said in a statement that it is “urgent that the July 2014 “An Open Letter for the People of Gaza” be removed from The Lancet’s website and a formal retraction and apology be published prominently, both on the website and the next hard copy issue.”
NGO Monitor also called on The Lancet to “undertake positive initiatives to accurately inform the medical community of Israel’s contributions to medicine, as well as the close cooperation that takes place between different sectors of the population.”
(Thaer Ganaim / Maan Images)
Tzipi Livni: Israel shares same “values” as “moderate” Saudi Arabia
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 10/01/2014 - 16:21 Tzipi Livni, seen with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, still considers the PA to be Israel’s ally today. (Monika Flueckiger/Flickr)
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Livni and Abbas
War Crimes fugitive and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni says that her country shares the same values with such “moderate” Arab regimes as Saudi Arabia, other autocratic Gulf states and the Egyptian dictatorship that massacred more than one thousand protestors in cold blood just over a year ago.
She also called Palestinian Authority de facto leader Mahmoud Abbas’ speech to the UN Generally Assembly – in which he accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza – “horrific.”
Nonetheless she insisted that Abbas’ PA regime remained an Israeli ally.
Livni made her comments in an interview with Robert Siegel, host of NPR’s All Things Considered, in which she discussed Israel’s role in the US-assembled coalition of Arab autocracies to fight the “Islamic State” group that has taken over large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Livni & another Saudi Dictator
Good guys, bad guys
Siegel summarized Israel’s position in these terms: “Here’s Israel’s situation in the region it seems. You’re worried about the very movements and the very countries that worry the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Jordanians, the United Arab Emirates, the Turks, to a great extent – without a Palestinian agreement, though, they can’t deal with you as a public ally and partner in the region. Are regional concerns strong enough to lead the Israelis to say we’ve got to – we have to get a deal with the Palestinians to be above-board players in the Middle East?”
Livni endorsed Siegel’s assessment, adding: “The world is divided between the good guys and the bad guys,” Livni said. “And we, Israel – of course, the United States – the legitimate Palestinian government, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf States, we are part of the camp of so-called moderates or diplomatics against these terrorists.”
Livni said she looked forward to the day Israel could be a “public part of this coalition against the evil that we are facing in the region.” [the most important part of her speech and one which has been overlooked - TG]
Presumably the “evil” Livni was referring to includes the horrifying recent beheadings of Western journalists by the “Islamic State” group.
But it apparently does not include the “surge” in beheadings by Israel’s “moderate” Saudi regime allies for such alleged offenses as drug smuggling and “sorcery.”
Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud in Bahrain - his regime specialises in beheadings. However Livni is right person to lead negotiations. REUTERS
According to Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia executed at least 19 people since 4 August this year by public beheading.
This is the same Saudi regime whose media fuels sectarianism and which along with other Arab Gulf Israeli allies has channeled or allowed huge flows of funding to the jihadist groups that Israel claims to oppose.
Nor does the “evil” Livni cites apparently include Israel’s own record of beheading Palestinian children, albeit using missiles and bombs rather than blades, in the context of its summertime massacre in Gaza which killed more than 2,100 people.
And it definitely doesn’t include the Egyptian military dictatorship’s massacre of at least 817 unarmed demonstrators in Cairo’s Rabia al-Adawiya square on 14 August 2013.
That premeditated atrocity, among other mass killings around the same time, was “one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history,” according to Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
That Israel shares “values” with such US-backed regimes should not surprise anyone. Israel, the US and their Arab client regimes have always been allied against the people of the region, against the Palestinians and against self-determination.
One area where the Saudi regime and Israel share a clear common cause is stoking regional sectarianism between members of the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam.
By pitting potential adversaries of Israel against each other, Israel is engaging in the classic colonial tactic of “divide and rule.”
This is why in his speech to the UN this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominally condemned “Islamic State” – also known as ISIS or ISIL – but cautioned against “defeating ISIS” only to leave Iran strengthened.
Israel’s goal appears to be perpetual regional sectarian war, not anything recognizable as peace.
We should at least be grateful to Livni for clearing up the delusions some may still harbor that Israel is anything other than a fierce foe of democracy and a staunch ally of the most brutal and unsavory regimes.
Palestinians torn over contact with Israelis
Amira Hass of Ha'aretz Told to Leave Bir Zeit University Campus
My own view is that this is an own goal. It is understandable, given the Palestinians experience of Israelis they come into contact with, but it is self-defeating. Any boycott, especially the Cultural Boycott, must be intelligently applied. It’s not intended to boycott Israelis per se but Zionist institutions and Israelis who are overtly racist. It is not a boycott of one’s friends, of whom Amira Hass is certainly one.
The same Israel issues came up with the Boycott of South Africa and were resolved in favour of the latter position. Otherwise a Boycott becomes a fixed and rigid application of a principle without any thought of what was intending to achieve. You don’t boycott your friends but the enemy. It means an intelligent application of the Boycott.
For the same reasons one doesn’t boycott academics simply because they are Israelis, given that most anti-Zionist Israelis are the most fervent campaigners around the Palestinian cause. It is also a gift to the Zionists who can easily point out that what is being proposed is a form of discrimination on the grounds of national origins and in effect racial discrimination.
In just the same way as it would be madness to boycott Israeli anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians, who are isolated from most Israelis as it is. It can only make it more difficult for Israelis to break from Zionism.
I'm pleased to say that Bir Zeit University has woken up to the damage that has been done to the Palestinian cause by allowing th 2014 it issued the following statement:
it to be painted with the charge of racism. On September 30
Bir Zeit University in Ramallah - Palestine's national university
In response to the controversy over the incident involving journalist Amira Hass, Birzeit University wishes to clarify its principled position of welcoming supporters of the Palestinian struggle and opponents of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, regardless of nationality, religion, ethnicity, or creed. Hence, Hass, who has consistently condemned the Israeli occupation, evinced support for Palestinian rights, and helped expose the discriminatory policies of occupation and its flagrant violations of these rights, is always welcome on our campus and at university events.
Gaza 2014 - This is all most Palestinian students know of Israeli Jews
The university regrets the lamentable incident involving the apparent exclusion of Hass from a Center for Development Studies Conference, and will work with students and faculty to create better understanding of, and ensure adherence to, university policies, which oppose discrimination based on identity.
Bir Zeit University
The university community takes pride in observing the academic boycott of Israel. However, this boycott applies to institutions, not individuals, let alone individuals who have distinguished themselves by being on the side of justice and humanity, as has journalist Hass.
University’s exclusion of journalist Amira Hass raises questionsabout boycott policy
Middle East Eye – 12 October 2014
A Palestinian university’s decision to bar from its campus an Israeli journalist and outspoken critic of the occupation has exposed a growing rift among Palestinian activists about the merits of contact with Jewish Israelis.
Amira Hass of Ha'aretz
Staff at Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah in the West Bank, ordered Amira Hass, a reporter for the Israeli daily Haaretz newspaper, to leave a public conference late last month. She was told it was for her own “safety” in case students protested against her presence.
Ahmad Tibi MK Condemns the Exclusion of Amira Hass
Hass, who has lived among Palestinians in the occupied territories for many years, is a rare critical voice against the occupation in the Israeli media. Her articles translated in Haaretz’s English edition are widely read outside Israel.
Bir Zeit’s decision has provoked a heated debate among Palestinian intellectuals, students and activists about how far refusal to cooperate with Israelis should extend.
Amira Hass - A Campaigning Journalist
Observers say hostility towards Israeli Jews of all political stripes has become more pronounced among some Palestinian youth over the past few years. The trend is especially strong in Ramallah, where many Bir Zeit students live.
However, a petition circulated on social media against Hass’ exclusion quickly attracted signatures from hundreds of Palestinian scholars, who noted that she was a “courageous human rights defender”. In a column in Al-Ayyam newspaper, Ghassan Zaqtan, a prominent poet, called Hass’ treatment “shameful”.
Meanwhile, Israeli political activists have been left wondering whether, if the next generation of Palestinians rejects all joint endeavours, they have a place either in the struggle against the occupation or in a solution to the conflict.
South Africa or Algeria?
“The question is whether Palestinians want a South African model of an inclusive solution that offers a shared future for Palestinians and Israelis, or an Algerian model of exclusion,” said Jeff Halper, the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, an Israeli group that campaigns against the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied territories.
Referring to the expulsion of French colonists from Algeria in the early 1960s, he said: “Increasingly, it sounds like the Palestinian view is that this is another Algeria. If Israelis are simply colonial settlers, then we have no right to remain here.”
In a report for her newspaper, Hass wrote that other notable Israeli dissidents, such as Ilan Pappe, an historian who characterises the dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 as ethnic cleansing, had in the past been forced to hold talks off campus.
She said university staff had told her they were enforcing a regulation from the mid-1990s intended to create a “safe space” for students.
For decades, the Israeli army has targeted Bir Zeit, the most prestigious place of learning in the West Bank and a hotbed of political activism, harassing and arresting students and staff.
According to the Israeli media, more than 1,000 Palestinian students have been arrested by Israel since 2000, with most of them from Bir Zeit. That number includes three former heads of the student council. In 2009 alone, 83 students from the university were arrested or jailed.
Matthew Kalman, a reporter specialising in education issues, wrote in Haaretz: “Just about every Palestinian university in the West Bank has stories of nighttime IDF [Israel Defense Forces] raids, campus teargas attacks and random arrests and intimidation.”
Arrests and torture
Omar Barghouti, a prominent activist in the boycott movement in Ramallah, said he opposed exclusion of individuals but understood why there was increasing opposition to cooperation with Israelis from some young activists.
“Most students’ only experience of ‘meeting’ Israelis is being arrested by soldiers and tortured by the Shin Bet [Israel’s intelligence service]. Without a doubt, it colours their view.”
The row about Hass prompted the university to hastily issue a statement in which it seemed to reverse policy. Staff and students would be told that the university opposed all “discrimination based on identity”. The statement added that Israelis “on the side of justice and humanity”, such as Hass, would always be welcomed on campus.
But many students appeared unhappy with the administration’s more conciliatory tone.
Shortly after the statement was issued, Bir Zeit’s student council demanded it be withdrawn. “We say that any Israeli Zionist is not welcome in Bir Zeit University,” Mustafa Mustafa, the student council’s leader, told the Associated Press news agency. “If Amira really supports the Palestinian struggle against the occupation, she needs to leave the country.”
The controversy was pounced on by commentators in Israel and abroad. In Commentary, a conservative US magazine, Evelyn Gordon asked: “How is peace possible when Birzeit [sic] is educating these future Palestinian leaders to believe all Israeli Jews should be shunned simply because they are Israeli Jews?”
No peace camp
Ghassan Khatib, a senior official at the university, told Middle East Eye that things had changed significantly since his time studying at Bir Zeit in the 1970s.
“At that time we would make huge efforts to find Israelis to meet or debate us. There were Israeli Jews who came to show solidarity when we were attacked by the occupation forces, including during the first intifada [in the late 1980s].”
The situation for today’s generation is very different, he said. “The [Israeli] peace camp has collapsed, and there is no visible debate in Israeli society about ending the occupation or even criticism of what happened in Gaza this summer. In that climate, young people cannot see a reason for any interaction and dialogue with Israelis.”
The debate about dealings with Israelis should be understood in the context of a wider policy across the Arab world opposing what is termed “normalisation”. According to this view, there should be no normal relations with Israel until the occupation ends.
Bir Zeit’s policy was formulated in the mid-1990s, at the time when the Palestinian leadership returned to the occupied territories from exile in Tunisia under the terms of the Oslo accords.
But while the Arab world has rarely needed to test the intricacies of its anti-normalisation approach, given its lack of public contacts with Israel, Palestinians in the occupied territories have found the policy more complicated to implement.
With the Palestinian economy almost completely dependent on Israel, casual labourers need permits to work in Israel or the settlements, business leaders require Israel’s assistance with exports and imports, and the Palestinian Authority has to cooperate closely with Israel on many matters, including security.
At the same time, Khatib observed, Israel’s policy of separation – culminating in the building of a wall across the West Bank and the “disengagement” from Gaza a decade ago – severely limited the possibility of contacts between Israelis and Palestinians. That was especially true, he said, in the Palestinian cities, which were designated by Israeli military regulations as off-limits to Israelis.
Barred from Ramallah
Sam Bahour, a businessman and political activist in Ramallah, said: “What makes no sense to me is that young people are vehemently protesting against any contact with Israeli Jews, even those who are on their side, and yet publicly they barely say a word against Palestinian security cooperation with Israel.”
He contrasted their position with that held in Palestinian rural areas close to the Green Line, which formally demarcates the boundary between Israel and the occupied territories. “There every week Israeli activists are coming to help Palestinian villagers struggle against the Israeli army’s confiscation of their lands.
“The irony is that farmers are fostering cooperation while Palestinian intellectuals and academics are opposed.”
Bahour cited his own bitter experiences two years ago when he tried to bring to Ramallah an Israeli group, Zochrot, that supports the right of return to Israel of Palestinian refugees expelled in the 1948 war, as well as their descendants. The right of return is possibly the biggest taboo in Israeli society.
The meeting, which was to have discussed strategies for effecting a return of the refugees, had to be cancelled after young Palestinian activists mounted a Facebook campaign threatening to disrupt the meeting.
In one post, an opponent called the meeting an “act of immoral normalisation”. Another protested at the Palestinians’ continuing dispossession by Israel: “When they drop their ‘Israeli citizenship’, I can look [at] them as partners, but since they [are] still living in my grandfather’s house in Akka, Yaffa, Safad, they [are] occupiers.”
“Such reactions show no understanding of the need to create political alliances and to break down barriers if we want to make progress on finding a solution to the conflict,” said Bahour.
“Israelis are no longer seen as an address. The view in the PA is that we can leapfrog over Israel to talk to Washington, while the activists behave as though we can leapfrog over Israelis to get help from solidarity groups in Europe.”
Big picture forgotten
Bahour blamed the lack of effective political leadership for encouraging sloganeering rather than organised and coherent action from Palestinian activists.
“The PA is talking about getting statehood at the UN but there is no debate about how we envision relations with Israelis post-occupation.”
Halper concurred. “It’s like Palestinians have given up on the occupation ever ending. No one talks about where Israelis fit in, no one is sure of the policy. That’s why Amira Hass gets caught up in this incident at Bir Zeit.”
Sami Kilani, a professor at An-Najah university in Nablus who signed the petition in support of Hass, said that, in expelling her, Bir Zeit had “forgotten the bigger picture”.
“It’s a self-defeating approach,” he told Middle East Eye. “An-Najah invites Israelis to come to meetings and conferences so that we can hear and learn from each other. But given Israel’s military restrictions, they usually either can’t or won’t come.”
Bahour and Kilani are among those hoping that Hass’ exclusion will force a more critical re-appraisal of popular notions of anti-normalisation.
Bahour said Bir Zeit’s policy was inconsistent with the more precise guidelines introduced since 2005 by the Palestinian movement calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, modelled on a similar campaign against apartheid South Africa.
Precarious situation
Barghouti, one of the founders of the BDS movement, said the guidelines for boycott did not apply to individuals, only to institutions and projects that failed to follow the principle of what he called “co-resistance”.
BDS’ three official goals are: an end to the occupation, a right of return for Palestinian refugees, and equal rights for Palestinian citizens in Israel.
Barghouti added that the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) had never requested that Palestinian universities endorse BDS, aware of their precarious situation under occupation.
Some commentators, however, have suggested that the action against Hass was in accordance with BDS.
They have observed that Hass was expelled from the meeting after she had registered herself as a representative of the Haaretz newspaper, an institution that would be covered by the call for boycott.
Hass noted in her report that she had been on the campus many times before without incident. But she also pointed out that she had been personally barred from attending an Arabic course at the university in 1998.
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Birthdays are Best
Everything about birthdays. A blog focused on birthday fun facts, parties, tunes, trends and more. And there will be cake.
Birthday Fun Facts
Birthday Tunes
What the survey says about birthdays!
October 2, 2015 Jenn Goddu
Ok, growing up one of my favorite shows to watch when my parents left me unattended was Family Feud. Yep, I have just admitted that publicly for the world to see.
Photo credit: jacorbett70 / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
Now, as an adult, I still love to learn what a good “survey says.” So imagine my delight to discover that someone did a survey to discover what would be the happiest day to have a birthday!
Turns out that in the UK it’s June 20. The Mirror tells us this is because it is the day with the most daylight.
Apparently, of the 2,000 people surveyed, those who had birthdays in June were the happiest with the month of their celebrations. While August celebrants came in a close second in terms of satisfaction with their birthday month.
November birthday celebrants were least likely to be content with their lot. The Mirror further reported: “The bleakest day for a November birthday was revealed as the 10th, with the highest number of people (54 per cent) of respondents claiming that they weren’t happy with the day.”
To me these results go against all common wisdom about birthdays! Those who have summer birthdays never got to celebrate in school and have to deal with friends and family summer vacations when trying to set up a party.
Or what about the difficulties suffered by the December and January babies who have to compete with holidays and the malaise that follows the crush of December gift-giving and fetes?
I’m going to argue these results are skewed due to a small sample size, being offered only to Britons, and somehow influenced by the survey sponsor being Mars Bar Cakes. In the meantime, I will continue with my wholehearted belief that October 6 remains the very best day for a birthday. Come on fellow Libra — who is with me?
#birthdaybest dayOctober 6 rulessurvey
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The acting is great, and the showrunners have surrounded Matt Ryan with other characters, who all feel like they have been given room to grow. The character of Zed, played by the talented and beautiful Angélica Celaya, is the perfect foil for Constantine, as an ally who will actually call the wizard on his bullshit when needed. She has a mysterious past that turns out ‘great’ in the comics, and feels like she belongs in this dark and magical world. Chas, played by Charles Halford, is the constant loyal friend who is more than dedicated to the cause, giving numerous lives in some of Constantine’s insane ideas. Zed and Chas make up John’s moral compass, a role one might think the angel would fill. Manny—what an odd name for an angel—is played by one of my favorite actors, Harold Perrineau. The counterbalance to the hell our heroes deal with is constantly spouting off rules and reasons why God cannot intervene, and comes across as almost trolling Constantine at some points. The episode where Manny is temporarily made human is still one of my favorites. The guest stars steal the screen though, whether it is Jeremy Davies as Richie, Mark Margolis portrayal the evil of Felix Faust, or Michael James Shaw’s killer interpretation Papa Midnite, these characters add so much to Constantine’s world.
Each of these characters feels three-dimensional and is given at least one episode of solid backstory, even if little is answered about them. Interactions are key here. The writers have provided some great dialogue, and the actors do not waste it or their screen time. Zed’s conversation with Manny about mortality, Richie explaining enlightenment, or anything between John and Midnite just has a chilling intensity to it. This element adds more meat to the individual episodes and makes me care about them, especially when their futures look so dark. I want so much more of this.
This series is thirteen episodes of awesome work, with little for me to complain about. There are a few scenes I would have loved to have seen handled differently, and they need a better special effects budget, but do some cool things with what they have. Some fans have complained that the show is paced quite slow, but that did not bother me. As of this writing though, Constantine has not been renewed for a second season, and NBC is running out of time if they want to resurrect it. Syfy has shown some interest in the show, discussing a name change—to Hellblazer—but there are several hurdles to jump first. So for now, fans wait to see if the callous Brit will return. If that is it though, it will be a series I revisit multiple times.
I am rooting for the show though. There is a lot I want to see them do. Will they address his bisexuality that Brian Azzarello introduced, that time he tricked God, or his cancer? Not everything from the comics was gold though. All I am asking for is an episode with Jason Blood, better known as the demon Etrigan, or maybe Swamp Thing. Oh, no! Give us The Question or Zatanna! Okay, so there is a ton they could do, but for anyone who just cannot wait for more of this, read the comics.
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STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at the edge of the network
August 30, 2018 August 29, 2018 ~ adriancolyer
STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at the edge of the network Xu et al., DEBS’18
With apologies for only bringing you two paper write-ups this week: we moved house, which turns out to be not at all conducive to quiet study of research papers!
Today’s smart camera surveillance systems are largely alert based, which gives two main modes of operation: either you know in advance the vehicles of interest so that you can detect them in real time, or you have to trawl through lots of camera footage post-facto (expensive and time-consuming). STTR is a system designed to track all of the vehicles all of the time, and store their trajectories for ever. I certainly have mixed feelings about the kinds of state surveillance and privacy invasions that enables (it’s trivial to link back to individuals given trajectories over time), but here we’ll just focus on the technology. Since the system is design with pluggable detection and matching algorithms, then given some calculations around volume it ought to be possible to use it to track objects other than vehicles. People for example?
Assuming the availability of suitable detection and matching (figuring out if a vehicle is one you have seen before) algorithms, then the biggest challenge involved in tracking all of the vehicles all of the time is managing network bandwidth and storage. Storing and sending raw video clearly doesn’t work, so STTR simply stores vehicle trajectories (presumably some window, e.g. 24 hours, of video could also be accommodated) and processes video at local nodes. An edge/fog node can have multiple connected cameras.
Processing sensor streams (especially cameras) at the edge of the network is advantageous for three reasons: (a) reducing the latency for processing the streams, (b) reducing the backhaul bandwidth needed to send raw sensor streams to the cloud; and (c) preserving privacy concerns for the collected sensor data.
(I know what they mean by (c), even though the literal interpretation says the opposite of what the authors intended!).
Even when we’re storing only trajectories and processing video locally, all trajectories for all vehicles for all time still sounds like a lot of storage, and worse, potentially unbounded. The first key insight is that there is a pragmatic bound if we make some assumptions about vehicle density and vehicle lifetime (e.g. age of vehicle or miles travelled). The second key insight is that any one node only needs to manage data for a finite ‘activity region’ (loosely, the area that it covers before other cameras take over).
The finite size of the camera’s activity region gives us a very good property, because at any given time, the number of vehicles that are active under this camera has to be finite, for vehicles need to occupy space. Meanwhile, each vehicle’s life is also finite which indicates there exists trajectory upper bound for a given camera. Putting these facts together, we have the following simple idea – at any point in time, each camera stores the trajectory of vehicles that are active under its region.
A back of the envelope calculation with 5 cameras every mile, up to 100 simultaneously active vehicles for a given camera, and a vehicle lifetime of 150,000 miles, gives a storage requirement of around 1.1GB per camera.
Storing trajectories
The basic idea is to store the trajectory for a given vehicle at the node (camera) where it was last detected (active). Considering the following figure, the red car first seen at intersection by camera attached to fog node begins with a trajectory . When it moves through intersection we append to its known trajectory and migrate the record to node . When the vehicle then arrives at intersection we migrate the record once more, this time to node . The final trajectory record is .
It’s easy to spot that as vehicle trajectories get longer over time, this process will result in a lot of network traffic to migrate trajectories from node to node. So instead of full trajectory migration, trajectories are partitioned across nodes and only aggregated once a node comes under storage pressure. (The current paper doesn’t consider querying, so implications for query efficiency here are unaddressed). We end with a lazy version of the basic algorithm.
Given the same vehicle movements as above the lazy trajectory aggregation might play out as follows:
At time we create trajectory record (vertex) at node .
At time we create an a trajectory vertex at node containing just the single step: , and we also create an edge from the vertex at to the newly created vertex at (so we’re building up a distributed graph structure).
This process repeats when the vehicle arrives at , such that we end up with three linked trajectory portions.
If node later comes under storage pressure we can aggregate its portion of the trajectory into the node at , ending up with an edge from directly to , and a trajectory vertex at of .
Once a vehicle is assumed to have reached end-of-life, its trajectory can be migrated to cloud storage or similar.
Network communication via forward and backward propagation
Information about detected vehicles is propagated through the network in order to build up the distributed graph and to reduce resource requirements at nodes. The primary mechanism is forward propagation. Once a vehicle has been detected by a camera, the vehicle’s signature (produced by an algorithm provided by domain experts) is sent to all cameras that are likely candidates for the vehicles to pass next. I infer that along with this message is sent the identifiers of all cameras in the propagation set. The cameras are then already primed to run the re-identification procedure when the vehicle is sighted. If a camera does detect a vehicle with a signature it received via forward propagation then it sends a sighting confirmation to all the other cameras in the propagation set, who can now drop it from their forward propagation local storage.
Sometimes a camera might detect a vehicle that it has not been primed to expect via forward propagation. In this case, backward propagation is used to send a message to candidate upstream cameras given the direction of travel. If such a camera cannot immediately re-identify the detected object in the backward propagation message it can simply discard it.
The overall architecture of the STTR system looks like this:
Each fog node runs a collection of seven modules per camera (e.g., in a container).
The detection module takes as input a raw video stream from the camera, and outputs a stream of detected object (signatures).
The matching module implements the re-identification algorithm, looking for a match with a detected object in the candidate vehicle pool assembled from forward propagation messages
The camera map module maintains the geographical relationship between cameras
The forward and backward modules implement forward and backward propagation
The trajectory store manages trajectories as previously discussed and optimises network consumption
The policy module supports system configuration
The evaluation implementation is written in Python using ZeroMQ for communication between nodes and Redis as a persistent store.
The evaluation is based on a simulation using the SUMO road traffic simulation package with a 10,000 second traffic flow emulation. Traffic is generated using a probability-based model. The fog computing topology is emulated using MaxiNet. The focus of the experiments is on understanding the storage and network bounds, and the impact of latency in forward and backward propagation. The short summary is that things pretty much work as you would expect. For example, if you have lower camera density then each camera uses more storage (since it is covering a larger area). The critical factor for enabling real-time surveillance turns out to be the speed of the re-identification algorithm.
Plans for future work include:
Creation of efficient spatial and temporal index structures to support querying the network
Improving confidence in the calculated trajectories using a probabilistic approach to trajectory generation and maintenance
An on-campus deployment in conjunction with the campus police department
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9 Powerful Moves to Master Facebook Lead Ads
1.Biding properly
2.Give your audiences flashy offers
3.Install the aforementioned Facebook Pixel tool on your landing page
4.Give your people context
5. Be 100% honest when creating your Facebook lead ads
6.Identify your brand
7.Make your format simple
8.Add a time frame
9.Follow-up with your clients
Do you know what Facebook lead ads are & why they’re spreading like wildfire around the most popular social network in the world?
Facebook is one of the biggest exposure sources in the planet. With an average click-through-rate (CTR) of 0.9%, 78% of its advertising revenue coming from mobile ads, & 6 million companies paying to be ‘active advertisers’ every single day, Facebook has become a top tool for companies of all sizes.
That said Facebook has put time, money & effort, into creating the best possible experiences for enterprises & customers.
Facebook is constantly working on making marketing experiences accurate, profitable & engaging for both companies & customers, because they know that the way to sell within’ the digital spectrum is never to make it feel like they’re force feeding people with products &/or services; they want customers to be encouraged to engage &/or convert out of emotional attachment not out of repetition.
Furthermore, Facebook experts know digital media is all about getting products to targets, that’s why they introduced Facebook lead ads; because it’s the most current & innovative way of engaging with potential clients & keeping up with them without having to test drive experiences multiple times.
Business owners who are unfamiliar with Facebook lead ads must know that Facebook lead ads are a new network tool that will reinvent the way they interact with their potential customers; from strategy creation to conversion to return of investment.
Facebook lead ads come from Facebook’s new “Lead Generation,” which according to the Facebook for Business ads help center is: the process of building interest in a product or service through the creation of campaigns that include the Lead Generation Objective feature.
The Lead Generation Objective Feature, as stated by Facebook for Business, is a tool that allows customers to fill out forms called “Instant Forms,” which include contact or key information. Lead Generation on Facebook lead ads also allows a business to track lead conversion events from a company website by using the Facebook Pixel tool.
That said, Facebook lead ads allow audiences to show their interest in determined goods by filling out the aforementioned forms with details of how they feel about a certain brand experience. This allows businesses to keep up with them taking into account their potential customers own words. But are hacks to master Facebook lead ads now available?
The answer per usual is there are master hacks one can try to better their Facebook lead ads; the 9 most powerful are the following:
Facebook lead ads are placed according to bid; therefore, it is pivotal that you bid properly when questing for audiences that want to fill out your formats. To get started know your ad’s cost-per-lead. This action, as claimed by Digital Marketing Expert & Blogger, Gary Henderson, will help you quote:
“Calculate what a lead is worth to you, so that you can budget & bid accordingly.”
Gary also states that there are two ways to bid correctly: one is Automatic Biding & the other is Manual Biding. The first is set by Facebook lead ads AI to get your business the highest rates of conversions & the bigger ROI at the finest costs, while the other must be set by your company’s digital marketer based on what outturns are worth to your business.
Giving your audiences flashy offers is quickly becoming a mastering trick on Facebook lead ads simply because everybody loves a great offer. Regardless of if one is familiar with a brand or not, seeing a sign that reads “50% OFF” is most likely making a reader convert.
As previously stated, Pixel is a tool one can set on their website, that details who visits your website, when they do it & what actions were taken while they browsed through your business’s page. Pixel will mainly help you see what kind of audience is completing your Facebook lead ads format (s).
Please note: you can install Pixel on your business’s page by hand if you have your website’s code.
Even though people in the digital age are used to rates, reviews, forms & surveys, it’s still important that you add a brief explanation of what your business’s form is about. This will encourage people to trust your company & answer truthfully, which will mean more accurate results for your business.
Before setting up your explanation remember to keep it & your questions as honest, & as close to your company’s vision, as possible. Knowing what you want from them (as said in point 4) as well as telling your audience what you want them to do afterwards, will secure their trust on your business.
Make sure your brand’s logo is loud & visible at all times. People will want to see it before giving up their personal information & vision.
Keeping your format (s) as simple as possible will guarantee more answers than making it super specific. You want broader statistics not gospel. Keep it simple.
Constraining format filling to a specific time frame will make people give purer answers & be more motivated about filling it all the way through.
“The ratio is simple; they’ll give answers at the top of their heads, which are the most honest. They’ll also know how much time they’ll have to invest in doing so.” – Larry Kim, Founder & CTO of Word Stream.
Facebook lead ads are pointless if your business does not follow up with answering audiences as soon as possible. People lose interest quick, reply within’ an hour detailing the next steps to follow.
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1462876307360828
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/114161868925832?helpref=page_content
https://www.digitalmarketing.org/blog/10-tips-for-facebook-lead-ads
https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/facebook-statistics/https://modernmedia.io/hacking-facebook-leads/
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Essence’s Care@Home Active™ wins ESX Innovation Award
aging in place, Care@Home Active, caregiving, eldercare, ESX Awards, peace of mind, PERS, preventing falls, remote monitoring
For the third year running, Essence to highlight an award winning solution at the ESX Security Exhibition
Tel Aviv, June 1, 2017 – Essence, providers of connected-living technologies, independent-living solutions for seniors, and cloud-based home security and management, has won the ESX Innovation Award for Digital Health/Well-Being Systems.
It is the third year running that Essence has won the award, this time for the company’s new Care@Home Active groundbreaking mobile PERS solution. The win highlights Essence’s continued focus on excellence and innovation for aging-in-place technologies that enhance seniors’ lifestyles and safety.
Unlike traditional mPERS solutions, Care@Home Active enables seniors to move between their homes and outdoors while maintaining connectivity with their families and monitoring center – all with just a single device. The solution brings a superior, more cost-effective answer to the problem of protecting people when they leave their homes than what is available in monitored PERS solutions today.
“We are proud that ESX recognizes our innovations to drive the industry forward to better serve the needs of its customers,” said Yaniv Amir, President of Essence USA. “This solution will be officially launched at ESX where customers will also be able to view and demo our WeR@HomeTM connected home safety, security, and management platform for service providers.”
Care@Home Active was awarded for its latest innovation based on Essence’s small, light, wearable emergency pendent and fall detector, EP Advanced, uses Bluetooth connectivity to seamlessly switch from the PERS station to the senior’s smartphone while away from home.
In addition to this technology, Essence will present its cloud-based services platform for Connected Home services, the WeR@Home. This end-to-end IoT platform gives security dealers all the tool to offer customized, security and smart home services with full remote management via smartphone.
With IoT integration to Nest and IFTTT, among others, end-users and dealers will be able to enjoy the benefits of a range of smart security and automation devices. Visitors will be able to view an interactive demo of this system at Essence’s booth.
“Essence continues to remain at the forefront of IoT product development,” says Haim Amir, CEO and founder of Essence Group. “The award is validation of our efforts to provide valuable, life-improving solutions to end-users and enterprises alike.”
About Essence
Essence is a global IoT provider of scalable, cloud-based connected-living solutions for security, communication, and healthcare service providers. Over the past 23 years, Essence has built an impressive installed base, with more than 18 million products deployed and used by Tier-1 service providers worldwide. Essence is committed to developing and supporting solutions that both enhance partners’ businesses and enable people to live fuller and better lives. Essence has won several distinguished industry awards over the past year, garnering recognition by both the consumer and business markets, including the ESX Innovation Award for Care@Home and Care@Home VPD, European Consumers Choice Award, Telecom Broadband Infovision Award, IoT Business Impact Award, and others.
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« Malay Rights v Special Position
Malaysia in the Era of Globalization #48 »
An inspiring chronicle of change
by Jee Wan
Jan 9, 11
When we won the Asian Football Federation Suzuki Cup, our PM declared 31st December a public holiday, claiming to support the 1Malaysia concept of “People First, Performance Now”. Hurrah, hurrah.
But when our PM attended a Christmas celebration at the Catholic Church Archbishop residence, the PMO directive ordered the church officials to remove crucifixes and prohibit them from singing hymns and praying, saying it’s to protect the prime minister’s Islamic credentials.
Here we are shouting 1Malaysia this and 1Malaysia that, but know not how to respect the tradition, culture and beliefs of another religion? What message are we sending out to the public and the world at large? That we are still immature even after 53 years of independence?
That even our own leaders can’t walk the talk?
That’s just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. And our opinion would probably sound very biased to those who only read the mainstream media or who have been constantly reminded and instilled with fear of change.
But seriously; if we want to see improvement and real progress, we need to change. Change the way we think. Change the way we perceive things. Change for the better.
A wise man once said, “He who rejects change is the architect of decay.” So, let this book, ‘March 8: Time for Real Change’, open your mind. Read it and then, tell me and those whom I share my stand with, if we’re biased.
‘March 8: Time for Real Change’, is an upgraded and revised edition of the 2008 original, titled ‘March 8 The Day Malaysia Woke Up’, put together by Kee Thuan Chye.
This edition is divided into 3 sections – Where We Are Now, Back to the Beginning and Where Do We Go from Here, and contains 42 essays altogether.
The ones in Where We Are Now discuss major issues that have happened since March 8, 2008 and reflect on whether the country is better or worse off.
Back to the Beginning consists of essays and interviews selected from the original book, which bring us back to the beginning of March 8, helping us to reflect and learn from our mistakes before moving forward. Lastly, in Where Do We Go from Here, we look forward and reignite hopes for a better future.
Hoping for real change
Spread sporadically throughout the book are comments and opinions shared by Malaysians from all walks of life, young and old, expressing their hopes for real change – each very moving, especially the ones written by determined, hopeful youths.
The essay that brought tugged at our hearts was the one written by Kee (right), titled Merdeka on March 8, which reminded us of what happened three years ago – the joy that spread like wild fire and camaraderie that had the right ingredients for the now 1Malaysia.
Everyone did their part to make a difference. There were those who came back from afar just to cast their votes, those who volunteered to help out at the polls and those who attended the numerous ceramahs during the campaign period, to see change. And change is what we got.
If this can’t convince people that we can make a difference, then I don’t know what can.
There are also brilliant interviews in this compilation. We enjoyed the ones with Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK) that had a rather suggestive title, How Big Are Your Balls? and Steven Gan in We Stand with the Underdogs.
It goes without saying that the interview with RPK is not without some bluntness, wisecracks and Malaysian slang slipping in every now and then. Not only did it tickle us to the core, but it made us ponder on a few things.
We liked what he said about fear. “Once you keep fearing and fearing, everything takut, gangster-lah, takut ini-lah, takut itu, I tell you we will never move forward.” And how can one learn not to be scared? “…set an example, and you get people to join you.”
And we found the last comment he gave in regard to Umno ruling by sheer intimidation, so true. Don’t blame the musang for eating the ayam, because that is its basic instinct. If you want to blame, blame the one who opened the door to let the musang in, i.e. people who gave the power to the parties to do so.
We Stand with the Underdogs, is an interview with Steven Gan, the editor of Malaysiakini, who’s also a dedicated, rare Malaysian journalist. In this interview, Steven shares with us about his experience and challenges working with an independent media.
The second half of this interview focuses on being an underdog and supporting those in the same position. “I think if BN happened to be out of power, we would be standing with them. It is part and parcel of the fact that there has to be some check and balance, and we need to play that role.”
Like many other Malaysians, he too, shared the sweet success of March 8. He said, “I think the most meaningful thing that came out of it is that there can be a change in government without riot”, further proving that we need not fear change, because we can handle change.
This book reminded us that change is possible; that there is hope for a better Malaysia. It helped us recollect what has happened and reignited that fire in us again, to want to make a difference.
Youths and those interested in knowing a little more about politics besides the ones you have read in the mainstream media would appreciate this book, as it gives a clear picture of what we have achieved thus far and what our future holds if we don’t do something about it today.
Please do not to turn a deaf ear and blind eye to politics; it’s not dirty if you’re fighting for peace and justice.
If you’ve never really cared about the future of Malaysia, then ‘March 8: Time for Real Change’ might just make you want to care about it now.
This entry was posted on Monday, 10 January 2011, 12:48 am and is filed under Kee Thuan Chye, Post-2008 general election. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0.
#1 by tak tahan on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 1:33 am
No comme..nt lah.Ask the Ridhuan tee to say about this about malaysian rights.They’ll say ya ya 1Malaysia.My papa and mama TOO singing praise to me.Thank you and malaysian.Sieh sieh malaysia and my godfather Datuk Misbun Sieh Sieh.Lu sama gua panlai loh!!
#2 by yhsiew on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 1:39 am
///Hoping for real change///
Hope for real change is completed when PR is voted into power.
#3 by monsterball on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 2:27 am
I do not think UMNO B members are immature.
I think the decades of feeding them with one sided news and keep fooling the Malays have resulted so many to think Malaysia belongs to the Malays and all minorities Aliens accepted by the Malays in good faith.
I guess all those who came before the Malays are treated as animals…not important useless jungle people?
While propagating the rights of Malays…..Mahathir made sure for 22 years as PM…that the Malays are proud and daringly be small time corrupted lot……..while he and his band steal by the billions..to enriched their families..and relatives..and use part of the money to fill UMNO B kitty bank….to firstly… buy up chosen top leaders of every sector…serving the Govt….and laws are amended to give UMNO B leaders the final say.
One you have got the root cause understood…the branches of this evil tree planted by Mahathir which is now…nearly 30 years old..is full grow with off springs sprout out everywhere….to master the art how to twist and turn….observed by students faithfully…how their masters do that with their side shows.
Anwar was in jail…and only DAP dare to confront UMNO B crooks and their corrupted acts with no fear…and PAS was fighting to win Muslims being lured to serve the Devil.
After 12th GE…we have the awakened ones by the hundreds of thousands…Muslims….that makes Najib fear UMNO B will be loosing power…for the first time…and out come.. all his nonsensical tricks and low class stunts…to be the best UMNO B leader….in fooling Malaysians.
But with no success.
And so…near 13th GE…he declared he will defend with his life…against traitors taking over Malaysia..which actually revealed he thinks he is the king of Malaysia…and so UMNO B is too.
Always remember the cause and effects…and who are we dealing with.
And ALWAYS have no fear….as the power lies in your hands..as voters.
I will rather sleep now!!!Think of something for better tommorow!
#5 by Open Air on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 6:32 am
two headed snake at its best – when you have the great grand old man as master.
#6 by cemerlang on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 7:19 am
The fact is not all Muslims are like that but when they attempt to integrate, some other clever Muslims forbid them to. They are scared that they will not believe in Islam anymore and for them, Islam ensures a way to heaven. In the end, any religion can do except Islam. Islam is exclusive and the word exclusive comes from the word exclude. That is why you have the 1 Malaysia thingy because Malaysians are getting more and more disunited. If everything is honestly okay since 1957, Malaysians should be more united today. This 1 Malaysia thingy is to tell that Malaysians are having a problem in unity. It is scary to change. Imagine putting Malaysia into the hands of PR. The feeling is that of fear. You are not tried and tested like BN. Like a mother and a child. She cares for her all this while. Suddenly she has to put her child in the care of some Indon maid. If you are her, what are your thoughts and feelings ? Malaysians know. Not that they do not. But what are the securities ? Good if they have New Zealand to run to. Or Australia. Or Singapore. If hell does break loose. But for those remaining ones, what will happen to them ?
#7 by k1980 on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 7:54 am
When we won the Asian Football Federation Suzuki Cup…..
How? By using laser beams!
//the PMO directive ordered the church officials to remove crucifixes and prohibit them from singing hymns and praying//
Don’t just blame the PMO directive, who gets her salary from the one who gives the orders. Under whose orders was the PMO directive acting?
A. DAP
B. PAS
C. PKR
D. The Botox guy
#8 by Jeffrey on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 8:20 am
Whether there will be an “inspiring chronicle of change” depends substantially on Malay Malaysians. At present the political reality is:
• Constitutional amendments introduced in 1971 anda further slew of them in the 1980s after TDM came to power made it difficult for anyone to question the concept of Malay special rights that undergirded the NEP’s ideological construct, said to be a major obstacle to the country’s economic progress;
• there is a heavy preponderance (maybe up to 90%) of Malay bureaucrats in all branches of the civil service, including the police and armed forces; every government department implement its policies explicitly or implicitly based on Malay political dominance and the NEP;
• gerrymandering in last 2 decades has produced a lop-sided weightage in favour of rural constituencies which are predominantly Malay against urban constituencies which are predominantly non-Malay. The under-representation of urban voters is so serious that in some areas, 1 rural vote is equal to more than 3 urban votes, whilst a ratio of 1:2 in favour of rural voters is common in many state and parliamentary constituencies
• Non Malay political parties and politicians in ruling coalition depends on Malay (read UMNO’s) political patronage to do well; even within the PR coalition Malay sensitivities are respected and supported as when even Penang LGE talked about emulating the Caliphate;
• In the corporate sector over 80% of banks owned by Malay capital and in Bursa Malaysia government or UMNO linked counters dominate. I leave the rest to what Loh has expanded on corporate wealth from FELDA etc in earlier threads.
• Malay population growth and expansion of Malay voters base outstrip Non Malays, exacerbated by comparatively low birth rates and high migration rates.
If one believes in what AB Sulaiman said [as posted in earlier thread under caption “Malay problem root of nation’s problem”] – that much depends on whether the Malay thinking can be secularized and be receptive to change to bring economic progress and democracy – what are the chances of this inspiring chronicle of change?
The record for last three decades has in fact been the opposite – from the secular judging from what Tun Salleh Abas said in 1988 Fedral Court decision Omar bin Che Soh v Public Prosecutor (that we’re a secular constitution/nation) to Tun Dr Mahathir’s “929 Declaration” that we’re an Islamic nation!
Can the likes of AB Sulaiman, RPK or Malaysiakini’s Steven Gan usher in an inspiring chronicle of change against the Islamisation Tide?
Tun Dr Mahathir could have – had he been like the father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. However he acted the exact opposite.
I read in TheMalaysianInsider report 9th Jan under caption “Turks protest TV drama showing boozing sultan” that 100 Turk protestors protested at the offices of the entertainment channel Show TV in Istanbul against its broadcast “The Magnificent Century”, a historical drama showing Sultan Suleiman I (1494 to 1566), with his wives and concubines in his harem drinking alcohol proscribed in Islam.
Here such a broad cast, even if based on historical facts, will never happen and even if it happened there would be 1 million instead of 100 protesters.
Thats interestingly the measuring cast of diference between the two countries touted as the most modern Islamic nations in the world.
#10 by dagen on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 8:53 am
DAP will hv an enlarged role to play this time around given the unsettling incidents in PKR. And the role is enlarged as a consequence of increased support for political revolution (as manifested in 308). The poor ground condition (umno’s own shoddy work, unsurprisingly) on which umno slipped and felled last time has not changed at all. Jib’s 1malaysia slogan remains as words only; and they are plainly stuck to his pink lips and never quite got to anyone’s ears nevermind the ground. Because nothing positive was done, the state of the ground has gone worse as compared to before.
#11 by boh-liao on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 9:41 am
D truth is dat the converted lot has oredi made up their mind 2 change
It’s d traditional UmnoB fixed deposit lot dat needs 2 b converted, mental revolution lah
However, not easy, even amg nonMalays there r lots of UmnoB/BN supporters
D funny thing abt this UmnoB fixed deposit lot is dat they r rural folks, mostly Malays n Bumiputras, some struggling 2 survive, expolited/sodomised by d rich UmnoB ppl
Yet they r UmnoB/BN die hards, always faithfully vote 4 UmnoB/BN
They r d ones targeted by d organ of UmnoB, Utusan Malaysia, dat print lies n racist remarks 2 scare Malays 2 unite behind n vote 4 UmnoB/BN, their great protectors
#12 by limkamput on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 10:01 am
It is the masses that will make the difference. We write beautiful pieces and record discerning interviews, but who are reading all these? I think those who read all these need no further convincing. It is getting the message across to the masses that poses the greatest challenge. Average Malaysians neither have the time nor the energy to follow the twist and turn that is going on in the country. In fact, after a while, they all got confused. They do not even know their lives could be better if only they have a better government and better governance. When you are really poor, ignorant and down trodden, you wouldn’t know it is your right to get help and trust me, you wouldn’t know some of your predicaments are due to the government’s inaction or wrong action. I am speaking from my own personal when growing up. It is only on reflection that I began to understand. The government can actually fool most of the people most of the time, unless something is done to enlighten the masses. The main stream media is making them stupid. What then is our alternative? The reach of alternative media in BM, Chinese and Tamil is limited. The people must be enlightened, that is the key; the rest we can talk till the cows come home.
#13 by k1980 on Monday, 10 January 2011 - 1:27 pm
//if we want to see improvement and real progress, we need to change. Change the way we think. Change the way we perceive things. Change for the better.//
The big problem is that there are many uneducated voters, who upon being given some spare change by the govt, would then change their minds on voting for the better candidate, and instead cast their votes for the devil. To them, RM50 in the pocket is worth another 5 years of corruption. And the sin of accepting that Rm50 would be washed away by praying 5 times a day
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Printer Cartridges Recycling
Check out HP and the Lavergne Group’s advanced processing technology, which is saving money and resource use.
MONTREAL — Recycling isn’t usually much fun to watch. Those blue bins aren’t too animated. And don’t we all suspect that as soon as the truck turns the corner it all gets thrown in the landfill anyway? That has actually happened in some places when the value of recycled material went into the toilet.
In some cases, we’re going backwards in recycling. Take just the case of plastic water bottles. We produce 29 billion of them a year, and only 30 percent get recycled, which means an escalating amount of waste (expressed in millions of tons).
But plastic water bottles are eminently recyclable, and earlier this week, in Montreal, I saw them put to good use. Hewlett-Packard, which makes the printer cartridges we all pay dearly for, isn’t content to let them go to landfills. These days, they’re being dismantled instead of shredded — a much cleaner process.
The company started recycling cartridges in 1991 (taking back more than 300 million from inkjet and laser printers), and is getting much better at figuring out how to reuse the plastic. Today, a pilot project in a French-Canadian factory is no longer shredding the cartridges (a process that leaves a contaminated mix of plastic, metal and paper), it’s dismantling them for 50 percent greater yields in recovered plastic. Here’s how it works, according to HP’s Dean Miller:
You can send your cartridges back to their maker in a number of ways (there are programs in 50 countries) and the options include mailing them back in pre-paid envelopes and returning them for credit to Staples stores. Either way, they end up at industrial facilities like the one I visited in Montreal.
But they don’t get crushed. In 2005, after five years of work, HP developed a closed-loop system for recycling printer cartridges that, at the Lavergne Group facility I visited alone, handles a million pounds of plastic every month. Closed loop means the plastic lives again as new cartridges. HP has made more than 500 million printer-ready cartridges through the closed-loop process since 2005.
The closed-loop process is like something out of the movie Brazil — a combination of retro mechanical and high tech. Dismantling (especially in this pilot scale) is much slower than crushing cartridges, of course. The dismantler handles 15 cartridge a minute, and the shredder thousands per hour. But the result is much cleaner: The robot arms scrape off the label, lop off the plastic lid, remove the electronic guts and the foam pad, then toss the remaining plastic bucket into a hopper.
Once shredded, the cartridge material is mixed with 75 to 80 percent plastic bottle waste and then (they wouldn’t let us see this part) combined with special chemical additives to make it strong and pliable — in effect, basically the same as virgin plastic again.
Until recently, the process handled only easy-to-recycle PET plastic, but last year polypropylene (PP) was added and almost two million cartridges with PP have been processed.
After having received some flak on the issue, HP has also considerably reduced the packaging going into its ink cartridges. There’s no U.S. law mandating that kind of waste reduction, but so-called Green Dot laws in Europe and Asia give impetus to that kind of reform. Green Dot makes manufacturers responsible for their packaging, which in effect gives them huge motivation to reduce the amount they include with products. Buy toothpaste in the U.S. and it comes in the box; buy the identical brand in Europe and it stands on its cap.
Strong corporate lobbies discourage the European approach here, but on March 25 Maine became the first state in the U.S. to enact an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law. And some 19 states have rules requiring takeback of electronic equipment. A national law would tie all of this together, and it will be a brave legislator who shepherds a bill through to passage.
As a car writer, I’m always looking for an auto angle, and I found it in a Lavergne Group office displaying a number of auto parts, including a taillight assembly. They’re all made from plastic recycled in the plant. Lavergne has a contract with Ford to provide plastic for Econoline van front ends, and because of the strong European end-of-life vehicle laws it’s looking at setting up a branch to serve carmakers in Germany.
Knowing about all this should stay your hand when hit by the impulse to throw away that spent printer cartridge. Not only is there money in it (get thee to the nearest Staples story) but properly recycled it will again dispense ink.
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Say Goodbye to traditional copper. Hellooo Fiber!
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With everyone uploading and downloading, posting to their favorite social media sites and streaming their favorite shows, it’s become so hard to imagine a life without Internet.
But for many, that’s is still the reality. Nationally, up to 40 percent of households do not have an Internet connection. Today, most homes still utilize copper wiring which plays a major part in Internet speeds.
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone over 100 years, the dominant way to wire a home was with the use of copper wiring. At the time, copper wiring was perfect for voice signals, which it was designed for. But as society advanced and technology evolved, copper didn’t really keep up. Now, new technology requires devices to last longer, without losing service.
As copper comes to the end of its lifespan, fiber optics will pick up where it left off.
That’s where Race comes in. Our fiber optic products offer symmetrical speeds as much as 1000 times faster than local cable providers. At Race, we depend on fiber optics’ reliability to keep you connected.
Fiber optics is a flexible, transparent glass wiring almost slightly thicker than the human hair that is designed to for a faster transmission. Although fiber optic isn’t a new technology (it’s been around since the 1980s), using fiber optic wiring for telecommunications didn’t really take off until the 1990s. Unlike copper, fiber uses light to transmit data.
But fibers optics wasn’t always the “go-to” wiring for connecting devices. Due to expensive pricing, copper was always the first choice. As fiber optics pricing drops and starts to match copper, it has become accessible to everyone and some experts believe fiber optics will be around for the next 50-80 years.
So what are some of the core difference between copper and fiber?
-Copper is mainly designed for voice signal connections, making it very limited and slower for bandwidth.
-Traditional copper cable wiring uses underground network cables to transmit to the subscriber’s homes. Making it harder to change to replace the lines when they’ve aged. (We’ve seen this problem time and time again)
-Installing copper wire is a trickier process than installing fiber.
-Fiber almost travels at the speed of light! That’s pretty quick and one of the main advantages
-It’s hard to believe, but fiber optics are actually more resistance and durable although they’re made from glass. Copper is a conduct and when it gets wet, that leads to more deterioration of the wiring.
-Also, upgrading fiber for both the provider and homeowner is an easier process to replace versus replacing copper.
Today’s applications demand faster speeds and fiber is a great option. With providers such as Race, fiber-to-the-home is becoming a reality in communities across California, bridging the Digital Divide.
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Fatal Accidents Including Deadly Automobile Accidents and Deadly Work Place Accidents Should Be Properly Investigated To Determine The Cause of The Fatal Accident and Help Prevent Future Fatal Accidents by Texas Fatal Accident Lawyer, Fatal Work Place Accident Lawyer, Fatal Car Wreck Lawyer, and Fatal Accident Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Losing a loved one is difficult. This is especially true if the loved one is killed by the carelessness, conscious disregard, or negligence of another. However, in the aftermath of losing a loved one and grieving the loss of a loved one, it is important to understand how the fatal accident occurred and to help prevent future similar deadly accidents from occurring.
Fatal Automobile Accidents should be Investigated Including Deadly Car Wreck Accidents, Deadly Motorcycle Accidents, and Deadly Truck Accidents by Texas Fatal Car Wreck Accident Lawyer, Fatal Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, Fatal SUV Accident Lawyer, and Fatal Automobile Accident Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Automobile accidents are one of the leading causes of death in Texas and in the United States. Many of the accidents could have been prevented and can help prevent future accidents. Automobile accidents that result in someone's death should be properly investigated to determine what happened and to make sure that other people are not injured in similar fatal accidents. In addition to the police investigation, insurance companies typically investigate fatal automobile accidents to determine and limit their liability in any fatal automobile accident claims that may arise out of a fatal accident. Many times the insurance adjuster, trucking company representatives, or courier service representatives will be sent to a fatal accident site in attempt to protect the insurance company or business from liability. The information obtained through these investigations as well as the police investigation can be extremely important in performing an independent investigation of the fatal accident. For more information on fatal accident lawsuits, please feel free to go to the following web pages: Texas Fatal Accident Lawsuits, Fatal Failure to Deploy Defective Airbag Lawsuits, Fatal Rollover Crash Lawsuits, Truck Collision and Commercial Vehicle Accident Lawsuits, Truck Accident Investigations, and Texas Fatal Motorcycle Accident Lawsuits.
Preservation of Evidence After a Deadly Accident is Essential to an Effective Investigation
After a deadly or catastrophic injury accident, an efficient and effective investigation can create advantages in the preservation of key evidence and information that can win a large verdict in a law suit or result in an early and large settlement of an insurance claim. For this reason, it is important to have professionals working for you that understand how to investigate a serious accident and preserve key evidence that can prove liability or damages.
Deadly Work Place Accidents should be Investigated Including Deadly Construction Accidents, Deadly Refinery Accidents, and Deadly Industrial Accidents by Texas Fatal Construction Accident Lawyer, Fatal Construction Equipment Accident Lawyer, Fatal Work Vehicle Accident Lawyer, and Fatal Work Place Accident Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Work places can be extremely dangerous. Falling objects, dangerous machinery, serious falls, electrocutions, explosions, toxic exposure, drunk drivers, hidden traps, and several other dangerous conditions can kill workers. It is estimated that over 6,800 workers per year are killed in on the job work related accidents. This does not include undocumented workers and many workers killed by toxic exposures. For more information on Texas Work Place Death Lawsuits and Texas Fatal Work Place Accident Lawsuits go to the following Fatal Work Place Accident Lawsuit Information.
Seeking Compensation From Guilty Parties After A Fatal Accident by Texas Fatal Accident Lawyer, Fatal Work Place Accident Lawyer, Fatal Car Wreck Lawyer, and Fatal Accident Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
After losing a loved one in an accident, it can be difficult to locate all potential recoveries as well as to prove to insurance companies and guilty defendants the full extent of damages that your family has suffered. This is true even if the damages suffered include the loss of a main contributor of financial support to your family or if there are large medical and funeral bills created by the death. These damages can cause a ripple affect of other damages that can result in the loss of a home, loss of vehicles, loss of ability to go to college, and other serious financial problems.
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Several Factors Are Causing an Increase in Texas Will Contest Lawsuits - by Austin Texas Will Contest Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Several factors including an aging population, do it yourself Wills, discovery of family wealth including mineral interests, and proximity of families living in different locations are all contributing to the increase in Texas Will contest lawsuits, Texas contested probate lawsuits, and Texas family inheritance lawsuits. These factors are creating an environment where many Wills may not be valid or trusted by family members.
There are several different scenarios as to how these Texas Will contest lawsuits and Texas contested Probate lawsuits begin. In some scenarios, an aging or elderly person is forced or fraudulently tricked into signing a Will by someone that is living with them or close to them. In these situations the person exerting undue influence on the elderly person can be a family member or an outsider that has access to the elderly person. The Will can be a do it yourself Will, a forged Will, holographic Will, or other more formal Will. The key in these situations is to determine if the Will is valid and if the Will is an unnatural disposition of property that was made under undue influence or incompetence.
Many Families have Spread Out Across The United States and Throughout the World, Therefore it is Often Helpful to Hire a Texas Probate Lawyer to Assist with the Texas Probate Process and to Handle Estate Issues by Texas Will Contest Lawyer, Austin Texas Large Estate Lawyer, Texas Probate Litigation Lawyer, and Texas Family Inheritance Litigation Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Many families have spread out throughout the United States and around the World. For many families, gone is the time where several generations live with in a few miles of each other in the same town, city, or county. This lack of proximity can make it difficult, when a family member in Texas passes away. This can be especially true when a new Will pops up that disinherits relatives living in other states or other parts of the World in favor of someone that has had access and influence over the decedent.
In these situations, the family members that live out of state are often caught off guard and need help from a Texas Will contest lawyer that is familiar with the Texas probate process, Texas probate law and Texas probate courts. For these family members it can be extremely important to act quickly and hire a Texas Will contest lawyer that can help expose an invalid or fraudulent Will.
With The Growing Popularity of Do It Yourself Wills Texas Will Contests, Fraudulent Wills, Forged Wills, and other Texas Contested Probate Lawsuits will become More Common By Texas Will Contest Lawyer, Texas Probate Litigation Lawyer, and Texas Family Inheritance Lawyer
As do it yourself Wills and other do it yourself estate planning packages become more popular, many Texas families are opting to save money in the short term by using these cheap Will packages. However, some of these do it yourself Wills are not compliant under Texas probate law and do not come with a Texas probate lawyer that can make sure that a valid Texas will has been created. In some of these situations, the do it yourself will can be determined to be an invalid Will and can result in the Will being thrown out and a prior Will or no Will being able to be probated. In both instances, the wishes of the decedent will not be adhered to and either earlier testate dispositions will be used or Texas intestate dispositions will be used.
Both earlier testate dispositions and Texas intestate dispositions can cause a huge change in inheritance and can cause some beneficiaries and heirs to lose a significant amount of inheritance. These shifts in inheritance can often result in Texas contested probate lawsuits.
Vast Fortunes Including Mineral Interests, Oil Royalties, Stocks, Bank Accounts, Gold, and Real Estate Can Be Lost or Stolen Through Probate and Inheritance by Texas Inheritance Fraud Lawyer, Texas Probate Fraud Lawyer, and Texas Trust Fraud Lawyer
Vast fortunes including mineral interests, oil companies, oil royalties, gas royalties, stocks, real property, gold, stocks, jewelry and other wealth are commonly lost or stolen through trusts, fraudulent wills, ignorance of inheritance laws, poor record keeping, opportunists, and individuals that steal wealth from families. It is important to keep records and an inventory of all family wealth including real estate, mineral interests, royalty rights, land, buildings, houses, businesses, stocks, jewelry, life insurance, bonds, and gold.
Texas has produced more oil and natural gas than any other state and remains a large producer of oil and natural gas in the United States. In Texas there are seven major oil and natural gas producing regions. These basins include the Permian Basin, the Val Verde Basin, the Anadarko Basin, the Maverick Basin, the Fort Worth Basin, the East Texas Basin, and the Gulf Coast Basin. Of these Texas oil producing basins and Texas natural gas producing basins, the Permian Basin dominates oil production in the state and the Gulf Coast Basin dominates natural gas production. The major oil fields in Texas include Wasson, Yates, and Spraberry in West Texas, as well as the largest Texas oil field, East Texas field in the East Texas Basin. The Permian Basin has been the most prolific oil-producing province in U.S. history. For families with real estate and other interests in these areas, it is usually necessary to hire a Texas Oil Probate Lawyer to defend these interests and transfer the interests through probate to the rightful heirs and beneficiaries.
Additionally, the Eagle Ford Shale in central Texas promises to bring a large amount of new money and new wealth to the owners of real estate in the Eagle Ford Shale region including mineral right owners, royalty interest owners, and working interest owners. However, determining the rightful owners of Texas real estate and mineral interests is not always easy. Title to real estate and property can be clouded by probate issues, tax issues, and transfer issues. For more information on Central Texas Eagle Ford Shale contested ownership and probate lawsuits, please feel free to go to the following web page: Texas Eagle Ford Shale Contested Real Estate Ownership Probate Lawsuits.
For more information on protecting family wealth or seeking back family wealth, please go to the following web page on Texas Oil Royalty Inheritance Lawsuits.
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A Failed Back Surgery Can Cause A Patient To Suffer Significant Pain, Paralysis, and Disability as well as Require The Patient to Have To Endure Additional Corrective Surgery and be the Basis of a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit - by Texas Failed Back Surgery Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Failed back surgery, neck surgery, lumbar surgery, and cervical surgery can be extremely painful and result in catastrophic injuries, permanent paralysis, physical impairment, and the need for additional surgeries. These failed back and neck surgeries can be caused by a variety of factors including improper use of implants, improperly placed hardware, negligently implanted devices, defective spinal-devices or hardware, doctor carelessness, off-label use of stimulators, or surgeon negligence.
Back Surgery and Neck Surgery Are Typically Intended To Decompress a Nerve Root That Is Pinched, Stabilize a Painful Joint, or Implant a Device to Health Suppress a Person's Pain by Texas Failed Discectomy Lawyer, Failed Laminectomy Lawyer, and Failed Fusion Spine Surgery Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
When considering going through back or neck surgery, please keep in mind that spine surgery is basically able to accomplish only two things: decompress a nerve root that is pinched, or stabilize a painful joint. In other words, back surgery or spine surgery cannot literally cut out a patient’s pain. It is only able to change anatomy. Therefore, it is important that an anatomical lesion (injury) that is a probable cause of back pain should be identified prior to rather than after back surgery or spine surgery is performed. In other words, it is important for your surgical team to have a surgical objective prior to cutting into the patient.
Further, it is best if you and your surgeon understand the goal of the back surgery or neck surgery prior to the surgery being performed. Fortunately, medical science has come a long way in treating back injuries and spinal cord injuries. Good neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons can often perform back surgery that can help severe spinal cord and back injuries.
Unfortunately, there are medical clinics, medical implant sales people, and doctors that are more interested in profit and their bottom line than what is best for a patient. Some of these medical professionals carelessly cause painful and difficult conditions to become much worse by paralyzing patients that are seeking relief from pain.
Patients with Serious Back Injuries Including Severed Spinal Cords, Crushed Discs, Bulged Discs, and Herniated Discs when Seeking Pain Relief can sometimes Fall Victim to Defective Products, Negligent Health Care, and "For Profit" Medical Professionals Seeking to Increase Profits: Unnecessary Back Surgery and Unnecessary Neck Surgery Can Be The Result of Negligence as well as "For Profit" Assembly Line Back Surgeons by Texas Failed Discectomy Lawyer, Failed Laminectomy Lawyer, and Failed Fusion Spine Surgery Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Patients and their families should beware of assembly line mass patient surgeons and clinics that are only interested in performing as many surgeries as they can for the purpose of making a profit. It is important that the medical professionals on their surgical team are interested in their health and can fully explain the objectives of the surgery as well as possible complications. The "for profit" surgeons and clinics can often perform unnecessary surgeries, push patients that are not fit for surgery into having ill advised surgeries, or bypass more conservative treatments and rush patients to unnecessary back or neck surgeries.
Additionally, please keep in mind as medical budgets go down and healing people becomes more of a "for profit" business, cost cutting measures are causing more medical mistakes. Overworked surgeons, doctors, residents, and nurses are much more likely to make mistakes than well rested health care professionals.
"Back specialists are discouraging the use of surgery as a therapeutic technique for patients with back pain. Hubert L. Rosomoff, MD, called a moratorium on back surgeries when he realized that, after two weeks of rehabilitation, his back patients no longer required surgery. He said this approach can avoid the majority of surgeries. 'Following this kind of concept you can eliminate 99 percent of the surgical cases. In fact, the incidence of surgery if one really looks at this appropriately is one in 500.' Dr. Rosomoff was among the speakers in the session 'Failed back syndrome,' during the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) 17th annual meeting". Failed Back Syndrome: The Disturbing Statistics | DocGuide
Lynn Johnson, MD, was the moderator for the AAPM session. He said that failed back syndrome can occur in as many as 10 to 40 percent of patients who get some type of lumbar spine surgery.
Dr. Johnson is board certified in anesthesia and pain medicine and director of the Center for Pain Medicine of North Carolina, which is affiliated with East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina. Failed Back Syndrome: The Disturbing Statistics | DocGuide
"This means there is an alarming prevalence to the syndrome," he said. "There is a lot of misunderstanding about what causes back pain at the outset, prior to surgery. Moreover, once they have had surgery and don?t do well there are continued problems in not only diagnosis but management of the problem."Failed Back Syndrome: The Disturbing Statistics | DocGuide
For more information on this topic, please go to the complete article: A Failed Back Surgery Including A Failed Discectomy, Failed Laminectomy, or Failed Spine Fusion Can Cause A Patient To Suffer Significant Pain, Paralysis, and Disability as well as Require The Patient to Have To Endure Additional Corrective Surgery and be the Basis of a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit or Product Liability Lawsuit by Texas Failed Discectomy Lawyer, Failed Laminectomy Lawyer, and Failed Fusion Spine Surgery Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
The Federal Government and Many States Including Texas Are Expanding Medicaid Recovery Laws To Detect Medicaid Fraud and Encourage More Health Care Professionals to Expose Medicaid Fraud by Texas Hospital System Medicaid Fraud Lawyer, Health Care System Medicaid Fraud Lawyer, Health System Medicaid Compliance Fraud Lawyer, Hospital Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer, Health System Medicaid Reimbursement Fraud Lawyer, & Hospital Medicaid Compliance Whistleblower Protection Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Medicaid is a public health care problem in the United States that provides health care, dental care, and orthodontic care for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. The Medicaid Program is jointly funded by state and federal governments, but is managed by the states. Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited income in the United States and the Medicaid program has been increasing. The fastest growing aspect of Medicaid is nursing home coverage and this is expected to continue as the Baby Boomer generation begins to reach nursing home age.
Unlike Medicare, which is solely a federal program, Medicaid is a joint federal-state program. Each state operates its own Medicaid system. Each state's Medicaid Program must conform to federal guidelines in order for the state to receive matching funds and grants. For many states Medicaid has become a major budget issue as on average the state's matching costs of the Medicaid program is about 16.8% of state general funds. According to CMS, the Medicaid program provided health care services to more than 46.0 million people in 2001. In 2008, Medicaid provided health coverage and services to approximately 49 million low-income children, pregnant women, elderly persons, and disabled individuals. Federal Medicaid outlays were estimated to be $204 billion in 2008. Medicaid payments currently assist nearly 60 percent of all nursing home residents and about 37 percent of all childbirths in the United States. The Federal Government pays on average 57 percent of Medicaid expenses.
Texas Medicaid Whistleblowers with Original and Specialized Information of Medicaid Fraud Are Eligible to Collect Large Financial Rewards for Filing Texas False Claims Act Lawsuits, Texas Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Recovery Lawsuits, Texas Medicaid False Billing Whistleblower Award Lawsuits, Texas Medicaid Double Billing Fraud Lawsuits, Texas Medicaid Fraud False Billing Lawsuits, Texas Unnecessary Medical Treatment Relator Lawsuits, and Texas Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Lawsuits by Texas Hospital System Medicaid Fraud Lawyer, Texas Health Care System Medicaid Fraud Lawyer, Texas Health System Medicaid Compliance Fraud Lawyer, Texas Hospital Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer, Texas Health System Medicaid Reimbursement Fraud Lawyer, & Texas Hospital Medicaid Compliance Whistleblower Protection Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
In Texas, the Medicaid program is administered by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. More than 3.7 million Texans are eligible for Medicaid, and there are more than 57,000 active Medicaid providers. A provider can be any person, group of people, or health care facility that supplies medical services to Medicaid recipients. Providers include doctors, medical equipment companies, podiatrists, dentists, licensed professional counselors, hospitals, adult day care centers, nursing homes, clinics, pharmacies, ambulance companies, case management centers and others.
The Texas Medicaid program costs about $30 Billion each year and is expected to continue to increase in the future. Of this cost, it is estimated that Medicaid fraud costs are between Two Billion Dollars ($2,000,000,000.00) to Four Billion Dollars ($4,000,000,000.00) each year.
There are many types of Medicaid fraud including:
billing Medicaid for X-rays, blood tests and other procedures that were never performed
falsifying a patient’s diagnosis to justify unnecessary tests;
giving a patient a generic drug and billing for the name-brand version of the medication;
giving a recipient a motorized scooter and billing for an electric wheelchair, which can cost three times more;
billing Medicaid for care not given;
billing Medicaid for patients who have died or who are no longer eligible for Medicaid;
billing Medicaid for care given to patients who have transferred to another facility;
transporting Medicaid patients by ambulance when it is not medically necessary;
requiring vendors to “kick back” part of the money they receive for rendering services to Medicaid patients (kickbacks may also include vacations, merchandise, etc.);
billing patients for services already paid for by Medicaid;
billing Medicaid for phantom patients;
double billing Medicaid for services;
upcoding services for increased Medicaid payments.
Medicaid fraud violates federal and state criminal laws and can result in significant fines and/or incarceration. Those convicted of fraud may also lose their status as Medicaid providers. To prevent Medicaid fraud, Texas has enacted the Texas False Claims Act and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act.
Being the First to File on as well as Having Original and Specialized Information of Medicaid Billing Fraud, CHIP Fraud, or Medicare Billing Fraud is Essential for a Texas Medicaid Fraud Whistleblower Recovery Lawsuit
It is necessary for a Texas health care professional whistleblower, Texas health care executive whistleblower, Texas health care administrator whistleblower, or other Texas Medicaid fraud whistleblower to have original and specialized knowledge of Medicare fraud to be eligible for Medicare whistleblower reward. It is also essential to not delay in coming forward with a Texas Medicaid fraud whistleblower claim as the first whistleblower to file is the only one eligible to be a relator and make a large recovery for exposing the fraud.
It is also important to realize that when a fraudulent Medicaid scheme is exposed, the people that kept the fraud secret can sometimes be found liable for criminal activity for not exposing the Medicaid fraud that was being committed and further be held liable for continuing criminal activity.
The SEC Is Offering Large Financial Bounties For Insider Trading Whistleblowers That Properly Expose Executive Insider Trading, Hedge Fund Insider Trading, Money Manger Insider Trading, Hedge Fund Manager Illegal Trading, Stock Manipulation Schemes, and Other Violations of Securities Law by Hedge Fund Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer, Private Equity Fund Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer, Stock Manipulation Scheme Whistleblower Lawyer, & Executive Insider Trading Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer
The SEC is offering large financial bounties to insider trade whistleblowers that expose executive insider trading, hedge fund insider trading, private equity fund fraud, money manger insider trading, hedge fund manager illegal trading, stock manipulation schemes, and other violations of securities law. These insider trading whistleblower rewards can be obtained by financial professionals with knowledge of illegal insider trading and other SEC violations. The SEC encourages all financial professionals with original knowledge of executive insider trades, hedge fund insider trades, private equity fund fraud, false misleading information on a company's financial statements, false information on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, stock manipulation schemes; embezzlement by stockbrokers; and other securities fraud to properly expose the violations.
Statement on the Application of Insider Trading Law to Trading by Members of Congress and Their Staffs by Robert Khuzami Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
"Insider trading threatens the integrity of our markets, depriving investors of the fundamental fairness of a level playing field. To deter this conduct and to hold accountable those who fail to play by the rules, the detection and prosecution of those who engage in insider trading remains one of the Division of Enforcement’s highest priorities."
"Insider trading has long been a high priority for the Commission. Approximately eight percent of the 650 average annual number of enforcement cases filed by the Commission in the past decade have been for insider trading violations. In the past two years, the Commission has been particularly active in this area. In fiscal year 2010, the SEC brought 53 insider trading cases against 138 individuals and entities, a 43 percent increase in the number of filed cases from the prior fiscal year. This past fiscal year, the Commission filed 57 actions against 124 individuals and entities, a nearly 8 percent increase over the number of filed cases in fiscal year 2010."
"The increased number of insider trading cases has been matched by an increase in the quality and significance of our recent cases. In fiscal year 2011 and the early part of fiscal year 2012, the SEC obtained judgments in 18 actions arising out of its investigation of Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, including a record $92.8 million civil penalty against Rajaratnam personally. The SEC also discovered and developed information that ultimately led to criminal convictions of Rajaratnam and others, including corporate executives and hedge fund managers, for rampant insider trading. In addition, we recently filed an insider trading action against Rajat Gupta, a former director of both Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, whom we allege provided confidential Board information about both companies’ quarterly earnings and about an impending $5 billion Berkshire Hathaway investment in Goldman Sachs to Rajaratnam, who traded on that information."
Dueling Portrayals of Former Goldman Director at Insider Trading Trial - NYTimes.com
A former director of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, stands accused of leaking boardroom secrets about those two companies to his friend and business associate Raj Rajaratnam, the convicted former money manager who ran the Galleon Group, once one of the world’s largest hedge funds.
The government depicted Mr. Gupta, a resident of Westport, Conn., as the ultimate insider who, after running the elite consulting firm McKinsey & Company, joined the boards of Goldman and P.& G. As a director, he was privy to these companies’ most closely guarded secrets.
“Gupta threw away his duties, threw away his responsibilities and broke the law,” Mr. Brodsky said.
Mr. Brodsky emphasized the ties between Mr. Gupta and Mr. Rajaratnam, who began doing business together during the middle of the last decade. Mr. Gupta invested in Galleon’s funds, and the two helped start a $1 billion private equity fund together.
Insider Trading Risk Surrounds Facebook Stock Debut as Morgan Stanley Hits Back at Subpoena - International Business Times
"Facebook, its banks and some of its biggest backers could face allegations of insider trading if legal actions which began this week reveal preferential treatment to certain investors in the run-up to its now infamous $16bn stock market debut."
"A state subpoena issued to Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the Facebook IPO, and a class-action lawsuit filed against Morgan Stanley, its IPO banking team, the Nasdaq OMX Group and Facebook itself could land certain investors and analysts in deeper legal difficultly, a British-based barrister told the IBTimes UK."
"If analysts were found to have only verbally told a select number of institutional investors that they had revised their original share estimates before the Facebook IPO last Friday, and those select people's share purchase history illustrated a sizeable discrepancy with other clients, there may be grounds to file charges of insider trading."
Spina Bifida Is The Most Common Type of Neural Tube Birth Defect: Spina Bifida Defects May Be Caused By Certain Medications Given to a Mother Before or During Pregnancy by Texas Spina Bifida Lawyer, Drug Neural Tube Defect Lawyer, Infant Spinal Cord Defect Lawyer, Brain Birth Defect Lawyer, Spina Bifida Defect Lawyer, and Spina Bifida Dangerous Drug Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that certain medications may cause an increased risk of neural tube birth defects including spina bifida in children. Women that are pregnant, attempting to get pregnant, or may become pregnant should be aware that certain antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and other medications may cause an increased risk of birth defects. Further, parents with children that have spina bifia, neural tube birth defects, or other birth defects that they believe may be the result of a medication should report the adverse effect to their doctor and the FDA.
Spina bifida is the most common neural tube defect and it is estimated that there are approximately 70,000 people in the United State living with spina bifida. It is an all too common birth defect in the United States affecting about approximately 1,500 new born babies each year.
In a child that has a spina bifida birth defect, the fetal spinal column doesn't close completely during the first month of pregnancy. These children typically suffer nerve damage from the birth defect that causes at least some paralysis of the child's legs. Severe cases of spina bifida can result in full or partial paralysis and other problems such as hydrocephalus, bowel and bladder problems, and learning disabilities.
There are several forms of spina bifida and the birth defect can cause mild to severe health problems. Myelomeningocele spina bifida is the most severe form of spina bifida. Myelomeningocele is where the spinal cord and meninges protrude from a spinal opening. In myelomeningocele spina bifida cases, the new born child will require surgery after birth to put the exposed nerves and cord into the spinal canal. Children with myelomingocele are at high risk of infection until the back is closed surgically. In spite of surgery, in these myelomeningocele spina bifida cases, some nerve damage is usually permanent and will include paralysis and bowel and bladder problems.
Bladder and bowel problems as well as paralysis are common in most forms of spina bifida. Both spina bifida bowel and bladder problems as well as spina bifida paralysis are caused by nerve damage. The nerves that control bowel and bladder functions are damaged and unable to work properly as the nerves that control other parts of the body can be damages and unable to control other parts of the body. These damaged nerves prevent the child from being able to control their bodies including their bowels and bladder. As such, many children suffering from severe spina bifida do not have full control of the bladder and bowels. These spina bifida bowel and bladder problems can often result in urinary tract infections, suffer kidney damage, and incontinence.
Several forms of spina bifida can also cause hydrocephalus, which is increased fluid on the brain. The increased fluid or hydrocephalus can be caused when the fluid around the brain cannot drain properly. In cases of spina bifida hydrocephalus, the spina bifida defect will typically block the fluid's normal path and will often require a shunt to be placed in the child to drain the fluid from the brain and reduce fluid pressure on the brain.
Meningocele spina bifida is the rarest type of spina bifida where the protective membrane covering the spinal cord (the meninges) develops incorrectly and protrudes through an opening in the spine. Because this form of spina bifida does not involve the spinal cord itself, meningocele spina bifida can usually be treated through surgically and allow children to develop normally without paralysis. However, children with meningocele spina bifida can develop hydrocephalus and bowel or bladder problems.
Occulta spina bifida is the mildest form of spina bifida where there is a small defect, gap or malformation in one or more of the vertebrae of the spine. In occulta spina bifida cases, there is often no nerve damage or symptoms for the child, but as the child develops problems may arise through progressive neurological deterioration. Some affected individuals have a dimple, hairy patch, dark spot or swelling over the affected area, and most affected individuals with mild occulta spina bifida will need no treatment.
FBI — Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 107 Individuals for Approximately $452 Million in False Billing
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that a nationwide takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven cities has resulted in charges against 107 individuals, including doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $452 million in false billing.
“Today’s arrests send a strong message to criminals that the consequences of committing Medicare fraud are serious,” said HHS Secretary Sebelius. “In addition to these arrests, we used new authority from the health care law to stop all future payments to 52 health care providers suspected of fraud before they are ever made. Today’s actions are another example of how the Affordable Care Act is helping the Obama Administration fight fraud and strengthen the Medicare program.”
The defendants charged are accused of various health care fraud-related crimes, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, violations of the anti-kickback statutes and money laundering. The charges are based on a variety of alleged fraud schemes involving various medical treatments and services such as home health care, mental health services, psychotherapy, physical and occupational therapy, durable medical equipment (DME), and ambulance services.
According to court documents, the defendants allegedly participated in schemes to submit claims to Medicare for treatments that were medically unnecessary and oftentimes never provided. In many cases, court documents allege that patient recruiters, Medicare beneficiaries and other co-conspirators were paid cash kickbacks in return for supplying beneficiary information to providers, so that the providers could submit fraudulent billing to Medicare for services that were medically unnecessary or never provided. Collectively, the doctors, nurses, licensed medical professionals, health care company owners, and others charged are accused of conspiring to submit a total of approximately $452 million in fraudulent billing.
Medical Professionals Including Physicians and Hospital Administrators Are Blowing the Whistle on Medicare Fraud, Medicaid Fraud, TRICARE Fraud and other Health Care Fraud That is Costing Taxpayers over $100 Billion Each Year by Texas Medicare Fraud Physician Whistleblower Lawyer, Texas Medical Doctor Whistleblower Lawyer & Texas Medical Professional Whistleblower Lawyer Jason Coomer
Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud, and health care fraud are becoming the fastest growing and most lucrative crimes in the United States. It is estimated that Medicare fraud, Medicaid fraud, and other forms of health care fraud cost tax payers between $100 Billion and $200 Billion each year. As such, the United States Department of Justice is cracking down on criminals committing health care fraud.
107 charged in health care fraud bust
The United States Department of Justice is also encouraging medical professionals, physicians, and hospital administrators to become Medicare fraud whistleblowers and Medicaid fraud whistleblowers to help expose these health care fraud schemes. These Medicare fraud whistleblowers and Medicaid fraud whistleblowers can protect themselves from potential criminal liability from knowing about health care fraud and not reporting it, help expose corruption and fraud in the health care system, and potentially recover a large financial reward for being the first to file on significant health care fraud schemes.
Health Care Professionals That Hire a Medicare Fraud Physician Whistleblower Lawyer, Hospital Administrator Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer & Medical Professional Whistleblower Lawyer Can Help Protect their Career and Have Assistance in Developing and Evaluating a Potential Health Care Fraud Whistleblower Qui Tam Lawsuit
Medical professionals that have the knowledge and evidence of systematic Medicare fraud or systematic Medicaid fraud usually are well educated, well trained, and have a substantial investment in their career that needs to be protected. For these health care professionals, it is usually a good idea to consult with or hire a Medicare Fraud Physician Whistleblower Lawyer, Hospital Administrator Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Lawyer & Medical Professional Whistleblower Lawyer that can help protect their career and provide advice as to how to prevent retaliation that can damage a professional's career. The medical professional whistleblower lawyer can also provide confidential and privileged assistance in investigating, reviewing, developing, and evaluating a potential health care fraud whistleblower qui tam lawsuit prior to the medical professional whistleblower being exposed to any potential retaliation or damage to the professional's career.
Death With Dignity: How Doctors Die - Mind & Body - Utne Reader
"Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call “futile care” being performed on people near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the intensive care unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.”
Read more: http://www.utne.com/mind-body/death-with-dignity-zm0z12mjzros.aspx#ixzz1u1AKaCH8
The Blood Thinner Pradaxa May Cause Fatal Blood Loss, Internal Bleeding, Hemorrhaging, And Death: Persons Taking Pradaxa Should Be Aware of These Potential Health Risks by Texas Pradaxa Lawyer, Texas Pradaxa Fatal Blood Loss Lawyer, Texas Pradaxa Hemorrhaging Death Lawyer, and Texas Pradaxa Death Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
On December 7, 2011, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a FDA Drug Safety Communication: Safety review of post-market reports of serious bleeding events with the anticoagulant Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate mesylate). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating post-marketing reports of serious bleeding events in patients taking Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate mesylate). Pradaxa is a blood thinning (anticoagulant) medication used to reduce the risk of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of heart rhythm abnormality.
Pradaxa Fatal Blood Loss Lawsuit, Defective Blood Thinner Medication Lawsuit, Pradaxa Internal Bleeding Lawsuit, Pradaxa Hemorrhaging Death Lawsuit, Pradaxa Internal Bleeding Death Lawsuit, and Pradaxa Lawsuit Information by Texas Pradaxa Fatal Blood Loss Lawyer, Pradaxa Hemorrhaging Death Lawyer, and Pradaxa Death Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
Scientific evidence has recently confirmed that the the blood thinner, Pradaxa, may cause serious health problems including internal bleeding and hemorrhaging in certain populations of patients that may cause death. Further, there are allegations that the drug manufacturer may have been aware of certain dangers of the drug's use, but did not warn the public in a timely manner of these health dangers. Several Pradaxa lawsuits have already been filed and many more are expected in the future.
The Blood Thinner Pradaxa May Cause Risk of Fatal Blood Loss, Internal Bleeding, Hemorrhaging, And Death: Persons Taking Pradaxa Should Be Aware of These Potential Health Risks by Texas Pradaxa Lawyer, Texas Pradaxa Fatal Blood Loss Lawyer, Texas Pradaxa Hemorrhaging Death Lawyer, and Texas Pradaxa Death Lawyer Jason S. Coomer
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Do Good By Giving This SeasonTwenty-five percent of annual giving to charities is done between Thanksgiving and the New Year. Just make sure your charity is a good one.
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Julia Pistell is a writer, a podcaster, and a comedian. Most importantly to anyone reading this, she the co-host of the podcast Literary Disco with her friends Tod Goldberg and Rider Strong. In her work as the Director of Writing Programs at the Mark Twain House, Julia has interviewed Joan Didion, Judy Blume, Anne Rice, Christopher Moore, and so many other cool people. Her writing has been featured on NPR (“This I Believe” and “All Things Considered”), in literary magazines (The Coachella Review), and blogs (“The Rumpus,” “Hello Giggles,” and “The Beaker”). Her favorite writing gig ever was being hired as a writer to relive historic sailing life on the last remaining nineteenth century whaleship, the Charles W. Morgan. These days, Julia also freelances for United Way and LEGO, writing speeches and style guides and top-secret stuff. Residing in Hartford, Julia is the co-founder of Sea Tea Improv, Connecticut’s only improv comedy studio. She has performed in over 350 comedy shows and teaches improv to the homeless, among many other people. She loves being on both the artistic and administrative side of making a life for other working artists.
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Obama, a Huli warrior and the image nincompoop
By Alfredo P Hernadez
IT SIMPLY took a nincompoop to ignite the ire of many Papua New Guineans here in Port Moresby - and those living in the US, the Pacific and elsewhere across the globe. Although only those Papua New Guineans residing in the US are directly affected by the raging healthcare issues that of late have divided the American people, their global compatriots feel that their cultural pride, and as a nation rich in colorful culture, have been unfairly dragged into the US healthcare brouhaha. To them, the whole affair involving a controversial picture of US President Barack Obama has now boiled down into a simple issue of racism that insults Papua New Guineans and hurts the nation’s pride.
Over the past three weeks, their anger has been bouncing back and forth across the cyberspace through emails exchanged among overseas Papua New Guineans. The unflattering and tasteless image of Obama’s was first flashed on news television some three weeks ago during coverage of a protest-rally against the president’s healthcare scheme. The Obama-Huli wigman’s image was one of the posters that have been used by Americans protesting the Obama healthcare scheme. I did not understand it for a while why such an image of Papua New Guinean motif was used to drumbeat their protest.
Obama’s face was superimposed on an image of a PNG Huli wigman in full traditional regalia. When I first saw it, I immediately recognised it as one of PNG. The Huli wigman is a tribal warrior from PNG’s Highlands. However, just before I could consider it as something to be proud of, having considered PNG as my second home, it dawned on me that there was something sinister in superimposing the US president’s facial image on one of PNG’s popular cultural icons.
'Witch doctor'
The whole image carried the label “Witch Doctor”!, apparently to drive a point that the Obama administration’s attempt to overhaul the American healthcare system “would make the quality of medical care worse” as claimed by the program’s detractors. In many tales that I had read about witch doctors, their “patients” usually got worse instead of being healed. This may be the reason why such similarity was drawn: Obama the village witch doctor and the American people his patients whose health is fast deteriorating.
But one thing that was totally wrong here is that Obama, in the PNG Highlands’ warrior image, has been labeled as an African witch doctor, his being of African descent. And this is an insult, as far as the Papua New Guinean people are concerned. And so the “racist’ slant has become very pronounced. Wrote David Ketepa from Detroit, Michigan:
Many Papua New Guineans living in the US and around the world are angered by the picture which was used by an opponent of President Obama’s healthcare plan … the picture depicts a warrior from the Highlands who is in his traditional attire.
Another said on his blog, which was also circulated through email:
This is totally absurd and whoever did it needs to apologise to the People of Papua New Guinea for insulting us… this is our culture and we love it!” one said on his blog, which was also circulated through email.
Another said:
To the ignorant, idiot racist who distributed this picture, this is not an African witch doctor’s dress like you claim.
One knowledgeable Papua New Guinean explained to me there’s no such thing as a witch doctor in PNG as the anti-Obama protest posters would want the American people to believe.
Sorcerers abound
Well, we have sorcerers who abound in almost all tribes across PNG. But witch doctors? I really doubt it.
The unfortunate picture came about due to the sheer ignorance of the artist who concocted the image. He never realised that the person in the original picture is a Papua New Guinean tribesman and not a witch doctor which is common in Africa. The Obama’s tribal warrior’s attire clearly showed the Huli wigman seated outside a round house, holding a stone while the otherhand rested on his right side. His feathered wig clearly showed a stuffed bird of paradise in the middle and on both ends. Through his nose is a cassowary (a flightless bird) bone.
This colourful ensemble makes up the Huli wigman’s traditional attire which he wears as he goes about his business in the village. This is also his wear when fighting a tribal war. Although I had not seen a Huli wigman in the natural setting at the village, I saw many of them at a cultural show held in Sogere, which is located outside Port Moresby.
In his blog on July 23, American Zachary Roth wrote:
The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives.
And we’ve got the latest example.
Tea Party ploy
Roth said that on July 19, Dr David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of the Google list service affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image of President Obama in the Huli wigman attire, with a note saying, "Funny stuff.”
Roth revealed that Dr McKalip is not just some random winger. He’s a Florida neurosurgeon, who serves as a member of the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates.
According to Roth, Dr McKalip is an
energetic conservative opponent of healthcare reform and founded the anti-reform group Doctors For Patient Freedom.
Last month, he (McKalip) joined the GOP congressmen Tom Price and Phil Gingrey, among others, for a virtual town hall to warn about the coming “government takeover of medicine”. And in a recent anti-reform op-ed published in the St Petersburg Times, Dr Mckalip wrote that: “Congress wants to create a larger, government-funded program for healthcare and more bureaucracy that ration care and impose cookbook medicine.”
Asked about the email in a brief interview with TPMmuckraker, Dr McKalip said he believes that by depicting the president as an African witch doctor, the “artist” who created the image “was expressing concerns that the healthcare proposals (by Obama) would make the quality of medical care in our country worse”.
However, Dr McKalip denied knowing who created the composite picture.
Livid phone call'
A blogger at Daily Kos reported about his getting a statement from the American Medical Association (AMA), which reads:
Delegates to the American Medical Association are selected through their individual state and specialty societies, and their individual views and actions do not, in any way, represent the official view of the AMA. We condemn any actions or comments that are racist, discriminatory or unprofessional.
The same blogger has also reported that he got a call from the director of corporate communications at Bayfront Medical Center in St Pete and she was livid about what Dr McKalip has done. The doctor works in the hospital.
The blogger said the director had disclosed that the issue was being “handled internally”. Although Dr McKalip works at Bayfront, he does not speak for the hospital. Dr McKalip has now apologised. But not before blaming "liberal activists" for touting the email he circulated.
President Obama’s infamous image has now taken on a new significance. And casting aside the intention of the ignorant artist of labeling him as an African witchdoctor, Obama actually assumes the posture of a PNG Highlands “warrior”. This is because the Huli wigman is a tribal warrior.
Barrier in Congress
Obama is gradually emerging as a one-man warrior fighting a great odd in his bid to push his healthcare reform agenda.
Those who oppose him – in Congress and in protest-rally grounds – are in great number and it seems he will not get his healthcare scheme through the barrier in Congress this year with the support of the Republicans in Congress - his staunch enemy. This means that should it be passed, it would be through the workings of the Democrats in Congress, his built-in allies in this hard-to-sell initiative.
Michael Hiltzik, writing in latimes.com, advised the president “to get mean already”. The article is titled “It’s time for Obama to take off the kid gloves”. Hiltzik wrote that “it’s worth remembering that effective health insurance reform has five major elements: mandating individual health coverage, requiring issuance to all applicants, outlawing exclusions for preexisting conditions, regulating premium and fees, and providing subsidies for low-income buyers … all are overwhelmingly supported by Americans, and all are in the Democratic proposals.
“We’ve already seen that Obama knows how to talk sense … can he play hardball too?” Hiltzik asks.
In his September 9 healthcare speech, the president seemed to signal a new hard line, when he threatened to “call out” anyone who misrepresented his plan. He’s spoiling for a big showdown and he wants victory soon.
Could this mean that Obama, who reincarnated himself as Huli wigman of PNG’s Highlands, is now ready for a warrior’s battle?
Thanks to Freddie, this article is republished from his Letters from Port Moresby blog. He is a senior journalist on The National, but these are his personal views.
Pacific Scoop on the Obama image controversy
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The commodore's Fiji from a refreshing angle
KAPAI Julian Wilcox and his team over at Māori Television’s Native Affairs for their coverage on Fiji this week. And also a big kia orana to Radio NZ’s Pacific affairs reporter Richard Pamatatau. Their refreshing coverage of the troubled republic (dictatorship) run by the region’s pariah military regime was welcome for its insights and depth – contrasting sharply with much of the mainstream media’s stereotypical and culturally shallow reporting.
And it isn’t any accident that this Pacific reporting has come from tangata whenua media personalities Wilcox, a former lecturer in Māori studies at AUT University, and reporter Carmen Parahi, and also a Cook Islander in Pamatatau. While the Native Affairs team pulled off a minor coup with an interview with Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama during their “48 hours in the Pacific military zone” when he has been reluctant since the April putsch to do an interview with other New Zealand television outfits (in contrast to Sky and SBS in Australia), Pamatatau unobtrusively got out and about in rural villages and did a series of insightful radio reports on Fiji. Both Wilcox and Pamatatau also gave a lively and interesting account of the challenges they faced in a Media 7 session with Russell Brown this week.
Some critics have sniffed that Wilcox was too “soft” on the military strongman. But Māori Television’s package of the interview, an on-the-ground report with grassroots responses and a panel discussion dissecting Bainimarama’s views gave arguably the best NZ report on Fiji in the last six months. Wilcox impressed as somebody who was genuinely listening to the regime’s side of the story - which is generally drowned out in the Pakeha-centric NZ media by the ethno-nationalist lobby and supporters - while still getting in some of the hard questions.
Still, some things need to be put into perspective. Both the MT team and Pamatatau seemed to be overly influenced by the mood of paranoia that has infected the region's media ever since the expulsion of three expatriate publishers from Australia and three journalists - one from Australia and three from New Zealand. Many had a history of hostility to the regime without the degree of impartiality expected from independent media. And it was never mentioned in the Native Affairs interview that the leading daily newspaper in Fiji, The Fiji Times, is foreign-owned (by a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp) and with a particular agenda. For anybody who has worked as a journalist in countries where there are undeclared internal wars and where assassins work routinely against media with state backing (as I have in the Philippines, for example), Fiji is still a relatively peaceful and secure place to report as a journalist. Also, many in Fiji do sincerely believe that life under a military, authoritarian regime is better than the crazy times after the Speight putsch and living under the shadow of a constant threat of another ethno-nationalist coup.
As for the suggestion that poverty and squatter settlements have somehow emerged since Bainimarama's 2006 coup, that is another myth. Poverty has steadily grown since the original Rabuka coups in 1987 and markedly increased since the expiry of land leases and a flood of landless Indo-Fijian cane farmer families have been forced into squatter settlements. According to University of the South Pacific economics professor Wadan Narsey, in an analysis of Fiji Bureau of Statistics data in 2007, the national incidence of poverty in Fiji for 2002-03 was then about 34 per cent. (In 1991, it had been 29 percent).
But Narsey asked which groups were living in most poverty? More so the rural people, he concluded: Rural Indo-Fijians, 47 percent; rural others, 45 percent; rural Fijians, 39 percent; urban Indo-Fijians, 26 percent; urban Fijians, 23 percent; urban others 12 percent. Narsey added:
It is not surprising that rural Fiji-Indians were the most in poverty, given the decline of the sugar industry, the collapse of the garments industry, and the expiry of land-leases ...
Fiji does not need poverty alleviation affirmative action based on race. It is, therefore, a national tragedy that our blind politicians act as if it is only "their own" ethnic group that deserves poverty alleviation, and not the others.
Julian Wilcox's interview scored a big tick from fellow Radio Waatea commentator Willie Jackson, who wrote in his Stuff column:
If you’ve been watching Native Affairs on Māori TV on a Monday night you’ll already be familiar with one of the country’s more talented interviewers, Julian Wilcox.
He is one of Māoridom’s finest talents, broadcasting in both Māori and English. I better declare that he also works at Radio Waatea, but it is on Native Affairs that he has recently excelled, showing his courtesy and skill many times.
But he’s been put to the test a couple of times.
This week there was his interview with Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who’s been calling all the shots in Fiji since the 2006 military coup.
He can be prickly, especially since he’s had any amount of unflattering attention from self-assured overseas journalists with little grasp of Fijian society and politics. But Wilcox had his guest speaking freely – and making sense too, except when he tried to explain press freedom these days in Fiji.
It seems as though it’s a freedom to present stories that don’t offend the military. That, you’d think, doesn’t quite amount to freedom of the press.
If Wilcox was bemused by Bainimarama’s explanation, he was courteous and sensible enough not to let it wreck the interview.
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Hypocrisy over Fiji while East Timor atrocities are ignored
THE HYPOCRISY reeks. While Australia, NZ and the media went through the usual bleating about Fiji human rights violations, they remained silent about the ongoing struggle to gain justice for those Timorese who have suffered horrendous human rights violations for more than four decades. Alleged human rights violations in Fiji are a soft target - the tough target, the top Indonesian military commanders who have blood on their hands for their colonial adventure in East Timor, remain free with inpunity. Timor-Leste's Truth Commission appeals for an international tribunal and a "commission for disappeared persons" still remain an unlikely dream.
In spite of this climate of international indifference and a "bury the hatchet" approach of appeasement by the current Timorese leadership towards Jakarta, the release from jail of the notorious militia leader Martenus Bere has shocked many human rights advocacy groups. Calls have been made for the indictment of those in government who were responsible for his extra-judicial release and the buck apparently rests with the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão.
The recent release of the Bob Connolly feature film Balibo, about the murders of the Balibo Five - Australian-based newsmen murdered in the border township of Balibo in 1975, has fuelled calls for justice. A sixth journalist, Paul East, who went to East Timor to investigate the killings was himself executed by the invading Indonesian forces.
According to ETAN, in February 2003, the United Nations-backed Serious Crimes Unit indicted Martenus Bere and other members of the pro-Jakarta Laksaur militia for crimes against humanity including murder, rape, torture, enforced disappearances and more. Bere and other Laksaur militia and Indonesian military officers were accused of carrying out the Suai Church massacre on 6 September 1999, killing more than 30 unarmed people and three priests, including Indonesian priest Dewanto.
Bere was arrested in Suai early last month by the Timor-Leste National Police. Until then, he and more than 300 others indicted by the Serious Crimes Unit had lived openly in Indonesia, which has refused to cooperate with any international justice mechanism related to crimes committed in Timor-Leste. An East Timorese judge ordered him held for trial.
However, on August 30 he was released into the custody of the Indonesian ambassador on orders of Gusmão and Justice Minister Lucia Lobato. Bere is believed to still be in Timor-Leste. This is a joint protest statement issued by 11 Indonesian and Timorese human rights groups:
CALL FOR JUSTICE ON EAST TIMOR PAST MASS ATROCITIES
Joint Statement on the Release of Martenus Bere – Indicted for Crimes Against Humanity in Timor-Leste
For the past ten years the disinterest of the international community and active efforts by Indonesia have blocked efforts to end impunity for serious crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste. Ignoring the pleas of the East Timorese people, the Timor-Leste leadership continues to dismiss their calls for justice and an end to impunity.
We were deeply distressed by the 30 August speech of Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta and the actions of the governments of Indonesia and Timor-Leste which led to the release of indicted militia leader Martenus Bere. His extra-judicial release violated international law and treaties and undermined the rule of law and the Constitution of Timor-Leste.
We firmly disagree with President Ramos-Horta that the pursuit of justice is “simplistic".
We disagree that it is necessary to try everyone who committed crimes between 1974 and 1999, or to try no one. Those who gave the orders must be held accountable before a credible court. We believe the pursuit of justice and accountability for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the occupation of Timor-Leste will build democracy and respect for the rule of law in both countries and reconciliation between the two nations. Until there is justice, neither country can “put the past behind.” We add our voices to those in Timor-Leste and elsewhere calling for an International Tribunal for Timor-Leste.
We recognise that victims of human rights violations in Indonesia and Timor-Leste have much in common, including a desire to see those most responsible for their suffering brought to justice. We fully support the conclusions of the recently completed victims’ congress in Dili and
will work on joint campaigns against impunity and for reparations.
We urge the international community and Indonesia to respond to the recommendations included in the CAVR report released by Timor-Leste’s truth commission, including its call for an international tribunal.
Countries should not arm or train the Indonesian military until it has been shown to be accountable for past human rights crimes.
We urge the Indonesian government to fully implement the recommendations directed to it by the CAVR, starting with formally acknowledging receipt of its report and discussing it in the Indonesian Parliament.
The Indonesian government together with Timor-Leste should fully implement the recommendations of the Commission on Truth and Friendship (CTF), especially the one calling for a Commission for Disappeared Persons to gather data and provide information.
Jakarta, 12 September 2009
Asmara Nababan – Koordinator, KKPK (Indonesian Working Group on Truth Recovery)
Galuh Wandita – ICTJ JKT (International Center for Transitional Justice)
Rafendi Djamin – HRWG (Human Rights Working Group)
Usman Hamid – KontraS (Commission on the Disappeared and Victims of Violence)
Miryam Nainggolan – KKPK
Garda Sembiring – PEC (People Empowerment Consortium)
Mugiyanto – Ikohi (Indonesian Association of the Families of the Disappeared)
Hilmar Farid – JKB (Network of Cultural Works)
Rusdi Marpaung – Imparsial (Indonesian Human Rights Monitor)
Dedi Ali Ahmad – PBHI Nasional (Indonesian Legal and Human Rights Association)
John M. Miller – ETAN (East Timor and Indonesia Action Network)
During President Ramos-Horta’s speech at the commemoration of the August 30 referendum, he said: “Let’s put the past behind. There will be no International Tribunal.” Inexplicably, he
continued that “I beg to disagree with their simplistic assertion that the absence of prosecutorial justice fosters impunity and violence.” He also said “We will not replace the Indonesians in their own fight for democracy, human rights and justice.”
Last week, President Horta took the unusual step of awarding a Timorese journalist and his newspaper a medal for "courageous journalism" following a recent similar award to Australia's SBS for its contribution to diversity broadcasting. Horta decorated José Belo and Tempo Semanal, which ironically have been a thorn in the side of the current Timorese government with persistent allegations of corruption. They are currently being sued for defamation by the Justice Minister.
Café Pacific congratulates José Belo and his team for their contribution to a free press in Timor-Leste.
Background on the Martenus Bere case at La'o Hamutuk
More background on the Dili Insider
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Amnesty blasts the Fiji regime while Indian commentators slam 'biased' media
HOW IRONICAL that in the same week that Amnesty International unveiled its damning report on human rights violations since the Fiji post Easter putsch, a number of Indo-Fijian journalists and commentators sounded off “enough is enough” warnings on alleged biased reporting by the NZ media about Fiji. According to Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose’s report on Fiji (he himself is indigenous Fijian, which is a curious departure from AI policy seeking nationally neutral researchers for any in-country probing):
Security forces in Fiji have become increasingly menacing towards people who oppose the regime, including journalists and human rights defenders. Fiji is now caught in a downward spiral of human rights violations and repression.
Only concerted international pressure can break this cycle.
China was singled out as the most serious culprit for ignoring human rights while propping up the Bainimarama regime with aid. This was just a week after Fiji had been fully suspended from the Commonwealth.
However, while the 48-page Amnesty report, Fiji, Paradise Lost, described a litany of repression and censorship against the media (and a host of other human rights violations against the public at large) and arbitrary arrests of some 20 journalists under the notorious Public Emergency Regulations (PER) since April 10, other journalists and the media were singling out Australia and New Zealand as the main culprits for failed policies over Fiji.
According to an editorial in the upstart - but increasingly impressive - new Auckland-based Indo-Fijian newspaper Indian Weekender, the West’s attitude to Fiji “has changed the region’s geopolitics”. The isolationalist policy driven largely by “belligerent” Australia and New Zealand has created the power and influence vacuum that China is now happily filling. Wrote editor Dev Nadkarni, a longtime resident of Fiji as a former journalism school coordinator:
Fiji is too important to be trivialised with the insensitive approach that New Zealand and Australia have had toward it over the past two and a half years. It has always been the gateway to the South Pacific and will remain so.
Any attempts to shift it to a neighbouring country like Samoa – which Samoa’s leadership has repeatedly sought – is wishful thinking and well nigh impossible for reasons of its inferior infrastructure, costs and sheer logistics, which New Zealand and Australia simply cannot afford.
The Weekender added:
The geopolitics of the Pacific has been in slow ferment for about two decades now with Asian powers like China, Taiwan and Japan playing increasingly important roles in its development. It will now begin to accelerate. And the West’s handling of the Fiji situation since early 2007 has already proved to be the catalyst.
Writing in the same paper, academic and political commentator Subhash Appana attacked the “hostility, speculation and demonisation” of Fiji in the Western media, particularly Australia and New Zealand. He claimed most of the NZ reporting was being done by biased journalists who had either “run foul of the coup regime" or had a “hard done by acquaintance”. Before citing a range of alleged biased reporting examples by Television New Zealand, including by Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver, Appana wrote:
Their takes on Fiji have been … tainted. This article analyses blinkered reporting on Fiji in New Zealand, and attempts to place on the public platter a more dispassionate view on the Pacific’s pariah state.
He was also highly critical of how most reporters in NZ kept playing a race card in their stories.
Continued reference to Indians and how they ‘support’ this coup is not only lazy, it is unprofessional. If the Fiji Indian succumbs to the human weakness of feeling perverse pleasure at the forced education of fence-sitters and coup-supporters, should he be blamed for it? … The media [in NZ] would do well to rethink the need for balance in reporting.
The previous week, the established rival Indian Newslink editor Venkat Raman returned from a seven-day trip to Fiji and published a 24-page “special report”, including a contributed article by self-declared interim Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. Raman was also scathing about biased reporting in the NZ media.
But the strongest comments came from former Fiji Daily Post publisher Thakur Ranjit Singh in his characteristic feisty style. In a commentary for Pacific.Scoop railing against a press that “did not understand Fiji democracy”, he claimed:
When journalists from Samoa and Tonga have a field day in either the Pacific Freedom Forum or other media outlets in shedding tears for a Fiji democracy that failed to deliver social justice, there was no Indo-Fijian journalist in sight to rebut the nonsense coming out from Polynesian countries which themselves are bereft of the democracy they want for Fiji.
Pictured: Amnesty International researcher Apolosi Bose. Photo: PMC/Del Abcede
Amnesty International 2009 report - Fiji, Paradise Lost
Pacific.Scoop on the Amnesty report
Pacific Media Watch on the Amnesty report
Amnesty report on Fiji ‘disappointing’
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By Team Bollyy On May 31, 2019
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For over 25 years, Zee TV has been at the forefront of giving India’s common man a platform to showcase his talent. Since its very first season in 2009, the channel’s biggest talent-based reality format, Dance India Dance, has revolutionized the landscape of dance in India, making it a mainstream career choice for millions. After a decade of introducing an entire generation of dancing sensations like Salman Yusuff Khan, Shakti Mohan, Dharmesh Yelande, Punit J Pathak and Raghav Juyal to the industry, a spectacular 360-degree arena stage with no less than 120 cameras is set for an exciting battleground of dance as Dance India Dance returns with an all-new season and a hyper-competitive format – Dance India Dance: Battle of the Champions, premiering on 22nd June, airing every Saturday-Sunday at 8 PM only on Zee TV.
It will be a season of many firsts with the creative team managing an exciting coup on the judges’ panel. None other than the gorgeous diva – superstar Kareena Kapoor Khan will be seen making her television debut as a judge. Joining her on the panel will be the King of Hooksteps and the Boss of Dance – Bosco Martiswho returns to television after 3 years in search of an outstanding dancer who will land a chance to feature in his next dance film. Life comes a full circle for the ultimate swag star – the reigning rapper with killer moves – Raftaar, who was once seen as contestant on DID Doubles; this season, he moves to the other side of the table as judge! Adding his wit and charm to the show will be the suave and handsome host Dheeraj Dhoopar.
Produced by Essel Vision Productions Ltd, Dance India Dance: Battle Of The Champions promises to be the #DanceKaJungistaan – an exciting battleground where India’s four zonal teams – East Ke Tigers, South Ke Thalaivas, North Ke Nawabs and the West ke Singhams will be pitted against each other in weekly knock-out rounds to become the ultimate National Dance Champion. This time around, the dancers will be showcasing their moves on a larger-than-life 360-degree arena stage where 120 cameras will capture their most intricate ‘champion move’, leaving absolutely no room for error. The truly international look and feel of the sets is enhanced by a snazzy satellite stage, tunnels for entries, convex and concave LEDs that will enhance the magic of every performance. Season after season, Dance India Dance is known to add to India’s dance vocabulary with never-seen-before styles, techniques, fusion forms and catch audiences off-guard with the sheer caliber of its contestants. This year will be no exception as the champions will only up the ante when it comes to brilliance in dance, making the season truly entertaining and enthralling!
Zee TV Business Head Aparna Bhosle said, “A decade since the launch of its first season, Dance India Dance has been instrumental in providing aspiring dancers in the country with a platform to showcase and hone their talent, gain exposure and make inroads into the industry as choreographers and dancing stars. After 6 successful seasons and having introduced the entertainment fraternity to some of its finest dancing talent, we now present our audiences with season 7, completely reinventing the show. This season will have an exciting, hyper-competitive format where 16 dance champions representing the 4 zones of India will be pitted against each other in knock out rounds to emerge as the national dance champion in the #DanceKaJungistaan. We are excited to present the television debut of the gorgeous Kareena Kapoor Khan as judge this season. Joining her on the panel is choreographer Bosco Martis who plans to identify the promising dancers and give them a chance to feature in his next dance film venture. With history of being a contestant on the same platform, rapper Raftaar returns as judge this season. We are also happy to welcome the leading actor of our popular show Kundali Bhagya, Dheeraj Dhoopar who makes his hosting debut with the show. We aim to strengthen our weekend primetime with this exciting new season of Dance India Dance: Battle of the Champions.”
Judge Kareena Kapoor said, “Dance India Dance is an amazing platform to bring the greatest dancers of the country to the forefront. The platform has given the country extremely talented dancers in the past who are recognized largely by the masses today. This year too, I am hoping to see extraordinary talent emerge from the four zones. Moreover, I am going to approach this in a fun manner and am looking out for not just great dancers but also great performers and dancing stars who can captivate the audiences.”
Judge Bosco Martis said, “Dance India Dance: Battle of Champions is a great platform that encourages dancers to pursue their dreams and see them turn into reality. It feels great to be back on television after 3 years which such a great show that has incredible talent. This year, the season is packed with supremely talented performers and a revamped format which will make it an interesting watch for the audiences. I look forward to identifying the most impressive dancers this season who will then go on to be a part of my next dance film venture!”
Judge Raftaar said, “I have been associated with Dance India Dance in the past as a contestant and I have many fond memories of dancing on this stage. I am looking forward to witnessing some of the finest dancers of the country … having been a contestant myself, I think I’ll be able to relate with their journeys very closely and guide them in making the right choices and approach the platform with the right attitude.”
Host Dheeraj Dhoopar said, “I am excited to make my hosting debut with a show like Dance India Dance. While my fans enjoy watching me as Karan Luthra from Monday-Friday in Kundali Bhagya, they will now be able to witness me in a different avatar over the weekends too. Moreover, I am looking forward to having a great camaraderie with the judges and entertaining the audiences thoroughly” Premiering on 22nd June, Dance India Dance: Battle of the Champions will air every Saturday and Sunday at 8 pm only on Zee
Sweet moment between Judge Kareena Kapoor Khan along with the host of DID- Battle of the champions Dheeraj Dhoopar
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Host Dheeraj Dhoopar , Judges- Bosco Martis, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Raftaar at the launch of DID-Battle of the Champions
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Host of DID-Battle of the champions- Dheeraj Dhoopar
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About that whole dysfunctional staff thing…
Mike Ekeler doesn’t exactly look back on last season in Athens fondly. (h/t)
Despite a powerhouse pedigree featuring some of the most renowned football programs in the nation, one thing mattered above all else to Ekeler.
“I’ve worked at some of the greatest schools history-wise in the game,” Ekeler said. “But what it boils down to is people. You can be at the University of Georgia and be miserable if you’re working with shitty people. I really enjoy my work environment and the players here.” [Emphasis added.]
I’ve said it before — when they write the book about Mark Richt’s last year at Georgia, it’s gonna be something else to read.
UPDATE: A carefully worded retraction…
Miss quoted. I said, you can work at Georgia, USC, Nebraska, LSU etc and if you work with bad people it stinks. Loved working for CMR.
— Mike Ekeler (@CoachEkelerUNT) October 13, 2016
83 responses to “About that whole dysfunctional staff thing…”
It doesn’t need to be a book. There should be a long-form piece by Dawgnation or someone. There’s so much there, it seems.
Call it “. . . And Everyone Hated Jeremy”
or How Richt takes the fire out of DCs.
I’d say JP was pretty fired up when he called out Richt in his house on the Sunday meeting after GA/FL.
Rumored…..but the rumor was he called out Schotty, not Richt. Richt was supposedly the one who interfered. He should have let them go at it imo… : > )
as opposed to what we have now????….compare and contrast.
How about a lyric poem on the order of The Odyssey?
Mike Ekeler. Putting the “mean” in Mean Green.
Guy is rightfully salty I guess. A quick throwback to his comment from earlier this year: “I’m pretty proud of the new record I set,” said Ekeler, speaking by phone during a short return to Athens this week. “I’m the only coach in the history of the NCAA to be part of two staffs that get fired after winning 10 games and finishing with a top-10 defense. I’m pretty sure that’s never happened. I’d be willing to bet it hasn’t.”
Wait till Jack writes his.
So many career assistant coaches are so used to stuff like what happened at UGA last year that they are numb to it. That vagabond life has to get old but they accept it. Ekeler ain’t on his last stop you can bet.
If you’re arguing that last year was same old, same old in Athens, it wasn’t.
AugustaDawg
Jeremy Pruitt wouldn’t know tactfulness if it sat full weight on his face. The bull in the china shop was appalled at his behavior. The cameras caught him getting chippy with Saban on the sideline two weeks ago. Laner just takes that shit.
I noticed that when it happened. Saban yelled at him and he yelled back at Saban. I think Saban is such a strong coach that he doesn’t get his fi fi hurt by his Coordinators expressing their opinions. It not like he didn’t know Pruitt and his personality. The guy can coach and to Saban that’s the bottom line. Mark would have been better served if he had had a no assistant can speak to the media. Pruitt’s bomb throwing would have been less public. We will see if Pruitt is all we imagined over the next 3 – 4 weeks. Kiffin has certainly earned his pay check under Saban. If he had started his career under him he would have been much better at his HC jobs.
For guys like Ekeler it is. He admitted to being on staffs that got fired 2X after winning 10. It may not have been the norm for 15 years under Richt but it sure wasn’t peaches and cream for the staffs between Dooley and Richt.
I never get enough of the juicy gossip (as in, really, I don’t hear it). Who were the bad apples?
rpcpisme
My thoughts as well. I dont need to know the issue(s). However, I would like to know who caused them.
Well, we could assume that Mark Richt was really an asshole despite outward appearance. Or we could go with the gadfly in the system, Jeremy Pruitt. My money is on the latter.
I don’t see Richt as an asshole, he has more of a passive aggressive streak. On a football team, I’ll take the asshole.
SO!!!…you knew what went on behind closed doors??
Just as much as those blaming Pruitt for being an A-hole
since you put it that way, I see him more of a guy who does not like to throw people “under the bus”. Nor does he yell and scream at them on the sidelines. My guess is, he handles that stuff behind closed doors without the yelling and screaming. Treats them with respect, I do not see that as “passive aggressive” at all. The biggest fault that he had imo…was maybe his loyalty (see WM)….and that is not always a bad thing. I appreciate what he did in Athens, it will be hard to duplicate it.
I’m beginning to get the sense that not everyone liked Jeremy Pruitt.
Couple this with Rocker’s mutiny quote last year, the noise after the Florida game, and the one negotiating issue that was a 100% nonstarter for McG….I think you can pretty well piece together what happened last year.
yeah, but there is more to it. There has to be.
How did the O staff come up with our game plan for the Florida game with a bye week to prepare? It was basically “let’s keep doing what isn’t working, but with a less skilled QB”.
Why did Richt change philosophies after the Florida game? Seems like he should have done that two weeks earlier.
I could go on and on and on.
My feeling is that Richt stepped in at Florida once he realized BS was in over his head.
Two new coordinators were coming to town, no matter what.
But I have no reason to believe BS was the one making things miserable around the program. Once some guys on the team are a couple of years removed, the story will come out.
I have a theory, but like everyone else’s, it’s pure speculation.
down island way
Hold on now…….the HC hires who he wants, hitches his star to those coaches….overall staff hirings and raises given to those hirings at our beloved institution in the past 3-4 years had serious questions arise, before, during and after said hirings.
Oh agreed. Ultimately it looked like Richt didn’t have control of his own ship. Thus, he’s not here anymore.
I don’t KNOW anything. Just my impression from reading the tea leaves: Pruitt made a back channel run at Richt’s job post-Florida. While the powers that be squashed it, the optics were that Richt didn’t have his own staff in line. Just my thoughts, mostly likely 100% off base.
This is from a Dawgnation interview with Ekeler 9 months ago
“I learned a valuable lesson watching Brian Schottenheimer. He came into a situation where he tried to run an offense that was already in place and didn’t run his offense, so to speak. I didn’t want get into a situation like that after watching the difficulties that he had. When you do that – and I watched it happen – as a coordinator, and it’s not really your stamp but it’s your name, that’s not a good gig. That’s why I chose to go to North Texas with a guy I think is a rising star as a head coach and a great friend of mine.”
That makes it sound like Schottenheimer was told to run the Richt/Bobo offense and he had trouble doing it. Why Schottenheimer’s running of something other than his own offense wasn’t better discussed before he got the job idk.
Ekeler also thanked Richt for the opportunity Richt gave him (so did Richt hire him?) but pointedly said nothing about Pruitt and instead offered this when asked why he took the DC job at N. Texas:
“I had a chance to go to another SEC school, a couple of Big Ten schools, the Pac-12. But it wasn’t as sole coordinator. I want to get out front and lead and do it the way I want to do it and treat kids the way I want to do it, and I want to work with people I want to work with. I don’t want to be in rooms with people I don’t enjoy and don’t have much in common with.”
So Ekeler seems to have disliked Pruitt, but liked Richt and Schottenheimer, even though Richt and Schottenheimer didn’t seem to see eye to eye.
I wonder what would have happened with the coaching staff if Richt hadn’t been fired.
Snoop Dawgy Dawg
I remember that interview and my confusion then as well. the BS(initials and description) offense never looked like an attempt to run the legacy Richt/Bobo offense. I don’t doubt that Richt gave guidance to BS on things. He’s the head coach. that’s his job. But it just did not look like BS calling the Richt/Bobo offense. it looked fundamentally different while still being a pro style, multiple offense.
of course, ekeler doesn’t have a reason to lie about it, so I’ve continued to be confused by his statements.
I suspect the playbook and terminology went unchanged but BS was calling plays.
But let’s be candid…the offense was a hopeless mess b/c of the QB play. If AM had come back and played last year, I’ve no doubt we’d have performed better against UT and UF (Bama,not so much)
AM was out of eligibility after his senior season in 2013. He wasn’t eligible last year or the year before.
There was a halftime interview with Aaron Murray last season and he called it a different offense. As I recall, some the blocking schemes changed going from Friend to Sale.
I find it hard to believe that a guy with Mark Richt’s experience spent two weeks brain storming and trotted out Bauta to run a pro style offense. Richt seems fine at Miami, so I doubt he has lost his faculties. Who thought that would work? Now, if they had gone to Bauta, changed the offense to suit him, and it was a disaster, then it would make sense.
But then after the WLOCP it gets really ugly behind the scenes, so Richt takes control and we go to an ugly field position offense that eeks out wins. Heck, that’s what McEllwain did at Florida after he lost Greir and his offense started to be a shit show.
To put this in perspective, if Bobo was there I bet we see Bauta with a lot of wild dawg and trickery. We see Ramsey running some option on 3rd and 4th and short to keep the punt return team off the field. We see some new shit from a team that had 2 weeks off.
I’m waiting for the tell all book, because this is only one chapter. 😉
I think that he florida game plan might have been something, but it was going to be a lot more wild dawg with Sony. Sony breaks a long run on the first play, he breaks his wrist and then the play gets called back. Train immediately derails and we didnt really have a plan B.
Also from that earlier interview with Chip Towers after he was let go:
“I want people to know I really, really enjoyed the University of Georgia and really appreciate the opportunity Mark Richt gave me. I did not know those other guys before I stepped in,” he said. “… I knew no one when I came here. I’d never met Jeremy Pruitt; I’d never met Tracy Rocker; I’d never met Kevin Sherrer. Coach Richt gave me the opportunity and I’ll forever be grateful for that. Everywhere I’ve ever been, I’ve learned things, and I learned some valuable lessons (at Georgia). I’ll take away some things that I’ll value.”
“The Jeremy Pruitt Indoor Practice Facility” isn’t going to happen? Without that press conference the administration probably would still be saying stuff like ‘at the spring meeting we are planning to discuss forming a committee to determine if we should form a working group to explore the possibility of putting together a panel of experts to determine the feasibility of exploring the issues involved in this major step going forward and tentatively preparing a report to be delivered at next years Board meeting, or possibly the year after that if more time is needed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
JP was an asshole. That doesn’t mean he lit a fire in Athens and said fire had some positive consequences.
garbled that…he did light the fire that made some positive contributions, though he was disliked.
chuckdawg
That press statement is spot on.
Look at it this way: Todd Grantham twice publicly embarrassed the program, plus played footsie with the NFL every year, plus had a horrible unit in 2013, and yet by all accounts, was coming back in 2014 until Petrino plucked him.
Pruitt was much better at his job IMO, yet regardless of who the coach was in 2016, was almost certainly not coming back. That should tell everyone how bad it was: they could stomach Grantham, but not Pruitt.
Pruitt made everyone uncomfortable right down to the janitors. He wanted the Bama Way as opposed to the Richt/Georgia Way but he wasn’t the head guy. Perhaps he woke everybody from their slumber and we ended up with a new head coach. After 15 years Richt was on borrowed time under any circumstances.
Maybe the locker room talk bothered Ekeler.
Jack Klompus
For all the positive results we saw on defense, JP was a negative energy, vampire that was divisive as an employee. Many organizations have highly skilled people who are cancers that cause bigger problems than they are worth. If it is a large corporation with strong resources, you can isolate them and still benefit from their skills. In a group as small, and interactive, as as a college coaching staff, there is no avoiding the problem. For Ekeler’s strong, public statement it must have been really bad inside the foxhole.
I have a buddy who works at BM. Not going to reveal his job title or the details that would give away his job, but he told me Pruitt tried to fire him on 3 different occasions. And by try, he’d say ‘GD it. This again? Johnny, you’re fired’… in a room full of people after something completely out of his control went awry. He said he learned to ignore him when he did it since Pruitt wasn’t his boss. Dude was a straight up horse’s behind.
FWIW. He told me in the spring that he really enjoyed working for Richt, but he’s a better person than he is a coach. He readily admitted it was time for him to go and that thus far he was really enjoying working for Kirby. ‘Great guy, best not to make him repeat himself.’
Thanks for sharing, and this is almost identical to the information I’ve heard as well (sans the firing part — obviously our sources are different). Unfortunately I heard the same re: Richt for quite a few years from insiders — great man, fair to pretty good coach, and yes it was time for a change, as the overall program itself was quite stale.
As for CKS, from what I understand he generally is liked, but he too can be abrasive at times and basically can wear on you quite a bit, as he’s demanding of pretty much everyone. Basically, if CMR is on one extreme, Pruitt the other, Smart is somewhere in the middle though slightly towards the Pruitt end of the spectrum. Speaking of Pruitt, I said last year at this time that he absolutely would not be retained under any circumstances (I believe I put the odds at 1-2%.) That dude was totally out of control.
Sounds about right RE: Smart’s demeanor. Same guy also told me that the Richt/Pruitt blowup at Richt’s house was VERY real. And that Thomas Brown was ready to take him down.
Yep, indeed. CMR, BMac, and TB were all very close, while Pruitt was close with Sherrer and, well, that’s pretty much it. As mentioned below, Schotty and Ekeler had their own little clique going on. So yea TB would certainly have his back, and IMO would have utterly destroyed Pruitt in a fight (if it had come to that).
Yet people still want to complain that Richt got shown the door? If even half of this stuff is true; coaches fighting, coaches firing support staff without authority, cliques forming, it represents a complete lack of leadership and failure of management.
“TB ….. IMO would have utterly destroyed Pruitt in a fight”
Ehhh, I don’t know. I saw TB in person once while he was still in school showing a recruit around the Ramsey Center, and I was stunned by how small he actually is. At the time, I was amazed that he could do what he did on the football field at that size. Admittedly, someone that size who plays football well is surely tough. But in my experience, winning fights has a lot to do with attitude, and I think Pruitt’s attitude would match TB’s and Pruitt has a decided size advantage as well. I am glad it didn’t come to that; I really don’t need to find out.
He is small height wise — I believe around 5-9. But TB is strong as heck, and I think he benched 400+ and squatted 600+ during his heyday. Also a tough dude as well with a mean streak in him if needed. Maybe you’re right, but my money would be on TB.
Not just strong, the strongest player, pound-for-pound, in UGA history. At least as of 2006.
5’8″ 190lbs. 470 bench, 610 squat.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/08/31/uga_94757.shtml#.V__YauArKhc
I stood right next to him. He might be 5′ 7″. There’s no way he was 190 pounds. But don’t get me wrong – I admired what he could do and he is in the top 25 of my favorite Dawgs – I just don’t think that is the same thing as ‘taking somebody out’. Those weights he was lifting weren’t fighting back. It’s just not the same thing.
Let’s remember who you are comparing him to — Jeremy Pruitt. JP is a rather short guy himself. Dude is quite dumpy looking (sadly like most middle aged American men), and basically just looks soft. Not exactly someone who you would be all that nervous about if he challenged you to a fight.
TB is short, maybe, but he ain’t little. Fighting with him would be like fighting with a barrel of cement, if the barrel of cement was also quick as a hiccup. I’m taking TB and laying the points in that matchup. Pruitt would have found out pretty quickly the difference between being a mouthy redneck and being an actual badass pretty fast, I suspect.
I’ll always be grateful to Pruitt for what he did for our program. I don’t care one bit whether Richt, Schottenheimer, Ekeler, McGarity, etc. are mad at him. The Butts-Mehre Country Club needed to be burned to the ground and he was just the man to do it.
Mostly agree, though he could have employed a lot more tact overall. He needs to be thanked for moving the construction of the IPF up at least 3-4 years — something CMR failed to accomplish — but again he was way over the top too. It would be akin to a new COO coming in and calling out the terrible structure currently in place while recommending a litany of really smart solutions…then abrasively approaching you/your colleagues privately and calling you a pathetic loser, lazy, idiotic, and basically a worthless employee (whether accurate or not).
I agree. I didn’t say I wanted to work with or for the guy, just that I was grateful to him for what he did. And I don’t know that I would ever hire him either.
Although, if he’s such a cancer, you have to wonder why Saban brought him back for round 2 of having him on staff. My guess is that there isn’t as much incompetence for Pruitt to rage against in Tuscaloosa, so it’s not as much of an issue there.
Can’t imagine where we’d have been in 2014 and 2015 without CJP.
– He was easily the top recruiter during his stint.
– He turned an awful D around in a very short time.
– We’re getting an IPF because of Pruitt. Nobody else even deserves more than a slight mention when credit for the IPF is discussed.
Trash CJP all you want. But when his career is over he’ll have far, far more championship rings than CMR or anyone else on the ’14 and ’15 staffs.
Oops, should have said ‘people can trash Pruitt all they want’. Obviously, I agree with ATL Dawg’s post.
This is all very true. BTW, let’s not forget that Schotty and Ekeler were very close and are basically good friends, so no surprise that he was generally miserable last year as well.
If all of these accounts of the assholeishness of JP are correct, then you have to wonder and possibly admire that Saban either has a way to negate the ill effects JP brings to the program or actually uses it in some positive way. Since the prospects of JP undermining Saban and “the process” are non-existent, one has to wonder if Pruitt’s way fits “the process” to a T and as thus was anathema ( yes I’ve been waiting to use that word) to CMR’s patchwork staff’s un-melded methods and philosophies.
Perhaps JP detected a sense of lack of focus..or slight confusion..in the program and either tried to fix it with unseemly actions, or execute a coup against CMR. Either way he was out of place, even though he may have been right about the failing tendencies of the status quo.
Regardless, JP has to know that he is now at his pinnacle job, unless he aspires to succeed Saban one day. I’d say he’s a lot more like NS than Junior is.
Bama is a well oiled machine with an extremely strong, omnipotent leader; so its only natural that CJP would fall right in line and behave accordingly. However, when things are in disarray and you have a weak leader at the helm, guys like CJP are going to basically run wild and try to rule the ship themselves. Saban knows this, thus he had little qualms about bringing Pruitt onboard.
From the linked article:
“With a resume that has coaching gigs at the University of Southern California, Oklahoma University, Louisiana State University, Indiana University, Nebraska University, and most recently, the University of Georgia, there is little doubt Ekeler could have landed just about anywhere in the country he wanted to go.”
“I’ve worked at some of the greatest schools history-wise in the game,” Ekeler said. “But what it boils down to is people. You can be at the University of Georgia and be miserable if you’re working with shitty people. I really enjoy my work environment and the players here.”
Paraphrasing the great Tim Wilson:
“Hell, if you’ve been fired 9 times, maybe it’s you.”
I think this Ekelar guy is probably a bigger asshole than Pruitt.
This guy is Captain dipshit.
His comment about being the only guy who got fired after fielding a top 10 defense.
It’s all about ranked teams:
In 2015, record 0-3
Defensive scoring ranking in 2015 vs ranked teams- 12th in conference, 49th nationally
Average points given up vs ranked teams in 2015:
That will get your ass fired every time.
Correct, and well said. This also is what ultimately got CMR fired — his rather pathetic record vs. ranked opponents, which was something like 13-27 over his final 5 years. Yet, even today people continue to trot out the tired line of how pathetic is was to fire a 10 win coach…all while conveniently leaving out that, of those 10 wins, exactly zero of them came against teams with a winning record.
right on, and you can see a jersey change did Mark Richt no good, still gets his ass kicked vs ranked teams.
Yea but he won his first 4 games at The U by an average margin of 30 points! See?…we made a mistake firing him! Not just our own fans, even Colin Cowherd jumped on that train last week and was espousing such B.S. — conveniently leaving out that they beat app state, FAU, GT, and Fl. A&M. Not exactly a brutal schedule.
It always comes down to your record in big games and/or your record vs. ranked opponents; padding your record on the UK’s, Vandy’s (most years), and Troy’s of the world means nothing.
Richt can’t outcoach ranked teams, that’s not ever going to change.
He will lose to V Tech (the only other ranked team on his schedule) and
very possibly 1-2 more losses to unranked teams (NC, Notre Dame, NC St).
His Qb and Rb’s both struggled vs FSU, Miami’s only ranked matchup so far,
so Mark Richt being the OC didn’t change anything. Glad we didn’t buy that lie.
Well I’m not quite as pessimistic on CMR as you, and let’s give him a year or two at UM before judging him. I personally wish him well, though I don’t think his stint at UM will go as smoothly as others have predicted.
With that said, if I had to briefly sum up the difference between CMR and Smart, and why I strongly feel that UGA will be a consistent, major power sooner than later (with a natl championship coming our way by 2020), it would simply be this:
Olddawg 55
I watched the game, fellows, and while both struggled to impose their will equally, let’s not forget it took a blocked extra point to win the game. Additionally, CMR is a first year coach, too! Did you see the Nichols St game??
Dude, really? CMR is 56 and has been a HC for 16 years. Smart is 39 and has been a HC for 4 games. Trying to compare these two as relative equals is utterly absurd.
FSU did play 1/3 of the game without their starting QB too. Manny Diaz had his defense ready to play. Miami’s offense looked meh at best.
Miami offense looked pretty bad with Mark Richt as OC vs FSU.
Rushing:
2.2 ypc
Passing:
Kaaya’s qbr dropped from the 90’s in the previous 2 games to 63.
And Kaaya was sacked 3 times for 15 yards.
Also, you don’t expect an experienced Qb like Kaaya to be ranked 7th in the ACC in qbr.
http://www.espn.com/ncf/qbr/_/group/1
North Texas has only played 1 team that’s currently ranked in the top 25, Florida, and they lost 32-0.
Same ole shit from Ekeler. A new jersey/team can’t change the coach.
You have one guy that is a million dollar mistake.
You have another guy that is pissing everyone off, not a little, a lot.
And you have the rest of guys saying all kinds of cra cra.
Not the best recipe for job keeping.
Ekeler thinks most of us value a good defensive performance vs Southern U or Ky,
more than how you play in the big games like Bama, Tenn, and UF in 2015.
Of course you can modify your stats by beating up on the little guys, but true
colors come out when you play the ranked teams.
2012, 2013, and 2015 have sucked royally there.
2014 was the only year we ranked #1 in def scoring vs ranked teams, and Ekeler wasn’t here.
Misspelled misquoted
Meanwhile the J. Reid Parker Director of Atheletics is still hanging on somehow.
I know it’s meant to be funny, but I’d encourage people to not use “J.Reid Parker” as a punchline.
He was an esteemed faculty member in Forestry for decades and survived the sinking of the Leopoldville during WWII.
Even more to the point that McGarity is in over his head. Has not matched the hires and sucess than none other than Mr Panties himself and wears that title. And I’m sure lakedawg in no way disrespected that esteemed faculty member.
Omd.
I’m just glad that shit is over.
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Former UK Visa CEO Takes Helm of Crypto Consumer Payment Startup
The former CEO of Visa in the UK will lead a new crypto startup that aims to enable consumers to use crypto to pay for everyday items.
The former CEO of Visa in the UK is taking the helm of a new crypto startup that aims to let customers pay for everyday items in crypto
The former head of Visa in the UK and Ireland has joined a startup bringing crypto to consumer payments, Business Insider NL reports today, May 19.
Marc O’Brien, who worked for Visa between 2008 and 2014, has recently joined crypto consumer payment startup Crypterium, which aims to make it possible to spend crypto in everyday situations, Business Insider reports. Speaking on the importance of crypto adoption as a medium of exchange, O’Brien told Business Insider:
“The idea is that cryptocurrency is actually quite difficult today to use as an everyday method of payment. If you were to go to an exchange with your Bitcoin or your Ether it would probably take you 3 to 7 days to get that money paid out into a normal bank account. What Crypterium will do is make that whole process seamless and give an opportunity for a consumer to actually use their cryptocurrency to pay for everyday items.”
Crypterium was incorporated in Estonia in 2017, reportedly raising $52 mln through an initial coin offering (ICO) at the end of last year. The company is focused on developing technology to launch crypto-supporting payment cards, and hopes to partner with either Mastercard or Visa to launch its first products this fall, according to Business Insider.
When asked how such a mechanism would cope with the notoriously volatile market valuations of cryptocurrencies, O’Brien declined to reveal the company’s so-called “secret sauce,” saying there is “careful” protection surrounding the intellectual property of the system.
This spring, Visa’s chief financial officer Vasant Prabhu criticized crypto for enabling criminal activities, saying that “every crook and every dirty politician in the world, I bet, is in cryptocurrency,” given that “it’s very hard to get dirty money through a banking system.” In February, Visa drew widespread criticism from the crypto space for charging its customers multiple times for transactions on leading US crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase.
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Western Kentucky finishes strong to beat UTEP 76-59
- Feb. 02, 2019 09:20 PM EST
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Josh Anderson had 18 points and Charles Bassey recorded his fifth double-double in the last six games as Western Kentucky finished strong to beat UTEP 76-59 on Saturday night.
Bassey had 17 points and 12 rebounds and Jared Savage added 14 points for Western Kentucky (13-10, 6-4 Conference USA), which has won five of its last six games.
The Hilltoppers led for most of the first half and took a 34-31 advantage into the break. UTEP stayed close until Lamonte Bearden completed a 3-point play that started Western Kentucky on a 9-0 run to go up 52-41 with 12:22 remaining. The Miners clawed back to close to 54-50 after Nigel Hawkins drained a 3. The Hilltoppers scored the next seven points and finished the game on a 22-9 run.
WKU was just 3 of 13 from beyond the arc but made 19 of 29 free throws. UTEP was 9 of 11 from the line.
UTEP (7-14, 2-8), which is 0-9 on the road, was led by Hawkins with 17 points and Evan Gilyard with 16.
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Tennessee QB Maurer unlikely to play against South Carolina
Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer (18) throws during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Alabama, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)
Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer (18) throws against Alabama during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)
Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer (18) walks off the field after being hurt during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)
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ACLA Seminar: Encounters in the Indian Ocean: Colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries
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Co-Organizer: Pushpa Acharya
The fluid space of the Indian Ocean and its territorial rims, i.e. Africa, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, were ‘deterritorialized’ and ‘reterritorialized’ not only by the forces of capital but also by knowledge-power nexus during and after the colonial period. In the age of neoliberal globalism, the story of the Indian Ocean has gained a renewed interest as it reminds us of the greatest mobility and traversal with such an impact that it forces us to rethink how the processes of such encounters operate and what the areas stand for. The story that remains untold is the colonial and postcolonial interactions in this cosmopolitan “interregional arena” (as Sugata Bose refers to it in A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire, 2006). Looking at the history of colonial, postcolonial, and interregional encounters will shed light on under-explored areas in postcolonial studies and may possibly reshape our understanding of Africa and Asia. While we know much about Afro-Asian encounters with the West, reading the history as an encounter with the East might provide us with a different set of possibilities of interpretation and analysis (Gaurav Desai – Commerce With the Universe, 2013). The studies of the Indian Ocean worlds, which includes the Bay of Bengal, may even provide “a key to understanding Asia’s future” (Sunil Amrith,Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants, 2013).
This panel seeks papers that explore how the Indian Ocean emerges as a contact zone; how the colonial and postcolonial movements in the Indian Ocean and its rim have been recorded, imagined, constituted and conceptualized, and responded to; how they reveal the story of migration (voluntary and forced), trade, and climate change; how such encounters led to formations of multiple histories and identities; how comparative literary studies opens up the possibilities of rethinking Asias and Africas; and how empire and capital have operated in the Indian Ocean area. We welcome papers that engage with these (and other possible) questions in the Indian Ocean Studies, and accommodate different national, literary, and disciplinary contexts. Papers may either explore literary or visual texts or other forms of textualities. Please submit a 250 word proposal via the ACLA website. Please contact Asma Sayed (asayed@ualberta.ca) or Pushpa Acharya (pushpa.acharya@mail.utoronto.ca) for further info.
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A Blue Zone.
“ ...the remaining of the Earth's surface is unscarred by Tiberium outbreak. These Blue Zones are considered the last refuge and hope of the civilized world and under the protection of Global Defense Initiative...
- GDI EVA Briefing, 2047 ”
Blue zones were areas of the Earth suffering the least ecological damage from Tiberium after the Second Tiberium War. Compared to the yellow and red zones there was minimal Tiberium contamination and war. Tiberium growth was countered and controlled by harmonic resonance technology.
The blue zones were areas of relative prosperity and wealth, and were GDI's home territories. By 2047, 20% of the Earth's surface was considered part of blue zones. GDI's dominance of the wealthy blue zones was a target of Nod propaganda. The Brotherhood demonized GDI for abandoning the majority of the world's population in the yellow zones.
Blue zones were attacked in the opening of the Third Tiberium War by Nod, and later by the Scrin attempting to draw attention away from the Threshold towers.
By the end of the Third Tiberium War, there were only 19 blue zones left.
The relief provided by blue zones ultimately proved fleeting. Global Tiberium contamination reached critical levels by 2062, and the prospect of human extinction once more became an imminent possibility. By 2062, Tiberium has spread to even former Blue zones, such as the GDI global headquarters at Manchester. There are a few localised Blue zones at the time, such as Chicago and Paris, that remained free of Tiberium. Following the alliance with Nod and the development of the Tiberium Control Network, the Blue Zones began to expand and multiply once more, as the Network cleared the Earth's surface of Tiberium and rendered increasingly large portions of the planet habitable again.
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W.A Sutton: A Retrospective
Catalogue for the Exhibition W.A. Sutton: A Retrospective held Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 10 May - 28 September 2003.
Richard and Elizabeth Wallwork
The art of Petrus van der Velden
Soundings: Ross Gray
Bill Sutton Dry September
In 1930s New Zealand there was wide discussion about what was unique about the New Zealand situation; what it was that made us different from the rest of the world. Artists and writers began exploring ways to identify our national identity. A number of artists began painting the Canterbury High Country, most famously Rita Angus and her landscape painting of the railway station at Cass. One reviewer in 1936 observed that there was a new quality in the landscapes exhibited in Christchurch that seemed ‘to consist in a removal of the romantic mists which used to obscure mountains and the Canterbury countryside generally. The light now is clear and hard, the colours are in flat planes, and the effect is of seeing the country through a gem-like atmosphere. There is also a new romantic standpoint – an insistence on the isolation and brooding loneliness of the hills.’ It’s a statement that certainly rings true with the Canterbury paintings of Rita Angus, Leo Bensemann, Louise Henderson, Rata Lovell-Smith and Bill Sutton.
Exquisite Treasure Revealed
Canterbury Museum holds two albums compiled by Diamond Harbour artist Margaret Stoddart. The older of the two, containing images featured in this Bulletin, and itself currently exhibited in the Gallery, covers the period 1886–96. The album is handsomely bound in maroon, and stamped M.O.S. in gold. It contains a sort of travelogue by way of black and white photographs set amongst decorative painting, mostly of native flora, with some locality and date information.
In the Vast Emptiness
The Canterbury landscape as captured by twentieth century painters.
Rita Angus at Wainui
Rita Angus - Mountains, Cass
William Sutton - Dry September
Canterbury Landscape by Colin McCahon
In 2014 we purchased an important landscape work by Colin McCahon. Curator Peter Vangioni speaks about this new addition to Christchurch Art Gallery’s collection.
Mountains, Cass by Rita Angus
This article first appeared as 'The wonders of waterolours' in The Press on 11 August 2015.
Colin McCahon Canterbury Landscape
'Pākihi is a word for a place that is bare or without trees. The Pākehā surveyors called these cleared areas parkee from the Māori word for no trees, pākihi. Kā Pākihi-Whakatekateka-A-Waitaha: the treeless place, the joyous strutting march through the treeless land of south Canterbury, Waitaha – that’s the old name for the Canterbury Plains.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
(He Rau Maharataka Whenua: A Memory of Land, 17 September 2016 – 18 February 2017)
100 years of the Cass field station
Last weekend the University of Canterbury Biology Department celebrated the 100th anniversary of the field station at Cass with a symposium on Cass followed up with a field trip to the station.
Wainui - to the west of the long harbour
"I like Wainui, quaint, charming, rather like a Pieter Bruegel subject with the haymaking in progress." Rita Angus to Douglas Lilburn, 1943
Doris Lusk Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula
'Now, the original name of Okains Bay is Kā Awatea. It’s an old settlement area, the old kāika [village] on the peninsula – and of course a place of mahika kai [food gathering], a zone receiving or exploiting the treasure left around the peninsula by Marokura who endowed the place with all things growing in the sea: fish, seaweeds, shellfish and so on.
'The region was all part of the work of Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa, the atua [demi-god] who shaped the land, the engineer, the repairer of the wrecked waka [canoe] that came to be known as Te Waipounamu [the South Island]. When Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa finished on the east coast, he went west to the Paparoa. There he created his first valley, Ka Māwheranui o Ka Kuha o Tu Te Rakiwhanoa, which means the river that runs to its sea, at Greymouth. His last big challenge was to become Fiordland. There he was assisted by Hine-Nui-Te-Pō – this was before she became the Mother who gathers in the dead. Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa was the re-shaper, the salvager; Hine-Nui-Te-Pō was like an adorner, she worked with him as an assistant.
'When the Pākehā arrived, much of the peninsula was heavily forested with Podocarp. You can still see old fossilised tōtara stumps lying all around the tops of the hills. As I understand it, Christchurch was built off those forests.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
Rita Angus Haycocks, Wainui
'What makes Wainui significant, apart from its status as a mahika kai [food gathering area] for mussels and karengo [an edible seaweed], is that it sits beneath Tuhiraki [a mountain on Banks Peninsula, across the harbour from Akaroa]. It’s the beginning of the South Island’s traditional history. The metaphor is used that the atua [demi-god] Rākaihautū is striking his kō [digging stick] named Tuhiraki into the ground, creating, making, discovering the lakes. The furthest one south he creates is Lake Whakatipu Waitai, also known as Lake McKerrow, at the top end of Fiordland. Rākaihautū comes inland again and journeys up the eastern side of the island where he meets up with his son Rokohuia – I think around Waihao in south Canterbury at Wainono Lagoon, one of the historic hāpua [lagoons] of Kāi Tahu. Father and son are then joyously reunited to the settlement of Akaroa, which they developed. When they get there, Rākaihautū places his kō across the ridge of the hill above Wainui and changes the name to Tuhiraki – and it’s been a treasured name ever since. The French came and called it Mount Bossu, the hunchback; the hunch is the foot of the kō. The renaming has been attended to now.
'This is the base below Tuhiraki [also known as Mount Bossu]. It’s a mahika kai [food gathering area]. What’s important is the narrative in the hill. From Akaroa, you look across to Wainui, all the way along the peninsula and out over the heads. This is traditionally the centre of the evolution of Waitaha occupation [the Waitaha were an early people who occupied the South Island prior to the Kāti Māmoe and then Kāi Tahu people]. The march of Rākaihautū [the first ancestor of the Waitaha people] and his son Rokohuia gives the ancient name of Canterbury: Kā Pākihi-Whakatekateka-A-Waitaha, the strutting joyous march of Waitaha.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
Olivia Spencer Bower Kaikoura Country
'The Māori name for Kaikōura is Te Ahi Kaikōura o Tama Ki Te Raki, the place where Tama Ki Te Raki [a mythical exploring ancestor] cooked his crayfish. What’s significant is the Kaikōura Ranges. The south Seaward Kaikōuras were named The Lookers On Mountains by Captain James Cook, so called because when Cook was coming down the coast some twelve miles offshore he encountered several double canoes out fishing. He kept trying to induce them to come alongside the ship, but every time the ship came towards them they paddled away and just sat watching – so he called the mountains behind them The Lookers On.
'Another interesting thing about the mountains of the Kaikōura territory: you’ve got Te Parinui o Whiti [the White Bluffs], one of Kāi Tahu’s marker boundaries, and the highest peak, Tapuae o Uenuku. Tapuae means footsteps, the sacred footsteps of Uenuku [a prominent Māori ancestor]. Uenuku is said to have been put ashore from the Uruao or Uruaokapuarangi canoe [said to have come from Hawaiki, led by Rākaihautū], and he climbed the mountain and named it Te Tapuae o Uenuku. The mountains behind have many different names; most of the Seaward Kaikōuras have Māori names. Behind them is the Awatere valley, inland; Tapuae o Uenuku is at the head of those valleys.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
W A Sutton
Archibald Nicoll A Canterbury landscape
Having lost his leg while fighting on the Somme during World War I, Archibald Nicoll was confined to painting landscapes in close proximity to where he was able to drive. This is why so many of his landscapes have roads as a central motif. Rather than a hindrance, however, Nicoll put his car to good use and revelled in the freedom it offered, driving all over Canterbury to paint. He would often combine painting excursions with family holidays. The scene in this work is thought to be Balcairn Downs inland from the town of Amberley in North Canterbury.
In the vast emptiness, 8 January - 21 August 2016
Bill Sutton
This week 77 years ago Rita Angus visited Cass on a sketching holiday with Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell that resulted in several paintings including the Christchurch Art Gallery's Cass.
André Hemer's exhibition CASS is well worth a visit if you are near the Christchurch Art Gallery's space above NG on Madras street.
Another nor’wester descends on Canterbury
Some people fear them, others revel in the unforgiving dry heat – love them or hate them the legendary Canterbury nor'wester is one of the defining features of this region in the summer months and there is a real doozy blowing outside at the moment.
Heart in the high country: Austen Deans (1915 - 2011)
For Austen Deans, OBE, painting was an expression of his love of the outdoors and, in particular, the Canterbury high country.
Douglas MacDiarmid Hills from Annat
After a stint at the Wigram Air Force Base in Christchurch with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II, Douglas MacDiarmid found the need to get away to the country for a well-earned sketching holiday. It was here that Hills from Annat was completed. He said of this time:
'I had been able to lay my hands on the last covered wagon in the South Island, also to hire a fine white mare. Off we drove in a flourish then for a month, Blanche, Buddy, me. We were headed for the rolling country where the Canterbury Plains are not yet hills finishing as Alps. At no more than a clip-clop pace it is possible to approach with peaceful observation, meditation merging as no motor vehicle will allow.'
Sutton high-fives McCahon
Nothing made it into a W.A. Sutton painting by accident, and the white line that rises diagonally through the sky in Plantation Series II is no exception.
Rita Angus Wainui, Akaroa
Talking Bensemann
Leo Bensemann was one of the most respected figures in the Christchurch arts scene, and played a pivotal role in influential arts collective The Group. Always something of an odd-man-out, he produced a large body of work across several different disciplines before his death in 1986. In an attempt to get a fuller picture of the man himself, Gallery director Jenny Harper spoke to two artists who knew him well, John Coley and Quentin MacFarlane.
Leo Bensemann
Rita Angus Akaroa Hills
Leo Bensemann: an art venture
Leo Bensemann (1912–1986) was a pivotal figure bridging the worlds of literature and visual arts – a go-between like no other. Peter Simpson is an authority on this distinctive artist.
Rita Angus - A goddess of mercy
Rata Lovell-Smith - Hawkins
Rita Angus - Cass
William Sutton - Mahuru Pakapaka
William Sutton
Rata Lovell-Smith Bridge, Mt Cook Road
'This is the Mount Cook Road, and there are many bridges on that road. The people of Ngāi Tūāhuriri would go inland into the McKenzie [just below where this location is painted] for hunting high country weka [native woodhen] with dogs. They'd carry their empty packs of pōhā [kelp bags to hold preserved birds] with them to the hunting area, catch the weka and process the birds up there. They’d carry the pōhā out, and meet people coming from the south also going up to those high country plains. It was a summer exercise. Towards the end of summer the birds are fat. You preserve them like tītī [muttonbirds] in their own fat.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
Trevor Moffitt Rakaia Series No. 37
Trevor Moffitt had a deep love for inland Canterbury that was in part fostered by his obsession with fishing. In the mid 1970s he purchased a bach at Lake Clearwater, inland from the Canterbury town of Ashburton. This became his favourite spot to retreat from city life and experience the outdoors. In 1982, after the death of his wife, Alison, Moffitt began the series that this work is from. He said in an interview:
'After Alison died I’d had enough of people, so I went out and painted the Rakaia River series. I had just been emotionally drained. […] The best thing I could do was go off on the weekend and paint the river. I poured all my grief and tears into depicting the waters of the Rakaia.'
Bill Sutton Hills and Plains, Waikari
William (Bill) Sutton spent most of his life in Christchurch, apart from two years from 1947–49 studying and painting in Britain and Europe. This time away helped attune his eyes to the distinctive qualities of the local regional landscape. Teaching full-time at the Canterbury College School of Art from that time, Sutton lived in a rented studio flat overlooking Victoria Square and became the owner of a Matchless motorbike – upgraded to a 500cc BSA Golden Flash in 1956 – on which he’d leave the city on his weekends in pursuit of countryside to paint.
Human presence has reshaped this landscape, with its bending macrocarpa windbreaks, simple corrugated iron structures and undulating patchwork fields. A palette of subtle ochres, greys and gold presents a characteristically Canterbury scene and typifies the work for which Sutton became appreciated and known.
(Beneath the ranges 18 February – 23 October 2017)
Bill Sutton Te Tihi o Kahukura and Sky, I
This painting by Bill Sutton expands our view of a familiar site on Christchurch’s Port Hills, encouraging the viewer to consider what mysteries may have been present before the arrival of Māori tangata whenua, the people of the land. Te Tihi o Kahukura, or the Citadel of Kahukura, is the first name of Castle Rock, the foregrounded point at the left of the painting. The extended Māori name translates as ‘the Citadel of the Rainbow God (and a) sky full of boiling clouds roaring around all over the place’. According to Kāi Tahu tradition, Kahukura is the atua, or god, who clothed the land; Kahukura later transformed to become the atua of rainbows. Here, Sutton’s interest in landscape, light and colour is applied to a location of significance for Māori. There is an intimacy in the site for Sutton, as he was able to see it “from my upstairs back-landing window”. Sutton’s house remains in what is now known as ‘the red zone’, an earthquake-battered place of an undetermined future.
(Te Tihi o Kahukura: The Citadel of Kahukura, 18 Februay 2017 - 18 May 2018)
Rita Angus A Goddess Of Mercy
The Canterbury landscape was violently shaken by the sequence of earthquakes that began in the dead of night on 4 September 2010. Parts of the vast Canterbury Plains, including the reclaimed swampland that Christchurch was built on, were literally ripped apart, while many of the volcanic outcrops and cliff faces on Banks Peninsula shattered and fell. Memories of those scenes provide a stark contrast to the serene, idealised Canterbury landscape watched over here by Rita Angus's A Goddess of Mercy, with its green and golden pastures, ploughed fields and foothills extending to the mountains beyond. Radiating peace, order and oneness with the landscape, it offers a reassuring vision after the uncertainty, stress and loss of living through the earthquakes.
Colin S. Lovell-Smith Sunset, Craigieburn
Colin Lovell-Smith often went on painting trips to this area with his wife Rata, who was also a landscape painter. Craigieburn is in the Southern Alps, about 100 kilometres northwest of Christchurch. Although set beside a small riverbed close to the main road, the painting focuses on the steep eroded slopes of the Craigieburn Range. Lovell-Smith has paid close attention to the landform details, capturing the distinctive qualities of the Canterbury mountain region. Shades of ochre are subtly orchestrated with the soft grey of the predominant greywacke rocks. Born in Christchurch, Lovell-Smith studied at the Canterbury College School of Art then worked for his father’s printing business. During World War I Lovell-Smith was with the Royal Engineers on the Balkan Front and was subsequently awarded the Serbian Gold Medal of Merit for his work. On his return to Christchurch in 1919 he taught, first at St Andrew’s College, then at the School of Art, of which he was Director from 1947 until his death.
Doris Lusk Canterbury Plains From Cashmere Hills
Bill Sutton once commented that “on the Canterbury Plains you don’t look up and down but from side to side”, which seems entirely appropriate for this vast landscape painting of the plains by his friend Doris Lusk.
Juliet Peter Nor’west
According to Kāi Tahu, within the story of the creation of Te Waipounamu (the South Island), Aoraki was an atua, or demi-god, who left the home of his father, Raki, in the heavens and voyaged with his brothers to visit Raki’s first wife Poharora o Te Po. They set out to return to his father, but there was a fault in the karakia (prayer) for their return. Aoraki’s canoe – Te Waka o Aoraki – was stranded, and Aoraki and his brothers turned to stone, becoming the mountains of Kā Tiritiri o Te Moana, the Southern Alps.
'This work is interesting because it offers an unusual perspective on Aoraki [Mount Cook] – but Aoraki is full of different perspectives in Kāi Tahu culture. The mountain is, above all, a symbol of our tribal and regional identity. That’s got nothing much to do with its location – although that obviously commands cultural attention – but mainly because of its centrality in the Te Waipounamu creation story. And it is a distinctive creation story, part of a creation myth which has survived here in the remote outskirts of Polynesia while it has been lost at the centre where it came from. Aoraki made us distinctive, and it makes all people distinctive that live under its span. Juliet Peter’s depiction of it is unusual, but every way you look at Aoraki you’ve got a different perspective.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
Ivy Fife Railway Crossing, Canterbury
Esther Studholme Hope Mackenzie Country
The viewpoint Esther Hope chose for this work allowed her to show the vast expanse of the Mackenzie Country, which stretches out before the viewer towards the Southern Alps. This region was a favourite subject of Hope’s, one that she returned to throughout her career.
She said that “this land is a part of me … I have never regretted my choice of environment [and] have always felt a strong feeling of primitiveness [here].” Hope’s mature style is seen here, with broad wet washes of colour confidently used.
Hope was born near Geraldine, South Canterbury. She was first introduced to painting through her mother, Emily Studholme, an accomplished amateur artist. She also took lessons from Edwyn Temple and Margaret Stoddart. In 1912 Hope left New Zealand for England where she enrolled at the Slade School of Art, London. In 1919 she returned to New Zealand, married Henry Norman Hope and settled at the Grampians Station in the Mackenzie Country.
Leo Bensemann Canterbury Spring
Austen A Deans Camp in the Kowai
For Austen Deans, painting was an expression of his love of the outdoors and, in particular, the Canterbury high country. Born at Riccarton House, Christchurch in 1915, he grew up on the family farm near Sheffield in North Canterbury (and near Kowai, the subject of this 1952 painting). He trained at the Canterbury College School of Art between 1934 and 1938, where he continued his interest in the outdoors through membership of the College tramping club. He once said that he had 'rather wished to be a mountain guide', but his mother dissuaded him from that early ambition. Though he loved sculpture, he specialised in painting because it allowed him to work outdoors rather than being tied to a city studio. Deans was the last of a generation of painters, which also included Doris Lusk and Bill Sutton, whose work was strongly focused on the Canterbury landscape. He is most well-known for his paintings of Mt Peel and the surrounding area, where he lived and worked for over 60 years. 'It was really my attraction to the mountains that started me painting' he said, 'and it's never left me'.
Louise Henderson Plain and Hills
Rita Angus Mountains, Cass
“I was glad to see this painting again for a few minutes. […] I was ‘knocked out’ by the clear admission of truth. I am amazed that at one time (years ago), and in about three to four hours, I had the power & courage to paint Cass.”
Ivy Fife The Long Lookout
'Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa, the son of Aoraki, is the atua [demi-god] who shapes the wrecked waka to ready it for people. His first great task is to defeat the south-easterly winds roaring along the side of the wreck. He invents peninsulas. He rakes all the rubbish of the wreckage and piles it up like a gigantic break water. Thus you have the Canterbury Plains and a sheltered place for his next invention, Whakaraupō [Lyttelton Harbour] and Akaroa Harbour. He then depresses his heel and creates Waihora [Lake Ellesmere], later claimed by the exploring ancestor, Rākaihautū, as Te Kete ika o Te Rākaihautū [the fish basket of Rākaihautū].' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
Margaret Stoddart In the Mackenzie Country
Bill Sutton Plantation Series II
Rita Angus Cass
Colin S. Lovell-Smith Evening
'Well, this is Haumuri Point south of Kaikōura. Pākehā called it Amuri – you’ve got Amuri Motors, Amuri buildings, Amuri district or whatever. It is called Haumuri, and it was always explained to me that the name was given because the wind there is always behind you.
'In the Te Waipounamu creation story, Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa had two assistant atua [demi-gods], Marokura and Kahukura. We could say that Kahukura was in charge of all parks and reserves, and Marokura was in charge of the Ministry of Fisheries. The whole coast is inhabited by the work of those atua. The land is clothed and beautified by Kahukura. Marokura goes off to make his own peninsula at Kaikōura. He was a fishing atua – he wasn’t much of a civil engineer – so it’s only a small peninsula. He puts the great riches of the sea into the coast, which was his skill. The coast is called Te Tai o Marokura; some people call it Te Koha o Marokura.' —Sir Tipene O’Regan
Rata Lovell-Smith Hawkins
Cedric Savage Summer Kowai, 1934
Kowai Bush is a farming area in the foothills of Central Canterbury, where typically the summers are very hot and dry. Like other Canterbury landscape artists of the 1930s, Cedric Savage was interested in recording the unique features of the Canterbury region. He was essentially a plein air (outdoors) artist concerned with painting directly from nature but in Summer, Kowai he has worked in a careful manner, keeping control over the application of paint. Born in Christchurch, Savage studied at the Canterbury College School of Art. He later studied with Sydney Lough Thompson (1877-1973) and Archibald Nicoll (1886 - 1953). After travelling, he returned to New Zealand in 1933, settling in Christchurch where he became vice-president of the New Zealand Society of Artists. Savage’s eyes were injured during World War II and for the rest of his life he could only paint outdoors. Although he won the Kelliher Art Award in 1962, Savage felt unappreciated in New Zealand and spent many years living away from the country, finally settling in Greece.
Landmarks: The Landscape Paintings of Doris Lusk
Doris Lusk's landscapes
Ivy Fife Retrospective
W. A. Sutton: Retrospective Exhibition 1917-1971
1947 W A Sutton exhibition catalogue
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Agronomy Journal, 107(6), 2213–2229.
By: S. Narh, K. Boote, J. Naab, J. Jones, B. Tillman, M. Abudulai, P. Sankara, Z. Bertin ...
and 3 other authors, including 1 NC State author
, M. Burow, R. Brandenburg & D. Jordan
10.2134/agronj15.0047
Impact of location, cropping history, tillage, and chlorpyrifos on soil arthropods in peanut
By: Y. Cardoza, W. Drake, D. Jordan, M. Schroeder-Moreno, C. Arellano & R. Brandenburg
10.1093/ee/nvv074
www.bioone.org (repository)
Mole cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) mating calls: Characteristics in recently expanded geographic areas
Journal of Entomological Science, 50(2), 106–109.
By: D. Reynolds, L. Verburgt, A. Schoeman & R. Brandenburg
10.18474/jes14-23.1
St. Augustinegrass germplasm resistant to Blissus insularis (Hemiptera: Blissidae)
Journal of Economic Entomology, 107(4), 1688–1694.
By: K. Youngs, S. Milla-Lewis, R. Brandenburg & Y. Cardoza
10.1603/ec14044
Yield improvement and genotype x environment analyses of peanut cultivars in multilocation trials in West Africa
Crop Science, 54(6), 2413–2422.
By: S. Narh, K. Boote, J. Naab, M. Abudulai, Z. Bertin, P. Sankara, M. Burow, B. Tillman, R. Brandenburg, D. Jordan
10.2135/cropsci2013.10.0657
peanut response to planting date, tillage, and cultivar in North Carolina
Agronomy Journal, 106(2), 486–490.
By: W. Drake, D. Jordan, P. Johnson, B. Shew, R. Brandenburg & T. Corbett
10.2134/agronj2013.0340
Field efficacy of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) for managing soil arthropods and Cercospora leaf spots damage for increased yield in peanut
Plant Protection Science, 49(2), 65–72.
By: M. Abudulai, A. Salifu, D. Opare-Atakora, M. Haruna, I. Baba, I. Dzomeku, R. Brandenburg, D. Jordan
10.17221/48/2012-pps
www.agriculturejournals.cz (publisher PDF)
First record of Larra bicolor (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in North Carolina
Florida Entomologist, 96(3), 1175–1176.
By: P. Hertl & R. Brandenburg
The use of sugar baits for the integrated management of soil arthropod pests in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Ghana, West Africa
African Entomology, 21(2), 267–272.
By: M. Mochiah, M. Owusu-Akyaw, G. Bolfrey-Arku, K. Osei, J. Lamptey, I. Adama, B. Amoabeng, R. Brandenburg, D. Jordan
Hunting billbug (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) life cycle and damaging life stage in North Carolina, with notes on other billbug species abundance
By: J. Doskocil & R. Brandenburg
academic.oup.com (publisher PDF)
Quantifying efficacy and avoidance behavior by tawny mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapteriscus Vicinus) to three synthetic insecticides
Florida Entomologist, 95(1), 63–74.
By: D. Silcox, C. Sorenson & R. Brandenburg
Effects of fungicides and insecticides on feeding behavior and community dynamics of earthworms: Implications for casting control in turfgrass systems
Applied Soil Ecology, 47(1), 31–36.
By: C. Tu, Y. Wang, W. Duan, P. Hertl, L. Tradway, R. Brandenburg, D. Lee, M. Snell, S. Hu
10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.11.002
Gut content analysis of southern and tawny mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae: Scapertiscus)
By: D. Silcox & R. Brandenburg
Influence of cover crops on weed management in strip tillage peanut
Weed Technology, 25(4), 568–573.
By: B. Lassiter, D. Jordan, G. Wilkerson, B. Shew & R. Brandenburg
10.1614/wt-d-11-00064.1
Potential of leguminous cover crops in management of a mixed population of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.)
Journal of Nematology, 42(3), 173–178.
By: K. Osei, S. Gowen, B. Pembroke, R. Brandenburg & D. Jordan
Peanut cultivar response to damage from tobacco thrips and paraquat
By: W. Drake, D. Jordan, B. Lassiter, P. Johnson, R. Brandenburg & B. Royals
dl.sciencesocieties.org (publisher PDF)
A technique to monitor insect behavior utilizing infrared emitters and detectors
By: S. Thompson, R. Brandenburg, G. Roberson & B. Lineberger
10.18474/0749-8004-43.1.143
Crop response to rotation and tillage in peanut-based cropping systems
By: D. Jordan, J. Barnes, T. Corbett, C. Bogle, P. Johnson, B. Shew, S. Koenning, W. Ye, R. Brandenburg
Peanut response to planting date and potential of canopy reflectance as an indicator of pod maturation
By: D. Carley, D. Jordan, L. Dharmasri, T. Sutton, R. Brandenburg & M. Burton
Entomopathogenic fungi detection and avoidance by mole crickets (Orthoptera : Gryllotalpidae)
By: S. Thompson, R. Brandenburg & G. Roberson
10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[165:EFDAAB]2.0.CO;2
Role of insecticides in reducing thrips injury to plants and incidence of tomato spotted wilt virus in virginia market-type peanut
By: D. Herbert, S. Malone, S. Aref, R. Brandenburg, D. Jordan, B. Royals, P. Johnson
10.1603/0022-0493(2007)100[1241:ROIIRT]2.0.CO;2
Effect of combining imidacloprid and diatomaceous earth with Beauveria bassiana on mole cricket (Orthoptera : Gryllotalpidae) mortality
Journal of Economic Entomology, 99(6), 1948–1954.
By: S. Thompson & R. Brandenburg
10.1093/jee/99.6.1948
Impact of fipronil residues on mole cricket (Orthoptera : Gryllotalpidae) behavior and mortality in bermudagrass
By: H. Cummings, R. Brandenburg, R. Leidy & F. Yelverton
10.1653/0015-4040(2006)89[293:IOFROM]2.0.CO;2
Impact of moisture and UV degradation on Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin conidial viability in turfgrass
Biological Control, 39(3), 401–407.
By: S. Thompson, R. Brandenburg & J. Arends
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2006.08.004
New restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the cytochrome oxidase I gene facilitate host strain identification of fall armyworm (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae) populations in the southeastern United States
Journal of Economic Entomology, 99(3), 671–677.
By: R. Nagoshi, R. Meagher, J. Adamczyk, S. Braman, R. Brandenburg & G. Nuessly
10.1603/0022-0493-99.3.671
Trapping Phyllophaga spp. (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Melolonthinae) in the United States and Canada using sex attractants
Journal of Insect Science (Ludhiana, India), 6.
By: P. Robbins, S. Alm, C. Armstrong, A. Averill, T. Baker, R. Bauernfiend, F. Baxendale, S. Braman ...
, R. Brandenburg, D. Cash, G. Couch, R. Cowles, R. Crocker, Z. Delamar, T. Dittl, S. Fitzpatrick
Comparative toxicity and efficacy of selected insecticides in field and greenhouse assays against tawny and southern mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae)
By: R. Brandenburg, Y. Xia & D. Watson
Conidial viability and pathogenicity of Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin for mole cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) control in turfgrass
International Turfgrass Society Research Journal, 10, 784.
Effects of sowing date and fungicide application on yield of early and late maturing peanut cultivars grown under rainfed conditions in Ghana
Crop Protection, 24(4), 325–332.
By: J. Naab, F. Tsigbey, P. Prasad, K. Boote, J. Bailey & R. Brandenburg
10.1016/j.cropro.2004.09.002
Flight activity of Scapteriscus vicinus Scudder and S. borellii Giglio-Tos (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) in Southeastern North Carolina
Interactions of clethodim and sethoxydim with selected agrichemicals applied to peanut
By: S. Lancaster, D. Jordan, A. York, J. Wilcut, D. Monks & R. Brandenburg
10.1614/WT-04-232R
Interactions of late-season morningglory (Ipomoea spp.) management practices in peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
By: S. Lancaster, D. Jordan, A. York, J. Wilcut, R. Brandenburg & D. Monks
10.1614/WT-04-229R.1
Management of spotted wilt vectored by Frankliniella fusca (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Virginia market-type peanut
By: C. Hurt, R. Brandenburg, D. Jordan, G. Kennedy & J. Bailey
10.1603/0022-0493-98.5.1435
Sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia) control and seed production after 2,4-DB applied alone and with fungicides or insecticides
By: S. Lancaster, D. Jordan, J. Spears, A. York, J. Wilcut, D. Monks, R. Batts, R. Brandenburg
Stridulation of Gryllotalpa africana (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) on turf grass in South Africa
By: J. De Graaf, A. Schoeman & R. Brandenburg
10.1653/0015-4040(2005)088[0292:SOGAOG]2.0.CO;2
Tunneling responses of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) to the entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana
10.1603/0046-225X-34.1.140
A modified pool design for collecting adult mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae)
10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0582:AMPDFC]2.0.CO;2
Movement and residual activity of deltamethrin in a golf course fairway under two post-treatment irrigation timings
By: Y. Xia, M. Fidanza & R. Brandenburg
10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0060:MARAOD]2.0.CO;2
Peanut response to planting pattern, row spacing, and irrigation
Agronomy Journal, 96(4), 1066–1072.
By: J. Lanier, D. Jordan, J. Spears, R. Wells, P. Johnson, J. Barnes, C. Hurt, R. Brandenburg, J. Bailey
Seasonal development of Gryllotalpa africana (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) on turfgrass in South Africa
10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0130:SDOGAG]2.0.CO;2
Ecology and control of Neosorius brevipennis (Coleoptera: Staphymnidae) on turf grass in South Africa
10.1653/0015-4040(2003)086[0370:EACONB]2.0.CO;2
Peanut response to cultivar selection, digging date, and tillage intensity
Agronomy Journal, 95(2), 380–385.
By: D. Jordan, J. Barnes, C. Bogle, R. Brandenburg, J. Bailey, P. Johnson, A. Culpepper
Effect of soil moisture and time of year on mole cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) surface tunneling
Tunnel architectures of three species of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae)
By: R. Brandenburg, Y. Xia & A. Schoeman
10.1653/0015-4040(2002)085[0383:TAOTSO]2.0.CO;2
Determining tunnel structure of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) using three materials with an emphasis on fiberglass resin
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 74(3), 178–180.
By: R. Brandenburg, Y. Xia & M. Villani
Effect of soil moisture on ovipositional behavior in the southern mole cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae)
By: P. Hertl, R. Brandenburg & M. Barbercheck
Effect of irrigation on the efficacy of insecticides for controlling two species of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) on golf courses
By: Y. Xia & R. Brandenburg
2000 chapter
Improved mole cricket management through an enhanced understanding of pest behavior
In Fate and management of turfgrass chemicals (Vol. 743, pp. 397–407).
By: R. Brandenburg, P. Hertl & M. Villani
10.1021/bk-2000-0743.ch025
Incidence of Tomato spotted wilt virus (Bunyaviridae) and tobacco thrips in Virginia-type peanuts in North Carolina
Plant Disease, 84(4), 459–464.
By: L. Garcia, R. Brandenburg & J. Bailey
10.1094/PDIS.2000.84.4.459
Surface and subsurface application of Beauveria bassiana for controlling mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) in golf courses
Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology, 17(4), 177–189.
By: Y. Xia, P. Hertl & R. Brandenburg
Effects of ozone on reproduction of twospotted spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) on white clover
By: R. Hummel, R. Brandenburg, A. Heagle & C. Arellano
10.1093/ee/27.2.388
Relationship of weed populations and herb in selected North Carolina peanut fields
Proceedings, Southern Weed Science Society, 51(1998), 215–216.
By: D. Jordan, H. Coble, R. Brandenburg & J. Bailey
Extension entomology: A personal perspective on past, present, and future challenges
American Entomologist (Lanham, Md.), 43(4), 202.
By: R. Brandenburg
10.1093/ae/43.4.202
Managing mole crickets: developing a strategy for success
Turf Grass Trends, 6(1), 1–8.
Planning ahead to minimize insecticide impacts on golf courses
Turf Grass Trends, 6(1), 18–19.
Handbook of turfgrass insect pests
Lanham, MD: Entomological Society of America.
By: . Rick L. Brandenburg & M. Villani
Pheromone trapping as an indicator of southern corn rootworm damage in peanut
Peanut Science, 19(1), 37.
By: R. Brandenburg, J. Barbour & D. Herbert
10.3146/i0095-3679-19-1-10
Effect of timing on prophylactic treatments for southern corn rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in peanut
Journal of Economic Entomology, 84(6), 1894.
By: R. Brandenburg & D. Herbert
Early rootworm application offers grower flexibility and benefits
Down to Earth, 45(3), 14.
Interactive effects of selected pesticides on the two-spotted spider mite and its fungal pathogen Neozygites floridana
Entomologia Experimentalis Et Applicata, 34(3), 240.
By: R. Brandenburg & G. Kennedy
Intercrop relationships and spider mite dispersal in a corn/peanut agro-ecosystem
Overwintering of the pathogen Entomophthora floridana and its host, the twospotted spider mite
Journal of Economic Entomology, 74(4), 428.
10.1093/jee/74.4.428
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Jackals: the Stench of Fascism
Review of “Jackals: The Stench of American Fascism” by Alex Constantine
Hate Nazism
Mom in Swastika Case has Online History of Hate
Parent of girl in custody battle posts on pro-white forum, says her now-closed skinhead website ‘was a joke’
By Patrick White
Winnipeg Globe and Mail, May. 29, 2009
The couple who sent their seven-year-old daughter to school with white supremacist slogans drawn on her skin once set up a pro-skinhead website that was the subject of a criminal complaint.
Now deleted, the website aimed to attract skinheads interested in “looking out for each other and helping to cleanse the area we live in,” according to a statement on the homepage.
The girl’s mother says the website “was a joke” and has repeatedly denied allegations that she preached hate to her daughter and two-year-old son. The province of Manitoba seized both children last year shortly after the daughter was sent to school with a swastika and white supremacist slogans on her ski and is seeking permanent custody in a Winnipeg court.
No one involved in the case can be identified under Manitoba law.
Social workers have testified that during interviews with the girl she spouted racial epithets and said “What people don’t understand is that black people should die.”
The mother said she believes social workers coaxed her daughter into uttering the statements. “My daughter would never say anything like that,” she said in an interview.
The website, however, suggests the couple were fluent in such language.
Song lyrics on the site advocate hatred of Jews, blacks and gays.
The lyrics also glorify General Heinz Guderian, father of the German army’s Second World War blitzkrieg tactics.
In the site’s “Rants” section, diatribes target the mentally challenged and aboriginals.
Ottawa human-rights lawyer Richard Warman lodged a criminal complaint regarding the site in 2005. “I think it’s regrettable that charges were never laid in 2005 which might have avoided this whole debacle now,” he said in an e-mail.
In an interview Wednesday, the mother – who is now living outside Manitoba and has not attended the custody hearing – admitted the couple created the site, but closed it shortly after police came knocking. “We were investigated for that one,” she said. “They took me in one room and [the father] in another.”
She is also an avid commenter on Web forums at Resistance.com, a “pro-white” site, where she has posted comments expressing hatred of Jews.
But the mother insists her indelible online fingerprint can be misunderstood without context.
“A skinhead is just a working-class white person,” she said, referring to the roots of skinhead culture in England during the 1950s. “Just because some skinheads want to go gay-bashing doesn’t mean we all do it.”
She has been an self-professed skinhead from age 11 and said she remains one today despite her kids being taken away.
She said that throughout high school, she buried her nose in law and history books, studying the legal implications of her beliefs. She said she may have let racist remarks slip in front of her children from time to time, but said it was never with malicious intent.
“I might have come home and said something like ‘That stupid nigger at 7-Eleven asked me for ID again and now I’ve got to go back,’” she said. “Or it could be like, one of my best friends, I make fun of him for being a Pollack. He calls me a Scottish bitch, you know.”
While she moderates her own views, she said she can’t speak on behalf of her husband. The couple separated soon after Child and Family Services took their children away.
“We’ve had several arguments on politics,” she said. “I have said to him ‘You’re a bigot.’”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mom-in-swastika-case-has-online-history-of-hate/article1156440/
Cookies, not Torture, Convinced al Qaeda Suspect to Talk, FBI Interrogator Says
New York Gallery Owner Andrew Crispo and the Death Mask Murder
Holocaust Memorial Killer James Von Brunn & Reagan Aide Todd Blodgett of the Omaha Lincoln Savings/Washington Call Boy Scandals
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
Did Henry Kissinger Really Plan ‘An Accident’ for Bud Zumwalt?
Lou Dobbs’ Spokesman, Knight of Malta Robert Dilenschneider
American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism
Profiles of America’s Beloved TV Celebrities (44): Gloria “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” Estefan & the CIA
Profiles of America’s Beloved TV Celebrities (14): Good Thinking John Voight
Profiles of America’s Beloved TV Celebrities (5): Kiefer Sutherland – Son of Leftist Donald Sutherland – Sells Out to the CIA and Rupert Murdoch
Handy List of Republican Sex Offenders
GOP, Gop Behavior, Gop Watch, Republican Behavior, Republicans
In the ’80s, McCain was Director of an Organization with Ties to Nazis, Death Squads and Iran Contra
Death Squads, GOP, Gop Watch, Republicans
The CIA, Drugs, the Death of Cass Elliot, and the Reason Sharon Tate Died
Assassinations, CIA and drugs, Mkultra, The Blacklist
Evergreen International Aviation, Inc.’s Ties to the CIA, Terrorism, Iraq War … and Fox News (SourceWatch)
Corpwatch, Iraq War, Torture
General George S. Patton was Deeply Anti-Semitic & Believed in Superiority of the ‘Nordic Race’
Anti Semitism, Anti-Semitism, Nazism, WW II
Fascists in White Coats: The CIA’s Dr. Louis Jolyon West & the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Instititute
CIA Mind Control, Mind Control, Techno-fascism
Laura Schlessinger’s Dark Side
Celebrity, Gop Watch, Media, Propaganda, The Blacklist
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Booze-Serving Utah Theater Can’t Open Until Bar Is Hidden
By Mary Beth Quirk 9.28.16
While it’s perfectly legal to enjoy an alcoholic beverage in Utah, the state has certain restrictions that any business has to comply with before it can serve boozy drinks. That’s why a new arts center planned for Salt Lake City has to make some changes before it can open up to the public. [More]
The Global Booze Market Shrank For The First Time In 10 Years
In an about-face from the previous 10 years, the world collectively put down its pints, shots, cocktails, and wine glasses in 2015, with a 0.7% drop in the global booze market. [More]
A Taco Bouncer
Alcohol-Serving Taco Bell Will Abide By Hour Restrictions, Staff Security Guards
By Ashlee Kieler 7.30.15
Don’t even think about getting a bit unruly at the soon-to-open boozy Taco Bell, because you’ll be under the watchful eye of a security guard. [More]
That's An Interesting Pairing
Taco Bell Confirms A Boozy Menu At Soon-To-Open Chicago Location
By Ashlee Kieler 6.4.15
Nothing goes better with a chalupa than a nice glass of red wine. Okay, we don’t actually know that, but we do know that the pairing will certainly be an option at Taco Bell’s new Chicago location. [More]
How about a beer & a chalupa?
New Chicago Taco Bell Could Be Company’s First To Sell Alcohol
Want an ice-cold beer to wash down that Doritos Locos Taco? If city permits and licenses are to be believed, a new Taco Bell in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood may be the first to let you live that dream. [More]
no but seriously though
Is This Just Zima?
This week, ABInBev announced that it’s unleashing something terrifying sounding called a Bud Light Mixxtail, a malt liquor beverage that pretty much sounds like someone dropped a couple cinnamon red hots in a vat of Zima and called it a day. But hey, it’s sweet, and millennials like sweet stuff! According to the powers that be. [More]
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6.1.2 Subscription via mobile application
The purchase platforms of mobile applications for mobile phones, digital tablets or any other digital communication device connected to the internet enable downloading an application dedicated to the use of the Websites and/or Website services. Members wishing to use it must therefore have a connection to mobile internet.
This application offers the user the possibility to create an Account and to become a Member from a mobile phone, for example. It also enables subscriptions.
The purchase and use of Subscriptions, including those subscribed from a mobile application, are subject to these GCUS
6.2 Profiles on hold
As soon as a member subscribes to the service his profile is displayed as 'pending': during that variable period, the member’s profile is checked by PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp Companies to ascertain that the data and information supplied by the member meet the present terms and conditions and the ethical charter of the service. Finally, we offer the user the exclusive opportunity to multiply his chances of finding love with the orientation to other sites if already registered or if he wishes to benefit from more contact. Subject to the express agreement of the Member, his profile may be available on other Websites in line with his research.
If the GCUS are not complied with, the member is informed by email of the rejection of his profile and is proposed to modify it. If the member does not modify his profile in conformity with the terms and conditions, companies PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp reserves the right to definitively refuse it.
Whatever the method of registration chosen, the Member guarantees that the data communicated during his registration is accurate and conform to reality. In the event of a change of that data, he agrees to make the necessary modifications to his Account directly.
The companies PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp are not obliged and do not have the technical means to ensure the identity of the persons registering on the Website and opening an Account.
7. Subscription and Financial terms
7.1 Terms of payment for Subscriptions
To subscribe, the Member must create his Account beforehand, choose his Subscription and method of payment.
As a matter of principle, Subscriptions to Basic Services and Additional Services are subject to charges, at the rates in force at the time of their subscriptions. Prices are expressed in the currency of the Member's country. These rates are firm and non-revisable during their period of validity. The price is payable upfront at the time of subscription, by credit card, check, or transfer.
By exception and in order to enable members to discover the functions of the Basic Services, an access to a limited version of the service is offered free of charge for a limited period of time. This free and limited access does not enable the use of all functions of the Website nor allows to meet other members.
Furthermore, women members wishing to be placed in contact with a male member will specially have access to free and complete Basic Services with the exception of additional services, which remain payable.
It is specified that when the access to Services is free, whether partially or totally, Phoenix Corp reserves the right to modify it both for conditions of access and financial terms of the service. The member subscribes willingly to a Subscription for a selected duration, at the online price by the time of subscription and according to the payment methods suggested by the Website. Access to the Services of the selected Subscription is possible from the reception by PhocéeNet of the Member's payment. Access to the Service is immediate if payment is made by bank card. A processing period is required if payment is made by cheque or bank transfer; the Services concerned by the selected Subscription are accessible only after reception and receipt of the sums by PhocéeNet. In that second hypothesis and when the services of the chosen subscription are unavailable to the member after a period of fourteen (14) days from the sending of the cheque by mail or the bank transfer, it is recommended to the member to send a message to customer services by means of the form accessible from his/her account via the 'Help' menu, to which the customer service is committed to responding as soon as possible.
PhocéeNet reserves the right to propose temporary promotional subscriptions to new members or existing subscribed members for a certain time. The proposed financial terms are exceptional and cannot be grounds for any complaint by the other members.
The Trial Offer is a promotional offer that is an integral part of a Monthly Subscription. At the end of the three (3) trial days, the Subscription will be automatically charged, unless prior notice by the Subscriber, which procedures are provided in Article 17 of these GCUS.
In general, the renewal cancellations of the Subscriptions can be carried out under the conditions of the article "termination" of these GCUS.
• AppStore
The Member can create his Account under the conditions referred in Article 6.1.2. He can then choose from one of the suggested subscriptions.
7.2 Commands
7.2.1 Subscription to a Services Subscription
The Member selects on the Website the Subscription to which he wishes to subscribe. He/She is informed in advance, and by a dedicated control interface, of the Subscription price and the various payment methods available. The Member has the opportunity to check the details of his/her order, the total price and correct any errors before confirming it. This validation implies the acceptance of all the present GCUS.
The subscribers or members can order one or several additional services, giving them access to the advanced functions of the Website according to the options detailed on the Site.
The ordering process for one of the additional payable services is done in two confirming steps:
Step 1: the member is informed of the price of the subscription and of the possibility to use his/her usual payment method, previously and through the ordering interface: he/she can validate expressly, refuse the order or modify his/her usual payment method;
Step 2: the member is informed by the same dedicated interface that his/her order is confirmed.
The sale of the Subscriptions will be considered permanent (and the contract concluded) only after the Member receives, by email and from PhocéeNet, the confirmation of the order’s acceptance.
7.2.2 Order processing
At the end of the subscription or on new subscription process, the member has permanent access online and on the interface of his/her account to the detailed summary of his/her subscriptions and additional services ordered.
Any expenses for access, either material, software or internet access are exclusively at the member's charge.
8.Right to withdraw
In accordance with Article L.221-18 of the Consumer Code, the Member has the right to withdraw during a period of fourteen (14) calendar days from the conclusion of the sale, without having to give any reason and without no sum to pay. To retract, the Member will send the withdrawal form available here, by email to customer@rencontre-motard.com or via the following postal address:
PhocéeNet 564 avenue du prado - 13008 MARSEILLE – France
In the event of the use by a Member of its right of withdrawal, PhocéeNet will refund all the sums paid within fourteen (14) days from the date on which it was informed by the Member's decision to retract.
9. Obligations of Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet
9.1 Quality of services
PhocéeNet endeavours to provide a quality service. It enables members to use the available communication tools under the best possible conditions.
Due to the nature and complexity of the internet network, its technical performance and response times for consultation, viewing or data transfer in particular, the companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet make the best effort, according to the rulebook, to enable the access and use of the services.
Phoenix Corp cannot be held liable for the correct function of the member’s computer equipment and/or his/her internet access.
9.2 Maintenance and updating
Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies make their best efforts to provide a performing service to members. It shall use appropriate means to maintain the service in optimal operational conditions.
The companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet reserve the right, without notice or compensation, to temporarily close the platform or access to services for update, maintenance, modification or changes to operational methods, the platform and access hours, without this list being exhaustive.
The companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet are not liable for damages of any nature resulting from malfunction, impossibility of access or poor conditions of use of the Services accountable to a non-adapted equipment, to internal malfunction of the Member’s access provider, congestion of the Internet network and any other external reasons having the character of a force majeure case.
Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies reserve the right to complete or to improve, at all times, the Website, the subscriptions and the services available according to the development of technologies and shall inform the members by all means.
9.3 Moderation
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet are not subject to any obligation of monitoring, moderating or checking the exchanges and contents posted online on the Website by the members who subscribed to the service.
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet do not intervene directly in the content of the profiles. They check during the registration of the member and subscription that the terms and conditions are met, but does not check the truthfulness of the information supplied or their validity and does not monitor the later changes to the profile carried out by the concerned member.
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet do not intervene in the relations and exchanges between members.
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet shall react when illicit content, behaviour or use are not compliant with the present terms and conditions and reported in accordance with the article 'notification of illicit content' in the present agreement or signaled via an 'abuse' link present on the profile of every subscribing member. Companies 2L MULTIMEDIA and PhocéeNet will then take the measures it considers most appropriate for the situation.
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet reserve the right to remove any content which does not comply with the present terms and conditions after informing, if conditions allow it, the concerned member.
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet are actively working to remove fake profiles and are taking numerous measures to help in this regard.
9.4 Safety
Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet make their best efforts, according to the rulebook, to secure the Website.
Considering the exponential nature of technological developments, Companies Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet cannot guarantee the Website’s absolute security nor the absence of defects.
10. Member obligations
10.1 Reliability of profiles
The services allow the member, at registration and later when he/she accesses his/her profile, to complete the latter with data about his/her personality and his/her looks particularly in accordance with the data protection act. To enable reliable exchanges between members, each of them shall supply correct data, in compliance with law and regulation and regularly update them.
The member shall not share his member account with other persons and/or grant access of his account to a minor.
The member shall not supply, at registration or when updating his/her profile, identification data that do not correspond to reality or to unrightfully use the identity of a third person.
The photographs placed online by the member must particularly:
Represent the member exclusively
Not only represent unrelated elements (landscape, animals, etc.);
Not contain text;
Be respectful of common decency: no nude, suggestive photographs, with a sexual connotation or depicting minors.
The member is not authorized to indicate phone, address or electronic details on his profile. It is forbidden for the Member to exchange coordinates (Skype, etc.) by any means whatsoever and to anyone. It is also strongly advised against one Member to be filmed by another Member outside the means provided by the Website, as well as to send money, by any means whatsoever and under any pretext whatsoever, to another Member.
10.2 Conform use
Once registered, and subject to having subscribed, where appropriate, to one (1) or more Subscriptions suggested to him, the Member will benefit from access to the Services, according to the Subscription’s conditions.
The member is responsible for the use of the services and his/her actions on the Website. He/she shall use the Website fairly and in compliance with the present terms and conditions. The member's behaviour during the use of the services should comply with the rules of good conduct.
The Member abstains from expressing any remarks that contravenes the rights of others or that are defamatory, abusive or, in general, any remarks or content that is contrary to the purpose of the Services, the laws and regulations in force.
The Member abstains from spreading, in any form whatsoever, information or content incorporating links to third party sites that are illegal, contrary to morality and / or not in accordance with the purpose of the Services.
The member agrees to notify any manifest of illicit content, in accordance with the procedure under article 'notification of illicit content' of the present contract.
The member also can report to Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies the profile of a member not respecting the present terms and conditions through the 'abuse' link present on every registered member’s profile.
The member shall not behave in an illegal or fraud-inducing way towards Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies, other members and/or third parties.
Overall, the member shall report of any defective services he/she notices to Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies by means of the "help" menu accessible, online, on the Website.
The violation by a Member of any of these obligations constitutes a serious breach. Any behaviour not respecting the rules of good conduct above or those in the ethical charter of the service may be penalized under the conditions of the article 'termination' of the present contract.
10.3 Safety
It is forbidden for a member to access/remain fraudulently in all/part of the Website. It is forbidden to use another access method beside the one made available by Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies. Upon discovery of such method, or if the member enters a placeholder, without right, inadvertently, the member agrees to promptly inform Phoenix Corp to the following address customer@rencontre-motard.com so that appropriate actions can be taken.
The member is not authorized to remove or modify data on the Website, to fraudulently enter data or carry out an alteration on the operation of the Website. He/she shall make sure not to introduce virus, malware or any other harmful technology on the Website or the services provided there.
Any voluntary access to an unauthorized space shall be considered fraudulent access, as provided by the criminal code.
The member shall consider that all the data he/she gains knowledge of during such access to an unauthorized space is confidential and therefore shall not disclose it to others.
The member shall particularly not carry out any operation to saturate a page, rebound operations or any operation which could result in disturbing or distorting the operation of the platform.
The member takes all measures to ensure his/her own safety, in particular, for the management of his/her usernames and access codes he/she keeps confidential.
11. Technical support
Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet Companies provide a customer service to its members which can supply all necessary information on the use and services of the Website.
PhocéeNet makes the best efforts to provide a service accessible to all the members and in the best conditions.
The Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies cannot guarantee absolute technical compatibility of the additional functions and services it proposes with the service as their correct function is subject to the equipment’s software and hardware compatibility used by the members. Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet Companies inform the members of the minimum required configurations to fully benefit from the service and additional services.
The use of a mobile application for the use of the services requires that the member previously owns a compatible device with a mobile internet connection. Prior to the application download, the member should refer to the conditions of use of the application on the download platform to learn about the necessary configuration.
Should a member experience difficulties to access and/or use one of the services provided on the Website, he/she can contact customer services at any time via the online form via the 'help' menu of the Website.
12.1 Service elements
The present service terms and conditions do not include, at the advantage of the member, any transfer of intellectual property rights on the elements belonging to Phoenix Corp.
The content of the Website, the denomination of the Services, brands, drawings, models, images, texts, photos, logos, graphics, software and programmes, search engines, databases, sounds, videos, domain names, design or any other information or media presented by Phoenix Corp on the Website, without this list being exhaustive, are the exclusive property of Phoenix Corp and are protected by applicable French and international laws relating to intellectual property in force.
Any reproduction and/or representation, in full or in part, of one of those elements, without the explicit authorization of Phoenix Corp, is prohibited and would consist of counterfeit, penalized by the articles l. 335-2 and following of the code of intellectual property.
Consequently, the member shall refrain from any act or action which could affect directly or indirectly the intellectual property rights of Phoenix Corp.
The member may never use, print or re-format the content of the website for purposes other than private or familial.
He/she shall not download, copy, transmit, sell, distribute or use the content of the platform and the websites.
The member recognizes that the information and the databases accessible on the platform are the property of PhocéeNet.
12.2 Elements of the third parties
The intellectual property rights attached to the elements of the Website belonging to third parties, whose use has been entrusted to Phoenix Corp, such as brands, drawings, models, images, texts, photos, logos, without this list being exhaustive, are the exclusive property of their author and are thus protected by copyright, trademark rights or any other right recognized by applicable French and international laws relating to intellectual property in force.
The member shall not undermine, directly or indirectly, the property rights of third parties, whose content is present on the Website and shall not use, in any way, the names, brands, logos, software, information, databases and all the documents communicated to him/her, in general, in the case of the application of the present service terms and conditions.
The member shall respect the integral rights of third parties whose content is present on the platform and shall not create any analogies in the mind of the public for any purpose.
Therefore, the member shall take all necessary measures for the protection of said rights for all third parties and, in particular, maintain all the property mentions on all the data, information and more generally the consultable elements on the Website or made accessible by third parties.
12.3 Elements placed online by the member
The member grants to PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp a license of use of the intellectual property rights attached to the elements he/she places online, which are his/her exclusive property and which are protected by the applicable French and international laws relating to the intellectual property in force.
The member has the opportunity to further disseminate his profile containing his photography on other partner sites by visiting the "My Account" tab.
This License of use conceded by the Member to PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp covers the right of PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp to copy, represent, adapt, translate, digitalize, use for execution of the Services or sub-license elements regarding the member on the services, or on any electronic communication means in the context of the services (in particular email, sms, mms, Internet).
The member authorizes PhocéeNet and v to modify elements to comply with the graphic chart or to make them compatible with its technical performance or any format supplied in the context of the services.
The license of use is granted by the member to PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp for everyone, and for the duration of online access of those elements by the member.
The member shall take all necessary measures to protect said third party rights and guarantees its peaceful use to PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp.
13. Responsibility and guarantee
In the context of services providing, PhocéeNet is subject to an obligation of resources.
Conform to the valid legislation, Phoenix Corp cannot accept civil liability for activities or information stored at the request of members, unless if Phoenix Corp was duly notified of illicit content under the conditions of article 'notification of illicit content' and did not react promptly to remove it.
The members recognize and accept that the details they supply, as well as their behaviour or comments on the Website, can be reported by other members and a subsequent check by Phoenix Corp, based on objective appreciation criteria, without prejudice to the appropriate application of the 'Termination' article of the present GCUS.
The member recognizes and accepts that the divulgation of information on the Website is his/her sole responsibility, and relinquishes any claim on PhocéeNet, in particular on the basis of his/her right to image, his/her honour and reputation, the intimacy of his/her private life, resulting from his/her distribution of that information, unless otherwise it is duly proven by the Member. The member is sole responsible for possible prejudice caused by the divulgation of that information.
The member guarantees and releases PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp from any claim and condemnation originating from default of the obligations the member is subject to by law or the present terms and conditions of the service.
The member cannot hold PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp liable for any delay in information provided to him/her.
The responsibility of PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp cannot be sought in case of fraudulent or abusive use or due to voluntary or involuntary divulgation of the username and/or password for connecting to the member account.
Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies are not liable for the violation of the present terms and conditions by another member, nor for their actions on the Website, whether there’s an offence or not.
The exchanges between Members, profiles, descriptions and other announcements are incorporated within the framework of entertainment and communication. PhocéeNet and Phoenix Corp only provide a web platform and cannot guarantee that exchanges between members actually lead to encounters. Furthermore, Phoenix Corp cannot be held responsible for encounters on or outside the platform, nor for the correspondence between the communicated information on the Website and the reality.
Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies endeavour to check the reliability of information and data of the member profiles, in particular by checking compliance with the present terms and conditions and the information supplied at the creation of an account. However, each member can later modify certain information on his/her profile. Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies cannot guarantee the truthfulness of information supplied by its members, nor protect the members against identity theft and it cannot be held responsible on that basis.
PhocéeNet provides additional services to improve the communication functions and promote the visibility of the profile of a member on the Website. However, those services are provided up to the same services other members might subscribe to: in case of a multiplicity of members' requesting for a service or for technical reasons linked to the correct management of the Website operation, the member recognizes that PhocéeNet cannot guarantee an unlimited period for the promotion of visibility of the member's profile or the effectiveness and uninterrupted availability of the additional service to which the member subscribed.
Partner Websites are likely to be accessible to users through hypertext links such as banner ads. Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet companies cannot be held responsible for the data and information spread by their potential business partners.
14. Notification of illicit content
Any notification of illicit content to Phoenix Corp must include the following information in conformity with article 6 i 5 ° of the law 2004-575 of 21 June 2004:
Date of notification; If the notifier is a natural person: name, first name, profession, residence, nationality, date and place of birth; If the notifier is a legal entity: its form, name, registered office and the body that legally represents it; The name and address of the addressee or, if it is a legal person, the name and registered office; The description of the contentious facts and their precise location (with copy of the precise URL address of the content); The reasons why the content should be removed, including the legal provisions and the factual justifications;
The copy of the correspondence addressed to the author or editor of contentious information or activities and requesting their interruption, withdrawal or modification, or the justification that the author or editor could not be contacted.
The member shall notify such content, conform with the information indicated in present article by sending a mail to the following address:
Phoenix Corp company / customer service
We remind the fact that, for any person who wrongly represent content or activity as illicit with the purpose of having it removed or to stop its diffusion, whilst knowing that information is incorrect, is punishable by a year prison and a 15,000 Euros fine under article 6, i, 4° of the law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004.
15. Personal data
Personal data may be collected during your registration on the Website and is intended for use by Phoenix Corp, responsible for processing.
This collection allows the creation of an Account by the Member, prior to the Website use by him/her and to the possible subscription. In the event that he/she refuses to fill in the information, he/she would not be able to use the Website and, possibly, subscribe.
The data collected is intended for internal use only, specific to Phoenix Corp and PhocéeNet. Only those acting under his authority and instructions may access it.
As an exception, banking data are communicated to PhocéeNet responsible for managing and recovering subscriptions. The Member expressly consents that the above-mentioned banking data will be communicated to said PhocéeNet and for the sole purpose referred above.
Another exception, the personal data collected during registration on the Website may be communicated to commercial partners only with the express agreement of the Member or Subscriber and in order to facilitate its registration for additional Services.
This data is only kept for a period strictly related to the purpose of treatment and a maximum of two years from the last visit of the Member on the Website.
This data may be communicated by Phoenix Corp to PhocéeNet with the sole purpose of providing Quality Services. The Member expressly agrees to this communication.
They are intended to suggest to Members possible dates in adequacy with their personality. With the exception of the Member's e-mail address, which is mandatory for registration, the Member is under no obligation to provide any other personal data, without effect on the contract.
Personal data may be transferred to the following business partners : DNX Network Sarl, X CASH, Flirt Revenue et Salamandra Web SL. The Member has the possibility to delete his transfer authorization via the dedicated section on his account accessible through the menu "My Account", "My Settings".
The collection and processing of this information is in accordance with the CNIL declaration n° 1825951.
It is strictly forbidden to retrieve, use or transmit to Third Parties personal data on the Website, regardless of its use. It is also strictly forbidden to contact in any way whatsoever or to send "junk mail", "spam", mailings to current or past Members or Subscribers of the Website.
In accordance with the law n ° 78-17 of January 6, 1978 modified in accordance to data processing, files and freedom, the Member has a right of access, rectification, erasing and limitation of his personal data. The Member also has a right of objection, for legitimate reasons, to the processing of this data.
In addition, the Member has the right to inform the controller (ie Phoenix Corp) of his/her instructions as to the future of his/her data after his/her death.
Finally, the Member has the option to request that his/her data be exported to a third party when he/she has consented to the collection of such data or when such data have been collected as part of the performance of a contract.
All these rights can be exercised with Phoenix Corp, Customer Service, by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt accompanied by a proof of identity.
Phoenix Corp has a response time of two (2) months after the reception of the said mail.
In addition, the Member has the possibility to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
In the event that the Member has reason to believe that his personal data has been used, the latter must promptly notify the company Phoenix Corp.
16. Trackability
In order to provide an easily accessible and personalized service, Phoenix Corp keeps the connection history of the Members on the Website and follows the navigation of these members thanks to cookies, in compliance with the data-processing and liberty law.
In accordance with the legal limitation period provided for by article 65-3 of the law of 29 July 1881 on the freedom of press, Phoenix Corp keeps a copy of the data and contents allowing to identify any person who contributed to the creation and / or the posting of defamatory or abusive content, even when the content is deleted by the Member, for a period of one (1) year from the first publication of the said content.
17 Subscription cancellation and Termination of a membership
17.1 Subscription cancellation from the Website
A Member's Account can be automatically deactivated in the event of prolonged inactivity by the Account Member. In this case, Phoenix Corp will delete all data related to the Inactive Account after a period of two (2) years from the last connection to the Account.
The member can terminate his/her account at any times on the Website, without any other costs than those of the transmission of his/her request and without justification, via the section on his/her account accessible through the menu 'My parameters', then 'my subscription' or any other means which could be indicated to him/her in that section. This request will be considered and treated one business day after its reception by the competent service. Also, this request does not entail any refund of the period of the subscriptions remaining.
A subscribing member can only proceed with unsubscribing from the Website if they previously cancelled their membership.
17.2 Cancelling one's membership
Subscriptions are entered for the chosen period by the subscriber during the subscription procedure.
In the event of payment by check or by transfer, the Subscription will not be renewed on due date.
In case of payment by credit card, the Subscription will be automatically renewed on due date by successive periods equivalent to those initially chosen by the Member, except on the event of a termination notified by the latter in the conditions indicated in article 17.3 . The Renewed Subscription will be billed to the Member based on the rate base and frequency of the Subscription initially subscribed by the same Member.
17.3 Termination of a subscription (when payment is made by credit card)
The subscribing members can decide not to renew the Subscription one (1) day after subscription. This decision does not affect the access to all functions of the service on the initial duration of the subscription.
With the exception of the three (3) day trial offer, the decision not to renew the Subscription must be made no later than seventy-two (72) hours before the end of the Subscription, either by telephone to the Customer Service whose contact details appear on the Website, either by using the function "Cancel my renewal" on the account accessible through the menu "Account", "My settings", "My subscription", then " Settings ". Members who have subscribed to the two-week promotional subscription offer have the option to cancel the subscription renewal by following the unsubscribe procedure indicated above. Unless the subscription renewal is terminated or cancelled, for any seven-day period started, an additional two-week commitment is due. In the event that the Member terminates or cancels its renewal before the end of the minimum two-month period, an administrative management fee of €19.74 will be due. Pursuant to Article 313-1 of the Penal Code, Phoenix Corp will prosecute in the courts of jurisdiction any abusive opposition to a Subscription by the Member to the bearer's bank.
In any case, PhocéeNet shall inform the concerned Members by e-mail, sent no later than thirty (30) calendar days before the end of their Subscriptions, that they may terminate their Subscriptions free of charge before the due date as well as the procedure to follow.
In addition, the Member will receive a confirmation of his decision to not renew the Subscription by email.
17.4 Suspension and termination for misconduct
17.4.1. Suspension
Whatever the terms of payment, if the Member does not comply with the obligations of the present conditions, PhocéeNet reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to suspend the access to his account and eventual subscription’s services until the reason for the suspension has been lifted, this within eight (8) calendar days after the reception an email asking the Member to conform with the present service’s conditions.
Such a suspension can be applied, for example, when:
The member does not complete his profile in accordance with the present terms and conditions;
The member posts a non-conform or infringing photography online;
The member behaves in a way that disturbs the tranquility of one or several members; In any case, the Member will be informed by email of the suspension of his Account and Subscription.
17.4.2 Termination by PhocéeNet
If the member does not comply with the obligations of the present GCUs after several warnings, an email asking to do so will be sent. If not answered after within fifteen (15) calendar days from its reception, PhocéeNet reserves the right to terminate the registration on the Website, to close his Account and to terminate his subscription, without prejudice to any common-law action which might be open to it. This without any compensation or refund.
If the bank refuses the payment method used by the member, an email him/her to pay the outstanding sums with a new payment method will be sent. If not answered after within eight (8) calendar days from its reception, PhocéeNet reserves the right to terminate the registration on the Website, to close his Account, and to terminate the Subscription, without prejudice to any common-law action which might be open to it.
In any case, the Member will be informed by email of the closure of his/her Account and the termination of the Subscription.
17.4.3 Termination by the subscriber
In case of unavailability of the Services, except in cases of force majeure as provided in the article 18 of the GCUS, for a period of more than seven days, the Subscriber may terminate the Subscription by sending a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt, accompanied by a bank account number, to the following address:
PhocéeNet agrees to reimburse the Subscriber in proportion to the duration of its Subscription within a period that may, depending on the Subscriber's bank, vary between two (2) and ten (10) calendar days, starting from reception of the registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt accompanied by the banking details.
The Parties cannot be held responsible if the non-execution or the delay in the execution of any of their obligations, as described in the present GCUS, arises from a case of force majeure, within the meaning of the Article 1218 of the Civil Code.
The Party observing the event shall promptly inform the other Party of its inability to perform its obligations as a result of force majeure. The suspension of the obligations cannot in any case be a cause of responsibility for non-performance of the obligation involved, nor lead to the payment of damages and interests or penalties of delay.
Initially, cases of force majeure will suspend the application of the terms and conditions of the service and the current Subscription. Therefore, upon the cause of the suspension’s cessation of their reciprocal obligations, the Parties will resume as soon as possible the normal execution of their contractual obligations. To this end, the prevented party will warn the other of the resumption of his obligation by the means of his choice.
If cases where force majeure last longer than two (2) months, the service terms and conditions will be automatically terminated.
19. Good faith
The parties agree to execute their obligations in absolute good faith.
20. Sincerity
The parties confirm the present commitments are sincere.
Thus, they confirm not knowing of any element that, if communicated, would have modified the consent of the other party.
21. Titles
The titles of the clauses of the GCUS are included for information only and must not in any way affect the meaning or the interpretation of the said GCUS. In case that any clause title would disturb the comprehension of the clause itself, it will not be taken into account.
22. Nullity
If one or several stipulations of the present conditions are deemed invalid, or declared such in application of a law, a regulation or after a decision enforced by competent jurisdiction, the other stipulations will maintain all their power and scope.
23. Integrality
The present service terms and conditions express the integrality of the parties' obligations.
No general or specific conditions included in the documents sent or supplied by the parties could be integrated in the present terms and conditions.
24. Proof convention
The acceptance of the terms and conditions by email has the same probative value between parties as the agreement in paper format.
Data recorded in the computer systems of the Website will be stored under reasonable safety conditions and considered proof of communications between the parties. Unless it is proven otherwise, this data constitutes proof of all transactions between PhocéeNet and the Member via the Website.
The contractual documents are archived on a reliable and durable way which can be produced as proof.
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Corrs enters second decade of recognition for commitment to gender equality
Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has today been recognised for the eleventh consecutive time for its active commitment to, and leadership in, achieving gender equality.
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has named Corrs a 2017-18 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE). This is the fourth consecutive time that the firm has received the WGEA citation and previously Corrs had received its predecessor, the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace (EOWA) citation, for seven consecutive years.
The EOCGE citation is a voluntary leading practice recognition program designed to encourage, recognise and promote active commitment to achieving gender equality in Australian workplaces.
Criteria for the citation cover leadership, learning and development, gender remuneration gaps, flexible working and other initiatives to support family responsibilities, employee consultation, preventing sex-based harassment and discrimination, and targets for improving gender equality outcomes.
John W.H. Denton AO, Partner and CEO at Corrs Chambers Westgarth said: “Ensuring a diverse and equitable workplace in which everyone can develop to their full potential, benefits our people, our clients and the firm.
“My, and the firm’s, commitment to gender equality is unwavering. Gender equality and diversity are not just ethical issues, they are key to driving a successful and healthy business and, in the case of Corrs, ensuring we attract and retain talented people of any gender.
“Maintaining and encouraging a diverse, equitable, inclusive and open minded work environment is not something we take for granted. We are constantly working to encourage flexibility, inclusiveness and the well-being of our people to make Corrs an inspiring workplace in which collaboration, learning and knowledge sharing thrive.”
A central component to Corrs’ gender equality strategy is the Flexibility@Corrs program, making flexible work a standard business practice for all employees, regardless of gender or age, without adversely impacting careers.
Corrs also regularly provides diversity training for the firm’s leadership, partners and staff, consults with employees and undertakes gender pay gap analysis to ensure any gap is addressed.
Corrs Diversity and Inclusion Partner, Heidi Roberts, said: “This citation is testament to our ongoing work and commitment to gender equality. Our vision is a generous, supportive and inclusive culture which fosters and sustains a diverse, engaged and high performing workforce.”
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Ngolala
Upper Banta, Sierra Leone
The rural African village of Ngolala (pronounced GWOL-uh) is just a short, ten-minute walk through the jungle from our Banta Ministry Center.
Ngolala has a population of approximately 660. About 75 percent of the population is women and children. The majority of people in Ngolala are from a Muslim background. Traditional African spiritual practices (including witchcraft, secret society rituals, and cultic activities) are highly prevalent. Polygamy is practiced as well, resulting in large families with many children. Families support themselves primarily through subsistence farming.
When Children of the Nations–Sierra Leone decided to relocate from their former ministry center in Marjay Town (on the outskirts of Freetown) and look for a more spacious, rural setting in which to raise the children in its care, five different areas were considered. The Paramount Chief of Upper Banta, P.C. Tommy Jombla, had been a member of the congregation led by COTN’s Sierra Leone Country Director, Rev. Angie Myles when she had actively worked with the United Methodist Church. This relationship, combined with his desire to see an organization such as Children of the Nations present in his area, led P.C. Jombla to offer Children of the Nations a free gift of land on which to center our activities. One of the villages closest to this gifted parcel of land is the village of Ngolala. It was in this village that Children of the Nations staff stayed while the ministry site was being constructed. When Children of the Nations opened its first school at their Banta Ministry Center in 2004, a large number of the children came from this nearby village, which eventually became our first Village Partnership Program in Sierra Leone.
Ngolala Village Partnership Program Details
Our Village Partnership Program in Ngolala is a community-based ministry that provides a coming-alongside sort of partnership with the village leaders to provide training, education, spiritual encouragement, and resources, empowering them to raise their children and reach their goal of self-sustainability. Working through the local village leadership of Ngolala, Children of the Nations continually assesses the unique needs of this village, updating programs and strategizing to best meet these needs.
Initial Assessed Needs:
High illiteracy rate
High rate of infant mortality and maternal mortality
No access to medical care
High rate of early marriage by the girl child
Very limited access to school (too far away)
Education not a priority; parents forego school for their children to have them work the farm or engage in domestic responsibilities
No electricity or water (must travel distances to collect water)
Date Village Partnership Program launched:
Number of children currently enrolled in program:
Programs/Services currently provided:
Mallory Jansen Memorial School (Banta)
Junior Secondary School
William E. Clark Skills Training Center
Church of the Nations
Health Animator Program
Feeding Center providing daily nutrition at school
Bible studies and summer camps
Improvements to the community since the Village Partnership Program
Access to education has improved greatly through our schools and the Village Partnership Program. The Sierra Leone Ministry of Education deemed our Mallory Jansen Memorial School in Banta as “the best school in the entire chiefdom.” An understanding of the importance of education is also gradually being built up in the surrounding communities, particularly for the girl child.
The Sierra Leone Ministry of Health has officially classified our clinic a Government Health Center, acknowledging that it is the best staffed and resourced clinic in this chiefdom. The Ngolala Village Partnership Program provides free health treatment for the children enrolled in the program. All the students who attend our schools benefit from various preventative measures, for example eye testing, and dental care.
Future plans for the Ngolala Village Partnership (as funding allows):
Construction of a senior secondary school building at our nearby Banta Ministry Center, to provide our children with better educational opportunities
Improved medical facilities to allow for basic blood testing and diagnoses of common diseases like malaria
Work/study program to provide secondary school students with the opportunity to earn money while continuing their studies
Homework clubs to encourage the village children to study together to improve their grades
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Should Instagram Adopt CC Licensing?
A few days ago, Ryan Singel wrote a thought-provoking piece for Wired, suggesting that users pressure Facebook — and, by extension, its recent acquisition Instagram — to adopt Creative Commons licensing options. #electricity / mkorbit / CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons embodied an ethos of sharing that went beyond just show-and-tell. It’s been a vital part of sharing … Read More “Should Instagram Adopt CC Licensing?”
Wikipedia on new Facebook community pages
Earlier this week, Facebook announced its launch of community pages, pages based on topics of interest to the community that are not maintained by a single author. Single author pages include band or company pages that intend to promote that band or company. Instead, community pages are based on the concept of “shared knowledge” that … Read More “Wikipedia on new Facebook community pages”
Student Journalism 2.0 takes off at The Paly Voice
Remember back in April when I first mentioned Student Journalism 2.0, ccLearn’s pilot project to bring Creative Commons and the power of new media into high school journalism classes? Well since then ccLearn and two SF Bay Area high school journalism classes have been busy getting the ball rolling. Yesterday, The Paly Voice, the student-run … Read More “Student Journalism 2.0 takes off at The Paly Voice”
Coca-Cola Using CC on Facebook
It recently came to our attention that Coca-Cola relaunched their Facebook Page (apparently one of the largest pages on the social network, with over 3.6 million fans), and included a policy that content shared by fans be available under our Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. The specific CC license badge appears in the sidebar on the Coke wall, … Read More “Coca-Cola Using CC on Facebook”
The Official Unofficial Creative Commons Facebook Application
Last weekend I spent Saturday morning writing the Creative Commons License Application for Facebook. The premise is simple: installing the application allows Facebook users choose and place a CC license badge on their profile page indicating which license they want their content to be available under. Alongside the badge is text that explains what content … Read More “The Official Unofficial Creative Commons Facebook Application”
Funding CC is hard work
Last week an article in the Washington Post casued quite a stir among nonprofits who raise funds online. To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn’t So Green says that the “Causes” social network application available on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks hasn’t met expectations. This has provoked a lot of discussion and some deserved … Read More “Funding CC is hard work”
Do You Want CC In Facebook?
Yesterday, we posted about Facebook’s recent Terms of Service ordeal and how it demonstrates the need for human readable legal deeds. Now, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is asking the Facebook community for feedback on a Facebook Bill of Rights. We think this is a great opportunity for you, our community, to let Facebook know how … Read More “Do You Want CC In Facebook?”
The Value of Human Readable Deeds
By now you’ve probably heard that Facebook modified their Terms of Service and after facing a huge community backlash, returned them to their original state. Most of the issues at play were outside the scope of what we work on at CC, but the incident brings up something that we are very much interested in: … Read More “The Value of Human Readable Deeds”
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Ohio Attorney General asks parole board to keep Morrow cop’s killer in prison
Cincinnati Enquirer | Sarah Brookbank
Ohio’s top prosecutor has asked the Ohio Parole Board to keep a convicted cop killer in prison.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost submitted a letter to the Ohio Parole Board, urging the rejection of a parole request by Anthony Wayne McIntosh.
McIntosh murdered Morrow Police Officer Jeffrey Phegley in 1987 after he was pulled over for speeding and given a field sobriety test, Enquirer archives said.
“He admitted shooting Phegley, 22, in the chest with an illegal sawed-off shotgun Jan. 21 (1987) after being stopped by the officer for speeding,” Enquirer archives said. McIntosh claimed self-defense.
According to the National Police Association, McIntosh was sentenced to 15 years to life for murder. McIntosh has been denied parole in 2000, 2006 and 2010 and is scheduled for consideration again in November.
“McIntosh now asks you to release him from prison so that he can resume his life. But if Jeffrey Phegley cannot resume his life, why should his killer be afforded that privilege?” Yost said.
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I’ve decided to reprint my most widely read articles on Forbes this year. This two-part story on Lebanese history, food and wine captured the attention of thousands of readers.
For an overview of the country’s history, please read Part 1.
As light from a rain-rinsed morning beamed through the kitchen’s floor-to-ceiling windows, I watched Jamal Shalhoub unfurl damp green packets. I’d heard this traditional dish, warak enab, or stuffed grape vine leaves, was one of the most tedious to make, requiring deft hand skills. She flattened the triangular points on to the table’s surface and placed a pinch of mixture – tomatoes, raw rice, and chopped herbs – in the center. Jamal folded the edges over the filling as if gift wrapping, then neatly rolled the bundle into a tiny cigar. “Now you try” her daughter said, translating a Lebanese dialect of Arabic into English.
I’d come to Lebanon to explore the wines of the country, but effusive praise for the cuisine led me to organize a cooking class prior to arrival. However, the importance of breaking bread was evident enough that anyone with an appetite would have figured it out. I’d discover that the wine and culinary scene of Lebanon boasted an outsize personality wholly out of proportion to its diminutive size, slightly smaller than Connecticut. (And what contribution has CT made to the food world besides New Haven pizza?)
The first night, our international group of Master of Wine students dined with local winemakers at Beirut’s upscale Lebanese hot spot Em Sherif. I’ve always maintained that to gain the strongest impression of a country’s heritage, look to its table; in Lebanon, that table runneth over.
Dinner encompassed dozens of cold and hot mezzes (small dishes), grilled, baked, and roasted fish and meats including lamb and chicken kebabs and kafta (minced, seasoned meat), served with hot Arabic bread for scooping in lieu of a spoon. The sweet finale: bountiful plates of rosewater- and pistachio-flecked desserts served with café blanc (hot water spiked with orange blossom). The sommelier paired dishes with wines made from international varieties and local grapes grown and fermented within 100 miles of Beirut.
The following days would lead us into Batroun and the Bekaa Valley, the source of many of Lebanon’s best vineyard sites. Longstanding producers with large market share included Château Ksara and Château Kefraya. Their successes showed – each property had expansive grounds and wonderful restaurants serving classic and regional dishes. Ksara could even claim receipt of more annual visitors than The National Museum of Beirut.
French influence extended beyond winery names to the grapes planted. Bordeaux varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot were common, as were southern French Mediterranean grapes like Syrah, Grenache, and Cinsault. Reds dominated, but whites have become more fashionable – and more sophisticated, many made from Viognier and Chardonnay. Lebanon’s most famous producer and the one best known in the States is Château Musar. While the Musar Red has long commanded the highest price in their portfolio, a tasting of Musar’s white from vintages back to the 70’s demonstrated the underappreciated potential of Lebanese indigenous grapes Obaideh and Merwah.
One pioneer in the revival of the Obaideh (also spelled Obeidy) grape has been agronomist and winemaker Joe-Assad Touma of Château St Thomas. He’s worked on the Wine Mosaic Project to preserve and promote local varieties, an important point of differentiation for a country with thousands of years’ worth of winemaking history behind it. Research has focused on finding heritage grapes with the greatest potential for commercial cultivation into quality wine; the hunt for a red varietal counterpart to Obaideh and Merwah continues.
Also in the Bekaa, a young, forward-thinking team runs the country’s oldest winery, Domaine Des Tourelles. Founded in 1868 by French adventurer François-Eugène Brun, the estate was the first commercial cellar in Lebanon producing wines, arak and other spirits. Today, winemaker Faouzi Issa views old-vine plantings of Cinsault and other Mediterranean grapes as significant to the future of their wines, especially considering climate change – the growing season is getting hotter and drier. He has also organized the farming of premium anise for their house-distilled arak – a response to the loss of Syria as a provider of the world’s finest licorice-like herb.
Further into the Valley sat Domaine de Baal, a newish winery painstakingly carved from scratch out of the mountains. Terraced vineyards, farmed organically through backbreaking labor, encircled the property. The effort seemed to be paying off – de Baal produced one of the crispest, tangiest whites tasted on the trip, a blend of Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
From de Baal’s patio I could see shells of unfinished apartment buildings perched on the hills nearby. Why, I asked owner Sebastien Khoury, were so many of these structures scattered throughout the Bekaa?
“The government is a ghost” he said. “There is no government. We’re going to end up a country full of houses, without farms. There are no restrictions on land use, no zoning laws, and everyone wants to build.” Land prices had shot up significantly as demand rose in a space-challenged country. Speculation over the spike in unfinished projects ran from corruption, to tax-avoidance, to developers running out of money.
Back towards the coast in Batroun, an area just north of Beirut, we visited another two young but promising projects. Both surprised with their sophisticated and polished style still reflective of terroir. Ixsir, set inside a renovated traditional stone house, poured savory, mineral-flecked Syrah-based blends from some of the highest vineyards in the country. Outside on the patio, under the shade of trees, we enjoyed a superb lunch: a mezze-filled heaven available to all visitors from their on-site kitchen. Not far away, producer Atibaia has focused on making one wine well: a Bordeaux-blend red.
Throughout the course of our visits, I considered the dichotomy of Lebanon: the fragility of its existence balanced against the strength and persistence of its people, many who adhered to their values through times of strife. Serge Hochar, for example, helped build international recognition for Musar by sharing the story of his family’s commitment to winemaking and employment of staff through fifteen years of civil war. But they weren’t the only winery to have unbroken production.
As Laura Nakad of Château Nakad, explained, “we don’t invite war, but we’re used to it.” I understood what she meant, although it left me thinking long after she said it. Calluses helped us to survive but they could also inure us sufficiently from symptomatic pain to never seek remedy for the root cause.
Finally, after several long days of driving between wineries, I took a break to linger over food in Beirut. I spent an afternoon grazing through the buffet at Tawlet. This ground-breaking restaurant from the team behind Souk el Tayeb (Beirut’s first farmers market), rotates female cooks from Lebanon’s hinterland into the kitchen each day for lunch. The guest chef prepares dishes from her region to share face-to-face with eager customers in the city. It’s a way of preserving provincial culinary nuance; laborious foods the younger generation claims to have no time to cook. It’s also proven integral to helping people heal, said Christine Codsi, partner to founder Kamal Mouzawak. “Women from different communities, different faiths, are putting the mindset of war and who they saw as enemies behind them to focus on cooking and friendship.”
Coincidentally, it was through Tawlet’s founder Mouzawak that I discovered the cooking class in the mountains. Mouzawak had renovated a beautiful centuries-old house into a B&B called Beit Douma in the well-preserved village of Douma. Jamal, who had shown how to gift wrap warak enab, was the mother of the inn’s property manager.
What I learned from Jamal’s class and my week in Beirut was that Lebanese food reflected the refinement of Western-European cooking while conveying the spices and flavors of the Middle East. The definition of a culinary crossroads. And the country was a paradise for vegetarians. Salads of fattoush and tabbouleh, fruits, whole grains, fresh cheeses, yogurt, vegetable dips – the hummus! – greens and legume stews, all woven with the flavors of olive oil, herbs, tahini, garlic, and lemon further testified to the brilliance of the Lebanese kitchen: its reliance on fresh ingredients. It would’ve been healthy if I could’ve stopped eating, but Lebanese hospitality considered the empty plate of a guest a veritable crime of etiquette.
While recent news – as in the resignation of the Prime Minister in the last 48-hours – may leave one questioning whether now is the time to visit, consider this: tourism, long an economic driver, has been depressed for years but the infrastructure is ready (as is Uber). As examined in Part 1 of this article, Beirut operates with kinks and quirks, but it runs. Today, especially during the off-season between fall and spring, the finest 4- and 5-star hotels, from high-end boutique Le Gray to luxury resort Kempinski Summerland, offer incredible rates. Especially as compared to other cities with a similar standard of fine dining, shopping, and nightlife. Visitors can easily make day trips to visit wineries in Batroun and Bekaa Valley, making Lebanon the greatest food and wine country – that’s waiting for people to visit.
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As the plane lifted into the sky above Beirut, the last vestiges of the city’s inky hills, flickering with the headlights of crepuscular movement, disappeared. The Lufthansa Airbus banked west over the Mediterranean towards Frankfurt. For a few minutes, the pale pink of dawn veiled the landscape in the foamy beige of a vintage or romance filter popular with Instagrammers. I squinted through my portal at the rising sun. It glinted eerily with the silver of a newly minted nickel. Clouds unspooled around it in sharp, shiny threads. Below, the sea spread into the corners beyond my vision like a pool of glittering mercury. What a strange sunrise, I thought, as I finally shut the shade and started to type.
The last nine days in Lebanon had been strange, but in an unfamiliar and surprising way. Sure, it’s a messy place. The burden of a violent past has contributed to the current contentious, and by most accounts, gridlocked, religion-based political structure. Unchecked sprawl and unfinished development projects devour the coastline and blight swaths of the interior. Syrian refugee camps seep into cities and countryside, threatening local security while straining resources. Traffic congestion that makes New York look like the wilds of Idaho forces locals and visitors to rethink their day-to-day schedules – or abandon plans wholesale. Regularly scheduled power outages force businesses and the affluent to run generators, leaving those without resources literally in the dark.
These points alone may be enough to convince someone not to go. Indeed, trepidatious tourists should avoid reviewing the U.S. Department of State’s list of warnings. They’d never board the flight otherwise. But beneath all the chaos of a country trying to modernize with little planning or restriction, subject to what some call a thinly veiled multi-theocracy, lies the true heart of Lebanon: it’s generous people, their hospitable culture, their curiosity, openness, and enthusiasm for sharing their rich traditions of food and drink. And for this, I found nine days insufficient to know this tiny mountainous country on the fringes of the Middle East – but I tried.
Before delving into why Lebanon deserves recognition as one of the world’s greatest food and wine destinations , it’s critical to have historical perspective. Thus, this article is broken into two parts.
Lebanon’s food and wine history extends back thousands of years. The Levant, as it was known generally before a series of contemporary political borders shaped it, was where humans first learned to farm. Moving from a hunter-gatherer existence to a semi-sedentary agricultural society gave people the freedom from day-to-day survival to pursue advanced interests like weapons, tools, and wine. But the history most Lebanese refer to as having the greatest implications for modern life, is that of the 20th century.
Before war erupted in the 1970s, Beirut went by the moniker Paris of the Middle East. “With its French Mandate architecture, its world-class cuisine, its fashionable and liberated women, its multitude of churches on the Christian side of town, and its thousand-year-old ties to France, it fit the part” wrote Michael J. Totten for City-Journal Magazine in his piece “Can Beirut Be Paris Again?” But in 1975, a nasty civil war broke out that shattered both city and country. As Totten reported, more than 100,000 people were killed – when the population numbered less than 4 million. And “civil” was a misnomer. “The war sucked in powers from the Middle East and beyond—the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel, Iran, France, the Soviet Union, the United States—but no country inflicted more damage than Syria, ruled by the Assad family’s Arab Socialist Baath Party” Totten wrote.
When The War ended in 1990, as differentiated from a subsequent conflict between Israel and Shiite militant group Hezbollah in 2006, the country was in tatters. Bombs and bullets had decimated entire sections of Beirut as fighting split across the Green Line — the division between opposing religious groups. The Taif Agreement, negotiated in 1989, restructured the existing sectarian power-sharing scheme that favored Christians to divide governance equally between them and Shia and Sunni Muslims.
Knowing Lebanon’s history gives valuable context for new visitors. While Tuscany has a long, complex and even salacious past, the movie set magic of its landscape checks many of the sightseer’s boxes. They’d be forgiven for inquiring about the wine list rather than the power struggles between medieval era Guelphs and Ghibellines. But much of old Beirut and surrounding areas were destroyed, often rebuilt haphazardly or with an eye to luring monied Gulf Arabs with luxury consumerism. Heritage buildings continue to be demolished for high-rises; architectural footnotes erased. Thus, Lebanon requires a deeper look than surface level viewing.
Despite the pernicious tenacity of war, daily life in Beirut goes on, albeit on different planes. Consider the newly built Beirut Souks in downtown. The façade of this outdoor mall is meant to recall an old Middle Eastern market. But watching parents chase gleeful children next to women in platform stilettos walking tiny dogs in front of 5th Avenue shops, one can imagine being in any metropolis of the developed world. A few blocks away: Roman ruins abut the towering minarets and blue dome of Sunni Mosque Mohammad Al-Amin. Further afield, slums and refugee camps.
About a mile away, the Gemmayzeh zone attracts the young and outgoing, and is more down to earth than the sterility of wealthier, high-rise dotted districts. Rue Gouraud supplies vibrant street life rife with Parisian-style cafes, coffee bars, revisited Lebanese restaurants, and cocktail dens. Here, bits of former Ottoman and French-fashioned architecture remain, either reconstructed, reimagined, or in a state of florid Venetian-esque decay. Art galleries and book stores line unpaved streets with crumbling sidewalks, while electric cables strung like holiday lights, connect buildings.
It was deep on a Saturday night in Gemmayzeh that I understood Lebanese openness. A key metric of any city is the friendliness of strangers, and I met more on the streets of Beirut in a few hours than I have in New York City in a year. Walking along Gouraud revealed throngs of good-natured revelers spilled out into the night, the fragrance of apple-mint shisha clinging to the air. Striking up a conversation was easy. Most were curious about my presence in Beirut, pleased I knew of the city and wanted to visit. How other Americans perceived Lebanon was a question asked repeatedly in earnest. I replied truthfully: I was surprised by the torrent of positive interest in my trip; more than any destination I’d been to all year. And the most frequent comment was: “You’re going to love the food.”
Part 2: Contemporary Food and Wine Scene
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Dee Andrews
Historical Novel Society Conference
Research· The New Woman
Life was pretty fun last week during the Historical Novel Society conference. Hundreds of historical fiction authors came together for three days of inspiration, presentations, and discussions.
One of my favorite events was a coffee klatch discussing the New Woman hosted by historical fiction authors Hazel Gaynor and Stephanie Lehmann. “The New Woman,” as the media branded her in the early 1900s, strove to shake off centuries of repression, and these early feminists began to see far-reaching results. They supported themselves with jobs, and therefore weren’t forced to marry, went to college, could drive, and finally won the vote. It was (sadly) interesting and relevant given the #MeToo movement we’re experiencing today and how far women have and haven’t progressed. It was inspiring too to bring home ideas for my own historical novel and my own new woman, Helen.
The next day, I was lucky to meet with Hazel in person to discuss my writing and receive her thoughtful advice. Nothing like guidance from an established historical fiction author to motivate me to finish the revisions to my manuscript.
Another fun moment was meeting author Molly Greeley whose debut historical novel The Clergyman’s Wife is due out in December 2019. For those of you who know me personally, you won’t be surprised that Molly and I had lots to talk about. Her novel is inspired by Pride and Prejudice and follows Charlotte Collins, Elizabeth’s friend who marries (awful) Mr. Collins only because of her limited choices in life. (It’s his awfulness that I love about him. Jane Austen did such an amazing job with Mr. Collins and Mrs. Bennett, two of my favorite characters for how much they make my heart cringe.) Molly and I also have coffee in common. 🙂
Time with my girl who’s away in college.
Since I was so near Washington, DC, I ended my weekend with a visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum and brunch with my oldest daughter, who joined me from Boston. Time with her was truly the best part of the trip! Even Jane Austen can’t compete with Emma.
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Are voters biased against women candidates?
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Kamala Harris (left), Elizabeth Warren (centre) and Amy Klobuchar (right) will take the stage on 12 September With a record number of women in the fight for the White House, it’s time to re-examine what role – if any – gender biases may play in the 2020 election.It’s been…
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Image caption Kamala Harris (left), Elizabeth Warren (centre) and Amy Klobuchar (right) will take the stage on 12 September
With a record number of women in the fight for the White House, it’s time to re-examine what role – if any – gender biases may play in the 2020 election.
It’s been a groundbreaking year for women in US politics: 1,834 women won office at the state and federal level during the mid-term elections last November and 2,112 are serving in state legislative offices .
The year 2018 saw the largest increase in female representation in state governments following a decade of stagnation, according to the Center for American Women in Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University.
Six women have launched campaigns for the highest office in the land.
Women have vied for the Oval Office in the past – Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina in 2016, Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to run, in 1972, back to Victoria Woodhull in 1872, to name a few – but 2018 has seen more candidates than ever before.
Each presidential hopeful must prove they are the best fit for the job, regardless of gender. But some argue the women are up against something more: unconscious biases that have long coloured our understanding of who a leader can be.
Women must battle expectations about their gender
“We all constantly form stereotypes based on what we observe – and we’re not thinking about forming them, so they lie a bit below the surface… that’s the implicit part,” says professor Alice Eagly, a gender psychology professor at Northwestern University, Illinois.
Bias comes into play when we make assumptions about people based on those unconscious stereotypes. Other stereotypes – like racial biases – also play a role in informing our opinions. Gender, however, comes with especially defined stereotypes.
“How many observations of men and women do you get in one day? Many thousands! We automatically take in that information to decide what are the [gender] characteristics,” Prof Eagly says.
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When looking at women running for office, political science scholar Kelly Dittmar of CAWP says the problems centre around role expectations.
“We have certain expectations of gender roles, how women should act, what traits they have, and then we have expectations of what leaders look like, what are their traits, areas of expertise,” Prof Dittmar explains.
“And for women, the congruity between the gender expectations and the candidacy expectations have been in conflict for much of our history.”
Prof Eagly dubbed this phenomenon role incongruity theory in a 2002 paper.
Media captionThe women who made history in the mid-terms
The theory proposes that when women take on leadership roles that go against gender role norms, they are perceived less favourably than men as leaders, and their actions too are criticised.
All of which could make it more difficult for women to achieve success in leadership positions – or even obtain them in the first place, according to Prof Eagly’s research.
The electability question
Electability: it’s a term that’s been whipped out time and time again with candidates who don’t quite fit the mould. Regardless of platform or experience, electability can be elusive.
“Women just have to work doubly as hard as the male candidates to attract and retain voters,” says Kim Churches, CEO of the American Association of University Women, a non-profit organisation that works to empower women by analysing gender disparities and advocating for public policy changes.
“What women deal with is the double bind. You’re doomed if you’re too soft and you’re doomed if you’re too tough,” Ms Churches says.
But political science professor Kathleen Dolan of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee takes a different view.
Prof Dolan surveyed over 3,000 people before and after the 2010 and 2014 mid-term elections, asking about their politics, views on candidates, and questions to measure their gender stereotyping. Half of those surveyed experienced elections where men ran against women.
“There’s less evidence that people hold what we think of as classic gender stereotypes,” Prof Dolan says of the political landscape post-2010. And among people who did hold gender stereotypes, Prof Dolan found those beliefs “made almost no impact on their choice when they were faced with a woman or a man candidate”.
Prof Dolan says her research found that political party affiliation, incumbency and experience were better indicators of an election winner.
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While she emphasises that the political world is not perfect for women, Prof Dolan says: “People do not vote against candidates because they’re women; people do not also necessarily vote for candidates because they’re women.”
However, gender may still play a role in determining how a candidate campaigns. Prof Dittmar believes women have to prove their ability in a way men do not.
“Look at Elizabeth Warren, who’s got a plan for everything – yes that’s just Elizabeth Warren, but that’s also the demand we put on women candidates,” she says.
“If women come forward without concrete plans, we know from research that their competency is going to be questioned in a way that’s different from men. There’s an assumption of competency and qualifications for men, especially white men, that isn’t there for women. So that changes how they approach the campaign.”
The ‘Hillary standard’ – and the standard for everyone else
In 2016, criticisms of shrillness, bossiness, and coldness dogged Hillary Clinton. (Donald Trump said she lacked stamina and strength during one of their debates, which Prof Dittmar accurately predicted as a coded way to highlight gender stereotypes.)
Image caption Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a presidential debate
And any political baggage seemed to weigh heavier. The former secretary of state once told 60 Minutes she often felt that “there’s the Hillary standard and then there’s the standard for everybody else”.
While some noted this sounded like a way to brush aside her controversies, others wrote that as a woman, Mrs Clinton was held to a higher standard. At the time, former US diplomat Madeleine May Kunin wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe titled: If you’re female and running for president, you better be perfect.
The research suggests a similar idea, Prof Dittmar says.
“The penalties for women who have an ethical violation – or perceived ethical violation – or any missteps seem to be harsher. There’s a lower tolerance for women making mistakes in politics and that’s consistent with some previous research.”
For Prof Dolan, what she has seen appears to be mostly “episodic”.
“They are largely individual incidents [that] we can point to and we can say, ‘this woman candidate was treated badly for some reason and we know it’s sex’,” Prof Dolan says. “That may or may not be true in any individual case.”
AAUW’s Ms Churches recommends re-evaluating any decisions on likeability – political or otherwise – with an open mind.
“If you just don’t like her, would you say the same if she were male? Try and flip it in your head. ‘Is this my own bias about who I think a woman should be versus a man?'”
Women debating women could change perceptions
“The good news is more humans say they’re willing to vote for a woman for president – in theory,” says Ms Churches. “In practice, it’s trickier because of implicit biases among other barriers.”
But this election cycle has already given voters the chance to see a diverse group of women on the presidential stage, debating each other, which both Prof Dittmar and Prof Dolan say helps differentiate women as more than monolithic.
“We assume men will have different positions but for a long time, and even today, there’s a strong assumption that women share the same belief systems and priorities,” Prof Dittmar says.
“So, to me, that’s what stood out [from the last debate]. We’ve made progress because we have women debating.”
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And Prof Dolan says she has not seen the kind of “gendered interplay” that was a feature of the Trump-Clinton debates so far.
“The range of women has maybe in some ways muted the idea of treating a woman as a woman because there are so many,” she says. “[It] gives people a good opportunity to see women leadership take different forms.”
In her conversations with consultants and candidates over the last year, Prof Dittmar says there were pre-debate concerns about gender differences. Mostly, male candidates were “cognizant of not being viewed as bullying or dismissive of women”.
Are things changing?
Prof Dolan points out that while there has been progress women remain underrepresented.
“Until we figure out ways to get more women to run, it’s only going to be incremental change in their representation. From my perspective, that’s the biggest challenge – getting more women candidates in front of voters.”
Image caption The Democratic women of the US House of Representatives
And truly increasing representation will be key when it comes to biases.
“What we observe has to change,” Prof Eagly explains. In one study she conducted, she found that the notion of men as the more assertive sex failed to change from 1946 to 2018 because women were still largely missing from competitive roles.
“We don’t just change our ideas because someone tells us we have stereotypes – because we aren’t aware of them,” she says. “We have to have the evidence. An important form of evidence would be a female president, because we’d see that person all the time.”
On a small level, Ms Churches is already seeing some of those changes.
“My 11-year-old thinks it’s normal that women are running for president,” she says proudly.
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For Travelers: Information on Zika Virus Protection
For Providers: Information on Zika Virus Testing in the District of Columbia
PRINT RESOURCES from CDC in multiple languages:
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/fs-posters/index.html
Zika virus is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. For most people, infection with Zika virus causes a mild illness, and only about 1 in 5 people have symptoms. The most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint pain, or red eyes (conjunctivitis). Symptoms usually begin within one week of being exposed to the virus. There are no vaccines to prevent Zika virus infection, and no medicines to treat infection.
Most people in the United States (US) who have become infected with Zika virus have travelled to Zika-affected areas, which include Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Some people have also become infected with Zika after having sexual contact with someone who travelled to a Zika-affected area. A pregnant woman can spread Zika to her fetus during pregnancy, or to her newborn around the time of birth. Zika is a cause of microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects. Microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected. It is important that pregnant women who have travelled to Zika-affected areas tell their doctors about their travel.
Pregnant women and those who are planning on starting a family should avoid to Zika-affected areas. If a pregnant women's partner traveled to or resides in a Zika-affected area, the couple should use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of the pregnancy. Anyone travelling to affected areas, should take steps to avoid mosquito bites by using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved insect repellant, wearing long sleeves and pants, and staying in areas where mosquitoes are less likely to live such as air conditioned buildings and buildings with screens and windows. Even if they do not feel sick, travelers returning to the US from Zika-affected areas should take steps to prevent mosquito bites for three weeks so they do not spread Zika to mosquitoes that could spread the virus to other people.
For residents: If you have travelled to an area with Zika transmission and have symptoms, please contact your healthcare provider for testing. The DC Health does not have clinics where people can be tested, but works with healthcare providers in the city to facilitate testing. Pregnant women who have travelled to an area with Zika transmission in the last 12 weeks should contact their healthcare provider regardless of symptoms.
For questions regarding Zika virus testing, please email [email protected].
If you would like to report high numbers of mosquitos or standing water in your neighborhood, please call the Mosquito Hotline at (202) 442-5833 or email [email protected].
Information on Zika Virus for Providers in the District of Columbia
Zika Virus Update:
Last Update: Daily (5 pm EST)
Total Human Cases Related to International Travel: 36
Locally Acquired Mosquito Borne Cases: 0
Aedes Mosquito Testing Results
Aedes Albopictus and Aedes Aegypti Test Results: These are the two species of mosquitoes that are capable of transmitting the Zika virus.
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Deal Town vs Fisher
Charles Sports Ground
Deal Town 0 0 0 Draw
Fisher 0 0 0 Draw
It was a case of both defences dominating as Deal opened their competitive campaign with a goalless draw at the Charles Ground on Saturday.
Hoops manager Derek Hares was reasonably satisfied after watching his side hold a Fisher team who finished third last season, saying: “I thought we could have done a little bit better in their box but you have got to give Fisher credit for the way they defended, and that applies to our lads as well.
“There weren’t too many chances for either side to be honest and a draw was probably a fair result, but it’s a clean sheet and our first point on the board so I’ve got to be pleased with that.”
Deal started slowly and apart from one Macauley Murray volley pushed aside by the Fisher ‘keeper it was the visitors’ new manager, Allan Fenn, who probably would have been the happiest after the opening half hour. But the Hoops gradually began to string some passing moves together as the interval approached and they almost went in front six minutes before the break when Connor Coyne’s header was cleared off the line by Luke McLeavy.
With new signing Nick Treadwell having a growing presence in midfield Hares’ men remained the more positive in the early stages of the second half but without being able to carve out any genuine chances.
And it was Fisher who went closest to breaking the deadlock when James Tonkin could only half-block Karolis Atutis’s 65th-minute shot, but fortunately for the Hoops Josh Maughan was on hand to hack the ball clear.
Both managers used all their substitutes in the closing stages in a bid to unlock the stubborn defences but in vain and so the game finished goalless, one of three matches in the SCEL Premier Division to do so on Saturday. That in itself is worthy of a final statistical note because in the whole of last season’s 380 league games there were only five “shut outs” in total.
Deal: Tonkin, Alexander, Penny, Maughan, Smith, Bigginton, Treadwell, Murray (Munday 63), Coyne (Wilson 77), Cardwell (Walsh 69), Pilcher.
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Detroit Lions sign RB Tra Carson
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Making dollars for homeless services go farther
Invasive Plants: Impact on Environment and People
Check out the new publication entitled Invasive Plants: Impact on Environment and People now available in The Education Store!
Invasive species are plants, animals, or pathogens that are nonnative (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction causes or is likely to cause harm. An invasive species is a nonnative species that can cause significant environmental and economic losses. Invasive species are said to be the second leading cause of biodiversity loss, after habitat loss.
This lesson teaches students about the significant environmental and economic losses that can be caused by the introduction of invasive plant species. It includes a game that can be played in class, plus a worksheet. The lesson meets multiple Indiana science, natural resources, math, and social studies standards.
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The Costliest Slap in the World
The ugly incident that took place in the ongoing DLF IPL 20-20 tournament has tarnished the image of Indian Cricket and Indian Cricketers worldwide. The Harbhajan-Sreesanth slapping case has brought disgrace to BCCI as well as India. Despite Harbhajan’s controversies in the past, the whole nation backed him during the recent Australian tour in which he was involved in a racial abuse case with Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds and luckily he had a narrow escape at that time with lack of concrete evidence. But now, he was caught red handed and the question arises about the integrity of Harbhajan and also as to what really happened in Australia. The rush of blood had made him forget that he was representing a country of more than 1.2 billion people and that the whole world is watching each and every move. It is very disappointing for the fans like me, and Harbhajan has now lost the respect, reputation and huge money. Nobody is born as a professional and everybody has to learn and unlearn certain things to transform into one. Harbhajan failed to do that or rather failed to realize that. Though Harbhajan is found guilty, I feel the 11-match ban is very harsh and adding to that he also has another inquiry by the BCCI, which will make things even worse. The Reliance Group, owner of Mumbai Indians, has strongly reacted to this incident and they have even removed hoardings featuring Harbhajan. My feeling is that Harbhajan would never play for Mumbai Indians again.
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M.S. Dhoni & Co Thrashed
Does Mahendra Singh Dhoni exhibit his power and arrogance only in TV commercials and ads? Is the recent T20 performance a manifestation of arrogance or complacency? A very very poor performance by the “young” Indian cricket team, the team that is termed as the “Future of Indian Cricket.” All the batsmen crumbled like ninepins and there was lack of sheer common sense in terms of shot selection and sticking to the basics. Playing in Australia is not an easy joke. If the selectors were very keen to build a team for the future then why did they operate the test series with the big boys? They could have very well played their young side. BCCI has very well complimented players like Sourav, Dravid and Laxman for their contributions to Indian Cricket. The exclusion of senior players will definitely make a huge difference in the upcoming ODI series that starts tomorrow. Dhoni & Co. will have a tough time during the ODI series because if they could not play the full 20 overs what would be the outcome in 50-over matches. No idea as what the young and energetic Dhoni & Co would do with bowling and fielding skills if they do not have enough runs on the board!
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The Dover Historian
A collection of historical articles from the town of Dover, England, by Lorraine Sencicle
About Lorraine
Dover throughout the World
← Packet Service I to 1854
Dover Public Library Part II – From Winning to Broken Promises →
Dover Public Library Part I – the Long Road to Winning
Posted on April 2, 2015 by Lorraine
‘We don’t need a public library‘ said the woman with all the authority of her position, ‘I have never used it and the children I have spoken to, don’t either. Therefore it should be left to volunteers.’ This view, is a reflection of that espoused by those with the power over the future of Dover’s public library. Through a series of cut backs it’s function has been demeaned instead of allowing it to evolve and it is Kent County Council who have the statutory responsibility to provide the resources to enable public libraries to evolve. The cut backs have been used to finance a £20million facility near the headquarters of the Kent County Council in West Kent. Dover’s first public library opened on 13 March 1935, though it had taken over a hundred years to get one! Below is that story. The second part – From Winning to Broken Promises – covers the events from 1935 up to late spring 2015 when powerful locals, like the woman above, persuaded Kent County Council that Dover folk were not interested in the full public library facility as had been promised ten years previously.
The Guildhall Market Square, where Dover council met when the Lansdowne collection was purchased in 1807.
In 1807, Dover council purchased, from the executors of William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), some valuable papers. These included one relating to surveys of the harbour, pier, and Castle fortifications and dated between 1559 and 1591. The paper included reports on their decaying condition and proposals for their repair by Sir Thomas Fludd (c.1545 – 1607), surveyor of Kent in 1578. Also in the collection were surveys of the Maison Dieu, then a storehouse, made in 1590 and 1591; ‘A Discourse of the Harbour, from the Time of Julius Caesar to 1604’, by John Fooke, a Jurat of Dover. Papers relating to the taxations for repairing the harbour dated 1625 and formerly belonging to Sir Julius Caesar (1557/1558-1636). Plans of the Castle, town and harbour, in 1581, made by Thomas Digges (c1546-1595). The accounts of Thomas Marchaunt the Receiver of the Constabulary of Dover in 1405, and a fragment of the fifteenth century Register of St. Martin’s Priory. These were to be added to the council’s library and are one of the earliest acknowledgements that such a library existed.
For the gentry and middle class residents of Dover there were libraries and reading rooms such as John Horn’s Apollo Library. Horn attracted members by issuing tokens with a nominal value that could be used to purchase goods from his shop. In 1769 a Mr Newport of Snargate Street advertised that his library had a stock of 7,000 books but by 1792, both Mr Newport and his books seem to have disappeared. At 86 Snargate Street there was George Ledger’s Albion Library that opened in 1782. Ledger published the first book to be printed in the town – Volume 2 of Rev. John Lyons History of the Town, Port and Castle of Dover in 1799. Rev. Lyons was the Minister at St Mary’s church and keenly interested in local history. Ledger also published the first ‘Dover Historical Sketch,‘ which was aimed at the town’s fledgling tourism market. Following the Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815), with the influx of affluent visitors, the number of such libraries proliferated with many going into publishing and some acting as employment bureaux!
Squier’s Bazaar betwix Snargate Street to Northampton Street was a popular private library where local youths and ‘belles’ of the more affluent families would meet!
As a seafaring town, there were mariners and because of the tempestuous Strait of Dover, many were victims of shipwrecks. Those who survived were taken to the British International Sailors’ Society refuge in the Pier District. Founded in 1818, not only did the Sailors’ refuge provide bed, board and help, it also had a library and reading room. Two years later what later became the Unitarian Chapel in Adrian Street opened and included a library. Squier’s Bazaar, in nearby Snargate Street had a large reading room that included a library where, apparently, the local youths and ‘belles’ of the more affluent families would meet! By that time, Zachariah Warren had taken over the Albion library and created a ‘handsome reading room.‘ These and other privately run libraries worked by members paying an annual subscription that allowed them to borrow books. Most catered for the popular taste providing fiction and lighter non-fiction material.
Batcheller’s Kings Arms library 1 Snargate Street 1826. Drawing by Lynn Candace Sencicle
Archibald Wilson, of Coulthard and Wilson the shoemakers, lived at 7 Market Street and it was here, on 26 January 1826, he welcomed young men with an interest in gaining mechanical expertise to use his library. His philanthropic gesture enabled the young men to develop their interest and gain better employment. Later that year, (1826), William Batcheller, a schoolmaster at the Dover Charity School, had a library built on the corner with New Bridge and Snargate Street. Batcheller had bought local builder Frederick John Hillier’s old house, had it demolished and built a fine Regency mansion he named ‘The King’s Arms,’ after the then King George IV (1820-1830).
Batcheller boasted that his library had 5,143 books, six daily and thirteen weekly provincial papers, magazines and reviews. These were all available to subscribers who paid 1 guinea (£1.05p) a year to borrow or alternatively use the reading room. To use both the price was 1½guineas (£1.57½p). At Batcheller’s premises, stationery and musical instruments could be purchased and for special occasions the musical instruments, including pianofortes, could be hired. Above the library, there were card rooms and an Assembly room. The latter proved so popular for dances that Batcheller bought the adjacent property and opened a much larger Assembly room where the town’s grand balls and dinners were held. Like many other library owners, Batcheller was into publishing and produced numerous engravings of Dover and annual Guides to Dover that were published for some 40 years. However, in July 1829 disaster struck the King’s Arms library when a storm broke 46 panes of glass and the rainwater damaged most of the stock of books.
By 1830, Zachariah Warren reported that there were several libraries in the town and he had taken over Boynton’s Marine Library that had opened in 1823 on Marine Parade. Warren wrote that this library was fitted up ‘with considerable neatness’ and commanded views of the harbour and French coast. The reading room, ‘is well supplied with the daily papers, periodical publications and the county papers.‘ He was still running the Albion library at 86 Snargate Street and one subscription covered both libraries. However, the author of Ingoldsby’s Legends Richard Barham (1788-1845) commented, in Monster Balloon off Dover that Dover folk ‘flocked to peruse, That same evening in crews, Scorning Batcheller’s Papers and Warren’s Reviews.’
Albion Library run by Henry Harris & Johnson 86 Snargate Street and 16 Market Square c1845
The Warrens were an old Dover family and George Warren, of the same address as Zachariah, published many lithographs by Dover artist William Robert Waters (1812-1880). They also published Dover’s first newspaper the Cinque Ports Pilot, in 1824. William Batcheller started the Dover Telegraph in 1833 that ran until 1927 and in 1834 a Mr Prescott started the Dover Chronicle from his library. That year, Zachariah Warren died and the Albion library and the Marine Parade Library were taken over by a Mr Hendry, who had a reading room extension built to the Albion library. Henry Harris and his partner succeeded him some 20 years later and opened another library in the then Market Place, now Market Square.
The affluent classes of the town founded the Dover Museum in 1836 and that too contained a library and reading room for the members. The following year, at 66 Snargate Street, Thomas Rigden established the Queen’s Arms Library. Known, these days, for the lithograph views of Dover that he published, Rigden also published, in 1844, A short historical sketch of the Town of Dover and its environs collected from ancient records and other authentic materials. The library, it would seem, closed in 1850. Churches were also setting up libraries and schools for the children of their parishioners. Russell Street Independent (Congregational) Chapel, that opened in 1838, had schoolrooms and a library. Two years later, on 27 August 1840, the Salem Chapel opened in Biggin Street with schoolrooms and library attached. Meanwhile, Batcheller’s Guides to Dover, were proving best sellers and in 1838 he published Lieutenant B Worthington, R.N’s the Proposed Plan for Improving Dover Harbour.
The Public Libraries Act of 1850 permitted the councils of towns with over 10,000 population and the approval of two-thirds of the local government electors, to provide a building, light and fuel and employ a librarian. The total annual cost was not to exceed a ½pence rate. No provision was made for the purchase of books on the assumption that benefactors would donate them. Although Dover could have taken this up, the council, after only cursory debate, decided that the affluent were well provided for and the remainder of the town’s population were too ignorant to learn to read. However, there were those, like Archibald Wilson, who thought that those adults who could not read should be taught.
Archibald Wilson, who founded what became the Dover Institute was one of the partners in Coulthard & Wilson Boot Makers, 5&6 Last Lane, 1 Pencester Road and 26 Biggin Street. Dover Year book 1876-81
In 1852, after extending his house in Market Street, Archibald Wilson opened the building as the Mechanics Institute. The curriculum included basic and advanced reading, writing and numerical skills and courses in technical education plus the library. To use the library the three-month subscription was 1 shilling 6 pence (7½p) for men and 1 shilling (5p) for women. However, only men were allowed to enrol for courses and even though most of them worked long hours and had growing families, the number of students soon overwhelmed the Wilson household. The family moved to a new place and the adjacent houses in Market Street were purchased for the renamed Dover Working Men’s Institute. Shortened to Dover Institute, the demand for courses was such that it outgrew the premises and in 1878, it was decided a larger, more purpose built building was needed. The Institute moved to 6 Biggin Street and was officially opened in 1891. Wilson’s premises in Market Street were renamed Lawson Hall and used for religious and philanthropic purposes.
Dover’s Ragged School for Boys had opened on 1 January 1850 at the corner of Ladywell Lane and Park Street (where the Police station is now), to provide a basic education for very poor boys. Two years later, there was a thriving Girls’ Ragged School in Adrian Street and shortly after a lending library was added with books provided by the affluent members of Dover’s society. This library was not only for the girls but also for other female members of their household. For women who could not read, classes were provided and were well attended. The library proved to be very popular.
By 1860, there were six private libraries in Dover run on philosophical principles. They were the Dover Museum and Philosophical Institution, Market Square – Hon. Secs: A Phillips and Alexander Bottle. Dover Institute at 7 Market Street – Hon. Secs: John Agate and Mr Bentley. Dover Youths Institute, St James’ Street – Treasurer Steriker Finnis and Hon.Sec Reverend F R Stratton. Dover Crimean Institute, Castle Street open to everyone with free lending for non commissioned officers’ and soldiers stationed in Dover: Hon Sec: Reverend T Maynard, Treasurer Edward Hills. Dover Proprietary Library, Castle Street and the Dover Young Men’s Christian Association, Adrian Street.
The 1845 Museums Act empowered boroughs with a population of 10,000 or more to raise a ½d rate for their establishment. Dover did take this up and eventually the museum founded by the Dover Philosophical Institute in 1836 moved into the upper floor of the newly built Market Hall that opened in January 1849. In December 1852, Dover MP (1835-1852), Edward Royds Rice (1790-1878) in a House of Commons debate, asked for reports relating to arts, manufactures and commerce, to be made available to bodies such as the Dover Philosophical Institute, so that they could be read at the museum.
Market Hall 1846, Dover Museum was on the upper floor. Dover Museum
This was eventually accepted and an extended library opened within the museum for members of the Philosophical Institute. In 1874 the former Town Clerk, Edward Knocker was elected Honorary Librarian to the Corporation, a position he held until his death in 1884. His son, Town Clerk Wollaston Knocker who held the post until his death on 22 September 1907, succeeded him. During both their incumbencies a library of ancient and modern books and documents appertaining to Dover Corporation were acquired.
Subsequent Public Libraries Acts following the Act of 1850 had raised the rate limitation to 1penny (1855), permitted the purchase of books and newspapers and repealed the population limit. By 1880, 98 authorities had adopted the Acts and in 1882 Nottingham pioneered Britain’s first children’s library. In Dover, the council stated that the town did not need a public library as those who wanted to read could belong to a private library and those who did not were obviously not interested in gaining knowledge. Both the Knocker father and son gave public talks on Dover’s heritage and encouraged other local historians, such as Mary Horsley, Reverend S.P.H. Statham and John Bavington Jones to do the same. They all wrote local history books and in 1886, the Library Society was formed. Besides private libraries, many of Dover’s church and chapel schools joined. By May that year there were 80 member libraries sharing the books.
Dover’s famous Kings Arms Library, established by William Batcheller, was bought by Messrs Harvey and Hemin around 1876. Messrs Dawson and Son were the next owners followed by the Cuff Brothers who ran it for some 80 years. The building was converted to a hotel in 1950 but was demolished in the early 1970s to make way for the widening of Townwall Street.
Another well-known library was the Dover Proprietary Library established in 1844, at 2 Castle Street, above Hills Coachworks. A fire at the coachbuilders on 5 January 1888 destroyed the library, which, according to an invoice compiled two years before contained approximately 7,000 volumes. These included the following, all of which were lost: Domesday Book of Kent, William Darell’s The History of Dover Castle published in 1786. Edward Hasted (1732-1812) The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent all the volumes published in 1797. Edward Knocker’s Grand Court of Shepway – a rare copy. William Lambard’s A Perambulation of Kent published in 1576. Rev. John Lyon’s The history of the town and port of Dover and of Dover Castle published in 1814. Rev. John Puckle’s The Church and Fortress of Dover Castle published 1864. Lt. B Worthington’s Plan for Improving Dover Harbour. Histories of Kent by authors such as Paul de Rapin (1661-1725), James Anthony Froude, (1818- 1894) and Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), David Hume (1711-1776), were also destroyed.
Other books and manuscripts lost covered the Ports and Forts of Kent, Kentish Genealogies, a parliamentary report on Dover Harbour dated 1819, the poll book for Dover of 1841. Law reports including one on Harbours of Refuge, a Charter relating to Cinque Ports dated 1668 and another dated 1662. The President of the Library was the Rev. J. B. Bampton, the Vice President Dr. Parsons, Librarian the Rev. F. A. Hammond, Treasurer Alexander Bottle and the Hon. Sec. was J. Bolton. In 1877, the Granville Gardens opened on the Seafront and following the fire, the committee had a new library built. It was stocked with books that had been salvaged from Castle Street and new ones bought with the £2,500 received from the insurance company. At the time, the Gardens were owned by Dover Harbour Board but in May 1893, the council took them over and the Dover Proprietary Library was kicked out. The library building was converted into a glass-roofed conservatory cafe, called Granville Bars.
John Falconer’s Shop Biggin Street. Dover Museum
On 28 November 1893, Dover Corporation received an official letter from the Dover Chamber of Commerce recommending the adoption of a Public Library in accordance with the 1850 Public Libraries Act and subsequent Acts. The council declined on the grounds that there were plenty enough private libraries and the poor who could read were not so inclined. A public meeting was held in Connaught Hall at the end of March 1894 and addressed by Thomas Greenwood (1851-1908) a great advocator of free public libraries. The Hall was packed, and the resolution for a Dover Public Library was put forward by outfitter John Falconer, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and backed by the Dover Express. This was overwhelmingly endorsed but there were objectors, such as a Mr Sutton, who claimed that the Chamber of Commerce was ‘foisting a library on Dover ratepayers.’ At about the same time, Henry James Goulden, who had a large bookshop in Canterbury, offered Dover a gift of a large collection of books on condition that the council put the Free Public Libraries Act into operation. The council declined the offer, on the conditions stipulated, by a vote of 14 to 7.
In 1900, Maison Dieu House was bought by the Corporation and became the offices of the Borough Engineer and Medical Officer of Health. The electricity generating station owned by the council was just round the corner in Park Street, and in 1904, the Medical Officer moved out in order to provide office space for the electricity station staff. At the same time the demand for a public library increased and towards the end of 1900 ‘an extensively signed’ petition was organised by John Falconer. Falconer, born in Scotland, had a tailoring and outfitting business at 17 Bench Street and lived at Moray House on Maison Dieu Road.
Two years went by and in 1902, John Falconer wrote asking for a grant for a Dover Public Library from Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who had made his fortune in the American steel industry and became a noted philanthropist. Among his many projects was the establishment of public libraries for which he gave substantial grants. These were on the understanding that the local authority matched the grant by providing the land and a budget for operation and maintenance of the library. Carnegie responded to Falconer in February 1903 agreeing to give £10,000 to set up a public library on condition that the council provided a building and adopt the 1850 and subsequent Public Libraries Acts. John Bavington Jones, owner of the Dover Express, was delighted and suggested that the ground floor of the Market Hall be converted as a compliment to the museum on the first floor. This was generally agreed but not by the council. They made it clear that they were not willing to devote a penny rate in perpetuity when there were plenty of private libraries around for those willing to pay for the privilege of reading.
Following the council’s rejection of the Carnegie grant, the committee of the Dover Institute borrowed a sum that they could ill afford, to make major alterations to the ground floor of their Biggin Street building. A new and larger library was created, alterations were made to the reading room and an annexe was built to provide teaching rooms. The Rt. Hon George Wyndham, Member of Parliament (1889-1913), opened the newly refurbished Institute on 19 November 1904. Along Biggin Street, the Co-operative had opened a large store within which they had created a library for its members to use.
John Bavington Jones, Local Historian, Owner and Editor of the Dover Express. Dover Museum
Not only were an increasing number of middle class inhabitants becoming frustrated with the council’s lack of motivation in providing a public library, they were also angry that Dover’s ancient records were being lost to national libraries and museums. John Bavington Jones, voiced these concerns adding, with regards to a public library, ‘Although it has to be recorded that Dover of to-day does not possess a centre of enlightenment, public opinion appears to be growing in favour of spending public money in a moderate way, not only for mental recreation, but for liberally furnishing the minds of citizens with information on public affairs to enable them to rightly exercise the duties of citizenship.’ (First edition of Annals of Dover – 1916).
Two years before, in January 1913, John Falconer had died but before his death, he had again approached Andrew Carnegie to ask him to re-offer his substantial grant. This time the council held a special meeting under the chairmanship of Mayor William Crundall, who pointed out that the grant would mean Dover being required to comply with the Public Libraries Acts. At the meeting, Councillor Edward Chitty, who advocated a public library, responded, saying that ‘only one-fifth of teenagers in Dover, on leaving compulsory education received any form of instruction from either the local Education Committee or the Dover Institute and a free library would go someway in rectifying this.’ However, Councillor William Burkett countered the argument by saying that ‘a free library was a luxury that the ratepayers of Dover could ill-afford and that the ratepayers already contributed 1pence in the £ towards elementary education, which many saw as a waste.’
Biggin Street looking north 1930s, the Dover Institute is on the right. Hollingsbee Collection Dover Museum
Following World War I (1914-1918) the Public Libraries Act of 1919 repealed the penny rate limitation and authorised County Councils to adopt the Libraries Acts for any areas not already served. The management of such libraries was to come under their education committees. Dover, as semi-independent, argued that besides the various private libraries in the town, the Dover Institute had reopened and had a library containing 11,000 volumes for its members, finishing by saying that if people wanted to read they should pay. At the time, the garrison had their own library for all the military personnel and was well used. Boots the Chemist operated a commercial lending library and the Cooperative had a library for its members. Albeit, at the time, due to the economic depression unemployment and poverty were high which meant that more than half of Dover’s population, due to the lack of means, did not have access to any of the facilities the council mentioned. However, those who supported the council’s stance, stated that instead of wasting their time reading the unemployed should be out looking for work and providing food for their families.
Dover’s councillors and supporters on this issue, were no different to many other towns including many that had set up Carnegie funded libraries in more affluent times. This was now being seen in the wide variation in the standards of existing public libraries and the Kenyon Committee was appointed in 1924 to look into the problem. Three years later, they published the Report on Public Libraries in England and Wales, in which they recommended that existing library authorities should continue as they were, but that there should be a much greater co-operation between library authorities on a voluntary basis. The Committee recommended a system of co-ordination based on a National Central Library as a central store for books to be lent to local libraries and as a link between all public libraries. Although, no legislation was enacted the scheme for co-ordination was adopted and the National Central Library was born.
Fred Whitehouse Headmaster Dover Boys’ County School the driving force to get a Public Library for Dover
In 1931, Dover Borough Council received a proposal from Kent County Council (KCC) to open a public library in Dover, but this was not backed by any finance to purchase premises, fixtures or fittings. Correspondence took place and although a library was not forthcoming KCC implemented a charge on Dover council of £700 a year for the non-existent library! On 9 December that year, new premises for KCC’s Dover Boys’ County School were opened by Prince George – later George VI (1936-1952) – in Astor Avenue. The headmaster, since the school’s inception in 1905, was Fred Whitehouse who had also shown great deal of interest in the general education of all Dover youngsters.
Throughout the previous decade, Dover’s economy had oscillated between depression and desolation and in 1933, it was at its lowest ebb. In January that year, about 2,500 adult males, out of a total population of 41,281, were unemployed. For the children of the unemployed, Mayor Alderman Frederick Morecroft set up a soup kitchen providing 1,500 dinners a week. One of those helping was Fred Whitehouse who expressed concern that the pupil-teacher ratio in Dover’s elementary schools was very high and that there were no library facilities for these youngsters. Not long after, Lady Violet Astor (1889-1965), the wife of Dover’s Member of Parliament, John Jacob Astor – MP 1922-1945 opened a Social Services centre for the unemployed in Market Square. The newspapers gave a great deal of coverage to Lady Violet, saying that she looked stunning as she was wearing ‘a particularly pretty astrakhan coat.’
Mayor Frederick Morecroft who made the Dover Public Library happen. Dover Museum
Both Mayor Morecroft and Headmaster Whitehouse were embarrassed while many of the middle class onlookers were sickened. Whitehouse wrote to the Carnegie trustees asking if Dover were still eligible for a grant, to be told that monies were only available for the improvement of the book stocks of existing libraries set up under the various Public Libraries Acts. Morecroft contacted KCC, who responded by saying that, ‘owing to the financial stringency of the past few years it has not been possible to make any progress with the proposed County scheme of regional libraries, and at present see no likelihood of any such scheme being started in the immediate future.’ The council was angry, as they had been paying KCC £700 a year since 1931 for a public library service that had not been delivered! Following heated correspondence, KCC agreed that Dover was free from the liability and sent a cheque for £2,355!
Mayor Morecroft, then set up a special council committee, headed by himself and with Cllrs Donald and Goodfellow and co-opted – Fred Whitehouse. Later the committee was expanded to include Alderman Hilton Russell and Cllr Lorna Bomford. They decided, with full council approval, that ‘if a Public Library is established (in Dover) it should be on autonomous lines for the Borough alone and entirely independent of the Kent Education Committee.’ Council officials quickly discovered that by taking this line Dover town library would be entitled, on the payment of small annual subscription, the full privileges of the National Central Library and the Students’ Central Library.
Dover Institute, Biggin Street Insurance map 1905
As for the premises, the council voted to acquire and adapt the Dover Institute in Biggin Street. This was estimated to cost approximately £6,000 without provision for furniture and books. The Committee of the Dover Institute agreed and except for the billiard tables, the sale included fittings, fixtures, furniture and all the books in their existing library. It was noted that the front of the ground floor of the building was let to a shop at £100 per annum.
On 19 February 1934, at the request of the council, William Charles Berwick Sayers (1881-1960), Chief Librarian of Croydon, came to Dover. He had been invited to inspect the Institute building and the provisional plans for its adaptation prepared by the Borough Engineer. Beyond certain modifications, Sayers gave his approval and agreed to write an advisory report. It is of note that Sayers, has since gone down in the annals of British history as a member of a small but remarkable group of librarians who gave some measure of distinction to the British public library service during the early decades of the present century.
Sayers, submitted his report giving useful information and suggestions including:
that the minimum number of persons using the lending library should be estimated from 10% to 15% of the population;
that a minimum satisfactory level of stock as asserted by the Government Public Library Committee Report of 1927 was 30 volumes per 100 of the population, representing 12,000 volumes for Dover. Though as a start, he added, there could be fewer, but hardly with less than 8,000 at an estimated cost of £1,660.
He also specified the stock percentages by reference, fiction, non-fiction and children’s volumes. Stating that as most libraries find their stocks rapidly deplete he would prefer a stock of 12,000 volumes at a cost of about £2,490.
The eminent librarian said that book stock was a capital charge and loan repayments had to be made in ten years. He then gave the usual percentages of library income devoted to various items and suggested that the annual figures, based on an expenditure of a rate of 2pence in the £ would be:
Books and binding 22% @ 2pence rate = £440
Newspapers and periodicals 5% @ ditto = £100
Salaries and wages 46% @ ditto = £920
Postage, printing, heating etc. 27% @ ditto = £540
Total = £2,000
Sayers added that loan charges would lessen the amount available for books and salaries but about £100 per annum might be received in fines.
He also supplied information regarding the usual hours of opening for town libraries and suggested that the staff should consist of a Librarian; assistant Librarian, assistant for the Children’s Room; a Caretaker Cleaner; and 3 or 4 secondary school boys or girls leavers as juniors. The Librarian should at least hold the Associationship of the Library Association and the salary should be about £300 per annum. His report included tabular information appertaining to 17 towns, which could be compared with Dover, giving population, rateable value, library rate, library expenditure, staff, volumes in stock and issued, and registered readers.
It was agreed to apply to the Minister of Health (then a requirement) for the sanction to borrow £10,000 for capital expenditure under the Public Libraries Act 1892. The breakdown of figures given was:
Purchase of buildings and expenses = £4,040
Structural alterations = £2,400
Furniture = £900
Books = £2,490
Incidentals = £170
Total = £10,000
To pay for the capital loan plus the estimated yearly expenses an additional 2pence in the £ rates was agreed.
Dover’s first municipal public library opened at 6 Biggin Street on 13 March 1935 and William S Munford, aged 23 and with a Bachelor of Science degree, was appointed Dover’s first public librarian. The capital cost of the new library was approximately £7000 and the annual expenditure was expected to be about £3,000. The library was stocked with over 7,600 books and in the fortnight before opening 900 people had registered as readers! Immediately after opening people queued all the way down Biggin Street to enrol and two weeks later 19,641 books had been issued.
It was commented in the local press that a Centenary Party should have been held, as it had taken that long to get a facility that the people of Dover had so obviously wanted!
Part 2 of this story looks at what happened in less than a century.
Presented: 13 March 2015
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Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams (ECM 1880)
May 12, 2014 January 18, 2020 | Tyran Grillo
In Praise of Dreams
Jan Garbarek tenor and soprano saxophones and/or synthesizers, samplers, percussion
Kim Kashkashian viola
Manu Katché drums
Recorded March and June 2003 at Blue Jay Recording Studio, Carlisle, MA (Engineer: James Farber), A.P.C. Studio, Paris (Engineer: Didier Léglise), and in Oslo
Edited, mixed, and completed at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, by Jan Garbarek, Manfred Eicher, and Jan Erik Kongshaug (Engineer)
Produced by Manfred Eicher and Jan Garbarek
By the release of In Praise of Dreams, six years had elapsed since Jan Garbarek’s RITES. Where that earlier album was something of a meta-statement for the Norwegian saxophonist-composer, here we get a comforting regression into terrains that are familiar, if drawn with new pigments. Of those pigments, violist Kim Kashkashian is perhaps most striking. More than her tangential associations with composers Eleni Karaindrou and Tigran Mansurian, it is her richness and depth of feeling that make Kashkashian such an intuitive musical partner for Garbarek. Drummer Manu Katché, aside from notable appearances on earlier Garbarek albums (including his definitive Visible World), pours a sensitivity all his own into the mix. Indeed, sensitivity is name of the game throughout this meticulous album, which bows to improvisatory freedoms at select moments of abandon.
Usual Garbarek elements abound: the graceful tone of his horn, a tasteful array of electronics and keyboards, and a feeling of dance turned into song. Yet what makes Praise so worthy of just that is its melodic integrity. Every tune finds its own burrow, where it dreams comfortably of life on a different plain. Between opener“As seen from above,” which overlays tender reed lines over a groundswell of piano and sampled drum riffs, and the concluding “A tale begun,” the latter a congregation of breath and bow that extends one of the most beautiful roots into ECM’s soil, a sense of oneness with nature prevails. The ensuing dramaturgy keeps us ever in sight of Garbarek’s shadow, racing across the ground in birdlike shape toward some illusion of stillness.
Along the way, the listener is treated to a veritable storybook of textures. Kashkashian’s ebony qualities work most cinematically in “One goes there alone” and in the title track. Pulsing beats connect feet to earth as lines of deference are exchanged above. Garbarek melodizes freely with eyes closed, prepared for whatever light or dark may come, while Kashkashian shuffles tension and release with likeminded ease. In this regard, “Knot of place and time” is an emblematic title, marking as it does the spatiotemporal crossroads at which stands so much of Garbarek’s writing, a spirit that needs the translation of recording to make its landscapes seem real.
Sometimes, those landscapes are arid. Long untouched by sole or palm, they nevertheless shine with immediacy. Across them Kashkashian provides the regular curlicues of wind through which Garbarek threads his cries. “Cloud of unknowing,” for one, rests on a harp-like arpeggio and splits unison lines into separate journeys, each spurred by a delicate percussive undercurrent through the dunes into unexpected waters. Other times, as in “Iceburn,” the conditions are wintry, beginning fragmented but arriving at the same crystalline ever after. In these caverns the piano becomes a relic, memory of a time that is no longer with us. Like the carousel of “Scene from afar” and the lyrical train ride into which it morphs, it’s all in the mind.
These are but some of the highlights of a trajectory, flowing from horizon to horizon in a jet stream fully shrouded with intention, that is nothing without the listener’s own secrets. As yet unwritten, they stand in the exact center of a suspension bridge that could bend either way. Take the first step, and see where the next will take you.
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SIF You Please: This Set of Standards Helps Schools Boost Interoperability Across Applications
A Louisiana school district adopts Schools Interoperability Framework standards to help stakeholders work smarter, not harder.
Sheryl Abshire, Ph.d.
Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D., is chief technology officer for Calcasieu Parish Public Schools in Lake Charles, La.
Resource-strapped K–12 schools are constantly confronting this existential question: Is it better to work hard or to work smart? For Calcasieu Parish Public Schools, a public school system encompassing 1,000 square miles in southwestern Louisiana, the answer hinges on three letters: SIF.
So, what is this mysterious acronym? And what can it do for your district?
Resource-strapped K–12 schools are constantly confronting this existential question: Is it better to work hard or to work smart? For Calcasieu Parish Public Schools, a public school system encompassing 1,000 square miles in southwestern Louisiana, the answer hinges on three letters: SIF.
SIF stands for the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). It's a service-oriented architecture developed and supported by the education industry that enables pre-K–20 instructional and administrative software applications to interoperate seamlessly. The SIF standards, in development since the mid-1990s, are essentially free technical blueprints that make it easy for diverse solutions from competing manufacturers to interact and share data efficiently.
Schools obviously need a variety of applications to manage information, to keep operations running smoothly and to support their core mission of teaching and learning. SIF specifications establish common definitions for school information (data objects) and rules for data sharing (infrastructure). A “SIF agent” acts as the liaison between an application and the Zone Integration Server (ZIS) – the hub (or brain) of the operation that serves as the central communication point in a SIF zone.
The SIF agent's job is to recognize the application's business logic and data structure, which allows data sharing between applications; to receive and translate SIF messages; and to submit data changes to the ZIS. “SIF data objects” are common data definitions shared by applications. The ZIS tracks all SIF agents in the zone, distributes all SIF messages, implements security rules and enforces what a SIF agent can and can't do within the zone.
SIF strives to be an open, brand-neutral and platform-independent set of standards. That's what makes it so appealing to schools seeking interoperability across applications.
The Calcasieu Parish Public Schools system includes 5,100 employees, 33,000 students, 62 K–12 schools and 11 administrative sites in and around Lake Charles, La. The volume of information that circulates throughout our district is staggering – not surprising, given its size. For years, our stakeholders battled a host of data-sharing problems. Yet we kept doing what we had always done and expecting different results.
SIF has saved Calcasieu Parish Public Schools the equivalent of the annual data entry output of 17 full-time employees.
Despite increasingly limited resources and heightened efficiency expectations, we wasted time and money trying to integrate a patchwork of diverse applications. We entered the same data over and over again, with no real assurance of its integrity in any single application. We used time-consuming manual batch-import processes to generate data reports requested by our numerous departments and users. When those requests came in, we first had to determine if we even had the information they were seeking; then we had to figure out how to retrieve and deliver it.
While seeking solutions to these problems at the turn of the century, my IT colleagues and I happened to stumble upon a SIF workshop at a Consortium for School Networking conference. After learning what SIF could do and talking to other school districts facing similar challenges, we were convinced that we needed an industry-specific solution – and that SIF was the logical choice.
So we made our case to district leaders, and thankfully, they understood the stakes. They recognized that it was time to be data-proactive rather than data-reactive.
The strategic decision we made to adopt SIF standards has put us light-years ahead of where we would have been otherwise. Since the 2004–2005 school year, when we rolled out a technology plan that included SIF, we have saved roughly 33,000 hours of data entry work.
Thanks to SIF, we are now equipped to provide a higher level of service to our employees, students and parents. We have reduced overhead costs by shifting and automating manual functions – creating network and e-mail accounts, for example – while at the same time increasing the reliability and validity of the data in our cafeteria and library systems, among other applications. Specifically:
Our librarians now can focus more on student engagement than data entry.
Our cafeteria managers no longer have to maintain accurate student data for federal reporting; it's now done for them.
No Magic Bullet
Successfully integrating data from diverse systems doesn't happen overnight. SIF takes time to implement, so be ready to dedicate at least a few weeks to each integrated application.
Here are a few best practices to follow as your school makes its own transition to SIF:
Remember, you don't need a developer to manage SIF. SIF is a standard with virtually no unknowns, and many SIF products on the market today are essentially plug-and-play solutions. Technical expertise is not mandatory.
Identify key fields (such as student, faculty and staff ID numbers) for student and employee data to maintain accuracy across systems. Data accuracy can be achieved in a number of ways, but for the layperson the most convenient method is to use unique attributes that are common to every system. Like most software applications, SIF uses Globally Unique Identifiers, which provide unique reference numbers that won't be duplicated elsewhere.
Be prepared to deal with data inconsistencies for each agent implemented. Once data in an application is reconciled in real time with the data in other applications, inconsistencies become acutely visible and must be resolved.
Dedicate a staff member to teaching users how to correct data problems. The staff members who enter data into a district's many systems typically know how to maintain the data in only the system with which they regularly work. With SIF there's a designated“authoritative source” for data. If inconsistencies occur, staff must know how to address them because the previous processes can no longer be used.
Buy only SIF-compliant products. Even if your school or district isn't planning to implement SIF standards, it's worth verifying that a new or existing manufacturer's applications are SIF-certified – because you never know.
HOW SIF Helps
The Schools Interoperability Framework gives schools the flexibility to choose technology solutions without data integration consequences and the means to deliver targeted access to services and resources. Benefits vary by user type:
Students and parents enjoy access to personalized student content, improved timeliness of service, accurate school data and increased efficiency.
Teachers gain real-time access to critical information and better data analysis.
SIF also allows them to manage their time more efficiently.
Administrators see increased efficiency, reduced redundancy and errors, and fewer compatibility problems. Using existing systems and infrastructure also saves money.
IT managers reduce support costs and the time needed to manage multiple data sources.
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What Microsoft’s New Cloudbook Can Do in the K–12 Market
The competition for cloud-based notebooks in the classroom is heating up.
The first models of Microsoft's new Cloudbook notebook are out in the wild and could give Microsoft a foothold in the Chromebook-dominated K–12 marketplace.
The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook line of notebooks, first announced in August, are lightweight, sub-$200 devices, designed with cloud connectivity in mind. From those specifications alone, it's not hard to make comparisons with Google's Chromebook, which became the leading notebook in the K–12 device market in 2014, according to IDC.
The Cloudbook comes loaded with Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 10 Home edition; minimal local storage; up to 1 terabyte of online storage, available through Microsoft's OneDrive; and a trial of Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite.
Because of the low onboard storage and thin processing power, cloud-based devices rely on connected environments to soar, which make them perfect for educational settings that are wireless-ready. The success of the Chromebook has proved that school districts are hungry for notebooks that can dive into existing cloud architecture at a low price point. And Microsoft's Cloudbook undercuts the least expensive Chromebook by a few dollars.
It remains to be seen how quickly school districts will adopt a challenger of the Chromebook’s legacy, but for now, Microsoft has issued a solid response to Google's popular cloud-based notebook.
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Newsletter & Bids 7 2018 – Bumper Edition!
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Again the ESFA do it Anger as apprenticeship providers asked to log off-the-job training Paul Offord | 13:59, Feb 15, 2018 Anger as apprenticeship providers asked to log off-the-job training Providers will be asked to log apprentices’ off-the-job training hours to prove that the deeply unpopular minimum funding requirement is being met, the government has revealed. A new data field for individual learner records (ILR) – which is to be updated monthly – is supposed to “help” providers “demonstrate compliance” with the requirement for at least 20 per cent of apprentices’ time to be spent training away from work. It will not be introduced until 2018/19 and is described in new ILR guidance as “optional”. But the Association of Employment and Learning Providers believes that it goes against previous assurances over how the rule, which is hated by employers, will be enforced. “All along Education and Skills Funding Agency has assured us that there would be no additional administrative burdens, but this a significant add-on,” said AELP boss Mark Dawe. https://feweek.co.uk/2018/02/15/anger-as-apprentice-providers-asked-to-log-off-the-job-training/
A new college campus identifier will be introduced into individualised learner records from 2018/19, potentially paving the way for campus-level inspections at mega-colleges. The additional data will identify a “campus within a college group and no longer a separate legal entity but previously operated as an incorporated college with a UKPRN”, according to new guidance published today by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. A campus identifier will “allow identification of provision delivered across the various sites of merged institutions”.
The new identifier will be in use from the start of 2018/19, which means that colleges will have a year’s worth of campus-level data in time for the new Ofsted common inspection framework, expected from September 2019. https://feweek.co.uk/2018/02/14/new-campus-identifier-paves-way-for-ofsted-changes-in-2019/
ESFA tell us Learner satisfaction survey 2017 to 2018 for Information
The learner satisfaction survey runs from 30 October 2017 to midnight on 4 May 2018.
Providers can now access their first indicative report (includes responses up to 12 January) on the Provider Extranet. A further report will be available after the survey has closed. Providers are encouraged to use the report to ensure they are on track to obtain a valid score. Guidance to support providers is available on GOV.UK.
This year, we are testing some new enhancements to further improve the quality and usefulness of the learner satisfaction survey data. These include:
Additional quality assurance checks, ensuring comparable responses between providers, by contacting a sample of learners who have completed the survey to ask them about their experiences, sending direct online invites, from 3 April, to learners who haven’t yet participated (who have given their consent on their ILR) to encourage their responses
This does not affect the provider led approach, where providers have invited their learners to participate in the survey. For further information, please email the service desk.
The only FE College instituted in the last 20 years has been issued with a financial notice to improve, just six months after its former leader retired.
Prospects College of Advanced Technology, which converted from being an independent training provider to college status in 2014, was hit with the notice – published today – on January 30. “PROCAT has been assessed as having inadequate financial health by ESFA following a review of the college’s latest outturn figures for 2016/17 and the revised budget for 2017/18 and associated information, submitted to ESFA 5 January 2018,” it said.
https://feweek.co.uk/2018/02/14/only-college-created-in-20-years-hit-with-financial-notice/
News on the Peer Meet up we only have 7 places left Peer Meet Up for Training Providers 16th of March at TWIN Group London To get your free tickets please go to https://tinyurl.com/PeerMeetUpTPMarch2018
Slavery & Human Trafficking Statement. Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 only requires organisations that supply goods or services and have a consolidated global turnover of £36 million per annum to prepare a statement for each financial year. However, there has been an increased emphasis of late on smaller organisations with bids to have their own statements having such a statement as a matter of transparency and good practice, so we would recommend one be created and also made available on your website.
This week organisations up for sale Incorporation date – Sept 2015
Bankers – Barclays – either transfer director’s name or close this account
1 Shareholder 100 % shareholding transfers for sale
Listed on the Register of Training Organisations to operate a sub contract over 100k since 2015. Listed on the Register as passed the relevant due diligence of Capability and Capacity to enable you to submit tenders for education and training direct to the government
Has centre accreditation’s with City and Guilds and Cskills
Would come with any relevant policies for you to gain further centre accreditation with awarding bodies. Will supply and historic EQA reports we hold for any of your future due diligence purposes. Included in the price I will give 4 months remote support from my management team at 6 hours per month for any support needs with awarding bodies etc
Any further support will be subject to agreed charges
The company has no current learners and has historically sub contracted with Loans before the changes came in. The company comes with no current sub contract values
If you require us to gain any further awarding body accreditation s prior to the sale, this can be achieved through my management team for agreed costs
The accreditation used is as follows, we have got permission to deliver level 2 also.
Level 3 Plastering – Level 3 Trowel occupations – Level 3 Child care – Level 3 Paint/dec
Level 3 OWS – Level 3 Joinery – Level 3 dry lining – Level 3 Interior systems –
Level 3 Business admin – Level 3 Personal fitness
Interest at £30k or very near offer steve@eevt.org
Levy News Businesses ‘will be able to transfer’ apprenticeship levy funds to other organisations: Employers that pay the apprenticeship levy will have the option to transfer 10 per cent of their annual apprenticeship funds to other organisations from April 2018 – giving them extra flexibility in how they use it to help close skills gaps, the government has announced.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency said that employers wishing to transfer a proportion of their annual levy funds will be able to choose who they want to give it to – providing their designated recipient wants to receive it and both parties are registered on the apprenticeship system.
Up to 10 per cent of levy funds can be transferred, calculated from the total of the employer’s declared levy value and the government’s 10 per cent top-up, including a percentage for English apprenticeships. The apprenticeship levy, introduced on 6 April 2017, applies to employers with an annual pay bill of more than £3m.
In its guidance to transferring apprenticeship service funds, the government confirmed that any employer registered on its apprenticeship service is eligible to receive and use these transferred funds, and that the money can only be used to pay for the training and assessment cost of the apprenticeships agreed with the receiving employer.
There are no restrictions as to whom employers can transfer the funding to, however.
Funds are to be paid monthly for the duration of the apprenticeship, and companies making transfers and those receiving funds are required to agree on the details of the transfer, including factors such as how many apprentices it will cover.
Jake Tween, head of apprenticeships at ILM, welcomed the development, which he told People Management, would give employers “more control over apprenticeships” and represented a shift towards genuine employer ownership.
Tween said this flexibility was what “employers have asked for since the consultation on the levy first took place in 2015. It is extremely likely to have a positive effect on productivity.”
Tween added that it would also incentivise employers to take on more apprentices and upskill their existing workforces, and had “huge potential to strengthen the ties between employers in the wider supply chain, fostering more seamless collaboration and greater portability of skills”.
The regulations the government will introduce alongside this new option include that where an organisation currently has an apprentice funded by a transfer, it cannot transfer funds to another employer and, once a transfer is made, organisations cannot refund it to the sending employer.
Should the business funding another employer’s apprenticeship run out of funds, the government will pay 90 per cent of the remaining cost, and the receiving organisation will be required to pay the remaining 10 per cent contribution – known as co-investment. But employers are free to choose to which organisations funds can be transferred.
Mark Dawe, CEO of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP), told People Management that AELP found it “interesting” that the government’s guidance was that the transfers can be given to any employer the levy payer chooses.
The difficulty in policing “big employers helping out smaller firms in their supply chains” may be the reason the government has introduced this level of flexibility, he said.
The change may be a response to companies calling for greater flexibility in the apprenticeship levy. Assessing the early impact of the apprenticeship levy, a report from the CIPD published on 11 January found that 53 per cent of employers that pay the levy wanted a more flexible ‘training’ version.
A study released this week by recruitment company Alexander Mann Solutions revealed that a third of businesses viewed apprentices as the most valuable source of emerging talent in 2018. Twenty-eight per cent of those surveyed were finding it difficult to fill graduate roles this season.
With Britain’s exit from the EU on the horizon, upskilling British citizens through apprenticeships and other training is widely required to help close the skills gaps.
This is particularly pertinent as potential new government visa restrictions may also result in fewer EU migrants working in the UK. The number of EU migrants arriving in the UK for work fell for the first time in a decade in February 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics. Becci Newton, associate director of the Institute for Employment Studies, said the change was a positive move: “It is intuitively beneficial to all stakeholders – government, employers, potential apprentices – that other businesses can draw on these resources to enable them to provide training. “The change should, in principle, increase the number of apprenticeship opportunities available,” even if the administrative demands could be off-putting to some, she added.
Private providers are being let off millions of pounds in unpaid VAT because the tax office gave them bad advice, FE Week can reveal.
ITPs were meant to start adding a 20-per-cent charge to advance learner loans courses when the scheme was introduced in 2013, but it seems as though the rule has not been applied consistently. HMRC finally seems to have realised that it is missing out on considerable sums of money, and has now published “clarification guidance” emphasising that all independent providers – many of which were unaware of the requirement – must pay VAT. https://feweek.co.uk/2018/02/13/huge-vat-loans-let-off-after-hmrc-admits-poor-guidance/
A cash-strapped college in line for a multi-million pound emergency bailout has announced plans for a make-or-break merger – its second attempt at finding a forever partner. North Shropshire College, which is currently consulting on proposals to merge with Herefordshire and Ludlow College, expects to receive £3 million in exceptional financial support to ensure that “adequate cash balances will be in place until December 2018”, according to its 2016/17 accounts.
https://feweek.co.uk/2018/02/14/college-thrown-3m-lifeline-ahead-of-second-attempt-at-merger/
Just wanted to let you know that our Free Introduction to Procurement webinar has been rescheduled from Thursday 1 March to Friday 2 March. We will now be joined by PASS Principal Procurement Consultant Eddie Regan has spent the last 19 years lecturing and consulting on procurement policy and processes, making him a fount of public sector procurement knowledge!
Together we will deliver a webinar which aims to help small businesses gain a better understanding of the public sector marketplace and how Supply2Gov can help grow your business.
What does this mean for you if you’ve already registered for the webinar?
You will have already received an email from WebEx, our webinar provider, notifying you that the session has been moved.
You don’t have to re-register for the 2 March webinar. Your spot has been automatically saved for the new webinar date and time.
If you’re unable to attend the webinar during the new date, let me know and I’ll be sure to send you a recording of the presentation.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. We hope you can join for the Supply2Gov: Introduction to Procurement webinar with PASS procurement Friday 2 March at 11am. If you haven’t already registered, remember that the webinar is completely free and lasts for around 45 minutes.
An overview of what public sector procurement is and entails
How to access your slice of the £242 billion procurement pie
Some top tips on how to get procurement ready
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Today marks the official opening of the sixth annual Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) Employability Awards sponsored by Clarion Futures. Entries are now open to individuals, organisations and businesses that help jobseekers in their journey into or towards employment. The ERSA Employability Awards 2018 celebrate and champion best practice across the employment support sector, and seek to demonstrate the day-to-day hard work and dedication of those working to improve the lives of jobseekers, communities and the wider workforce. ERSA encourage applications from a range of organisations working with disadvantaged jobseekers, including charities, community groups, health services, housing associations, local authorities, training providers and employers.
Kirsty McHugh, ERSA’s Chief Executive, said:
‘The ERSA Employability Awards recognises the unwavering dedication of employment support providers and businesses helping people into or towards employment. It presents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of those on the frontline, who are working tirelessly to change people’s lives, and those of their families and communities around them’. The deadline for entry is 9 March. Finalists in each category will be announced at the ERSA AGM in April, with the awards presented at a special ceremony in London in the summer. More information and how to apply can be found here. http://ersa.org.uk/Awards18
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guns had settled nearly up to their axles, with difficulty we got the guns out and sent them to the rear, while we still worked the section in the road. It was at this time the major received his fatal shot and fell lifeless from his saddle.
At this time all the batteries had left the field and all the infantry in our immediate vicinity had been driven back. A part of the First Brigade, the Fifty-sixth New York, were still disputing the ground with the enemy on our extreme right. General Naglee ordered me to fix prolonges and fire retiring, which was done with one piece. The Garde Lafayette (Fifty-fifth Regiment New York Volunteers) came up about this time and made a gallant charge, but unfortunately got in front of our pieces and prevented us from firing when we were able to do so. First Lieutenant M. V. McIntyre acted as Numbers 1, Corporal Hasbrouck served ammunition, and myself as gunner. The lead driver was shot dead, also Numbers 4, Artificer Goodsel. With two officers and one corporal as cannoneers and no lanyard or friction primers, and the regiment in front terribly cut, we retired, and shortly after received orders from you to collect the batteries and place them in position where they now are.
The officers and men under my command behaved gallantly and deserve credit for their steadiness under a wasting fire. The adjutant of the artillery, Lieutenant William Rumsey, was wounded whole executing the orders of our chef. We were not expecting so severe a battle so soon. I had orders about two hours before the battle commenced to harness up one section of my battery, expecting to go on a reconnaissance, but before I had barely time to give the order the order was changed, and the whole battery was ordered to be harnessed, together with all the batteries in the division. I could have saved my battery wagon and forge by sending them to the rear sooner, but did not feel justified in assuming by that proceeding that it was possible for the division to retreat. Two caissons were abandoned in consequence of the horses being killed. The battery wagon, forge, and cessions have been since recovered, with the exception of one limber of the caisson, which was taken by the rebels.
I cannot close this report without expressing my deep sense of the irreparable los sustained by your division in the death of Colonel G. D. Bailey. Modest, unassuming, and gentlemanly in his manner, united with great decision of character and personal bravery and a thorough knowledge of his profession, your division has met with a loss that cannot be replaced, and the service has lost one of its brightest ornaments.
Annexed is a list of the casualties in the artillery of the division.*
All of which is respectfully submitted.
P. C. REGAN,
Captain Seventh N. Y. Battery, Actg. Chief of Arty., Casey's Div.
General CASEY.
No. 94. Report of Brigadier General Henry M. Naglee,
U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, of operations May 26-June 1.
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH CORPS, NEAR SEVEN PINES, June 20, 1862.
SIR: I have the honor to inclose the report of Brigadier General H. M. Naglee, who commanded the First Brigade of Casey's division in the battle
* Embodied in return, p.762.
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I Galena & environs. i
For M—’s birthday we rented a car and headed to Galena. It’s a tourist town and lousy with B&Bs, but we (I) had delayed too long in planning this trip and they were all full, so we ended up at the DeSoto House Hotel, a very cool old downtown hotel of the kind you don’t see much of anymore except in big cities at risible rates. The plan was: Friday night and Saturday in Galena, then Saturday night camping at Apple River Canyon State Park about 45 minutes away.
We arrived very late and, after checking in, walked Main Street until we came across the VFW hall, which looked much more pleasant than any of the other bars and seemed to be open to the public.
This bar was far and away my favorite thing about Galena, full of cheap beer and bourbon and popcorn and friendly locals. But it was late and we were tired, so soon enough we were back at the hotel enjoying the endless variety of reality television available.
It rained half-heartedly all day, but not enough to keep anyone inside.
It’s a great walking town; you can even cross the (now much-diminished but once formidable) Galena River on a number of convenient pedestrian bridges.
It’s built on what is (for Illinois) a very steep hillside, and there are stairways everywhere connecting the streets.
There are even little bridges connecting the streets at higher elevations to the upper floors of buildings that front onto the next street down.
With the early November sunset creeping up on us and the constant threat of heavier rain, we headed out early to get to our campsite at the state park, hoping that the dirt roads wouldn’t turn into mud roads before we got there.
After October, the regular campground at Apple River is closed, but the youth group campground is opened to individual campers. It also remains open to youth groups, as we discovered when we found a half dozen tents pitched by the local Boy Scout troop. Fortunately we were able to find an area out of sight (though not out of earshot) of the Boy Scouts. We set up our tent and went off in search of firewood. This turned out to be a more considerable undertaking than we’d expected:
The BP in nearby Warren, IL (population 1,428) had a big sign that said “Firewood for sale!” Unfortunately, they were sold out.
Casey’s General Store, the other gas station in Warren, didn’t sell firewood.
The hardware store in Warren had closed at 3.
The IGA in Warren also sold firewood but was also sold out.
A very helpful cashier at the IGA directed us to “the Backe place,” a house/photography studio near the campground whose owners sold firewood, Somehow we were able to actually find the place and indeed there was a sign advertising firewood, but nobody was home except an angry dog.
The Sullivan Foods in Stockton, IL (in the other direction from Warren and not much bigger) had a big metal cage out front advertising firewood. It was empty.
The Citgo station in Stockton was also sold out of firewood, but they were nice enough to call the other gas station in town to see if they had any. They didn’t.
Finally we decided to drive to Freeport, IL (a much larger city of 25,000 people), 30 miles away, where we did eventually find a Cub Foods selling nice dry cherry wood. We’d given up on our campfire cooking plans by this point and stopped on the way back at The Rafters in Lena for a very nice and much-needed dinner.
We made it back to our campsite and built a wonderful roaring fire that burned hot and bright as the wind picked up. After we went to bed, it picked up some more, and so did the rain, which woke us up a few times throughout the night.
In the morning, we waited a couple hours in our tent for the rain to lessen. Finally we abandoned our plans to hike around the park that morning and began to break camp. Our campsite looked like this:
(Half an hour after this picture was taken, when we’d gotten thoroughly soaked taking down our tent and packing everything into the car, the rain stopped completely—though it did keep coming on and off throughout the day.)
After a restorative breakfast in Warren we decided that we simply couldn’t skip the requisite run across the Wisconsin border (only a few miles away) for New Glarus, so we headed north to Gratiot. Gratiot has only 236 people, but in true Wisconsin fashion it has several bars and, happily, a convenience store/post office/deer registration station fully stocked with Moon Man and Fat Squirrel.
Then it was a grueling and seemingly endless ride back into Chicago complete with heavy rain and winds, a tornado watch, an hour of standstill traffic, and a complete closure of I-90 eastbound. But I can’t wait to get back to Apple River Canyon, which looked like it would be beautiful in decent weather.
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Limit my search to Computational and Systems Biology
Computational design of thermostabilizing point mutations for G protein-coupled receptors
Petr Popov,
Yao Peng,
Ling Shen,
Raymond C Stevens,
Vadim Cherezov,
Zhi-Jie Liu,
Vsevolod Katritch ,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States;
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia;
ShanghaiTech University, China;
Kunming Medical University, China;
eLife digest
Computational methods
Engineering of GPCR constructs with improved thermostability is a key for successful structural and biochemical studies of this transmembrane protein family, targeted by 40% of all therapeutic drugs. Here we introduce a comprehensive computational approach to effective prediction of stabilizing mutations in GPCRs, named CompoMug, which employs sequence-based analysis, structural information, and a derived machine learning predictor. Tested experimentally on the serotonin 5-HT2C receptor target, CompoMug predictions resulted in 10 new stabilizing mutations, with an apparent thermostability gain ~8.8°C for the best single mutation and ~13°C for a triple mutant. Binding of antagonists confers further stabilization for the triple mutant receptor, with total gains of ~21°C as compared to wild type apo 5-HT2C. The predicted mutations enabled crystallization and structure determination for the 5-HT2C receptor complexes in inactive and active-like states. While CompoMug already shows high 25% hit rate and utility in GPCR structural studies, further improvements are expected with accumulation of structural and mutation data.
The trillions of cells in the human body rely on receptors that sit in their cell membranes to communicate with each other. Hundreds of different receptors belong to the G protein-coupled receptor superfamily (called GPCRs for short) and play vital roles in the all organs and bodily systems. Indeed, GPCRs are the targets for almost 40% of therapeutic drugs. As such, deciphering the shape and activity of GPCRs is key to understanding the normal workings of the human biology and could help scientists discover new treatments for various diseases, from depression to high blood pressure to cancer. These receptors, however, are notoriously flimsy and unstable, making them difficult to work with in the laboratory.
Different approaches have been developed to make GPCRs more stable, usually by swapping one or a few of the amino acid building blocks in the protein for other amino acids. Currently, this requires a costly and slow trial-and-error approach in which each amino acid out of 300-400 in the protein is mutated and tested experimentally.
To speed up and reduce the cost of the process, Popov et al. asked if a computer could predict which mutations in the protein would stabilize it, meaning that fewer proteins would actually need to be tested. Four computer algorithms based on four different principles were developed and verified. The first one compares the target GPCR to other closely related receptors, trying to detect variations that cause the instability. The second tries to build in specific stabilizing interactions, or “bridges”, between different parts of the receptor. The third algorithm searches the known structures of other GPCRs for useful mutations. Finally, the fourth one uses accumulated data on the stability of hundreds of mutations in different GPCRs to train a machine learning predictor to recognize stabilizing mutations.
All four algorithms produced useful predictions in a real-life project. Indeed, when combined in one computational tool, named CompoMug, the algorithms made it possible to detect optimal mutations in a human GPCR called 5-HT2C. This made the protein much easier to work with in the laboratory, and ultimately helped to solve its three-dimensional structure (which was reported in a separate study, published earlier in 2018)
The 5-HT2C receptor is involved in regulating, among other things, mood and appetite. Details of its structure might therefore help researchers to design new antidepressants and obesity treatments. Moreover, CompoMug is already helping structural biologists to solve the structures of other GPCRs, which will further facilitate many aspects of GPCR drug discovery.
G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent the largest family of transmembrane proteins, which is involved in regulation of all major physiological functions and comprises more than 25% of established therapeutic targets (Lagerström and Schiöth, 2008; Rask-Andersen et al., 2014). However, high conformational flexibility and low thermostability of these receptors have always presented major challenges for their structural, biophysical, and biochemical characterization. With exception of visual rhodopsin, structural characterization of all other 50 GPCRs so far required substantial efforts in protein engineering to design GPCR constructs suitable for crystallization (Cherezov et al., 2007; Warne et al., 2009; Chun et al., 2012; Katritch et al., 2013; Stevens et al., 2013; Pándy-Szekeres et al., 2018). The design typically involves truncations of N- and C- termini, replacements of flexible loops and/or termini with soluble fusion domains (Chun et al., 2012), stabilizing co-crystallization partners (Zhang et al., 2015), and in many cases introduction of one or more point mutations (reviewed in (Heydenreich et al., 2015)).
Point mutations have shown to be especially important for thermostabilizing GPCR and making them amenable for structure-based drug design applications, which involve receptor co-crystallization with typically low-affinity hit or lead compounds. For example, point mutations were used to thermostabilize β1-adrenergic (ADRB1) and A2A adenosine (A2AAR) receptors in both agonist and antagonist bound states, resulting in more than a dozen structures for each receptor including co-crystals with ligands in a micromolar affinity range (Moukhametzianov et al., 2011; Christopher et al., 2013; Warne et al., 2008; Warne et al., 2011). In the case of thermostabilized A2AAR, structural and biophysical characterization of initial hits led to structure-based discovery and optimization of preclinical candidates for Parkinson disease (Langmead et al., 2012). Moreover, thermostabilized GPCR constructs can streamline biochemical characterization of ligand binding in sensor-based high-throughput screening (HTS) (reviewed in (Kumari et al., 2015)) and measurements of ligand-binding kinetics by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) (Christopher et al., 2013; Congreve et al., 2011; Rich et al., 2009).
However, currently employed experimental identification of stabilizing mutations by alanine scanning (Errey et al., 2015) or directed evolution approaches (Egloff et al., 2014; Schlinkmann et al., 2012) is a very resource consuming process, and only a few GPCRs have been successfully stabilized so far (reviewed in (Vaidehi et al., 2016)). Furthermore, stabilizing mutations obtained by these methods have shown very limited transferability between different GPCRs (Heydenreich et al., 2015; Serrano-Vega and Tate, 2009), requiring extensive stabilization campaigns to be performed for each individual receptor.
Computational approaches could provide a cost- and time-effective alternative for GPCR stabilization. The already existing in silico prediction tools for soluble proteins (Kumar et al., 2006; Khan and Vihinen, 2010), however, are not effective for GPCRs because they do not take into account peculiarities of the 7-transmembrane (7TM) nature of the receptors. At the same time, although some of the recently developed GPCR-specific methodologies can be successful in explaining known experimentally-derived mutations (Vaidehi et al., 2016; Bhattacharya et al., 2014), their success in prediction of new stabilizing mutations has been limited so far, and has not resulted yet in successfully solved crystal structures of new GPCRs.
In this study, we present a set of complementary approaches for predicting stabilizing mutations in GPCRs combined into a CompoMug tool (COMputational Predictions Of MUtations in GPCRs). CompoMug consists of four modules: knowledge-based, sequence-based, structure-based, and machine-learning-based, taking maximum advantage of accumulated structural and biophysical data. We applied CompoMug to identify stabilizing point mutations for the 5-HT2C receptor, which is an important pharmacological target for the treatment of obesity and neuropsychiatric disorders. Experimental assessment showed that 10 out of the 39 predicted mutations improved stability of the receptor by more than 1.5°C, and one mutation resulted in increase of the apparent melting temperature by up to ~8.8 ± 1.3°C, which is among the highest reported improvements in thermostability by a single point mutation in GPCRs. Moreover, combinations of two or three mutations led to even higher thermostability gains, some of which were compatible with both agonist and antagonist binding. Finally, the mutants predicted by CompoMug allowed for the determination of two 5-HT2C crystal structures in both agonist-bound and antagonist-bound complexes. The CompoMug provides a computational platform for thermostabilization of other GPCRs and can be further evolved with an accumulation of experimental mutation data.
CompoMug consists of four modules: knowledge-based, sequence-based, structure-based, and machine-learning-based, - combining several approaches to compose a list of the candidate point mutations, which can improve the stability of a GPCR. The general workflow of CompoMug is presented in Figure 1. Below we describe each of the modules in details.
CompoMug architecture.
The method comprises four modules to predict stabilizing point mutations. The knowledge-based and sequence-based modules operate with only the sequence information about the target receptor, while the structure-based and machine-learning-based modules operate with the structural information. ML – machine learning; MSAs – multiple sequence alignments.
Knowledge-based module
The knowledge-based module employs a short list of established point mutations that have been already shown to improve stability and helped to solve structures for multiple GPCRs. Although in general stabilizing point mutations are not transferable across different GPCRs (Serrano-Vega and Tate, 2009), several specific mutations located in structurally or functionally conserved sites have shown increased chances to be beneficial for multiple receptors. Such known point mutations, listed in Table 1, could be good candidates for new GPCR targets, even for those with relatively low homology to solved GPCRs. For example, the mutation of a residue in position 3.41 to Trp (X3.41W, where X stands for any residue, and superscript shows GPCRdb numbering (Isberg et al., 2015)), first identified in the β2 adrenergic receptor (Roth et al., 2008), has been now tested in more than 20 receptors by the GPCR Network (Stevens et al., 2013) and has shown to increase stability for several of them, helping to solve crystal structures for at least six receptors so far. The list also includes mutations that target residues in the sodium binding pocket, e.g. D2.50N, S3.39A, and D7.49N mutations (Kruse et al., 2012; Fenalti et al., 2014; Katritch et al., 2014). Sodium ions play an important role in class A GPCR signaling (Katritch et al., 2014), and, therefore, modifications in the sodium-binding site, e.g. by D7.49N mutation, can decouple ligand binding from conformational changes in the intracellular side of the receptor (Katritch et al., 2014; Massink et al., 2015). Such decoupling apparently reduces conformational heterogeneity of the receptors, resulting in thermostabilization of some receptors, like A2AAR (White et al., 2018), and facilitating their structure determination, especially in complexes with agonists (see Table 1). Note, that while currently only a few mutations in class A can be classified as transferrable ‘knowledge-based’, the list may continue to grow with an accumulation of additional knowledge on mutations, and also expand to include specific transferrable mutations in other GPCR classes. Algorithmically, we implemented the knowledge-based module as a simple procedure, which checks mutations from Table 1, and assigns score 1.0 if the mutation is potentially applicable (i.e. the wild type residue in the target GPCR corresponds to a residue in Table 1), and 0.0 otherwise.
Knowledge-based transferable point mutations in Class A.
Receptor (PDB ID)
2.50 D->N Sodium pocket AA2AR (5WF5)
3.39 S->A Sodium pocket AA2AR (5WF6)
3.40 I->V, A P-I-F microswitch motif ADRB1 (4BVN), APJ (5VBL)
3.41 X->W stabilization of TM3, TM4, TM5 interface 5HT2B (4IB4), 5HT1B (4IAR), ADRB1 (5A8E), ADRB2 (3NY8), CXCR4 (3ODU), DRD3 (3PBL)
3.49 D,G->A DRY motif FFAR1 (5TZR), NTR1 (4XES)
5.58 Y->A Conserved activation microswitch FFAR1 (5TZR), ADRB1 (4BVN)
6.37 L->A Interferes with DRY motif function AA2AR (5IU4), NTR1 (4GRV)
7.49 D->N Sodium pocket P2RY1 (4XNV), P2Y12 (4PXZ)
X = any residue
Sequence-based module
The sequence-based module looks for residues of the target receptor that deviate from a standard conservation pattern in an evolutionarily related group of GPCRs, e.g. receptor orthologs, a subfamily or a branch of the GPCR tree. We hypothesized that such residues in GPCRs are more likely to be destabilizing, and restoring conserved amino acids in such positions might result in receptor stabilization. In CompoMug, the ‘deviation score’ for an amino acid residue is estimated based on multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of evolutionary related homologous sequences:
(1) Scorekaa=Ckmax−CkaaNMSA−CkaaCkmax,
where NMSA is the total number of sequences in the MSA, Ckmax is the number of sequences with the most conserved amino acid residue at the position k, and Ckaa is the number of sequences that have the same residue aa as the target sequence in this position. As one can see from Equation 1, the first term is the highest when the target sequence has the most infrequent amino acid in the position k, that is, it approaches 1, when Ckaa=1 and Ckmax≈NMSA. The second term penalizes the position k if it lacks a dominating conserved amino acid at the position, that is, the penalty is increased as Ckmax is decreased. The total score varies from -1.0 to 1.0, where maximum score 1.0 is ascribed to a deviating amino acid in a super-conserved position (e.g. x.50 in GPCRs). In other words, the preference is given to mutations of rarely observed amino acids in the otherwise highly conserved positions. Figure 2A and B schematically show the score computation given an MSA. Apparently, any conservation-related score depends on the set of sequences used to construct the MSA. For example, orthologs share very high sequence similarity with respect to the target GPCR resulting in a few, but usually very clear deviation patterns. On the other hand, comparison with GPCR sequences from different branches has a much more complex conservation pattern that may result in many false positive candidates. To capture the sequence deviations at different levels of GPCR hierarchy, we composed several sets of sequences to construct various MSAs. Specifically, we used five MSAs: (1) ortholog sequences corresponding to the species variations of the target receptor, (2) sequences corresponding to the common sub-family (sequence identity for the TM regions >40%), (3) sequences corresponding to the common GPCR branch (sequence identity for the TM regions >30%), (4) sequences corresponding to the whole non-olfactory class A GPCR (Rios et al., 2015), and (5) sequences corresponding to the crystallized receptors. MSAs were generated with the structure-based alignment tool of the GPCRdb (Isberg et al., 2015), and in case of the whole class A alignment updated using MAFFT software (Katoh and Frith, 2012).
Sequence-based module.
(A) Example of an MSA for orthologs of 5HT2 receptors, residues colored according to their chemical properties. (B) Computed scoring matrix from the MSA_5HT2 in the sequence-based module (C) Example of the scoring matrices for five different MSAs. (D) Combined net scoring matrix. Each position is colored according to the score, from blue (minimal score) to red (maximal score).
Although the last MSA is not directly related to the evolutionary variation, it may contain information relevant for the GPCR stability and propensity for crystallization. At the same time, the MSA for whole class A GPCR would capture rare variations in the most conserved residue positions of class A, including N1.50, D(E)R3.50Y, FxxxCWxP6.50 and NP7.50xxY. Given all five MSAs, we computed positional scores for each MSA, as well as the global score as the average of the individual MSA scores. In a special case of non-conserved Gly residues, we multiplied the ‘deviation score’ by factor of 2, to account for Gly usually destabilizing effect on α-helical secondary structure in the transmembrane helices of the receptor. Figure 2 schematically shows the workflow of the sequence-based module applied to the 5-HT2C receptor.
Structure-based module
The structure-based module is focused on identifying pairs of residues, which could form a salt bridge (also called ionic lock) when replaced with charged amino acids, or disulfide bonds when replaced with cysteines. Such ionic locks and covalent bonds can help to restrict the conformational flexibility of the receptor and improve stability. A successful use of the structure-based approach requires an accurate 3D structural model, which can be derived based on the close homology with a known crystallographic structure. In this study, structural models were obtained using the template-based homology modeling implemented in ICM-Pro v.3.8 molecular modeling suite (molsoft.com), followed by the backbone regularization and exhaustive Monte-Carlo side-chain refinement in internal coordinates. To predict potential ionic locks in the structural model, the search is performed for pairs of residues that satisfy the following criteria: i) residues are separated in sequence by at least five residues to exclude pairs of residues belonging to the same α-helix, ii) side chains point toward each other and do not point to the lipid membrane, iii) residue’s Cβ-Cβ distance lies in the range from 7.0 Å to 10.0 Å, and iv) mutations of residues to at least one of four charged pairs (E-K, E-R, D-K, D-R) improve predicted free energy of the receptor after thorough local conformational optimization of the mutants (Equation 2)
(2) Efoldedmut−Eunfoldedmut<Efoldedwt−Eunfoldedwt
We used energy calculation implemented in the Molsoft ICM-Pro v.3.8. software (molsoft.com). The structural model of the mutant type was obtained by mutation of a given residue followed by Monte Carlo sampling of the flexible side chains for the mutated residue and the neighboring residues. Then the free energy of the unfolded and folded states for the wild and mutant types was approximated by a sum of the empirically derived residue-specific energies.
In order to predict stabilizing disulfide bonds in the receptor, we first employed the DbD software (Craig and Dombkowski, 2013) to obtain the initial list of candidates. DbD scans all pairs of residues in a protein and selects those that satisfy geometrical parameters of the disulfide bond, when replaced with cysteines. The geometrical parameters, e.g. χ3 angle and Cβ-Cβ distance, were obtained from analysis of protein structures in PDB. Given the DbD predictions, the final list of candidates was derived using the energy criterion implemented in ICM-Pro (see Equation 2). Figure 3 schematically represents the structure-based module.
Schematic representation of mutations generated by the structure-based module.
(A) Design of an Asp-Lys ionic lock by the point mutation of an Ala residue. (B) Design of a disulfide bridge by the double mutation of Ala residues..
Machine learning module
With the accumulation of experimental data on the stability of GPCR mutants, it becomes feasible to derive powerful prediction models using machine learning techniques. Our prediction model is derived using (i) a training benchmark, composed from site-specific mutations performed on GPCRs with known structure, (ii) a feature vector, consisting of structure-based and energy-based descriptors, which reflect important changes in the protein upon a point mutation, and (iii) a support vector machine method as implemented in the libsvm package (Chang and Lin, 2011). Each of these steps is described below in details.
Training benchmark
To compose the training benchmark we used available alanine scanning mutagenesis data for three GPCR receptors: neurotensin receptor NTS1 (Shibata et al., 2009), A2A adenosine receptor (Magnani et al., 2008), and β1 adrenergic receptor ADRB1 (Serrano-Vega et al., 2008). Point mutations that improve thermostability of these receptors were used as positive examples, while reverse mutations were used as negative examples for training. Further, in order to expand the training benchmark, we considered the remaining alanine mutations, that is, those which were not reported as stabilizing, as negative examples. It is worth to note that such assumptions may introduce some false negative examples into the training set, because some of the alanine mutations were filtered out due to the lower expression level, rather than due to a decrease in the receptor stability. Overall, the training benchmark consists of 79 stabilizing point mutations and 923 non-stabilizing point mutations.
Feature vector
Given the training set, we projected each point mutation as a vector onto a feature space, where the coordinates of the feature vector encode information relevant to a change in the receptor stability upon introducing the point mutation. To compose a feature vector, we used characteristics of three different types. Namely, for wild type and mutated residues we used sequence-based characteristics, which could be extracted from the primary structure of the protein (hydrophobicity, polarity, charge, side chain volume, solvent-accessible area, polarizability), structure-based characteristics, which could be extracted from the secondary and the tertiary structures of the protein (number of polar, charged, hydrophobic, and aromatic contacts, residue exposure, contact area, void volume, relative accessible solvent area), and energy-based characteristics, which could be extracted from the tertiary structures of the protein given the force-field (potential of mean force, electrostatic, van der Waals, solvation, hydrogen bond, and total energies). To obtain a structural model of a mutant type we mutated a given residue and performed Monte Carlo minimization with flexible side chains of the mutated residue and its neighboring residues, keeping the rest of the receptor rigid, using the Molsoft ICM-Pro v.3.8. software (molsoft.com). To calculate components of the feature vector we used built-in functions of ICM-Pro.
Support Vector Machine classifier
Feature vectors computed for each point mutation in the training benchmark are then combined into the feature matrix. Each entry in the feature matrix is labeled with +1, if the corresponding point mutation stabilizes receptor, or −1 otherwise. Given this mapping of point mutations into the feature space, one can construct a hypersurface which separates +1 feature vectors from −1 feature vectors, using the support vector machine (SVM) approach. We used the libsvm package libraries (Chang and Lin, 2011) to accomplish this task. There are two free parameters in this classification problem. Namely, the regularization parameter C, which is a tradeoff between the misclassification and ‘smoothness’ of the separating hypersurface, and the kernel parameter γ, which corresponds to the variance of the radial basis function. Optimal values for these parameters were defined using the two-fold cross-validation procedure (see below). Figure 4 schematically represents the machine-learning-based module.
Machine-learning-based module.
(A) Example of structural models for the wild-type and mutant-type receptor. (B) Schematic representation of the point mutations mapped into the feature space. (C) Schematic representation of the prediction model as the separation curve in the feature space. (D) The net scoring matrix calculated with respect to the weights of the prediction models (blue and red colors correspond to the lowest and highest scores, respectively).
Cross-validation of the machine learning module.
(A) The cross-validation grid for the parameters C and γ. Pairs of C and γ of the top 4 prediction models are depicted with green numbered circles. (B) Estimated true (TPR) and false (FPR) positive rates for the derived prediction models along with prediction weight, which is added to score of a point mutation.
Cross-validation of the machine learning classifier
To validate the machine learning classifier the data set was randomly split into two parts: the training part, which consists of 65% of the training set, and the validation part, which consists of the remaining 35%. Each subset was adjusted to retain the ratio of the +1 feature vectors, corresponding to stabilizing point mutations, and −1 feature vectors, corresponding to non-stabilizing point mutations. To optimize the performance of the algorithm, we scanned values of the two free parameters (C and γ) on a grid [0.0, 50.0]×[0.0, 50.0] with a step size of 0.2 for both parameters, thus, yielded 250*250 = 62,500 different prediction models. Then for each prediction model, we calculated the positive predictive value (PPV), which is the ratio of true positive rate (TPR) and the sum of true positive and false positive rates (FPR) predictions:
(3) PPV=TPRTPR+FPR
We repeated this procedure 10 times and scored parameters, based on the rank of each pair (rank one corresponds to the maximum PPV) in each cross-validation run:
(4) Score(C,γ)=∑j=110Rank(PPVij)maxiScore(C,γ)i
We identified four pairs of parameters C and γ in different grid regions, which resulted in approximately the same low score, but provided different expected true positive and false negative rates (see Figure 5).
Finally, we re-derived four prediction models on the whole training set using the obtained parameters C and γ. The estimated TPR and FPR for each derived prediction model are presented in Figure 5B. As one can see we chose prediction models with different TPR and FPR. The reason for that is to control the number of output predictions (note that ‘all −1’ model, that is, model that treats all point mutations as non-stabilizing, has perfect FPR, while 'all +1' model, that is, model that treats all point mutations as stabilizing has perfect TPR). For example, the first prediction model outputs only a few predictions, but with high confidence, in contrast to the fourth prediction model, which outputs more predictions, but also increases the number of false positive ones. The total score of a point mutation is, thus, weighted according to the prediction model.
Given the output predictions from each module, we then filtered out point mutations that may affect ligand binding. For this purpose, we analyzed GPCR-ligand interactions in solved GPCR structures (Munk et al., 2016) and excluded residue positions that appear in the binding pocket in more than five different class A GPCR structures. We also did not consider predictions in the less conserved regions that lack secondary structure, e.g. loops and N/C – termini, since the modeling accuracy for these regions is much lower, compared to the transmembrane alpha-helical core.
Protein construct
The sequence of the human 5-HT2CR gene was synthesized by GenScript. The modified thermostabilized apocytochrome b562RIL (BRIL) as a fusion partner was inserted into the receptor’s third intracellular loop (IL3) at L246 and M300 of the human 5-HT2CR gene, using overlapping PCR. The construct was further optimized by truncation of N-terminal residues 1–39 and C-terminal residues 393–458. The ΔN-5-HT2C-BRIL-ΔC DNA was subcloned into a modified pFastBac1 vector for expression in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells. The chimera sequence has a haemagglutinin (HA) signal sequence followed by a FLAG tag at the N-terminus, a PreScission protease site, and a 10 × His tag at the C-terminus. Rationally designed point mutations were engineered into the 5-HT2CR gene by standard QuickChange PCR.
Protein expression in Bac-to-Bac baculovirus expression system
The Bac-to-Bac Baculovirus Expression System (Invitrogen) was used to generate high-titer recombinant baculovirus (>109 viral particles per ml). Recombinant baculovirus was produced by transfecting recombinant bacmids (2.5–5 μg) into Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells (2.5 ml, density of 106 cells per ml) using 5 μl of X-tremeGENE HP DNA Transfection Reagent (Roche) and Transfection Medium (Expression Systems). After 4 d of shaking at 27°C, P0 viral stock (~109 virus particles per ml) was harvested as the supernatant of the cell suspension to produce high-titer viral stock. Viral titers were analyzed by flow cytometry on cells stained with gp64-PE antibody (Expression Systems). 5-HT2CR was expressed by infecting Sf9 cells at a cell density of 2–3 × 106 cells per ml with P1 virus at MOI (multiplicity of infection) of 5. Cells were harvested by centrifugation 48 hr post infection and stored at −80°C for future use.
Thawed insect cells were disrupted in a hypotonic buffer containing 10 mM MgCl2, 20 mM KCl, 10 mM HEPES (pH 7.5) and EDTA-free complete protease inhibitor cocktail tablets (Roche). The isolated raw membranes were extensively washed by twice repeated centrifugation at 40000 rpm for 30 min at 4°C in the same hypotonic buffer. Subsequently, soluble and membrane associated proteins were removed in a high osmotic buffer containing 10 mM MgCl2, 20 mM KCl, 1.0 M NaCl, 10 mM HEPES (pH 7.5) and EDTA-free complete protease inhibitor cocktail tablets (three times). Purified membranes were flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80°C for further use. Purified membranes were thawed at room temperature and incubated in the presence of 50 μM ligand and protease inhibitor cocktail at 4°C for 2 hr. The membranes were incubated with 1.0 mg/ml iodoacetamide (Sigma) for 30 min and were solubilized in the buffer containing 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.5), 1% (w/v) n-dodecyl-beta-D-maltopyranoside (DDM, Anatrace), 0.2% (w/v) cholesterol hemisuccinate (CHS, Sigma-Aldrich) and 150 mM NaCl, at 4°C for 2.5 hr. The solubilized 5-HT2CR proteins in the supernatant were isolated by high-speed centrifugation (Beckman), and then incubated at 4°C overnight with TALON IMAC resin (Clontech), 800 mM NaCl and 20 mM imidazole as the final buffer concentration. The resin was washed with 10 column volumes of washing buffer I containing 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.5), 0.1% (w/v) DDM, 0.02% (w/v) CHS, 800 mM NaCl, 10% (v/v) glycerol, 20 mM imidazole, 50 μM ligand (only for the ligand binding case), and six column volumes of washing buffer II containing 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.5), 0.02% (w/v) DDM, 0.004% (w/v) CHS, 500 mM NaCl, 10% (v/v) glycerol and 50 μM ligand (only for the ligand binding case) without imidazole. The protein was eluted using four column volumes of elution buffer containing 50 mM HEPES (pH 7.5), 0.02% (w/v) DDM, 0.004% (w/v) CHS, 500 mM NaCl, 10% (v/v) glycerol, 250 mM imidazole and 50 μM ligand (only for the ligand binding case). The 5-HT2CR protein sample was concentrated to ~10 mg/ml using a 100 kDa cutoff concentrator (Sartorius). The protein yield and monodispersity were measured by analytical size-exclusion chromatography, aSEC (Agilent).
Protein Stability conducted by CPM Assays
Protein thermostability was measured by a microscale fluorescent thermal stability assay as previously detailed (Alexandrov et al., 2008). For thermostability assay, CPM (N-([4-(7-diethylamino-4-methyl-3-coumarinyl) phenyl] maleimide) dye was dissolved in DMSO at 4 mg/ml as stock solution and diluted 1:20 in buffer (25 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, 500 mM NaCl, 5% (v/v) glycerol, 0.01% (w/v) DDM, 0.002% (w/v) CHS) before use. 1 μl of diluted CPM was added to the same buffer with approximately 0.5–2 μg 5-HT2C receptor in a final volume of 50 μl. The thermal denaturation assay was performed in a Rotor-Gene realtime PCR cycler (Qiagen). The excitation wavelength was 365 nm and the emission wavelength was 460 nm. All assays were performed over a temperature range from 25°C to 95°C using a temperature range rate 2.0 °C/min. The stability data were processed with GraphPad Prism.
Limited benchmarking with alanine scanning data
The initial training set benchmarking of the CompoMug prediction algorithms was performed with the alanine scanning data available for neurotensin receptor NTS1 (Shibata et al., 2009), adenosine receptor AA2AR (Magnani et al., 2008), and β1 adrenergic receptor ADRB1 (Serrano-Vega et al., 2008; Heydenreich et al., 2015). Due to the nature of the experimental data, such comparison is limited to only X to A (where X is any residue) and A to L point mutations, and the benchmark employed only sequence-based and machine learning modules. For each receptor, we kept top 40 predicted single point mutations and compared the results with the experimental alanine data for the three receptors (see Supplementary file 1). For the human AA2AR, turkey ADRB1, and rat NTS1 receptors CompoMug successfully predicts 20, 11, and 9 stabilizing mutations out of 39, 18, and 20 reported mutations in the transmembrane region, suggesting about 50% recall rate in this initial benchmark.
Application of CompoMug to the 5-HT2C receptor
To test the algorithms in a real case of a blind predictions for a new target prospective screening, we applied CompoMug to predict stabilizing point mutations for the serotonin 5-HT2C receptor. The 5-HT2C receptor is widely expressed within the central and the peripheral nervous systems and appears to play a prominent role in psychiatric disorders. Thus, obtaining the structure of this receptor could help for better understanding and treatment of the pathophysiology of obesity and psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression (Wacker et al., 2013)(Peng et al., 2018).
To select candidates for point mutations we used the knowledge-based, sequence-based, structure-based and machine-learning modules of CompoMug as described in Computational Methods. In the sequence-based module, we composed five different MSAs (see Supplementary file 2): orthologs of 5-HT2C receptor, orthologs of all 5-Hydroxytryptamine GPCRs, aminergic receptors (human only), crystallized receptors (class A only), and class A alignment (non-olfactory) (Rios et al., 2015). For the structure-based module, we first constructed the 5-HT2C homology model based on the structure of the 5-HT2B receptor (PDB ID 4IB4) (Wacker et al., 2013). These two serotonin receptor subtypes share 62% of identical residues in the 7TM region (49% for the full sequence). This structural model was also used to generate 239*19 = 4541 models (considering 239 residues in the TM regions and 19 possible amino acid substitutions) with conformationally optimized point mutations as the input for the machine-learning-based module, followed by the score assignment with the derived prediction models. After the post-processing procedure, a list of 39 mutations from different modules was selected for experimental testing, as presented in Table 2 Note, that several mutations were predicted by more than one module.
Predicted CompoMug point mutations for 5-HT2C and results of experimental testing.
Mutations shown as bold improved aSEC and/or thermostability by more than 1.5 oC ; shown as italic had low protein yield or strong aggregation, Tm not measured.
CompoMug module
aSEC* quality
Tm (oC) ± SEM
ΔTm (C)
WT 50.4 ± 0.8 0.0
I621.41V Sequence-based ~ −0.7
G691.48A Sequence-based - −1.4
D992.50N Knowledge-based - -
H8512.51E Structure-based N/A -
G1032.54A Sequence-based - −4.4
Y1253.23K Sequence-based - −2.0
Y1253.23V Sequence-based ~ −0.7
M1433.41W Knowledge-based - 0.6
R1573.55T Machine-learning and Sequence-based - −1.8
R1573.55Q Sequence-based - −2.0
T1694.40K Sequence-based + 0.2
A1714.42L Machine-learning ~ 52.3 ± 1.2 1.9
I1724.43A Sequence-based - 1.1
I1724.43F Sequence-based ~ 0.6
G1844.55A Machine-learning + 51.9 ± 0.1 1.5
N203ECL2D Structure-based - −2.6
F2205.45I Machine-learning ~ 0.0
F2245.48Y Machine-learning and Sequence-based - −3.3
C2355.59F Sequence-based ~ 0.1
L2365.60R Machine-learning and Sequence-based N/A -
V2405.64A Sequence-based + 52.4 ± 0.5 2.0
V2405.64S Sequence-based + 0.3
G3146.38A Machine-learning-based - −4.0
L3336.57V Machine-learning and Sequence-based + 53.7 ± 0.6 3.3
K3487.32A Sequence-based - −4.4
C3607.45N Sequence-based + 59.2 ± 0.5 8.8
G3627.47L Sequence-based + 52.3 ± 0.7 1.9
G3627.47A Sequence-based + 54.3 ± 0.7 3.9
L3707.55D Structure-based - −2.3
K3738.48E Structure-based - −0.4
I3748.49D Structure-based + 53.9 ± 0.8 3.5
I3748.49T Sequence-based + 54.1 ± 0.9 3.7
Y3758.50F Sequence-based - −2.4
N3818.56R Sequence-based ~ 0.6
T671.46C/G1032.54C Structure-based - -
V741.53C/A962.47C Structure-based - -
A872.38C/A1714.42C Structure-based ~ -
A982.49C/A1403.38C Structure-based ~ 52.8 ± 1.0 2.4
T3697.54C/Y3758.50C Structure-based N/A -
*aSEC quality is denoted as improved (+), unchanged (~), and degraded (-) as compared to the base construct apo receptor.
Experimental testing of individual CompoMug mutations
A total of 39 mutations predicted by CompoMug (see Table 2) were tested on the apo 5-HT2C receptor, using the base construct with N- and C- termini truncations and BRIL fusion as described in Experimental Assays section. The optimal insertion position for BRIL, as well as C- and N-terminal truncations were determined experimentally starting from the WT construct (without mutations), as described in the structural paper (Peng et al., 2018). For each point mutation, the receptor was expressed in a modified pFastBac1 vector in sf9 insect cells, and the aSEC and CPMs profiles were measured for the unliganded receptor (apo) to quantify its thermostability. Point mutations that decreased the receptor expression yield or stability, or for which we could not accurately measure the apparent melting temperature, or did not affect the stability of the protein were disregarded from further experiments. The Tm measurements were repeated for the 10 stabilizing mutations that improved expression and increased apparent melting temperature by at least 1.5°C (bold rows in Table 2). The most remarkable effect was observed for the C3607.45N point mutation predicted with the sequence-based module, which increased the thermostability of the receptor by 8.8 ± 1.3°C in the initial CPM assays. Other mutations showed a moderate effect on thermostability, increasing the apparent melting temperature by 1.5–3.9°C. Six out of ten mutations are substitutions to the hydrophobic residues (A, L, or V), three point mutations are substitutions to the polar or charged residues (T, N, or D), and one double mutation corresponds to an engineered disulfide bridge (see Table 2). We also observed that improvements in aSEC and thermostability were well correlated, meaning that point mutations augmented both aSEC quality and apparent melting temperature.
Design and testing of combined mutations
After testing single mutations, we devised a list of potentially additive double and triple combinations of point mutations, all of them including the C3607.45N mutation. Specifically, we first tested the C3607.45N mutation in combinations with all other mutations, as well as double mutation C3607.45N-G3627.47A in combination with other mutants. These double and triple combinations were tested for the apo receptor and the receptor in complex with different 5-HT2C binding ligands, including an agonist ergotamine and five different antagonists.
As Figure 6 shows (see Figure 6—source data 1 for raw data), the tested combinations further improve thermostability of apo receptor, with the maximal observed increase in Tm reaching ~13°C for the triple mutation C3607.45N, G3627.47A, A1714.42L. Moreover, binding of antagonist mesulergine improved thermostability of this triple mutant by additional ~8°C, resulting in a total of 21°C increase in Tm, as compared to the apo base receptor construct. Interestingly, this same triple mutation was destabilized by binding of agonist ergotamine as compared to the apo mutant. In general, while the C3607.45N point mutation makes most substantial contribution to the stability of the apo and agonist-bound receptor, the addition of most other point mutations (except for V2405.64A) predominantly stabilizes the antagonist-bound receptor conformation, which was previously less amenable to crystallization. The biggest contrast between agonist and antagonist bound state thermostability (~16°C) was observed for the quadruple mutant construct with an engineered disulfide bond (C3607.45N, G3627.47A, A982.49C/A1403.38C), suggesting that the introduction of the rigid covalent link between the TM2 and TM3 fixes receptor in the inactive conformational state.
Apparent thermostability of 5-HT2C constructs with combined CompoMug mutations.
In apo form or in complex with an agonist (ergotamine) or antagonists (doxepin, ritanserin, clozapine, mesulergine, and SB228357). Light colored bars highlight the reference temperatures for the base construct, the full color bars show the additional effect of mutations on these complexes. The expected error for each measurement does not exceed 1.2°C.
Predicted mutations enable crystallization and structure determination of 5-HT2C complexes
The predicted stabilizing point mutations made it possible to obtain first crystals of the 5-HT2C receptor in complex with an antagonist, as well as to improve the diffraction of the agonist-bound crystals from >4 Å to <3.0 Å, as described in our recent paper (Peng et al., 2018). The predicted mutations were introduced in the context of an available 5-HT2C construct that included optimized fusion partner and N-, C- termini truncations. In this context, multiple combinations of CompoMug-derived mutants resulted in diffracting crystals of the 5-HT2C receptor. At the same time, the single C3607.45N mutation was found as sufficient to solve structures in complex with agonist ergotamine (at 3.0 Å resolution), as well as antagonist ritanserin (at 2.7 Å), which is the first antagonist-bound structure of a serotonin receptor (Peng et al., 2018).
Structural analysis of the predicted thermostabilizing mutations in 5-HT2C
Determination of the crystallographic structure of the 5-HT2C receptor (Peng et al., 2018) now allows more detailed analysis of the stabilizing nature of the discovered by CompoMug mutations. The mutations were modeled based on the atomic structure of the 5-HT2C receptor as shown in Figure 7.
The stabilizing point mutations modeled in the structure of the ritanserin-bound 5-HT2C receptor (the ligand is not shown).
Each mutated residue and its neighboring residues are represented as sticks and wires, respectively.
For example, the A1714.42 residue, located at the intracellular side of TM4, is surrounded by hydrophobic side chains of Y902.41, F912.42, I1754.46, and its replacement with a longer Leu side chain could form more favorable hydrophobic contacts. The G1844.55 in the middle of TM4 is exposed to the lipid membrane and does not form any contacts with the side chains, and its replacement with Ala could have a stabilizing effect on the α-helix conformation and more favorable hydrophobic contacts with the lipid environment. The V2405.64 residue does not form any specific contacts and it is located close to the membrane intracellular boundary, so the V2405.64A mutation may reduce unfavorable contacts with predominantly charged and polar lipid headgroups in this environment. The L3336.57 residue points to the membrane and does not form any specific contacts with the neighboring side chains, and the L3336.57V might improve stability by forming more favorable hydrophobic contacts with lipids.
The C3607.45 amino acid is rarely observed at the 7.45 position, and it is known that N7.45 plays important role in the sodium coordination as a part of the sodium binding pocket (Katritch et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2012). Thus, the C3607.45N point mutation restores the conserved residue in the sodium binding pocket and improves the stability of the receptor. Given that this point mutation was necessary to obtain the crystallographic structures of the 5-HT2C receptor in both agonist-bound and antagonist-bound conformations, while D992.50N was detrimental, the integrity of the sodium binding pocket in 5-HT2C receptor apparently plays an important role for the overall receptor stability. The G3627.47 residue is partially exposed to the lipid environment, thus both the G3627.47L/A point mutations improve the stability of the receptor by stabilizing the secondary structure of TM7 and ameliorating hydrophobic interactions with the membrane environment. The I3748.49 residue is surrounded by positively charged K83ICL1, K3738.48, R3768.51, and R3778.52 side chains, so the I3748.49D/T point mutations may form salt bridges or polar interactions resulting in improved stability of the receptor. Finally, the double mutant A982.49C/A1403.38C can form a disulfide bridge between TM2 and TM3, apparently fixing the inactive conformation of the receptor. The latter observation is corroborated by the highest differential in thermostability between antagonist and agonist bound states measured for the combination construct containing the A982.49C/A1403.38C mutant (Figure 6).
Here we introduced a new comprehensive CompoMug approach for the prediction of stabilizing mutations in GPCRs and demonstrated its first application. In the 5-HT2C case, CompoMug achieved a very high success rate of 25% for mutations with substantial, more than 1.5°C, improvement in Tm values, which is 5 to 15 times higher than corresponding hit rates found in the experimental alanine mutagenesis approach for the adenosine or endothelin type B receptors (Lebon et al., 2011; Okuta et al., 2016). The CompoMug predictions resulted in the discovery of 10 new stabilizing mutations and enabled the structure determination of the 5-HT2C receptor in complexes with an agonist and an antagonist. Importantly, our first results suggest that each module of CompoMug is important and can additively contribute to the discovery of key stabilizing mutations. Below we discuss strengths and limitations of the individual CompoMug modules and how they can be further improved with an accumulation of structural and mutation data for the GPCR family.
Knowledge-based is the most established and straightforward approach, which directly copies some of the well-described mutations that already proved beneficial in crystallization of several GPCRs. However, while the mutations in the knowledge-based list are considered the most transferable at least within class A GPCR, they still often fail to give any substantial gain in stability as it happened in the 5-HT2C case for the D992.50N and M1433.41W mutations tested. Moreover, even in those cases when some of such known transferable mutants are beneficial, they may be not sufficient to get the optimal crystallization construct, nor to drive thermostability to the point required for structure-based drug design applications. Ongoing accumulation of mutation results for more GPCRs, e.g. discovered by other modules, may allow to add some additional mutations to the knowledge-based module. For example, X3.41- > W mutation was initially discovered based on a sequence analysis and structure-based energy evaluations (Roth et al., 2008). At the same time, the recently discovered mutations in the functionally conserved sites (Table 1), e.g. in the P-I-F motif, DRY motif or sodium site (Katritch et al., 2014), apparently remove the key ‘gears’ from the activation mechanism, thus confining receptor to the inactive state and reducing conformational heterogeneity of the system, which can be beneficial for both thermostabilization and crystallization. In this respect, the sodium site residues provide the most opportunities, as it has several highly conserved sodium- and water-coordinating side chains that can be mutated.
The sequence-based module is fast and does not require structural knowledge. More than half of the tested point mutations (23 out of 39) came from the sequence-based module, with 6 of them yielding increased thermostability of the receptor, and 8 of them showing neutral effect. One of the advantages of this module is that mutation candidates have a lower probability to damage the receptor, because the candidate amino acid naturally occurs in other GPCRs. Moreover, in the particular case of 5-HT2C receptor, the highest improvement in thermostability was observed for the C3607.45N point mutation predicted by the sequence-based module. Similar idea of using deviations in the residue conservation pattern as a potential target for mutation has been used by Chen et al to stabilize a variant of the ADRB1 receptor (Chen et al., 2012), though its application was limited to the cases of unusual polar or charged residues. In this study, we used an empirical score that is applicable to all types of residues and allows to quantify the predictions (see Equation1). The score can be further optimized, for example, one can add specific weights with respect to MSAs, e.g. species variation may have a higher impact on the score compared to the common GPCR branch variation. A regression analysis required to adjust the optimal weights for the alignments, however would require further accumulation of additional stability data for GPCRs.
The structure-based module employs detailed information about residue interactions, and can potentially be highly predictive. In the 5-HT2C test case, nine tested point mutations were selected using the structure-based module, and two of them (I3748.49D and A982.49C/A1403.38C) increased the apparent melting temperature of the receptor. Importantly, the structure-based module can be very effective in differentiating between active and inactive state stabilizing conformations, and indeed the A982.49C/A1403.38C disulfide bond 5-HT2C was shown to exclusively stabilize antagonist-bound complexes, but destabilize an agonist-bound complex (Figure 6). Previously, possibility to differentially stabilize GPCRs in agonist or antagonist-bund states was shown by experimental alanine mutagenesis study for the A2A receptor (Magnani et al., 2008). The structure-based module can do it very effectively, however, it requires a high-quality structural model, due to the high sensitivity of disulfide bonds, ionic locks and the corresponding energy terms to the receptor conformation. An increasing structural coverage of GPCR family, including both active- and inactive-state conformations will, in turn, allow more accurate models, improving performance and applicability of the structure-based module.
The machine-learning-based (ML) module allows to identify stabilizing point mutations overlooked by the other modules, since it uses complex feature vectors trained on previously obtained experimental data on mutations, rather than pure sequence or structural information. The machine learning, however, makes the resulting point mutations to be more difficult to interpret. We used eight point mutations selected by this module, of which four point mutations also showed high scores in the sequence-based module. Three of the ML point mutations improved the thermostability of the receptor. This module critically depends not only on the structural model, but also on the training set. For the current study, we used the available alanine mutations data, thus, its prediction power for the residues other than alanine can be limited. This situation will improve with an accumulation of novel stability data, including both experimental results coming from full receptor scanning and incorporation of mutations predicted by CompoMug in more than a dozen GPCRs.
By design, the four CompoMug modules are based on different principles and use different types of input information, so they are expected to complement each other, rather than overlap. Indeed, our results suggest that most of the successful mutations for 5-HT2C were predicted by only one of the modules, and overlap in module predictions did not correlate with improved chances for the successful mutation, at least in this test case. Moreover, some of the trends in different modules can be opposite. For example, some of the specific knowledge-based mutations of highly conserved residues (e.g. D2.50N), can render the receptor dysfunctional, but at the same time help its stability (White et al., 2018). On the other hand, the sequence-based module is based on a premise that residues deviating from the local conservation pattern are likely to be destabilizing. There is no contradiction here, as the evolutionary selection acted differently on different GPCR sites, in some positions selecting for general stability, but in other positions preserving conformationally unstable, but functionally critical residues.
The CompoMug tool is being applied to a number of GPCR targets, showing consistently high hit rates and helping structure determination of several GPCRs, including non-class A receptors (unpublished results). In principle, structure-based and sequence-based modules of CompoMug in their current form can be also applied to other membrane proteins families. The feature set of the machine-learning-based module may also have a more general utility, however, the model would require retraining on mutation stability data for the target family, where available.
In this study, we present CompoMug - a computational tool to predict stabilizing point mutations in GPCRs. The four modules of CompoMug synergistically use different types of information on known transferable mutations, natural sequence variations, structural interactions, and machine learning of a large dataset of GPCR mutations, respectively, to maximize success rate of predictions. Applied to the 5-HT2C receptor, CompoMug helped us to identify as many as 10 stabilizing mutations (25% hit rate), supporting the importance of all four modules. One of the predicted mutations, C3607.45N, improved the apparent melting temperature of the apo 5-HT2C receptor by 8.8 ± 1.3°C. Moreover, a triple mutant C3607.45N, G3627.47A, A1714.42L had its thermostability improved by as much as ~13°C, as compared to the base construct apo receptor. Moreover, this C3607.45N mutation in the optimal fusion construct yielded crystal structures of the 5-HT2C receptor in two distinct conformations, agonist-bound active like and antagonist-bound inactive. CompoMug is being applied to other receptors of the GPCR family, and performance of its modules can be further improved via the feedback loop with newly generated experimental data.
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Thank you for submitting your article "Rational Design of Thermostabilizing Point Mutations for G-Protein Coupled Receptors" for consideration by eLife. Your article has been reviewed by three peer reviewers, and the evaluation has been overseen by a Reviewing Editor and Arup Chakraborty as the Senior Editor. The following individual involved in review of your submission has agreed to reveal his identity: Dmitry Veprintsev (Reviewer #3).
The manuscript describes a computational approach to the thermostabilisation of GPCRs. Prediction of thermo-stabilizing mutations is highly desirable because GPCRs that cannot be crystallized, are probably too unstable, and adding thermo-stabilizing mutations would make structure determination possible. The authors use the 5HT2c receptor as their target, because the structure had not been determined, and also there are close 5HT receptor homologs whose structures have been published (and therefore provide the best possible start for computational modelling). The program devised (CompoMug) is unique in that it takes into account four sources of information, whereas previous computational approaches normally considered only one. The four modules, knowledge-based, sequence-based, structure-based and machine learning, independently predicted point mutations that would thermo-stabilize the 5HT2c receptor. Sometimes, more than one module predicted the same mutation, but usually there was little overlap between the predictions. A total of 39 mutations were computationally predicted as being thermo-stabilizing, so these were expressed and purified, and the thermo-stability tested experimentally in the presence or absence of various ligands. Ten of the mutations (25%) were found to be thermo-stabilizing and were combined to make a triple mutant that was highly expressed and stable, and the structure was subsequently determined (accompanying manuscript).
There are two key features that sets this paper apart from previously published papers on predicting thermo-stabilizing mutations. Firstly, this manuscript considers and compares four different sources of information for predicting thermo-stabilizing mutations. Secondly, the predicted mutations were shown to be useful in generating a structure (reported in a separate paper). We appreciate that other GPCR structures have been published containing thermo-stabilizing mutations, but in many instances the authors have been less than candid about the approaches used to predict the mutations.
1) There are two numbers quoted for improved thermo-stability that are used throughout the paper to extol the virtues of the approaches developed, namely a 9˚C increase for a single mutation (C360N) and a 19˚C increase for a triple mutant. It appears that these numbers came from the graph in Figure 6 where the ΔTm is plotted for each of the constructs. However, the comparison is being made to the apo receptor, so the bar that gives the 9˚C increase is a C360N mutant receptor bound to ritanserin. The apo receptor containing the C360N mutation appears to have a ΔTm of 4˚C. However, this does not correspond to the data in Table 2 where the same mutation is shown with an apparent Tm increase of 8.6˚C. There cannot be two different numbers given for the same data. The 19˚C increase in apparent Tm seems to be of the mesulergine-bound mutant compared to the apo receptor. If it was compared to the wild type receptor bound to mesulergine, then the Tm difference would be about 5˚C lower. If the apo receptor is compared, the triple mutant would be about 10˚C more stable than the parental receptor. This graph needs to be re-drawn so that the increase in Tm is calculated between the parental receptor and mutant receptor when bound to the same ligand. This will give a true reflection on the improvement in apparent Tm. Secondly, all the actual Tms measured to create the data in Figure 6 must be included as a table in supplementary (or in the text). It is still worth putting in the bar graph as depicted in Figure 6, because it shows the absolute scale of thermo-stability and is therefore most useful in assessing the possibility of crystallizing a given mutant with a particular ligand. Error bars should also be put on both graphs.
2) The claims of Tm increases throughout the manuscript must be changed in the light of point 1.
3) The computational methods should be made available as scripts and/or web-server so that others can apply them to systems of interest.
4) It was unclear whether the method is transferable to other GPCRs. For generality, we recommend: (a) that the authors "retrospectively" predict stabilizing mutations used in crystal structures published by Heptares, and/or (b) that the authors implement their computational method (no additional experiments needed) to at least five other GPCRs of known structure and provide tables of suggested point mutations. Without this, the paper stands on only one example, although it claims a general method. We stress this point because two of the four modules the authors implement (knowledge based and structure based) may substantially narrow the scope.
5) In addition, the authors should include a brief discussion of potential applications of this algorithm to other classes of α-helical membrane proteins.
6) The authors claim that 25% hit rate is high. What are they comparing to? Alanine scan is obviously much lower, but structure based and especially consensus-based approaches have shown success rates of ~50% in soluble proteins.
7) Equation 1 is difficult to understand. It's essentially a way to quantify whether positions diverge from the family sequence consensus. We recommend carefully rephrasing the explanation of this equation taking care to correctly label the indices for each term (for instance, it seems that Cmax should be Ckmax).
8) The sequence alignment can have a dramatic effect on prediction success, especially in divergent sequence families like GPCRs. Could the authors provide more details about sequence cutoffs and sources of information for the sequences? Ideally, they would provide the sequence ID of each sequence that went into each of the MSAs they used.
Thank you for pointing to the apparent inconsistency in data presentation on Figure 6, where we initially used a wrong baseline value of Tm for the calculations. We carefully analyzed the data for the baseline construct (no mutations), and confirmed the baseline Tm = 50.4 ± 0.8°C, as listed in Table 2. The data also confirms accurate measurement of the most stabilizing mutant C3607.45N as 59.2 ± 0.5°C, resulting in the apparent ΔTm for this mutant 8.8 ± 1.3 °C. At the same time the baseline adjustment results in higher ΔTm =13°C for the triple mutant, and total gain for the triple mutant and antagonist stabilization as ΔTm =21°C. While initial apo receptor assessment in Table 2 was done in triplicate, the ligand assessment data in Figure 6 was performed only once due to limited amounts of the ligands. The standard error of these measurements can be estimated as ~1.2°C, as derived for the same assay in Table 2. Though the measurement of the apparent Tm for the most stabilizing mutation C3607.45N in a separate experiment shown in Figure 6 is somewhat an outlier (ΔTm=57.1 °C), it is still close to standard error of Tm measurement in Table 2.
Following reviewers’ suggestions, the updated Figure 6 now shows the Tm levels of the WT-construct in complexes with ligands in pale colors, the additional stabilizing effect of mutations in bright colored bars, to show both effects individually. Also, as reviewers suggested, we added Figure 6—source data 1 which reports all Tm values shown in Figure 6. We made corresponding changes in the Abstract, text of the manuscript, and the caption of Figure 6.
The Tm values in the text were adjusted according to changes described in answer #1.
We agree with the reviewers that the CompoMug tools should be made available for use by other researchers and we carefully considered ways to maximize its utility by GPCR community. We believe that the best option for making it conveniently accessible is to implement as a web service, and we have a collaboration in place with GPCRdb to make it accessible and compatible as a GPCRdb tool within the next 6-8 months. This, however, is a separate project beyond the scope of this article, and requires rewriting some part of the code for server implementation. In the current version, some of the scripts rely on commercially licensed software and are not ready for distribution.
a) As reviewers suggested, we performed an initial retrospective training set benchmarking with the results of previous alanine scanning experiments, and added it the beginning of the Results section. We emphasize, though, that this benchmarking is limited to alanine scan, which is only a small fraction of CompoMug predictions, and therefore employs only two out of four CompoMug modules. The main focus of the paper remains on the prospective test for 5HT2C.
b) We do have prospective CompoMug predictions for more than five other GPCRs. Moreover, crystal structures for at least 3 new GPCRs are currently being solved by our collaborators using mutations derived with CompoMug. Terms of our collaboration, however, do not allow to reveal mutations or even the identity of the targets until the structure is published, which is likely to take between 8 and 12 month. We believe it is important to publish the current methodology now, and to be able to refer to the CompoMug method in the upcoming publications of new GPCR structures. To comment on the successful transferability of CompoMug method to multiple GPCR targets, we added the following text to the end of Discussion section: “The CompoMug tool is being applied to a number of GPCR targets, showing consistently high hit rates and helping structure determination of several GPCRs, including non-class A receptors (unpublished results).”
We added the following discussion paragraph at the end of Discussion section:
“In principle, structure-based and sequence-based modules of CompoMug in their current form can be also applied to other membrane proteins families. The feature set of the machine-learning-based module may also have a more general utility, however, the model would require retraining on mutation stability data for the target family, where available.”
We compared with the success rate of the alanine scanning for GPCRs. For example, in a classical for the A2A receptor only 16 out of 315 (~5%) were reported to increase Tm by more than 1.5 °C (Table 1 in Lebon et al., 2011). The alanine scanning for the ETB receptor gave even lower hit rates: 5 out of 297 (1.5%) mutations were reported to increase Tm by 1.7°C or higher (Okuta et al., 2016). Thus, the CompoMug’s success rate of 25% is about 5 to 15 times higher, as compared to the alanine scanning on several known GPCRs examples. The first paragraph of the Discussion has been adjusted accordingly.
We corrected the Equation 1 and rephrased its explanation (subsection “Sequence-based module”).
We added details regarding the MSA construction in the text (subsection). In addition, we prepared Supplementary file 2 with the sequence IDs used to construct each of the five alignments.
Petr Popov
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
Conceptualization, Resources, Data curation, Software, Formal analysis, Validation, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Writing—review and editing
Filed a U.S. provisional patent application (serial no. 62/644,008) for CompoMug algorithms.
Yao Peng
iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology, Writing—review and editing
Ling Shen
School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Validation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing—review and editing
Raymond C Stevens
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Bridge Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Conceptualization, Resources, Funding acquisition, Writing—review and editing
Vadim Cherezov
Conceptualization, Resources, Funding acquisition, Validation, Project administration, Writing—review and editing
Zhi-Jie Liu
Insititute of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
Resources, Funding acquisition, Validation, Project administration, Writing—review and editing
Vsevolod Katritch
Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Validation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Project administration, Writing—review and editing
katritch@usc.edu
Vsevolod Katritch: Filed a U.S. provisional patent application (serial no. 62/644,008) for CompoMug algorithms.
National Institutes of Health (P01DA035764)
Russian Science Foundation (16-14-10273)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31330019)
Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2014CB910400)
This work was supported by the National Institute of Health grant P01DA035764 (VK, VC, RCS) Russian Science Foundation grant 16-14-10273 (VC), grant of the President of the Russian Federation MK-5279.2018.4 (PP), the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology grant for visiting professors (VK), Ministry of Science and Technology of China grants 2014CB910400 and 2015CB910104, the National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 31330019 (ZJL), and GPCR Consortium research funds. We thank the Shanghai Municipal Government and ShanghaiTech University for financial support, as well as the Cloning, Cell Expression, and Protein Purification Core Facilities of iHuman Institute for their support.
Nir Ben-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Accepted: May 5, 2018
Version of Record published: June 21, 2018 (version 1)
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state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective
(Redirected from Defeats)
Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.
1.1 Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
1.2 Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983).
In the lexicon of youth, which
Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
As—fail!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu (1839), Act II, scene 2.
Never say
"Fail" again.
Shariputra, it is the failings of living beings that prevent them from seeing the marvelous purity of the land of the Buddha, the Thus Come One. The Thus Come One is not to blame. Shariputra, this land of mine is pure, but you fail to see it.
Gautama Buddha, Vimalakirti Sutra, Chapter I, as translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.
He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride.
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Part II.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Lord Byron, Marino Faliero, Act ii. Sc. 2 (1919).
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. … Don’t put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you. Don’t do that to yourself. Don’t bet against yourself. And take risk. NASA has this phrase that they like, "Failure is not an option." But failure has to be an option. In art and exploration, failure has to be an option. Because it is a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. … In whatever you are doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.
James Cameron, Address to the 2010 TED conference (13 February 2010).
Stop thinking of failing.
Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (p. 75).
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
Ben Carson, Take The Risk (p. 36).
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
Sri Chinmoy, Songs of the Soul (1971).
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison, spoken in 1877 as quoted in From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (2007) by Deborah Hedstrom, p. 22.
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison, The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison (1948), p. 110.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot, Felix Holt (1866).
To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.
Ivar Giaever, Electron Tunneling and Superconductivity, Nobel Lecture [1] (December 12, 1973).
You are responsible for all of your successes, and the lack thereof. And that is the essential point that failure, your ever-faithful friend, wants to make: that your failure could not exist without you—without your stupidity, without your lies, without your mistakes, your uselessness, your lack of faith, your ineptitude, your unjustifiable confidence in your alleged abilities, you stupid loser—failure is your only friend. Failure is your only lover. Failure is your only hope.
John S. Hall, "Failure", from Failure (1998).
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Julius and Augustus Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers, I (1827).
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
Jean Ingelow, Chapter 3, John Jerome, His Thoughts and Ways (1886)
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying (no hard work).
Michael Jordan, Jordan, Michael. I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence. San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. p. 129.
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.
Sydney J. Harris, Clearing the Ground, "Learning to Live with Ambiguity" (1986).
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem Rise Up And Salute The Sun (2010).
I chose my path. You chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while... the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see the hero fail, fall, die trying.
David Koepp, Spider-Man (2002 film).
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
Václav Havel, as quoted in "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger in Christian Century (11 April 1990).
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it — so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. As the tide goes clear out, so it comes clear in. In business sometimes prospects may seem darkest when really they are on the turn. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard, as quoted from Electrical Review (c. 1895) without further attribution in The Search for the North Pole (1896) by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, p. 520, this was later published as part of various works by Hubbard, including FRA Magazine : A Journal of Affirmation (1915), and An American Bible (1918) edited by Alice Hubbard.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats, Letter to J. A. Hessey (October 9, 1818).
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats, Preface to Endymion (1818).
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living, Part VIII : On Ultimate (Final) Principles, p. 121 (2000).
Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime—
Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell, "For an Autograph," stanza 5, The Writings of James Russell Lowell (1890), vol. 9, p. 175.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.
Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and His Mosses," The Literary World (August 17, 24, 1850)
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore, Laura Schmitt (May 2000). "An Interview with Gordon Moore". Ingenuity 5 (2). Retrieved on 2006-11-06.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
F.W.Robertson, Daily Strength for Daily Needs, Compiled Mary Tileson, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8534#
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
John D. Rockefeller, as quoted in Silas Hubbard, John D. Rockefeller and His Career, p. 72 (1904).
Theodore Roosevelt, speech at the Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 April 1899) The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, p. 320 (1926).
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.
J. K. Rowling, [http://vimeo.com/1711302 Harvard University Commencement Address (5 June 2008).
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct, Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties (1859).
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
Wilbur Smith, The Secrets of My Success, an interview for Live magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper (December 5, 2010).
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow—never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.
Swami Vivekananda, Pearls of Wisdom (2008).
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
William Whewell, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England, Lecture 7 (1852).
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894).
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson, as quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less : Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268.
Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top (2000).
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical QuotationsEdit
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 252-53.
[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, closing paragraph of preface.
Now a' is done that men can do,
And a' is done in vain.
Robert Burns, It Was a' for our Rightfu' King.
He that is down can fall no lower.
Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 878.
Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.
The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
Erasmus, Adagia. Chil, III. Cent. V. 8. heading. Greek proverb from Apostolius, IX. 59 b, VIII. 43. English a free translation of the same from the rendering of the Proverb applied to Baalam by the Rabbis of the Talmud. Sanhedrin. 106 a.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
Thomas Fuller, Medicina Gymnastica, Volume X, p. 7.
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
Reginald Heber, Palestine, line 113.
You may boldly say, you did not plough
Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands
With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
Philip Massinger, The Renegado. Arenas arantes. Plough the sands. Phrase used by Mr. Asquith, Nov. 21, 1894, at Birmingham. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Section 2. Mem. 1. Subs. 2.
"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller, For Those Who Fail.
If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
John Milton, Comus (1637), line 597.
Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Vertentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
Persius, Satires, V. 71. Dryden's translation. English, one of the mottoes of the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian.
Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
Pittacus of Mytilene as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
Sextus Propertius, Elegiæ, II. 10. 5.
Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.
Thomas De Quincey, Works, Volume XIV, p. 161. Ed. 1863, quoting the Emperor Galerius to a soldier who missed the target many times in succession.
[Il] battoit les buissons sans prendre les ozillons.
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
François Rabelais, Gargantua, Chapter II.
How are the mighty fallen!
II Samuel. I. 25.
Here's to the men who lose!
What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd
And watched with zealous care;
No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand—
Contempt is Failure's share!
G. L. Scarborough, —To the Vanquished.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
Robert Service, The Men That Don't Fit In.
We have scotch'd the snake, not killed it.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 14.
Abraham Van Helsing: Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,
Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.
There is no failure for the good and brave.
Attributed to Richard Chenevix Trench by Prof. Connington.
For he that believeth, bearing in hand,
Plougheth in the water, and soweth in the sand.
Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)Edit
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau, conversation with Jean Martet, June 1, 1928—Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet, trans. Milton Waldman, chapter 30, p. 220 (1930).
John D. Rockefeller. Silas Hubbard, John D. Rockefeller and His Career, p. 72 (1904). Hubbard states that this was a favorite saying of Rockefeller's.
Theodore Roosevelt, governor of New York, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 1899. The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, p. 320 (1926).
Oscar Wilde, "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young," The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, vol. 10, p. 213 (1923).
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2282 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CBS. 350 -352. MAY 6,1936. nOf!ri· att r- Georgia: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in neY'~et~~,OTarmstroBot (talk) 0 this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on. account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same :;hall be unlaw- Penalty for violation. ful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any' person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guIlty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. May 6, 11136. [B. R.6699 .] IPrivate, No. 52!i.) Approved, May 6, 1936. [CHAPTER 351.] AN ACT For the relief of Florence Helen Klein, f, minor. Be it enacted by tlte Sena.te and Hou.'w of Repre8entatb}(:.~ of the FloreD(~llel"lI'Kle.in. United States of A'11U31'iea in (/01lgl'e88 ai58e1nbled That the Secretary Payment to guardian •. , .' d. of the Treasury be, and he IS hereby, authOrIzed and dIrected to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal guardian of Florence Helen Klein, a minor, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the sum of $3,000, in full settlement of all claims against the United States for personal injuries sustained by her on October 10, 1933, when she was struck by a United Stat.es mail truck, out of control, in a vacant lot on South Side A venue, Prm:i8011. ex- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Provided, That of any amounts expended pe=.iC81, etc., by said legal guardian in behalf of such minor child there fihall be paid all medical and necessary expenses arising out. of the injuries Limitation on attor- sustained by her: Provided {wrtker, That no part of the amount Dt-y'S , etc., fe<!s. appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connect.ion with said claim. It shall be unlawful for any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, to exact, ('ollect, withhold or receive any sum of the amount appropriated in this Act in e~cess of 10 per centum thereof on account of services rendered in connection with said claim, Penalty for violation. any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon c~mviction thereof shall be fined in any SlIm not exceeding $1,000. May 6, 1936. IH. R . 6669.] [Private, No. 529.) Approved, ~ray 6, 1936. [CHAPTER 352.] AN" ACT For the relid of Mrs, Earl Poynor. Be -it enacted by the Senate and Hou.r;e of Rep1'csentafive8 of the Mrs. Earl Poynor. L'nited States of America in C01I.gre88 assembled, That the Secretary Payment to. of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pa,~, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Earl Poynor, Salmon, Idaho, the SHm of $50. Such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims af.ainst the United States for damages sustained by the said Mrs. Earll oynor on account of personal injuries received on December 4, 1933, when the car in which she was riding on the Shoup-Northfork Road, near Salmon, Idaho, was st.ruck by a Government truck in the service of the Civilian Conservation Cor'j)s: C:ft:iion on attor- Provided, That. no part of the amount appro:priated in, this Act in ney's, etc., fees. excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paId or delIvered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorne:rs~ on account of services rendered in connection with said claim. It shall be unlawful
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JA Solar Reaches 100MWp of PV Module Shipments to Solarcentury for UK Projects in 2014
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- JA Solar has announced that it has delivered over 100MWp of PV modules to Solarcentury, a leading UK solar developer and EPC, in 2014. The modules were mainly used in Solarcentury's ground-mounted solar projects and large commercial rooftops in the UK.
Approximately 49MWp of JA Solar's proprietary Full Square mono 275Wp modules will be deployed for the Southwick solar farm. Once connected to the grid in March 2015, the farm will become one of the largest solar farms ever built in the UK.
Mr. Baofang Jin, chairman and CEO of JA Solar, commented, "The UK market remains very successful for JA Solar and we have seen continued growth year after year. We are very proud of our relationship with Solarcentury, a leading developer of large-scale solar around the world and well respected for its high quality construction and operations. We can confidently say our product is in good hands."
"Despite an impending renewables obligation (RO) limit to individual PV sites over 5MWp, we are still optimistic about the UK market in 2015," Mr. Jin added. "The UK PV industry is extremely dynamic with strong fundamentals. We see the market maturing at a fast rate, and any gradual shift of focus towards rooftop solar also lends well to our strategy for higher powered products."
Frans van den Heuvel, CEO of Solarcentury, said, "It is important for us to co-operate with financially robust and reliable companies like JA Solar to ensure the success of our solar farm projects, particularly for our major sites and projects. We are pleased to be working with JA Solar for our UK builds; increasing the UK's solar energy capacity also improves energy independence and reduces reliance on foreign imports."
About Solarcentury
Solarcentury is one of the most respected solar companies in the world. Founded in 1998, we have been around since the early days of the solar industry and have been part of the evolution that has made PV the attractive investment it is today. We have put solar on a greater variety of sites than any other company in the industry, and have won multiple awards for product innovation.
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RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ
RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?
Photo shows: A Royal Navy Reserve Lieutenant from The Thames Patrol paddles in the mud to inspect what is left of a Spitfire shot down off Hoo Marina in the Thames Estuary on 5 September 1940. This would certainly have been a challenging job for the Maintenance Unit gangs, being located in deep tidal mud. Nevertheless, much of this wreckage was ultimately removed although the heavier parts were not retrieved until the 1980s when they were salvaged by a team of enthusiasts. The pil
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ProQR in licence deal with Ionis Pharmaceuticals
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Dutch ProQR NV has licensed global commercialisation rights to IONIS-RHO-2.5Rx (QR-1123) from Ionis Pharmaceuticals, to treat autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP)
Currently, there is no approved therapy for the rare heritable defect in the rhodopsin (RHO) gene that causes blindness in-mid adulthood and affects 2,500 people in the US. ProQR announced it expects to start human testing with the licenced antisense RNA molecule, which knocks down the mutant allele with the P23H point mutation, in patients with adRP, next year. The gain of function mutation point mutation, which causes misfolding of the rhodopsin protein and subsequent death of photoreceptor cells in the retina, accounts for approximately 25 percent of all adRP cases.
ProQR paid $2.5m upfront in shares to acquire the exclusive worldwide license to QR-1123 and associated intellectual property. Under the terms of the agreement, Ionis Pharma will also receive milestone payments, either in equity or in cash, and royalties on net sales of 20%.
The drug candidate, which was originally developed in a collaboration of Isis Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline was well-tolerated in a 10-week monkey study. Preclinical activities have been completed. ProQR will submit an IND to conduct Phase 1/2 clinical trial to the FDA..
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Afghanistan: UN mission welcomes new polling dates following election delays
January 2, 2019 by United Nations Leave a Comment
UNAMA / Mujeeb Rahman Hundreds of voters in line outside the Sayed Jamaludin Afghan polling center in Ayno Mena, Kandahar for the Afghanistan parliametary elections. 27 October 2018.
Amid reports that Afghanistan’s 2019 presidential election may be postponed, local electoral authorities confirmed a polling date delay; a decision the UN Assistant Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomed for its clarity on Monday.
On Sunday, Afghan officials indicated that the highly-anticipated election, scheduled for the coming April, will be delayed by three months and held in July.
In response to this “clarity in the electoral calendar,” UNAMA said the UN understands the new date announced by the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) follows broad consultations with political actors, civil society organization, and the Afghan Government, “all of whom have expressed the strong desire for a credible and transparent election.”
The UN acknowledged the Commission’s assessment for additional time needed to learn from the 2018 parliamentary election in October, when technical issues and a series of bomb attacks closed polling stations.
The crucial elections come while a deadly four-decade conflict continues to rage on in Afghanistan; and its results could form the “the fundamental fabric” of the country’s society and future, the mission’s head, Tasamichi Yamamoto has previously stressed.
UNAMA has urged the Commission to publish a detailed election calendar, provide regular public updates throughout the process, and encourages all actors with credible concerns about irregularities and fraud to submit complaints to the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) – charged with investigating and adjudicating parliamentary election complaints, as outlined in Afghan electoral law and constitution.
“No one has the right to disrupt the electoral process and the country’s stability through incitement or threats,” UMAMA’s message read.
Electoral preparations were marred with “major and avoidable irregularities,” and both the IEC and ECC must take “necessary corrective measures” in the coming months to realize effective reforms, UNAMA said.
This includes cleaning the voters’ registry, outlining the respective responsibilities of the ECC and IEC, Ensuring the IEC Secretariat is fully and professionally staffed, and make necessary changes to each electoral authority’s structure.
Stressing the UN’s commitment to supporting Afghan electoral institutions and credible elections, UNAMA said it will continue its assistance “and enhance its advisory role to the IEC, as requested.”
“The United Nations stresses that all stakeholders have a responsibility for the credibility and legitimacy of the election process.”
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Top 5 Michael Caine Movies
Tags: Anthony Shaffer, Austin Mini, BAFTA, Benny Hill, Brendan Fraser, Carry On, Casino Royale, CIA, Daniel Craig, Educating Rita, Get Carter, Graham Greene, Henry Higgins, Jack Carter, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Jude Law, Julie Walters, Laurence Olivier, London, Martin Campbell, Michael Caine, Mike Hodges, Milo Tindle, Noel Coward, Philip Noyce, Pygmalion, Quincy Jones, RADA, Rob Brydon, Sleuth, Steve Coogan, The Italian Job, The Quiet American, The Trip, Turin, Vietnam, Willy Russell, You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
I wouldn’t like to give the impression that I was mean-spiritedly making fun either of Michael Caine or of cockney accents in last week’s sketch, so as a gesture of atonement here’s a Top 5 of my favourite Michael Caine movies. I’ve picked only ones in which he’s the lead.
(5) Get Carter
“You’re a big man, but you’re out of shape”, “She was only thirteen”… A movie plundered both by Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan to sharpen their Caine impressions in The Trip, and arguably by Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig to make the last image of Casino Royale iconic. This gritty thriller, which is still director Mike Hodges’ calling card, sees Caine’s implacable London hard-man Jack Carter head north to avenge his brother’s death with a shotgun. Shot in stylish long-takes with a distancing aesthetic this is an imposing British crime movie that loomed over all that followed.
(4) Educating Rita
“There is more insight in the telephone directory…and probably more wit”. Caine’s jaded English professor helps Julie Walter’s discontented housewife better herself thru an adult education course in a sparkling adaptation of Willy Russell’s play, itself almost a spin on Pygmalion. But this Henry Higgins is on a serious downward spiral; drowning in drink and self-pity in equal measures, cheated on by his wife and despising his own volumes of poetry. Caine’s showy role encompasses glorious high verbal comedy and drunken slapstick, as well as the quiet drama of alcoholic misery. This finally won him a BAFTA.
(3) The Quiet American
“Oh, shit” .Caine’s dead-pan delivery of that line is emblematic of his quiet, measured and ultimately devastating performance in Philip Noyce’s 2002 film. This subtle work is arguably the finest adaptation of Graham Greene’s work since the 1940s. Caine plays the archetypal Greene character. His foreign correspondent boasts of simply observing the chaos of 1950s Vietnam and offering no point of view, no political allegiance. An unwelcome romantic rival (Brendan Fraser’s titular do-gooder) and pressure from London to break a story sparks a belated moral engagement with the ethics of American interference, and opposition to it…
(2) Sleuth
“Be sure and tell them it was all just a bloody game!” Joseph L Mankiewicz’s riveting adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s play sees a rich aged writer invite his young wife’s lover, a cockney hairdresser, to his rural mansion for some vindictive head-games. Caine’s regional accent and film acting technique go head to head with Olivier’s RADA accent and stage acting style in a contest Caine was easily winning till a desperate Olivier produced a moustache… If you want to empirically measure Caine’s acting ability note how Sleuth’s entire structure disintegrates in the remake because Jude Law can’t act.
(1) The Italian Job
“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” A truly flawless film; from Quincy Jones’ impossibly catchy original soundtrack and the glorious turn by Noel Coward as the imprisoned crime-lord masterminding proceedings, to the implausible gang apparently composed solely of gay aristocrats and cockney wide-boys and the deranged Carry On antics of Benny Hill, and on to the wonderfully staged Austin Mini car-chase and the definitive cinematic cliff-hanger, it’s impossible not to sit back with a smile pasted on your face throughout as Caine motors the whole film along with a performance of winning charm.
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R.I.P., Tom Petty :-(
October 3, 2017 October 30, 2017 ~ Admin ~ Leave a comment
Oh man, I wish it didn’t take the death of one of my Rock & Roll heroes to get me back to Fish & Bicycles after a six month break, but it’s just the way it is and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Tom Petty was a quintessential rocker.
More than that, he was a prototypical rocker.
He was a Chuck Berry, a Jerry Lee Lewis, a Buddy Holly, an Elvis Presley.
He was a prolific songwriter and a natural, charismatic frontman. He was cool without flash, and onstage he always looked like he was doing the only thing he really wanted to do.
He was a bandleader in the most important ways. Not an egomaniac who demanded obedience, but a consummate musician who built one of the tightest bands of the era, a band that he could command with just the nod of his head or the wave of his hand. He was to The Heartbreakers what Bruce Springsteen has been to the E Street Band.
Rock & Roll has an intoxicating power. As someone who has had the privilege of performing in a rock band, I can tell you that it is incredibly easy to let the music take over, to entirely lose control of it.
Imagine all five members of a band experiencing that at the same time, imagine doing this in front of thousands of fans who are on their feet and grooving to the music, and then imagine Tom Petty, with his back to the rest of the band, just raising the headstock of his guitar in the air and then suddenly jerking it back down, stopping this freight train in its tracks.
Yes, he was that powerful.
I remember when The Traveling Wilburys happened, and many people wondered what Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne of ELO fame were doing in a band with legends Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan. I might have even held that belief momentarily when first hearing about the “supergroup”.
Now, Jeff Lynne still seems the odd man out, a successful songwriter for sure, but for all his success he was mostly there because he’d become good friends with George Harrison after producing George’s comeback album Cloud 9. I don’t really give a shit, he’s a great musician and talented producer, but it’s true that he just didn’t have as impressive a resume.
Tom Petty, on the other hand, by the time the Wilburys came together, had released one of the most impressive string of records ever over just 10 years.
Back in May 2013, I wrote this about the band Dire Straits:
Seriously, their first three albums are frickin’ incredible…
(Yes, there’s some great stuff after that, like Telegraph Road, a very Springsteen-ish song from their 4th album, Love Over Gold, and some of the stuff on Brothers In Arms.)
…and I think it’s stunning to think about them in the context of what was going on in music at that time, the late 70s and early 80s, so dominated by punk, post-punk/new wave, etc., and there wasn’t much else out there that sounded like Dire Straits. Maybe Tom Petty and a few others.
Early Dire Straits was like a great early to mid 70s Rock & Roll band, full of American roots music influences, who stubbornly decided to just keep making great early to mid 70s Rock & Roll.
Tom Petty also made it through the entire 1980s without abandoning his roots, which is a considerable accomplishment.
I wasn’t the biggest Petty fan. I didn’t buy every record and see him on every tour. But, his influence on me was huge. Like Tom, I play rhythm guitar and I sing, and when I’m at the mic, singing and strumming my six string, I often think of him, as I did just a few weeks ago, when me and my band played our medley of George Harrison’s Beatles-era If I Needed Someone and Petty’s Listen To Her Heart.
Tom, thanks for all of the wonderful music and the great fun you brought into the world. You’ll be missed, brother!
I’ll always think of you like this:
Video Fridays: Double Hit of Rickenbacker 12-String Cover Song Goodness
May 29, 2015 June 18, 2015 ~ Admin ~ Leave a comment
I’m pretty confident in guessing that most guitar players who have stuck with the instrument for a number of years have at least tried playing a 12-string guitar, and from my experience as a guitarist, and from chatting with fellow guitarists for nearly 30 years, it is VERY common for said guitarists, myself included, to have purchased a 12-string guitar, only to sell it not long after, once we realize that it is pretty much a one-trick pony.
It’s a strange musical phenomenon, really. There are numerous unquestionably iconic songs, in folk, blues, and rock music, that feature the 12-string, either acoustic or electric, yet VERY few artists specialize in 12-string, and even if they do they eventually move on, either abandoning the 12-string altogether or featuring it in only a relative few songs in their repertoire.
The reason: A 12-string guitar almost always sounds exactly the same, lush and jangly, and VERY few musicians want every song to have that sound in it.
It almost seems unfair. How can something so pleasing become tiresome so quickly? Well, listen to more than three songs featuring the 12-string guitar in a row and you’ll get it.
That said, in small doses, the 12-string — especially, to my ears, the king of the electric 12-string, the Rickenbacker — is hypnotically beautiful, and so this week’s Video Fridays installment brings you a couple of mighty fine examples.
First up, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers do their version of a song, So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star, by The Byrds, THE band most associated with the 12-string electric guitar. Their earlier music, before they went Country, is likely the longest stretch of 12-string-centric music ever recorded.
The next clip features Matthew Sweet and John Hiatt covering a wonderful, underrated early Beatles song, composed by George Harrison: If I Needed Someone.
Enjoy, and Happy Weekend, everyone!
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Tag: From Russia With Love
September 9, 2015 September 23, 2015 M References
R.A.F. Canberra
In the last pages of From Russia With Love, arrangements are made to transport a package from Paris to London, via Orly Air Base outside of Paris. Rene Mathis says:
We are to fill the laundry basket and and take it to Orly and await an R.A.F. Canberra which will arrive at two o’clock. We hand over the basket. Some dirty washing which was in France will be in England. Yes?
The R.A.F. Canberra was one of the most famous planes in the Royal Air Force, the first generation of jet bombers which were manufactured in the 1950’s. The last Canberra jet was retired in 2006.
More on the record-setting English Electra Canberra.
August 26, 2015 M France, Travel
Hôtel Ritz Paris
When James Bond arrives in Paris, after having departed the Orient Express in Dijon, he heads to the luxurious Ritz Hotel.
Bond’s taxi pulls up to the Rue Cambon entrance of the hotel.
Ritz Hotel, Paris. Rue Cambon Street side.
He goes into the hotel, takes a left and goes into the Ritz bar, where he has a double vodka martini.
Bond feels wonderful at the moment. After finishing his martini, he goes to the concierge lodge, is given a pass-key (and a sharp look) on orders from Rene Mathis, and heads to his destination – room 204.
Here are a couple of the suites from the Ritz Paris, which has been under renovation for the last few years. These are from prior to the renovations.
It was a typical Ritz sitting-room, extremely elegant, with good Empire furniture. The walls were white and the curtains and chair covers were of a small patterned chintz of red roses on white. The carpet was wine-red and close-fitted.
In a pool of sunshine, in a low-armed chair beside a Directoire writing desk, a little old woman sat knitting.
The novel From Russia With Love ends inside this room 204 of the Ritz Hotel, Paris.
August 19, 2015 June 30, 2017 M Europe, Travel
All Orient Express Stations In From Russia With Love
For the last few months, we’ve been taking a deep-dive into the journey on board the Orient Express during the events of From Russia With Love.
While doing this, I’ve plotted the course on the new Google My Maps feature, and I’m pleased to show it to you here:
The map is interactive – you can zoom in and out, open it full screen, and click on any of the markers for photographs and links to the posts about that station.
Here are the stations in order of the events from the novel:
Uzunkopru (Turkey)
Alexandropolis and Pithion (Greece)
Thessaloniki (Greece)
Idomeni (Greece)
Belgrade (Yugoslavia – Serbia)
Vincovci and Brod (Yugoslavia – Croatia)
Zagreb (Yugoslavia – Croatia)
Ljubljana (Yugoslavia – Slovenia)
Sezana (Yugoslvia – Slovenia)
Poggioreale (Italy)
Maestre, Venice, Padua, Vicenza and Verona (Italy)
Domodossola (Italy)
Iselle (Italy) and Brig (Switzerland)
Lausanne and Vallorbe (Switzerland)
Dijon (France)
August 18, 2015 M Italy
Domodossola Train Station (Italy)
James Bond is in the midst of an intense talk with Captain Nash when he senses change.
The train began to slow down.
Domodossola. The Italian frontier. But what about customs? But Bond remembered. There were no formalities for the through carriages until they got to France, to the frontier, Vallorbes.
The station of Domodossola is another in the series of 19th century train stations still in use today, having opened in 1888.
August 18, 2015 M Switzerland
Lausanne and Vallorbe
After departing the station of Brig, Switzerland, James Bond has some cleaning up to do in his compartment on board the Orient Express.
Tatiana Romanova is sleeping and Bond does not wake her while he tidied up. When he does attempt to wake her, they are nearly to the station of Lausanne.
Then an hour later, they reach the French frontier of Vallorbe. Bond waits in the corridor, lest the officials see the mess he made of his compartment.
Then they are in France and on the home stretch.
July 23, 2015 M France, Travel
Dijon Railway Station
In From Russia With Love, after James Bond has a disagreement with Captain Nash, he decides to take Tatiana and leave the train at Dijon. (Gare de Dijon-Ville)
At last they were down the steps and on to the hard, wonderful, motionless platform. A blue-smocked porter took their luggage.
The sun was beginning to rise. At that hour of the morning there were very few passengers awake. Only a handful in the third class, who had ridden ‘hard’ through the night, saw a young man help a young girl away from the dusty carriage with the romantic names on its side toward the drab door that said ‘SORTIE’.
They make their own way to Paris.
Platform at Dijon, late 1950’s.
Dijon Station, 1945
The station in Dijon was opened in 1849 and remains in operation to this day. By the way, SORTIE is just a designation for an exit.
July 7, 2015 M References
The Femoral. And the External Iliac.
When the Orient Express carrying James Bond and Tatiana Romanova plunges into the Simplon Tunnel, it is time for Bond to take action to save his life, and reputation of the British secret service.
After managing with his gunmetal cigarette case to deflect the bullet shot from Grant’s War and Peace book/gun and playing “dead.” Bond explores his senses, checks the location of his case with the hidden knife and ponders his strike:
It would be a near thing. Bond desperately tried to remember simple anatomy. Where were the mortal places in the lower body of a man? Where did the main artery run? The Femoral. Down the inside of the thigh. And the External Iliac, or whatever it was called, that became the Femoral? Across the centre of the groin. If he missed both, it would be bad.
The Femoral artery and External Iliac are the main paths for blood flow to and from the heart and the lower body.
As you can see, Bond would be aiming to plunge his knife into the area of the inside of Grant’s thigh, or the middle of his groin.
Bond is successful in his surprise attack, though he still needs to use Grant’s own book/gun to finish off the SMERSH agent.
June 29, 2015 August 18, 2015 M Italy, Switzerland, Travel
Simplon Tunnel
In From Russia With Love, the Simplon Tunnel is the planned killing ground for Red Grant/Captain Nash to do away with James Bond and Tatiana Romanova, completing the SMERSH plan to embarrass the British Secret Service and eliminate Bond, who has been a thorn in their side.
Nash took a quick glance at his wrist watch. ‘In about twenty minutes we go into the Simplon tunnel. That’s where they want it done. More drama for the papers. One bullet for you. As we go into the tunnel. Just one in the heart. The noise of the tunnel will help in case you’re a noisy dier – rattle and so forth. Then one in the back of the neck for here – with your gun- and out the window she goes.
A few moments later, Nash explains the appeal for the press:
Old man, the story’s got everything. Orient Express. Beautiful Russian spy murdered in Simplon tunnel.
Bond then knows that he’s walked right into the trap.
The Simplon Tunnel is 12 miles (20km) long and connects Italy with Switzerland through the Alps. The first tunnel was completed in 1905 and the second in 1921. This allowed the Orient Express to get through to Italy while avoiding pro-German territory.
Italian Side of Simplon Tunnel.
Swiss Side of Simplon Tunnel.
The station on the Italian side of the tunnel is the Stazione di Iselle di Trasquera. After passing through the tunnel, the train arrives in the Brig Railway Station in Switzerland.
Brig Station, 1950.
June 11, 2015 M Italy, Travel
Maestre, Venice, Padua, Vicenza and Verona
After meeting up with Captain Nash at Trieste, James Bond is relieved to have some help, and an opportunity to eat and spend some time with Tatiana.
After eating dinner in the restaurant car – tagliatelli verdi (Green, narrow ribbons of pasta) and an escalope (slice of meat pounded thin and breaded) they retire to their berth. It is just as they are pulling into Mestre – which is the mainland station of Venice.
After Mestre, they head to Venice, Bond asks Tatiana if she’d like to see the station, but she says it’s just another station, and she has something else she wants to do with Bond at the moment.
Venezia Santa Lucia station. (Venice)
They then fall asleep, continuing to sleep as they pass through Padua (Padova):
La stazione di Padova (Padua)
And then Vicenza:
There was then a “fabulous sunset over Verona.”
After passing through Verona, Bond awakes as the sun is going down. He looks out over the Lombardy Plain. He’s feeling good.
That is soon to change.
June 2, 2015 M Wine
Chianti Broglio
After meeting up with the man identifying himself as Captain Nash, James Bond and Tatiana Romanova head for a meal aboard the Orient Express.
In the restaurant car, Bond ordered Americanos and a bottle of Chianti Broglio. The wonderful European hors d’oeuvres came. Tatiana began to look more cheerful.
The Chianti Broglio or (Brolio) was a wine from The Castle of Brolio, an 11th century estate which did much for the promotion and development of Chianti wine.
In 1872, Baron Bettino Ricasoli wrote down the formula for his Chianti:
…I verified the results of the early experiments, that is, that the wine receives most of its aroma from the Sangioveto (which is my particular aim) as well as a certain vigour in taste; the Canajuolo gives it a sweetness which tempers the harshness of the former without taking away any of its aroma, though it has an aroma all of its own; the Malvagia, which could probably be omitted for wines for laying down, tends to dilute the wine made from the first two grapes, but increases the taste and makes the wine lighter and more readily suitable for daily consumption…
The wine along with the Americanos put both Bond and Tatiana into a better, more relaxed mood.
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With modern styling, excellent driving dynamics and a nicely appointed interior with ample cargo space, the V6-powered Nissan Murano proudly stands out in the crowded two-row midsize SUV segment.
2015 to Present: Nissan Murano
Introduced for the 2015 model year, the third-generation Nissan Murano is a striking midsize crossover SUV and the first vehicle to adopt design language that has subsequently swept through the manufacturer’s line up.
The five-seat Murano is a midsize SUV that comes with a 260-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 engine. All trim levels use a continuously variable transmission (CVT) that is designed for acceleration that is smooth and responsive. The Murano is available with front- or all-wheel drive.
The capable brakes, powerful V6 and nicely weighted steering make the Murano a joy to drive. The quiet interior provides a premium feel on the roadways. Fuel economy is excellent considering the Murano’s utility and versatility.
The current Nissan Murano is nicely appointed, with even the base model providing a high level of comfort and luxury rarely seen in an affordable midsize crossover. You’ll find standard equipment that includes alloy wheels, dual-zone automatic climate control, keyless entry and start, a rearview camera, front and rear USB ports and Bluetooth connectivity.
Available features include navigation, remote start, power-adjustable front seats, leather upholstery, heated and cooled front seats, a heated steering wheel and heated rear seats. Nissan’s Around View Monitor is also available, and provides a 360-degree view around the Murano to ease parking maneuvers.
The Nissan Murano truly stands out in a crowded midsize SUV segment that includes long-time favorites like the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Toyota 4Runner. Other two-row crossovers to consider include the Ford Edge, Kia Sorento and Volkswagen Touareg.
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The first-generation Murano arrived for 2003 as a front- or all-wheel drive midsize crossover with seating for five. When it launched, the Murano was powered by a 245-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 engine that’s paired with a CVT. It was offered in three trim levels, S, SL and SE.
Always engaging, whether parked on the curb or being driven enthusiastically, the first-generation Murano has carlike driving characteristics with a practical yet comfortable interior. Its standard features also rose above segment expectations at the time.
The first-generation Murano was produced through the 2007 model year. After a one-year hiatus, the second-generation Murano arrived for 2009 with new exterior styling that wasn’t a radical departure from the outgoing model. Still, exterior updates took the Murano’s aggressive style a step further. A 3.5-liter V6 and CVT continued to power the midsize crossover, but both were retuned for additional power and enhanced performance.
Over its six-year model run, the second-generation Murano was sold in five trim levels; S, SV, SL, LE and Platinum. For 2011, the Murano would get a mid-cycle refresh and Nissan would add a unique two-door Murano CrossCabriolet model that featured a fabric convertible top. The CrossCabriolet would be the world’s first convertible all-wheel-drive crossover.
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Narrator: Coral Reefs are alive! They contain millions of tiny animals that form a spectacular and complex community. Reefs provide nurseries and a safe haven for hundreds of fish and other marine life. They are valuable natural resources that protect our coasts by reducing wave energy from storms and hurricanes.
Coral reefs in Florida are usually associated with the Florida Keys. However, extensive and beautiful coral reefs are also found off Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Martin counties, north of the Keys.
Dr. David Gilliam, National Coral Reef Institute, Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center: Generally, when most people think of coral reefs in the State of Florida, they think of the Florida Keys. But offshore of the southeast coast of Florida, we have a spectacular coral reef ecosystem that in area rivals anywhere in the Caribbean and is equally impressive in the diversity of its reef organisms.
Narrator: These reefs are so diverse in marine life that they have been compared to tropical rainforests. This ecosystem is part of the third largest barrier reef in the world, stretching 330 miles from the Dry Tortugas to St. Lucie Inlet.
Dr. David Gilliam: Our southeast Florida reef system has comparable diversity of reef fishes and coral community. What's unique about the southeast Florida reef system is our healthy populations of Acropora cervicornis, which is staghorn coral and was recently listed in 2006 as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Narrator: Fishing, diving and boating on Florida's coral reefs provide a tremendous source of income for Florida and its coastal communities. A study of natural and artificial reef usage in southeastern Florida showed that each year, reef-related expenditures contribute $6.6 billion in income and sales and support over 61,000 jobs in the region.
Jeff Torode, South Florida Diving Headquarters: Florida's Gold Coast is diving's best kept secret. Many visitors and even residents when they think of southeast Florida think of sunshine and beaches when in fact, one of the world's largest coral reefs extends from Key West past Miami, Ft Lauderdale, West Palm, right on up the coast to Martin County.
Narrator: In southeast Florida these coral reefs lie just a few hundred yards off the beaches of our highly urbanized coastal communities. Roughly one third of Florida's 18 million residents live within this region, which attracted 25 million visitors in 2003. The proximity of such a highly urbanized area can sometimes be detrimental to our beautiful coral reefs, which are very delicate and vulnerable to poor water quality, coastal development, ship groundings, hurricanes and climate change. Corals need clean, clear water with low levels of nutrients to survive and grow.
Ericka D'Avanzo, Surfrider Foundation: Water pollution is not only a health problem for surfers, divers a nd anglers, but also a major threat to our coral reefs here in Martin County and everywhere else in South Florida. Between the discharges from our estuaries and the outfalls all along our coastline, we are seeing massive amounts of algae blooms all along our coral reefs which are not allowing our coral reefs to grow and s urvive because they can't get any sunlight.
Narrator: The Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative's Local Action Strategy is a roadmap for collaborative and cooperative action among federal, state, local and non-governmental partners. The local action strategy identifies key threats to the coral reef resources of southeast Florida and priority actions needed to reduce those threats.
Chantal Collier, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Florida Department of Environmental Protection: The Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (also known as (SEFCRI) is a local action strategy that's working to implement over 100 projects addressing coordinating public education, minimizing threats to our local reefs and helping to develop a management plan for the reefs north of Biscayne National Park. The Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative is divided into four threat areas. Those include a lack of awareness and appreciation of the fact that we have reefs in southeast Florida, and also impacts from recreational uses such as diving, fishing and boating. We are also working to fight pollution from land based sources and also to mitigate impacts from maritime industry and coastal construction.
Narrator: Southeast Florida's reefs are exhibiting the same signs of degradation as reefs in other parts of the world, but prior to SEFCRI, no coordinated public education or resource management plans had been proposed for this area.
The coral reefs of southeast Florida need all the help they can get. As neighbors and visitors, we have a responsibility to protect our coral reefs.
Terry Gibson, Florida Sportsman Communications Network: So many people fish in Florida, there is so much commercial over fishing in Florida. We have to use ecological common sense when we go fishing. Just because the laws say that you can put 10 limits of grouper or snapper in the boat, doesn't mean that you should. Take home what you need that night and leave the rest. When you cut out entire schools of fish, you cause what we call cascading trophic impacts on the ecosystem. Everything feeds on something else and when you remove one level, the whole system can collapse.
Narrator: Your daily activities make a difference.
Fertilize minimally and irrigate efficiently to keep phosphorus, nitrogen and other pollutants from entering our waterways.
Dispose of household chemicals, antifreeze, used motor oil and old batteries at one of your county's household chemical recycling facilities.
Only buy fish and other seafood when you know it has been collected in an ecologically sound manner. Ask store managers where their seafood comes from and how it is collected. Check out the Safina Center's Guide to Ocean Friendly Seafood online at http://safinacenter.org/programs/sustainable-seafood-program/ to familiarize yourself with ocean friendly seafood and those that are unsustainable.
Be a smart consumer. Shells and coral found in stores were once living components of a reef. The animals that created these beautiful structures are usually destroyed to create the products. If you purchase aquarium fish or coral, make sure they are native to your area and aquaculture-raised and harvested.
If you navigate your own boat, be sure to use navigational charts to avoid groundings and use mooring buoys where available.
When diving and snorkeling, avoid touching or dragging your equipment over the coral. Contact with live coral can injure and even kill delicate coral polyps.
Make sure the sewage from your boat and home is properly treated. Minimize your use of detergents, pesticides and fertilizers, which can find their way into groundwater and the ocean. Even if you live hundreds or even thousands of miles from the ocean, remember that you are part of a larger watershed and all rivers, streams and canals eventually empty into our bays and oceans. In fact, 40% of the United States drains into the Mississippi River, which feeds into the Gulf of Mexico's loop current and eventually the Gulf Stream.
Properly dispose of recycling and garbage at home and at your workplace to avoid contributing to marine debris.
Terry Gibson: The ocean's not a dumpster. It's a shame to throw cups and beer cans overboard. But it's also important to recycle our monofilament and put that discarded monofilament or braid in a recycling bin.
Jeff Torode: As southeast Florida grows as a great snorkeling and diving destination, generating millions of reef tourism dollars, the importance of a healthy ecosystem is vital. Divers and snorkelers are the eyes of the ocean. We need to be in the forefront of coral reef conservation. But we also need to be mindful of our own impacts to the coral reefs. We need to practice good diving etiquette as outlined by a lot of groups like PADI's Project Aware or Diving Alliance.
Ericka D'Avanzo: Conservation of our coral reefs can be done by anyone. Just make sure when you go to the beach, take notice. If you see trash, pick it up. If you see things floating out in the water, try to bring them in and put them in a garbage bag.
Dr. David Gilliam: I think one of the things that we can all do living in this huge population is understand and be aware of this reef ecosystem and know that everything that we do in all of our daily activities can affect the health and sustainability of this economically and ecologically important resource.
Chantal Collier: Through the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative, Southeast Florida's residents have an opportunity to really come together as a community to become stewards of our local reefs. This is an opportunity for people to actually take action above and protect what's below.
Narrator: Protect the Southeast Florida Reefs for yourself and generations to come. To learn more about the reefs and what you can do for them, visit www.southeastfloridareefs.net or contact the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Coral Reef Conservation Program by email at coral@dep.state.fl.us.
Educate yourself, stay informed and spread the word.
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative: Acting above to protect what's below.
Broward County Audubon Society
Broward County Environmental Protection Department
Broward County Extension Education, University of Florida IFAS
CCI Consulting Engineers Inc.
Coastal Eco-Group, Inc.
Coastal Planning and Engineering, Inc.
Coastal Systems International
Cry of the Water
Dive Equipment and Manufactures Association
Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)
FDEP Beaches and Wetlands Resources
FDEP Southeast District Office of Water Facilities
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Marine Habitat Management Unit
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Florida Institute of Technology, Division of Marine and Environmental Systems
Florida Marine Research Institute
Florida Outdoor Writers Association
Florida Sea Grant
Florida Sportsman Communications Network
Greater Fort Lauderdale Diving Association
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
International Game Fish Association
Marine Industries Association of Florida
Martin County School District Environmental Studies Center
Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Habitat Conservation Division
National Coral Reef Institute at Nova Southeastern University
Ocean Watch Foundation
Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management
Port Everglades
Port of Palm Beach
Reef Environmental Education Foundation
Smithsonian Institute Marine Station
South Broward High Marine Magnet School
South Florida Diving Headquarters
South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Division Field Operation Center
The Ocean Conservancy
Tropical Audubon Society
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
U.S. Coast Guard, Marine Safety Office
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, South Florida Water Management Division Region 4
Vone Research
Funding Acknowledgement: The Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative and the production of this video were funded in part by a Coral Reef Conservation Program grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection through its Coral Reef Conservation Program.
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Originally Posted by celerystalker
Nice. Did you enjoy it?
Yes, except for that zero g section. If it wasn't for that, I might have 1cc'd the game.
⃟ Mario says "... if you do drugs, you go to hell before you die."
Peach (Level 3)
I finished all 3 games this week.
For Rambo, I played Rambo: First Blood Part II for Sega Master System. I didn't like it at first, but it kinda grew on me. A bit of a challenge, but not too hard. Rambo walks painfully slow though.
I played Whomp 'Em once before many years ago. It looked like a pretty good game, but I was pretty disappointed with it. I'm still not a fan.
For player's choice, I played Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis. I didn't get all the chaos emeralds though. I just wasn't into it enough to try again.
jperryss
Espgaluda finished.
I recently finished wiring up my MAME control panel so going with an arcade game this week was a no-brainer. Still running MAME over s-video for now but an ArcadeVGA card upgrade is planned very soon.
celerystalker
celerystalker is a poindexter
Originally Posted by jperryss
How'd you like it? I really like its slowdown mechanic. Has a nice risk/reward flavor that offers something different from the usual bombs.
It wasn't bad. I'm not exceptionally good at shooters but I enjoy playing them and watching playthroughs of the more hardcore ones. Ikaruga is the only similar game I've cleared and the bullet patterns were much crazier in this game.
Azathoth1488
Azathoth_IKA
3DS Friend
For player's choice (if it counts) I played through TMNT IV: Turtles in Time for SNES, then a quick run through MD Hyperstone Heist just for comparison.
I'd never spent more than 5 minutes with either game until now. For Turtles in Time, I thought it was a good game and can totally see the hype/nostalgia behind it. Never played the arcade version so I don't know how it compares to it, but as its own thing I enjoyed it more than anticipated. While I can totally recognize the quality I still don't care too much for the licensed Konami beat 'em ups for the fact the engine doesn't have a consistent grab mechanic. They're more like a hack & slash, even moreso than Golden Axe. Totally underwhelmed after finally seeing the "footsoldier thrown into the camera" trick; it's a 2 frame animation with zero scaling that could have been done on any system.
Hyperstone Heist is decent but fully embraces the Konami half-ass Sega efforts curse. Having a dedicated dash button is awesome, having half the content removed isn't.
18 weeks in, and Scissors sweeps another! Cornelius knocked out Lunar, and Megas fell to the Switch siren song. 'Ems were whomped, and jperryss took down ESPGaluda for the import alt. One day to go! However, for the new week...
-Sunset Riders (Arcade, SNES, Genesis). Extra love if you do it with four players on the arcade version.
-Sol Divide (PS1, Saturn, Arcade)
-Player's choice: pick a game whose title (not including subtitles or numbers) begins and ends with the same letter. Examples might include Super Star Wars, Rough Ranger, Super Troll Islands, Super Sidekicks, Shock Troopers, Rygar, Shadow of the Colossus, Sakura Wars, Gynoug, etc.
-RPG of the month us a Culdcept story mode. Anyone planning on finding out about the goddess Culdra?
-Import Alternative: Download (PC Engine)
Last edited by celerystalker; 05-07-2017 at 09:01 AM.
Sorry, had to update the import alternative for week 19. Forgot I'd already put Space Hunter up two weeks ago, just didn't get any takers as I recall. Download for PCE is the new one, and it's one of my favorite PCE games. Fast paced horizontal shooter with a surprising amount of story and very funny engrish.
Originally Posted by Az
Turtles in Time is probably my all-time favorite SNES game. The grab-and-throw is mostly based on whether you're holding the joystick towards your opponent when you hit the button. The foot-soldier-toss animation is a lot smoother in the arcade version. The hit contact and detection actually feels better on the SNES game than the arcade version.
There is a lot of variety in moves that you may not notice if you only play it a couple times. For example, there are three different kinds of jump kicks depending on when you hit the attack button during the jump. There also also four separate dash moves: a shoulder charge, flying kick, flip, and slide.
The SNES game would be just about perfect with a dedicated run button and with six buttons there was no good reason not to include one. The double tap timing to run feels just a little bit off.
mission incomplete
i can not fuck up for this
(DP won't let me post this in all caps as intended.)
Yes! I love that they are specific to when you die as well.
Emperor Megas
Pac-Man (Level 10)
Week 18 Player's Choice completed - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
I figured I could kill two birds with one stone this week, so I took time off from Mario Kart 8's online play to play through and clear the offline Gran Prix modes. I used Lakitu instead of my usual charater (Daisy) since he's a turtle, and I figured completing the game with an anthro' animal would count for the Player's Choice challenge.
I played a few minutes of Rambo: First Blood Part II on the Master System, but didn't bother trying to complete it. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but I had limited time again this week and it seemed like a Master System game that I would have really liked back in the day (I'd never played it before), so I wanted to play it at my leisure to enjoy it more at the expense of a point.
The cutoff is midnight, right?
This was a decent Mega Man clone but the power-ups just weren't as fun to experiment with. The zero-G level and final boss were a PITA.
I can't believe I never caught the pun in the title until now.
Heheh, good ol' injun puns. Yep, cutoff is midnight. Point scored.
Originally Posted by Emperor Megas
I played a few minutes of Rambo: First Blood Part II on the Master System, but didn't bother trying to complete it.
I played this a bit back when it was released, seemed like it was a decent 2P game but extremely slow paced. Was this the original game and the license stripped for overseas release, or vice versa?
It's a port of a game called Ashura in Japan. It was re-skinned as Rambo. Pretty decent Ikari clone.
Sol Divide (PS1, Arcade Mode) Completed
I've never played more than a few minutes of this game, and if I remember correctly, a lot of people don't like it. I can understand why though. For me, it's definitely a solid experience, hindered by a few shit design choices. For one thing, your hit box is ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUSLY MASSIVE, which I would be alright with were it not for the stupid, unnecessarily clumsy directional input you have to use in the middle of a combo attack when you perform a melee in this game.
BTW, does this game really not support analog controls on the PS1? When was this released exactly? I can't think of ANY console shooter that I felt I needed a joystick to play well before Sol Divide. It's those damn melee combos. They're really murder for me.
Anyway, I'll find a Player's Choice game to knock out quickly than I think I'll try my hand at whatever Culdcept game I have that isn't sealed. I think I have an open copy of Culdcept Saga on the 360.
Last edited by Emperor Megas; 05-12-2017 at 12:00 AM.
Sol Divide doesn't support analog control despite being a late release. It was a much earlier arcade game that got a very playable, but super half-assed PS1 port by the same folks who did the Mobile Light Force nonsense.
For player's choice I went with Metal Storm (NES). This was a great way to test out my new arcade stick. For some reason DP isn't letting me attach a pic, so: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qotinxl04nc6a3c/ms.jpg?dl=0
I think we talked about Metal Storm earlier in this thread. It has some of the nicest parallax scrolling I've seen on the NES and is probably one of the best-looking NES games. The gameplay is tight and challenging, requiring just a bit of memorization to get through. Stage 7 is a boss rush, but the actual last "battle" is about as easy as it gets. Which is OK because the stage 6 boss will cause screaming. The second loop is brutal and requires memorization and perfect timing in a lot of places (think R-Type, another IREM game). I've never cleared it and probably never will.
The arcade stick consists of a Sanwa joystick and Seimitsu buttons in a tek-innovations plexi case. I pad-hacked original controllers for NES, SNES, GEN, and PCE and mounted them in a project box which connects to the arcade stick with a DSUB15 cable, allowing me to use it with my consoles.
I tried this one last night in MAME and it ran pretty well. Got to a series of bosses fairly early and gave up after having to restart a few times. Might pick it up again this week.
Last edited by jperryss; 05-10-2017 at 09:19 AM.
Yeah, I'm a big Metal Storm fan. My brother and I used to beat the pants off of it, alternating levels and passing the controller. The gravity mechanic is so much more than a gimmick in the game, and it's got some tricky stages.
That stick sounds slick. I prefer the looser feel of the Sanwa sticks over the more stiff Happ stuff. I usually end up using Happ cmpetition sticks on supergun builds for others, as people I know seem to prefer the bat-style sticks, but give me a Sanwa or Seimitsu ball any day.
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IRV-MMP
What do folks think of this idea, proposed by Mark Roth in the thread on open-list MMP?
I do not believe it is entirely necessary to have two votes; though I don’t oppose the idea. Essentially I would have IRV-MMP. An instant runoff determines which candidate wins the local seat in each district. First preferences determine who receives the at-large seats. If a voter wants the Greens, but knows that they won’t win locally, a vote 1 Greens 2 Labor has the effect of supporting a winnable local candidate and helping the Greens secure seats in general. I would allow transfers to second (or lower) ranked parties should the first choice(s) of parties not reach a threshold. I would also be inclined to allow a List Party that isn’t running a candidate to appear on the ballot anyway; probably marked to indicate that the List cannot win the local seat. The candidates who lose in their local race would be selected to fill the at-large seats based on their personal vote counts. List order would only be a tiebreaker.
Decoy lists would technically be possible, but they would stick out like a sore thumb, require voter coordination to ensure that the “right” candidate gets the vote in the district level races, and would still need to front candidates in local races to have enough warm bodies.
As I say at the other thread in a comment of my own, I like it much better than the “AV+” idea of having two votes (one ranked-choice for local candidates and the other for list).
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Bob Richard says:
I have two concerns. First, this is relatively easy for election methods geeks to explain to each other, but it might turn out to be hard to explain to rank and file voters. Having a separate vote for a party is fairly transparent, at least once you get used to the idea of voting for a party rather than a person. But explaining how the same first preference can contribute to the election of both a district representative and a compensatory list representative might be a chore. Can you prevent skeptics from arguing that some voters get two bites at the apple while others get one? With respect to IRV, we are pretty skilled at rebutting that bogus argument. Is the rebuttal just as clear with respect to IRV-MPP?
Second, I think this might be hard to sell to “independent” voters and candidates. Mark addresses this in his description but to me he sounds a little cavalier about it. The myth that government and politics can be “non-partisan” is widely believed in the United States, making it necessary for any electoral reform to presented in a way that treats independent candidates and voters fairly. I can think of ways to make list systems (including the list part of MMP) fair in this sense. I can’t figure out how IRV-MMP would do so.
Dave Hutcheon says:
When combined with list MMP, IRV really comes with 2 votes, for a local candidate and the candidate’s party, that may split in certain circumstances. Thus, it will be very hard to make the case that no voter gets two bites at the apple: decoy lists still are feasible and not much harder to manage than in standard 2-vote MMP (just visit an SNTV jurisdiction).
When looking at linkage between vote(s) for district candidate and preferred party, the basic choice in MMP is “freedom enabling fraud or fetters enforcing fairness”.
Mark Roth says:
I’m not saying you’re wrong. I think, for the U.S., decoy lists and “Independent Republicrats” would be a problem if MMP were ever adapted and solutions are needed. But my thought with IRV-MMP would be that a decoy list and its partner list would end up splitting the vote if they ran two candidates in every district. If they voted for the real party, so its guy would win the local seat, the vote would never transfer to the decoy list. If they put the decoy candidate first, either the decoy candidate would win, reducing a decoy to a two-party alliance proportionally represented, or another candidate would win, and both “parties” would end up needing compensatory seats.
How does a single ranked ballot allow a party to gain unearned extra seats?
I understand the concerns of independent candidates, though I don’t care (and don’t really buy) the claims of candidates who will be “independent” if elected while still having an R or a D next to their name.
I would allow actual independent candidates to run as one man lists. As a list, they would appear on every ballot in every district. They would only be an official candidate in one district, but if they don’t win that district but accumulate a minimum number of votes overall, they would be awarded a seat. My “threshold” would be 5% of first preferences, 5% of local seats, 3% of first preferences and 3% of local seats, or be a one candidate list that won 1/Nth of the vote, N being the number of local seats.
For partisan candidates, the appeal should be advertised as the ability to vote for whoever you want. Maybe you’d only get your second or third choice elected locally, or neither, but you can help get an ally of your first or second choice into office. It would require a campaign to change the way people think. But many Americans seem glued to to the idea every seat must be contested separately and whoever gets more votes than the others wins. To the point that a failed candidate in Maine is suing because he claims the Constitution requires first pas the post. If we’re going to have to make big changes for any system, we can free ourselves from assumptions of “independentess.”
Or we can just have STV-MMP and let the same ballots seat 5 people per district and few top-up candidates.
A decoy list could be employed in IRV-MMP whenever a party expects to win so many district seats that it won’t be eligible for any top-up seats. (Admittedly, this is more limited than the possibilities in standard 2-vote MMP.) Party A creates a dummy party X. Its supporters with January-July birthdays are told to rank candidates A, X, … and supporters with August-December birthdays to rank candidates X, A, … In each district candidate A gets more votes than X and so party A will win just as many district seats as it would have without the decoys. The August-December voters earn top-up seats for party X.
The maximum payoff in IRV-MMP would be reduced by slightly more than in Bavarian MMP. Probably that would be enough to inhibit the practice in New Zealand (but maybe not in Italy or Lesotho?).
It’s an interesting idea but I don’t think it is viable. All it means is that the major parties have a huge advantage winning the single member districts and the minor parties are restricted to the 50% of seats in the list election. It would not be proportional at all.
I am unclear how list seats are to be allocated, but if they are to be decided on first preferences then you have a nightmare in electoral education, I have no idea how would explain to electors that they have a fully preferential vote in the district seats that is also a non-preferential vote in the proportional seats. STV has a quite well-developed algorithm for deciding which candidates are elected. Superimposing a non-STV list tier on an STV district tier leaves you with the disadvantages of STV without any of the advantages and a result that will not be proportional at all.
The same, ranked vote would be used twice. Within the district it would determine a winner with 50%+ support. Major parties would have an advantage whether the local races are FPTP or IRV, that’s just a fact of their larger support. All ballots would pool together to fill up the remaining seats proportionally.
A ballot A,B,C,D may help candidate C get elected for a local seat, though C clearly is the voter’s third choice, but still preferred to D and Ed. If Party A doesn’t meet the threshold, the vote will transfer to Party B at the national/regional level and help that party get a seat. Any at-large seats would be awarded to create proportionality, it would not be parallel.
hschlechta says:
Surely major parties already have a huge advantage in winning single-member districts, under any form of MMP? I don’t see how this proposal changes that, and letting party votes be transferred away from parties below the threshold seems like a very elegant mechanism for combining the two votes.
My broader objection to this proposal is to do with the idea of meddling with MMP to avoid the possibility of decoy lists. If this is a proposal for the US, PR already has the problem of the ban on House districts that cross state boundaries, and MMP makes this problem considerably worse. Taking away the two-vote mechanism, or making it way more confusing for the ordinary voter (as IRV-MMP would do) makes the single-member districts much less worthwhile, and if political norms aren’t strong enough to prevent decoy lists forming, just avoiding MMP and going for a simpler list or STV system seems like a better option.
There’s no mention of the list tier as compensatory and no mechanism is offered to make that tier compensatory.
Surely the mechanism would just be the ordinary mechanism for MMP-allocate every seat by PR, distributing second preferences of parties below the threshold, and then subtract the number of district seats won by each party to get their number of list seats?
The proposal does not state that the list tier is compensatory and offers no mechanism for making it compensatory. ‘Surely’ does not cut it. Using a limited subset of STV ideas without actually losing the whole of the STV algorithm puts us back with a vote that is fully preferential in districts and not fully preferential in the list tier. What you end up with is IRV/non-STV.
The term used for a mixed-member electoral system where there is no compensation in the list tier is mixed-member majoritarian, which Mark does not use. Instead, he describes the system as IRV-MMP. Under such circumstances, I don’t think it’s particularly weird to assume that such a system uses the compensatory mechanism used in Germany and New Zealand, two textbook examples of MMP, or at least *some sort of compensatory mechanism*. Ending up with IRV/non-STV is kind of the point of this proposal, and is also perfectly compatible with a compensatory mechanism being used to distribute the list seats.
I did directly call it IRV-MMP because the list seats would be compensatory. I just didn’t spell it out. Every party above threshold will be entitled to a number of seats, and would receive seats for their best losers if they did not win enough districts. Every vote for a below threshold party would transfer to a qualified party, if the ballot shows a preference for one.
djvasi says:
Alan, it is in fact preferential for the list tier: “I would allow transfers to second (or lower) ranked parties should the first choice(s) of parties not reach a threshold”. I’m also not sure why you say this wouldn’t be proportional, I’m assuming if we’re calling it “MMP” it means the list tier would be compensatory.
I’ve always felt uncomfortable with thresholds in PR systems, since it preserves the need for strategic voting. This seems like a reasonable way around it—though you could also just get rid of the local vote entirely, and have “Preferential List PR”.
That is why I qualified my comment. The proposal both that list seats are decided by first preferences and then mentions a series of exceptions to that rule that are somewhat unclear. The exceptions do not amount to actual STV. That could just be a problem with the way the proposal is expressed.
Some time ago I proposed a facially similar model where the list tier would be compensatory. You would transfer wasted votes, those that did not contribute tot he emotion of district candidate, into a common pool that would be counted according to the standard STV rules.
Then what is the compensatory mechanism in the proposal? You may care to address the fact that the proposal effectively hives a major party supporter 2 votes while a minor party supporter gets only 1 vote. Fred votes 1 Labor 2 Green in the district of Upper Middle Bogan. He gets a Labor member. If his vote then goes into the list tier it gets recounted a second time. Dag votes 1 Green 2 Labor so his district vote does not elect a member and gets counted only once, in the list tier.
If the compensatory mechanism is that Fred’s vote does not get counted twice, then the proposal is identical with one that I made at this blog some years ago by which only wasted votes would go into the list tier. I have been unable to find the comment but I do remember that Ed and i discussed it at some length.
As I understand it, the system works like this. If we assume Labor has a first preference majority in the district of Upper Middle Bogan, then it’s true that Fred’s vote elects a member and Dag’s does not. This is how single-member districts work.
However, under MMP, all the votes for parties are tallied up nationwide, and each party is allocated a total number of seats in the legislature based on its proportion of the vote. Dag’s vote may or may not transfer to a larger party for this tally, depending on whether there’s a threshold and whether the Greens pass it. The number of single-member district seats won by each party is then subtracted from their number of seats in this allocation. In the nation/region-wide list count that determines how many seats each party holds, both Fred and Dag’s votes count exactly the same. If you replace ‘votes for parties’ with ‘list votes’, that is how MMP works in New Zealand.
If I close my eyes and click my heels together 3 times, I seem to remember previous attempts to marry transferable vote with a list system. That attempt encountered the slight problem that electors were completely unable to relate the outcomes to the way they voted. In this system, if the proposal is as you say, electors have a vote that is fully preferential in Upper Middle Bogan and may or may not be even slightly preferential depending on a series of rules about thresholds that are unknown in transferable vote.
The rules appear so unclear because there are a number of options for the system. If it were to be implemented, a particular one of those options would be chosen. You could have first preference votes automatically counted as list votes. You could transfer votes of parties below the 5% threshold. Either way, I’m unconvinced the system is quite so complex: explaining to voters that “for your constituency, your preferences will be transferred until one candidate gets a majority, for the party-list seats, your vote will be transferred to your later preferences if the party you vote for first doesn’t get enough votes” doesn’t seem too hard to me.
msshugart says:
I have used the term “Preferential List PR” to refer to the existing classes of list-PR systems in which the voter can cast one or more preferences votes. Perhaps I should not have used that term, but it is in print. So I want to nominate “Ranked-Choice List PR” as the name for a system like the one Vasi describes in which votes can transfer from one list to another.
I prefer STV myself, but I put up a pet MMP proposal earlier on this site. I think Mark Roth has a good proposal and the approach is similar, though I think mine might be easier to explain to voters.
Essentially the country would be divided into a tier of multi-member electoral districts and a second tier of single member districts, with each multi-member tier including several single member districts. Parties would run at large candidates for the first tier and candidates in the single member districts. Votes cast for candidates in the single member districts would also count for candidates from the same party/ list in the associated multimember district, but if a candidate in a single member district was elected, the votes needed to elect him or her (essentially the runner up’s total) would be deducted/ not counted towards the party vote in the multi-member tier. Its not really proportionate, but it means that minority parties would rarely be shut out of representation of a region by losing all the single member seats, unless they lost all of them by huge margins and had little overall support in the region.
I had pluralities determining who won both the single member and multi-member electorates. I suppose IRV could be added but I’m not sure if its worth further complicating the system.
Derek G says:
A concern I have is the following. Would surplus votes for the district winners be transferred to each voter’s next preference, thus meaning that this would switch parties for the proportional allocation? How about district votes from eliminated candidates, if their second preferences went to a losing candidate in the following rounds, would the first preference party get those votes back for the proportional tier?
jdmussel says:
Derek, as Mark stated above, “The same, ranked vote would be used twice”, with first preferences aggregated nationally (or regionally) determining overall distribution of seats to parties, and all necessary preferences counted to determine single seat district winners.
In agreement with much of what has been said above, I think this proposal is elegant, but probably too complex to be entertained outside this orchard (perhaps with the exception of Australia, where people are already so accustomed to everything to do with IRV in general, so saying something like “your first preference will be used to determine the parties’ share of seats” might be relatively easy to relate. Maybe.).
But I also completely agree with Henry’s comments regarding the applicability of this to the US, specifically at the federal level. Certainly, it’s a creative (and, as I said, elegant) answer to the problems of decoy lists – as well as to the the drawbacks of regular, nonranked, single-vote MMP. But MMP would always have to be regional for the US House. So my practical conclusion is exactly as Henry put it: “if political norms aren’t strong enough to prevent decoy lists forming, just avoiding MMP and going for a simpler list or STV system seems like a better option.”
Most Australians would see this as a repeat of that other system where votes were transferable at some stages of the election and non-transferable at other stages of the election. Modified D’Hondt was used at 2 elections. After experiencing the system in 1988 a public consultation process for its replacement was already complete by the 1992 election. Modified D’Hondt and earned such universal opprobrium that it was not even on the ballot for the indicative referendum in 1992. Hare-Clark prevailed over single member districts by 65.30%. A referendum to entrench Hare-Clark was carried by a similar margin in 1995.
A major factor in the rejection of Modified D’Hondt was that it required every ballot to be counted at least twice. This meant that the count took over 7 weeks at the first election.
I would think Australians’ experience with a fully preferential vote makes us even less likely to adopt this system than Americans. Modified D’Hondt was described as an elegant system in its time. But that was before anyone had actually used it.
Alan, that’s just silly. I see virtually no similarity between the systems. Ballots would not even have to be counted twice. Is the ACT’s experience with D’Hondt-STV even that well-known?
I do not propose to comment further on this matter for reasons which must surely be obvious to you.
What if a 2 Round System is married to a List system? It would be a 2 Round MMP system. The first round could just be only for single member districts, a candidate is elected outright with 50%+1, and the two round, single member districts just where the top two candidates go on from the previous round if they didn’t win a majority, and the party list vote. There could be variations and modications of this, one could have a two round MMP system where in the first round, the list is open, and in the second round the list is closed. There could be problems with such a system of decoy lists.
I’ve thought about that, but it contains potential issues, especially for areas not used to multi-round voting…
If turnout differences affect participation (one round has more turnout than the other) the proportionality can be thrown off; essentially one electorate sets up the runoffs and a different one determines PR vote. This could be exacerbated in areas without a runoff in the second round; how long will it take people to learn to show up if they’re only voting for a list.
There is a the problem where second round votes can be influenced by the first round. Party A wins enough seats in the first round? Vote for likely ally Party B. Party A faces a negative vote weight? Go to anyone else. Two allies face off in a runoff, vote for the guy who’s party is less likely to win big.
The biggest issue I’ve foreseen is the potential for a pointless runoff. It may not happen all the time, but what effect will there be when everyone knows that both candidates in a second round are literally guaranteed to be seated. Will they turn out for an effective list only vote? Will it make people take the system less seriously.
Doing it all on one day seems so much neater.
How about Ed’s idea? Have each party nominate a ticket of two candidates, one local and one regional? With IRV in the district tier, you could have voters be given the chance to rank candidates, local and regional, until they want to.
Then, have a proviso stating that no regional candidate can win the district seat. If no candidate gets a majority of first preferences, you just eliminate the regional candidates and transfer their votes to each voter’s second preference. There’s a chance a regional candidate could get a plurality or majority of first preferences, so I don’t know how that could be seen in the eyes of the electorate.
DMP seems to treat this problem better. No district/regional candidates, everybody is treated as a district candidate. Only problem is not giving electors a choice on who to vote for instead of casting a ticket vote. ??
I am not a fan of a regional candidates as a standard thing. Just pick the best runners up from local races. I would allow individual candidates, though not lists, to essentially run at large campaigns. They’d appear on the bottom of every ballot (unless they are specifically running for a single district) and cannot win a local seat, just accumulate enough votes to reach a droop or hare quota and take a seat.
There are several advantages in using FPTP for the SMD tier in 2-vote MMP: one-to-one relationship between an elector and her/his representative; small district size; the method of selecting a winner can be understood by most six year olds.
The two big problems with MMP are overhang and false-flag candidates (decoy lists, fake independents). In replacing FPTP with IRV we lose its brute simplicity without solving the false-flag problem. A more fruitful approach is to re-assign the “party” component of split votes whenever that would reduce overhang.
To Illustrate, consider a region having 10 single-member districts and 6 top—up seats. The local candidates of Party A receive 50,000 out of a total of 100,000 votes and win 7 of the SMD seats. Party A got 40,000 party votes, not the 43,750 for a 7/16 share of 100,000 votes. The prescription is to transfer party votes to Party A from parties that benefited from split votes. In this example, a 37.5% tax would be levied on those 10,000 split votes, bringing the Party A total up to 43,750 party votes.
This would completely nullify decoy lists and fake independent candidates, but could leave residual overhang. An unfortunate feature is that in blocking “criminal” vote splitting, the rule would misconstrue the intent of many “innocent” vote splitters.
Really, the decoy list problem goes further than just actual manipulation, doesn’t it? If SNP and Greens got all their voters in Scotland to vote SNP for the constituency but Green for the list, you’d have effectively the same problem as if they ran decoy candidates/lists, wouldn’t you?
Quite true. MMP provides strong incentive for two parties like SNP/Greens to drift into such a symbiotic relationship. It may start innocently with individual voters maximizing their electoral clout, but turns into systematic abuse (if your concept of MMP is that an elector’s 2 votes should affect the seat total of only 1 party).
The incentive for Green supporters would be inhibited by the threat of having split votes reassigned, as I proposed on 20/11/2018. The idea gets complicated when you stir in Independent candidates, thresholds and multiple overhang parties, though — technically manageable but tricky to explain to the public.
catprog says:
I would use STV for the seats. Then rank the candidates by % of vote gotten to allocate the top up seats.
STV means that if your party gets x.9999 of a quota then then excess votes still get to pick a candidate.
If I understand correctly, this proposal would switch the ballot structure in a MMP from dividual to ordinal, using Gallagher’s & Mitchell’s terminology from their chapter in the OHOES.
Regarding this idea, I see mostly discussion on how the change in the system would have an effect on the individual-level. Like maybe a voter’s idea on whether they were able to vote in accordance with their preference or, on the other hand, whether they get confused by it or not.
I am a little out of the loop as I just found this blog and am only a student myself. But I am interested in these ballot structures, and have been wondering which varieties in ballot structures have which effects on both the individual and macro-level (if there are any).
I would for instance say that, with an ordinal or dividual ballot, the vote you give at one election is either not, partially, or completely the same as the vote you gave in the previous election. With a categorical ballot, your vote is either the same or not. Wouldn’t this ability to have a vote that deviates only partially from the vote you gave before add up to aggregate vote volatility going down?
For instance, a voter for party A has to switch to party B with a categorical ballot if this person’s preferences change. Dividual or ordinal ballots would allow a voter to abandon A ‘partially’ by giving e.g. a local vote to A but the list-vote to B in MMP (presuming both votes went to A previously).
If voters switch votes gradually, should vote-volatility logically be more gradual too? To me it seems logical and I suspect I am not the first to have this line of thought, but I have trouble finding theories / findings on ballot-structure effects on system level stuff. Has such a link ever been documented?
Dividual or ordinal ballots would allow a voter to abandon A ‘partially’ by giving e.g. a local vote to A but the list-vote to B in MMP —> maybe the panachage system in Luxembourg is a better example
I have an idea. Make the first preferences for a district winner be transferred to each voter’s second preference. Add these votes to the first preferences of the district losers and pool these votes.
This would mean that it’s a multi-purpose ballot that is used first in the district tier and then the top-up tier. Would also be easier than using fractional surplus votes.
Voters would have a better understanding of the system:
a) first preference candidate wins the district? second preference candidate (and party) gets top-up vote
b) first preference candidate doesn’t win the district? it gets top-up vote
I’m stuck between this idea and the idea of using wasted votes from the district losers (and any surplus votes from district winners) because they both have their pros and cons. The second idea is like using STV but in a nationwide or regionwide tier (like what JS Mill thought about in the past)
My understanding is that your proposal (of 26/1/2019) is for a mixed system with single-member district seats plus regional seats to be filled by STV, It would be a form of Mixed Member Majoritarian (if we accept that STV allocates seats more or less the way single Party votes would do).
Is this a correct understanding?
I have never seriously contemplated the exact rules. but it would not be MMM, It would be mixed member proportional.
In short, every vote for a party’s candidates would be pooled together. If those candidates collectively have enough votes for five seats, the party gets five seats. If it has two, three runners up are declared to be elected. If it has five district winners, all good. If it is entitled to less seats, there is an overhang.
In my last reply on this thread, I did realize that allowing lists without a local candidate to appear on a district’s ballot could allow for parties to create decoy lists to inflate their vote. That part would need to change to ensure proportionality isn’t prevented.
I came up with a two-vote solution.
E.g. say we have a region with 8 seats, 4 districts with 2 seats. Each party would have 4 candidates. If party X has John, Mary, Peter and Ann as their district candidates, district 1 would have: John & Mary/Peter/Ann. Voters would rank the teams in order of preference. If this team wins district 1, it would get half of the district vote. There would be a second ballot where all candidates are ranked in order of preference. District 1 voters that voted for Mary, Peter or Ann as their first preference here in the second ballot determine the regional allocation of the second seats. So, if this team got 40% of the first preferences and won the district seat, they would get 20% of the district vote (goes to the party) and any first preferences that these other candidates got in the second ballot are added up. If this team didn’t get the district seat, it’s added up to the regional vote. This would be an elegant way of letting voters vote for a district candidate and also for regional candidates.
In this example of 4 districts, what happens if a party gets 62.5% (I.e. 5/8) of the party vote in each district? Would the party be limited to 4 elected candidates (John, Mary, Peter, Ann)?
That’s something I’m working on. My idea is similar to denmark and their nomination districts. Each voter within the region will be presented with their district ballot, where the district candidate will be listed first and the team mates are listed as a group with the district candidate (for example, district 1 voters will see that party X has John as the main candidate and the other three as team mates. District voters would be giving their district vote to John and, if John wins, half of their vote goes to the party X team mates and the other half to this voter’s second choice at the district.
If party X were to sweep all 4 seats at the district level, with 62.5% of the vote in each one, it’s simple: all first preferences at the regional level for those candidates (including the half-transferred vote to party X from the districts) are transferred to each voter’s second preferences. This is what I consider doing with any independent candidate that runs only in a district, wins that race and is not part of a “Independents for region X” list; if such independent candidate were to lose the first race, no problem and that candidate still has a democratic chance at getting a second tier seat.
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Smokers Need Not Apply: Fairness Of No-Nicotine Hiring Policies Questioned
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When U-Haul recently announced it will no longer hire people who use nicotine in any form in the 21 states where such hiring policies are legal, the Phoenix-based moving company joined a cadre of companies with nicotine-free hiring policies.
U-Haul's announcement is receiving outsize attention because nicotine-free hiring policies are more common at high-profile hospitals such as Cleveland Clinic that are especially protective of their healthy image.
Alaska Airlines has one of the oldest nicotine-free hiring policies, going back to 1985. But at the time, a big part of the stated reasoning was that the industry isn't conducive to taking smoke breaks.
Now, some employers are making the policy change simply citing health concerns or health care costs — even the city of Dayton, Ohio, has joined the movement.
But the policies are raising concern around labor and medical ethics. Harald Schmidt, a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, said targeting smokers disproportionately harms poor people.
"To me, this is more about fair equality of opportunity," he said.
Smoking is a behavior, so Schmidt doesn't equate it with discriminating on the basis of race, gender or sexual orientation. But he notes that roughly half of unemployed people smoke. And quitting is hard, because nicotine is highly addictive.
"You're basically posing a double whammy on them," Schmidt said. "It's very hard for them to get work, and it's even harder for people who are already in a vulnerable situation."
Karen Buesing of the law firm Akerman represents employers and works with them on smoking policies. She said employers are looking out for the health of their employees.
Employers do have some concern about productivity and absenteeism, she said. But it's more about the risks of cancer and heart and lung disease.
"Obviously, there are higher health care costs associated with smokers. And so many companies would much prefer to have a nonsmoking workforce," she said.
The corporate cost per smoker is estimated to be in the thousands of dollars per year, though some experts have questioned the accuracy of the figures.
Buesing said discrimination of any kind is so taboo that employers in many states don't realize they can reject applicants for being smokers. And it's not allowed everywhere: 29 states and the District of Columbia have various laws that safeguard "off-duty" activity. Many of these laws were passed in recent decades specifically to shield smokers.
"In that context, you now have protections for smokers," Buesing said of the 29 states. "Certainly under federal law, smokers are not a protected class."
A 2017 Gallup Poll found that more than half of American smokers feel they're discriminated against for their nicotine habit.
"Even when I was doing temporary work, people would be like, 'You're going on break? Are you going to smoke?'" said Carl Carter of Nashville, Tennessee, who is currently on disability benefits and not working. "I should have the right to do what I want to do."
It's not that he doesn't want to quit. He has tried eight times, most recently on New Year's Day. But the habit is hard to beat.
Labor groups have not fought nicotine-free hiring policies, but Edgar Ndjatou, executive director of the advocacy nonprofit Workplace Fairness, calls smoker hiring bans "problematic."
"Someone who uses tobacco could potentially have some form of disability," he said, adding that addiction could be protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. "I would argue that these types of bans have to be reasoned."
Ndjatou and other critics ask, what's next? Will nicotine-free hiring lead to more policing of worker health?
IT administrator and vaper Scott Bales thinks so.
"I think that it's interesting that they are demonizing one over the other, and I'll specifically use alcohol," he said on a vaping break outside his office in Nashville. "How can you ban one substance without banning the other one?"
The American Civil Liberties Union has come out against nicotine-free hiring, calling it "discrimination." The organization is critical of other forms of what it calls "lifestyle discrimination."
"Should an employer be able to forbid an employee from going skiing? or riding a bicycle? or sunbathing on a Saturday afternoon?" an ACLU legislative briefing asks. "All of these activities entail a health risk."
But companies rejecting smokers point out that tobacco is the most preventable cause of cancer and lung disease. And the employers are the ones who will likely have to pay much of the health bills.
Still, attorney Buesing doesn't expect the U-Haul announcement to unleash a flood of similar policies. She said rewarding healthy behavior is still seen as the most palatable approach by many employers.
U-Haul said its policy will not apply to existing workers. The company employs 30,000 people around the country, with 4,000 at its headquarters. U-Haul will screen new hires and require them to consent to future drug testing for nicotine, though it's unclear how that would affect workers who use nicotine gum or patches.
"This policy is a responsible step in fostering a culture of wellness at U-Haul, with the goal of helping our team members on their health journey," chief of staff Jessica Lopez said in a press release.
U-Haul declined an interview request.
This story is part of a partnership that includes Nashville Public Radio, NPR and Kaiser Health News.
Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Born in 1774 - Died in 1809
Meriwether Lewis was born on the family plantation in Virginia. He had an older sister, Jane, and later a little brother, Reuben, would be born into the family.
His father fought in the Revolutionary War and died when Meriwether was only five years old.
As a young boy Meriwether enjoyed hunting in the woods, and sometimes he would go out alone at night in all kinds of weather to explore.
His mother remarried and Captain John Marks became his stepfather. The family left the plantation in the care of a relative and moved to Georgia. When he was 13 years old he returned to Virginia for schooling and to learn how to manage the 2,000 acre plantation his father had willed to him.
When he was 18 his stepfather died and his mother moved back to Virginia. Meriwether had come of age and could now manage the plantation himself.
Later he enlisted in the Virginia Volunteer Corps and served well. He was promoted to lieutenant and then to captain.
He had a friend and neighbor who had been watching Meriwether grow up. This friend became President of the United States. His name was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson liked the qualities he saw in Meriwether and asked him to come to Washington to become his personal secretary. He paid him $500 a year and gave him room and board in the White House. What an opportunity for young Meriwether!
Jefferson had a plan to send an expedition to explore the land from the Mississippi River westward to the Pacific Ocean. He asked Congress for $2,500 to fund* the project. A year earlier in 1803 the United States had bought over 800,000 square miles of land from France for $15,000,000. It was called the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis and Clark would cross this land on their expedition.
The President groomed Meriwether for the job by letting him study with great teachers. He studied botany,* fossils,* astronomy, and mathematics.
Will Clark, his long-time friend, had been chosen to accompany him. Lewis insisted the two of them would each be referred to as captains of the expedition.
Meriwether prepared three boats; a large 55 foot keelboat and two smaller ones. They had to carry a lot of supplies and ammunition; six tons, 12,000 pounds in all. He prepared the gunpowder in lead containers. When the gunpowder was used up from a container they could melt it down to make bullets for their guns.
Included in the supplies were trinkets, beads, and mirrors which would be gifts to the Indians.
Two important people who joined them at the Mandan Indian villages were Touissant Charbonneau ( too SAN SHAR buh no) and his Shoshone wife Sacagawea (SAK uh juh WEE uh or suh KAH guh we uh). He had bought her as a slave from the Blackfoot Indians who had kidnapped her from her people.
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Sacagawea was the interpreter* for the group, and when the Indians saw her with her tiny baby, they felt they had nothing to fear from these strangers. The baby was only two months old when her journey with them began.
The members of the expedition suffered many hardships as they navigated the Missouri River, crossed the Stony (Rockie) Mountains, and followed the Columbia River to the west coast of the country to their first view of the Pacific Ocean. The trip had taken them a year and a half. During that time Meriwether had kept a detailed journal of events, drawn maps, collected plant specimens, and managed to pass peacefully through the Indian territory.
Now they had to retrace their steps back over the mountains and return.
When they got back home each man who had accompanied them was paid in cash, and a record was made of each man's name. The government would give each one of them a gift of land.
Congress gave Meriwether 1,500 acres of land and made him governor of all the Louisiana Territory. Will Clark was given 1,000 acres of land. They made him Indian Agent and gave him the title Brigadier General.*
The end of the story, however, is different for the two men. Three years after their return Meriwether Lewis died tragically from gunshot wounds. Will Clark married, had a family, became governor of the Missouri Territory, and lived to be sixty-eight years old.
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Settlement agreement is dreadful news for George Zimmerman
I asked a question yesterday and did not get an answer.
The question was, Did Mark O’Mara advise the HOA to settle the Fulton-Martin lawsuit?
Rene Stutzman at the Orlando Sentinel provided some additional information today.
That secret homeowners association settlement with Trayvon Martin’s family may not remain secret much longer.
Seminole County Clerk of Courts Maryanne Morse has written a letter to Trayvon’s family attorney, Benjamin Crump, telling him that she doesn’t think it meets the standard of a confidential filing so she intends to make it public in 10 days.
Even so, the total dollar figure paid out by the association will likely remain a secret. That’s because Crump edited it out before he put the 12-page document in the court file Thursday.
It’s believed to be more than $1 million.
Stutzman also revealed that Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton settled their claim against the HOA without filing a lawsuit. Therefore, the settlement agreement has not been reviewed by a judge.
We know that the Traveler’s Insurance Co., was not a party to the agreement because the HOA did not purchase the insurance until March 30, 2012, a little over a month after the defendant shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
Why did Benjamin Crump file the settlement agreement in the GZ criminal case?
Here’s Stutzman again,
Why Crump had it placed in the file in the first place remains a mystery. He did not return phone calls from the Orlando Sentinel. But his clients, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, were deposed last month by Zimmerman’s attorneys and were likely asked about the settlement.
In an interview last month, when asked if the settlement was a specific figure between $1 million and $2 million, Crump would not say.
“I have no comment on the subject,” he said. “I know you didn’t get that from me.”
There is an unconfirmed rumor that the New York Times reported in February that Mark O’Mara said Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton had rejected a $1 million settlement offer.
Stutzman said today about the settlement amount, “It’s believed to be more than $1 million.”
Sundance Cracker at the treehouse, which is Mark O’Mara’s internet site of choice, reported yesterday that the settlement is closer to $2 million.
Difficult to draw any conclusions without more information, but I sincerely doubt the claim was settled for nuisance value because, given the defendant’s waiver of an immunity hearing and a substantial likelihood that a jury will reject his claim of self-defense, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton would have no incentive to settle the case for peanuts. Better to wait and sue him and the HOA together after he is convicted when, basically, the sky would be the limit.
I figure they were in the driver’s seat and could afford to demand a substantial sum of money to cut HOA loose before trial.
This settlement agreement is dreadful news for the defendant.
BTW, Dee Dee definitely is not the prosecution’s star witness.
The prosecution’s star witness is the defendant and that is why a jury will convict him of murder in the second degree.
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Did Mark O’Mara advise the HOA to settle the Fulton-Martin lawsuit
I am hoping to find out today if Mark O’Mara played any role in advising the HOA to settle the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton.
Sundance Cracker at The Conservative Treehouse claims that he did. This is the website O’Mara has publicly referenced with approval as a source of ideas.
Since Benjamin Crump represents Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton that would certainly qualify him as opposing counsel for purposes of the silly deposition issue.
More importantly, he would have a conflict of interest because he would be in possession of inside information obtained from his client, plus all of the discovery that has not been released to the public, and advising the HOA to settle before the criminal trial.
That’s the equivalent of saying:
GZ’s self-defense claim isn’t going to fly. He’s going to be convicted of murder 2, so you better cut your losses to a minimum by settling now.
If true, that’s a conflict of interest and a major violation of a lawyer’s obligation to maintain client confidentiality.
Imagine how you would feel, if you were George Zimmerman.
O’Mara should be kicked off the case and disbarred, if he did that.
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California has TWO bills in the assembly
By sassenach, March 22, 2018 in The Chat Board
sassenach 10,743
Disappointing Bill like it's my job
The fire inspection for homeschoolers bill was previously discussed and is still on the table, but I don't remember seeing mention of the 2nd bill. It basically states that they'll form a committee which will propose regulations might include home and health inspections, parent certification, and/or curriculum standards.
The big permanent change in this bill is the defining of home schoolers as a separate category from private schoolers. The rest of the recommendations remain to be seen, but it makes sense that once we're defined as a separate group, we're going to get our own set of regulations.
I know there's a whole lot of debate around here about what homeschool regulations should be in place so I'm not going to do a call to action here. Act as you see fit.
You can find opposition info here: https://www.facebook.com/ParentsUnited4Kids/?hc_ref=ARSGwn6QzNPXOPTXTbP70jw0v8vJY09XJuxUY_xBPhn8v2Ho7SVmh3EtpmPBrLfHJis
Edited March 22, 2018 by Sassenach
Ausmumof3 11,662
Ausmumof3
Home and health inspections! That sounds intrusive.
ScoutTN 17,474
Hive Mind Queen Bee
Possibly unconstitutional?
snowbeltmom 5,995
How the heck will the "parent certification" work?
Based on the recent threads discussing CA, CA has now moved to the #1 spot previously held by NY on my personal list of "the state I would not want to homeschool in."
Hopefully, this bill, like other recent bills that infringed on homeschoolers' rights, will die a quick death.
Ms.Ivy 2,644
Hive Mind Royal Larvae
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/california-literacy-lawsuit.html
Mergath 34,636
Beekeeping Professor
I doubt it. They require the same kinds of things for families who want to adopt or foster children, or run a home daycare. I'm not making the argument that these inspections are good, but I don't see how they could be considered unconstitutional.
EmseB 13,334
Amateur Bee Keeper
Because there's a difference between taking in a child that is not your own, especially if he/she a ward of the state or you are running a business, and raising your own children. In either case, you agree to certain terms and conditions of running a business, fostering a ward of the state, or applying to adopt someone else's child.
That's like saying because restaurants get health inspections, the government should come check my home kitchen because I cook for my own family.
If the bill makes it out of committee, which is doubtful, at some point along the way I would expect a ruling that the bill violates the 4th amendment.
nixpix5 4,764
Empress Bee
In both of those scenarios you are dealing with someone else's child or children. I expect to make decisions I deem best for my children. I don't need anyone coming in and deciding my curriculum, doing inspections in my home and the like. Especially in light of the state being sued for high illiteracy rates in their schools.
I am glad I don't live there but I worry when California starts getting whacky ideas that Washington will start considering it too.
Paradox5 5,895
The Ordinary Princess
LocationHouston, Texas
So many more reasons I will never move to CA no matter how good the job offer might be for dh. Thankfully, he feels the same way! Ya'll need to move to TX!
We aren't talking about whether it's right or wrong, though. We're talking about whether it's actually unconstitutional. No one wants to have home inspections, but in the context of homeschooling do they violate the Constitution? I'd have to see a better argument than, "I can do what I want with my kids," to convince me of that. The government can compel us to do all sorts of things with our children- educate them, vaccinate them, provide adequate medical care- and it doesn't violate the Constitution. Also, the government could probably make the argument that parents voluntarily homeschool, so no one is actually being compelled to allow the government into their home involuntarily, and that a home visit isn't the same as an unreasonable search of the home.
Again, I'm not debating whether this law would be a good idea or not, only if it's unconstitutional. Because I don't see that argument holding up.
KrissiK 56,425
since when has that stopped anything California has wanted to do?
LucyStoner 72,694
Here in WA State a parent class is required for homeschoolers who do not have 1 year of college or more. The classes are in person or online, usually a one off thing and are taught by homeschooling parents. People here don’t seem to find it too difficult but I have a college degree so I can’t claim first hand experience.
Typically when federal judges strike down the unconstitutional laws, which is how the system is supposed to work.
SeaConquest 7,928
LocationOn a sailboat in the Pacific Ocean (generally in San Diego)
Alright, I will bite.
Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the California Constitution has enshrined a right to privacy that is quite expansive -- it is expressly set forth as a fundamental, inalienable right in this state. Because people have a generally recognized right to privacy in their own home, it is likely IMO that AB 2756 (the so-called fire marshall law) would be struck down, especially where there are less intrusive alternatives to regulating homeschooling.
The second law (AB 2926) is more concerning, IMO, especially for private homeschoolers (versus those using a charter):
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2926
ETA: I supported SB 277 (for a variety of reasons), so I am not anti-government regulation, but AB 2756 makes no sense. Even though I am not personally affected by AB 2926 at present, I still stand with my private homeschooling comrades. It's actually the religious charter school families, who whine about not being able to use public school charter funds for their field trips to the Creation Museum, that drive me nuts.
Edited March 23, 2018 by SeaConquest
amy g. 3,884
I’m pretty much a lifetime Texan (I lived in Louisiana for a couple of years).
When we moved to California, it took me less than a week to realize I never wanted to go back to Texas even for a visit.
I sure hope I never have to.
Ah, you’ve been assimilated.
Yeah, you couldn’t pay me a million bucks to move to Texas. And before you think that’s hyperbolic, consider that most Californians could sell their homes and buy a bigger house for cash if we moved there. Some do, but most of us don’t. Because Texas.
Right now, I believe Ca’s homeschool laws are easier than or comparable to Texas. We’d like to keep it that way.
Let me tell you, there is no more maladaptive creature on the planet than a Texan forced to live in California (which is distinctly different than a Texan who has escaped to California). I’ve known a few, and not a day goes by that they don’t mention something that’s better in Texas or worse in California. Mostly both.
Although, I would be pretty darn maladaptive if I had to live in Texas. And, you can be sure I would kvetch about it every.single.day.
Aelwydd 5,008
Immutable. (Quit looking for the mute button.)
LOL. I understand, as a 5th generation Texan, who lived and home schooled in Texas most recently for almost a decade.
We moved to MN in 2015 and love it here. All the wild boars in Texas could not drag me back, lol.
Yeah, there is the other creature though, the conservative Californian that moves to Texas to avoid taxes, only to find they hate the seasons, the allergies, the lack of ocean breezes, the scenery, the extremely high property taxes and piss poor health care system and non-existent senior care services...
I have an aunt and uncle who made that move a few years ago. My sisters and I have a running bet on when they'll move back to CA.
Edited March 23, 2018 by Aelwydd
What Texas home school laws? There are none. All TX home schooling is defined by one court case, Leeper vs. Arlington. That case, which has been upheld in multiple rulings since 1987, classifies home schools as private schools, and therefore not subject to oversight by state education officials. Home schools are expected to cover only five areas: good citizenship, math, reading, spelling, and grammar.
If certain subjects like history, arts, economics, foreign languages, and science seem to be entirely missing from that list...well, yeehaw lol.
There are no testing requirements, no minimal attendance set, no record-keeping, paperwork or reporting required. No oversight, period. Zip, nada, nothing.
If California matches Texas' "standards" I'll eat my cowboy hat.
Here are two sources, one pro and one critical of Texas home school law:
https://www.thsc.org/homeschooling-in-texas/the-history-of-home-education-in-texas/leeper-case-decisions/
https://www.responsiblehomeschooling.org/statement-on-texas-supreme-court-homeschool-decision/
SparklyUnicorn 70,565
I'm in NY and there is no parent certification requirement.
I'm with you, how on earth would that work?
Of all the things they could "pick on" in terms of homeschooling, this is pretty dumb.
K, you win. But not by much. Ca currently doesn’t define homeschooling as a separate thing. We run tiny private schools around here. We have to file one form a year, no follow up after that. We need to teach the main subjects in English and keep an attendance calendar, which amounts to keeping track of absences (um, zero?). No testing.
What Texas home school laws? There are none. All TX home schooling is defined by one court case, Leeper vs. Arlington. That case, which has been upheld in multiple rulings since 1987, classifies home schools as private schools, and therefore not subject to oversight by state education officials.
That is how California is set up, too. The state dept of ed has no authority over private schools. The only thing we do is put our name and address in a state directory of private schools every year to say that we are, in fact, a private school. The law currently exempts private schools with no commercial private school building from all the codes meant for brick and mortar campuses (gun laws, fire codes, etc). That's because if the place where kids learn is their own private residence, the law acknowledges that the primary use of the building is a home (privacy laws apply) and not actually a campus. The records we are required to keep (but not required to submit to anyone unless maybe investigated for a crime?) are shot records and attendance, but the law also says if you are not in a classroom based school you are exempt from mandatory vaccine laws, too. In 30+ years of being in the homeschool community in California, I have never heard of anyone having to show records of any sort to anyone but colleges. We are to teach the same branches of study as public schools, but there are no reporting requirements. It is just assumed that if a private school is bad, the parents will pull their kids out of it and put them in another one. The state is supposed to answer to parents for the education of kids, not the other way around. We will see if that changes. I hope not.
Washington does this and it isn't too bad. I may get this wrong because we utilize an umbrella school who does all of the paperwork filing for me but the parent has to have some level of college education, take a training course for homeschoolers, or use a certificated teacher who oversees the homeschool. I am college educated so it hasn't applied to me plus through our umbrella we have an hour of contact or more weekly with a certificated classes through the elective classes we choose to take there. I know a parent who did the training and she found it helpful.
I actually don't mind this aspect of oversight to homeschooling. What would cause me to bristle would be how they would address curriculum choice. I am sure it may start out innocent enough but I wonder how and what that would look like.
Our umbrella does require us to track hours and list our curriculum resources. They don't care what we use as long as we can show how we track progress. We write progress updates that lay out the basics of what we did that month and how we assessed learning. So for example, as long as our unschoolers can show generally what they are working on or towards it is a non issue. We technically are not suppose to use Christian curriculum but as long as we use other secular resources we can report "so and so did 5 math pages and worked on multiplication of single numbers, measurement..." etc etc and those could be from Christian curriculum. I can say they did 3 copywork selections and I don't have to say they were bible verses for example. We do submit work samples but just a few each month.
They don't come into our house though. That feels like such a violation. As long as parents are showing the above, I don't see why it has to include doing it in the home.
I find the lack of oversight actually a little disturbing. In Texas, the lack of any regulation at all means that home schools are, de facto, persona non grata- legally treated as though they are in a separate, parallel, and unrecognized educational universe.
School administrators didn't even see my kid on the educational map. It can make it difficult for formerly home schooled students to matriculate into public schools, especially high school. It's common policy among many ISDs not to recognize unaccredited high school credits. They are also frequently diffucult to work with when it comes to partial enrollment, and participation in school athletics and clubs.
So, a 16 year old gets enrolled as a 9th grader, regardless of his home school academic transcript, because most ISDs simply won't recognize those credits.
Basically, the state's attitude seems to be, yeah, we don't monitor you, but neither do we have to pretend that your "school" is real.
It's that dismissive attitude that causes me to rank Texas, overall, as unfriendly to home schoolers, regardless of how "friendly" the law appears on paper.
You are absolutely right. It may not be considered unconstitutional. Mine was a knee jerk reaction for sure. Nothing causes my logical brain to shut off like too much government oversight when California should be busy fixing their own failing public schools. It probably isn't mine to worry about since I will never live there but like I said, I do worry about Washington feeling as though they need more oversight.
I have a tainted and possibly jaded view when it comes to government oversight. Having been on that counseling side of it I know how absolutely intrusive we can be in the name of "we know what's best" and as a green therapist back then, I trusted the process. I have seen real damage done to families. What I know now is those "experts" are so biased and fallible even when they mean well. They use shoddy research that cannot be reproduced to bolster their rationale. They also judge, misunderstand and manipulate. I just think it's a bad idea but again Mergath, you are right that it probably isn't unconstitutional.
Ca is the same. High school is an all or nothing proposition. Florida has a really nice middle ground, but I think the chances of Ca creating laws like that is unlikely.
Ca couldn’t afford to have all these kids enrolled. Where’s that money coming from? I’m hoping the finances of this squelch the legislature’s enthusiasm.
Too true.
Does California also use its lack of home school oversight as a way to shield its actual H.S. drop out rate?
Federal courts in other states dealt with the issue of home visits in the 80s and found them unconstitutional. In order to pass constitutional muster, the state has to prove that home visits would make a real difference in educational outcomes AND prove that home visits are the least restrictive means of ensuring children are being taught to read. Due process means government officials cannot come into your house to look for evidence of a crime without proving that it is absolutely necessary for state interests. Social workers must have a warrant, building inspectors must have evidence that you are renting or have made significant building modifications, they can see your trash, etc. Courts have held that the only state interest in education is basic literacy. So they have to choose the least restrictive means of ensuring that. In the case of California, according to the state constitution, school officials cannot support or monitor religious education, which is why they have left private schools, including homeschools, alone.
Edited March 23, 2018 by Ms.Ivy
This is my theory.... I have nothing to back it up, but I do think that finances are at the root of the lack of oversight. We pay our taxes, but don’t put our kids in school. If all of the sudden we said, this is too hard, i’m Sick of these regulations and flooded the schools with our kids....what would they do?? Continue to raise our taxes?
Maybe that is exactly what they hope happens. A huge rush of homeschooled kids that are doing well academically will flood the school, boosting their abysmal test scores and getting people off their back about their shockingly low literacy percentage. How's that for a conspiracy theory ;) Of course I am joking...I don't actually believe that is their goal...
I think it is more common for high schoolers to be put into online charter or public independent study programs where they can do credit recovery programs. Of course many then drop out of those public programs, which leads to anti-school choice groups pointing to charter schools as failures in and of themselves, when often they are just the last stop on the public school failure train.
No, ma'am. Texas has multiple online charter schools, but these are all classified as public, meaning attendance is required and students sit for the same EOY testing. (A side note: in Texas, you cannot even enroll in the online charter programs unless you have attended a B&M public school for the previous year at least.) If a child drops out of a public online charter, it is accounted for by the same school officials.
What I refer to is the somewhat widespread practice of TX school officials formally reporting drop outs as "home schooled," when no such thing is occurring, not even ostensibly.
Some of these students drop out and then pay $300 for a degree from an online mill. These "schools" can do this because they call themselves online homeschooling, and are classified as private.
In both cases, the "private school" loophole helps TX mask a 30% overall drop out rate.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-private-schools-help-lower-texas-dropout-numbers/
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/06/07/411779238/thousands-of-high-school-students-getting-lost-in-texas
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/article/Dropout-statistics-under-fire-780684.php
I meant that I think it is more common in California to transfer to charter rather than private home school. I don't doubt it happens as you described other places, I just haven't personally heard of it happening in California.
Yeah, I think Texas holds that dubious crown.
It may be that the simple CA requirement of needing to file an affidavit affirming the existence of a private school is what prevents public schools from being able lie like that. Interesting point to bring up.
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