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Live Coverage: Apple's Special Tablet Event
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Author: Brian X. ChenBrian X. Chen
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Apple's Wednesday press conference, where we'll likely see an Apple tablet, is shaping up to be the Cupertino, California, company's most-anticipated event ever.
The Jan. 27 event, titled "Come see our latest creation," will likely be marked down in history as the sequel to Steve Jobs' legendary keynote at Macworld Expo 2007, where the CEO introduced the iPhone. The iPhone, then touted by the CEO as "three revolutionary products," has grown to encompass more than 100,000 apps, giving birth to a new digital frontier and, in many ways, reshaping the cellphone industry.
Now Apple must meet, and perhaps exceed, the wow factor of the mobile marvel with its bigger sibling – a touchscreen tablet that the company has been developing for several years.
Rumor has it that Jobs has even said the tablet "will be the most important thing I've ever done."
He has his work cut out for him. For decades, sci-fi movies have dreamed of a slate-like computing device replacing traditional PCs. Many companies have tried, and failed, to live up to these visions. Thanks to clunky user interfaces, durability issues and limited utility, the tablet has been filed away as a niche device again and again. But Apple, the leader in industry and interface design and master of innovating content distribution, could be the company to finally nail the design.
Could it save the publishing industry, reboot education and maybe even change the way we treat medicine? After years of speculation, we'll finally get some answers.
Yours truly will live-blog Wednesday's event right here, so bookmark this page. Wired magazine editor Mark McClusky and GameLife editor Chris Kohler will contribute commentary on the event, with photography by Jon Snyder.
The keynote, which takes place at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center, kicks off 10 a.m. Pacific. Stay tuned and look for updates to this post, or follow @bxchen and @gadgetlab for real-time news nuggets via Twitter.
Need to catch up on tablet news? Visit our full page including our major tablet stories from 2009.
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9:20am Reporter Brian X. Chen is in line at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center. There's a long line of people awaiting admission, while TV crews jostle for space alongside the elderly Chinese ladies who practice taijiquan here every morning.
9:37am We're heading inside. Eeeeeeee!
9:55am They're playing Bob Dylan. "How does it feeeeeeeel...."
Reporters will not be allowed to take photos from their seats. They're being really militant about it, McClusky reports.
Al Gore is here. He's standing in front talking to people.
10:00am Fortunately, we have a photographer, Jonathan Snyder, on site.
The lights are dimming. The event is getting started!
Steve Jobs comes on stage. The crowd is standing and clapping.
"Good morning and thank you all for coming today," Jobs says. "We want to kick off 2010 with a magical truly revolutionary product today. But first I have some updates."
__10:07 __ He says 250 million iPods have been sold, and there have been "50 million visitors to our store."
App Store is an "incredible phenomenon," delivering applications to iPhone and iPod touch users around the world.
"We have over 140,000 apps on the App Store.
"We started Apple in 1976. 34 years later we just ended our holiday quarter, our first fiscal quarter of 2010 with $15.6B of revenue."
__10:08 __ Apple is bigger than Sony, Samsung and Nokia's mobile businesses. Apple is the #1 mobile device company in the world.
Those are the updates today.
There is a slide of Moses holding a tablet on the screen.
10:11 "Before we get to that, I want to go back to 1991. When Apple announced and shipped its first PowerBooks, this was the first modern laptop computer. Apple actually invented the first laptop computer with its Powebooks. First had keyboard and palm rests, trackball. 20 years later we have incredible laptops now. Just a few years ago in 2007, Apple reinvented the phone with the iPhone, and a few years later we got the great iPhone 3GS. So all of us use laptops and smartphones now.
"Everybody uses a laptop and or a smartphone. The question has arised lately. Is there room for a third category of device in the middle?
"They have to be far better at some key things. Better than the laptop, better than the smartphone. What kind of tasks? Things like browsing the web. That's a tall order.
"Doing e-mail. Enjoying and sharing photographs. Video, watching videos. Enjoy your music collection. Playing games. Reading e-books.
"It has to be better than these kinds of tasks otherwise ithere's no reason for being.
"Some people have said it's a netbook. the problem is netbooks aren't better at anything.
"They're slow, they have low quality displays, they run old PC software."
10:12 "We've got something better, and we'd like to show it to you today. It's called the iPad."
He's holding an iPad. It looks like all the rumor reports said. 10-inch iPhone with a silver back.
Very thin.
10:14 "What this device does is extraordinary. You can browse the web with it. It is the best browsing eperience you've ever had. It's phenomenal to see a whole web page right in front of you that you can manipulate with your fingers. Way better than a laptop, way better than a smartphone.... It's a dream to type on.
"Got some great slideshows built in.
"Built in: a calendar, month's activities. Built in: a great address book for your contacts. Has a great Maps application.
"Satellite view, (you can) zoom in on things.
"And of course we have the iTunes Store. Built right into the iPad, so you can discover it, purchase movies, podcasts, iTunes university, everything built right into the iPad.
"It's awesome to watch TV shows and movies.
"That gives you a little overview of what the iPad can do."
10:20 "It's so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smartphone with this gorgeous, large display."
He's scrolling down the New York Times website.
It looks just like Safari mobile but modified for a bigger screen.
Browsing through Time website. Now the Fandango website.
"The whole website in the palm of your hands."
When it flips into landscape mode it flips a lot faster and smoother than the iPhone.
"So that is browsing the web. Let's go to e-mail."
Turn it sideways, have the inbox displayed in the left. The message displays in the right in a bigger window.
Taps a map of Napa Valley. Gets a big graphical map, smooth zooming in and out.
He just opened a big virtual keyboard.
Steve is typing "Wow, we're announcing the iPad!" in a note to Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall.
10:21 Mark McClusky notes: In the web demo, you could see a broken plugin icon on NYTimes site. Does that mean there's no Adobe Flash support on iPad?
10:24 Next let's go to photos.
"If I'm on a Mac i can also get events, places and faces from iPhoto.
"Can scrub through them left to right."
You can launch a map, you can see places pinpointed with thumbnails showing pics you took there
He's showing a slideshow. Some cheesy music is playing.
The desktop is shown with a background. A dock on the bottom with iPhone icons. A desktop metaphor composed of iPhone-like icons.
He launches iTunes. New graphical interface for iTunes. Everything is tappable and pops up smoothly in a box, cover-flow style.
The iTunes Store. Built right in. Sample music, discover songs.
10:25 "And of course in addition to music I've got movies, tv shows, everything all right here, built in to the iPad."
It's got a calendar. Very fancy looking interface.
Game|Life's Chris Kohler adds:__ I like that he's just rushing through all of the totally obvious stuff: Yes, of course it lets you browse your photos while you play your iTunes library. Jobs crashing in a comfy chair blazing through all of the features is a clever trick; it's like you're hanging out in somebody's living room and they're showing you their new toy.
10:27 Address book.
Maps app is full screen, you can switch into satellite view. Looks like Google satellite of course. Showing the Eiffel tower.
CK: Demonstrating the map/search capability, Jobs types in "Sushi" and lands on Sushi Boat on Geary. DON'T GO, STEVE.
He's searching for food to eat. Searched for Sushi, and you can easily just find a sushi restaurant in a nearby location. Sushi Boat. Then you can view street view of the restaurant.
YouTube has a big video viewer with a menu on the side for you to scroll down search results.
Now in movies. He launches Star Trek. It opens really fast. You can scrub through easily. Standard iTunes control interface.
He's playing the movie Up.
That's an overview as to what the iPad can do. Audience is clapping.
"Watching it is nothing like getting one in your hands."
"The iPad is really thin. It's half an inch thin. it weighs just 1 1/2 pounds. That's thinner and lighter than any netbook."
Full capacitive multitouch display.
1 ghz Apple A4 chip. Their own custom silicon. 16GB - 64 GB Flash storage
16, 32 or 64 GB of flash solid state storage
Wi-Fi: 802.11n
accelerometer, compass, speaker, microphone, 30 pin connector
Battery life is 10 hours, with over a month of standby life
There is no camera, apparently.
Jobs: "iPad is arsenic free, BFR free, mercury free, PVC free, highly recyclable."
Its got an aluminum and glass enclosure.
10:35 Let's talk about the App Store.
Scott Forstall, SVP iPhone software is coming on stage.
"The App Store has been a huge success. We launched it just about a year and a half ago and already our cusotmers have downloaded over 3 billion apps, choosing from among 140,000 apps. We build the iPad to run every one of these apps unmodifiied out of the box.
Two ways: pixel-for-pixel accuracy.
"We can also automatically pixel-double and run those apps full screen."
He's showing us how it works.
10:37 Mark McClusky takes over the liveblogging here.
Game demo of ESPN Snowcross. iPhone game, running on iPad.
It's an OpenGL Game.
Can resize game on the fly to full screen, even with graphically intense game. Right out of the app store, unmodified.
But developers can modify application to take full advantage of touchscreen.
There will be an enhanced iPhone SDK to support iPad development. Releasing today.
The SDK includes an iPad simulator now.
__CK: __The idea of pixel doubling to run all of the existing games on the iPhone seems to be a good one – The demo of the ESPN X-Games Snocross game, running at full screen, looked really good.
Gameloft is coming on stage
They have 60 games on the app store that have been downloaded more than 50 million times.
10:40 Brian X. Chen back at the keyboard.
Mark Hickey with Gameloft is on stage.
Showing the game Nova. What's different about Nova on the iPad?
The size gives you a lot more flexibility [than iPhone] when controlling the game.
Slide finger across the screen to throw grenades. The iPhone gives us the ability to interact with the game in ways we couldn't possibly before.
You can turn your hand to open a door.
10:42 CK: So far, the thing that's excited me the most, as weird as this may sound, is the idea of dragging a mini-map across the screen in a first-person shooter. Touch interfaces on a big screen is something we've never seen before, and the idea of adding features that just couldn't exist before is embodied in this concept.
Next up is the New York Times. (We knew they'd be here.)
Martin Nisenholtz is coming on stage.
Jennifer Brook is the interaction designer of this application.
They've developed a new application for the iPad.
Their iPhone app has been downloaded over 3 million times and so they're doing the same thing with the iPad.
Jennifer: "We think we've captured the essence of reading the newspaper."
10:44 It just looks like the website with some fancy buttons to bookmark articles...you can save to reading list, and sync to iPhone
"We're very excited to pioneer the next generation of digital journalism. Thank you very much," Martin Nisenholtz concludes.
10:47 Next up is Brushes, the iPhone paint app.
Steve Sprang from Brushes takes the stage.
Painting application designed for the iPad.
By pinching you can zoom in. By tapping and holding you can paint or erase. If you mess up you can undo. When done painting just tap the gallery button.
10:48 Next up is Electronic Arts.
EA has been a major supporter of the iPhone platform since launch of the iPhone with over 40 titles.
Travis Boatman of EA is coming on stage.
Gorgeous 3D version of Need for Speed game.
"We're going to be able to bring all the great EA games from the App Store to this device in no time."
Game is fully touched enabled. Rotating the device uses accelerometer to emulate turning a steering wheel.
The graphics look just all right. Nothing compared to serious consoles.
10:50 Next up is MLB.com.
It's been downloaded nearly 2 million times in the App Store.
It's streamed over 60 million videos.
Chad Evans of MLB.com is on stage
We realized we couldn't just take our existing iPhone app and make it bigger. We had to update it to take advantage of the large, go
CK: Gamers will surely be scoffing right about now at the iPad's graphics capability, which is more equivalent to an amazing smartphone than a serious games console – it makes Wii look like a PS3. But that barely matters to the people that will play games on this.
Evans is demoing a baseball game. Within the same app you can switch to MLB on TV.
Forstall: We're proving the SDK today to allow developers to get started for the iPad.... That's the App story for the iPad.
10:55 Steve is back on stage.
"These guys only had 2, 2 1/2 weeks to work on these things. Imagine what they're going to do in the next few months. People are going to go crazy."
Now a slide of the Amazon Kindle is on screen
"Amazon's done a great job with pioneering e-books..." Steve says.
iBooks is the app for reading books.
(It looks a lot like Classics for the iPhone.)
Within the app you can download e-books from the iTunes e-book store.
Five of the largest publishers are on board: Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Penguin, Hachette
"We're very excited about this."
10:59 Now he's demoing the iBook app.
It's a bookshelf. It flips around to reveal the iTunes Store (kind of like a room behind a secret wall.)
Tapping a book on the shelf launches a nice, pretty-looking page. Swiping left or right turns pages.
You can change the font size if you'd like. Bigger or smaller. Change the font.
"We use the EPUB format. It is the most popular open book format in the world."
"Now something very exciting. iWork."
Exciting? iWork usually = iSnore...
11:06 Phil Schiller is showing us an iWork slide presentation.
You can tap several slides and create a bundle.
Media navigator – he's adding images, buttons. You can tap to go to the next slide, or swipe left and right.
11:10 He demonstrated Pages and Numbers. Optimized tablet interfaces, with tabs along the top. One document can hold many spreadsheets.
In Numbers you can grab an entire column with your finger and drag it to move it.
There are over 250 formulas and functions built into Numbers.
A pie chart, you can tap it and change it to a different style graph.
Charging $10 for each iWork application (not the entire suite).
OK he's done with iWork – thank God.
11:14 Steve is back on stage. Time to wake back up.
A few other things: iTunes.
The iPad syncs over USB with iTunes right on your Mac or your PC. Exactly like an iPhone or iPod Touch. When you sync, you sync everything. Your photos, your music, your TV shows, your contacts, your calendars, book marks, applications.
Backups are synced back.
11:15 "Every iPad has Wi-Fi.
"But we're also going to have 3G."
What does it cost for the data plans?
Telecom companies typically charge $60 a month for a data plan for a laptop.
"We've got a real breakthrough here. We've got two awesome plans for iPad owners. The first one gives you up to 250MB data per month. Unlimited is $29.99.
"We've got a breakthrough deal with AT&T.
"AT&T is throwing in free use of AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots."
"No contract and you can cancel it anytime.
"You can buy it right on iPad and cancel it whenever you want."
International plans will be in place by June.
"We hope to have those in place by June, so we're going to start on that tomorrow."
All the models are unlocked and use new GSM micro SIMs.
11:20 "E-mail is fantastic on this device. The best device I've ever seen for enjoying and sharing photography. Great for enjoying your music collection. And video is phenomenal. It runs almost all of the 140,000 apps on the App Store as well as a whole new generation of apps that will be designed specifically for the iPad. And the new iBooks application, with the iBooks store, you can carry literally thousands of books around on your iPad. And the iWork suite with the best interface we've ever seen."
"What should we price it at? We're going to price it under $1,000 which is code for $999.
"We had a very aggressive price goal because we want to put this in the hands of a lot of people. ... I am thrilled to announce to you that the iPad pricing is not $999 but $499."
Crowd is whistling and clapping.
11:22 Here are the options:
Wi-Fi only:
16GB $500
Wi-Fi + 3G:
It'll be shipping in 60 days; 90 days for 3G models.
CK: Hmm, two models: one with just Wi-Fi, one with Wi-Fi and 3G. Seems like they're trying to keep the base cost low.
There's a mechanical keyboard accessory. It has a connector on the back for charging. You can charge the iPad with the keyboard.
Another accessory: A cover that protects your iPad.
UPDATES (bookmark this link to go straight to the latest live updates)
11:25 They're showing a video of Apple employees talking about the iPad
"It's going to change the way we do things every day," Phil Schiller says in the video.
"It just feels right to hold the internet in your hands as you're surfing it." (Can't we do that already?...)
The virtual keyboard is the same size as a physical keyboard, the video says.
11:30 "Developers will be developing apps specifically for the iPad so there's going to be a whole new gold rush for app developers," Forstall says in the video.
"This multitouch is the largest we've ever built in a product," another Apple employee says.
You can share the device with someone else because they can view it off-angle.
Phil is talking about the price. "We wanted to take advanced technology hardware and software and do anything we could to get it in as many hands as possible."
Steve: "Do we have what it takes to establish a third category of product? An awesome product between the iPhone and the MacBook? The bar's pretty high, and it has to be better at doing some key things, like these. We think we've got the goods. We think we've done it. We're so excited about this product.
"We've shipped 75 million iphones, Over 75 million people who already know how to use the iPad because they've used the iPhone.
"Over 12 billion downloads for iTunes.
"We are ready for the iPad.
"The iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical revolutionary device at an unbelievable price."
"We think this is going to be a really great combination."
More from Steve: "We've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. To be able to get the best of both, to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view that also have them be intuitive, easy to use, fun to use.
"It's the combination of these two things that I think has let us make the kind of creative products like the iPad.
"We've got a hands-on area next door, we'd like you to go get your hands on the iPad."
He thanks us for coming; we're done
And that's a wrap. Thanks for joining us for this liveblog!
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This model, known as Mrs. Einstein, is the most complete vascular system from the head to the toes that FSG makes. It's used to demonstrate the path that catheters make.
This model shows the main arteries of the brain, including the Circle of Willis and Basilar artery. The measurements of a cadaver casting were used to make this model.
This model includes the trachea and the detailed branches of the bronchial tree. The bronchial rings were added using the measurements from a cadaver casting to make the model look and feel anatomical.
Wade Martindale heats up glass to create a joint. Wade is using a hand-held torch to heat an area on the femoral iliac to add a glass tube connection.
Wade Martindale bending the glass as he blows air through a tube. Wade is using a bench top torch to bend a glass tube with a large radius. The bench top torch helps heat a bigger section of the glass tube which allows the tube to bend easier.
A demonstration model is hooked up to a closed circuit pump to allow the flow of water without submerging it into a water bath. This allows a catheter to run smoothly through the veins for proper placement of a stent.
Detail of demonstration model.
This close up, shows a stent entering the coronary artery for a balloon catheter placement.
Gary Farlow can make art out of arteries. He and his team of 10 at Farlow's Scientific Glassblowing are able to transform the body's vasculature—and nearly all of its other parts—into an ornate borosilicate glass sculpture, from the heart's ventricles to the brain's circle of Willis. "We do almost every part of the body," Farlow says. "It can take a pretty artistic mind to make some of these things." With the help of cardiologists, the team creates custom see-through systems for science and medical training.
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Westwood temporarily halts Wisconsin enrollments
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Source: Wisconsin Educational Approval Board, which redacted some personal information.
Westwood College Online has temporarily stopped enrolling Wisconsin students, but maintains it doesn’t need approval from the Wisconsin agency that sent it a cease-and-desist letter.
Westwood College Senior Vice President William Ojile said in his Sept. 30 response to the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board that Wisconsin has no authority over Westwood, which is owned by Denver-based Alta College Inc.
Despite Westwood’s position, the school has stopped enrolling new students anyway as “purely a good-faith precautionary measure,” Ojile wrote.
The EAB said in a Sept. 16 letter to Westwood that an article in the Wisconsin State Journal and the complaint of a Westwood student who withdrew after reading the article “make clear that the risk exposure to Wisconsin residents warrants our attention,” and ordered the school to stop enrolling Wisconsin students. The article was produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
With the letter, the EAB entered the national fray over for-profit higher education and became the second state to act against Westwood College Online.
Ojile wrote that a clause of the U.S. Constitution prevents the EAB from restricting Westwood’s advertising and commerce outside Wisconsin.
In September, EAB Executive Secretary David Dies acknowledged Wisconsin was unusual for going after an online school based outside Wisconsin, but said that Westwood’s competitors have sought EAB approval. He wrote in the Sept. 16 letter to Westwood that Wisconsin statute gives him authority over schools “whether located within or outside the state.”
Ojile also wrote that Westwood doesn’t consider itself to be operating in Wisconsin. The school has not advertised in Wisconsin publications or targeted Wisconsin students in ads, doesn’t have a physical presence here, produces all its Web content outside Wisconsin and employs only one adjunct faculty member who is a Wisconsin resident.
Ojile’s letter does not say how many Wisconsin residents have enrolled or are currently attending Westwood.
A Westwood spokesman said today Westwood has about 100 students in Wisconsin.
Westwood also rebutted the complaint of Bradley Leikness, a Stoughton man who in August said he withdrew midway through his current term after learning the health care management degree he was studying for was not properly accredited and would suffice only for an entry-level job in the field. He said the school refused to give him a refund.
Ojile wrote that the Westwood catalog clearly described the program’s accreditation and the entry-level jobs for which graduates would qualify. He wrote the school had properly followed its refund policy and given Leikness a partial refund.
The Texas Workforce Commission has also ordered Westwood College Online to stop operating there, and has begun proceedings to revoke Westwood’s licenses for its campus-based operations.
Westwood College, one of the largest for-profits, has more than 15,000 students online and at its 17 campuses nationwide, according to its Web site.
Some of Westwood’s campuses are accredited by ACCSC, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges, which has placed it on probation. As a result, the Colorado Department of Higher Education has recommended to a state commission that it put Westwood’s license in that state on probation as well.
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<h1>Westwood temporarily halts Wisconsin enrollments</h1> <p class="byline">by Kate Golden, WisconsinWatch.org <br />October 6, 2010</p> <div class="sidebar2"> <h2>Primary source</h2> <p>Download Westwood's letter here: <a href="http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Westwood-Response-Open-Records-Version-2010-09-30.pdf" target="_blank">Westwood Sept. 30 response</a>.<br /> Source: Wisconsin Educational Approval Board, which redacted some personal information. </div> <p>Westwood College Online has temporarily stopped enrolling Wisconsin students, but maintains it doesn't need approval from the Wisconsin agency that sent it a cease-and-desist letter.</p> <p>Westwood College Senior Vice President William Ojile said in his Sept. 30 response to the Wisconsin Educational Approval Board that Wisconsin has no authority over Westwood, which is owned by Denver-based Alta College Inc. </p> <p>Despite Westwood’s position, the school has stopped enrolling new students anyway as "purely a good-faith precautionary measure,” Ojile wrote.</p> <p>The EAB <a href="http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2010/09/16/state-orders-for-profit-college-to-halt-enrollments/" target="_blank">said in a Sept. 16 letter to Westwood</a> that an article in the Wisconsin State Journal and the complaint of a Westwood student who withdrew after reading the article “make clear that the risk exposure to Wisconsin residents warrants our attention,” and ordered the school to stop enrolling Wisconsin students. <a href="http://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2010/08/20/for-profit-accused-of-operating-illegally-in-wisconsin/" target="_blank">The article</a> was produced by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.</p> <p>With the letter, the EAB entered the national <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5dS8VUbRv9PM8E8UiUV-jKAtm7QD9IIGDM82?docId=D9IIGDM82" target="_blank">fray over for-profit higher education</a> and became the second state to act against Westwood College Online.</p> <p>Ojile wrote that a clause of the U.S. Constitution prevents the EAB from restricting Westwood’s advertising and commerce outside Wisconsin.</p> <p>In September, EAB Executive Secretary David Dies acknowledged Wisconsin was unusual for going after an online school based outside Wisconsin, but said that Westwood’s competitors have sought EAB approval. He wrote in the Sept. 16 letter to Westwood that Wisconsin statute gives him authority over schools “whether located within or outside the state."</p> <p>Ojile also wrote that Westwood doesn’t consider itself to be operating in Wisconsin. The school has not advertised in Wisconsin publications or targeted Wisconsin students in ads, doesn’t have a physical presence here, produces all its Web content outside Wisconsin and employs only one adjunct faculty member who is a Wisconsin resident.</p> <p>Ojile’s letter does not say how many Wisconsin residents have enrolled or are currently attending Westwood.</p> <p>A Westwood spokesman said today Westwood has about 100 students in Wisconsin.</p> <p>Westwood also rebutted the complaint of Bradley Leikness, a Stoughton man who in August said he withdrew midway through his current term after learning the health care management degree he was studying for was not properly accredited and would suffice only for an entry-level job in the field. He said the school refused to give him a refund.</p> <p>Ojile wrote that the Westwood catalog clearly described the program's accreditation and the entry-level jobs for which graduates would qualify. He wrote the school had properly followed its refund policy and given Leikness a partial refund.</p> <p>The Texas Workforce Commission has also ordered Westwood College Online to stop operating there, and has begun proceedings to <a href="http://cbs11tv.com/local/westwood.college.texas.2.1911418.html" target="_blank">revoke Westwood’s licenses</a> for its campus-based operations.</p> <p>Westwood College, one of the largest for-profits, has more than 15,000 students online and at its 17 campuses nationwide, according to its Web site.</p> <p>Some of Westwood’s campuses are accredited by ACCSC, the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges, which has placed it on probation. As a result, the Colorado Department of Higher Education <a href="http://highered.colorado.gov/CCHE/Meetings/2010/oct/oct10index.html" target="_blank">has recommended</a> to a state commission that it put Westwood’s license in that state on probation as well.</p> <p>Subsidiary Westwood College Online, however, is accredited by ACICS, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, which has called Westwood's CEO onto the carpet to answer recent allegations against the school but has not initiated sanctions.</p>
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State orders for-profit college to halt enrollments
A for-profit college that is providing online classes without approval in Wisconsin was ordered Thursday by state regulators to immediately stop enrolling students in the state or face possible fines of up to $500 a day.
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Trump backs off tax cuts, pressures Fed on interest rates
By: Jamie Dupree
Updated: August 21, 2019 - 3:35 PM
A day after embracing the idea of a possible payroll tax cut to get more money in the hands of consumers and avoid any signs of an economic downturn, President Donald Trump reversed course on Wednesday and said he would not pursue tax cuts, instead turning up the pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in order to spur new economic growth.
"I'm not looking at a tax cut now, we don't need it - we have a strong economy," the President told reporters at the White House on Wednesday before leaving for events in Kentucky.
Mr. Trump specifically said he would not entertain the idea right now of indexing capital gains taxes - saying that skews to the benefit of more wealthy Americans - and would not be pressing for a payroll tax cut, something President Obama did in 2011 and 2012 as a way to help with growth.
Pres. Trump says he's "not looking at a tax cut now. We don't need it. We've got a strong economy."
The president said yesterday that he's considered a payroll tax cut but denied any link to recession fears. https://t.co/sGnQ1cUb5m pic.twitter.com/44nGRfCt5V
— ABC News (@ABC) August 21, 2019
With the idea of tax cuts evidently off the table, the President instead tried to shift the burden of any economic difficulties onto the Federal Reserve, again using his bully pulpit to press the Fed to lower interest rates, complaining that interest rate hikes in 2017 and 2018 had held back on growth.
"He raised interest rates too fast, too furious," Mr. Trump said of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell.
“The Federal Reserve has let us down,” the President added.
New notes released by the Fed on Wednesday afternoon showed members were divided on the best course for interest rates - with some wanting larger cuts as a way to spur economic growth, and insulate the U.S. from the threat of any slowdown.
President Trump says Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell "raised interest rates too fast, too furious" https://t.co/0CsADEdQJs pic.twitter.com/wvImwjgpw6
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 21, 2019
Some GOP lawmakers have urged the President to push for a new round of tax cuts, worried that the billions being collected in new tariffs levied by Mr. Trump have offset the benefits of Mr. Trump's 2017 tax cut package.
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Directors In Consideration For Asuran Movie Remake
3 Directors in consideration for Asuran movie remake
Suresh Babu wants to finalize a director soon for the film Asuran and he has three names on mind for the same.
One of the hot discussions in the Tollywood circles from the last few days is about the Telugu remake of Tamil blockbuster Asuran. Directed by Vetrimaaran, Asuran featured Dhanush in the lead roles. This rural-based drama was a big hit in Tamil Nadu and it once again proved the acting prowess of powerhouse talent Dhanush.
The Telugu remake of the film will be jointly bankrolled by the original movie producer Kalaipuli S. Thanu and Suresh Babu. Daggubati Venkatesh will be donning the lead role in the film. The director is yet to get finalized though. Earlier, it got reported that Ohmkar will helm the film. But that didn't happen.
We hear that Suresh Babu is considering multiple directors and is yet to finalize one among them. The ace producer is planning to give the responsibilities to either Tharun Bhascker or Hanu Raghavapudi or Sagar K Chandra.
Tharun is planning to make a film with Venkatesh ever since the success of Pelli Choopulu. Apparently, the director has a bound script for the actor but Suresh Babu wants him to direct this remake first before taking the other film on floors. Meanwhile, Hanu is currently lying low with the failures of Lie and Padi Padi Leche Manasu. A remake would be a safe bet for him to bounce back.
On the flip side, Sagar K Chandra proved his mettle by interesting films like Prathinidhi and Appatlo Okadundevadu. He is one of the directors who can handle a subject like Asuran very well. Anyways, let's wait and see who among these three get the final opportunity to direct the film.
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Event also raises money for various philanthropic efforts
The three Rivertownes — Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville — came together in their annual Riverfest...
Event also raises money for various philanthropic efforts The three Rivertownes — Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville — came together in their annual Riverfest... Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/dallastown-eastern-york-red-lion/2015/06/28/12th-annual-riverfest-commemorates-bridge-burning/72294272/
Kayakers stop in to enjoy the festivities during the 12th annual Riverfest at the John Wright Restaurant in Wrightsville Sunday June 28, 2015.(Photo: Chris Knight — For the Daily Record/Sunday News)
The three Rivertownes — Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville — came together in their annual Riverfest Sunday evening at John Wright Store & Restaurant in Wrightsville.
Now in its 12th year, the event was created as a fundraiser for the philanthropic efforts of Rivertownes PA USA to promote the art, heritage and recreation of the area, said David Haneman, the group's president and a resident of Marietta.
The group was key in converting the lighting on the Veterans Memorial Bridge between Columbia and Wrightsville to lower, more traditional-looking fixtures that still surpass PennDOT lighting standards. Those lights have recently become a source of controversy as many believe them to be at least partially responsible for swarms of mayflies that have caused accidents and shut down the bridge.
Haneman said the mayflies are always going to be there, regardless of the lighting, because they are a "river thing."
The group also works to restore historic buildings and take part in river cleanup.
But the event also commemorates the historic moment when Pennsylvanian Union forces shot down a Confederate attempt to move on to Harrisburg or even on to Philadelphia, Haneman said. When their first attempt to dynamite the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge spans failed they eventually set fire to them from the Columbia side and the bridge collapsed.
"We think if the bridge hadn't been burned then the Gettysburg battle could have been at Lancaster or closer to Harrisburg," he said, adding that capturing a northern capital would have been a major win for the rebels.
Before they lit three braziers of logs, one for each municipality, atop three of the pylons that supported the old bridge, attendees took in music from central Pennsylvania native — and current Venice, Calif., resident — Corty Byron and his band.
The venture is a win both for the Rivertownes group and for the restaurant that has hosted it since inception.
General manager Eric Schmidt said the event increases business at John Wright by roughly 25 percent each year, especially since it was changed to Sunday this year to accommodate more marriages on the lawn overlooking the Susquehanna on Saturday evenings.
But it's not just about the added business, he said, because the work the group does parallels John Wright's own interests in giving back to the community.
If you missed Riverfest this year, mark your calendars for June 26 next year, which will be a Sunday evening.
Wrightsville commemorates 150th anniversary of bridge burning
Civil War envelope, cancellation mark burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge
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Turkey Motorcycle and perform Forklift Import, a leader in the industry, which employs more than 200 people Yuki Motor Vehicle Production and Sales Corporation site in Yuki Motor Vehicles own registered brand name "Yuki Engine" in 2006 and began its activities in the motorcycle industry.
Quality leadership in Turkey every year, holding hands, to embrace the concept of quality products and services "Yuki Engine" 489 point of sale, serves 613 service centers and 150 spare parts sales point.
Yuki Motor, which brings together production, sales, service and customers in an honest and reliable business environment, offers products and services focused on meeting the expectations of the customers at the highest level with its continuously developed technology and strengthens its leading and competitive position in the market. Yuki Motor aims to excellence in sales and after-sales service with its authorized service training and promotional meetings, call center services.
Environment and Quality Policy
Why Yuki?
To be a brand that focuses on unconditional customer satisfaction, does not compromise on quality, has modern management and production systems and provides profitable and sustainable growth with all business partners.
Increasing the usage rate of motorcycle, which is an environment-friendly, economical and practical transportation tool.
As Yuki Motor, in order to manage all kinds of risks to our business continuity and information assets;
To meet the requirements of ISO / IEC 27001: 2013 Information Security Management System Standard
Establishing an Information Security Management System, supporting it with relevant policies and procedures, providing documentation, documenting, reviewing and improving continuously, -
Comply with the relevant relevant laws and regulations and fulfill the requirements of Information Security; to carry out the necessary sanctions and disciplinary procedures in case of violations,
Providing the necessary infrastructure and support to ensure the continuity of information automation and services that provide the operation of corporate processes in an uninterrupted and secure manner by considering access management principles;
Management of risks that threaten confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of information assets,
We undertake to carry out the necessary activities to ensure responsibility, awareness and awareness regarding this policy.
To comply with all environmental regulations and other requirements in carrying out our activities,
Çalışanlarımızın çevre bilincini arttırarak, çevresel performansımızı sürekli iyileştirmek,
Using global resources efficiently and encouraging recovery,
To prevent or minimize environmental pollution by ensuring the control of our wastes,
First of all, it is to protect the natural environment and to leave a livable nature to future generations starting from the working units.
To maintain and improve our ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management System and to follow the results with measurable and comparable data.
Our most important resource is human resources. To this end, it is to equip our employees with trainings, to ensure their participation, to enrich the potential and to provide ergonomic working conditions for our employees in all units.
Developing our mutual business relations with our dealers, services and suppliers and being in close cooperation with our strategic partners is to grow and develop with them.
To provide measurable improvements in every stage of our processes, to be in an innovative and competitive line, to progress with targets, to continuously improve systems, to ensure the continuity of development in our products and human resources, to adopt continuous improvement as a way of life.
Widespread Service Network
The most efficient service network in the industry spread across Turkey
The first and most effective customer service department serving in the sector with the importance it attaches to its customers
Operating in the manufacturing sector and established in 1954 " Yuki Motor Vehicles Manufacturing and sales A.P."experienced personnel with expertise in the field supported by experience
The company that makes the largest investment in professional quality management system covering all processes from supplier to end user in order to provide products and services above customer expectations
2 year warranty on all products.
Abundant and original spare parts
Turkey's largest motorcycle spare parts warehouse, which is built on an area of 15.000 m2 with a total of 8 million spare parts stock of 40,000 different kinds
Leading Brand
The leading brand which has been the most preferred motorcycle brand every year since its inception and has the largest production capacity in Turkey
Common Selling Point
The Most Efficient Dealer Network In Turkey At 400 Points
It is the only company that always seeks the best in its products with its 18.000 m2 production area and tests carried out in its laboratories which have been approved to produce motorcycles in European standards.
A brand that unites thousands of employees under one roof with mutual trust, loyalty and loyalty, formed by a network of Sales, Service and spare parts spread from its factory all over Turkey
Extensive Spare Parts Network
The most efficient spare parts dealer network in the sector spread throughout Turkey
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Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7Season 8Season 9Season 10Season 11Season 12Season 13Season 14Season 15Season 16Season 17Season 18Season 19Season 20Season 21Season 22Season 23Season 24Season 25Season 26Season 27Season 28Season 29Season 30Season 31
Episode 1: The Falcon And The D'ohman
Episode 2: Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
Episode 3: Treehouse of Horror XXII
Episode 4: Replaceable You
Episode 5: The Food Wife
Episode 6: The Book Job
Episode 7: The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
Episode 8: The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
Episode 9: Holidays Of Future Passed
Episode 10: Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson
Episode 11: The D'oh-cial Network
Episode 12: Moe Goes From Rags To Riches
Episode 13: The Daughter Also Rises
Episode 14: At Long Last Leave
Episode 15: Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
Episode 16: How I Wet Your Mother
Episode 17: Them, Robot
Episode 18: Beware My Cheating Bart
Episode 19: A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again
Episode 20: The Spy Who Learned Me
Episode 21: Ned 'n' Edna's Blend
Episode 22: Lisa Goes Gaga
The Simpsons - Season 23, Episode 8: The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
In the third season, we live a series of intense animation events, Homer takes a dangerous dive into a secluded valley at Candy Beck, but when a rock collides with his arm, he meets Aaron Ralston to save himself. 'The Bell and Butterball', the first three tales of Halloween to raise hair, and the poisonous spider baton leaves a crippled Homer, but when Lisa discovers Homer's ability to communicate through natural gases, he is able to express his love for Marge. The killers continue in Dial D for Diddly, when Ned Flanders, the preacher of the day, turns into a cool night guard at night. In the final horror.
Comedy, Animation
Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Tom Colicchio, Kevin Michael Richardson, Kiefer Sutherland, Marcia Wallace, Chris Edgerly, ...»
James L. Brooks, Sam Simon, Matt Groening
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Actors Of "The Simpsons - Season 23"
29 October 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Julie Kavner
7 September 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 October 1957, Dayton, Ohio, USA
3 July 1964, Paris, France
25 April 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
23 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
Tom Colicchio
15 August 1962, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
25 October 1964, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
21 December 1966, Paddington, London, England, UK
1 November 1942, Creston, Iowa, USA
Chris Edgerly
6 August 1969, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Pamela Hayden
28 November 1953, USA
Tress MacNeille
20 June 1951, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ping Marshall
27 October 1858, New York City, New York, USA
Maggie Roswell
14 November 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 June 1931, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
27 October 1975, USA
14 July 1960, Dolton, Illinois, USA
Russi Taylor
4 May 1944, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
19 September 1960, Seattle, Washington, USA
25 June 1956, New York City, New York, USA
3 February 1976, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
8 November 1966, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
7 April 1976, Audubon, Pennsylvania, USA
10 November 1960, Portchester, England, UK
12 April 1956, Havana, Cuba
13 August 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 June 1965, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
19 August 1965, Mamaroneck, New York, USA
28 September 1964, Newton, New Jersey, USA
8 June 1933, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
15 February 1954, Portland, Oregon, USA
Dana Gould
24 August 1964, Hopedale, Massachusetts, USA
13 December 1948, Detroit, Michigan, USA
28 August 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 April 1947, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Adrian Hughes
Martyn Jacques
Adrian Stout
19 September 1948, Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
7 June 1988, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Jamie Hyneman
25 September 1956, Marshall, Michigan, USA
15 July 1967, New York City, New York, USA
23 July 1971, Decatur, Illinois, USA
3 July 1971, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
21 February 1955, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Robbie Conal
Kenny Scharf
14 May 1952, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
19 March 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
2 February 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
Bill Plympton
30 April 1946, Portland, Oregon, USA
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
1 December 1951, Rowayton, Connecticut, USA
Renee Ridgeley
7 March 1956, Hollywood, California, USA
29 March 1943, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
28 March 1986, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Characters Of "The Simpsons - Season 23"
Played by: Dan Castellaneta
Played by: Julie Kavner
Played by: Nancy Cartwright
Played by: Yeardley Smith
Cletus Spuckler
Played by: Hank Azaria
Principal Skinner
Played by: Harry Shearer
The Wolf Man
Played by: Kiefer Sutherland
Edna Krabappel
Played by: Marcia Wallace
Milhouse Van Houten
Played by: Pamela Hayden
Brandine Spuckler
Played by: Tress MacNeille
Played by: Theodore Roosevelt
Helen Lovejoy
Played by: Maggie Roswell
Rabbi Hyman Krustofski
Played by: Jackie Mason
Played by: Jane Lynch
Martin Prince
Played by: Russi Taylor
Sir Mix A Lot
Played by: Tim Heidecker
Played by: Neil Gaiman
Annie Dubinsky
Played by: Joan Rivers
Cameron Winklevoss
Played by: Armie Hammer
Played by: David Letterman
Played by: Kelsey Grammer
Mona Simpson
Played by: Glenn Close
Declan Desmond
Played by: Eric Idle
Played by: Lady Gaga
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film festival - Daily News Egypt
Egyptian artists at the Luxor film festival condemn bombings
Egyptian artists in Luxor for the film festival felt it was necessary to take a stand and denounce the bombings that took place in the...
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Film Festival Locarno honors Mario Adorf’s lifetime achievement
Rome Film Festival announces 14th edition’s honourees, programme
Actress Viola Davis to receive the lifetime achievement award, while Cristina Comencini’s Tornare to be the closing film of the festival
BFI London Film Festival reveals opening film
The film stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Colette, Katherine Langford, and Christopher Plummer.
63rd BFI London Film Festival programme announced
Number of 229 feature films from world’s greatest filmmakers, emerging talent will be screened
Certified Mail to premiere at Toronto Film Festival
The film will screen on 6 September and will have reruns on 7 September.
Knight & Princess confirmed at 3rd edition of El Gouna Film Festival
Film is Egypt’s 1st animated feature
Pre-opening event of 76th Venice International Film Festival to screen Extase
Restored copy of film-scandal to be screened in Sala Darsena
The Personal History of David Copperfield to open 63rd BFI London Film Festival
The film’s European premiere will be on Wednesday, 2 October at Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square. This fresh take on the classic novel of Charles Dickens boasts a stellar British cast, led by Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw, Paul Whitehouse, and Gwendoline Christie
Edinburgh International Film Festival announces awards
More than 500 filmmakers were in attendance this year to support their films with over 800 press and industry delegates and 270 youth delegates also present.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival honours Miloš Fikejz
Festival also announced other features of its programme for this year
Toronto International Film Festival announces 2019 Platform Jury
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Carlo Chatrian, Jessica Kiang to select winner of this year’s Toronto Platform prize
The Specials to be closing film of Cannes
Since last year, the Festival de Cannes has ended on a Saturday and no longer on a Sunday. As the last night has retrieved the warmest colours of the party and celebration, the last film screened will be a beautiful end to an Official Selection launched eleven days earlier.
On pleasing audience: Mahmoud Hemeda gives acting masterclass during Luxor African Film Festival
Egyptian actor Mahmoud Hemeda delivered a master class on acting skills and talked about his career during the Luxor African Film Festival, which took place from 15 to 21 March 2019. The masterclass started with screening some scenes and trailers of various films in which Hemeda starred. The talk was moderated by the festival’s President, …
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Looking into 2019 Luxor African Film Festival programme
Aside from the long-feature film competition, the Luxor African Film Festival included other competitions which brought dozens of films from all over the continent, in different forms, long features, documentaries, and shorts. In the long documentary films competition, 10 films were screened. The first was Boxing Libreville. It follows Christ, a young boxer who trains …
Eighth edition of Luxor African Film Festival launches from Karnak Temple
The 8th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) kicked off on Friday with the attendance of several renowned Egyptian filmmakers, artists, state officials, and diplomats. The festival was held under the slogan “Cinema: Many Lives to Live,” from 15 to 21 March. The festival’s director, Sayed Fouad, said in the opening speech that …
Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival: 12 films bring continent’s dreams, fears, aspirations, hopes
The Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival kicked off its 3rd edition with 12 films in its main competition for features films, including works from all over the continent. Indonesian filmmaker Ravi Bharwani delivers a humanitarian story in his film 27 Steps of May, where we follow the story of a father and daughter who are …
Sharm El-Sheikh Asian Film Festival: competition of hope, anticipation
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Luxor African Film Festival to kick off 16 March
The Luxor African Film Festival held a press conference on Sunday announcing its full programme and schedule for its seventh edition, due to begin on 16 March. The festival is organised by the Independent Shabab Foundation (ISF), which was founded in 2006 and aims at developing capable film artists across Egypt. According to the festival’s …
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A politicised Cannes Festival reflects on immigration crisis
Some of the films can be considered explicit messages to world leaders in hope of reconsidering policies related to refugees
“A Day for Women” to be screened in African, Asian, and Latin American Film Festival
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The film festival screened films from 29 countries
Mario Adorf never let himself be enticed by Hollywood. This year’s Film Festival Locarno honors the German actor with the ‘Pardo alla Carriera’ for his lifetime achievement. An interview with DW.
Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling to shine at Venice Film Festival
The prestigious Venice Film Festival has announced a lineup of 20 films vying for a Golden Lion. Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Ryan Gosling in a musical romantic comedy made the shortlist.
11mm Football Film Festival kicks off more international than ever
11mm, the world’s largest football film festival, kicked off on Thursday in Berlin with an international crowd uniting across borders to celebrate football’s most memorable moments – like the infamous Wembley goal.
Berlinale: 10 things you should know about Germany’s most important film festival
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Trains from University (Birmingham) to Stourbridge Junction
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The Terrible Ten: 2015’s Most Avoidable Horror Movies
Oh the giddy joy of the “the worst list”…it’s awful to admit it, but writing about terrible movies is so much fun I’m almost ashamed of myself…I’m not quite there yet, but I’m working up to feeling actual shame.
But let’s not talk about that, instead let’s focus on the worst, most awful horror movies that the last year has had to offer…come on now, you know you want to.
I gotta say, 2015 has been a good year for bad movies, so good in fact, that boiling it down to only ten titles took some actual effort on my part, but here it is, for your enjoyment you kickass horror fans, the most easily avoidable horror films of 2015 (in no particular order).
I must say, that this particular title was the most disappointing of the bunch for me, mainly because Keanu Reeves had just rocked my world in the brilliant action flick John Wick, and then he went and made this sucktastic piece of high handed crap and just ruined it for me. In Knock Knock, Reeves plays a devoted husband who is “seduced” by two drop dead gorgeous women (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo) who then proceed to destroy everything he holds dear…and as a whole the movie is so awful you will not give one fuck about what is happening to poor, scenery chewing Keanu.
Of course Keanu can’t take all the blame, this cinematic abortion was written and directed by none other than fallen horror god (yeah, I said it) Eli Roth, so some (all) of the responsibility of the sheer suckage can be placed squarely in Roth’s lap.
Shit, this movie made me mad…I mean, I love Eli Roth, Hostel 2 was the shit (in frikin italics) and everyone knows it, but this, THIS movie makes me wanna give up on horror altogether and join a Twilight fan club…okay maybe it’s not quite that bad…no wait, yes it is!
Gnome Alone
I often wonder about the process of film making, in particular, I wonder how movies get greenlit, most specifically pieces of shit like Gnome Alone. I mean, one would think that the concept of Verne Troyer as an evil gnome would merit a pass from any movie studio, and yet, somehow, here it is, a movie starring Troyer as an evil, supposedly frightening gnome.
Okay then…
Not that I don’t think little people can play villains, because Warwick Davis was the MAN in Leprechaun, but Troyer’s turn as the titular mythical menace leaves a lot to be desired. Firstly, the gnome seems about as intimidating as a scabby kitty, which would be bad enough, but coupled with horrifically bad dialogue, soft-core porn level acting and a storyline that could only accurately be described as acutely idiotic, Gnome Alone is a steaming mess of a movie in every way imaginable.
There are certain magical times in a gal’s life when she’s just got to throw all decorum to the wind, and scream “I told you this was gonna suck bitches”…well, picture me doing just that when it comes to this super shitty (totally unnecessary) remake.
Come on, let’s face it, no one (but NO ONE) could have possibly thought that a remake to Poltergeist, arguably one of the greatest horror films ever made, was gonna end up being anything but a cheap, over-hyped imitation so craptastic it would bend space time and bring on the End of Days. Okay, obviously Poltergeist isn’t bad enough to break the world, but this updated tale of a family trapped in a haunted house with daughter-snatching ghosts is a bland, completely forgettable flick that would suck even it wasn’t a remake of an undeniable classic. Even Jared Harris, who is so awesome he can probably walk on water, could not save this tripe…my suggestion, skip this junk and watch the original instead.
The Human Centipede 3: Final Sequence
I really don’t think I need to explain why The Human Centipede 3 is an awful fucking movie…but I will anyway.
HC3, like its two predecessors, is really only about forcing people to eat crap, literally. Some other stuff happens in this latest atrocity written and directed by German poop fetishist Tom Six, including “boiling water boarding”, castration and the eating of cooked testicles and dried clitorises (not kidding), but let’s be honest, no one goes to see the films in this series to see anything other than human beings being sewn together ass to mouth for the sole purpose of making them eat crap.
Well, if that’s what you’re into, you’ll definitely be getting a lot of it here, because this particular human centipede is 500 people long…500 people attached in a most unsanitary way…ewwww.
I have nothing good to say here, this movie is as unforgivably awful and disgusting as the other two movies in the series and should probably not be viewed by anyone..for any reason…ever…sigh.
The Exorcism of Molly Hartley
To quote myself: “Sequels are always kinda touch and go, some are good, some are great, some, like this one, are the cinematic equivalent of eating week old fried chicken…nasty, unsatisfying and guaranteed to make you wish you’d never tried it in the first place.”
This mind-numbingly bad continuation of the (unbelievably stupid) adventures of Molly Hartley is a very bad… so very, very bad, that I have now happily suppressed the whole thing from my memory. Should you, however, be considering trying this one out, click here for my spoiler ridden review and spare yourselves the suffering.
You know what? Jennifer Lopez is a beautiful woman…and she has a lovely body and looks very nice both in and out of her clothing…oh and also, her co-star Ryan Guzman is equally super hawt and totally able to speak words comprehensibly…there, I have said something nice about The Boy Next Door, yay me!
Apart from the physical charms of the two main stars, however, this awful flick about a teacher (Lopez) whose unsexy dalliance with one of her students quickly turns deadly, is absolutely torturous to sit through…and by torturous I mean silly, formulaic, badly scripted/acted/directed and more than anything, unforgivably dull. I’ve honestly seen pornos with better storylines and more believable chemistry between the leads…so I guess what I’m saying is, go watch a porno instead.
The Gallows
What can I say about this wretched, hand-held indie to accurately describe how truly terrible it is…
How about this? I have watched this movie about a misguided troupe of high school drama students trying to resurrect a failed play with a tragic past, a grand total of four times and for some inexplicable reason I have NO recollection of it whatsoever…and I’m being 100% serious.
Now, my lack of memory isn’t proof positive that this is an awful movie, but let’s be honest, no one ever forgot The Exorcist or The Godfather. Good movies aren’t usually forgettable, they stick with you, but in this case, the credits will barely be done running before The Gallows will be all but gone from your memory.
This misguided tale about a team of young scientists who discover the secret to resurrecting the newly dead, had so very much potential (and a misleadingly intriguing trailer) that I was genuinely disappointed to find it was nothing more than an empty, half-baked Flatliners ripoff. Worst part of the whole sordid affair, is that nothing (but NOTHING) happens in the first bloody hour of the movie, and when the plot does finally begin unwinding, the events are so unoriginal and really just flat out uninspired that I could barely summon up enough interest to care about what was happening.
This is one of those instances where the title of the film really does explain EVERYTHING you really need to know about a movie.
Plainly speaking, this nasty cinematic mess really is the pile of festering trash that its title implies, and there is really no reason for anyone to subject themselves to this awful flick.
#Horror
If there was an award for the year’s most pretentious horror film, #Horror would win it, hands fucking down.
A movie about cyber bullying gone mad, #Horror tries very hard to be less horror and more art film, but instead only manages to sacrifice all substance and sense in pursuit of style. Couple that with uninteresting characters and a pointless storyline, and you have a recipe for a downright horrific experience…and not in a good way.
Dishonorable Mention: Sinister 2, Some Kind of Hate, The Vatican Tapes & Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Lemme know what you thought of The Most Avoidable Horror Movies of 2015 horror fans, did I miss any truly bad flicks? Drop me a line with you thoughts, and as always, if you like what you’ve read here at A Girl’s Guide to Horror, be a peach and give us a share…and don’t forget to click that Like button 😉
Categories HorrorTags #Horror Movie, 2015 Horror Movies, Gnome Alone, Knock Knock 2015 Movie, Muck Movie, Poltergeist 2015, The Boy Next Door Movie 2015, The Exorcism of Molly Hartley, The Gallows Movie 2015, The Human Centipede 3 Final Sequence, The Lazarus Effect (2014), Worst Horror Movies of 2015
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2 thoughts on “The Terrible Ten: 2015’s Most Avoidable Horror Movies”
mwilliams
Thanks for the heads up! A couple of these are on my must-watch list, so I’m glad to get another perspective. However:
Human Centipede Anything-WTF is wrong with people? Is the whole series about doing something because it can be done, but not necessarily because it should be done? Again, thanks for doing the research so I don’t have to.
Loved the list. I couldn’t get thru the whole human centipede 3 movie. I watched the first 2 and laughed hysterically at the nonsense but 3, good lord! I couldn’t stand the acting… or lack there of. You missed Unfriended; a story of a bunch of high school friends behind tormented by a girl they bullied and eventually killed herself. The whole movie is set on the Internet with them all on Skype or chat. It was awful!
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1328 Montana Avenue,
Thu, Sep 6, 2018
THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT 4
Double Feature!
FEVER RISES AT EL PAO / SUCH A PRETTY LITTLE BEACH
Presented by Midcentury Productions and the American Cinematheque, with the support of the French Film & TV office, French Consulate.
Introduction by Don Malcolm.
FEVER RISES AT EL PAO
LA FIEVRE MONTE A EL PAO
1959, Janus Films, 97 min, France/Mexico, Dir: Luis Buñuel
In Luis Buñuel’s incendiary LA FIEVRE MONTE A EL PAO, Gérard Philipe plays an idealistic reformer who becomes embroiled in complex political intrigue when a repressive dictator is assassinated. Among the supporting cast are many of Mexico’s most celebrated and distinguished actors (Roberto Cañedo, Andres Soler, Victor Junco, Domingo Soler), topped by the legendary Maria Felix as the conniving widow of the fallen dictator. Legendary cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa captures both the heat and the stark angles of an island paradise thrust into a seemingly endless inferno.
Gregorio Walerstein
Jacques Bar
Óscar Dancigers
Charles Dorat
Louis Sapin
Luis Alcoriza
Gabriel Figueroa
Jean Servais
SUCH A PRETTY LITTLE BEACH
UNE SI JOLIE PETITE PLAGE
1949, Pathe, 91 min, France/Netherlands, Dir: Yves Allégret
In endless rain on France’s Breton coast, Gérard Philipe gives his most unforgettable performance as a man on the run in Yves Allegret’s UNE SI JOLIE PETITE PLAGE. It’s surely one of the bleakest - and wettest - noirs of all time, with an unforgettable cast of cynical and compromised characters, with Madeleine Robinson as the only ray of light in Philipe’s desperate attempt to escape his plight.
Émile Darbon
Jacques Sigurd
Henri Alekan
Madeleine Robinson
Yves Allégret
FEVER RISES AT EL PAO in French and Spanish with English subtitles. SUCH A PRETTY LITTLE BEACH in French with English subtitles. | Screening format: DCP
Aero Theatre • Thu, Sep 6, 2018 • 7:30pm
Films in this Series at the Aero
POISON IVY / THE STRANGE MR. STEVE
Fri, Sep 7, 2018 - 7:30pm
MAIGRET SETS A TRAP / SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE
Sat, Sep 8, 2018 - 7:30pm
THE LAST OF THE SIX / THE ASSASSIN LIVES AT 21
Sun, Sep 9, 2018 - 7:30pm
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The Academic Friends of Israel
Extremism leads to Terrorism. Are Jewish schools exempt?
Recent press articles have equated Jewish schools with radical Muslim schools some of which promote segregation from the wider society. This is worrying but unsurprising. About 18000 children aged 5 to 16, attend Jewish schools in the UK. The schools range from those who describe themselves as having a ‘Jewish Pluralist Ethos’ like JCOSS to Talmud Torah Tiferes Schlomoh which ‘has been branded a failing school by Ofsted, which judged it spends too much time teaching Jewish religious studies’ (Ham and High, 9 April 2015).
All sensible people would applaud the Government’s new, revised Prevent strategy on Extremism and Terrorism and would do whatever they can to support it. Prevent concludes that extremism leads to terrorism. We may think nothing like this would happen in our schools but recently in Israel an alleged ‘terrorist Jew’ fire bombed a Palestinian house in Duma killing a small child. It is too easy to say it simply would not happen in Britain. We cannot be complacent: firstly it might happen here, and secondly even if it doesn’t, our detractors are starting to tar us with the same brush as the Muslim extremists as was shown in a Sky News report on this subject last week by a National Secular Society spokesman
Most of our Jewish schools strive to teach our children the value of tolerance and respect for the wider community, indeed in many Jewish schools there are non-Jewish students learning alongside the Jewish students in harmony and respect. However the Prevent strategy has gathered evidence which shows worryingly a different picture both globally and in the UK:
‘There have been allegations that a minority of independent faith schools have been actively promoting views that are contrary to British values, such as intolerance of other cultures and gender inequality. There have also been reports that some independent faith schools have allowed extremist views to be expressed by staff, visitors or pupils..’ ( Prevent Strategy Review 10.32)
Can we in the Anglo Jewish community be certain that this does not apply to any of our independent faith schools?
The problems begins to arise in those Jewish schools, some of which are state funded, which do not wish to teach the children to mix with the general population, often insultingly referred to as ‘goyim’. Their curriculum is limited, not including for example sex education, or Science, Music or Art in full. The School’s view is these subjects are not deemed suitable or necessary for its children. The result is that children in these schools are not being exposed to British society. Would it not be better for the children from these so called ultra-orthodox schools to be taught about all that society can offer and then educated, having that knowledge, that as Jews they need to be circumspect as to how much it is proper for them to avail themselves of?
What is required is a dialogue with the Rabbis who run these schools, explaining just how dangerous and potentially disastrous this blinkered approach could be. Isn’t there a profound risk that extremism in the Jewish world will turn into terrorism, and then fuelled by media reports, become anti Semitism?
Our non-Jewish friends may believe us when we tell them that it is only a minority of schools who act in this way. However the figures show that as much as one in four of the 10000 primary school children in Jewish school do in fact go to schools which the majority of Anglo Jewry would consider right wing; the schools with these limited curriculums are thus failing to teach pupils all that society can offer.
Indeed such is the concern in the wider community that the Government’s Chief inspector of schools has only this week said that he will ensure that all schools teach the importance of British values as a “top priority” and he referred specifically to those with a large Jewish and Muslim intake.
We need to face up to the potential dangers and help ourselves.
Lola Fraser
Academic Friends of Israel
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Free Comic Book Day 2012: Marvel Comics
This may be post-Avengers fever talking, but Marvel Comics' Avengers: Age of Ultron #.1 is the perfect Free Comic Book Day offering. First of all, based on the criteria I established in my last review, this comic is a complete issue, like any you could pick up off the stands. It isn't a stand alone story, though; it's the beginning of another Avengers adventure, one that has Tony Stark quaking in his iron boots. For casual readers of the Avengers (like me), or a newbie to comics fresh from the movie, what better way to hook 'em then by striking fear in who we've perceived as a fearless hero?
Marvel also presents some of its top talent in this free funnybook, with Brian Michael Bendis behind the words, and Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary behind the pictures. Again, I'm only a casual fan of these artists, but Bendis sets a motley stage, with Avengers of all types in attendence, introducing new readers to characters they wouldn't have seen in the film. Further, Bendis creates a very poignant problem and offers a multi-faceted way to solve it, with a slew of macabre villains along the way. Hitch and Neary volley superhero adventure and espionage very well, and while the characters' grimaces are very realistic, weirdos like M.O.D.O.K. look appropriately -- well, weird.
Perhaps this is what struck me most about this issue: it's a classic superhero team versus a classic super-villain team, mirroring each other in opposite objectives on the same spectrum. Despite the contemporary context, this issue seemed very old-fashioned (another term Avengers movie fans might remember), yet without shoving nostalgia down out throats. Here, we can have a horde of bad guys working together, and they don't operate under a name like "The Secret Society of Ne'er-Do-Wells." They're just there, in a cave, almost like a terror cell, doing something that could cause great harm to the world, for their own selfish gains. Then, superheroes try to stop them. This is the genre. For a moment in this issue, Steve Rogers (formerly Captain America) is tempted to think it's more complicated than that, as covert groups come to light, but in the end everyone just works together.
And that's the pleasant thing about this issue. Everything works together, with a satisfying ending that leaves just enough dangling to keep us coming back for more. The unspoken thesis of Free Comic Book Day is this: "Here is something for free. Is it good enough to make you come back next week and PAY for it?" In this case, I say, "Absolutely." Avengers readers, assemble!
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Labels: Brian Michael Bendis, Bryan Hitch, Captain America, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Paul Neary, The Avengers
Free Comic Book Day 2012: DC Comics
Aaaaand we're back! The first Saturday in May has become one of my favorite days of the year, because it's Free Comic Book Day! Although I've spent most of my time away from A Comic A Day creating comics, I can't resist the chance to review a few of this year's FCBD offerings -- so, these posts will come sporadically, but they will come, starting with . . .
DC Comics' The New 52 was exactly what I expected: heady, convoluted, and generally unfriendly to anyone interested in picking up a DC Comic for the first time. A friend of mine asked what I thought of the New 52 concept yesterday, and this issue represents my opinions perfectly: if the attempt was to establish an entry-level experience for new readers, mission failed. Generally, in just these past nine months of "the new 52" experience, we've been "reintroduced" to the DC Universe via a muddied five-year timeline for our beloved characters, and, now, multiple earths. If the goal was to put old and new readers alike on the same page, consider it done, because everybody's confused.
Specifically, the FCBD The New 52 issue was a waste of an effort. It didn't tell a complete story but rather teased several upcoming stories, and the main yarn is spun around Pandora, a character that has haunted DC's titles since their relaunch. Here, her origin is told, and basically she is the Pandora of old that opened that terrible box, a sin on par with whatever condemned the Phantom Stranger and the Question to their respective fates, as well. Of course, if you're a new reader, you have no idea who the Phantom Stranger and the Question are, so that detail would be lost. Cut to Pandora, today, trying to retrieve her famous box from A.R.G.U.S., which must be DC's answer to S.H.I.E.L.D., then to Batman fighting a Green Lantern that isn't Hal Jordan, then to a four-page foldout that zooms back to the entire Justice League fighting each other. The issue concludes with a bunch of one to three page teasers of other DC titles.
I know these characters from decades' worth of reading, and in twenty-some pages, I was confused, disillusioned, and ultimately rendered uninterested. How would anyone that has never read a DC comic feel? The New 52 has Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman on the cover, and it serves no one looking for a Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman story -- either for the first time, or for the first time since the relaunch. Again -- what a waste.
The Superman Family Adventures Flip Book was a much more familiar depiction of my favorite superheroes, and since it was primarily intended for children, I don't know if DC is inadvertently calling me a baby for wanting something simpler from my superheroes, or if their comics have simply outgrown me. Whatever -- Art Baltazar and Franco tell a simple Superman story with the Lois/Clark/Perry/Jimmy paradigm that made these characters timeless, and that's good enough for me. The Green Lantern story on the other side of this issue was short, sweet, and complete, thus, enjoyable -- and the Young Justice snippet ended too soon, which means I was successfully left wanting more.
Ultimately, between these two comic books, I don't feel like I read even one whole comic book, but instead I flipped through a sales pamphlet of product available soon at a comic shop near you! I thought it was Free Comic Book Day, not Free Comic Book Samplers Day. Call me old-fashioned, but I think the best way to get people to read comic books is to give them a good comic book.
Labels: Art Baltazar, DC Comics, Franco, Free Comic Book Day, Gene Ha, Geoff, Ivan Reis, Jim Lee, Joe Prado, Johns, Kenneth Rocafort, Scott Williams
Welcome to A Comic A Day!
From July 2006 to June 2007, I reviewed a comic a day and have since posted over 500 comic book reviews here, from series of all kinds. Now, I'm just blogging all things comics, from the issues I read, to their pop culture influence, to their amazing appearances in the strangest of merchandise. If you look hard enough, you too can find a comic a day.
If you see a comic I've missed, or have something related you'd like me to review, just drop me a line!
Who IS This Geek?
KaraokeFanboy
Just this Side of a Comic Book, USA
Here's all the random stuff that made me -- and keeps me -- a comic book artist and geek.
Karaoke Comics #1
I've finally completed my OWN self-published comic! E-mail me for more info!
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K.O. Comix
ComicSpace
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Geek in the City
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Where Does He Get These Wonderful Comics?
Alternative Press Expo, San Francisco, CA
Atomic Comics, Phoenix, AZ
The Comic Bookie, Claremont, CA
Comic-Con International, San Diego, CA
Comics, Toons, 'N Toys, Tustin, CA
Cornerstore Comics, Anaheim, CA
Drawn to Comics, Glendale, AZ
Frank & Son Collectible Show, Industry, CA
Golden Apple Comics, Hollywood, CA
LA Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention, Los Angeles, CA
Meltdown Comics, Hollywood, CA
Spazdog Comics, Phoenix, AZ
West Hollywood Book Fair, Hollywood, CA
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Yellow Cedar
A dying yellow-cedar stand in southeast Alaska. Image: Paul Hennon
ACRC is investigating the ecological effects of yellow-cedar decline, and the market potential of dead tree stands to provide needed economic opportunities to local timber mills.
Yellow-cedar, one of the most culturally and economically important tree species of the northern PCTR, is in rapid decline across southeast Alaska due to climate change. As temperatures rise, the region is seeing decreases in the winter snowpack that insulates the shallow root system of these trees during late season freeze events.
The decline is impacting hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest and jeopardizing regional logging businesses as well as traditional Alaska native practices that have relied on the this strong, long-lasting wood and bark source for thousands of years.
Yellow-cedar Economics
Yellow-cedar is a highly valued wood. Yellow-cedar trees have renowned decay-resistant properties, which is why they are widely used for carving and building. They can remain standing and retain their strength and integrity even decades after death. Salvage logging of dead yellow-cedar could be a valuable timber source for small-scale mills in rural Southeast Alaska, supporting jobs in the Tongass National Forest, while relieving harvest pressure from live yellow-cedar stands. ACRC and partners are working to better understand the market for yellow-cedar products in the state, the feasibility of harvesting dead yellow-cedar stands, and the challenges and benefits for communities in expanding this potential market.
Yellow-cedar Ecology
ACRC researchers are investigating the impacts of salvage logging on the ecology of the landscape. Understanding how this practice effects surrounding plant and animal life and the successional growth of the ecosystem after harvest is an important consideration in determining whether salvage harvest practices are worthwhile. Yellow-cedar trees aren’t typically useful for wildlife, with the exception of bats, which use both yellow-cedar and redcedar as roosting sites. ACRC is comparing the ecological composition of harvested and unharvested dead yellow-cedar stands to better understand the impacts of this practice on wildlife and ecosystem function.
As the range of yellow-cedar decline spreads, we are also looking ahead to how the vegetation communities of the forest may shift, and what the regeneration dynamics of yellow-cedar are. We are also interested in the population genetics of this species and how this has been shaped by the region's glacial history, and what this might tell us about opportunities for management and conservation.
Limited stand expansion by a long-lived conifer at a leading northern range edge, despite available habitat
Allison Bidlack (albidlack@alaska.edu)
Brian Buma, UC Denver (brian.buma@ucdenver.edu )
Sarah Bisbing, University Nevada Reno (sbisbing@unr.edu)
Clarence Clark, Southeast Alaska Resources (clarence.clark@alaska.gov)
Lauren Oakes, Wildlife Conservation Society (leoakes@stanford.edu)
Sari Saunders, BC MFLNRO (Sari.Saunders@gov.bc.ca)
John Krapek (jpkrapek@gmail.com)
UAS School of Arts & Sciences
Juneau Forestry Sciences Lab
11175 Auke Lake Way
Juneau, AK 99801
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July 22nd: Eat Art tattoo
Marathon Eat Art
Permanence is rarely associated with performance. The ephemeral action, set in the field of arts, seems to have no consequences nor traces in the future. The notion of risk appears to be evacuated from theater and performances. Body Art arrived in 1960s as a movement using the body as material, in a cultural era were many freedoms were gained. It was a movement appreciated by many feminists and they took a lot of riskx during their performances, which popularised a lot their movement.
«The body artists were a loose group - mostly categorized as a group by critics and art historians - which developed early within the Performance Art movement. The larger movement's main impetus was to evolve definitions of art to include situations in which time, space, the artist's presence, and the relationship between artist and viewer constituted an artwork. To the body artists, the artist's presence translated to an artist's physicality; not only did they need to personally fulfill a role in the presentation of an artwork, their own flesh and blood would become a key figure in the work as well.»
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-body-art.htm
Engraving words and concepts in the flesh is was eating and art in my practice is what I do in my practice. Risk taking is essential.
I contacted the tattoo artist Cammy who work for Minuit Dix studio in Montreal with a description of my project: the meaningful concepts of Eat Art are luckily contained in its title. Camille works with the hand poke technique, a new experience for me, surprinsingly less painful than the tattoo machine.
The conversation during and beforehand the tattoo sessions, the sketches she did to prepare it, the waiver signing and committement and the walk to the ATM machoine to pay her were all engraved as strong memories for this Body Performance in which the actions were made on me, rather than by me.
http://minuitdixtattoo.com/
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Australian Service Personnel, Photograph Albums, Anzac Mounted Division Daily Reports, February 1918, Album Contents
Topic: AAC-Photo Albums
Australian Service Personnel
Photograph Albums
Anzac Mounted Division Daily Reports, February 1918, Album Contents
Major General Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor KCMG KCVO CB Commanding Officer of the Anzac Mounted Division
During the Jordan Valley days of the Anzac Mounted Division in 1918, a daily report was issued to the Brigades under its command to keep the men informed as to the happenings around them. The information was vital to keep the men alive and well.
This archive was discovered in private hands and has been generously donated to the Australian public for open use. The pages are only free for private study purposes and cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes.
This album comprises these reports. Each report page is posted twice, the first post being a full sized document while the second is of smaller size noted with an "s" at the end of the link.
Each dated document should be read in conjunction with the Anzac Mounted Division War Diary for February 1918 which is available here:
Anzac Mounted Division War Diary, February 1918
Maps of the operations described in the papers have been attached to the rear of the album.
Listings in the Album:
Anzac MD Daily Intelligence Report, 1 February 1918
Anzac MD Daily Intelligence Report, 1 February 1918 s
Anzac MD Daily Intelligence Report, 10 February 1918
Anzac MD Daily Intelligence Report, 10 February 1918 s
Anzac MD Daily Intelligence Report, 16 February 1918, p. 1
Anzac MD Daily Intelligence Report, 16 February 1918, p. 1 s
Jericho Operations, Full Map
Jericho Operations, Full Map s
Jericho Operations, Southern Map Section
Jericho Operations, Northern Map Section
Australian Service Personnel, Photograph Albums
Anzac Mounted Division, AIF
Australian Light Horse
Citation: Australian Service Personnel, Photograph Albums, Anzac Mounted Division Daily Reports, February 1918, Album Contents
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Happy Mothers' Day to all the moms and madres from all of us at El Sayulero!
The impressive display rainclouds create on the evening sky are a sight to behold here in Sayulita. The first summer rain shower yesterday was a welcome relief.
Moving to Bi-weekly Issues: This week marks the closing of the high season, which means that for the next few months El Sayulero will be moving to a bi-weekly basis. Our next issue will be on Friday, May 23, 2014. Despite the reduction in issues, this summer will still be packed with news stories and announcements to keep you entertained and informed, so make sure you keep reading!
I am especially excited for the work of Stacey Elkins and Lizzie Blumenthal this summer as they will be reporting on all of the community events and public interest stories.
As always I hope you enjoy this week's issue of El Sayulero and feel free to contact us if you have any news and events you would like to share with the town.
Enjoy the next two weeks,
What's Happening This Week
ChocoBanana Mother's Day Anniversary: read
The Sky is Falling:read
Eco-Community: read
Sayulimpia: read
Celebrate the Beat: read
Culinary Vaction in Sayulita: read
Friends of Sayulita: read
Bite This: read
Mothers Day: read
Bistro Invite: read
Festival Sayulita: read
Photo of the Week: view
Sayulita Dog Story: read
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ChocoBanana Celebrates
20 Year Anniversary and Mother's Day
Join Choco Banana tomorrow (Saturday May 10, 2014) for their twentieth anniversary and a mother's Day Extravaganza. It was 20 years ago in 1994 on El Dia de la Madre that Choco banana was established in Sayulita instantly creating a cultural landmark. To mark the celebration there will be a Mariachi band, roses, dulces, chocolates, and a 20% discount. Additionally owner Tracie Willis will provide free champagne to all guests along with Valet parking and a guaranteed great time. The event will go from 9am to 2pm with the Mariachi playing around 10:30, so make sure to treat your mothers to a delicious breakfast at one of Sayulita's most famous landmarks.
by: Joe Riddle
The rainy season begins. We were all awakened to the fact that it is possible for precipitation to fall down from the clouds onto our heads here in Sayulita. On Wednesday evening a few drops fell from the sky for the first time since late December and a pretty significant shower fell last night.
These were pleasant events, which gave many of the trees a greener hue and brought a gentle spring aroma to the air. However our lucky pueblo has missed the real precipitation, which almost started off the hurricane season a few weeks early, and in extreme fashion. In the more southern states of Michoac�n and Colima a tropical system rushed through creating large amounts of rainfall and some mild winds.
This system luckily did not turn into a tropical cyclone as some predictions foresaw, but instead lost it's power and never fully developed. This would have been one of the earliest starts to the region's hurricane season on record. Typically the activity in the Eastern Pacific region does not begin until May 15. A few storms have developed into serious systems before that date, but rarely this early.
However, forecasters have predicted that we will get our fill of rain and wind in the coming months. A study through Colorado State University has predicted a higher then average amount of cyclonic activity this year. The cyclones (which is basically the name given to hurricanes or similarly typhoons, that form in the Eastern Pacific) are expected to arise from a warming El Nino event predicted to occur in the summer months along with an increase in pressure that has occurred in the South pacific this winter.
These storms, if formed have already been prepared for by many authorities, including the World Meteorological Organization, which has pre-assigned names for this upcoming season. The names are given to any storm that reaches tropical storm, or cyclone (hurricane) status.
The first storm to become powerful enough for this status will be known as Amanda, followed by: Boris, Cristina, Douglas, Elida, Fausto, Genevieve, Hernan, Iselle, Julio, Karina, Lowell, Marie, and Norbert. Hopefully we will not get to see Karina or her later siblings this season, but the variability of the region often leads to poor predictability. Whether you're here in Sayulita this summer or headed somewhere else, it is always better to plan ahead and have a plan of action in case such a storm makes it our way.
New Business Listing:
Tortas Metro
Tortas Metro in Sayulita is a family-owned business specializing in delicious, fresh and appetizing Tortas (authentic Mexican style sandwiches). This popular Mexican lunch and snack dish is sure to delight your appetite. At Tortas Metro in Sayulita, a variety of breads and buns are used for their tortas as well as a variety of fresh ingredients. Tortas Metro offers a range of menu choices including meat, egg and veggie tortas. View more information.
Certified accountant Carlos Hanon is commited to providing professional accounting services to home owners, business owner, foreigners and Mexican nationals alike so you do not have the worry of Mexican tax laws, regulations and financial planning for your business or rental home. View more information.
New Real Estate:
Casa Candiles
$675K USD
Casa Candiles is a gorgeous hilltop home with one of the best ocean views in Sayulita! Located at the south end of town, Casa Candiles is walking distance to the beach and downtown. The home is situated on a large, enclosed lot with plenty of space to expand if you want. Designed and built by the current owner, Casa Candiles is a blend of Mexican architecture with a Sayulita twist. View more information.
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Festival Sayulita Plans for 2015
The first annual Festival Sayulita, was a huge success, creating a unique gathering for all lovers of Mexico, film, tequila, food, music & surf. Festival Sayulita, 2015 is already set for January 14-18th and promises an even broader variety of international films, spirit tastings, live music, surf events, and local cuisine.
2015 Festival Sayulita will continue the highlights of last year's Festival, including a 7 meter beach viewing screen, a signature Master Tasting where a variety of Mexican artisan spirits can be sampled, a family-friendly surf competition, and multi-course food pairing dinners. In addition, this year's planning committee is partnering with sponsors to add venues and events which will make the festival even more memorable. An indoor film venue will feature matinees, leaving the evenings open for those wishing to partake in the "spirit" and music portions of the festival.
Evening events will expand to include dinner theater and a music stage for live bands. One entire evening will be dedicated to a retro drive-in theatre event that will be able to accommodate cars, golf carts, ATV's and folks on foot. To ensure the littlest amongst us have fun, a Dia de los Nino's (Children's Day) is in the works, which will feature games and prizes in the plaza and a special viewing night for children at the Casa de la Cultura.
As in the previous year, there will be all kinds of options to attend this event, from free to VIP. Due to many requests, VIP ticket availability will increase. VIPs will again be welcome to movie preview nights, special seating throughout the event, and private tastings. A VIP lounge will allow VIPs to access concierge service throughout the Festival and provide a secluded get-away space during the weekend. To accommodate VIP ticket sales, these tickets will be on sale starting in July, 2014.
This is an event not to miss! Last year's Festival sold out, so get your flight, housing and Festival tickets early! For complete details of the Festival, go to www.festivalsayulita.com or follow the festival on Facebook.
Eco-Community Makes
Impressive Progress
by: Lizzie Blumenthal
With only five lots left to be sold, the community of Tierraluz has been working hard to establish itself. The core values of the community include emphasizing sustainable living, community harmony, and green technology.
Managers Jess and Alyssa Edmondson, who have been living at their spot bordering the jungle since fall, sat down with me in front of their Yome under the Guasima tree to discuss the plans at Tierraluz.
They explained that the homeowners follow a green point system developed by founders Fred Geisler and Laurie Keith, to utilize various sustainable measures, from recycling gray water and composting to ditching their gas-powered vehicles. Currently, five different and unique houses are being developed with the idea to build a small and efficient space with simple and necessary amenities like solar panels, which are placed on some lots to generate power to those currently living at Tierraluz.
Although plans for a community space, including a kitchen, meeting/multipurpose room, playground, and natural swimming hole are still in the early phases, an interconnecting trail system is now complete with native and exotic fruit trees (banana, papaya, mango, tropical mulberry, star fruit, etc.). They also hope to finish a meditation space, with ocean views, which has been in production.
While the community is not quite 100 percent sustainable, the residents can still enjoy the fruits of their conservation, while contributing to the global economy by purchasing other necessary supplies. They even have a small space for light animals like chickens and goats.
"Things are happening fast and turning out beautiful. The trees are starting to come in and the food sources are becoming more defined," Jess explained.
A mound of dirt sits in front of the Edmondson's to be used for their super adobe, earth bag house. The leftover dirt came from another homeowner's lot who is building a similar style home. The earth bags, which are filled with a mix of dirt and water, serve to insulate the home, keeping it cool on hot days and warm during cooler nights. It's an easy, sustainable, and economically sound way to create a comfortable space. But this is just one approach towards development. Another home is being developed into the hillside, utilizing brick and natural features to create a somewhat "Hobbit-like" home.
The layout of Tierraluz, which developed eight years ago, was set up so that the community owns half of the shared space and the other half is made up of individual, titled lots. The water is shared and property owners sign an internal alliance contract that helps guide and enforce their vision of a natural and sustainable community. Homeowners must submit their plans to the community for approval. "It's an important vibe for Tierraluz. We're not just a bunch of hippies camping in the woods." Jess said in regards to the design.
Somewhat of an international community, people from Argentina, Mexico and the United States have already purchased land. "People are stoked to have an eco community in Mexico. It's exciting."
The Edmondson's, for example, both talented musicians, not only decided to invest in the eco community because of their desire to live more sustainably and raise kids in such an environment, but to be more economically sound. "Financially, our overhead shoots way down," Jess noted. "With the low cost of having this place it means more time and money to do other things like travel, make music and work with the community."
In June, the two, along with son Atticus, plan to make real headway on their earth bag, super adobe home.
Voluntarios Sayulimpia
By: Stacey Elkins
Perhaps you've seen the men and women in Sayulita sporting the orange t-shirts that read, "Gente Trabajando Por Sayulimpia." You might see them sweeping the streets, cleaning up the beach, river or school grounds, picking up trash from trash drops or hauling recycling to the recycling center.
These hard working Mexican locals are volunteers for Sayulimpia.
ProSayulita is a supporter of this invaluable group, paying the rent for the house where the volunteers live and paying for the gas and upkeep of the vehicles used by the volunteers to haul garbage and recycling.
Jack Jones, President of Pro Sayulita, touches on the importance of the Voluntarios Sayulimpia in conjunction with Sayulimpia. "It takes the full resources of Sayulimpia and the volunteers to keep Sayulita clean during busy weekends and holidays. For instance, Semana Santa. Sayulita is a much cleaner town with both groups working."
The voluntarios Sayulimpia work 7 days a week and are generally on the street cleaning from 7am until 4pm. However, they often work longer hours. There are 6 full time volunteers, including Alejandro Aaron Castro Cavazos, who is head of the volunteers. During holidays, such as Semana Santa, there are an additional 6 temporary volunteers added to the mix.
As hard as they work, they are not guaranteed a wage, as they work strictly on tips. However, they also welcome donated non-perishable items, such as rice, beans and canned tuna fish. When asked why he works with no guaranteed wage, Alejandro said, "I like to be working on the streets with the people. I think there's a good future with this job and I like making a difference in the community."
Alejandro expressed excitement to be involved in a new project that will have them collecting food waste from the streets for a compost center. This center will be behind the middle school.
Oswaldo Vallejo, who manages Sayulimpia, raves about the current group of volunteers, "You call them to clean up something and they go. They are always available and are very reliable. You can consistently count on them. They are a very good team. "
Oswaldo also expresses gratitude for everything that they do. "Thanks to the volunteers, who help so much to keep Sayulita clean. They do an incredible job."
Bistro Organico Invites You
Bistro Organico In San Pancho invites you to Vallarta Lifestyles Restaurant Week May 15th to the 31st! For these two weeks in May, Bistro Organico will feature a spectacular three-course menu (with three options each) discounted by up to 50%. In keeping with our philosophy, It will be based on an organic, sustainable and regional menu.
FEATURING LIVE MUSIC, OPENING NIGHT!
On May 15, 7pm enjoy dinner with Tatewari, a flamenco fusion quartet with guitars and cajon. On May 27, 7pm the best duo in town "Rob & Nina", will be making a special performance to delight our night. Good food and good music. The selected wines for each course will be paired with your food and will surely delight your palate and your senses. Make your reservation now by calling 311.258.4155, or view our menu here. Plan to come to this culinary feast.
Specialty: Seafood and Organic.
Breakfast & Lunch: 8 am to 2 pm Daily.
Dinner: 5 pm to 10 pm Mon to Sun.
See our recent "Why Sayulita?" real estate article.
Celebrate the Beat:
See it next week!
This is Celebrate the Beat's 6th year in Riviera Nayarit with performances next week May 13th in San Pancho and May 22nd in San Ignacio. Colleen Macomber, program director, worked with seven schools in five towns to reach a total of 500 children. The towns included Punta de Mita, San Ignacio, Higuera Blanca, Sayulita, and San Pancho. This years theme is inspired by Dr. Suess's book The Lorax where the dancers represent the characters of the book sending the message "we are the seeds of change." The show is accompanied by a four piece live band under the direction of Alyssa Edmonson. The music ranges from pop, rock, cumbia, and funk. This year Colleen is working with two amazing local teaching assistants, Sarah Muscarian and Jessica Zepeda. Both teachers value CTB and experience the benefits and transformation of these children first hand.
Next week you can witness CTB as the public is invited to experience the incredible energy of Celebrate the Beat at the San Pancho Public School on the main road next to the soccer field at 7 pm. Performing together will be the 4th and 5th grade San Pancho public school children along with Costa Verde International School and The Grupo de Excelencia, a group of children from seven surrounding schools who have been working together once a week for 17 weeks. A performance not to be missed!
Celebrate the Beat is a non-profit organization that teaches inspirational music and dance class to children in the public schools. Founded by Tracy Straus in 2000, CTB now reaches over 3,000 children annually in Colorado and over 500 children in Mexico. Celebrate the Beat inspires children to discover their potential, motivates them to set a personal standard of excellence, to value artistic expression, and to never give up. This is Celebrando el Ritmo's sixth year in Riviera Nayarit. The program was brought to Punta de Mita in 2009 by a generous foundation. It started small in one school and in 6 years has grown to reach 7 different schools. To learn more about this program please visit the website at: www.ctb.org.
May 22nd performance in San Ignacio at the basketball court includes performances by 3rd through 6th grade public school, Costa Verde and The Grupo de Excelencia.
Award-winning Culinary Vacation
Now in Sayulita
With a successful test run this past February and March, Chef Ana Garcia and La Villa Bonita Mexican Culinary Vacation, now have a new home apart from their traditional home in the mountains of Tepoztl�n, Morelos.
Chef Ana Garcia, Mexican culinary personality and owner
explains, "We have been offering our culinary vacation packages at our hotel in Tepoztl�n now for over 14 years and our clients have always wanted us to offer a package focused on the freshest seafood Mexico has to offer. As a result, we created a hands-on culinary package that features the best of traditional Nayarit and Jalisco cuisine." La Villa Bonita was just named one of Fodor's top 10 "Mouth-Watering Tours Around the World" and Chef Ana has been featured on the Food Network, Bon Appetit, and PBS.
When Chef Ana was asked why she chose Sayulita she
responded, "It has a great vibe similar to Tepoztl�n. We had been visiting Sayulita for a few years as a family and we liked the town, the great seafood, and the artistic-surf mix. It is a great relaxed environment for our guests. We have offered coastal weeks at other more touristic destinations and we never really felt comfortable. In Sayulita, we feel at home and over the next year we will be offering 6 weeks over October, December, and March in Villa Rosetta."
The coastal culinary packages not only feature 4 full days of cooking a variety of traditional regional dishes but culinary excursions and gourmet dinners each evening prepared by Chef Ana herself from the best local ingredients. As the Chef explains, "This is a true food lover's getaway in an intimate, small group environment. Not only do you learn how to cook these wonderful time-honored dishes but I get to treat you to the modern side of Mexican cuisine at night. I find the best ingredients and just create. I don't think I have offered the same meal twice."
More information about the culinary packages offered by La Villa Bonita and Chef Ana can be found at www.lavillabonita.com or her personal website at www.chefana.com.
Sayulita Investment Realty
Completes Another Sale
Rod Rosile, Owner of Sayulita Investment Realty is excited to announce the sale of yet another listing. Villa Golondrina has now officially transferred ownership.
Rosile states: "I am pleasantly surprised by how many sales we are experiencing this late in the season. So many folks checked out real estate during their vacations and are now flying back down to make offers. It has has truly been an exceptional year for our office."
Contact Rod anytime at www.sayulitainvestmentrealty.com
ProSayulita's "Friends of Sayulita"
Receive NonProfit Status
ProSayulita announced this week that "Friends of Sayulita" has just received its 501(3)(c) status, and U.S. donors will be allowed to deduct their contributions which include financial and property donations. Friends of Sayulita," an organization under the umbrella of ProSayulita, was formed two years ago with the goal of obtaining the designation "501(3)(c).
"This is a great achievement for ProSayulita and our local partner organizations," said Jack Jones, board president. "Our donors have been very supportive in spite of the fact they could not previously use their contributions as tax deductions".
"In addition to encouraging people who may not have donated previously to participate in the organization, having official nonprofit designation is a way of thanking all of our existing U.S. supporters for their faith in ProSayulita."
The process of making donations will stay the same, said Teke Mohill, treasurer of the organization. Contributors can simply go to www.prosayulita.org and make their donations using the group's PayPal account.
"This status is retroactive to September 2012," Mohill said. "We will be going through our records and sending donors letters and receipts that can be used to substantiate donations made during this time, which can then be submitted to the IRS. Going forward, you'll receive a receipt when you make a donation."
The board of ProSayulita is very thankful to all residents, businesses and friends who have supported the organization in its work over the past several years. The board would like to express a special thank you to those who assisted in this 2 year process, especially, past President Eric Rudd and board member Cheryl Vaughan. Additionally, the 501(c)(3) will enable supporters to include "Friends of Sayulita " in estate planning, a new option for giving that will offer many advantages for the group's donor base, as well as for the organization.
"With your help, we look forward to continuing to improve services, education and the infrastructure of Sayulita well into the future,".
Bite This Lists Best Bites of Season
Then Closes Mouth!
by: Ed Schwartz
I never tire of dining out in Sayulita, the range of restaurants is wide, the prices are bargain-y and each of the fine restaurants has a signature dish that keep my taste buds on edge! So here goes my honor roll of the past season's winners and in no particular order:
Calypso: I love the freshness of the beet salad. Lovely color, tasty and an ample portion.
Don Juan: The Don Juan menu has a wonderful selection of Mexican specialties. You won't be hungry after this chow down.
Don Pedro's: The spicy, ginger red snapper and the sleeper on the menu, shrimp tacos.
Los Afortunados: What can I say about the tropical pork dish? Well, how about yummy, savory, delicious, unique, lovely and great tasting. Did I mention creative?
Rubens. I never had better sandwiches anywhere. I order the "Big Ed" because the sandwich was named after me and I have a big head!
Mary's: The eggs ranchero at this spot is a fabulous breakfast, two house made tortillas, a fried egg placed gently on top, a lovely red sauce topped by a slice of avocado. You will thank me for the recommendation and so will your tummy. Mary's chili relleno is the tops, a secret recipe which I am sworn never to reveal!
Captain Pablo's: To my buds, there is not a better margarita to be had this side of the Rio Grande. It is balanced and big enough to keep you happy through the entirety of any sunset.
Tacos on the Street: When I am not all that hungry and just want a bit of supper, the rib eye tacos are a great option.
Green Grill: The toothsome steak at Green Grill is delicious. Please remind your server to give you a hot potato.
Sayulita Café: Of course, the chili relleno. But the chicken soup may be the best since my grandma's AND THAT IS SAYING A LOT!
Alas Blancas: The avocado and shrimp appetizer is beautifully presented with an equally beautiful taste.
Thank you to all the food lovers out there reading my articles. I hope I am back on the old feedbag next year!
by: Kathleen Nicoletti
This week, here in Sayulita and many other places, Mother's Day will be celebrated. Moms will be showered with gifts and, hopefully, enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by someone else. It will be a day when children of all ages honor their moms with kind words and lovely gestures.
For those who do not have their mothers with them this Mother's Day, I would like to share a poem by one of my favorite poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay. I suspect that Millay's words will resonate with those who have lost their own courageous mother. Happy Mother's Day!
The Courage That My Mother Had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she'd left to me
The thing she took into the grave!-
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
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A Sayulita Dog Story
About three years ago, while on vacation I was attending my Mexifit yoga practice in a beautiful outdoor palapa on the cliff above the wonderful beach town of Sayulita. My instructor, Shelly, had dogs with her in class. I loved how the pups would do their own versions of "downward dog." Turns out that Shelly is one of the leaders of Sayulitanimals, and was fostering these pups until their "forever homes" could be found.
A little back story might help: About a month before I went on this vacation, I had to put down my older male black great dane, Wyatt. My other younger male harlequin/great dane, Hank, had been in a funk and depressed since this sad event of loosing his alpha, and the loss weighed heavy on my entire family as well.
Back in Sayulita: On the third day of yoga class, Shelly brought in a starved, mange-covered female pup of just 5-6 weeks of age. This dog was one ugly, sad puppy, obviously in need of a lot of love & attention. I was in a place in my life where I knew that this pup would make my entire family feel like the hole in their hearts that had been left by Wyatt, might actually start healing over, if they were able to focus on helping to get this little girl back in good health. So, I told Shelly that I wanted her.
Now Little Lita & Huge Hank are quite the "couple" around our
neighborhood of Seattle. He has taught her to "howl" at sirens, and she is his "cheerleader" when he plays in the backyard with his big red plastic ball. They truly love one another. She has brought so much life and youth into Hank's life. She is a blessing to our family as well. She is extremely loving and gives so much affection to our family and friends. Our very good friend and neighbor and I even made up a song about Lita:
Lita, Lita, Lita.
I come from Sayulita.
I'm so in loco love with Hank
that I want to drink tequila.
www.sayulitanimals.org
Thanks for reading. Please let us know your opinions, suggestions, complaints or anything else you feel will help make Sayulita a better place in which to live and vacation.
Ian & Kerry Hodge Joseph Riddle Valorie Vanrheen
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Chowilla floodplain | River Murray
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Risk Assessment of Cyanobacteria and Blackwater events in Chowilla Floodplain
Brookes, Justin
Burch, Mike
Wallace, Todd
Baldwin, Darren
Chowilla floodplain
Cyanobacterial
Blackwater events
Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre,
"October 2007".
Project no.
Ecological Evalutaion of proposed flow control structure at Chowilla significant ecological asset - M/BUS/227
Publication no.
MDFRC & CLEAR Water Research Report
Construction and operation of a flow regulator at the lower end of Chowilla creek has been proposed as a large scale flow management and water delivery option to the Chowilla floodplain. It is anticipated that this option will allow extension of the benefits being obtained from the current pumping regime from maintaining the condition of fragmented landscape patches to maintenance of ecological function across the floodplain ecosystem. The degraded state of Chowilla and the prospect of continued low flows demand a bold approach but one that is planned, implemented, managed and reviewed. However, a number of factors, including cyanobacterial blooms, blackwater events (deoxygenation caused by microbial degradation of natural organic matter), invasion by weeds, reduced lotic or flowing water habitats, interrupted fish passage, decrease in large-bodied native fish populations and increases in carp populations have been identified as possible risks associated with the operation of such a regulator. This project examines two of the risks, cyanobacteria and the occurrence of blackwater, or more specifically de-oxygenation resulting from a blackwater event, more thoroughly in order for the environmental benefits and possible dis-benefits of regulated flooding to be properly considered in order to inform the debate on whether a regulator should be constructed and how it should subsequently be operated. Return of nutrients and carbon from the floodplain to the main river channel is an important part of the function of a healthy low-land river. It is clear from experiments undertaken as part of the current project that the Chowilla floodplain would produce a pulse of nutrients and carbon on flooding. Consequently there is a risk of cyanobacteria occurring in Chowilla floodplain with the implementation of artificial flooding using a flow regulator. This is due to shallow water in lagoons, nutrient release from sediment and decaying vegetation and low water velocity in some locations.
There are two scenarios where the development of cyanobacterial blooms in the Chowilla system could represent a potential hazard to public health and/or water supply: 1. cyanobacterial populations that are restricted to the wetlands that become isolated during drawdown 2. populations that remain connected and may contaminate the main river channel with return flows from the Chowilla anabranchThese two scenarios represent different risks. Isolated wetlands with high cyanobacterial abundance have little impact on the main river channel, although these blooms may be locally significant. On the other hand if the wetlands hosting cyanobacteria drain into the main channel this may be a significant source of toxins or taste and odour compounds. The hazards associated with cyanobacteria range from public health related toxicity issue to aesthetic water taste and odour issues. The toxins produced by cyanobacteria include both hepatotoxins (liver damaging) and neurotoxins (nerve damaging). The taste and odour compounds produced by cyanobacteria are geosmin and MIB. These compounds are difficult to remove with conventional water treatment and require expensive activated carbon for adequate removal. Consequently it is important to minimize cyanobacterial biomass in the River to reduce the risk from toxins and the taste and odour compounds. It will be important that flooding of the floodplain is timed to coincide with periods of above peak entitlement flows in the main river channel to avoid supplying nutrients to the river at times of thermal stratification. A combination of lower than normal flow in the river and higher than average temperatures would provide the worst case scenario for persistent stratification. Under these low flows it would be unwise to operate the regulator. Modelling indicates that at flows in the River Murray of 4,000MLday-1, the river would stratify at low wind speeds. Consequently although the minimum proposed flow into the anabranch of 4,000 MLday-1 with a flow-through of 2,000 MLday-1 could be achieved at peak entitlement flows (QSA = 7,000 MLday-1) this would only maintain a flow in the River Murray Channel downstream of the Regulator of 5,000 MLday-1. This flow would prevent minimal capacity for dilution, increase the potential for stratification and subsequently increase the risk of generating a problematic algal bloom in the River Murray. If the flow regulator is only operated at the higher end of the planned flow band than the risk of the cyanobacteria posing a major problem in the main river channel is significantly reduced.
With the exception of the areas dominated by redgum, the concentration of leaf litter on the floodplain at Chowilla is quite low and reflects the generally poor state of the vegetation in the region, which in turn reflects on both the lack of flooding to ensure soil-moisture and grazing of the floodplain. Based on the results of mesocosm experiments undertaken as part of this project, there does not appear to be a substantial risk of a significant blackwater (deoxygenation) event in those areas that are either deep (>1m) flooded or have good rates of water exchange. The risk of blackwater increases substantially in shallow flooded areas and redgum areas. The results of hydrodynamic modelling show that 3325ha of floodplain is inundated by less than 1m, with 1844ha inundated by less than 0.5m. Estimates of oxygen demand in the respective WMU’s indicate that the critical minimum depth of inundation to prevent establishment of anoxia in wetland, lignum shrubland and grassland areas is 0.9m, 1.2m in the blackbox woodland areas, and 5.0m in the redgum forest/woodland areas. Previous watering projects on the Chowilla Floodplain demonstrate that anoxic conditions develop in shallow flooded areas when the water is ponded on the floodplain. These results highlight the importance of maintaining flow and water exchange in order to maintain water quality. Nutrient and carbon pulses from the floodplain would have occurred under natural conditions and were probably important for supplying energy and nutrients to the river. Furthermore, because of the higher frequency of floods, the vegetation would have been in substantially better condition than it currently is which would have been reflected in higher levels of litter standing stock, and hence a higher likelihood of supplying nutrients to sustain algal blooms and carbon to create blackwater events. Decreasing the frequency of flooding of the Chowilla floodplains has no doubt significantly harmed the ecological condition of the floodplain itself but also the River Murray. The risk of algal blooms and blackwater events appears to be tightly coupled to the ability to maintain flow (both volume and velocity) within both the inundated area and the River Murray channel. Consequently the risk of algal blooms or blackwater events can be managed. However, to minimise the potential for adverse effects it is strongly recommended that in addition to maintenance of flow, the operation of the regulator be done in an adaptive management framework which includes a robust monitoring program, that not just determines the change of condition of the floodplain, particularly the floodplain vegetation, but also assess the impacts and benefits of the manufactured flood to floodplain soil condition, groundwater and receiving water (Murray River).
MDFRC funding agency: South Australian Murray-Darling Natural Resources Management Board
MDFRC client: Australian Water Quality Centre
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issue 42: May - June 2004
Celebrated Stripper
of Subfusc County
by Bruce Henricksen
Sometimes, leaning on my mop by the old suit of armor, I’d watch them through the window while I was cleaning up in the restaurant. Half the time Homer was late, and it was just Paula and Oscar in the parking lot next to Babe, our sky-blue stork, in the moonlight by the county road. To the naked eye, they didn’t match up real good back then. Oscar only amounts to about five-foot-nine and one-forty. His right knee can’t bend thanks to Vietnam, and he gobbled pain pills loose from his pockets—still does. Now Paula, though, she was a different load of beef back then. Everything about Paula was writ in spades, and her walking problems were a matter of payload.
Oscar’s what you might call conversationally challenged, and folks joke that he needs a special license plate. In those courting days, standing at the window by Lancelot—we named that rusty heap of armor Lancelot—I’d imagine Oscar’s "yups" and "nopes" out there struggling to do romantic duty as he’d stare down at the gravel with the bats swooping overhead. From time to time he’d tip his head way back to look at Paula above the bosoms. And sometimes I’d get a tear in my eye from remembering about me and Irene when we were young, and how we had wished the stork would land on our porch. It’s strange how sometimes a memory can be soft and nice, and other times that same memory can feel like a swallowed stone. And often the memory of Irene would swoop from one to the other, from softness to hurt, just like those bats in the parking lot as I’d stand there with my mop and bucket at the restaurant window.
Like I said, Paula was a big fat woman, six-foot-two and boo-coo pounds. If Paula took a notion to go calling, Homer, that’s her brother, he’d hoist her into the back of the 4x4 and check the tires. Homer’s a big man himself, strong as an ox, some say, and twice as smart. Paula is a patriot, and when they started talking on the TV news about how Americans better lose weight, and also when she saw how businesses in the county were suffering from the effects of the flood, well, Paula, she put two and two together and came up with the idea to be a stripper.
"Say what?" Homer asked.
Paula explained how stripping would trim the fat and raise public awareness, but Homer, who works at the paper mill down in Black Paw, he replied how he didn’t want to think of other things that might rise if guys from the mill were gawking at her shaking her booty like Jello. He was proud of that remark and repeated it to all the boys at the barber shop, stretching his grin around a row of gravestones that pass for teeth.
"And besides," Homer told her, "you can’t dance a lick that I ever seen. Strippers gotta dance, you know. It ain’t just standing there strugglin’ out of them bib overalls."
But Paula was determined, and this is how me and my friend Ole fit in. There had been hard times up where I worked on the Mesabi Iron Range, still are. There’s folks up there happy to eat crow soup, and that ain’t just an expression. Anyway, after Irene passed away I lost my job, and that little split-entry house where we had lived together all those years became a haunted place. So I packed up some stuff, sold the house, and moved down here to Cold Beak.
I wasn’t sure what I’d do with myself here, but pretty quick Providence showed up disguised as a defunct fried chicken place for sale on the county road out by I35, not far from where the New Hope River winds through our valley and makes it so pretty, nothing like what you might think just hearing a name like Cold Beak. Me and Ole, we figured we know a business opportunity when it puts its paws on your chest and licks your face, and we snapped that old chicken place right up.
So we set to fixing it into a fancy supper club with lots of red felt and mirrors to cover where the windows were boarded. It was good, after all that sadness up on the Range, to be building something. Ole and me sang and sawed and hammered away, pausing at noon to unwrap sandwiches and pickles, which we ate quick so’s they wouldn’t get dirty, then plunging back into creativity, which the ignorant might have called pandemonium. Ole even had the idea to paint pictures on the ceiling, like in that church that you hear about in Italy, but we finally figured we’d best let that dog rest.
One afternoon, it was May and the weather had just turned warm, we were outside figurin’ where to put the plaster stork as we waited for Lars Johnson, the plumber, to show his bony face. Lars had vowed to make every effort to be there that day, "every effort" being the workman’s escape clause—the fine print in the verbal agreement. Oscar, who’s my younger brother, was there that day pretending to help when Homer pulled up in his Dodge Ram with Paula as cargo in a big cushioned chair. It was like she was the Queen of Mardi Gras up there with her blond curls popping out in all directions like bed springs. Hauling Paula down onto solid ground wasn’t something you undertook just for small talk, so me and Ole and Oscar walked on over so she could stay put. The saplings that we had planted off to one side of the parking lot leaned on their crutches and gawked at the show.
"See you got that plaster stork you was talkin’ about," Homer observed, climbing out of the cab. Homer had a voice full of rumblings and explosions that would usually cause a stranger to take a step back and check for exits.
"Yes sir!" Ole beamed, unphased by Homer’s volume. "New owner of that miniature golf place up in Hinckley couldn’t see no use for it, so I got her for a song. Good as new, too, ’cept for where kids splashed paint on her butt there."
"Well, you get her painted up," Homer predicted, "and she’s gonna look real good. You fixin’ to call this place The Stork Club then?"
"We ain’t decided on a name yet," Ole said, "but I figure a supper club can always benefit by a stork, whatever you name it." Eventually we called the club The County Road Vista to avoid confusion.
In this part of the country there’s always some introductory thrashing around the bush, and if there’s no stork handy you can always talk about the weather, which we did for a while too that breezy day in May when the Paula float pulled up. But finally Paula said how she hadn’t got all afternoon to be the big attraction in the back of a pickup, and so we were "cutting to the chase." She liked to talk like city folks on television.
The chase was how Paula wanted me and Ole to let her strip in our plush new supper club. She took her a pinch of snoose—what folks from elsewhere call snuff—and focused her eyes down at us from her throne, eyes big as moons under that curly, springy hair. Then she explained how we boys had the opportunity to be part of history because this wouldn’t be the sort of strip club that exploits poor young girls that can’t find a decent job. This would be a strip club that would help fat people have pride while they trim themselves down. The way Paula explained it, you can try to improve without being ashamed of yourself in the meantime.
We were all pretty quiet for a moment after Paula’s declaration. You could’ve heard a moth fart. Ole adjusted his feed cap and stared off at some clouds over the Mobile station, and Oscar found a few stones to push around with his sneaker. If Oscar was in Cold Beak to court his old flame, which we all figured he was, he was doing a darn pokey job stoking up his nerve. Folks were always making chances for him to throw light on the issue of him and Paula, but Oscar isn’t much for throwing light. He’s more your fog chucker. Anyway, pretty quick Paula went on about how she pictured it all.
"The way I picture it all, we gotta divide that club in two. Folks don’t want to be eatin’ their meat and potatoes with a big ol’ fat girl yankin’ her clothes off and shakin’ her stuff right there. They don’t want their kids askin’ a bunch of questions. So the strip club is a separate room, where we serve drinks and carrot sticks with low-fat dip."
"And besides," Homer put in, dropping his elephant’s trunk of an arm over the door of the cab, doing his beaver grin, and lowering his voice so’s the folks inside the Mobile station wouldn’t hear, "we’re gonna put shock absorbers under that stage so there ain’t no tidal waves in the beverages next door."
"I got this stage name picked out," Paula continued, ignoring her brother, whose fat jokes were wearing thinner each year, "and it’s Paulotta, because there’s a lotta me.
We have this big horse scale on the stage, and folks can buy chances on the day when I get me down to 300. On that day I change my name to Paulessa, and someone wins the jackpot. What you think of my idea, Oscar?" she finished off, homing in on my brother dead in the eye.
Oscar, he had no more to say than a minnow in a pond, and the clouds over the Mobile station were still pretty interesting to Ole. I expected him to say how they looked like this animal or that. Oscar was back to pushing his shoe around in the gravel, and my fingernails grew an inch before Ole spoke up.
"Well," Ole said, jerking his eyes down from the stratosphere, "you sure got you a new idea there, Paula, and we’re gonna give it serious thought. I never did make a business decision straight off the bat, and there’s lots of sides we gotta look at. Like whether the community is ready for such . . . things. But we’re gonna think on it and then we’ll get back to you." Then he tugged at the beak of that old feed cap as if something formal was going on.
"Might as well surrender right now, boys," Homer bellowed as he climbed back into the cab. "Arguing with Paula is like arguing with cement."
He jammed the pickup into reverse, nearly colliding with an old van labeled Johnson Plumbing that Lars’s "every effort" had brought to our driveway. Of course no plumbing work actually occurred that day. It was just the warm-up visit, the one where the workman walks around, nods wisely, and spouts terminology. He’d get started in a few days, he said. Up in these parts, you can sometimes tell from a fellow’s rocking hand just how broad a term "a few days" is meant to be. The rocking of Lars’s hand made it clear that nothing was clear.
Now this might be the point in the story where I ought to stick in some sort of villain, someone that can be described real vivid, maybe with skin like grease bubbling in the pan, who never takes a bath and who’s out to thwart Paula. But this isn’t a made-up story for a book. Maybe it’ll get to be a story like that when folks in future generations here in Subfusc County tell about Paula. Maybe this made-up guy with the skin problem—I see him with a cigarette poking out of one side of his mouth and his breath whistling in the other—will have secret, whiskey-soaked meetings out in the woods with his cohorts, and maybe there’ll be a plot to burn down the new restaurant. Or, since everything’s got its shadow, maybe tomorrow’s storytellers will make Paula’s enemy be another woman like the ones we ogled in the Zapp Comics years ago.
From a storytelling point of view, I can see how having a villain would make sense and come to be, just as dreaming up Judas made story sense by puttin’ flesh and blood on the idea of betrayal. But the truth is that the villain in Cold Beak was just the circumstances themselves—the bad economy, the old attitudes that people clung to, and other vague stuff that really wasn’t wrapped up in any one person.
Of course there was debate and falderal about Paula’s plan. The churches in town, Ole said, acted like branches of one religion called Judgmentalism. And there was one person who said some pretty rude things, one of those who never had a thought blow through her head that she didn’t straightway express. But once Paula promised that she wouldn’t take everything off, that there would be a costume with spangles and feathers and safety pins big as shoes for the grand finale, well, once that was cleared up it was the Chamber of Commerce that carried the day by convincing folks of the potential economic advantage to Cold Beak and all of Subfusc County.
And darned if the Chamber wasn’t right, and Homer was right too about not arguing with cement. He’s really a bunch smarter than an ox. The grand opening of The County Road Vista and the Paula Show was on the Fourth of July, just a few days after Lars, after a medley of worried phone calls, got the plumbing done. People came in busloads all the way down from Duluth and over from New Persiflage, and further off too. The motel was jammed full, and Barry Olson let out plots for campers in a field where he forgot to plant his soybeans. The line at The Vista straggled out past the stork, and Marvin Updahl, he’s our Sheriff, Marvin sent one of his boys to patrol the crowd so’s they wouldn’t spill into traffic.
You can tell from the polished shoes when folks ain’t from around here, and the group from Houston had neckties big as sandwich boards. We sat them down at the table by Lancelot, the suit of armor Ole found down in St. Paul. Lancelot is sort of propped up with sticks inside, but his ax is always poised for trouble. The Texans were "crapulous and carminative, in that order," said Ole, who had got himself a vocabulary book so as to impress bigwigs coming to see Paula. We figured if there was any ghost in that armor capable of judgment, the ax might see some use. The Texans only stayed in Cold Beak a day, though, not brushing too close to any of us hayseeds, maybe figuring that the snoose habit would rub off and next thing you know they’d be smooching with farm animals.
And I suppose—since we’re coming to the part of the story where the villain, if there was one, would be booed and carried out of town on a rail—I suppose when folks in the future tell the Paula story, there might be a temptation to stick in villainous tourists like extra jokers in the deck. They might tell it so’s the Texans come to town and just out of old ranch-style meanness find ways to try to undo all the good that Paula was doing for Cold Beak. Because to tell the truth, people here in Cold Beak are a little insecure about outsiders, afraid they’ll think that we’re just a bunch of doofusses. And lots of times in stories villains are stirred up out of such fears. But the Texans didn’t really do any harm, and most of the tourists seemed pretty darned friendly.
If you can call your kid brother a tourist, Oscar was the most regular of the tourists, dragging his shrapneled leg around in Paula’s wake. He was nervous at first on account of he hadn’t seen many near-naked women outside the family, if the family includes the cousins over in Frog Landing. But coming to view Paula was a publicized event, like seeing the Gophers play the Badgers, not a guilty, sneak-around event. So shyness melted right off like frost on the windshield.
Paula called what she did "performance pieces," and there was one at eight and one at ten Wednesday through Saturday. She worked hard, her blond curls flapping, and each night a few pounds melted straight down her legs and through the cracks in the floor. Paula waved various props around—bacon strips, cheese wheels, frying pans, and so on—and every now and then she’d yank off some piece of clothing. Jan Tollerud, sitting at the end of the bar under the antlers, gawked so hard that a fly buzzed into his mouth and out again a minute later. Jan is always disheveled and pungent, like he’s been rolled in kitty litter, and there are those who wonder if he was formed by human contact.
One night Paula tugged a live piglet from her smock. It escaped squealing over the bar, knocking the carrot dip into the lap of the art critic who was up from Minneapolis. The pig hid behind the jukebox for the rest of the evening, letting out a little oink now and then as it saw fit. But the critic gave Paula a good write-up anyway. He saw lots of meaning that us folks in Cold Beak couldn’t see, and his review was full of words like "sudorific" and "postmodern." That quieted the last of Paula’s detractors, and from then on, in her finale costume, she was Queen Paula, our own laughing, dancing savior.
When Paula started her book, that Paglia woman came from Harvard to help with the spelling and stuff. She was nice. Me and her went fishing, and she even caught a perch. Thousands of copies of the book were sold on the Internet, and when Paula went on Oprah some doctors from St. Paul called about opening a fat farm under her name. Quick as you can grill a bratwurst, they built a hotel-type place out on the New Hope River by the old creamery. But just as quick, it started to sink into the river, what with the weight of all the clients. It was like the river was saying that it had its own job and wanted to be left alone. So Barry Olson sold them that field that had been the camp ground, and now we have the Paula Pringle Institute, with its famous Rotunda of Resolve, raking in the dollars on high ground, looking down on the river and the new golf course.
So Paula saved Cold Beak after the flood. She shook and shimmied and laughed until God winked down on Subfusc County and the whole region was prosperous and smiling. Everyone in town lined up at the bank with piles of bills to be counted out with much licking of thumbs. The collection plates are still stuffed every Sunday, and the Judgmentalists have let their outrage evaporate like last year’s joke. Why, I even saw the husband of one of the pastors wearing a Paula sweatshirt in the grocery store the other day. Seems like a moral position don’t have much chance against prosperity, a carton of milk’s got more shelf life. I thought that up and said it to the boys at the barber shop and they laughed, except for Jan, who’s about as dumb as a box of rocks.
By and by Paulotta got to be Paulessa and plunked for matrimony. After a few months of courting in the moonlight by the stork, with the bats scribbling their swoops in the air overhead and me looking through the window, Oscar shuffled off with his bride back to his little farm south of here. That’s where they live now, and they have me down to supper Sundays when I’m not busy at The County Road Vista. And I hear that there are a lot of fat people marrying up at the Pringle Institute, which doubles as a weight-loss clinic and a love boat. The local clergy got themselves new cars and new sun decks on their houses thanks to the spike in the bliss business. Seems like everyone’s getting married except Ole and me.
Homer, he moped for a month or two when he didn’t have his sister to haul around, but then he started stretching himself out in the new tanning salon. He got brown and shiny as a Thanksgiving turkey, then he took to splashing on cologne, tugging on his Paula sweatshirt, and walking the road up by the Institute. Folks thought he was climbing a fool’s hill, but darned if he ain’t gonna be married next month. We’re not an adventuresome people here in Subfusc County, and one of the boys at the barber shop commented on the wisdom of Homer sticking with fat.
"It’s like with ice cream," the fellow said. "Once you get used to a flavor, ain’t no sense in changing"
"Or it’s like when you got a good fishing hole," Jan Tollerud put in, shooing a fly off his nose. "No point drivin’ up every dirt road lookin’ for another."
A third fellow was about to offer his comparison, but Homer roared out, flashing his rubble of teeth so’s they’d know he wasn’t mad, that any more such talk wouldn’t be polite. Usually talking about good taste with the boys at the shop is about as productive as discussing the Dow with a carload of basset hounds. But when a big man like Homer asks for quiet in a voice that rattles windows, folks don’t get analytical. So, as cuttings accumulated on the floor and pomade penetrated scalps, the boys took to boasting about fish they’d caught and people they’d met, all lies and tall tales shameful enough to shrivel the ears.
One Sunday in October I was down to the farm for Paula’s special meatloaf supper. The day was warm for the time of year, so before eating we sat in the yard and watched the swallows arcing about. The creek in back of the house, which empties into the New Hope River about a mile away, made a soft sound. The maple leaves in the grass were sheets of gold beat thin, the sunset was all purple and orange, and the clouds on the horizon had that corrugated look. People’s spit was all bronze from the snoose, and their remarks seemed poetic and beautiful, no matter what they really said.
We watched the cattle out in the pasture shuffling back toward their dormitory, and pretty soon Oscar would be hooking up the milking machines. In the meantime, smiling sheepishly off toward the corncrib, he performed an overture of throat clearing. Then he asked if I wanted a nephew or a niece. Paula’s under 200 now, and the doctor thinks everything will be smooth as butter.
Me and Ole, we’ve been sharing the same house for quite a while. We added a room on the back for the pool table and the Paula memorabilia, and Lars Johnson, after every effort, found time to fix us up with a sauna and a hot tub. And I’ve got my pictures of Irene. It was hard losing her, and as I said, hard when jobs dried up on the Iron Range. Now that I’m where the economy is better, thanks to Paula, I wonder how Irene would feel if I started walking up by the Institute like Homer did so’s I could meet me one of them prosperous types too. It’s been a lovely sight, seeing people all rich and fat ambling along the road when the air is snappy and the leaves turn color. But I guess it’s like what that fellow at the barber shop said about ice cream—Irene was the best gift to my life, and experiments would be ungrateful. And besides, Irene is doin’ a pretty good imitation of a river, waltzing and laughing through my thoughts and making a summertime sound. I wouldn’t change it.
It’s winter now in the real world. A couple months ago, me and Ole got us a big St. Bernard named Swede, who drips saliva by the quart and snacks on the evening newspaper. On a cold night there’s nothing like stretching out by the fireplace with Swede and some cocoa in my Paula mug. Then I think about Oscar and Paula, and also about rusty old Lancelot and Babe, our sky-blue stork. Soon I turn to thinking how I’ll be playing with my nieces and nephews and wondering what new wrinkles they’ll give the world by and by.
If you ask me, there’s a lot of fine things still ahead in Cold Beak. When I try to imagine them as I relax in the evening, they mix themselves up with thoughts of Irene when we were young and starting out on the Range. And all those hopes and memories, the personal things and the things about Cold Beak, and America too, and the future—all those things are a river laughing and turning in my head while Swede dozes, digesting the evening news and turning all of the world’s troubles into fertilizer. And then it seems to me that the embers in the fireplace are a city that you see at night coming over a hill in your car, a city down in a valley glowing with dreams, a cluster of separate dreams that add up to one big dream.
� Bruce Henricksen 2004
Bruce Henricksen’s short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Arts & Letter, The Briar Cliff Review, Edge City Review, Folio, New Orleans Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Palo Alto Review, and Southern Humanities Review. One of his stories is the lead piece in French Quarter Fiction (Light of New Orleans Publishing, 2003), an anthology that includes work by some of America’s best known authors. This volume was named the Best Book of 2003 by the Gulf South Booksellers Association. Henricksen taught writing and literature at Loyola University New Orleans, where he chaired the English Department and edited New Orleans Review. His academic writing includes a study of Joseph Conrad, Nomadic Voices: Conrad and the Subject of Narrative (University of Illinois Press, 1992), and Murray Krieger and Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia University Press, 1986). He now lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with his wonderful wife, Viki.
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Was Maimonides Really a Physician? Originally Published May 24-25, 2019.
Posted on May 28, 2019 at 9:45 am.
Written by Audrey Glickman
We often study the work of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, known as Maimonides or Rambam, who lived from 1135-1204. Born in Cordoba, Spain, he was part of a long line of scholars. As he reached his 13th birthday, Cordoba fell to the Almohads in Spring 1148, and under the resultant religious persecution the family was forced to leave. They wandered for several years, settling in Fez (Morocco) by 1160. The family lived in Fez for seven years, and it was during that time – after young Moses was already an accomplished scholarly writer – that he studied medicine, possibly first under his own father and then with well-known physicians. The family moved from Morocco to Palestine and then to Cairo.
Shortly after they arrived in Egypt, his father died as did brother David, precious stone dealer, who drowned in the Indian Ocean, leaving a widow and daughter. Maimonides was forced to practice medicine for a living rather than studying, as he suddenly had two families to support. In 1170 he was appointed physician to the Court of Saladin (an exhausting job), in addition to being recognized as head of the Jewish community.
In his “Treatise on Asthma,” Maimonides describes discussions with the Jewish physician Abu Yūsuf b. Mu’allim and with Muhammad, son of the famous Ibn Zuhr (also know as Avenzoar, who performed the first tracheotomy on a goat, but we digress). When Maimonides wrote a treatise on pharmaceuticals, he used Arabic, Berber, and Spanish terms, and quoted Spanish-Moroccan physicians who had lived one to two centuries before him.
Historians Ibn al-Qiftī (c. 1248) and Ibn Abi Uṣaybi’a (c. 1270) both spoke highly of him, as did the contemporary physician ’Abd-al-Laṭīf of Baghdad who had visited Maimonides when he was in Cairo.
Well versed in the writings of Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen, in addition to Tanakh and Talmud, Maimonides classified medicine into three categories: preventive medicine, healing of the sick, and care of the convalescent (including the aged and the permanently infirm). When writing the piece about asthma, he stressed the importance of the physician when the body is healthy, noting that the physician must use art, logic, and intuition, and that the doctor must be able to take a comprehensive view of the patient and his circumstances in order to make a diagnosis of both the general condition and diseases of various organs.
Maimonides’ medical works were written mostly in Cairo between 1190-1204 in Arabic and then were translated into Hebrew and Latin.
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About Bhagwadgomandal
What is Bhagwadgomandal ?
Bhagwatsinhji Maharaja
Bhagwadgomandal - Jewel of Gujarati Language !
I do not have the caliber to write the foreword. I am fascinated by your courageous act. I believe this work will be a great service to our mother tongue.
( In response to request to write a preface for Bhagwadgomandal )
Gandhiji's Original Postcard on BG
Bhagwadgomandal is the biggest and the most prolific work in Gujarati. Visionary Maharaja Bhagwatsinhji of Gondal gifted the original Bhagwadgomandal to the world after 26 years of scientific and detailed work. Till date, this encyclopedic dictionary remains a cultural milestone of Gujarati language.
His Highness Shri Bhagwatsinhji Maharaja of Gondal has left his indelible mark on the footprints of time, not only as a great royal, but also as a great social and literary contributor. He played a pivotal role in promoting Gujarati language at the global level. Shri Bhagwatsinhji created a rich encyclopedic dictionary by devoting an unimaginable period of 26 productive years and by religiously scrutinizing and researching Gujarati language's rich vocabulary. Even today, the literary world salutes him for the creation of Bhagwadgomandal.
The name ‘Bhagwadgomandal’ is derived from two words - Bhagwad and Gomandal.
1. Bhagwad means Bhagwatsinhji, large, prosperous, storehouse of knowledge, inspired by God, great.
2. Gomandal means lexicon, dictionary, encyclopedia, Gondal.
Thus Bhagwadgomandal means:
- Bhagwatsinhji's Dictionary
- Large Dictionary
- Rich Encyclopedia
- Treasure of Knowledge
- God Inspired Extensive Speech
- Greatness of Gondal
Bhagwatsinhji Maharaja was born on Oct 24, 1865. During his early days, his devotion and love for the language was evident from his preference for usage of Gujarati instead of English in courts, office and correspondence. Like everyone else, he experienced the need for a comprehensive and rich Gujarati dictionary. However, the important need was not met for a long time. Finally, Maharaja Bhagwatsinhji took the onus of creating the dictionary and started working on collecting new words in the year 1915. Maharaja indeed had a special character and impeccable values !
Maharaja Bhagwatsinhji followed the scientific and lexical approach for the creation of Bhagwadgomandal. He researched reliable reference books, important publications, novels, poetry collections, newspapers, periodicals, petitions, advertisements, reviews of plays and movies, price list of goods etc. He was passionately involved and he even collected the words from waste paper or fluttering leaflets or from any source that led to original and new words. He ensured that all the prevalent rules of the Gujarati language were religiously followed.
Even Oxford, Webster and Government of India follow the similar approach for creating corpus of words for creating lexicons and lexical research. Our great Bhagwatsinhji followed the same approach in as early as 1915. The author is in complete awe of Maharaja for his vision, approach, meticulousness and passionate devotion!
Shri Bhagwatsinhji started the administrative office of Bhagwadgomandal dictionary in Gondal on Oct 1, 1928. He launched the legendary work by initial contribution of 20,000 words collected by him. He released the first volume containing 902 pages on Aug 25, 1944. This was followed by the release of subsequent volumes in every 1 or 2 years. The ninth and the final volume was released on Mar 9, 1955. Unfortunately, Maharaja Bhagwatsinhji could not see the completion of his iconic work as he had expired on Mar 9, 1944.
Bhagwadgomandal is the most authentic representation of the spoken language of Gujarati people. It is a comprehensive classical resource covering excellent information about all the domains of religion, literature, art, business, science, society, culture, social science etc. It provides in-depth information on each and every word with not only its meaning but its pronunciation, type, grammar, idiom, example and even pictures, if needed. For example, the word 'KALA' has one line in Sarth, three lines of meaning in Bruhad Kosh. However in Bhagwadgomandal dictionary, this word has not only 62 meanings but also complete description of 64 different KALAs spread over 6 full size pages. Thus Bhagwadgomandal is not just a great dictionary but it is a powerful encyclopedia.
The Himalayan Bhagwadgomandal work was completed after 26 years of relentless effort and devotion. Approximately Rs 5 lakhs were spent on the publication. The cost of production of this priceless work was Rs 545 but it was offered to the general public at a subsidized rate of Rs 146. Bhagwadgomandal is a unique work of Gujarati language.
The nine volumes of Bhagwadgomandal contain 9270 pages, 281, 377 words, 821, 832 meanings and 28,156 idioms. A person is truly enlightened once he opens Bhagwadgomandal. From the point of view of corpus and lexicography, this is matchless work. In fact, for the first time in history, the world came to know that Gujarati language has such a rich vocabulary through this dictionary. This resulted in Bhagwadgomandal being conferred various titles including 'The Roaring Ocean of Knowledge', 'Cultural Bible of Gujarati Language', 'Encyclopedia, 'Gujarati Language's Self-Consciousness', 'Collection of All Knowledge', 'Sea of Prosperity' etc.
We salute Shri Bhagwatsinhji for preserving the rich knowledge of our ancestors and making the information treasure available to general public in a very lucid form.
Digital Bhagwadgomandal
Bhagwadgomandal occupies a special place in Gujarati language's rich cultural heritage. It is the most respected and referred encyclopedic work inspite of availability of other dictionaries like Sarth, Bruhad, Narm etc. The smile on the face of any Gujarati lover after searching Bhagwadgomandal is indeed magical.
Shri Ratilal Chandaria started working on a digital dictionary in 1975. He contributed his collection of words and started building a lexicon. When Bhagwadgomandal was reprinted in 1986, he immediately purchased a few sets. Like an expert connoisseur, he knew the importance of this work and decided to digitize Bhagwadgomandal in his lifetime.
Ratilal launched GujaratiLexicon after a Herculean effort of more than 2 decades. The site caught the imagination of the Gujarati lovers and received support from far and wide corners. This encouraged him to digitize Bhagwadgomandal using the technological expertise, latest tools and Unicode fonts. He undertook this project to enable each and every person residing in any corner of the world to use this treasure of knowledge, understand its richness and use it in every day life with ease.
The Objective of Digital Bhagwadgomandal is:
“Digitalization and contemporarization of Bhagwadgomandal using the latest technological tools to preserve it as a part of our cultural heritage enhance its usage among current and potential lovers of Gujarati language and create its awareness for generation next.”
The project is aimed at benefiting the lovers of Gujarati language, researchers, academicians, authors, journalists, youth and all gujaratis across the world.
The Bhagwadgomandal (BG) team followed the following approach for digitization:
1. Securing Permission for Digitization of BG
2. Detailed Study of Original BG & BG Manuscripts
3. Create Expert Advisory Team
4. Create Standards For Data Entry & Final Result
5. Recruit Team of Data Entry & Proof Readers
6. Train Team on BG Basics and Data Entry
7. Software Programmers Create Special Software For Data Entry
8. Data Entry of BG
9. Two Levels of Checking of Data Entry
10. Expert Level Checking of Data Entry
11. Software Programmers Create BETA Website for BG
12. Feedback From Cross Section of Experts, General Public
13. Software Programmers Create CD Software for BG
14. Lokarpan
The Digital BG project was started on the auspicious day of Mahavir Jayanti April 18, 2008. The project has been executed at mission mode speed and is to be completed within one year. A record time !
Shri Ratilal Chandaria has many similarities with Shri Bhagwatsinhji. Visionary, Just, Able Administrator, Royal Persona, Kind And Sensitive Heart, Razor Sharp Memory, Impeccable Character, Inspiring Leadership, Love for Gujarati, Culturally Aware...Just like Shri Bhagwatsinhji, Shri Ratilal Chandaria has made innumerable physical, emotional and financial sacrifices for this project. Bhagwatsinhji was committed to adorn our mother tongue with rich work even at the ripe age of 80. Ratilal Chandaria is showing the similar love for language at the age of 87. Ratilal Chandaria's passion and labour of love for Gujarati language is famous at GujaratiLexicon.
Ratilal Chandaria's GujaratiLexicon is the most comprehensive Online Gujarati Language Resource. GujaratiLexicon is a landmark work in the history of Gujarati language containing resources of more than 25 lakh words. It aims to preserve, popularize and develop Gujarati language through the power of information technology. Lovers of Gujarati language can develop vocabulary, enjoy literature, read exclusive literature and join our mission through GujaratiLexicon.com.
GujaratiLexicon is a small attempt in contemporizing Gujarati and developing Gujarati Language Resources. It is the first comprehensive Indian language resource kit on the Internet.
GujaratiLexicon is marching ahead towards its 2 million visitors. The aim is to ensure that wherever Gujarati resides, there resides GujaratiLexicon.
Jai Gujarati !
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Armley Mills
The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, near Leeds, in West Yorkshire, Northern England. We created this 5 minute exhibit film to help inform visitors to the site of the full history surrounding Armley Mills. The animated film is displayed within the exhibition for visitors to interact with. We worked with our clients Heritage Interactive. You can find the full video here, Armley Mills Film
Hold The World
We are thrilled to have recently worked with Factory42, Talesmith, Dream Reality Interactive and Sky VR. We have delivered the open titles and graphics for the new VR experience with David Attenborough at the Natural History Museum. Looking forward to seeing the release of our work which you can here on our website soon. In Hold the World, Sir David and the Natural History Museum will be brought together using a combination of interactive video game technology and TV documentary. For the first time ever, Sir David will be transformed into a hologram and will guide participants to virtually ‘handle’ ancient fossils and specimens, using his passion for the natural world to bring the objects to life. The cutting-edge, game-style technology will allow users to hold up, peer inside, tilt and look more closely at the objects, which include fossils, bones and skulls from the museum’s world-famous collection. Hold the […]
The story of the RSPCA
This film presents a short overview of the history and work of the UK’s most well known animal welfare charity, the RSPCA. It is aimed at the charity’s younger supporters (aged 7-11) and was commissioned for use by the organisation’s outreach teams, as well as for use online. The film is one of three made by our client Shy Camera. Our task was to create graphic storytelling throughout the film, conveying a series of statistics and historical facts. This was achieved using a combination of animated info graphics, compositing and effects work. See the film here; RSPCA
African Motorcycle Diaries
A motion graphics project created for Diesel Films. Virtual Post, based here in Brighton did all the online work and approached us to create a graphics package that included a title sequence, stings and animated map content. We delivered enough maps to explain the entire journey around the coast of the African continent. A few special effects shots were also needed to explain some hairy moments the bikers encountered on their journey.
FlySpy Short
We recently helped out on a new short film, Flyspy. Delivering titles & motion graphics. With a raft of top talent joining forces, it was a great job to be a part of. Directed by Bafta winner, Daniel Smith, Executive producer was the talented Martin Williams of Talesmith and the awesome visual effects came from Jellyfish London. Even the Concept artist was Jake Lunt from the new Star Wars film. We can’t name them all so have a closer look here at the trailer and the team involved FLYSPY The premiere screening put on last month at the Mill Bank, London, was exceptional. The cinema was packed and the busy bar was spilling onto the riverside. With a real buzz in the air ( no pun intended ) this was a great night.
Makanyane Safari Lodge Film
After the success of our online video for Tanzania safari holidays Azura, we were approached to create another project for a South African safari lodge in Madikwe game reserve near the Botswana border. This time working for Sanctuary Retreats who manage holiday locations across the globe. South Africa was a very different experience and this place was extremely luxurious. Filming the hotel just required the beautifully warm evening or morning light. Coupled with much of the country’s wildlife now being managed and protected, the wildlife was in abundance and made for a wealth of subject material to film. Watch the Makanyane Video here.
Duke Of The Downs
We worked with a local startup clothing manufacturer this year to produce an online video for their content marketing campaign. The most challenging aspect of this project was to work fast and to budget. We are very pleased with the final film which you can watch here. Dukeofthedowns Music was kindly donated by record label Wrong Planet & artist Devils Gun along with music from Gentlemans Dub Club for the shorter film featured here
Amazon Book Advert
Craig Shuttlewood is a local illustrator to Brighton who we have helped promote his new book range. We have used animation to breath life into the pages of his lovely childrens books. Craigshuttlewood
Cowboy builders 2015
A quick revision of the popular Channel 5 show for Ricochet Productions. We have created some new motion graphics to add to the existing 3D opening title sequence. A clever add-on to accommodate the evolving show title.
Mudmen – Blast From The Past
ITN Productions have recently revamped their website and it is looking slick. One project is the Mudmen series we created all the titles and graphics for. It spanned across 2 series commissioned and even hit the US market for a third series with Mudmen USA http://www.itnproductions.co.uk/work/mud-men-2/
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Comedy/Horror “Little Big Boy: The Death Stalker Murders” Comes To DVD August 21st.
Controversial indie film "LITTLE BIG BOY" finally coming to DVD!
Controversial independent horror comedy "LITTLE BIG BOY: THE DEATH STALKER MURDERS" (formerly "Little Big Boy: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Duncan") is finally getting a proper DVD release. The film has been in the works for a long time but controversy have so far prohibited it from coming out. This is about to change now, as the film will be released onto DVD on August 21 from Worldwide Multimedia, http://wwmm.info/
“Little Big Boy” tells the story of acclaimed horror film director Jimmy Duncan, infamous for his psychotic temper and his unique brand of exploitative movies. Having witnessed the murder of his mother at the age of seven, Duncan grew up in an orphanage and then worked his way up in the movie industry. Caught up in the downward spiral of his own success, surrounded by movie reviewers who refused to acknowledge his obvious talent, starlet wannabes with zero ability to act, producers with little patience, and those who will exploit anyone to become famous in a soul eating industry, we follow Jimmy while he is working on his latest feature film “Death Stalker.” The shoot quickly turns into a descent into insanity when his leading lady leaves the production halfway through shooting the film. Haunted by his childhood experiences, Duncan finds himself in an abyss from which there is no return.
Featuring Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman; April Monique Burril (Chainsaw Sally, Good Sisters); Monique Dupree (Satan Hates You, Spirit); Megan Sacco (Avantgarde); Amy Lynn Best (A Feast of Flesh, Splatter Movie); Rachel Grubb (Terror Overload, Strip Club Slasher); Brandon Slagle (Methodic, Mega Shark vs Crocosourus); David C. Hayes (Blood Moon Rising, Slices); Keith Collins (Non Compos Mentis, Killer Hoo-Ha!); Manoush (Amelie from Montmatre, Le Petite Morte); Gry Bay (All About Anna); Melany Denise (Westbrick Murders); reality stars/celebrity models Katrine Poulsen and Jessica Sky; and many others. The role as Jimmy’s daughter is played by teenage talent Nicolette Michaela. In addition to brief cameos by Playboy models Angelina Leigh and Nikki Magnusson. The troubled film maker Jimmy Duncan is played by Kim Sønderholm who also directed the film, while his younger self is played by Danish actor-rapper Toke Lars Bjarke, well known for his performance in 2011's Best Foreign Picture Academy Award Winner and Golden Globe Winner "In A Better World".
Director Kim Sønderholm about the film "The "Little Big Boy" project started out as an experiment very much inspired by the documentary "Overnight" about the making of "Boondock Saints". I found that film very interesting and thoughts about making a fictional documentary - or mockumentary if you will - started buzzing around in my head. I wanted to infuse some of the somewhat toe crumbling humor known from sitcoms such as "The Office" and before I knew it I had a script and started shooting and luckily a lot of great people were keen on the idea - without them I would never have succeeded.
It's probably gonna cause a lot of controversy and I know a lot of people are instantly gonna be turned off by it and hate it automatically, but I also know the opposite to be true - I know a lot of people are gonna find it hysterical and hopefully even thought provocating. I know I had a blast making the film although it's very different from anything you've probably ever seen and I hope that enthusiasm shines through. Having said that, this is a one-off for me, at this point I don't know if I will ever direct another film but if I do, it will be back to straight fiction for me. As fun as this film has been to make, as big was the nightmare - especially getting it released to the public, a task that has taken me well over two and a half years. But I am happy to say I finally found a distribution company I felt could carry the task with grace and take it in the right direction. So... Without further due - make sure you get the film - out August 21! ..and enjoy!"
"Little Big Boy" on IMDb: and Facebook Page
DVD Release info
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Running Time 90 minutes
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Little-Big-Boy%3A-The-Death-Stalker-Murders---DVD/20415015.p?id=2513294&skuId=20415015
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Denmark and rest of Europe:
http://www.imusic.dk/dvd/0886470499021/little-big-boy-the-death-stalker-murders-2012-little-big-boy-the-death-stalker-murders-dvd
Found Footage “Hollow” Coming In September
From the Press Release
Tribeca Film will release Hollow, a British found footage horror film, on September 19th. Directed by Michael Axelgaard, and written and produced by Matthew Holt, Hollow is a chilling tale of four friends on holiday who discover a frightening local legend and find themselves in battle with an ancient evil. The film follows on the heritage of classic British ghost stories and folklore but takes these traditions to a frightening new place utilizing the found footage style.
Hollow will be released On Demand, where it will be available in 40+ million homes through a variety of video-on-demand offerings, as well as iTunes, Amazon Watch Instantly, VUDU, Xbox, and Samsung Media Hub.
Hollow terrified audiences when it premiered at Fantasia Festival in 2011. The film also screened at the Raindance Film Festival in 2011 and was nominated for British Independent Film Award.
An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England, has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realize that belief in a myth can quickly materialize into reality, bringing horror to life for the town.
Dark Faith: Invocations
Religion, science, magic, love, family — everyone believes in something, and that faith pulls us through the darkness and the light. The second coming of Dark Faith cries from the depths with 26 stories of sacrifice and redemption.
Poem "The Most" by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
“Subletting God’s Head” by Tom Piccirilli
“The Cancer Catechism” by Jay Lake
“The Big Blue Peacock” by Nick Mamatas
“Kill the Buddha” by Elizabeth Twist
“Robotnik” by Lavie Tidhar
“Prometheus Possessed” by Matt Cardin
“Night Train” by Alma Alexander
“The Sandfather” by Richard Wright
“Sacrifice” by Jennifer Pelland
“Thou Art God” by Tim Waggoner
“Wishflowers” by Tim Pratt
“Coin Drop” by Richard Dansky
“Starter Kit” by R.J. Sullivan
“A Little Faith” by Max Allan Collins and Matthew Clemens
“The Revealed Truth” by Mike Resnick
“God’s Dig” by Kelly Eiro
“The Divinity Boutique” by Brian J. Hatcher
“The Birth of Pegasus” by K. Tempest Bradford
“All This Pure Light Leaking In” by LaShawn M. Wanak
“Fin De Siècle” by Gemma Files
“The Angel Seems” by Jeffrey Ford
“Magdala Amygdala” by Lucy A. Snyder
“A Strange Form of Life” by Laird Barron
“In Blood and Song” by Nisi Shawl and Michael Ehart
“Little Lies, Dear Leader” by Kyle S. Johnson
“I Inhale the City, the City Exhales Me” by Douglas F. Warrick
Bad Dreams, New Screams–A Double Chapbook
Bad Dreams, New Screams
a "double" chapbook featuring stories by Ray Garton, Douglas Clegg, Brian Keene, C.W. LaSart, M. Louis Dixon, and Nikki McKenzie!
Cover artwork by Ken Cain ("Bad Dreams") and Edward Bourelle ("New Screams")
About the Chapbook:
This special "double" chapbook includes classic tales of terror by three modern masters of horror, original fiction by the three winners of our Cemetery Dance Forum's short fiction contest, and original color cover artwork by Ken Cain and Edward Bourelle that were chosen by the members of our forum. Featuring more than 11,000 words of horror fiction, this is one of the biggest chapbooks we've ever published!
"A Date with Maggie" by Ray Garton
"The American" by Douglas Clegg
"The Ghosts of Monsters" by Brian Keene
"Dr. Johnson's Patient" by C.W. LaSart
"The Wings of a Fly" by M. Louis Dixon
"Meat Socks" by Nikki McKenzie
They That Dwell In Dark Places By Daniel McGachey
Here are stories of...
Strange books unearthed from the college library foundations, and the dreadful shadowy form that seeks their return...
The man with no sense of humor who plays a joke that has deadly results...
The legendary gambling club where something far more precious than money is at stake...
The book of ghost stories whose contents prove more than usually absorbing for the unfortunate reader...
The solitary lighthouse in the middle of a treacherous sea, and the nightmare that awaits its keepers one stormy night, when someone comes knocking at the door...
The painter whose commission for an unseen sponsor produces horrifying portraits that capture more than a mere likeness of the subjects...
The old house with an alarming history, and the professor who is drawn to it in hope of fulfilling his overwhelming ambition to finally see a ghost...
And the gentlemen’s club where the patrons gather on Hallowe’en night to exchange ghoulish tales, and where a very special tale of horror must yet be told.
Here are stories of phantoms and demons, of those who are haunted by them, and those, like Dr. Lawrence, the antiquarian scholar, who seek them and face them. Here are stories of They That Dwell In Dark Places!
read excerpt here!
Check Out The Teaser For “The Toy” Short Film
Move over Chucky there is a new toy bringing the pain. “The Toy” is a horror short from DDH Productions that plays on the same concept of evil in the form of a child’s toy. Written and Directed by Derek Dennis Herbert and is about a boy, his doll and series of unfortunate events that occur on Christmas Day. This project has reached it’s funding goal. Check out the teaser trailer.
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My Review Of “The Sweet Hand Of The White Rose” 2010
Davide Melini’s “The Sweet Hand Of The White Rose” is a gothic tale of tragedy with a very clear message. The story follows two very different lives that collide in an instance of tragic misfortune. Released in 2010 this short film has won several awards among which Best Cinematography at "Cesur en Corto" (Spain, 2010) and 2nd Best Independent Film of the Year at the festival "Indie Horror" (Italy, 2010) where bestowed upon the film. There is a quality of controlled purpose in the way Davide Melini tells this haunting story. From the first moments as the music begins until the very last scene the dark and ghostly tale sends a clear message to the viewer about the fatal outcome of bad decisions many around the world make while on the roadways. “The Sweet Hand Of The White Rose” is a very poignant warning about the dangers of careless driving that is very true to today’s modern life. The consequences of which can be felt by the many roadside memorials that decorate streets and highways around the globe. The story is fresh and told in a very creative manner so that the message doesn’t come across as preachy but sets a very heartfelt tone of urgency. This short is a classic tale that speaks both personally and generationally while maintaining an original concept that unfolds beautifully from start to finish.
Website and Davide Melini’s blog
Check Out The Teaser Trailer For “Crawl Bitch Crawl”
“Crawl Bitch Crawl” is a intense thriller from EXTREMEINDIE Films directed by Oklahoma Ward (how cool is that name!). The film stars Nicole Alonso, Torey Byrne, Tom Chamberlain, David P. Baker, Wil Crown, Tommy Ball, Clayton Burgess in a heart pounding film about an elite security team when assigned the task of protecting the last known woman who can become pregnant, find themselves caught in an endless claustrophobic underground tunnel system. The team soon learns - the real horror is not the unstoppable force chasing them, but the ever growing smaller tunnel itself. The will to live for each member of the team gets challenged with the obstacle of a fourteen inch two thousand foot tunnel. Check out the teaser trailer and some cool stills from the movie.
Check Out The Teaser Poster For James Cullen Bressack’s “Pernicious”
per·ni·cious [per-nish-uhs]
1. causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious;hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
2. deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease.
3. Obsolete . evil; wicked.
Currently filming in Thailand there is not a lot of information about “Pernicious”. Directed by James Cullen Bressack the film isn’t scheduled for release until 2013. It is listed as a suspense/thriller and is being filmed at a secluded location in Northern Thailand. Finally though there is a website and Facebook Page set up for the project and this curious teaser poster. Plus the ominous rhyme “ Internal visions three for three. Why is it you do not ask about what you see. 7 souls in holy trinity”. Hope to have more information on this film as the days go by.
IMDB Pernicious http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2187444/
IMDB James Cullen Bressack http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4097598/
My Review Of Davide Melini’s “The Puzzle” 2008
Davide Melini’s “The Puzzle” is a five minute short of swift, criminal perfection. The dark noir manages to embody all the suspense and tension of classic storytelling. He has taken a creative concept broke it down into it’s components and build it back up with astonishing depth and style. The story is about a mother and son who’s relationship is strained over finances. The outcome is a dark nightmare that pays homage to noir legends like Alfred Hitchcock and Dario Argento. This short film was released in 2008 and won several awards. It stays within the tradition of Italian giallo while managing to be an original piece that is captivating. Davide Melini has gone on to work with Dario Argento and plus create his own twisted tales. It proves that while most western cultures may not think much of the Italian horror and thriller genre, the talent found in the country is some of the best the world has to offer. “The Puzzle” is a cool, short crime that shows true talent and vision.
The Puzzle from Davide Melini on Vimeo.
My Review Of Delta Green: Strange Authorities
The Cthulhu Mythos stories are the driving force behind the creation of the Delta Green series. A mythos that brings often vivid imagery and description of nightmarish scenario’s through an almost action packed thrilling battle cry. I have only read two of these blended genre novels both of which were recent reads. However the Delta Green universe is very much anchored in my catalogue as favorite new stories. Strange Authorities is written by John Scott Tynes who creator of the Delta Green series. The novel is split in to four distinct sections that almost mimic an anthology but form together more like four engorged chapters that expose a world of dark demonic attacks on humanity from both the skies and dimensionally.
Strange Authorities follow’s a black ops styled group of Government agents known as Delta Green who battle a equally skilled yet evil organization known as The Majestic. After being decommissioned and officially defunded Delta Green goes silent but not inactive. The head of the organization manages to keep the group together in secret to battle the darkness that has infiltrated the world superpowers as well as other top groups that control mankind's fate. This novel is the story of how Delta Green finds themselves facing destruction and the end of the world they know and sometimes loathe and battling to save it all and themselves.
The characters in Strange Authorities are much the same as the previous Delta Green novel that I read Through A Glass Darkly. However that novel was written by Dennis Detwiller. Some how this novel manages to hold true to the same staunch and blunt portrayal of covert agents who live hidden in the shadows fighting for man’s continuation. The fact that this novel was written by a different author than Darkly yet manages to keep true to the format is a testament to the passion behind Delta Greens creation. The stories are vividly dark and disturbing. The only problem I found with Strange Authorities was with the over descriptive narration of the plot which seemed excessive and forced at times. There wasn’t the natural ease of storytelling that can be associated with Detwiller’s writing style. That is only a minor complaint because the novel manages to give a great and entertaining continuation of the horrors when worlds and concepts not only combine but collide in apocalyptic beauty such as Strange Authorities and the other Delta Green novels manage to do. Bringing together the devilish world of Lovecraft with the modern realm of gamer driven action thrills is wonderfully brought to live in the pages of these twisted tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Red Band Trailer For “Breathless” Plus Clip
Press Release: “In Texas the most deadly weapon is an unappreciated woman. This August, Anchor Bay Films presents the gory, cunning comedy/thriller that will leave a welcomed bad taste in your mouth with BREATHLESS. This Texas gothic tale from director Jesse Baget (WRESTLEMANIAC, the upcoming CELLMATES) and Academy Award® winning executive producer Nicolas Chartier (THE HURT LOCKER) comes to Blu-ray/DVD Combo and DVD on August 14th.
Lorna (Gina Gershon, SHOWGIRLS, P.S. I LOVE YOU) is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of heruntrustworthy husband Dale’s (Val Kilmer, TOP GUN, BATMAN FOREVER) criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny (Kelli Giddish, NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest double-cross involving the theft of $100,000 from a bank.
As the girls brainstorm for a “neat” solution, they medicate themselves with only the best of prescriptions - Tennessee whiskey – which leads them to even bigger problems. When Sheriff Cooley (Ray Liotta, GOODFELLAS, HANNIBAL) inconveniently enters the conundrum, the story evolves into a tale of revenge and survival that resolves in true Texas fashion: bold and ruthless.”
First Official Trailer For “Frost”
Check out the first official trailer for Reynir Lyngdal’s “Frost”. The Icelandic flick an original sci-fi thriller set on a glacier where a young couple, Agla and Gunnar, form part of an expedition. Alga serves as supervisor and Gunnar shoots a video about the expedition. They wake up to find their co-workers gone. A sequence of very strange occurrences follow…
FROST - Official trailer from Kisi Production on Vimeo.
Get Ready To Discover “The Aztec Box”
“The Aztec Box” is a FILM composed from a collection of footage recovered from a Riverside, CA residence, following some sort of a satanic cult, or ritual that occurred at a private residence. Expected release date is set for October 2012.
In June 2012, the Riverside, CA Police department seized footage following a disturbance at a residence. After reviewing the footage, the investigators concluded that it consisted of a student made reality show culminating with some sort of a satanic ritual following an unearthing of an ancient Aztec Chamber box in the backyard of the residence in question.
Exhibit 4A, Case #AD-398437 Riverside PD. The case is also known as “The Aztec Box”.
It appears that the 4 occupants of the house – Nick J., Karen R., Liz K and Darren B., were students at nearby University Of Riverside. The footage was an apparents result of them making some sort of home made reality show. Some sort of an Aztec sarcophagus was recovered at the scene. According to the footage, it was dug up by the students from an undisclosed location. Some unexplained events started occuring at the house following the unearthing of the Aztec relic.
Investigation on case #AD-398437 is still pending.
Teaser Trailer For “The Curse”
Directed by Gabriel Sabloff and starring Bill Oberst Jr., Ciddy Fonteboa, David Anthony Hernandez, DT Carney, Dontral Bacon, Pam Levin and Steel Chambers. Check out “The Cursed” teaser trailer.
“Living silently among us are the bearers of THE CURSE. Men and women doomed to walk the earth, hungering for HUMAN SOULS and endowed with powerful PSYCHIC abilities. MIDIAN, the strongest of the CURSED LAWMEN returns from exile to hunt down a dangerous supernatural fugitive.”
Update On “Dancing With Rip” Movie
“DANCING WITH RIP”, FIRST MOVIE BASED ON “GRIM SLEEPER” SERIAL MURDER CASE, TO BE DIRECTED BY JAMES CULLEN BRESSACK
Edgy drama inspired by internationally known Los Angeles Serial Killer case focuses on detective, journalist and community organizer hunting the killer
LOS ANGELES, CA (7/9/12) – James Cullen Bressack, director of Amazon.com bestseller “My Pure Joy”, will helm “Dancing with Rip”, the first movie inspired by the highly-publicized “Grim Sleeper” serial killer case in Los Angeles.
This dark and compelling thriller focuses on the hunt for the killer, not only from the eyes of the killer, but also from those chasing him, especially the lead detective, an ambitious journalist and a streetwise community organizer, as well as a survivor of one of his attacks.
Bressack, known as an “indie whiz kid” and “Horror’s new young hope”, has also been selected to direct a big-budget feature starting in Thailand in 2013.
Also on the “Dancing with Rip” team are homicide investigations technical advisor Gil Carrillo, one of the co-lead detectives who captured the “Night Stalker” serial killer, and journalist and serial killer expert Victoria Redstall.
Inquiries into investment opportunities in the film are welcome.
read more on this film here!
“Dancing with Rip” inspired by the Grim Sleeper case:
http://dancingwithripmovie.com/
https://twitter.com/Dancingwithrip
James Cullen Bressack:
Gil Carrillo:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/03/night_stalker_gil_carrillo_pol.php
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
Les Mahoney
producer@dancingwithripmovie.comLos Angeles, CA
My Review Of “Drug Smugglers: The Horrors And The Highs”
Eyes Wide Open Films’ “Drug Smugglers: The Horrors And The Highs” is a documentary chronicling the story of two friends lives as 1970’s marijuana smugglers. Allan Weisbecker and Patrick Abrams where two kinds who became friends around their mutual love of the ocean and surfing who later created a criminal enterprise in moving marijuana internationally. Allan is the famed writer of In Search Of Captain Zero. The documentary is an entertaining and heartfelt look into the wild ride of a violent culture of crime. The story brings to life the one-of-a-kind personalities of two individuals who lived through the vicious and complicated battle with themselves and the many elements and cultural factions that has taken many a life in the dark world of drug trafficking.
This is a candid look into the shady world of smuggling and friendship from the characters themselves. It gives a unique look into a culture and time that Hollywood could only dream up yet these two men lived. Most people never life to tell this kind of story so to here the tale from two men who managed to live such a violent and unpredictable lifestyle and survive is a wonderful glimpse into the darker side of life. This is a very enjoyable documentary that shows two passions that initially seem to be at odds yet in a strange and fascinating way often seem to go hand in hand. You hear the logic and reasoning on how and why the temptation and ability to pursue such a dangerous venture seemed so easily manageable yet as many negative journeys in life almost always turns into a nightmare leaving heartache and bad blood in it’s wake. This is a cool documentary that shows both a passion for surfing and a lust for life on the edge through the frill and thrill decades of America’s ages of excess.
“Drug Smugglers: The Horrors And The Highs” is from Eyes Wide Open Films. It was released in May 2012. Shot in three countries, Drug Smugglers exposes insider perspectives of the drug trade and the lengths that those involved will go to in order to protect their monopolies and the price they pay as a result. Check out the trailer and get ready to see into the lives of two very unique and entertaining marijuana traffickers.
Check Out New Indie Flick From Italy “The Pyramid”
THE PYRAMID is an Italian independent horror movie directed by Alex Visani, Antonio Zannone, Luca Alessandro, Roberto Albanesi & Simone Chiesa. Coming out in September 2012.
an anthological horror divided into four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction. Along the centuries the pyramid was the focus of terrible happenings and we found it again nowadays left on the desk of a fair abandoned like an useless toy. Found by chance by an unfortunate guy; the pyramid opens the door to a series of terrible and unstoppable events which will lead human race to the verge of extinction. Unanimated objects coming to life, demonic possessions, monstrous creatures, demons, portals, pestilence and catastrophic events: that's what you'll find in THE PYRAMID.
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New Image From Latvian Horror Flick “Hybrid Vigor”
Check out this post mortem image from Latvian horror flick “Hybrid Vigor”. The film was shot entirely on location in Latvia and is directed by Brandon Fowler. Check out the promo trailer from the Kickstarter page. Also you can like Hybrid Vigor on Facebook.
Take A Look Inside The Drake In ‘666 Park Avenue’ Promo
The series follows a couple who learns that the Manhattan building complex that they just moved into, including its upscale tenants, might be possessed by a mysterious demonic force.
Shroud Of Night By G.O. Clark
Beneath the shroud of night hides the darkness within men's minds, things that slither and creep, classic devils, cemetery angels, and death in all its poetic guises. Take the hand, if you dare, of your zombie guide and traverse the dark places that await within.
Ack-Ack Macaque By Gareth L. Powell
Ack-Ack Macaque is the third novel from British author Gareth L. Powell.
In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed ‘Ack-Ack Macaque’. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he’s starting to doubt everything, including his own existence.
A century later, in a world where France and Great Britain merged in the late 1950s and nuclear-powered Zeppelins encircle the globe, ex-journalist Victoria Valois finds herself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man who butchered her husband and stole her electronic soul. Meanwhile, in Paris, after taking part in an illegal break-in at a research laboratory, the heir to the British throne goes on the run.
And all the while, the doomsday clock ticks towards Armageddon.
Check Out The Poster For Short Film “Blood Brothers”
“Blood Brothers” is a short film directed by Steve Goltz and starring Matt Dorshner, Mike Goltz and Hannah Hitzman. It tells the story of Michael and Lindsay who have the perfect marriage, the perfect house, and the perfect life together.However, little do they know everything is about to change. After coming home from celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary, the couple receive surprise visitors that will change both of their lives forever. Family ties run deep but, in Michael’s case, they run blood deep. Blood will be shed and secrets will be revealed that will keep you guessing until the final shocking moment.The film is currently available for pre-order through Slasher Studios where you can order the short for 10.00 or get the triple kill pack that contains “Blood Brothers” as well as “Teddy” and “Popularity Killer”. Check it out at Slasher Studios site.
“Mommy’s Little Monster” Is Complete
Vision Film’s “Mommy’s Little Monster” is now complete. The horror film is directed by Marshall Uzzle and stars Matt Terzain and Troy Beyer. The story is about a serial killer who after years of incarceration returns to his childhood home to live with his mother. Now these two are locked into courses of action that neither wants, but can only end in violence and bloodshed. Check out the trailer.
Season 3 Trailer For “The Walking Dead”
Check out the Season 3 trailer for ‘The Walking Dead’. Filled with all kinds of teases for the upcoming season that is bound to have more drama, more dead, and more intensity!
Cool Clips and Featurette For “Total Recall”
“Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs.
But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.”
New Promo Artwork For “Frankenstein’s Army”
Check out the new artwork for “Frankenstein’s Army” .
“Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein’s work to assemble an army of super soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades – a desperate Hitler’s last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.”
Also check out the second teaser trailer….
Check Out The Trailer For WWE’s “The Day”
A group of five survivors, armed with shotguns, axes and machetes, wander the back roads of a ravaged landscape looking for refuge in The Day, a terrifying look into a post-apocalyptic future. As war ravages humanity, destroying civilization and most of life on earth, the survivors realize they must do whatever it takes to stay alive. Lost, starving, and exhausted, they seek shelter in a seemingly safe abandoned farmhouse. However, while searching for food and resources, they unwittingly set off a trap signaling to their ruthless predators lying in wait to begin their deadly attack. With food and ammunition dwindling, the group must make a desperate final stand - over a 24 hour period - battling for their ultimate survival.
The Fallen Boys By Aaron Dries
The road to forgiveness is covered in blood!
Marshall Deakins has tried to come to terms with the tragic suicide of his young son. But it still tortures him. His search for answers will lead him down a twisted path paved with secrets and grotesque lies. Instead of peace he finds madness, held captive as part of a deranged plan filled with suffering…and blood. As the nature of his captors’ insanity is revealed, Marshall will need to confront the truth about his son and his own past if he hopes to have a future.
Other Gods By Stephen Mark Rainey
Spanning a career of over twenty years, the 16 tales in Stephen Mark Rainey's Other Gods depict an alluring yet macabre world, rendered by one of the horror genre's most vivid imaginations. With settings ranging from the remote backwoods of Virginia to the urban wilderness of Chicago, the veneer of Rainey's world appears familiar, even comforting; yet, beneath its surface ancient, malignant powers lurk, ready to spring forth and destroy any who discover them whether intentionally or inadvertently. Laced with humor and recounted by a captivating voice, the tales in Other Gods wait for you with open arms but beware, for they are also laden with darkness. And in that darkness, danger waits.
read a sample here!
First Image From “Godzilla” Reboot
Check out the first image of the famed creature Godzilla leaked from teaser footage shown at Comic Con over the weekend. The reboot will be helmed by Legendary Pictures and Gareth Edwards.
Stoker Inspired Indie Flick “Terror Of Dracula” DVD Release Date
An indie film take on the Dracula legend...inspired by the classic work of Bram Stoker. Directed by Anthony D.P Mann and Bill Bossert and starring Anthony D.P Mann, Terry Wade, Matt Davis, Denise Wedge, Angella Scott, Ilke Hincer, Andrea Hiltz, Barry Yuen, Dick Miller, and Rick Cairns.
While Jonathan Harker recounts a bizarre tale of legend and horror to Sister Agatha in the Hospital of St. Joseph in Budapest, the wife of Quincy Morris succumbs to a strange illness. Can Quincy's trusted old friend Dr. Abraham Van Helsing find a cure in time? And can he discover what evil lurks on the grounds of the Morris estate?
On DVD September 25th 2012. Facebook Page
Check Out The Poster For “Greystone Park”
“Warning: Trespassers Will Be Executed”
Greystone Park (formerly Graystone) is the feature directorial debut by Sean Stone, which will be available on VOD on September 13th and on DVD on October 16th through XLrator Media.
Based on true events, the film follows three aspiring filmmakers trying to document unexplainable events in an abandoned insane asylum known as Greystone Park. Urban legend has it that anyone who ventures into the forsaken hospital will suffer the consequences and face their own horrors. The trio stumble across a mysterious realm of escaped patients, ghosts, and demonic shadows as they try to uncover the truth behind Greystone Park.
The film stars Sean Stone, Oliver Stone, Alexander Wraith, Antonella Lentini, John Schramm, Monique Zordan, and Monique Van Vooren and was written by Stone and Wraith.
Promo Banner For “Silent Night” 2012
Check out the promo banner for Steven C. Miller’s “Silent Night”. The banner hung ominously at Comic Con.
"It's a snowy Christmas Eve in Cryer, Wisconsin. The normally quiet town is bustling with activity as the residents are getting ready for the big day. The events take place around the town's annual Santa Parade, which has brought a record number of Santas to town. Deputy Sheriff Aubrey Bradimore is stuck reluctantly working the night shift, dealing with all of the drunken Santas, road closures, and stressed out locals — but things are about to take a deadly turn. A vicious serial killer, dressed as Santa Claus, has made his own “naughty list”, and anyone on it is in big trouble. As the body count rises, Aubrey races to discover the killer’s true identity – but in a town full of Santas, shady characters, and dark secrets, finding the real murderer will take more then a Christmas miracle."
Daughter Of Evil By Nile J. Limbaugh
She’ll seduce you…to death!
The quiet little town of Tollet’s Mines is becoming even quieter lately. Like a tomb. Young men and boys are disappearing or turning up dead. Cause of death remains a mystery, but witnesses reported seeing the victims in the company of a beautiful girl before they died. How can they know that she’s been dead for years? With each ghastly death, the spectral seductress comes one step closer to realizing her nightmarish goal—a vengeance that has stretched from beyond the grave.
Strange Vegetables By G.O. Clark
Harpo Marx's pockets. The truth about crop circles. Bizarre job opportunities. A robot poet. A flashback to the Sixties. Within the cornucopia that is Strange Vegetables you will find these and other speculations on things scientific and fantastical, real and surreal, complete with a special garnish here and there to illuminate a poem.
Viral Video For Futuristic Flick “Elysium” 2013
Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy lives on a man-made space station while the rest of population reside on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. “Elysium” is directed by Neill Blomkamp and stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. Check out this new viral video.
Cool Live Action/Graphic Novel Trailer For “Humanoid Monster, Bem”
Bem (Kazuya Kamenashi) , Bella (Anne Watanabe) and Bello (Fuku Suzuki) are humanoid monsters. Normally they live like a family and have the appearance of humans, but when they get angry or sad they change into ugly monsters. Due to their sense of justice they also help humans, but humans are fearful of them. Bemu, Bella and Bello have been living like this for several hundred years. Their wish is to become humans as soon as possible.
'Humanoid Monster, Bem - The Movie' is due for release across Japan on the 15th December, 2012.
Satanic Sundays : Six Sin Filled Films For Sunday
Welcome To Satanic Sundays Post. This week I have picked another Six Sin filled Films to Celebrate On This Unholy of Days.
Sin-o-matic Satanic Flick Number 1 is “Sorceress” 1995
Directed by Jim Wynorski and starring Linda Blair and Edward Albert “Sorceress” is about two friends, who both work for the same high-priced, high-powered law firm, and both are married to modern day witches. Erica, the wife of Larry, believes that he is being led astray by Carol, an old flame, who also works for the same law firm. Erica decides to act and one night after a torrid sex session Larry drifts off to sleep and begins to dream. Soon the dream turns into a nightmare of sex, violence, murder and death involving himself, his friends and colleagues from the law firm which appears to be frighteningly realistic...
The Second Sinful Flick is “The Mountain Of The Cannibal God” 1978
Directed by Sergio Martino and starring Ursula Andress, Stacey Keach and Claudio Cassinelli. The film is about a girl and her brother who fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
My third Selection of Sin is “Witchcraft II” 1990
Directed by Mark Woods and starring Charles Solomon Jr., Delia Sheppard and David Homb. This film continues with the witch from the first film who stalks the now teenage child of the first flick. She attempts to kill his friends in order to slowly corrupt him to Satan. However the boy is able to defeat the evil Satanic witch, and not enter into Evil with her.
The fourth Sin filled Film is “Voodoo” 1995
Directed by Rene Eram and starring Corey Feldman and Jack Nance. The story follows Andy who comes to campus in order to be close to his girlfriend Rebecca. Since he needs a place to stay he joins one of the college fraternities. However, a strange looking man warns him that the fraternity is just a cover-up for the weird voodoo cult.
The fifth Sin filled selection for this Sunday is “Flesh For The Beast” 2003
Directed by Terry West and starring Jane Scarlett, Sergio Jones and Clark Beasley Jr. The story is about six parapsychologists who investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power.
And finally my Sixth Sin Filled Film On This Unholy Sunday is “House Of The Devil” 2009
Directed by Ti West and starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan Dee Wallace and Mary Woronov. In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual.
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DIARMUID GAVIN’S MYSTERY GARDEN
Friday 24th Feb 2017: Diarmuid Gavin was on the Ray Darcy show today answering the usual gardening questions about seasonal work in the garden – what else would he be talking about? you might ask. Ray was particularly interested in what made a GREAT GARDEN great. Diarmuid told the story of a garden on the Ballyboden Road that attracted huge attention through the latter part of the last century. No one could explain its attraction ..
We didn’t live in Ballyboden but we drove by the garden frequently when we went to Kilakee visiting our granny.
As a family we had a gardening history: My parents were garden aficionados. We had plaques and trophies for Spring and Summer displays year after year in the Walkinstown Residents’ Garden Competitions.
Our garden in 32
The pleasure and the pride it gave my parents, planning the colour scheme – Michaelmas daisies, salvia (awful for slugs), lobelia, stock, wallflowers, standard roses,- we knew these names from listening to planting discussions. We heard about borders, window-boxes, lawns, edgings, trellis, lawn decorations were all familiar garden resources and within our vocabulary.
We knew the location of other award winning gardens and often drove by them. But the garden in Ballyboden took the biscuit! Here was a garden with a difference, a gaudy and eccentric affair, every spare inch packed with garden ornaments. We were not the only drive-bys who were enthralled by the creation – you would frequently see cars slowing down to view. Reputedly cars screeched to a halt and reversed for a second look
Even Diarmuid Gavin admitted to its magic. Seemingly he used a slide of the garden at the beginning of his lectures to illustrate that a great garden was a garden that captured people’s interest!
The slide was quite dull and hoping for a clearer illustration he contacted Ray Darcy in 2014 to inquire if better photographic evidence was available.
“Dear Ray
This is a photo of a garden which I took around 1994. The house is located on the Ballyboden Road in Dublin and as a kid growing up nearby, it fascinated me.
It had an effect on everyone who passed it, it made some people smile and a few became annoyed by its eccentricity.
Around the time I took the photo I have vague memories of the lady who owned it being in the audience of the Late Late Show, talking to Gay Byrne about her garden. I’m almost sure they showed some footage and think that Dulux gave her a load of paint as a gift to celebrate the gardens vibrancy.
For 20 years I’ve used the image to start most presentations and power points. I introduce audiences around the world to the notion of garden design by charting the amount of ‘stuff’ that’s been packed into such a small space to create an overall effect.
The garden is sadly no more; it’s been gone for many years. As, I believe, has the owner who created it.
My image, originally taken on as a slide is blurred and slightly fuzzy. I can’t make out all the ‘stuff’. So, to further inform my lectures and to help me develop a new project I’m trying to track down more images, pictures or footage of it in its prime. And stories of who created it and why. And I’d love to find out where the ornaments went and see if any survive anywhere.
Diarmuid Gavin”
D GAVIN’S LETTER TO Ray Darcy in 2014 looking for info about the garden
There was huge response from the locals of Ballyboden and Tallaght areas who dug out photographs for Diarmuid. Some respondents had passed the house many times as children and their parents had taken photos.
The clearest were from a guy who had photos from 1990.
There was also a copy of an old documentary called ‘Old Rathfarnham’ – and it featured lots of close up video footage of the garden, as well as an interview with Julia Pegman, the owner.
One listener Jeremy had some stories about the gnomes being vandalised – someone even doing jail-time for the theft!
Julia’s granddaughter Julieann got in touch:
That was my family home and my grandmother was the lady who started it all. I have spoken to her daughters one of whom is my mother and they have asked that I contact you as I was the person who helped my grandmother with the garden and Gnomes and I have family pictures of the garden and press clippings about it. I will gladly pass on all the history about the garden, my grandmother and why the garden and Gnomes came to an end. It would be such a pleasure for my family to know that my grandmothers work and passion have not been forgotten.
Julieann Kelly-Williams”
Ray spoke to both Diarmuid and Julieann the following morning.
Julieann chatted about growing up in the house with her mother and grandmother. Kitty, as Julieann’s grandmother was known to everyone, died in 1997.
But even before Gavin’s interest, the garden had been documented in a book Tiwidu: Village on the Verge (2016) by William Tucker, a story about a village that comes to life! A passage by Willie Walsh in the book describes Julia’s garden.
Page 1: a distant neighbour – we’ll call her Julia because that was her name- was famous for her collection of garden ornaments….the 1980s in front of her house, proudly speaking about the gnomes that were kept brightly coloured and maintained year round in pristine condition….
Page 2: the Irish had tales of the sidhe and of fairy folk that lived in certain ancient hill forts or were associated with particular trees, streams or lakes.
By 1229, there was a Mayor of Dublin. A Lord Mayor presided at meetings of the City Assembly from 1665. The Assembly became Dublin Corporation in 1840 around the same time as the first ceramic gnomes were being produced in Dresden, Germany. Six years later the march of the gnome into Britain began. It’s uncertain when the fashion first came to Ireland but it would be a bit more than a century before gnomes arrived in numbers in Ballyboden.
Julia’s home was built in the very early 1950s by Dublin Corporation, who regulated public housing and other services in the city and on some outlying lands. I don’t know when she acquired her first gnome, but one can imagine the pride Julia and her family must have felt in their new terraced house. Perhaps the garden was a little hilly to the front, so maybe a gnome or two would brighten it up.
We of course knew nothing of this ancient gnomish history in our childhood days of the 1970s but we knew that our neighbours were colourful, strange, amusing characters and that some stood our more than others. Julia’s gnomes were unusual for our time and place, but they were taken for granted by us kids as one landmark among many. (A man further up the Mountain had constructed a porch made of brown Guinness bottles.)
The gnomes that watched the borders of Julia’s front garden are now just a pleasant memory. Julia passed away in 1997, aged 82 years. Her house still stands among the others on Ballyboden Road.
The unity of village life is in the unity that comes about by shared experiences of people. The foibles and personality of individuals add the colour that enriches the everyday and the mundane. The everyday, in time, becomes history for another generation to study and to learn.
A nice addendum to the story is that when Julia Pegnam died. The house was being renovated. A neighbour across the way ( who also has a house/garden worth seeing, I’m told!) asked the builders for the old garden lamp from the garden. Sometime later he bartered it for a load of logs and it now stands in Lambert’s front garden in Kilakee.
The Gnome House today – all the magic is gone!
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Florida Dental Board allows Dr. Michael Tarver access to children after Florida Department of Health says he’s too dangerous
Apparently the Florida Board of Dentistry is more concerned about “saving face” of one of their licensees—Dr. Michael Addair Tarver— than they are about the safety of the public, most notably, children.
At a board hearing on November 15, 2013, the board voted to reinstate the dental license of Dr. Michael Addair Tarver and agreed to a proposed settlement with a few changes. Reports say the Dental Board members agreed to “reduce the fine imposed by 1/2; from $15,000 to $7,000 and to removed a stipulation whereby Dr.Tarver must publish a 2,500 word article. (don’t worry, Dr. T, I think the the 2,500 word article is covered)
In September 2013, the Surgeon General and Secretary of Health, John H. Armstrong, MD, FACS, issued an Emergency Suspension Order for the dental license of Dr. Tarver after an investigation of serious allegations of patient endangerment and malpractice. (see Background below)
According to the Ocala Post article, Tarver admitted he would sedate children if they misbehaved! This is far past outrageous! It’s criminal!!! What next will happen that sends the message it is acceptable to sedate a child for misbehaving?! Teachers? Daycare providers? Parents? Grandparents? Does this not scare anyone but me?!
Tarver must also complete continuing education on Ethics and keeping Dental Records. By reading the Emergency Suspension Order, Tarver knows all about record keeping, since he was able to go into the computer an altered many of them. Maybe this required CE class is about how to restrain the urge to alter patient records when investigators come knocking. Reports also say he must be “monitored” by another dentists, someone other than his wife.
Dr. Tarver told the Ocala Star Banner that “his heart is broken” and “he plans to leave the profession”. So I ask, why reinstate his license? Just for the sake of the children, the board should error on the side of caution, and make sure he sticks with his decision? But nooo…. they want him to have access to Florida’s children!
The suspension Order of Dr.Tarver acknowledged there is a certain trust between patient and doctors that Tarver violated,“…Dentists often operate on patients who are sedated, and do so in private.” “…The potential for abuse is high”.
The Order indicated serious doubt as to Dr. Tarver’s ability to see the error of his ways or any inclination he had the ability to recognize the seriousness of his ethical responsibilities:
“…A less restrictive sanction would not suffice to protect the public from the danger posed by Dr. Tarver.”
“…Tarver has shown an inability and/or unwillingness to comport with the standard of care required in practicing dentistry.”
“…Tarver’s attempt to conceal his violations… indicates that he fails to recognize the import of the laws governing dentistry.”
“…Tarver is likely to continue to commit violation in the future.”
“…interference….demonstrates that he cannot reasonably be expect to comply with any sanction short of suspension.”
“…nothing short of the suspension of Dr. Tarver’s license will adequately protect the public from the danger that he poses.”
Florida Surgeon General, Armstrong, appears to have been spot on. But apparently the members of the dental board disagreed. Dental Board member, Dr. Wade Winker, just wanted to “go forward with the settlement”…”because we have a huge ethical problem here.”
Who do you trust? The opinion of the Florida Dental Board or the Florida Department of Health?
Recently Dr. Tarver, with his wife Rebecca stated they hoped to move past “the gossip, lies and rumors” and together they “looked forward to working with the community".
Well, if there is an “huge ethical” problem, then what’s the rush?. Did Dr. Winker mean at the board level or that of Dr. Tarver? It’s only been just over 2 months since the Emergency Order was issued for heaven’s sake.
Surely the Florida Dental Board, hasn’t’ forgotten about Dr. Thomas Floyd. His abuse when on for 10 years or more, and many of you guys were right there watching it, every step of the way. By reading the allegation made against Tarver they sound more than similar.
According to reports in the Ocala Star Banner, Dr. Tarver’s attorney, Edwin A. Bayo, , …“blasted the Department of Health and it’s investigator, Michael Knezevich, calling the investigation “erroneous” and… Bayo said .”…I’ve never seen a case like this in all my years of practice.”
Well, well, well. I would say, attorney Bayo should get out more. It’s in the news nearly every damn day. Thomas Floyd for example, right there in Florida.
According to The Ocala Star Banner, Bayo stated this was nothing more than a “disgruntled” former employee causing Dr. Tarver’s problems.
The “disgruntled employee” defense used to work, not so much anymore. It’s “disgruntled patient”, and sadly those carry much more weight. (see Former employee of Dr. Michael Tarver says his wife, Rebecca is not any better with children)
Attorney Bayo said the Ocala police department investigated and found nothing. However, the Star Banner reports that there was no “case for child abuse”. Bayo didn’t mention that an investigation by the DEA is ongoing. The DEA raided the office on August 30, 2013 according to reports. Something Tarver originally denied happened.
According to the Star Banner report, Bayo said the investigator was “abusive to his client”, “disrespectful” and the entire “investigation was flawed.”
Questioning of Dr. Tarver by board members revealed he was seeing 120 patients a day, and 55-60 of them were being sedated. Tarver said that number included the patients also seen by his wife.
One dental board member asked Tarver if the practice was “patient or profit based”. Tarver answered that it was patient based. However, a quick Google search of “dental Medicaid children” brings that into question.
Dr. Joseph J. Thomas wanted the whole issue dismissed, according to the report. According to the website Healthgrades.com, Dr. Thomas rates below the national average in every category. This could be behind his reasoning for hoping to dismiss the whole issue with Dr. Tarver. Maybe Thomas thought Tarver actions were nothing compared to his own, who knows.
Rebecca Tarver has changed the name of the clinic to Churchill Pediatric Dentistry (story here) and will allow parents back with their children for cleaning and exams. What about other procedures?
The Ocala Star Banner article also listed more pissing and moaning by Michael and Rebecca Tarver:
the stories have ruined their lives, emotionally and financially
20 employees lost their jobs
they were kicked out of the Medicaid program
children on Medicaid now have no place to go
it was like throwing a nuclear bomb into our practice
Dr. Tarver appears to be “truthfully challenged” on many levels, leaning heavily toward an inner narcissist. He is NOT the only office in town who accepts and treats children on Medicaid.
Let’s not let the inner bully off the hook either. After the first report surfaced, many more parents came forward and told of their horrors with Tarver over on Ocala’s Word of Mouth Facebook page. On Facebook, Tarver threatened to sue parent if they continued to “spread the word about the abuse children had suffered at his hand”, according to yet another report by the Ocala Post. The report says, “Facebook user SandraRenee Seales St Denis told Ocala Post she had posted a message on Ocala’s Word of Mouth’s facebook page about how dangerous pain medications are for small children. Tarver then sent her a message threatening to sue her for slander if she “Kept This Up.””
Also from the Ocala Post, “Marcia Proctor told Ocala Post that Tarver wrote to her after she expressed her concerns as well. Tarver wrote, “I am suing you Monday morning if you continue to slander me.”
Besides a dentist, Michael Tarver says he is also a Certified Public Accountant and says he plans on perusing a career along those lines. If so, I see future visits by the IRS either to Tarver’s himself or clients he might have, don’t you?
I don’t believe that is his plan for a minute. I bet he’s seeing unsuspecting patients right now. Florida Statues empowers the State Surgeon General to suspend licensees to protect public health and safety. Dr.Tarver, along with his wife, Rebecca, also a dentist, own and operate Polliwog Dental, located in Ocala, Florida.
Rebecca Tarver, registered the business name, Churchill Pediatric Dentistry, LLC on October 8, 2013.
Don’t miss the comments at either of the news articles website page. They are enlightening as usual.
According to the Order, in April 2013, Dr. Tarver sedated a 4 year old little girl (R.R.) for a tooth extraction, the child died and had to be resuscitated. Tarver told employees if they mentioned this he would fire them, then sue them.
In June another 4 year old little girl (A.R.) was put under general anesthesia against the mother’s wishes. When the child was returned to her mother there were multiple lacerations and bruising on the little girl’s neck and shoulders. She had also urinated on herself. I could be wrong but to me it appears the child wasn’t cooperating and after fighting and trying to restraint the child, ole Dr. Tarver got fed-up and put the child out of his misery with a hypodermic needle, be it I.V. or otherwise.
In July, Department of Health investigators issued a subpoena to obtain medical records. Hours later Tarver asked his staff to log him into an interface where he altered several patient records, including the records of the two children mentioned above.
Polliwog Dental n./k./a./ Churchill Dentistry
225 S.E. 17th Street
Labels/Tags: Churchill Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. Michael Addair Tarver, Dr. Rebecca Tarver, Polliwog Children's Dentistry - Ocala Florida
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By Mike Sadowski | Published: February 10, 2010 | Leave a comment
Don’t be fooled by the somewhat passable roads this morning. It’s nasty out. Stay home if you can and enjoy these links:
Take that theater owners! If you want to bitch and moan about how much you’re taking it up the tailpipe (yes, I watched Liar, Liar this weekend — twice) by the big, bad Hollywood movie studios, then those Hollywood studios that you need more than they need you will take their toys and go somewhere else — like DVD. Alice in Wonderland is going to be the first major movie release to tinker with the traditional Hollywood system of letting a movie completely burn out in the theaters ad instead take it out at its prime. Whether this is something movie theaters should be worried about or not, we don’t know yet. This is a special, family-friendly case that’s guaranteed to make a ton on DVD once it comes out. So why not get it out on DVD for the summer when the kids are home? It’s the perfect time to try this, and the perfect movie to do it with. Theater owners will be watching this, you can bet on that.
not so super anymore
We already knew yesterday that Christopher Nolan was starting to get to work on his third Batman. Now even better news — he’s going to the Michael Corleone of the next Superman. Or at least Tom Hagen. Either way, he’s going to have something to say when it comes to making the next Superman, whenever Warner Brothers decides to make another. No idea of when that could be. Watching all these studios fail in bringing our favorite characters to the screen then asking for an immediate do over is kinda … weird. I’m starting to not be in favor of this practice.
It dawned on me late last night while scrolling through tonight’s TV lineup to make sure my DVR was set accordingly that tonight was the last Jay Leno Show. My exact reaction: “Huh.” And then I kept scrolling and I hadn’t thought about it again until it was the top story on Yahoo’s headlines this morning. It was about as anticlimactic as the end of Die Hard 3. Leno even botched his exit from his own show! Not a good couple weeks for Jay Leno and this “comedy” bit doesn’t really help matters. Seriously, getting Trump to do “You’re fired!”??? Even the Where’s the Beef lady must hate Jay Leno!
Wait, if I still haven’t even bothered to watch Mission Impossible III, then why am I excited for Mission Impossible IV? This will be an interesting experiment. Mission Impossible III did OK business, nothing special, especially in the states and in comparison to MI2. But two major factors have changed since the time it was released. 1. JJ Abrams is major-league player now. Back in 2006, he was the guy who made Felicity, Alias and Lost and was making peanuts for MI3 because he was just a TV guy trying to prove himself in movies. Now he’s got the controls to the Enterprise and he brought Tom Cruise back to Paramount. He’s now a guy whose movie you go to see because he did it. 2. Tom Cruise isn’t nearly as crazy as he was in 2006 when he went off the deep end crazy. Stanley Spadowski had it more together than Cruise on the talk show circuit in 2006. He’s since made Valkyrie and has a pretty sure bet for a hit with Knight and Day this summer, so he’s back in America’s good graces. Or at least he will be by next summer when it will be taking on Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and Hangover 2. Pretty tall order.
Man, Kings of Leon are still around? Isn’t that going to end anytime soon? At least take them off Alt Nation, please. But it sounds just about right that the first time a side stage act graduates to the main stage at the country’s biggest music fest is the first year that people will really start sounding off that the festival “isn’t what it used to be.” At least that’s my guess. It’s turning in to just another corporate gig, you might as well be playing in front of Apple’s research team. The days of me planning to someday get to Bonnaroo are over. Now the days of me wishing I could have gotten to Bonnaroo five years ago have begun. Good times. If you don’t believe me, then take a gander at how exactly they decided to unveil the lineup.
holy poop that's a sad looking mask. is it too late to get rid of it?
There was just no way the box office summer of 2011 was going to stay intact, and it’s getting blown up more every day. Marvel screwed with its lineup, first bumping Avengers to 2012 and then the next Spider-Man movie. Now Disney is blinking on Cars 2 — even though it called dibs on that release date two years ago — and moving it to December 2011. With the addition of Green Lantern to the schedule one week after Cars 2 and Tranny 3 on its heels after that, someone was going to blink, and Cars 2 wasn’t going to beat those big action movies. Plus, Kung Fu Panda 2 was coming out the week before. Those two weren’t surviving so close together, someone had to move. The date is open now, but it’s too crowded to expect anything to jump in immediately and take its spot. A comedy maybe? How soon can Judd Apatow churn out Knocked Up 2? What’s he need, a week? Two months?
The first thing I look for in an actress ready to take on the lead role in one of the biggest barrier-breaking TV shows for women is someone who doesn’t know the theme song. “Something incorporated” Jessica Biel says. So can you please find someone different if you’re going to go through with the ridiculous idea of a Laverne and Shirley movie? I know I’m a dork who’s watched too much TV, but that’s already insulting to me that Biel doesn’t know the theme to Laverne and Shirley. Even if that’s a pretty hard word — hasenfeffer, if you’re checking — at least take shot. I can excuse that, but “da da da” when it’s actually them counting? Inexcusable, unless she doesn’t know how to count, which is always a possibility. The theme would be in my top 20 TV themes of all time, and it may creep into the top 10:
NBC should try everything it can to get some of its old magic back, and if that means going back to recognizable faces from the 80s and 90s, so be it. Paul Reiser isn’t exactly Jerry Seinfeld, but at least it’s someone who will bring viewers to the network. Mad About You wasn’t my favorite show, but at least it was different. And that’s what NBC needs right now to establish a second comedy night it desperately needs right now.
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Phil White- Section V Hall of Fame Coach Inducted in 2012.
Amassed 397 career wins at the helm of the Bloomfield girls program. His teams captured 13
Finger Lakes league titles and 9 Section V Class C Championships. Phil guided his Bomber
squads to 5 Western Regional titles and 4 consecutive NYSPHSAA Final Four berths. His 1999
and 2000 Bloomfield teams secured NYSPHSAA State Championships. Phil was honored as
AGR Coach of the Year in 2000, as well NYSPHSAA Coach of the Year in 2001.
He was a 9-time recipient of the Kodak Coach of the Year Award.
Member of the Bloomfield Bombers Baketball team
Section V Class C Coach of the Year.
All Greater Rochester Coach of the Year. Two time defending State Class C Girls Basketball Coach.
Inducted into the Section V Basketball Hall of Fame
Phil White Bloomfield Central Coach
Phil White - Amassed 397 career wins at the helm of the Bloomfield girls program. His teams captured 13 Finger Lakes League Titles and 9 Section V Class C Championships. Phil guided his Bomber squads to 5 Western Regional titles and 4 consecutive NYSPHSAA Final Four berths. His 1999 and 2000 Bloomfield teams secured NYSPHSAA State Championships. Phil was honored as AGR Coach of the Year in 2000 and NYSPHSAA Coach of the Year in 2001. He was a 9-time recipient of the Kodak Coach of the Year Award.
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Compact Camera News
Leica Unveils 24MP, Full Frame Leica Q Compact Camera (Full Resolution Test Images)
Dan Havlik | Jun 10, 2015
Leica just unveiled a slick, new compact camera this morning: the 24-megapixel, full frame Leica Q. The Leica Q camera features a Leica Summilux 28mm f /1.7 ASPH integrated lens and a host of features, making it Leica’s premium compact camera.
Shutterbug got a chance to test the Leica Q before it was launched this morning and we’ve included some test samples shot with the camera in this story. The Leica Q can also shoot full 1080p HD video and has built-in WiFi, along with speedy autofocus features.
It’s the quality of the lens, however, that most struck us during testing of the Leica Q. Check out some of our sample images and you’ll see the striking, shallow depth of field (aka bokeh) we were able to achieve with the Leica Q’s built-in prime lens, which is comprised of 11 lenses in 9 groups, including 3 aspherical lenses. We also liked the ability to manually adjust the aperture in 1/3 EV increments – ranging from F/1.7 to F/16 – by turning a dial on the Leica Q’s 28mm Summilux lens, much like a traditional Leica rangefinder.
There’s also an optional digital frame selector of approximately 1.25x (corresponding to 35mm) or approximately 1.8x (corresponding to 50mm) to get your closer to the action, via a crop. (We’d, however, recommend just using this lens as a classic prime.)
Here’s a breakdown of some of the other key features of the Leica Q
• 24-megapixel, full frame (24 x 36mm), CMOS sensor with an ISO range of ISO 100 to 50,000.
• Leica-claimed “fastest autofocus in the compact full-frame camera class.”
• High speed burst shooting with the newly developed Leica Maestro II processor, allowing for ten frames per second at full resolution.
• Integrated 3.68-megapixel electronic viewfinder displays both the fixed 28mm view along with digitally cropped focal lengths of 35mm and 50mm, on demand.
• You can control the focus manually or, thanks to the Leica Q’s touchscreen, you can select a focus point with a touch of the fingertip.
• Ability to save two versions of a photo: JPEG image files are saved in the selected framing, while the Raw image files in DNG format are in the field captured by the 28mm lens.
• Video recorded in full 1080p HD. Users can choose between 30 and 60 frames per second for video recording in MP4 format. The video setting also features a wind-noise filter.
• A WiFi module for wireless transfer of still pictures and video to other devices. A Leica app also allows you to remotely control settings such as aperture and shutter speed from a smart phone or tablet. The free Leica Q app to access these features is available on both the App Store and Google Play Store for iOS and Android.
• Free downloadable Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.
• Range of optional accessories are available.
The Leica Q is available now from Leica stores and Leica dealers for $4,250.
Check out some sample shots we captured with a Leica Q test model below.
(Click image to view at full resolution.) Shot with the new Leica Q at 28mm, f/1.8, 1/80 sec, ISO 100. ©Dan Havlik
(Click image to view at full resolution.) Shot with the new Leica Q at 28mm, f/16, 1/16 sec, ISO 1600. ©Dan Havlik
(Click image to view at full resolution.) Shot with the new Leica Q at 28mm, f/2.8, 1/200 sec, ISO 100. ©Dan Havlik
(Click image to view at full resolution.) Shot with the new Leica Q at 28mm, f/2.0, 1/2500 sec, ISO 100. ©Dan Havlik
(Click image to view at full resolution.) Shot with the new Leica Q at 28mm, f/8, 1/160 sec, ISO 100. ©Dan Havlik
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Israel advocacy expert urges bridge-building
by Debra Rubin, NJJN
head of what is expected to be an active year for anti-Israel forces at Rutgers University, Jewish community and student leaders were told by an advocacy expert that relationship-building is key to countering such efforts.
The campaign to boycott Israel targets groups its organizers feel are vulnerable and receptive, including progressives; the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; and people of color, said David Dabscheck, deputy managing director of the Israel Action Network.
“The unpleasant reality is that Israel advocacy is speaking to people on the fence and getting them to do what we have to do,” he said.
Dabscheck spoke Sept. 22 at a meeting of the security committee of the New Jersey-Israel Commission. The gathering was held at Rutgers Chabad in New Brunswick, allowing Jewish leaders on campus to participate.
The Israel Action Network is affiliated with Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Dabscheck is also cofounder and president of the nonprofit Community Security Service; he requested NJJN leave out specifics of his security advice, especially in dealing with critics of Israel, saying the other side previously had turned such information against the network.
Dabscheck said he is deeply immersed in the fight against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, which, he noted, is not aimed at specific Israeli policies but rather at the entire country. “BDS is the global movement to demonize Israel and the sovereignty of the Jewish democratic state of Israel,” he said. “This should not be a left-right issue or a liberal-conservative issue or a Republican-Democratic issue, but one that unites us in the Jewish community.”
He said while polls have shown that Americans continue to support Israel overwhelmingly, that support is weakening among younger people.
One way to counter that is to show empathy toward the suffering of the Palestinians while “humanizing” the plight of Israelis.
“Having students connect and speak is much more powerful than anything they read in The New York Times,” said Dabscheck.
Campus leaders said they have heard that Rutgers — where a chapter of Students for Justice Palestine has sometimes clashed with pro-Israel groups — will be a targeted university again this school year. Rutgers Hillel executive director Andrew Getraer said the campus has so far been surprisingly quiet.
Each of the approximately 10 students at the meeting told committee chair Leonard Cole of Ridgewood they had felt some degree of discomfort or intimidation from anti-Israel sentiment on campus, whether it came subtly from a professor in class or a flyer or from direct confrontation.
Senior Talia Friedman of Teaneck, a Middle Eastern studies and economics major, said she has heard professors refer to Israel as Palestine during classes.
“It’s right on the map as the sovereign state of Israel,” said Friedman, a student leader at Chabad and a member of the Rutgers University Student Assembly. “When I tell them that it is the sovereign state of Israel, not Palestine, they say, ‘Right — Israel, formerly known as Palestine.’”
Getraer said pro-Israel students are unsure whether to confront anti-Israel factions because “they want to engage us in a public battle. We feed their fire.”
The previous day, a letter to the editor was published in the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum, from a board member of Students for Justice Palestine encouraging students to boycott Pepsi and urging the university to end its contract with the soft drink giant over its business dealings in Israel.
Getraer said he polled members of Hillel’s student Israel Facebook group, who “overwhelmingly” urged that the letter be ignored.
Rabbi Baruch Goodman of Rutgers Chabad said the Palestinian activism has had an effect on students who face “everyday intimidation from students on campus, from professors on campus.”
Dabscheck said he had heard positive things about the pro-Israel initiatives of both Chabad and Rutgers Hillel.
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August Children
Fiction by Joshua Nagle
My mother kept a photo of my older brother, Jimmy, on top of the big TV set in the living room. The picture had sun-washed a little in its wooden frame, but Jimmy was still as handsome as ever. He smiled from beneath a dark blue graduation hat and wore his hair short and close around the ears like our dad. He had the most wonderful brown eyes and a set of perfectly lined teeth which were the only pale thing against his paperboy tan. In his hands he held his high school diploma, tied with a red ribbon and across his shoulders was draped a yellow valedictorian sash.
That’s how my mom liked to remember Jimmy, as he was in the photograph. Still. Never changing. But I remember Jimmy looking at me with wide and dark circled eyes. His hair hanging limp and low against the collar of his jacket. I remember him telling me, stay in the car. Shouting it. It made me cry. Then he got out of the car and was swallowed by the blue lights in the rear-view mirror. That’s how I remember Jimmy, walking towards the lights like some Martian coming home; his shadow cut out and black as the light broke through him.
We lived in the poor part of town. Steely Ridge was an old mining settlement nestled under Eagle Mountain, the northernmost part of Cook County, Minnesota. It was the only place I had ever known. My father worked long hours at the lumber yard, so until the late evening it was usually just me, my brother and our mom. Most of my memories from my childhood are of eating supper in front of the TV set and watching old westerns or cop shows. I remember my father had been a big fan of an Alan Ladd movie I can’t quite remember, about a gunman with a sense of morality. I often wonder if he thought he was that kind of man too. My mother didn’t work. Not that she couldn’t, but my dad made enough money at the yard to keep us all steady and he didn’t like the idea of my mom having to take the bus into town ‘with the blacks’. So, she stayed at home.
The night Jimmy woke me up, I was twelve years old. It was a day or two after our dad had the accident at work. A falling piece of wood struck him over the shoulders and blew his arm right out of the socket. A new worker had piled the pieces a little unevenly and our father had seen it as a plot against a good white man’s life.
Jimmy was stood in the dimly lit corridor that led to the stairs and the front door. His hair hung over one side of his face until he brushed it away with his hand. He had an unlit cigarette between his fingers and a blue-feather earing winked from the gap between his curls and the sheepskin collar of his jacket.
“You fuckin’ stink of booze and reefer. What’s with the earing? You a faggot or something?” My dad was sinking a can of Grain Belt Beer.
My mother had pulled her legs up to her chest and was hugging them, a fat tear rolled down her cheek. Jimmy turned his back and went to walk away but my father had already thrown his beer and it had missed the wall and crashed into the frame that held the photograph of Jimmy.
“Don’t you fuckin’ walk away from me.” My dad adjusted his arm in the sling.
“Good shot,” Jimmy said, smiling.
“What’s happened to you? Huh?” My father spat. “When did you stop being yourself? Stop being Jimmy, started being… a faggot?”
“Gee, I don’t know, Dad. Maybe the time I sucked my first dick behind the bleachers in tenth grade.”
The room took on a kind of silence I had never experienced before. The blood in my ears was making a low booming sound. I could hear it being pushed around my body from my heart, feel it work around my head like the beat of a war drum. Time hung suspended. My father’s face grew red.
“I want you out the house, tonight,” My dad said.
“Done,” said Jimmy.
“You don’t ever come back here. You hear me?”
Jimmy was already half-way out the front door.
I was woken up in the middle of the night. Jimmy was bent over me and his wet hair ran across my cheeks when he whispered me awake.
“Gus, we gotta go. Pack a bag. Clothes. A jacket. Any pennies you got saved up.”
“Is it raining?” I asked.
“No, I just took a shower- of course, it’s raining, Dumbo. Let’s get a move on.”
I don’t know why I didn’t ask him what was happening or why he had come home to wake me after what had happened earlier. I trusted him. Right then, sat upright in bed, with the streetlights throwing the rain covered shadow of my window across the floor, I didn’t need to know why.
When we got to the car, Jimmy took my bag and threw it in the backseat of the Dodge and motioned for me to get in the passenger seat. It had been a graduation present from our dad, I think he must have paid it off monthly or took extra shifts at the yard. There was a time when he would have done anything for my brother.
Jimmy put the keys in the ignition but didn’t start us just yet. He lifted the handbrake and let us roll down the empty street until we were out of sight. Then he turned the keys and we took off.
About an hour into driving in silence I finally asked the question.
“Jimmy?”
“Yeah, buddy?”
“Where are we going? What about Mom and Dad?”
“We’re taking a trip. A real, long trip.”
“Do Mom and Dad know?”
He didn’t answer me.
“Is this because of what happened? Won’t Mom and Dad worry? Call the police?”
“Probably. But it’ll work out. Trust me.”
“The way Dad got mad at you, what he called you…”
“I don’t hate him, Gus. He’s just scared and old, like the guy in that western he loves so much. What does he say when he leaves?”
“‘No more guns in the valley,’” I said.
“Yeah. It’s kind of like that. Dad likes to think he’s the hero, but they’re both just old men, ya know? The way they think. Their time’s gone.”
There was a short silence.
He looked over to me from the steering wheel and told me straight. “You can count on me, alright? Gus, you can count on me.”
“Alright,” I said and leaned back into the seat and fell into a deep sleep.
I woke up in a truck stop somewhere in North Dakota. The window was down, and a soft wind was stirring my hair. The road outside the window of the Dodge Charger was damp but drying, the morning sun of August was working its way higher and higher over a clear blue sky. Jimmy wasn’t anywhere to be seen. He’d parked us next to some big-rigs that made it feel like I was sat in a Matchbox car. I opened the door and stepped out into the chill morning air. The temperature was already climbing, but in the shade of all the trucks, a cold remained. I walked around the lot a little, seeing if Jimmy was sat down somewhere having a smoke. The truck stop was empty, save for the people eating in the diner. I went inside.
The room was thick with cigarette smoke and truckers of all the same size eating grits with biscuits and gravy. Apart from their caps, they all looked pretty much the same. Tired, overweight and proud of it. A petite waitress who made me turn red with how pretty she was asked me if I was looking for someone.
“Uh, yes. My brother. Sort of tall, long hair and a tan leather jacket?”
“Oh, him. Um, why don’t you take a seat right here, honey. I’ll fetch you some eggs and bacon? Maybe some pancakes?”
“What about my brother? Is he in here?”
I noticed how nervous she had suddenly become.
“He’s just making a call in the back, sweetie. He won’t be long. Now would you like coffee or soda?”
“Soda, please. And no eggs, just bacon, and pancakes. Please.”
“You betcha. Be right back.”
The waitress, whose name tag had said Shirley, glided away behind the counter and disappeared into the kitchen. It wasn’t until after I finished my breakfast and my second soda that Jimmy reappeared. I watched him from the inside of the diner, step down from one of the big rigs right next to our car. He climbed down the stairs of the truck and when he came into the diner he walked straight by me and into the toilet. He emerged five minutes later with a shaved face and brushed teeth. His hair was wet too.
“Just had to freshen up.” He smiled and sat down beside me and put his arm around me.
“You sure can work up an appetite huh, kid?” He picked a scrap of bacon and popped it into his mouth.
“Where were you?” I asked.
“Just sorting the route. One of the truckers helped me. Ya know, they know American roads like the back of their hand.”
“Oh,” I said. “Where are we going?”
“San Francisco sound good to you?”
“Doesn’t Dad hate that place?”
“All the better to go, right?” Jimmy smiled.
“What’s in San Francisco?” I asked.
“Beaches, surfing, seafood, amusement parks—”
“An amusement park?”
“One of the best in the country.”
“And we can go?”
“Yeah, we can go.”
“But how we gonna pay for it all, breakfast too? I only have a handful of pennies.”
“Relax, man. I got us.” He pulled out a small roll of bills from the inside of his jacket pocket and left one the table. I caught him looking over to the big truck that I had seen him come out of. Then he saw that I was watching and jerked his head away.
“Come on, don’t wanna wait around, do we?”
Back on the road, Jimmy had put on his sunglasses, a turtle shell brown and orange. We passed a rain rusted sign for Grain Belt Beer and it made me think of what Jimmy said about old men and it not being their time anymore.
Jimmy flicked open the tape deck and put something in. The day was hot and it sent little spirals of heat off the asphalt in front of us. The road ahead was winding and either side was fields of cornland and grazing cattle. I rolled down the window as guitars played, and let the wind run its fingers through my hair. We drove for about six hours. Just shooting the breeze. Who would you rather be stuck in an elevator with, Ed Kemper or Ted Bundy? Who were the most far out, Led Zeppelin or Thin Lizzy? Supper or dessert? We talked until we didn’t want to talk anymore and then we drove in silence, enjoying the shared company and the thrill of the open road. Small and never heard of Midwest towns came and went the same as the trees that flew by the windows. We stopped at a gas station when the sun had gone down, and Jimmy hung outside the bathroom whilst I ate a soggy cheeseburger and read an issue of the Uncanny X-Men. Around midnight Jimmy had made enough money to get us to Wyoming. I knew what he was doing, and he knew I did too. But we never spoke of it. Not once. Even then at twelve, I understood the nature of what he was doing to keep us both afloat.
In Wyoming, I found out that Jimmy had kept a fanny pack of Amyl Nitrite under the passenger seat. “Poppers.” He kept the little capsules rolled up inside a bandana. When I had kicked the bag over by mistake when stepping out the car, he ripped into me bad. Told me I need to watch out more and not be so clumsy. He calmed down a little after that and apologized. Told me he didn’t mean to get mad at me, but that I nearly broke his “medicine.” That it was important that they didn’t break, or else we might not be able to get to San Francisco. I had a vague idea of what it was, its purpose. I had seen him sniffing every so often at the bandana when was stood outside the gas station.
It hurt me in a way I can’t describe to think my father would abandon someone like my brother for the simple fact he was homosexual. There’s a line in a Johnny Cash song that came out in the eighties, about riding shotgun with a hero, running from the law. I remember listening to that after Jimmy’s death. I broke down in tears. It’s a corny song, really, but it struck a chord within me, took me back to the sights and the sounds of that scorching August in ’78. The blood pressure, the weather, the last thing I can remember eating… a hotdog at a liquor store five miles outside of San Francisco, a policeman draping a blanket over my shoulders. The Dodge Charger smoking and filled with bullet holes.
It’s always the past we want to visit, never the future. Sure, people say they want to see what’s ahead of them, but is that really what they want? Or are they just running from the present because what they have always wanted is already gone? These are the things that keep me awake, that made me sit down to write about Jimmy. The ghosts of days gone by. Are we ever free of them?
We spent another day or two on the road, passing one-pump stations and Volkswagens driven by young men with long hair and women who pressed their tan breasts against the windows when they passed. Stopped to fish at a grand lake before we entered Nevada. Jimmy bought us a couple of rods and we sat in some deck chairs with a cold ice tea and a beer. The lake was old. The fish here knew of a time before people, when the basin was pregnant with the first flourishing of life and the rivers had carved their blue course out into the empty land that stood quiet and waiting.
I remember getting a bite, a big one. It took me onto my knees in the shallows and I scraped them on the rocks. Jimmy thought maybe it had been a Mackinaw, maybe more than thirty pounds. Mackinaw doesn’t breed until late October. I came back one winter and caught one with my son.
Jimmy pulled out a little hip flask and dabbed something onto an old t-shirt.
“It’ll sting a little,” he said.
“What is it?” I asked.
“Vodka.” He held it to my nose.
“Gross!”
Jimmy laughed.
We stayed the night, laying on our coats. The Milky Way had unfurled itself clear and white above us like some beautiful scar torn into the night sky. Somewhere out in the black, a coyote called, and a soft wind blew sand out into the water.
“You ever think people figure out who you are before they really even get a chance to know?” I asked. “How people say books can’t be judged by their covers.”
I watched Jimmy sip his beer and think for a minute. And then he said:
“I think we are all like the aperture on a camera. How we act depends on how people see us or understand us. You let a little light in with the camera, it brightens the image. You close off the aperture ring, it makes the image darker. I think we work like that. Human beings, I mean. We can let people see what they want to see. Whether that’s good or bad. Whether they like it or not. If it’s the truth or a lie.”
I didn’t know how to respond. But I think I do now. We dozed. It was warm enough without a blanket, but the minute I drifted off Jimmy must have placed one on me. I woke up with it tucked around me, a little chilly. We set out for Nevada.
Jimmy dressed up well, could have passed as the lead singer from The Doors. Women were drawn to him, couldn’t see past his boyish charm. He used that to his advantage. A few bucks from their purse when they’d go to the bathroom. Pay for a round of Long Island Ice Teas and walk away with forty bucks. He kept us going on the road.
In a morel outside San Fran, he told me he was going to grab some takeout and be right back. Which was half the truth. I stayed in and watched TV. The channels were sparse, but I found something to keep me occupied. Lieutenant Columbo was tracking down a bullfighter that had arranged for a man to be killed. The bullfighter had saved a young boy from being gored earlier in his life. I guess it’s harder to stay a hero.
Jimmy came through the door with a bag of Chinese food and a black eye. Someone had whacked him and stolen his fanny pack. I ran to the old lady who owned the motel and asked if she had any ice for a black eye. She gave me a frozen pack of peas and told me to git.
“You gotta keep it on or it’ll bruise really bad,” I said, holding the frozen peas to his face.
“Yeah, yeah. Eat your rice or it’ll go cold.” Jimmy roughed my hair.
We sat on the bed of the motel room and watched as men on the TV in sweat-stained shirts, with thick mustachios, waited in the sand, and a brown-eyed woman cried for her lover’s safe return.
I had a soda resting between my brown legs that poked from beneath a pair of beige shorts. Somewhere along the stopping and starting of motels and truck-stops, I had gotten quite the tan.
“That’s a paperboy tan,” said Jimmy. “It’ll last all summer.”
“For real?”
“Yeah, waitresses love a tan.” Jimmy winked.
“Screw you.”
“Hey, watch your language or the Wicked Witch of The West will come out with her flying monkeys.” Jimmy shot a thumb over to the reception where the sour-faced old lady sat. We both cracked up.
I don’t remember falling asleep. I woke up during the night and the alarm clock read two-thirty-eight in the morning. I turned over and could see Jimmy through the window of our room, outside. His Cuban shirt blew out behind him like a cape and in his shadowed hand I could see the ember of a cigarette. A car pulled up and Jimmy lent into the window. He snapped the cigarette to the floor and then got in. The car drove away.
When I woke up again, Jimmy was placing me down on the passenger seat of the Dodge.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“Cops givin’ me grief,” he said, nodding to where two police officers leaned against their cruiser.
The motel sat lonely beside the dark highway. Over the road, the fields of corn were purple in the early morning hour. Jimmy walked back over to the officers and I looked out passed the backseats to the rear window. One of them was asking him something and writing on a small pad of paper, looking Jimmy up and down like something was wrong with him. Jimmy stood with his hands on his hips, occasionally running his hair back with his hand. He was nervous. The officer looked up and caught my eye, mouthed something and pointed with his pen towards me. I ducked down behind the seats.
When the door opened, it was Jimmy. Behind him the two officers. One of them made a nod to the bandana hanging from Jimmy’s back pocket and they snorted.
“Gus, these officers just want to look around the car. You wanna hop out?”
“What for?” I asked.
“They just need to look. It won’t take long.” He smiled the same way he had the first night we left. I got out of the car.
Jimmy and I stood with our backs to the highway whilst the two officers searched the trunk and backseats with a flashlight. When the tallest of the two officers got to the passenger seat I heard him take in a breath.
“Well, shit,” he said, smiling and dipped further into the car.
He called over his partner and stood looking at Jimmy with a grin whilst the other officer bent inside. When they both came over to us, the tall officer was fingering his nightstick.
“You know these are illegal to sell to minors?”
“Huh?” said Jimmy and I saw the color drain from his face.
The police officer opened his fist and cradled inside his palm were four bottles of Amyl Nitrite.
“These was under the little fella’s seat.” He looked at his hand and then at me.
“You know what they call these?” The tall officer said to his partner.
“Poppers,” said the other officer.
“Makes me sick.”
“You heard him,” said the officer gesturing to his partner “Illegal to sell to minors. Under the little fella’s seat.”
“They’re mine,” said Jimmy.
“Oh yeah? What they doin’ hidden under his seat then?”
Jimmy side glanced over to me. My stomach sank. Neither of the officers were smiling anymore.
“I must have dropped them,” Jimmy said.
“Is that a fact? Thought these were like gold-dust to you queers?”
The tall officer laughed.
“Listen, I’m sorry,” said Jimmy “I’ll pay a fine if I have—”
“So, you’re admitting it then?”
“No.” said Jimmy. “I mean—what?”
“Why would you pay a fine if you’re not guilty?”
“Yeah,” said the tall officer.
“No, I mean—you guys are just being—”
“What are we being, huh?” said the tall officer.
“You better watch your mouth, honey,” said his partner.
“Jimmy,” I said, and everyone went quiet.
Jimmy looked at me and then looked at the ground. I saw the muscles in his jaw flex and relax.
“Huh?” was all the tall officer managed before Jimmy dropped him.
“Get to the car!” Jimmy shouted.
I ran. When I climbed into the passenger seat I looked back. Jimmy was pushing over the other officer. His partner had come to and was on his hands and knees reaching for something. My brother looked back to me and then to the officer and grabbed whatever he had been reaching for.
Jimmy slammed into the driver’s side of the car and got in. We burned rubber backing out the hotel and clipped the wing mirror of the police cruiser on the way out. Jimmy was shaking. He had a vice grip on the wheel. My stomach dropped when I saw the Colt .45 in his lap.
“I thought he was gonna shoot.” His words caught in his throat. “He was reaching for it, and I thought he was gonna shoot.” Hot tears ran down his cheek.
The blue lights of the cruiser emerged on the dark road behind us. Jimmy punched the tape deck in anger and out droned the somber voice of Scott McKenzie.
We sped down the highway, passing a sign that read:
“San Francisco, 5 Miles.”
Jimmy looked at me.
“You stay in the car, okay?”
‘What?’ I said.
“Just stay in the car!”
He brought us to a stop, swerving and putting the front end of the Doge halfway into a ditch.
I began to cry. Jimmy took the pistol by its barrel and closed his eyes. I heard him whisper something to himself, I think he said “Please.” Then he got out of the car and slammed the door. I watched him through the rear-view mirror grow smaller and darker until he was nothing but a shadow, cut out from the blue lights. He stood there. The rhythmic glow of the cruisers illuminated his shape and swallowed it, again and again. He raised the pistol in his hand like an offering. I covered my ears.
When they opened the door of the car one of the officers nearly had a heart attack. The body of the Dodge was riddled with bullet holes. It was like looking down on tiny burned-out campfires. There wasn’t a scratch on me.
They sat me down beside a liquor store a few miles out from the scene. They fed me coffee and a bad tasting hotdog. I had watched the paramedics carry Jimmy’s body on a blanket-covered stretcher into the back of the ambulance. That was the last time I saw my brother until I stood over his grave.
I resented my parents for a long time after that night. I still do, to an extent. I buried them ten years ago and I have a family of my own, but that night still haunts me in the same way that faces of old friends do when you catch yourself listening to a song or smelling a certain smell that brings them hurtling back. The smell of cheap cologne is what does it for me. That smell, and the sound of Scott McKenzie’s voice singing San Francisco over the little drumming of rain.
I went back home for a few years before moving away to college and meeting my wife. My father left pretty soon after. He didn’t come to the funeral, told us he had to stay and fix the guttering. When my mom and I came back in the late evening, the guttering was still broken and we found my dad asleep on the sofa bedside an empty case of beer. The broken photo of Jimmy was on his chest. He never spoke of that night or how we found him. He didn’t speak about his Jimmy before he left, either. I wondered if the idea my father held of himself, this abstract image, something illusory, was more important than anything real he felt inside. I thought about men like him as the last of a dying breed. And then I thought about men like him thinking that way too, so I stopped. Time moves on, as it always has, always will do. I woke up one morning and my dad was gone. No letter, no call. He just took off on a rainy morning in August and never came back. My mother didn’t cry, she just stayed quiet. We had the picture of Jimmy repaired and it sat on top of the TV set until she passed. Now it sits on my desk whenever I sit down to write.
Around the time I heard that my father had died was when I finally tracked down the Dodge. It took me a while, and to be honest, when the officer from San Fran dug up an address of a scrapyard, I was skeptical, to say the least. I chased the trail and although the car wasn’t in the yard, a young fellow working there directed me to his father’s plot of land a few miles away, said that some of the automobiles he got back in the day he held onto, for safekeeping.
I got to the place a little before dark. The sun was low, burning up the sky an angry purple and red like something out of a bad dream. The old man sat in a deckchair on his front porch. I could see him squinting at me as I came up the gravel path, looking down his eyeglasses. He told me I was on private property and if I was trying to sell something, he would sling me onto my keester. I smiled.
“Not selling anything sir, I’m actually looking for a car. Heard you might have it.”
I’d gotten to the first step of the porch steps now. Weeds poked through the flaking white paint and reached up like a thousand desperate hands. He finished his beer, set it under his foot, and crunched the can. Then he leaned back in the dirty seat and studied me. “Them pants are awfully tight, fella. Your back pockets touchin’?”
“Well, what you after, come on now?”
“I’m looking for a Dodge Charger, old model. 78’.”
“Woo-ooh. That’s a mean piece of engineering. I watched that beauty win fourteen NASCAR Grand National races, you know that? Nothin’ could touch it. It was like the sound after a gunshot—you watched it go by in silence, then came the noise.”
I looked out past the house and saw the beginnings of fenders poke through the shrubbery.
“My dad bought it for my brother a long time ago,” I said. “I sort of lost hold of it. Wish I hadn’t, but life was moving fast. I’m sure you understand.” I took my hands out of my pockets and held out a roll of cash.
The old man took another beer from the cooler box beside him. He cracked the brew and knocked it back. I wasn’t even sure if it touched his lips. “She ain’t pretty, can use a lot of work, someone that understands her.”
“I’ll give her to you for $800 and I won’t go no lower no, alright? I ain’t gonna be cheated out a set wheels like that. Especially not by some young buck—”
“Is she back there? Does she still drive?”
The old man looked at me sort of sideways and then he simply said, “Yeah, she still drives.”
I handed him the money and walked to the back of the house. The sun had fallen far behind the trees and when I came back in the Dodge, its glare was falling across one-half of the old man’s face like he was being eaten alive by the light.
He nodded at me and reached down for another beer.
I drove away.
Over the state line, I pulled over and shut off the engine. It was dark, and when I looked up, I could see the stars shooting down white-hot. I followed the Milky Way with my finger like I was tracing an old scar, and when I finally pulled up home, I leaned my head into my hands and cried. I think there was something in what my brother said to me. About people being like a camera, how we see each other. But then again, if the human heart can be initialized like that, into a sentence, maybe we don’t know what’s behind the glass at all.
Joshua Nagle is a twenty-three-year-old short story writer from the U.K. "August Children" is his debut publication. He lives in mid-Wales with his girlfriend, where he has begun work on his first novel.
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GMB ex-employees turn on their lawyer
Former Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers are at loggerheads with the lawyer who represented them after they were sacked on three months' notice in 2015 following the landmark Supreme Court ruling.
The workers are accusing lawyer Munyaradzi Gwisai of professional misconduct after he reportedly hid court papers of a ruling that favoured them in a case against the parastatal in July 2016.
Documents in possession of NewsDay showed that the GMB sacked Stephen Machaya and 476 others, who were working in various depots, among them Mutoko, Mt Darwin and Guruve.
The former employees had sought the legal services of Gwisai of Munyaradzi Gwisai and Partners Legal Practitioners to recover outstanding salaries, pension, housing, funeral and medical aid contributions.
One of the former GMB employees, who preferred to speak on condition of anonymity, accused Gwisai of partnering with the parastatal's lawyers to hide the court papers from them.
"After the Zuva judgment, we were given three months' notices. We then challenged the dismissal and we won, but I believe Gwisai and GMB lawyers hid the judgment from us," he said.
The former employee said it was after 16 months when both lawyers came up with the memorandum of agreement for mutual separation.
"We are demanding that GMB must pay us from November 2015 up to March 31, 2017. We cannot be prejudiced because lawyers went to bed with GMB in order to run away from our favourable July 2016 ruling. The dismissal was declared unlawful," he said.
"Up to now, GMB has not paid us even what was agreed on in the agreement for mutual separation. We did not even get a cent."
Papers from the labour officer showed that GMB was ordered to pay the claimants a minimum retrenchment package of one month's salary for every two years worked as compensation for loss of employment.
The payment was supposed to be effected in six months.
But when six months passed without any action from GMB, it is alleged that Gwisai did not follow up on the matter despite having been paid by his clients.
Another former employee told NewsDay that he was suspecting GMB wanted to make them suffer because they had demonstrated against the parastatal's board of directors and senior managers.
But Gwisai told NewsDay that he represented the former employees well and insisted they were paid in terms of the agreement for mutual separation.
"The employer paid these employees in terms of the agreement. We did a great job for them. We managed to push the employer to pay them. The ruling you are talking about is actually a draft ruling, which is issued by the Labour Officer in terms of section 93 subsection 5 of Labour Act. It is supposed to be confirmed by the Labour Court," he said.
"Within a month, we had reminded the legal officer to do the application, so they cannot say we did not follow up. After the mutual separation agreement, we could not follow the matter to the Labour Court because they had already been paid."
Gwisai said they could not update on the development of the case to each and every claimant because they were many, but could only talk and issue documents to their representatives.
"The (claimants) were over 400. We gave (updates on the case to) their representatives, they were the ones who were coming to court. If their representatives did not give them (the information), it is not my problem," he said.
Gwisai said the employees had not be paid from November 2015 to March 2016 the day an agreement for mutual separation was signed because the Labour Act had ruled that the sacking of employees with a three months' notice was lawful, if the employees were paid.
"The Labour Amendment Act (No 5) of 2015 was confirmed by the Constitutional Court on March 28, 2018 in a case of Greatermans Stores and Anor v/s Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare," he said.
GMB human resources manager Aquinata Makuvise requested questions to be sent to the public relations department, but these had not been responded to at the time of going to print last night.
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Our Match vs FC Barcelona – U13/14 – MIC Cup 2015
In pursuit of world class, one better have some grip on what that actually means.
And that, I think, requires going beyond your domestic soccer bubble, especially if the standard for world class does not reside there.
Winning an American league or tournament, no matter which you want to cite, does not give you a good gauge of where you’re at. In fact, it can give you a completely false sense of what your true level is.
Playing domestic teams off the park, no matter who your opponent is, does not give you a global gauge.
Seeing individual player performances versus their domestic peers does not give you a global gauge.
Seeing your collective team performance – a reflection of your training and supporting infrastructure – exclusively against domestic opposition, does not provide a global gauge.
Competing with top-level international opponents is what provides a gauge. And if possible, against the very best.
This past week was the fourth trip we’ve gone to Europe to play the best in the world.
And so you can see for yourself, we’re once again releasing the full video of our quarterfinal match versus FC Barcelona.
We’re open and happy to answer pretty much any and all of your questions. So ask away! Of course, if they are sensitive (for example, player specific), we’ll refrain.
Filed Under: Club Soccer, Philosophy, Soccer Education, Solutions, Video Tagged With: Development, Education, Elite, Video
First and foremost, thanks for sharing this. Was a pleasure to watch.
I don’t if it’s personally just me but I felt the match was more than even and it really came down to small details. I think you guys obviously demonstrated an extremely high level of possession football against a side that is known for their possession style of play. Certain things that Barcelona did that helped them win the match was the amount of pressure they placed on your boys. They were so many effective, in my opinion, in forcing your side to have to play the long ball to often. And when it came to starting the build up play from the keeper, they really closed down the spaces well and forced losing possession quickly. If I’m not mistaken barca’s gol comes from a long ball from the RB, possibly RCB to their 9 and he finished that brilliantly. But it comes from a throw in from your side. Your number 10 takes a wrong touch but your RB wins it plays it to the captain, he sends a pass to the small blonde boy, sorry couldn’t make out all numbers, and he isn’t ready to receive and the RB intercepts and plays that long ball to the 9. Aside from that I don’t really recall too many dangerous chances from Barca in that half. If anything the clearest chance came from you guys in the 20th and then another one in the 21st min. The second goal was a lost 1v1 situation but was originated from a foul that led to Barca keeping possession until they picked out the winger to go in that 1v1. You guys demonstrated that good football does exist in the U.S. and should be allowed to continue working as an academy after this season. Few sidenotes, Barca looked really good handling the pressure you guys applied and were able to build up play from a the back a bit more comfortably. And a couple things not game related but why was there only 1 ref? The parents comments from both sides shows how passionate they are about the game too interesting comments. Thanks again for the video as a young coach I really enjoy watching this.
Brian Kleiban says
Alfonso,
Thanks for watching and sharing.
I beg to differ on barcelona playing out of the back more comfortably than we did. I think they might have had a few good sequences. They definitely played direct more than they built out of the back.
They controlled the tempo of the game much better in the 2nd half. Proper game management. Time wasting on throw ins, restarts, faking injuries, killing rhythm.
We had our chances to punish during a good 12 minute spell to end the first half and didn’t. At the highest levels, you either punish, or get punished. Goles que no haces, goles que te hacen…..argentine phrase.
Good learning experience for the ourselves and the group. Lots to work on. We are close and gave Barcelona the best game of the tournament……more so than aspire in semis and madrid in the final. Could be my personal bias but they are of the same opinion.
Again, thanks for contribution.
One thing we are learning as we are moving up in play is how badly you get punished for mistakes. The team that capitalizes almost always comes out on top. When we were playing Gold and below, we rarely got punished for the mistakes. Now in our first season in Premier our boys are slowly learning to break these inconsistencies in play. It seems you can look back at the film and talk about quality all day, but the ability to take advantage of lapses almost always is what determines the outcome.
Thanks for contributing. 1000% correct. As you climb the ladder in levels of play, mistakes become costly. At the highest levels, 1 mistake usually leads to a goal against.
That applies at all levels of soccer be it rec, youth club, academy, college, pro, or top level international.
Match winners don’t forgive your mistakes.
Kevin Haspela says
Curious about your comment, ” Proper game management. Time wasting on throw ins, restarts, faking injuries, killing rhythm.”
How is faking injuries proper game management? Certainly killing rhythm, and I’ll agree that there is no need to hurry when a team is in the lead, but faking injury is poor sportsmanship in my opinion and I will never coach a team do pretend they are injured to gain advantage. Do you see this as an industry standard in coaching at your level? I am a high school girls coach.
Thanks for the post. Yeah, in the international game (except uk and stateside), anything and everything goes to get a result.
Faking injuries and diving are accepted as being clever. FC Barcelona is teaching it, they are known as gold standard world wide, but here it’s definitely frowned upon….a no no, bad boy Johnny.
Depends on your views.
I surely didn’t like it as it was being applied against us by the best club on the planet…..barcelona resorted to what we call anti-futbol to get a result. The verdict is in, WIN AT ALL COSTS!!! Even in the youth game.
Development?
RJ says
Have to agree – first half, you were killing it. Some great opportunities, and you made FC Barca expend a lot of energy trying to press, which you broke pretty easily.
I didn’t watch the second half, but apparently they made the right adjustments to win. The definitely seemed more direct than Chivas, but even though Chivas lost, there is no reason to hang your head – that was an outstanding display of soccer at a youth level – something you just don’t see in the States frequently.
As a side note, I have used your post on Van Gaal and his 3 month time frame to get world class football. I’m a relatively new member of the coaching section, and I’ve just started applying the training. My team will never be Chivas, just too low level, but if we can even start to think laterally rather than vertically, and break team defenses through 1-2 combos, I’ll call that a victory.
While on that note, I can tell you that the quality of play is SO bad at the school level, and they “train” so frequently, that it’s a complete and utter struggle to break the bad habits. The US really screwed the pooch by requiring coaches be on staff as teachers, it’s absolutely destroying any good work club coaches do. Remember, not all teams are “academy” – there are A LOT of mid- and lower-level travel teams that still represent an opportunity to drive possession-oriented soccer that ultimately elevates our country’s quality of play.
That has been the biggest issue I have seen thus far. At U12 (when I was NOT a 3four3 member), I had my girls playing a bastardized possession game. It wasn’t pretty, but it was effective and it worked – we were a dominant team with mediocre players. At U14 (now I am a 3four3 member, and 95% of my girls play middle school ball), we’ve lost all semblance of a possession team, and it’s clear that crappy training 5x a week will yield a crappy product…I’d almost call it brainwashing…FWIW.
Sorry to ramble – great job with these boys, keep up the good work and fight the good fight!
In this game it doesn’t seem like your keeper or backs are trying to play the ball out of the back. One touch by one back is not playing out of the back. Not building up the attack?
Our backs and gk aren’t trying to build out or Barcelona’s?
Take this as a compliment – when I first watched the video, I was multi-tasking (ie., not paying attention LOL), and I thought CHIVAS was FC BARCELONA!!! Even though it’s clear the blaugrana unis are FC Barca, the quality of play was SO GOOD and I was unfocused that I thought it was other way around. Truly a testament to how well you have these kids playing, it’s really tremendous. I only wish I could steal you guys for a few weeks to run my kids through the ringer!!!
So perhaps others felt the same?
RJ,
Thanks for the comment. I wouldn’t go that far. We had a good spell in the first half where we played the type of futbol we like to practice. Sustaining that for longer periods of time and completely owning a game of this magnitude is the objective long term.
Another great learning experience for everyone involved.
Understood – and context – I watched the end of the 1st half, where you were much more in possession…I did not watch / see the whole game, so not sure what changed.
But for that 10-12 minute spell, I didn’t realize I was watching your team…it was impressive, even if short.
Seems like it took Xuhxuh awhile to get into it. Best and worst moments happened on that right side in my opinion in the first half. Keeper seems timid so far, some slow decisions and slow balls out to the cb’s made for some difficult situations. Love the combination play that started happening midway through the first half. Efra and Xuhxuh flipped a switch. FCB seem content with it happening in those areas though, middle to defensive third of field. Super methodical about their pressing. Excited to see how the teams change in the second half. I remember seeing the stats and it said FCB had majority of possession so I’m anticipating a much different second half from both teams.
Pretty good read on the game on your end. We had a very good spell midway thru the 1st half where we owned the game and the momentum was ours. Created 2 clear chances and a half chance that needed to be goals. You had to be there live to feel the massive swing in momentum. Efra finishes and I truly feel it’s a different game. Their sideline was in panic mode. Wanted to get to half desperately.
Wondering if you guys knew going in that they would press your cbs with their attacking mids on goal kicks? I’m trying to figure out the best way to combat that. Makes things really interesting since their wide players just chill and take away outside backs and then their am just goes balls out to press.
Mauri says
Saw the same thing. Barça’s first team used to press opposing CB with iniesta and/or Xavi. A three back solves that. Either permanently or temporarily with the holding. Just mho.
Mauri,
Agreed, 3 back system usually gives you numbers in the build out when the have their offensive miss jump a line.
However, had we known this was their tendencies, rehearsing how to get out with our 8 and 10 early by skipping that first line would have solved the problem fairly easy.
MASSIVE REGRET! Difficult with how the tournament is played and being understaffed.
Did not know they would press with their 10 on goal kicks. Was difficult to go and watch them prior to the game since we played at the same time in different locations.
It would have been tough to execute. One of my biggest regrets was not having seen them live this tournament prior to this game. Gary argues that had we watched them in other games, it would have served a very small purpose since they were playing inferior opposition that doesn’t truly test them.
I beg to differ, any type of scouting would have at least given us a better chance to prepare. All in all, lots of the 01s from our team are fairly new. Some only a month or two into it and it shows in these big games.
The gk completely new, 1 cb, 1 attacking mid, and 1 fw. Lot of new faces for this trip. Great experience for all the boys, especially the new ones who all have the qualities to be successful long term.
Walter LeBlanc says
I disagree with Cynthia. I feel there was a great attempt to build up out of the back and switch fields. The keeper was not just kicking the ball out. I enjoyed the composure of the Chivas players despite being under great pressure from Barcelona. On both sides of the ball we could see teams exhibiting the 2 benchmarks of pressure and possession. What I would love to read is what adjustments/areas of growth Chivas will work on to improve. What was the focus of the halftime discussion? I feel the boys were definitely up for the task but still falling short. How do you get over that last hurdle to win the biggest competition? How do you increase your number of quality shots on goal?
Great comment and all very good questions…..will take me some time to compose a response and I’m prepping for champions league right now. Will try to get back to you in detail later this evening.
Faraon says
Thanks for the video.It was definitely a learning experience just watching it.Good pressure from Barca didn’t let chivas get a rhythm going.Good first half for both teams I thought.Energy and individual ability seem to kick in, in the second half for barca.Just what I saw but when chivas was coming out of the back barca overloaded sides so much that chivas couldn’t get a numerical advantage on the wings but left the Attacking mid position open for chivas to use but neither back was able to take advantage of that.And I don’t know if that left forward for barca was that good or xuhxuh just had a game that bad.Either way the boys seem to give it their best effort and there is definitely no shame in losing to probably the best u14 team in the world.
Brock says
Thanks for sharing Brian, I agree with a lot of the previous comments on here. Thought you guys maybe came out a little flat, but once the game got going key players started to make plays that changed the tempo of the game and eventually led to your two great chances and control of the end of the first half. If it was tied at half I think this game would have ended in your favor. Something I also want to compliment you on is the usage of your players, couldn’t tell the number but obviously little blonde guy on your team seemed to be the smallest on the field, but I felt he had great positioning and knowledge of what to do with the ball. (Sorry for the run on sentence). I think a good indication to any us soccer fans that it is not always about size and strength, if the players are coached properly than it doesn’t matter. Again congrats on what I would say is still a successful tournament appearance and a great experience for the lads. Hope to make it out to one of your conventions. Thanks again and good luck
Miguel Velazquez says
Hi. Guys,
I must say congrats on keeping your composure and truly keeping your identity after going down 1-0. That finish by the number 9 on FCB was amazing, but they way you guys were able to reorganize and take the momentum from them just before the 1st half ended was really impressive. if one thing did standout of Barcelona it was the manner in which they pressed as a unit and their game management the last 10 or so minutes( i think they were afraid of what had happened in the first half). Watching XuhXUh play down the wing as a back is an amazing to watch, he truly encompasses the whole 3four3 philosophy and is able to bring it to life on the field.
Congrats with your journey through the MIC Cup and thanks for sharing the video can not wait to break it down with my brother.
johnny alcaraz says
I really enjoyed your team’s game. I hope in the future I could have the opportunity to work with your staff and players.
I really enjoyed watching your team play. They display a high level of calmness (which only comes with being comfortable on the ball). I saw more technical abiility in this game than I see in a lot of MLS games and what I mean by that is that if and when your players get in tough tight spots, they don’t get flustered and figure out a way out by either passing or dribbling out. I think it was Alex Ferguson that once said that one of the two main things he looks for in a player is how good are they at being able to get out of tight spots on their own. Id’ say almost all your player can. Well done and keep up the good work. Let me know if you guys are ever in need of a fitness coach.
Oscar V. says
The squad played well. I have seen prior videos on the website and thus i can safely say your players matched up against a squad that were just as quick and skillful as your players and therefore at first they might have been filled with anxiety at the beginning. Barca did close down very quickly and maybe chivas players were not used to that playing against clubs from USA. Yes, the two opportunities missed by your number 10 player would have shifted momentum but seeing that he is a very calm technical player he tried to place both shots when he could have whacked it with more power but of course when your viewing from a different angle (hence, as a fan) every play can be analyzed differently.
Keep your head up coach. I wish i would have been that good at their current age. Im 35 now and so clubs/academies and money were not a big part of soccer back in the 90s as is now. There were very few club teams in the SF Bay Area when i was growing up so mu dad coached us. Not bad because we went to Far West regionals one year.
But hey in your case to be the best you have to play/beat the best!! Example: mexico national team plays in usa to make money and play against any country just to earn a profit while USA national team plays against the best in Europe to get better.
Props for giving Barcelona a great game
I’m curious to know how 3four3 compares against other teams around the globe In terms of playing the highest level of soccer. In your eyes, is chivas usa producing players with a skill level high enough to compete against teams like Barcelona? Or is it still a while before that level can be reached.
Thanks Frank,
Little confused about your comment/question.
I feel we can definitely compete with the elite level academies world wide. The proof is in the pudding. We have had the possibility to play against the leading academies world wide and had ample success in terms of level of play and results.
Sustaining this level with good competitive games at the critical ages of 15-18 is the next challenge. Can our local environment provide this? That is the question.
R2Dad says
Curious if you could expand on this 15-18 competition issue, either here or in a separate column. That age range seems to be the window where the wheels fall off the leagues/system(s) we have in place. I’ve read that you and Gary are not big supporters of the status quo, so I’m wondering how you see a logical evolution in order for your team(s) to get the derby competitor(s) you deserve. Other posters here have called for a revolution but I don’t see that happening unless there is a stream of money or US Soccer dictate to build whatever is needed to replace what we have now.
Austin says
All I could think watching this game is “this is true development.” The game situations these boys had to solve in this single game is more than many DA kids see the entire year. This is development that compounds on itself. This only happens when you have two teams with coaches dedicated to playing the right way.
Oh also…Would love to know what your #3 is picking up at Veerhuys! How do you see his development and what impact of futsal training?
Justin Aguirre says
I thought Chivas won the first half overall and definitely kept barca on their heels with 2 point blank chances that if would have been converted would have been a much different outcome. Barca’s press was also extremely synchronized and relentless, I’m not sure there were any teams at mic that could have played out of the back consistently against that press. The second half however I feel Barca took over as far as the possession, middle of the field, and the opportunities created. No. 9 for them is on another level. I could understand Brian’s frustration as well, Barca was really abusing the clock with the injuries and killing the tempo way too much, it almost seemed a bit anti-Barca to do that so much too.
But what a game from both teams and a clear display of young world class football!
I thought Chivas played out of the back very well. In the first half there were great 1-2 combos in the middle to defensive third of the field along the sideline, especially the right side. It seemed this was making Barca hesitate rather then them being content to let it happen there, after all, these are the areas of the field they love to press the most.
It seemed the Chivas attack was very rushed in the offensive third and didn’t always allow for support to help. You have such quality possession that it would be great to see them pull the ball back more and reload it. It would have given a different look here and there by slowing the game down and allowing the forwards to circulate and find gaps between defenders for split passes while the backs and mids hold the ball allowing this to happen. I think your team has the game intelligence and quality to do this. The game had a very fast pace the whole game, all the way to the final third, which may have been your tactic against them. I don’t remember seeing very many overlaps or overloads occurring which could have been useful with that fast pace.
RO2 says
I would have to completely agree. I feel like what worked in the first half was possession to keep the ball and make Barca run around and chase the ball a bit. Everything was very frantic and fastpased offensively and very direct. I too would have also loved to see Chivas slow it down a bit. Try and create movement of there back line and look for gaps to exploit with forwards runs and mids penetrating passes. Chivas has the ability to keep the ball against one of the best academys in the world. I felt like the constant pressure of Barca was just enough to unsettle Chivas’s players to get ride of the ball sooner than they wanted to.
The one thing that ran thru my head was these are just kids!!! They are not super human robots. They have been TAUGHT to play this way. IMO it can be taught stateside but i will take more people willing to get there hands dirty and teach it from the ground up. Just like Brian and company!
Keep up the good work!!!!!
Andy Mullaly says
Brian: watched the entire game and will probably watch it again. In the second half Barcelona made some tactical switches that caused your boys some problems and Chivas never seemed to get a flow like they did the last 10 minutes of the first half.
I could tell your Keeper was new to the team, the difference between his release and Barca’s GK was demonstrative. Barca got rid of the ball consistently cleaner and quicker than Chivas which made a difference to your press; when you did get a good press Barca had problems with playing the ball out, I saw quite a few bad passes out of bounds.
Was #8 (your attacking pivot) playing up in age, or is he just small? He had good speed but seemed to get sucked into to tight a supporting angle lots of the time.
It also seemed obvious that Xuxuh hasn’t been playing with you guys consistently, he attacked well, but I thought his tracking back wasn’t on par to other games I’ve watched him. (Their left wing was very skilled and would make any lesser back look absolutely foolish.)
They also seemed to let the refs non-calls and calls against in the 2nd half get to them (especially your attacking 3, I saw them flustered more than once due to calls). Obviously the ref annoyed you as well. What was the straw that broke the camel’s back? What did you say to get to tossed? For myself, certain refs just drive me nuts and its hard to bite my tongue.
Finally, who was the guy constantly calling someone a puto? It was almost the only thing you could clearly hear throughout the entire game. I’d much rather have had you miked like in the 3four3 coaching vids.
Always, enjoyable watching your teams play. I know you’ll land on your feet when Chivas closes down this year (extremely short-sighted decision by MLS, but typical).
I really enjoy learning from these videos. Both teams showed quality, but in the end I feel Barcelona showed a bit more poise. An example of that is when they defended, their pressure was immediate, as was yours, but they didn’t over commit as much as Chivas did, especially in the second half. The goal that come in from your right side is a good example of this. On the ball this was evident as well in that they seemed to have at least two options in their mind when building so if their first was taken away, they knew where their next play was going to be and had the individual skill to execute either one a bit faster then Chivas was able to.
That being said, Chivas was not out classed, more so then just out played by a quality team. Great game to learn from.
TheBolivianYank says
Here’s some comments I had origianlly posted to Gary’s twitter timeline. Hope I am not too harsh. I tried watching this game like a fan would watch any other.
Big fan of 3four3 and everything the Kleibans do! Cheers!
6 Min: Chivas appears to have issues with switching the field faster to move it to space where Barcelona is not occupying. Chivas needs to move the ball faster, into space in order to avoid the constant pressing. The ball is constantly
played into traffic. Not enough LONG switches across from the backline.
First goal for Barcelona at 9:44–Chivas did a dangerous pass down the middle if controlled correctly would have resulted in a good counter–instead were caught in a vulnerable position when the CM appeared to have turned over the ball resulting in a goal by Barca on the quick counter and beautiful first time volley finish.
12:40: Do not see enough support and width when getting control of the ball in urder for the ball to be better moved and possession to be kept.
18:min: Given the kids age–it’s understandable. But there were times with more ‘nerve’ the outside back/CBs resulted to pelotazos because of danger. A more calm lob to a open teammate would have resulted in the better pass.
20:30 – Great build up play which unluckily didn’t result in a goal.
First half started off rocky, when Barcelona were pressing with ALL of their men on goal kicks causing Chivas to turn it over in dangerous spots or give it up from pelotazos when pressured and in danger.
Once things started clicking for Chivas though, and Barcelona appeared to not attempt to keep pressing at the same pressure after a while (fatigue or mental lapse?) Chivas had more space to put together strong passes, 1 touches and runs into space that I am more used to seeing. Things again looked even between both sides. Early on Barca looked to be the dominant side but no so after 15mins.
Second half:
5:10-24 mark – Barcelona show extreme patience d methodically moving the ball around looking to expose a flaw or opening in Chivas’ defense or midfield.
Barcelona players look more confident as they hold more possession with cheeky fake shots, feints and moves that have the Chivas defenders left guessing. Obviously this is more mentalty than anything. Mental fatigue on Chivas’ end and Barcelona on the flip side–having the mental edge and calm to hold the ball and already be 2 steps ahead. Individually so far in the second half, Barcelona appear to be the more individually talented side when showing what they can do when surrounded in danger. No dig against Chivas–it just appears the talent level when not just moving in to space, connecting passes, when matched individually Barca is at a level that’s a bit higher when it comes to skill, dribbling, feints, faking out defenders, etc.
After the second goal, Chivas appear to be demoralized, head hung low. Barcelona capitalizing on the slower marking and drop in confidence. This is doing the opposite for them–raising their confidence allowing them to play more of their game.
With the game slowing down with the game set so far at 2-0.
The #10 is really something else for Chivas. Had a great nutmeg/play at 17:20 which was a thing of beauty but lost the ball after being clipped. Later it resulted in him fouling in frustration to get the ball back.
A difference I see at times–when Barcelona try to slow down the pace or are in a dangerous area, they still play calm, effective. Chivas when regaining possession go to their normal plan of attack, quick 1 touch passing into space with speed for a quick counter. I feel while it’s fun to watch, and these counters have given them the biggest chances to score in the game–can almost seem too predictable at times. Don’t mean offend.
Haha #17 giving a soft kick to the back of the feet of Chivas’ #5 at 24:50 was great lol. Such a little kid acting like a man.
With that said, the game was very close at times–but Barcelona had that ‘edge’ which wasn’t THAT much above Chivas–but enough to get the win and hold possession/mentality to not let Chivas get one to get them back into it.
Michael Mollay says
Great to watch! I thought the result was fair. Your players and team did very well. I thought many of your players could fit right in with the Barcelona side. My opinion, while the differences were slight, at the highest level, they prove to be big:
1. Technique under pressure;
~demonstrated more calm and composure on the ball in ALL situations
~they turned poor passes into good passes by getting on to flicks, 50/50 balls and errand passes
2. Speed of play;
~support around the ball; arriving in good position or dangerous space (recognition, anticipation)
3. Pace and Quickness
~they looked quicker in all positions, ranging from slightly quicker to much faster
Your boys can play. Love the commitment to your style of play, and there ability to grab the game at times and impose themselves on the opposition. They are clearly on their way to bigger and grander things in our game! Great run at MIC, fun to watch, and thank you for sharing.
Lothar says
Can’t add much that hasn’t been said already, but I do have one question for Gary/Brian: Just how good was FCB’s No. 9 in person? I know a lot is lost on camera with distance and only one angle to watch from, but that kid just seemed another level above everyone else on the field. Curious to know if I’m getting an errant impression from the video, or not. Thanks for all you do, for providing the video (showing your product), and showing those willing to see and learn how the game can/should be played.
It looked to me like FC had the game in hand relatively easily.
It was a prototypical good EU team vs a good NA team. EU was a littel stronger and was never really in severe danger.
The comments above seem to kiss a little too much ass. Brian/Gary have always given me the impression of trying to be honest and wanting honesty in return. So, in my opinion…
Chivas is one of if not the highest level of U13/14 teams in NA with a few NT level players. I didn’t see the other games only this one so maybe those unnamed NT players had an off-game on this particular day. FC had much stronger field presence especially with passing with purpose (and heading with purpose), better shot selection, and better patience – Chivas was godo but just a little too sloppy with the ball and getting to the right open space – especially in the middle and top 3rd.
Game summary:
– FC dominated the first 10 mins-
– Chivas put together a few good combos between middle of the first and middle of the 2nd half
– FC turned off the jets for most of the 2nd half – they dominated when necessary
– FC occasionally played direct and that doesn’t mean they always do that – it could just mean playing more direct was an opportunity – a weakness with the way Chivas protected space – so FC could take advantage of more direct play – FC certainly completed good passes doing it
– No reason for Brian to complain enough to get kicked out of the game – better composure
– Complaining about the other team slowing the game, faking injuries , etc is weak sauce and not 100% accurate – its part of the game and doesn’t mean its poor development as alluded to earlier
Chivas are a strong team and I would like to see their other games from the MIC. If Chivas was the toughest competition for FC in this tourney then I’m not sure what that means for the rest of the world – either Chivas is close to being the best, this FC team isn’t quite that great, or the rest of the world is not producing what it should be.
Congrats on the tournament, you had a good run and you should learn a ton from this particular game and how to train even more effectively.
So I’m going to go out on a limb and respond to some of the criticisms of Chivas USA style of play in this game, so Brian and Gary don’t have to.
1) This Barcelona youth team is the best of the best. They put up 4 goals in the final against Real Madrid. They put up upwards of 15 shots in all games of MIC leading up to Chivas USA, where they only had six shots.
2) You guys are underestimating the difficulty of playing out against the la masia-coached press, particularly for kids who are 2001s and many of whom have been with Brian for short period of time.
3) Brian coaches a team of 2000 and 2001 players, so they were missing key experienced players. Tournament rules say you can only bring a couple 00s.
4) To execute as much 1-2 touch possession against this Barca team as Brian’s boys were able to is incredible. Brian’s boys handled Getafe fairly easily in the previous game for all those wondering what level this team is at.
5) Imagine if these boys faced a decent press week in and week out when playing in the DA? The competition that Barca kids face every week back home is THE difference and makes the match-up almost unfair.
Brian–Tell us how you are going to get your boys some decent competition these next few years. I might be able to get an angel investor to sponsor chartered flights to Bradenton every weekend. 2 team youth league. You vs. Richie! Battle of the minds. Think about it. 🙂
Lir says
Very impressive football for age, especially compare to the disaster – direct football that feeds from the bottom up,from club to HS, College +. Nice work, on playing with the best to show your level. I am not familiar with your way of coaching, and could not educate myself enough based on your free materials, but you are clearly doing something right.
Terry Ransbury says
Futbol is the “beautiful game” until the home team gets a two goal lead. Thought I was watching Serie A in the second half, but that is not the reason for this post. Watched it twice and felt the urge to score the speed of the game since I thought it was a big difference between two highly skilled teams. I ignored the speed of closing on the ball, which I thought FCB was superior, and focused on race situations where both players had a fairly even start for the ball. Calling it as I see it:
First half 0:00 to 12:50 FCB wins 7 races to 1
First half 11:00 to 25:00 Even 3-3
Second half 0:00 to 13:00 FCB wins 14 races to 0
Second half 13:00 to 26:30 Chivas wins 5 races to 3
Scary. These results tracked the phases of the game (momentum), the scoring, and the winner. And I know from video that Chivas dominates speedwise here in the US. I also know that video looks slower than being there. Good speed from both teams but FCB #4, #9, #11, and #14 were sensational.
Oh please. One thing chivas usa is not is fast. I respectfully disagree with this post.
Austin, you may see them more than I do as that would be easy since I live far away. I have only seen the posted videos and maybe their excellent ball movement against weaker opponents gave me a false sense of absolute versus relative speed. I will concede that point to your expertise, but certainly not the speed advantage of FCB in this match.
Good points Terry – analysis like that can help Chivas raise their game even further.
Hi Austin,
I think you misinterpreted Terry’s data. Terry’s data says Chivas USA was slower to the ball than FCB.
Where, you stated that Chivas USA is not a fast team but stated you disagreed with Terry’s data.
Did I miss your point entirely?
Sorry. I only disagreed with the part about Chivas usa u14s being faster than their competition in usa. There is one player you used to see on video (the right back) who is really fast, but he’s not even with Chivas usa anymore full-time. He’s futsal-ing in Holland. Other than him, this team gets by on being more intelligent than their American competition; their game has nothing to do with speed. Their occasional loss against American teams occurs when they are physically overpowered yet they stick to their guns–play it out of the back, receive the ball across your body 1-2 touch, really nice patterns, dominant possession, but other teams speed/physicality comes in and causes a mistake or two. I agree that speed was a factor in this game as well.
Socceroo says
Wow – that was fun to watch, as a father of a son that is playing in South Texas – I have a strange question.
Where would you recommend we train to get this style of play, we are currently at LoneStar SC in Austin, and the technical skills nor possession are taught to this level.
As we moved up the club, we thought technical skills would become more common, but they have not, and frankly we are getting a little tired of direct attack, and run on.
Are there any places or clubs you would recommend in and around Central Texas that teach this style of play?
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Bassmate Computer (1984): a newly discovered member of the Game & Watch family tree
Chances are high that you have never heard of Game & Watch BM-501. I had never heard of it myself, until a few weeks ago, when fellow Nintendo collector Sander mentioned that I should take a look at the Bassmate Computer; a pocket size electronic device that helps select the best lure and bait combination for every bass fishing condition. Sander had spotted it during one of his regular searches on eBay.
The Bassmate I saw was sold under the name of a brand called "Probe 2000" and dated from 1984. At first glance, it seemed like a regular sporting aid, be it one that was quite advanced for its time.
However, when checking out the image on the back of the box, something dawned on me. That shape seemed rather familiar! It looked just like a Game & Watch Multi Screen!
When taking a closer look, it appeared that everything matched; the overall design of the case, the hinges, the connector between the bottom and top part, the shape of the buttons - they all looked like they came straight out of the kitchen of the handheld master from Kyoto.
It was even made in Japan. Could it be true? Was there a link?
The box did not provide any further clues that explained the Game & Watch likeness.
But the manual did.
There it was, on the last page of the manual:
"Maker: Nintendo Co., Ltd. Japan"
(@_@)
So the Bassmate design wasn't inspired by or copied from Nintendo; it was an actual Nintendo product.
A product that somehow had managed - for almost thirty years - to stay out of the Nintendo history books. Up until now.
Besides the Bassmate Computer itself, the set contains a manual, a thermometer for testing the water temperature, a waterproof ziplock bag to store the Bassmate and a packet with two (also familiar) Maxell LR44 batteries.
The top of Bassmate has a metal faceplate and a lock at the front, just like a Multi Screen.
It opens to reveal a bottom and top screen, just like a Multi Screen.
When placing it side by side with an actual Multi Screen, we also see some differences: the Bassmate is slightly larger, its edges are more rounded and the top lid has a less strong bezel around it.
Bassmate Computer and Game & Watch Multi Screen Pinball
The bottoms are also slightly different, but the similarities are numerous here as well.
As you can image, I became very curious to understand the history of this item. The information embossed on the back of the Bassmate provided some details.
The model number is "165 SPS" and it furthermore mentioned a US patent, the term "Telko" and a copyright "Olliges/Miller".
The patent (number 4,398,804) is a generic LCD technology patent by Gunpei Yokoi, that is the basis for all Game & Watch screens. So it's not Bassmate specific.
As Nintendo was not mentioned anywhere on the exterior of the Bassmate, I could not resist opening it.
The printed circuit board inside contains the text "Nintendo Japan", providing further proof of its lineage.
It also revealed the internal product number, as used by Nintendo. Like all Game & Watches, it has two letters and a number: BM-501.
Of course, 'BM' stands for 'BassMate'. And I am sure there is some Game & Watch professor out there who can explain why it is logical that this is followed by the number '501'.
After researching the names found on the back of the Bassmate, it became gradually clear that it was a so-called OEM product, produced by Nintendo for an American company called Telko, who sold it under their own name and related brands like "Probe 2000".
The names "Olliges/Miller" stand for Bill Olliges and Ed Miller, who are the original designer and marketeer behind the Bassmate.
In the next post we will meet Bill Olliges, who designed the Bassmate thirty years ago, and who worked together with Nintendo to get it produced. If you are interested to find out how this product came to be, how it actually works, and how Nintendo got involved, then go to part two of this story.
Related topics: Bassmate, Game and Watch
Evan June 19, 2013 at 9:38 PM
So cool. Really, really interesting read. Can't wait for the interview!
Dan Estrada August 6, 2013 at 5:15 PM
i have one that is like brand new but without the box and the mannual. It's in a waterproof ziplock bag and has the thermometer.
Chalox September 21, 2013 at 7:29 PM
Very nice post, thanks! Greetings from Mexico =)
Erik Voskuil September 22, 2013 at 3:28 PM
Thanks and greeting back from The Netherlands!
Ha, i have on of these mint condition still in the plastic bag. found it at a thrift shop and wasnt going to buy it till i flipped through the manual and saw that nintendo made it. i knew it was a good find.
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Rare-New-Rarohn-Ventures-BassMate-II-Handheld-Fishing-Computer-BM-1005-More-/122668103817?hash=item1c8f96b889:g:bAMAAOSwuGFZk2Zk
Erik Voskuil October 19, 2017 at 6:28 PM
Thanks for the heads-up, however that's a Bass Mate II, which was not produced by Nintendo.
Are these things worth anything? I also have a WALLEYEMATE
Erik Voskuil February 25, 2018 at 11:32 AM
Since this being known as Nintendo item, prices (on ebay) have fluctuated a lot, from mere dollars to a few hundred. So it is hard to give a value. However, the high prices are only paid for the original Bassmate. The walleymate and other later version were not made by Nintendo, and a as a result do not fetch as high prices by collectors.
Yet more vintage Nintendo items sold
How the Bassmate Computer came to be
Bassmate Computer (1984): a newly discovered membe...
Nintendo Companion (トランシーバー コンパニオン, ca 1965)
Mini Nintendo Summit with Isao and Florent
Collection update - nice finds and still wanted
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Feature: Aviation Security
Exploring future NATO rotorcraft capabilities
The fourth edition of Combat Helicopter will inform the tri-services community with a clear understanding of future capabilities for next generation, multi-role rotary platforms. We examine the future NATO rotorcraft capabilities, to be discussed at Combat Helicopter 2017
As systems become more complex, consideration at the design stage becomes increasingly important. This requires an early identification of clear requirements, with options set out that enable forces to choose the optimal solution for their mission requirements.
NATO are currently undertaking a collaborative approach to their future rotorcraft capability platform requirements in conjunction with the US Future Vertical Lift Initiative. The aim is, by the mid-2020s when partner nations decide on their future platform requirements, for their to be sufficient knowledge sharing and capability awareness to develop optimal configuration across all platforms and missions.
A recently approved NATO Industry Advisory Group in supporting next generation rotorcraft roadmap will examine configuration changes which will provide a step change in range, speed, endurance, payload combined.
The US Future Vertical Lift Initiative meanwhile is well underway with the first prototypes already built for their future helicopter, Joint Multi Role Technical Demonstrator, which is a precursor before the US Army decides how to proceed with a Future Vertical Lift (FVL) (Medium) rotorcraft. The resulting helicopter programme will replace the Sikorsky UH-60 BLACK HAWK and Boeing AH-64 APACHE fleets from around the mid-2030s.
The two participants in the programme are Bell Helicopter with its V-280 VALOR third-generation tiltrotor and the Boeing/Sikorsky partnership with its SB>1 DEFIANT, based on Sikorsky’s X2 technology, coaxial main rotor design and rear pusher propeller.
NATO’s NIAG programme
NATO’s NIAG programme has concluded it is already apparent a single main rotor is not the future. However, the future could be co-axial, or compounded with pusher props or fans or propellers or advanced tilt rotors, whichever will deliver optimal configuration for future missions.
The programme intends to develop a versatile medium lift air vehicle in the FVL Family of Systems, capable of conducting assault, urban security, attack, maritime interdiction, medical evacuation, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, tactical resupply, direct action, non-combatant evacuation operation and combat search and rescue operations in support of army and joint forces.
The range of missions is wide since, although the programme is army-led, it is intended that platforms be offered for use by other services, to include the US Navy, USMC, USSOCOM, and even the Coast Guard (USCG).
Dan Bailey, NATO programme director and chairman of the NATO Future Rotorcraft Capability Team, will be discussing the role of the Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration in establishing Future Vertical Lift and the effects on NATO next generation rotorcraft capability planning.
Decisions are still to be made on flight controls, aeromechanics, experimental aerodynamics and drive systems. This promises to be an inspiring session for industry and NATO partners to plan a roadmap delivering optimal solutions for future mission requirements.
Largest and heaviest helicopter in the US Military
The workhorse of the aviation community is making a significant comeback. Many nations are planning, conducting and finalising medium and heavy lift helicopter acquisition programs. Nations understand they are an asset to any force, capable of lifting troops and supplies into austere environments in all conditions. Whilst completely new engines are rare there is still the desire for increased power-to-weight ratios, reducing maintenance and improving fuel efficiency.
Boeing's Chinook still dominates the heavy lift market but many competitors are starting to make their presence felt and countries are looking at alternatives platforms. Prices are high but the choices are good - Sikorsky's King Stallion can carry over 80 tonnes, or Bell Boeing's V-22 can carry loads at over 300mph.
At a cost of $25billion, CH-53K King Stallion doesn’t come cheap. Developed for the US Marine Corps, the programme will deliver the largest and heaviest helicopter in the U.S. military.
Combat Helicopter 2017 will provide an opportunity to hear from Colonel Hank Vanderborght, CH-53 program manager for the Naval Air Systems Command, who will present to military leaders the King Stallion’s range, weight, cargo systems, sensor and additional growth capabilities, along with an overview of the support concept and opportunities for collaboration with partner nations.
For nations not ready to make that leap there are a number of technical upgrades being offered for legacy CH models, or medium lift helicopters are being given extra lift capacity via more powerful engines or more advanced blades.
Countries are even considering whether UAVs are ready to make the grade. Whatever the decision, countries still need to move soldiers and supplies quickly and safely irrespective of the environment's infrastructure - for that reason the heavy lift helicopter discussion continues.
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CAMNATS
Massachusetts Camera Naturalists
2014 Massachusetts Camera Naturalists’ Nature Exhibition Show
Saturday, June 28, 2014, 2:00 P.M.
This beautiful showcase of the accepted images from the “CamNats” International Nature Exhibition which was judged on May 17 & 18 will be shown at the Greater Lynn Photographic Assoc. headquarters. The show will be produced and shown by Charlie Burke, APSA, EPSA, MNEC, who was chairman of the exhibition. This beautiful showcase set to music will consist of the images that scored high enough to be accepted during the judging of the four nature sections in the exhibition: Nature, Wildlife, Botany, and Insects, which came from 20 states and 31 different countries, including Australia, Croatia, Slovenia, Saudi Arabia, England, Malaysia, Canada, China, Russia and Finland to name a few. They received 188 entrants, many of who entered in at least 3 of the 4 sections that were offered, judging over 2150 nature images in the two days.
The exhibition was judged by six CamNats members: Nature and Botany Section judges were Pamela Lintner, MNEC; Francis MacDonald; and Gail Platz. The Wildlife and Insect Section judges were Michael Di Stefano, MNEC; Michael Goodman, MNEC; and Arthur Vaughan, MNEC. The judges had a very difficult time with the selection of the medal winning images due to the high quality of the submitted entries.
A number of New England entrants were successful in winning some of the top honors: A PSA Gold Medal for Best in Show in the Botany section went to Norman Halpren of Holyoke, MA for his lovely image of an Eschevaria Shavina stem. Mr. Halpren also won two other medals in Botany: a PSA Bronze for a flora image of Hens and Chickens and a Judges Choice Award for a detail of an autumn leaf. PSA Silver Medals were awarded to Don Selesky of Westford, Ma in the Wildlife section for Best Action with his image of a fox kit jumping in the air playing with a bone and to Steve Tierney of Cumberland, RI in the Botany section for his image of a beautiful pink Water Hyacinth. A PSA Bronze Medal in the Wildlife section went to Ken Jordan of Lynn, MA for his image of a Peregrine Falcon Defeathering a Gull Kill with the feathers blowing through the air. A Judges Choice Medal went to Jacob Mosser in the Nature section for a habitat image of dead birch trees and green ferns.
Each section had a Les Campbell Award that went to a CamNats member whose total aggregate score for their 4 images was the highest. In the Nature section it went to Deborah Page of The Photographic Society of Rhode Island with a score of 55 points out of the 60 available and in the Wildlife section it went to Sandy McMillian of Merrimack Valley and Greater Lynn with a score of 54 points. In Insects, this award went to Jacob Mosser of Greater Lynn with a score of 53 points; in Botany, it went to Ken Jordan also of Greater Lynn with a score of 51 points.
There were also two Diversity Awards given. These were given to an entrant who had at least 3 of their 4 images accepted and then the 3 images had to be diversified, not just one subject matter. Both Diversity Awards were won by entrants outside of the USA. The Nature section went to David Cantrill of England, and the Wildlife section was won by Jenni Horsnell, MPSA, AFIAP of Australia. Jenni also won the Yankee award given to the maker with the highest number of acceptances for the four sections. She received 14 acceptances out of the 16 eligible.
The most successful entrant from New England was Peter Curcis, Lynn, MA of the Greater Lynn PA. Peter won two individual medals: a PSA Bronze Medal for his Peregrine Falcon kill shot and a Judges Choice in Wildlife for his stunning image of a Snowy Egret catching a fish in water. He also won the New England Camera Club Council medal for the total body of his work submitted for highest aggregate score for the nature and wildlife sections combined. Peter‘s total was 110 points out of the 120 points available. Along with this he received two Honor Awards in the Wildlife section.
A number of New England entrants were awarded Honor Awards; recipients were:
Nature, 22 total HA’s were awarded: Sandy McMillian; Gail Hansche-Godin; Ted Mertz; Deb Page (2)
Wildlife, 25 total HA’s were awarded: Dan Charbonnet; Rick Cloran; Peter Curcis (2); Dennis Goulet; Dick Hudnall; Ken Jordan; Sandy McMillian (2); Mike McNeill; Jacob Mosser; Gail Platz
Botany, 15 total HA’s were awarded: Gail Hansche-Godin; Jacob Mosser; Robert Pizzano
Insects: 17 total HA’s were given out, but no one from New England was among the recipients
Congratulations to all of the successful entrants, whether you achieved an acceptance, or were awarded a medal.
This presentation is open to the public at no charge. We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to see the best and most beautiful nature images from around the world. The show will last approximately an hour. If you love nature or would just like to see the beauty of the world around us, mark your calendar and plan to be there.
The Greater Lynn Photographic Assoc. is located at 564 Boston St, Lynn, MA 01905. At map and directions can be found on the website at www.greaterlynnphoto.org At the top of the home page click: About Us and then in the dropdown menu click directions for a PDF of the map.
All report cards have been emailed to the entrants the week of May 26th. If you did not receive yours, please contact the chairman Charles Burke, APSA at nichburke@yahoo.com
If you have any other questions please e-mail Susan Mosser at s.jmosser@comcast.net.
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The Vs Fighting Game Thread - News & Views..
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Re: The Vs Fighting Game Thread - News & Views..
Quote from: devo on May 17, 2012, 04:14:56 AM
Hey Thoth, was that you on Wednesday Night Fights last night? Someone with your handle was playing solo Cerebella on Skullgirls.
Yeah, that's me. That match with Jason D was so fun, I think tourney nerves got to me. I got absolutely wrecked in losers by PMZ.
@DSookochoff
Apparently IMDB has Kevin Butler listed as being a voice for Sony's All-Star whatever game. Yeah, not the best source for this to be off of, but still...
I wonder what it could be for. Commentary? Or him actually being a fighter in the game? Assuming he is.
Just put down a pre-order for this....
http://www.capcom-unity.com/brelston...nal_tournament
$150 USD - Ships September
-Street Fighter X Tekken (including all character and Swap Costume DLC)
-Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition (with all costume DLC)
-Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
-Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition
-New documentary Blu-ray that highlights the lifelong love affair fans have had with Street Fighter, and how their dedication has affected the game.
-Street Fighter IV, Super SFIV anime movies
-All episodes of the Street Fighter animated series (DELICIOUS!)
-Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
Light-up Ryu statue
-Brand new statue with light up base. Eight inches tall and frozen in mid Shoryuken.
11 disc soundtrack
-Game music from the past 25 years, including remixes and fan-created music.
64 page hardcover art book
-Containing pieces from fans all over the world.
Ryu's belt
-Full size martial arts black belt for the aspiring World Warrior. Includes Ryu's "Furinkazan" in kanji.
-Like any good collector's set, this comes with a lovely piece of paper telling you how limited and special it is. They're all individually numbered, so get one before they disappear!
Owner of Too Many Jerseys
All hail Gritty!
I have all those games except for TvsSF. I'd want those DVD's and soundtracks. Too bad they couldn't port the original Street Fighter or some other games in the series.
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Yeah I have the games too. The stuff I don't have (the DVDs, all of the SFxT DLC, and half of the SSFIV DLC outweighed it for me so I went for it. I figure I have until September to change my mind, but at least I have one on reserve now. That and I am a mark for fighting game collectibles (especially KOF and SF stuff) so it was hard to resist.
Quote from: SAIKYO STYLE !! サイキョー流 on May 24, 2012, 07:06:30 AM
Basically my thoughts when preordering this. Telling Mike Z (Skullgirls lead designer) that I did this resulted in him shouting at me that the bundle is worthless and terrible and had no effort into it and that I am a fool for spending the money.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/05/marvel-vs-capcom-two-pack-headed-to-xbla-and-psn-this-september/
I'd love for Capcom to release X-Men vs SF and MSH vs SF but this will do for now.
Smues
Smuesicide
X-men vs SF would be nice since the Playstation release sucked ass and didn't let you switch between your characters. I think the Saturn version did, but who owned a Saturn?
I want Jimmy Fallon to be dead. That doesn't make me a bad person.
Well, EVO is tomorrow. Good luck to those few TRTSM'ers who will be in Vegas for the next few days.
Someone kick Marn in the junk for all of us.
is!
Quote from: Smues on July 05, 2012, 09:07:06 AM
SBofn
Shelton Benjamin outta fuckin' nowhere!
Quote from: Master Thrasher on July 05, 2012, 06:50:58 AM
I'm looking forward to Marvel Super Heroes, to be honest. I never got into the team-up games, because I am a monster.
Of course cage matches work. If they didn't work, everybody would still be in the cage.
--Michael Scott
I had a Saturn.. but not that game. Bought it solely for Fire Pro 6 Man Scramble. >_>
I've never even known anyone who owned one. Though I still plan to get one someday. I really wanted to get one just to play Shining Force 3 back in the day.
Mine fried itself eventually. I still have the FPR6MS game disc though and I also would like to get another modded or import console, one day. Hooray retro-gaming!!
Jer and I got back from Evo. It was cool. We all got bodied though.
Which one of you lost your camera?
Quote from: Smues on July 10, 2012, 01:48:20 PM
And then we didn't get upskirt shots.
Quote from: Thoth on July 10, 2012, 01:29:13 PM
We all got bodied though.
Lag Abusing Scrub
Yeah, shockingly, not playing a game for three months isn't the best preparation for Evo. At least I didn't go 0-2!
The finals were pretty hype across the board, with Marvel and KoF being the most hype. Oh except for SFxT, those finals were terrible.
So overall impressions of the games I saw at Evo are that TTT2 is awesome, P4A is awesome, Playstation Battle All Stars looks interesting but seems to have some weird mechanics, and Injustice looks kind of stupid.
Someone get this man a keyboard and about ten frames of lag!
Does "got bodied" mean you got your asses kicked? Or that fat gamers were rubbing their bodies all over you in line?
P4A does look awesome, though. I can't wait for that to drop next month on PS3. Injustice does look dumb and is definitely an unnecessary entry into the genre. Were people really clamoring for another DC Universe fighter?
Quote from: SAIKYO STYLE !! サイキョー流 on July 12, 2012, 02:53:33 AM
Asses kicked, yes.
P4A looks so good that I think I'd want it even if I weren't a massive fan of the Persona series. And while I appreciate what they're trying to do with Injustice it just seems like they're going way over the top with the usable/destructible environments and shifting stages.
5 days till Arena time. All the characters look fun to play and everything. I also read up on it, and this is an actual sequel to Persona 4 (and in a way 3) but before Persona 5. Sweetness.
I'm not sure who I want to main. I'm leaning towards maybe Yu, just because he's so balanced.
P4 Arena is awesome. That is all.
I was having so much fun playing last night! Easy to jump in and have some fun. Also, the new character is quite fun.
Though I'm not used to Yu having a voice for lines. Its quite odd.
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I had a match against Aris in Tekken Tag 2 on stream last night, but the match was right after an announcement that two large arcades in Southern California are closing. The commentators didn't even talk about the match I was having. I felt like Tyson Kidd.
Which two? I heard FFA but didnt hear about the other.
Quote from: Broward on September 20, 2012, 06:51:45 PM
The other is Japan Arcade, which is in the Little Tokyo Galleria located on 3rd Street in Downtown LA. The thing is, they're building a Round 1-like complex in that building, so I think Japan Arcade's days were always numbered.
Quote from: ブランカ on September 26, 2012, 07:05:06 AM
Got it. Marvel Super Heroes ranked match are set as Normal Speed. Slow as molasses. I was playing MvC 1 last night, and got on FGTVLIVE. I got beat hard while Filipino Champ called me names.
Yea, I'm gonna be getting that.
I'd enjoy playing a home version of X-Men vs SF that doesn't suck, strip away all of the features, or require a Sega Saturn AND expansion pack to make it playable.
Yeah, my first thought when M v C Origins was announced was 'I hope this sells enough that they give me a version of X v S that lets you fucking tag in your other guy.'
Yeah, I agree. I was just thinking about how nice it would be to get another bundle of games that include maybe XMvSF and X-Men: Children of the Atom.
The ghost of bps21
Wade the Duck says: Your brush with Greatness is OVER!
Anything xmen related runs into licensing issues for capcom.
But several X-Men appearing in the Marvel branded game doesn't?
I get it, and I remember for years the talk was there would never be a MVC3 because Capcom wouldn't deal with the copyright hassle / payments / etc. to make another fighter for a costly 2D fighter (note that "costly" came about because I believe one of those early 2000s PS2 2D fighters - one of the Guilty Gear games? - cost a lot of money for really fluid 2D sprite animation and made no money back). Then MVC2 was released in HD, MVC3 happened, a half-sequel happened, and now MVC 1 / Marvel Super Heroes got a HD release. I figured they were good with the license now.
DukeTogo
It wasn't really because it was too costly. Maybe the license itself was, which would be how they lost it in the first place, but if anything could have made its money back with the demand it had at the time, it was MvC.
It was rather because they totally lost the rights to EA so they could make that Marvel Nemesis shitfuck and a cancelled fighter by EA Chicago. Just a bad deal that didn't pay dividends for anyone.
That said, I have no idea what the hang-up with the X-Men name could be.
Could it be for individual licenses for some of the characters in the X-Men games?
Apocalypse - Hasn't been in a Capcom game since Marvel vs. Street Fighter.
Cyclops - Has been in recently re-released games.
Gambit - Has been in recently re-released games.
Juggernaut - In Marvel vs. Capcom
Magneto - In new Capcom games
Rogue - Has been in recently re-released games.
Sabertooh - MVC2.
Storm - In new Capcom games.
Wolverine - In new Capcom games.
So would the big hold up the boss character / likeness of Apocalypse?
Quote from: DrVenkman on September 27, 2012, 12:06:59 PM
Except for Apocalypse, they've all been in MvC 2. I think Capcom lost the license to Activison, then Activison lost it, and then Marvel was acquired by Disney. Disney and Capcom have always had a good working relationship and here we are.
I forgot what a bitch of a time I have with Onslaught. I'm able to mega man duck fire him in the first stage and then obliterate him with War Machines special in the last one...but how I'm going to get the achievements for beating him with everyone else remains a question I haven't quite answered yet. I think I can get him with the Mega Man specials in the last stage...so maybe I'll have to be dragging everyone along with him over and over and over 20 times.
Quote from: DrVenkman on September 27, 2012, 08:38:48 AM
It's actually because X-Men appears in the name of the game, and in various parts of the game, like the title screen. That's it. If a character is an X-Man, they can totally be used, as long as it isn't an X-Men GAME.
Quote from: Thoth on October 01, 2012, 09:38:37 AM
God, IP laws are so confusing sometimes.
Quote from: @Yoshi_OnoChin
OK!! I had ready about Some NEW announcement at NYCC. I'll be soon!! Yeaaaah! http://p.twipple.jp/cbWxG
Darkstalkers reboot???
Darkstalkers 2 and 3 re-release (HD) on PSN / XBLA.
Quote from: Nymyzys on October 01, 2012, 10:14:45 AM
So if they called the game "Marvel vs. Capcom Zero" and except for some re-branding and added special features it was the exact same game, it would be a-ok?
Hooray strange IP laws.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/17/model-2-collection-brings-virtua-fighter-2-sonic-the-fighters/
I'm playing Capcom Collection Vol 2 that as SSF2 Turbo on it and it's the hardest fighting game I've ever played. The CPU is incredibly difficult even at the easiest level. Am I correct and is there a way to beat it?
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Daily Bitcoin News > Cryptocurrency News > Initiative to Curtail Negative Interest Rates Gains Traction in Germany
Negative interest rates, a common occurrence in Europe these days, are unpleasant for both banks and clients. And financial institutions have been increasingly transferring the bulk of the burden on to their customers. Some political factions in Germany, however, aren’t happy with the trend and are pushing for adequate protection for the ordinary small saver, who is often their voter too.
Also read: Major Swedish Bank Orders Negative Interest Rate on Euro Deposits
Bavarian Leader Wants Berlin to Outlaw Punitive Interest
Germany needs to ban banks from passing negative rates to retail clients and it has to do so with a law. That’s according to Markus Söder, the prime minister of Bavaria, the largest and richest German state, and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU). The local official with national prominence recently opened a front against subzero rates announcing an initiative in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the federal parliament, to exempt deposits of up to €100,000 from the punitive interest.
According to Söder, negative interest rates do not correspond to the financial culture in the country. German savers are already losing billions due to the low interest rates of the European Central Bank (ECB), he recently told Bild. The German politician thinks a change of course is necessary in terms of interest rate policy at European level. Berlin should make it clear to Christine Lagarde, nominated to become the next ECB president, that negative rates are not a sensible way forward, Söder stressed.
The head of the Bavarian executive power thinks it’s absurd when even banks that have ‘savings’ in their name have to resort to imposing negative interest rates which thus make saving unattractive. “We need a legal ban in Germany that prevents these negative rates from being passed on to small savers,” the official insisted. Unlike small depositors, wealthier savers have started looking for and some have already found alternative investment opportunities. He further commented:
Banks would have to balance their costs differently. Saving must be rewarded and not punished.
Push Against Subzero Rates Gathers Support
The initiative for a ban on punitive interest rates has already garnered political backing on national level. Söder’s proposal was welcomed by Wolfgang Steiger, secretary general of the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). While CSU is based only in Bavaria, its larger counterpart, the CDU, is present in all other 15 states of the Bundesrepublik. The two conservative sister parties form a common parliamentary group in the Bundestag called the Unionsfraktion.
With these interest rates, Steiger noted recently, German savers pay for the rescue of the euro. Prime Minister Söder rightly demands a shift in the European monetary policy, he stressed, calling his colleague’s efforts important. CDU’s high-ranking representative elaborated that in a functioning competitive order, private property must be protected from arbitrary interference and stated:
Zero and negative interest rates are nothing but expropriation. It is therefore high time for the ECB to reduce its so-called unconventional monetary policy, stop the creeping financing of sovereign debt, and allow interest rates that reward savers and not punish them.
Speaking to the German press, Wolfgang Steiger bluntly warned that the pensions of millions of people are literarally sinking. This, in his view, undermines basic trust in politics while also inflicting permanent damage to the cohesion of society.
Söder’s effort received support from another corner of the political spectrum. The idea sounds good according to Olaf Scholz, Germany’s finance minister and vice chancellor in Angela Merkel’s coalition government. Scholz, who is a representative of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), indicated he is willing to check if small savers can be protected from penalty interest by law. “Negative interest rates are a real burden for private savers,” a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Finance told the Bild. That’s why the ministry is now examining closely whether it’s legally possible to prevent them.
Federal Ministry of Finance
Scholz expects interest rates to remain very low in the next few years. Last week, he was quoted by Reuters saying that companies should seize the opportunity for near-zero borrowing costs to boost private sector investment. He pointed to the United States, where businesses and entrepreneurs are much more willing to put money into new projects. “My wish is that we also achieve such a cultural change here,” Scholz emphasized and added: “Don’t do it my way. I simply put it in my savings account.”
The German finance minister also noted that central banks are currently pursuing a loose monetary policy. The ECB has already signaled it’s planning more measures to stimulate the euro zone economy in order to avoid recession, including a new rate cut to an all-time low of -0.50% in September and restoring quantitative easing efforts in October by purchasing assets worth €15 billion ($16.6 billion).
Some Doubt a Ban on Negative Rates Is Going to Work
A move to ban negative interest rates in Germany is likely to face some challenges. Financial institutions in the Eurozone are now forced to pay a subzero, -0.40% penalty on their deposits with the European Central Bank (ECB). And they are obliged to keep mandatory reserves there. Under these unfavorable conditions, 115 banks are already partially passing on the punitive rates to their private and business clients, an analysis conducted by the German financial portal Biallo shows. Preventing them from doing so with legal means may involve dealing with certain constitutional issues and hence take time to accomplish.
Doubts have been expressed by representatives of legal and financial circles in the Federal Republic as well. According to Daniela Bergdolt from the German Bar Association, the country’s legislature has the power to introduce such restrictions, but a law banning negative rates for small savers would still be difficult to implement because of obligations to provide equal treatment to all depositors. A prohibition would also breach the autonomy of the financial institutions through government intervention in their business.
Others think a ban on subzero rates would be unlawful and push banks into an even deeper earnings crisis. Some have already rejected Söder’s initiative. According to the German Savings Bank Association, statutory prohibitions won’t help in any way. The lenders would pass on the negative interest, which they themselves have to pay to the ECB, regardless of the imposed restrictions. That could be done through higher account management fees, for example. Besides, a German law would not change the risky monetary policy of the European Central Bank in any way.
Danske Bank Investigated for Overcharging Clients
European banks, however, owe customers fair treatment after all, as a recent case in Denmark shows. The country’s financial regulator has prepared a draft report for the police about Danske Bank’s practice of overcharging some of its clients. The Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) revealed earlier this summer it was investigating the major Danish bank for continuing to sell its Flexinvest Fri investment product despite expectations for poor performance which remained hidden from customers, according to Reuters and the local daily Jyllands Posten. The institution knew the return after fees would be less than the 0% rate on the deposit accounts.
Following these revelations, Jesper Nielsen, Danske’s interim CEO at the time and head of its domestic bank, was fired. And in June, the credit institution promised to compensate investors with 400 million Danish kroner (almost $60 million). Details came out while the bank’s management was trying hard to restore public trust after its name was involved in a huge money laundering scandal in Europe. In damage control mode, the bank recently announced it’s not planning to impose negative rates on personal savings accounts or introduce additional fees for its wealthy depositors.
If you don’t want to be punished with negative interest rates and excessive bank fees, cryptocurrencies offer an attractive alternative. You can save in decentralized digital assets using the services of platforms like Cred which, in partnership with Bitcoin.com, provides you with up to 10% interest on your BCH and BTC holdings.
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Zaev: “We have Ministers who do not use the country’s constitutional name”
EU condemns Turkey expresses full support to Greece and Cyprus in dispute with Turkey
makis Dec 13, 2019 13 December 2019
The European Union leaders expressed their full support to Greece and Cyprus over the dispute with Turkey in relation to the illegal drillings by Turkey off the coast of Cyprus and its maritime memorandum with Libya delimiting water jurisdiction in the Mediterranean.
The President of the Council, Charles Michel issued statements after the end of the meeting where he provided his unequivocal support to Greece and Cyprus: “We have had tonight also the occasion to discuss different international topics, especially the relationship with Turkey. We have expressed our full solidarity with Cyprus and Greece.”
The final conclusions document of the EU Summit also condemned Turkey in no uncertain terms: “The European Council recalls its previous conclusions on Turkey of 22 March and 20 June. It reconfirms its conclusions of 17-18 October concerning Turkey’s illegal drilling activities in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone.
The Turkey-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on the delimitation of maritime jurisdictions in the Mediterranean Sea infringes upon the sovereign rights of third States, does not comply with the Law of the Sea and cannot produce any legal consequences for third States.
The European Council unequivocally reaffirms its solidarity with Greece and Cyprus regarding these actions by Turkey.”
According to government sources, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis requested and received during the Summit leaders’ dinner, the European Council’s full support for the Turkish provocation, something reflected in the conclusions published afterwards.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his full satisfaction for the support and solidarity shown by the EU leaders.
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Definition of Center
a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start the game
the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center''s responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"
the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were raising money to build a new center for research"
the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center"
mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a mov
a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process; "in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party"
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor''s argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
politically moderate persons; centrists
the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to reinforce the center"
a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they received messages from several centers"
a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
(football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff"
(basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
(ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
direct one''s attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not centered"
center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"
of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually
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Grouped Verbs: rivet
Substance Meronyms: chocolate candy
Part Meronyms: outfield
Member Meronyms: basketball team, five, football team, eleven, hockey team
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Anagrams: tenrec, centre, Centre, recent
categorization means the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type; the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories; a group of... more
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Study on heavy metal adsorption by chitosan biopolymer
Engineering, Materials
Master of Science in Materials Science
Unagolla, JM
Heavy metal pollution is a serious problem to aquatic ecosystems because some of these metals are potentially toxic even at very low concentrations. Chitosan, a biopolymer produced from crustacean shells, has applications in various areas, particularly in drinking water and wastewater treatment due to its ability to remove metallic ions from solutions. The purpose of this research work was to study the adsorption of cadmium and lead ions into chitosan, produced from shrimp shells at the laboratory level. Shrimp type “penaeus monodon” (giant tiger prawn) was used to synthesis the chitosan. The main characteristic properties such as degree of deacetylation (DD); the amount of amine groups in chitosan, viscosity, crystallinity and thermal analysis were done by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Brookfield viscometer, X-ray spectroscopy, thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA). Chitosan, with a degree of deacetylation between 80%- 95% was used in the experimental part and the flake sizes were smaller than 0.25mm. Experimental work involved the determination of the adsorption isotherms and kinetic studies for each metallic ion in a batch system. Effect of Degree of deacetylation (DD) of the chitosan, effect of initial pH of the metal ion solution, effect of particle size, effect of initial heavy metal concentration, and effect of chitosan dosage were studied. The results showed that the adsorption capacity depends strongly on pH of the solution, DD of chitosan and slightly depends on the particle size. According to the results, pH values at 6.5 for cadmium and pH values at 4.5 for lead show higher adsorption capacity. High DD chitosan showed higher adsorption capacity mainly due to the higher number of active amino groups in high DD sample. Simplified kinetic models such as pseudo-first-order, pseudo-second-order, Elovich model and intra-particle diffusion model were used to determine the rate limiting step. Both linear and non-linear According to the kinetic models pseudo second order model best described the adsorption process. Both linear and non-linear models and Elovich model best described the adsorption process. Multilinearity in the intraparticle diffusion model suggested that the adsorption of heavy metal consists of two major steps, due to the different pore sizes of chitosan. Equilibrium experimental data were analyzed by using two different isotherm models namely, Langmuir and Freundlich. According to the results, adsorption process of cadmium and lead heavy metals is heterogeneous and multilayer adsorption as it best fit with the Freundlich isotherm model. According to the thermodynamic experiments, adsorption process is favorable and physical adsorption was predominant in the adsorption process. Desorption of the heavy metals was possible by using different regeneration solutions.
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Master of Science in Materials Science [26]
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Totally Cool
Totally Fool
Amazing Earth
Utterly Ridiculous
Exclusive! Alien Abduction Reports Plummet in the UK Since The Brexit Referendum
Funny Stuff, Strange Stuff, Totally Cool, Utterly Ridiculous
Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, reports of alien abductions have plummeted to an all-time low.
Sources believe that aliens are no longer visiting the UK because they believe the population to be too thick to abduct and observe.
Abducting the average Brit would not give them much to learn from in the way of intelligence or logic.
It is believed that the aliens are visiting Earth and observing us and our cultures but since the UK decided it no longer wanted to be part of a growing peaceful Union with other nations, they have stopped abducting a large proportion of the British population.
It is unclear whether it is down to the fact that they they now think that great swathes of the British population are too stupid to abduct or whether it is that the current climate in Britain is quite hostile to immigrants and aliens.
Ufologist and researchers have claimed that the aliens have been visiting here for many years observing us.
They believe that the aliens are a much older species and are watching us evolve into one large loving and peaceful global family. Like parents watching their children grow and develop into good adults.
But it seems that recently since the referendum to leave the European Union, alien beings have lost interest in observing the British public.
But it’s not just in the UK where alien abduction reports have plummeted. There has been a huge drop in alien abduction reportings and UFO sightings in the USA.
Since Donald Trump became President and the growing anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim, Paramilitary groups like the Ku Klux Klan, alien abductions in the USA have also dropped.
It would appear that the aliens have also lost interest in the US population too.
Professor and Ufologist Dr. T. Infoil-Hat told us “It seems that the peopleof the UK and the USA are going through a period of dumbing down at the moment.”
“As a species it would appear that many parts of the world are going backwards instead of evolving forward into a global family where we realise we are in fact just one species of people living on one planet.”
“Which is what you would expect from an intelligent species living on a planet. I guess the aliens are frustrated with us and giving up on us… and who can blame them!”
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Yasuji Yamada (a1), Christian Krauns (a1), Masaru Nakamura (a1), Minoru Tagami (a1) and Yuh Shiohara (a1)...
Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, 10-13, Shinonome 1-chome, Koto-ku. Tokyo, Japan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1995.1601
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2011
We have estimated the growth rate of the YBa2Cu3Ox crystal grown from the solution by crystal pulling, in terms of solute diffusion in the liquid with convection. The maximum growth rate deduced from the solute diffusion rate is roughly estimated to be about one order larger than the typical measured value. This implies that the driving force for the surface reaction is significantly larger when compared to the total driving force for the growth of YBa2Cu3Ox crystal in our method.
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Do You Want To Die?
Christopher Spivey
Okay, lets talk common fucking sense – something both The Cunt Cameron & Bollock Obama clearly lack.
Once again, the world finds itself on the brink of Armageddon. It is no good telling yourself that this threat to invade Syria, which WILL in all probability lead to WW3 is just muscle flexing, political manipulation, scare-mongering and something that won’t happen.
It will happen because it is meant to happen. Fuck me, its not as if we wasn’t told a long time ago.
The following is taken from Rense.Com but is readily accessible throughout the internet:
Albert Pike received a vision, which he described in a letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. This letter graphically outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order, and we can marvel at how accurately it has predicted events that have already taken place.
“The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergences caused by the “agentur” (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and Germanic Empires will be used to foment this war.
At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions.”
“The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine.
During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.”
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion.
We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.
Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view.
This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.
Are you dumb enough to believe that Pikes amazingly fucking accurate “vision” was brought about by a fucking dream?
When Pike says that he “received a vision”, he meant that he had been told of the reality that was going to happen by design.
VISION: an idea or mental image of something – Cambridge online dictionary.
In other words, Pike was privy to the Elites plan for one world governance, ruling over a world population of around 5 – 10 Million people/slaves… At least 9 out of every 10 people are going to die.
However, the Masterplan is far from new.
It is a plan that had been formed as far back as the 18th century by inherently evil men.
Yes, you have heard it all before.
Yes we have been here before.
And, yes, it has always come to nothing before.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN TO SAY THAT WILL ALWAYS BE THE CASE.
Ask yourself why the elites are quickly yet quietly getting rid of their stocks and shares. Ask yourself why those same elites are moving out of the cities and into places of safety. Google it if you doubt what I say.
Then read Albert Pikes ‘vision’ again. But before you do, ask yourself: Have you ever had a dream, or vision that made sense?
Dreams are always interlaced with really weird happenings… NOT AMAZINGLY ACCURATE DETAILED PLANS FOR 3 WORLD WARS OF WHICH THE FIRST TWO HAVE BEEN PROVED TO BE SPOT ON.
Freemasons are the key to the New World Order (NWO)
Most people perceive Freemasons to be middle aged, conservative – and somewhat stuffy – businessmen, who once a week go to a secret meeting where they will greet each other with a silly handshake before planning a fundraising event for some worthy cause such as ‘Children in Need’.
Moreover, your average Freemason, whilst not disclosing anything about what goes on within their ranks will readily tell you that Freemasonry is primarily a Christian organisation with strong allegiance to the Queen.
What utter bollocks. Mind you, Religeon is a control system and the Queen is a cunt.
Because whilst that may be true of the lower initiates, up in the higher echelons of Freemasonry – a place no ordinary initiate will ever reach – the organisation is run on an evil that is incomprehensible to your average Joe.
Higher initiates of Freemasonry are ALL Satanists. THIS IS NOT THE DEVIL YOU READ ABOUT IN THE BIBLE.
The following is from my article Monsters Inc:
“My use of the term Satanism has nothing to do with the Christian version of Satan. I use it only to describe a system of ritual sacrifice and torture which, staggering as it may seem to most people, is commonplace all over the world today. Satanism is just another name for the worship of a highly destructive, negative force which has been given endless names over the centuries: Nimrod, Baal, Moloch or Molech, Set, the Devil, Lucifer, there is no end to them.
Satanism perverts everything positive in the same way that the Nazis took a positive symbol, the swastika, and turned it around to symbolize the negative. This is why the Satanists invert the pentagram and why they use black to symbolize the darkness, hence their Black Mass. But they also reverse the symbolism of white and that is a powerfully negative colour to them. The Satanic networks, under the names of their various deities, were created by the Babylonian Brotherhood to serve their needs. We have seen that the accounts of the Watchers and their offspring, the Nefilim, include references to their blood drinking activities”. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/biggestsecretbook/biggestsecret15.htm
Devil worship and the black occult are paramount to the Elites. Now I can appreciate that a lot of people, given mind to their, Errr, what do they call it now? oh yeah their ‘inbuilt coping mechanism’ – which prevents you believing what you do not want to believe (google it) – will find that fact hard to accept.
Never the less, I’m afraid that doesn’t make it any the less true. To be honest when you think about it logically it makes perfect sense. Anyone who knows anything about Nazi Germany and The Third Reich knows that Hitler and his Nazi Cronies were heavily involved in the Black Arts.
Moreover, The British Monarchy has been documented as being heavily embroiled in the occult right back to medieval times and beyond.
It is in fact true to say that while innocent country people were being persecuted and falsely accused of devil worship and witchcraft, our beloved royalty was in turn playing host to Alchemists and magicians such as Francis Bacon and John Dee. Interestingly enough, John Dee, a magician and spy for Elizabeth the 1st signed his name as 007. Source –http://www.sirbacon.org/links/dblohseven.html.
Now, do you really believe that one day the royals just turned round and said “Sod this Black magic lark, let’s worship God instead”?
No, of course they didn’t. Remember that all important word Tradition; a belief, principle or way of acting which people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society or group
Make no mistake about this; our present monarch is just as evil and corrupt as all those who sat on the throne before her.
A direct descendant of the Black Nobility, our Queen is also the grand patroness of freemasonry. Prince Phillip is also a Master Mason and has been since 1952.
Most people perceive Masons as being middle aged, upper middle class businessmen who stand on one leg while given each other funny handshakes. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Freemasonry secret society is a global cult that requires its members to swear an oath of allegiance to the Masonic god Jahbuhlun AKA Baal AKA the Devil. http://www.whale.to/b/baal_h.html
There are well over 600,000 freemasons in Britain today all supposedly loyal to the Queen. The British Government, Police Force, Judiciary, Secret Services and the Armed Forces are dominated by freemasons at the highest level.
One of the most powerful factions of freemasonry is ‘The Knights of Malta’ who wear the Maltese cross around their necks, just like the one Prince Charles wore around his neck when he married the teenage Lady Diane Spencer. The Maltese cross can also be found on the British Coronation Crown… and on the uniform of the Nazi’s
Furthermore, a symbol on Prince Charles’ Coat of Arms is that of The Order of the Garter. The Order of the Garter is the parent organization over Free Masonry worldwide. When a man becomes a 33rd Degree Mason, he swears allegiance to that organization, and thereby to Prince Charles.
According to “The ‘Morals and Dogma’ of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Freemasonry” written by Albert Pike (Grand Commander, Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, July 14, 1889) Lucifer is the GOD of Freemasonry (see page 321 of the 1942 edition). On page 819 you will find just one example of why there are so many people in Freemasonry who believe that it is natural to be a Christian and a Mason.
“Masonry intentionally misleads the low degree initiates and hides the truth that the god of Freemasonry is Lucifer, except to those in the 30th and higher degrees. “The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are on display there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them”.
Further proof of Lucifer worshipping amongst Freemason can be seen in how they measure the year. For instance the year 1998 (up until September) is according to freemasonry the year 5997 AL (that is 5997 anno Lucifer). http://reptoids.50megs.com/catalog.html
However, it is actually the Duke of Kent who is the Royal Family’s most senior Masonic mason. The Duke of Kent also just so happened to have lived under the same roof as Princess Diana in Kensington Palace and her murder had all the hallmarks of a Masonic ritual sacrifice.
The fact that the car crash happened in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris was no coincidence. Neither was it a coincidence that the car collided with the 13th pillar inside the tunnel. The tunnel and concrete pillar were specifically chosen and earmarked for the ideal place to sacrifice the Princess of Wales.
I will explain how it was possible to ensure that her chauffer driven Mercedes careered into the 13thpillar in the article that I intend to write on Diana’s murder/sacrifice in the near future. Alternatively, you can research the subject yourself. A good place to start is with the SAS technique ‘the Boston brake manoeuvre’.
To fully understand why the Pont de l’Alma tunnel was the ideal place you need to understand the mindset of the social elite and the importance that tradition, ritual, symbolism and numerology play in their lives. http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/13_33_freemason_sig.htm
The illuminati bloodline (The 13 families, the Windsors, The Rockerfellers, The Rothschilds, etc) stems from a race known as the Merovigions who worshipped and still worship the goddess Semiramis, who was the wife of Nimrod and Queen of Babylon. Some Merovigion Kings were members of the Knights Templar (Freemasons) and practiced Kabbalistic ritual http://watch.pair.com/priory.html
The higher initiates of Freemasons are heavily into reverse symbolism, or put another way; taking something good and re-presenting it so as ordinary people associate it with something evil and vice-versa. Two good examples are the Swastika and the Statue of Liberty. The Swastika is a peace symbol but it is associated with Hitler & the Third Reich thus it is viewed as being a sign of evil.
Likewise, but in reverse, most people believe that the Statue of Liberty in New York is a symbol of liberty and freedom. This simply isn’t true. The Statue of Liberty is in fact a depiction of the Goddess Semiremis who is also known as The Goddess Diana.
There is a mirror image of the Statue of Liberty on an island, in the river Seine in Paris that runs alongside the dual carriageway that leads into the Pont de l’Alma tunnel where Princess Diana was murdered. In her hand the statue holds the ‘eternal flame’ which is a classic symbol of the Babylonian Brotherhood (the illuminati). http://freemasonrywatch.org/statue_of_liberty.html
The Eternal flame is also held in the hand of the statue of Prometheus outside of the Rockefeller Centre in New York – where Sian Green lost her foot last week – and is used by the Brotherhood as a signature of their assassinations. For instance, a flame was placed on President John Kennedy’s grave at Arlington cemetery and the Freemasons erected an obelisk and flame in Dealey Place, close to the spot where he was murdered.
So is it a coincidence then, that there is a replica of the Statue of Liberty flame placed on a black pentagram (http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1893) situated above the Pont de L’Alma tunnel in Paris where Diana died, as well as there being an urn and flame placed on the island where she is ‘buried’?
… One researcher into Freemasonry, The Reverend John Lawrence wrote a book entitled Freemasonry: Is it a religion. His findings concluded that freemasonry is indeed a cult that worships a God which certainly isn’t the God of the Holy Bible.
It’s safe to say that all of the Elites, without exception belong to a secret organisation such as the Freemasons, Skull and Bones, Ordo Templis Orientis, Rosicrucians and so on, and so on. All of these Secret Society’s indulge in Devil worship and child sacrifice.
A recent BBC TV program carried out an in depth investigation into Child trafficking for human sacrifice in which the Metropolitan police admitted that children being smuggled into the country for the purposes of child sacrifice is on the rise. They couldn’t however put a figure on the numbers. Uganda is particularly dangerous where a child can be bought for sacrifice for as little as £195.
The BBC spoke to one such Ugandan trafficker who freely admitted that children were sent over to the UK for sacrificial purposes, stressing that getting the children into the UK was no problem.
One Estimate puts the yearly number of Children who go missing worldwide at over 10 Million. In the USA alone, 700,000 children go missing every year never to be seen again.
However, If further proof were needed of the Elite’s involvement in Devil worship you need look no further than the many Photographs capturing them making the sign of the Devil…
The following photo and accompanying text are both taken from the “Satanic Bible”. After that photo, Pay close attention to the faces of the people in the photos. Every picture tells a story. In this case, abject evil.
Do yourselves the biggest favour you will ever do.
Get your fucking heads out of your fucking dirty, moist, stinking, anal cavities and have a good dose of fresh air.
You are little over a month away from being wiped off of the face of the Earth if these two mental fucking puppets, Cameron & Obama are not stopped.
However, these two evil cunts are not the ones dictating policy. They are only doing what they are told. They were very, very carefully selected for the role.
They are two sick, perverted, small minded, marionettes who have sold their souls to the devil in exchange for extraordinary wealth and power.
They are going to get you, your children and your grandchildren killed.
They have to be stopped immediately. These two are the key to bringing down the elites house of cards.
You have to look passed the MSM and the propaganda that you are being fed.
Nothing that is happening now is happening by accident.
All world events are being manipulated in the direction of the destruction of the human race.
The perverted pair of cunts, Obama and Cameron will trigger world war 3 on a LIE.
President Assad of Syria did not use Chemical Weapons on his own people. Google it.
The following is from the Washington Times:
Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.
Moreover crisis actors are being used to inflame the Middle Eastern situation, recreating atrocities that are not happening, in the same way that they are used here and in America to manipulate public support for the war on MUSLIMS.
MUSLIMS ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING ENEMY.
DO YOU WANT A WAR?
I too had a vision whilst sleeping earlier today. I dream’t I was being arrested – for calling a Policeman a fucking idiot as it happens. Strangely enough, this wasn’t followed by any great revelations.
However, whether you are a like minded avid reader of mine, or one of the many who think that I am nothing more than a foul mouthed, uneducated, yob, there can be no denying that I risk everything I have to write what I do.
I care little for my own future, but I care greatly for that of my children and my grandchildren.
To my way of thinking, even if you dismiss the things I say – and you have got to be a mental cunt to do that given the reference sources I use – does the fact that I am prepared to risk everything for what I believe not warrant you checking it out for yourself?
If someone told me that my children’s lives were in danger and put forward credible reference sources to back that claim, I would be checking out those threats immediately… Only a shallow, mind controlled egotist would ignore such a threat.
DO YOU NOT LOVE YOUR CHILDREN ENOUGH TO GIVE OVER ONE FUCKING NIGHT OF DOUBLE CHECKING?
One fucking night people. That one night could just save your’s, your children’s and your children’s children’s lives.
Ignore the Syrian threat and you are all dammed… Mark my fucking words.
‘Recall Parliament NOW’: MPs say Cameron must go to the Commons to debate Syria as Britain and U.S. prepare missile strikes ‘within days’
David Cameron and Barack Obama discussed plan in 40-minute phone call
They are now expected to finalise details within 48 hours
Want to send warning to dictator Bashar Al-Assad over deaths of 1,300
By JASON GROVES
Britain and the US are set to launch missile strikes against the Syrian regime in retaliation for its barbaric chemical attack on civilians.
David Cameron and Barack Obama discussed the plan in a 40-minute phone call at the weekend and will finalise the details within 48 hours.
The two leaders want to send a clear warning to dictator Bashar Al-Assad over the deaths of as many as 1,300 people, many of them children.
Plans: David Cameron, right, discussed options with President Obama in a 40-minute phone call at the weekend
Warning: Obama wants to send a clear message to dictator Bashar Assad
William Hague said ‘all the evidence’ suggested Assad’s henchmen carried out last week’s horrific nerve gas atrocity.
‘We cannot, in the 21st century, allow the idea that chemical weapons can be used with impunity – that people can be killed in this way and that there are no consequences for it,’ insisted the Foreign Secretary.
‘We believe it is very important there is a very strong response so that dictators, whether Assad or others who might slaughter their own people, know that using chemical weapons is to cross a line, and that the world will respond.’
Royal Navy commanders in the region are preparing to take part in the assault, which is likely to be unleashed within ten days.
Government sources indicated the cruise missile blitz is likely to be short and sharp and will not signal an intention to get involved in the bloody civil war in Syria.
But it will inevitably lead to fears that Britain could get sucked into another Iraq-style nightmare.
Military planners in Washington and London are addressing the ‘significant challenge’ of finalising a list of potential targets designed to cripple Assad’s chemical warfare capability.
William Hague: ‘Syria evidence may already be destroyed’
The intervention is likely to involve missile strikes rather than an airborne bombing campaign, in order to avoid the dangers posed by the sophisticated air defences supplied to Syria by Russia.
A British source said ‘naval assets in the region’ were likely to be involved, suggesting the possible use of submarine-borne Tomahawk cruise missiles.
In an ominous development Damascus last night warned US president Obama that any intervention would not be a ‘walk in the park’, adding: ‘It will bring chaos and the region will burn.’
Iran warned the West it would face ‘severe consequences’ if it intervened in Syria.
And Russia, which has blocked UN action against Syria, said unilateral action by the West would undermine efforts for peace and have a ‘devastating impact’ on the security situation in the Middle East.
The Syrian regime last night attempted to head off a military intervention by the West by announcing it would finally allow United Nations experts to visit the gas atrocity site in Damascus. Inspectors are expected to begin their work today.
Hundreds died in the alleged chemical attacks on Wednesday, including many women and children
Activists say that somewhere between 200 and 1,300 were killed in the chemical weapons attack on Wednesday near Damascus. Syria has one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons of any country
The two leaders want to send a clear warning to dictator Bashar Al-Assad over the deaths of as many as 1,300 people, many of them childrenBut Washington and London dismissed the move, saying it was ‘too late to be credible’, and followed almost a week of shelling of the area during which much of the evidence may have been destroyed.Britain, the United States and France have all blamed the Assad regime for the attack because the rebel fighters are not thought to have the capability to carry out an atrocity on that scale.President Francois Hollande, who spoke to Mr Cameron yesterday, is also pushing for swift military retaliation and could authorise the use of French forces in the attack.In a statement following the talks, Downing Street said the two men ‘agreed that a chemical weapons attack against the Syrian people on the scale that was emerging demanded a firm response from the international community. This crime must not be swept under the carpet.’ Mr Hollande’s office said: ‘France is determined that this act does not go unpunished.’A Government source said the Prime Minister had not abandoned hope of achieving tougher UN action against Syria in the future.
But with Russia frustrating progress, the source said Mr Cameron believed any short-term military response would have to be taken outside the UN process.
‘This looks like one of the worst chemical weapons attacks of modern times,’ another Government source said.
‘If you are responding to an attack on this scale you have to do it quickly. If you let it go for two, three, four weeks there is a danger you send a message that it doesn’t matter.’
Just one section of the huge Quru Gusik refugee camp in Iraq which is now home to thousands of displaced Syrians
Refugee siblings in the camp eat watermelons being distributed by the NGO
UN aid agencies say the number of children fleeing Syria has now reached one million
One of the Kurdish refugees protects himself from the sun with a shemagh while walking through the camp
A grandmother and mother with a disabled child who fled from Syria to the camp in Iraq
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has discussed the crisis several times with Mr Cameron in recent days and a senior Lib Dem source said there would be an agreed Coalition response. ‘The Government is working as one on this,’ the source said.
A government source said it was ‘possible’ that Parliament could be recalled early from its summer recess this week to discuss the crisis. But the source stressed that Mr Cameron had always reserved the ‘flexibility’ to order a military strike in response to fast-moving events without recourse to Parliament.
Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday warned against rushing to military action on Syria. But Lord Ashdown, who remains close to Mr Clegg, acknowledged that the UN would be ‘greatly diminished’ if the world failed to respond to Assad’s ‘terrible breach’ of international law.
Bob Corker, the ranking Republican on the US Senate foreign affairs committee, said he had spoken to the Obama administration about its plans for Syria and believed the president would seek authorisation from Congress.
‘I think we will respond in a surgical way and I hope the president as soon as we get back to Washington will ask for authorisation from Congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way,’ he told Fox News.
A Downing Street spokesman said: ‘No decisions have been taken on military action and the timetable for a serious response from the international community is not yet clear.
‘We are very conscious of when MPs are due to return and haven’t ruled out recalling them earlier.’
Cameron must go to the Commons to justify strike against Syria, say Labour and Tory backbenchers
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said it is right that the UK works with the international community to find a solution on Syria
David Cameron was under pressure to recall Parliament last night to debate the Syrian crisis before Britain launches any missile strikes.
Labour politicians, backed by Tory counterparts, said it was essential that MPs had their say on such a potentially momentous move.
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said: ‘In light of ongoing international developments, it is right that the UK works with the international community to try to find an agreed way forward in Syria. If, in reality, the Prime Minister is now considering military options involving UK personnel then of course I would expect him to seek a recall of Parliament and to come to the House of Commons and make his case in advance of a decision being made.’
Bob Stewart, a Tory MP and former military commander, said: ‘Parliament may well have to be recalled before we take any military action, because then that gives us justification.
‘We’re not going to get a Security Council resolution because the Russians aren’t up for it, and the Chinese certainly aren’t.’ He said that if it was confirmed that the Syrian regime was responsible for the chemical weapons attacks then Britain would have to act.
‘We shouldn’t just talk,’ he added. ‘We would have to actually act, and by acting we probably mean some kind of punitive warning action using missiles. That means military action – that means a recall of Parliament.’
Fellow Tory MP Sarah Wollaston indicated she would oppose any military intervention in Syria that did not have the full backing of the United Nations.
Dr Wollaston, one of many in her party who is sceptical about the benefits of any intervention, said: ‘Parliament must be recalled before, not after, any decision on military involvement or action in Syria.
‘I don’t believe unilateral Western intervention in Syria can achieve anything other than escalation into a global conflict.’
MPs are away from Westminster for another week on Parliament’s long summer recess.
David Cameron indicated before the recess that he would recall Parliament before taking any step toward war, such as arming the Syrian rebels.
A Downing Street source said it was possible Parliament would be recalled this week to discuss the crisis. But the source said the Prime Minister had always stressed that the Government needed the ‘flexibility’ to respond to major events without recourse to Parliament.
Speaking in the Commons before the summer, Mr Cameron said: ‘We make a big commitment to come to this House and explain, vote and all the rest of it but governments have to reserve the ability to take action swiftly on this or other issues.’
Technically the Prime Minister has the power to authorise military action without the approval of Parliament.
But in practice, all major military interventions in recent times, including the wars in Iraq and Libya have gone ahead only after a Commons vote.
However, government sources last night suggested the missile attacks being planned against Syria were simply a response to last week’s chemical weapons atrocity.
A source said any strikes should not be seen as a sign that further action, such as bombing raids, no-fly zones or arming Syria’s rebels, will follow.
The Prime Minister has the power to declare war as a result of the wide-ranging royal prerogative – powers held by the Queen and exercised by the government of the day.
In 2006, Mr Cameron questioned whether a prime minister should continue to be able to use the royal prerogative to declare war or sign international treaties without first consulting MPs.
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Syria: Cameron and Obama agree to military strike over chemical weapons
The US president sealed the deal in a 40-minute phone call to the Prime Minister at his holiday retreat in Cornwall
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Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria
Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against his own people.
By Needlz • Written by me •
I don’t like to worry you… But I’d vote for him
richard 1
well if you ask yourself ‘what was Assad hoping to gain by murdering a 1000 civilians ‘ ? its hard to come up with an answer especially as he had been specifically warned by Obama that using chemical weapons would be ‘crossing a red line’ ( incidentally does that imply that blowing people and their houses to smithereens is ok by him? ). Russia has now said that any military action against Syria would be unacceptable.what they gonna do?
the point is that unless you get millions of people on the streets to protest and i mean millions the strike on Syria will go ahead, infact i’m sure its already planned and the contracts to carpet bag resources and then pretend to help rebuild are already drawn up and sorted out.. After that its Iran then North Korea and any other hold outs will be taken care of… meanwhile the west will be drained even more financially and resource wise… it doesn’t matter who the boogeyman is, Russia, China, Pakistan/India etc that’s just pantomime, at the very top i believe they are all controlled and owned by the same very small cabal, they are just following their scripted plan… as to how we’re all to be murdered is anyone’s guess, bearing in mind it’s already being done with poverty and skyrocketing cancer rates etc… after all i’m sure bio warfare science is miles ahead of what Joe Public assumes, it doesn’t have to be death by bombs and bullets… you have chemtrails, Fukushima, vaccinations, agenda 21, gm food, wifi everywhere… its a case of joining the dots and it’s not exactly hard, after all the psychopathic so called ‘elite’ tell us what they want to do to us and still we do nothing, it’s an open secret!
things should never have got this far, we’re all to blame at the end of the day as well as those that went before… our apathy, stupidity and misplaced trust, not to mention being so easily distracted with alcohol, drugs, trivia & sports etc..
I’m sure we all try and spread info and fire off a few email here and there but its way too late for that, we need numbers on the street, massive numbers otherwise the game is up… one way or another the guilty must be made to pay for their crimes against humanity and the untold misery and death they have caused and will continue to cause unless stopped…
fookin’ grim times ahead…
This, planned well in advance and funnily enough produced by PNAC authors who predicted ‘A New Pear Harbor’ in advance of 9/11:http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm
Assad needs to go, Israel don’t like him. 30 years in power, nuff said.
a lot to get your head round – basically there will be war – america has to `land grab` as much as possible before the dollar crashes.
However – things will kick off in the States – I believe the people will revolt – thats my personal opinion. The yanks can fight a technical war but cannot fight hand to hand – russia and china know that – the yanks are over stretched plus everybody fucking hates THEM – even more when they start killing their own people.
what the fuck can we do anyway? – I am off for a pint!
Have you see the bragging in the corporate-media about those boys and girls in the Royal Navy ready to launch the first attacks on Syria? Well, I wonder if the sailors will be the first to die in counter attacks. They won’t just be crying about their iphones when they are floating around the Mediterranean in life jackets.
I reckon that if Syria wants to avoid complete destruction, it will need to hit back hard and fast so that it can quickly demoralise the British and American public who think that Syria will be another pushover. The morale of the mainstream public is verging on brink as it is. And this time it’s not like before Iraq. The mood in the country is against war, and many many more people understand that the conflict has been engineered. Body bags at Brize Norton will bring the mainstream public to us. So, I wonder – and I am aware of how perverse it is – is Syria giving our armed forces a good kicking in the first instance the only way to avoid a world war?
I happen to think that if a war starts, we’ll make it to November, when there will be elections.
Well said Chris, this is a battle for our kids and grandkids.
The Nazis were influenced by the occult and the camps in Poland formed a pentagram.
Though virtually all Ashkenazi Jews practice a form of luciferianism, involving child sacrifice, denial of the day of judgement, and the Kol Nidre prayer, in which they vow that nothing they say or promise is to be followed through on, and an enormous percentage of the Sephardic Jews are similar, luciferianism is not distinctly a Jewish problem.
It is conservatively estimated over the past two thousand years, the Sadducee noble families that control christianity and Islam have ritually sacrificed alive by fire in excess of 20 million souls.
The principle is quite simple- a horrendous death in absolute pain will often result in a human mind (soul) incapable of finding rest at least at first. If that soul also believes they were cursed in the process of their horrendous death they become a powerful magical force for those that killed them. This is at the heart of the Sadducee and Vatican legacy for nearly two thousand years.
Windswept House: A Vatican Novel (1996). In this story, he vividly described a ceremony called “The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer”
According to The New American, Martin confirmed that the ceremony did indeed occur as he had described. “Oh yes, it is true; very much so, but the only way I could put that down into print is in novelistic form.”
Fr. Malachi Martin said more members of the clergy are becoming aware of the situation. An archbishop several years ago also accused high members of the hierarchy in Rome of practicing satanism.
The Italian newspaper Il Tempo and other major daily papers reported this.
richard 1 , ‘what was Assad hoping to gain by murdering a 1000 civilians ‘ , nothing whatsoever , everything Chris has written is unfortunately being read by those of us that already know , i just shake my head in dis-belief at the stupidity and ignorance of those sleep walking to their own deaths , we can only hope that Russia , China and Iran stand firm with Syria and some sensible person shoots the idiot cameron , there forcing this , so something must be unsettling the fuckers , why this sudden push for war now , as for that muppet hague he really should be strung up , lying shit that he is , the msm sit cowering reporting all these lies , not one of them has the balls to break ranks speaks volumes that does .
So this letter allegedly written in 1871 used terms such as Communism and Nazi !???? What utter bollox.
Rhedae
Russia and China have both stated that they would not tolerate any form of US invasion of Syria. If those two kick off we are in big trouble…time to head for the caves!
Love the photo of Cunt Cameron and his bodyguard, who appears to be indicating with his hands that Cameron is most definitely a Cunt.
Excellent article Chris & Co. These satanic worshiping fuckers are taking the piss with their public displays of Satanism. Everyone from politicians to pop stars are at it, even found a YT vid of Richie Havens (Freedom) the Woodstock hippy speed freak making the sign the other day. Has anyone else noticed that there are many multi-national corporations that have 6 letters and 3 symbols in their logo? This is the true “mark of the beast”…. the fucking “corporate” beast that identifies its fellow members via this symbolic system.
I have also devised a simple but effecting symbolic sign that I use with the Guardia Civil here in Spain, its called the One Fingered Salute! Fuck the system and let FREEDOM REIGN once more.
Hidden influence in the Middle East:
Count von Hoensbroech, who was a German Noble who became a Jesuit for 14 years—he wrote a two-volume work called Fourteen Years A Jesuit. His father was a Knight of Malta. Yes, the Jesuits work in conjunction and have regular meetings with the Knights of Malta.
Knights of Malta, high-level Freemasonry, and the Jesuit Order control Israel.
It is possible to link the Jesuits, Vatican, Knights of Malta, Club of Rome, Committee of 300, Tavistock Institute, CFR. These organisations overlap and the current developments will bring forth the trolls.
Well, Syria next. They’ll bomb the country to rubble and then move on to Iran (which will be the trigger for World War III. Unless, of course, enough arseholes can be bothered to drag themselves away from Eastenders and Big Brother to put a stop to it all.
Arcim
I take my hat off to you for this posting…….. I 100% agree with what you are saying…. I have been studying the bastards for many many years… They have been telling us for a very long time what they are going to do…. It has not been hidden…
Lets not forget Aldous Huxleys haunting The Ultimate Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQZ-2iMUR0
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” ― H.G. Wells
what is cameron doing with john cleese ???
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/26/article-2401933-1B3EE52C000005DC-920_634x517.jpg
Zippysgrin
@Disenchanted.
Was checking out a few groups and protests over the next few weeks, and there really is sod all going on other than bits and bobs. Fragmented groups (which is preferred by the elite cunts). A movement should be started NOW! – I cannot claim to know how – to gain a collective and march together, front the scum and stand our ground.
I have been fired up for years and since reading this column even more so, others voices in the comments and hearing the challenged many. Always said to my partner the country needs a good revolution – and we fucking well do, fuck I hate these bastards!
I am available, for the greater good, and want rid of this cunting shower of shite.
carl-admin
@Zippysgrin It’s coming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArKfjpSAE8A
@16 Carl-admin
Will be there, I will be letting know as many as I can – be great to incorporate the whole deal. March as one!
We forget for fifty years there have been groups of people who organized themselves into movements, some more serious than others, both pacifist and activist, with more than a few of them serious academics with high degrees. They could see what was coming but they were ridiculed as everything from hippies to peaceniks, swampies, the counter-culture, draft dodgers, draft-breakers, loony lefties, commies and appeasers. Today they are called traitors, just like they said they would be.
mrs Worried
Around a million protested about Iraq and it made no difference. I dont pretend to know what is happening in Syria because its the elites game , I just want to say NO to it all – no more of our lads as cannon fodder. no more children in syria hurt and crying,or DEAD.What if it was you and your kids? No instant fix for this one and im sad
Don`t know what else to say 🙁
9.Jack Says:
Readers who argue that the terms Nazism and Zionism were not known in 1871 should remember that the Illuminati invented both these movements. In addition, Communism as an ideology, and as a coined phrase, originates in France during the Revolution. In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out. Restif and Babeuf, in turn, were influenced by Rousseau – as was the most famous conspirator of them all, Adam Weishaupt.)
Isn’t the internet great!
Serena Munro-coombe
Absolutely brilliant article Chris and I agree totally with all you have written, I also did research of my own too. It’s all out there if people can be bothered to drag themselves away from the square box and tear up the loo paper aka MSM. I also want to see a better, fairer future for my children and (hopefully) eventual grandchildren and the public should ask themselves one simple question before they disregard anything you or others write…..Camoron and Osbourne plus vile cronies constantly bang on about the fact The UK is broke, how is it then that they suddenly manage to find the billions required for a war, That should be enough to get most people questioning…..I shake my head in disbelief at the stupidity of the population. I have been chatting to some friends in The US who are seeing through the lies and none of us believe that Assad used chemical weapons but the so called rebels did…………bought and paid for by The West.
I an ready, willing and more than able to join anything to put a stop to these evil, psychopathic bastards!
madvic
Dear Chris and followers,
Please can I share some thoughts with you all.
When I was 18ish I took my first LCD tab it was a micro dot. This was in a mates flat with a group of us, all up for a night of the unexpected. It was a very long night and the trip lasted a long time. Anyhow from this experience some what I feel are truths stayed with me. Us girls decided that going outside for some air would be a good idea, until we met a dog. Now I have been brought up with dogs and they don’t easily scare me, so me n doggy were have having a little exchange of hellos when the others started screaming. In an moment my experience changed and the dog went all matted and flea ridden , I could feel flees up my arm and the dogs looks became menacing. I freaked and then realised what had happened. My experience was changed by the fear coming from the others, the power of suggestion, magnified significantly. I then convinced one of the others that the toothpaste in the bathroom was soap flavoured, guess what it worked. The power of suggestion is what these things have been fucking with for too long, so much so that the truth is really hard to find. The power of the mind is what we all have to come together to accomplish, we have to plant our own story.
I don’t blame others for not seeing the lies, we all somewhere have faith in each-other and this has been exploited.
I also want a better day for my children. I don’t want to keep dragging the non existence past into the now. The power of that past keeps us in fear and fear is what will I am still pondering on will take us into an experience that no one wants. I don’t know the answers but I am a seeker of truths. I feel that we have been made lazy and uninspired for too long that we truly cannot conjure up for ourselves a better existence. What does that look like to you? and until we can conjure up that new reality , they will keep conjuring it up for us.
Peace n happiness fellow peeps.
Excellent post, Chris. The masses need to wake up to the fact that Satanists run everything.
I do have a problem with Albert Pike’s letter of 1871, though. It’s his use of the word Nazism. Obviously Nazi is short for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, which was formed in 1920.
So the idea that Pike was using the word Nazism 49 years before the Nazi party was formed is somewhat troubling. He must already have been discussing it with Mazzini, otherwise Mazzini wouldn’t have known what Pike was on about. I smell a fishy rat.
But I’m 100% on board with the fact that Satanists are working out their long-term plan.
dogman @ 20 , lol , some people you cant educate dog , Serena Munro-coombe @ 21 well said and good for you .
The word Nazi/Nasi dates back to the time of the Sanhedrin councils of Palestine first formed by the Romans in the 1st Century BCE. To members of modern Judaism, the Nasi were the appointed spiritual leaders of the Sanhedrin as opposed to the temporal leadership of the High Priest of the Main Temple. While there is some uncertainty as to the credibility of all the claimed history of the office of Nasi and the bloodline of Rabbinical Scholars of the House of Hillel, there is no doubt the position existed at some point.
The problem for modern readers concerning the direct relationship with the Hebrew term (Nasi) for knight and Nazi for the NDSAP as the “New Knights of Germany” is that Hitler and the NDSAP were supposed to be racially opposed to all things “Jewish”. Without an understanding of true history concerning Israel being historically a region called Samara/Samaria and Judah being Yahud, without an understanding of the Phoenician/Samaritan/Sephardic priest-king bloodlines as the Khazars, the Venetians, the kings of Septimania as but a few examples, then the use of the word “Nasi” as “Nazi” seems absurd.
The simple fact is that the 16th century word and label “Jew” masked two distinct and wholly separate ancient religious/cultural/racial groups with absolutely nothing in common except a history of antipathy, hatred, war and rebirth. The Sarmatian/Sephardic/Sadducee priest-kings from the North, inventors of Hebrew, descendents of the Phoenicians being the mortal enemies of the southern Sephardic/Aramaic/Sadducee priest kings of Yahud (Judah). The term “Jew” is equivalent to saying all the people in the Middle East are “Easterners”—falsely claiming a homogeny and cultural identifiable unity.
The etymology of the word Nazi is wholly Sarmatian/Sadducee/Sephardic—the founders of Venice and a set of families that had grown very rich and powerful in their connections with the Roman Cult controlling the Catholic Church since the 12th and 13th Centuries. Today, we know them by the deliberately misleading name of the “Global Jewish Bankers”.
I had a vision last might . I had a vision my son and his girlfriend said come and see your one yea old grand daughter you haven’t seen for a year because we said you need locked up in the loonie bin . I had a vision last night about John Lennon saying That politicians were insane and a flashing vision of a song about us all Imagining living in peace and no religion and me and you together, I had a vision last night about a black man saying I had a dream, we All get to the promised land . I had a beautiful vision last night about Janis Jim JIMMI George The king Bruce lee and a host of great people all fucking gone with splashes of horror about war hate fucking death burned shot people bombed cities blood tears a fracked earth poisoned water and I wanted to scream out why the fuck is this happening I had a vision of a beautiful earth with wildlife and oceans with beautiful creatures and coral reefs and tigers and people asking how are you and saying
hello and meaning what they say . I had a vision of no suffering no starving people in love no suffering . No blindness or cruelty . No peedos no murders no unlawful fuckers sitting in a palace . great music of all kinds that gave us endless pleasure . Beautiful plants children happy . I had a vision that it wasn’t a fucking vision it was real and true and I had tears of happiness and it was great and wonderful to be alive and be a part of it all . And then I woke up . The vision was gone and there was the middle east, people crying suffering starving and cunt Cameron and a false unlawful fraudulent evil masonic treacherous treasonist war criminal cunt sitting in a palace we were fuelling with wealth and no music heroes and forests burning and animals dead and stuff in the rivers and fracking, no coral reefs no flowers evil masonic world Jewry controlling us all and I wanted the beautiful vision back but it was gone . Then I though, if we all stand up get up and fight for our rights as humans against All these evil fuckers maybe just maybe there s a chance the beautiful vision will be true ..
Peace everyone wish for the vision to come true
Sorry for a couple of typing errors but I did this quick and my eyes were blurry for some reason . Hold hands Love the ones your with Vision the Vision
MrTrotskysGhost
Enoughs enough now people. Somebody give me a gun…
FOR FUCKS SAKE, GET FUCKIN ANGRY AND FIGHT BACK, COS IF YOU DONT, YOU WILL SURELY DIE
You know, Chris, I love your website and your straight-to-the-point, no bullshit editorial, and I know what you’re saying is true… I’ve known it for a while. I can see it everyday on the news, but seriously… Just like I would say to David Icke or anyone else who keeps telling “us” to get off our arses and do something about it… DO WHAT? What the fuck are we supposed to be doing? What the fuck CAN we do? Even if every single one of us enlightened folk turned up at the same place at the same time, there still wouldn’t be anything we could do because we don’t have the military, we don’t have a voice in parliament, we don’t have the numbers and we don’t have the ability to make enough people listen to make a difference… and I’m an optimist!!
Face it. We’re fucked.
Michael that’s not being an optimist – that’s being a defeatist.
I took 26 people onto the Streets last Saturday,along with 60 other groups, it’s all over loads of media sites and slowly people are beginning to realise. Balcombe had over 3000 protesters last week and is becoming uneconomical because of the protests.
Apathy is easy to give in to and is exactly where you are at.
Stop sitting around crying “We’re dooomed Cap’n Mainwearing, dooomed I say” BE THE CHANGE.
FightbackUK
I think with America’s dire financial situation, tptb know full well that more war is not going to be popular with Americans who, if they are in their right minds must by now be truly sick and tired of war, which they have to fund to the tune of billions of dollars. Meanwhile there are no jobs, more people losing their homes, cities turning to dust through crime and poverty, more people than ever on food stamps and health care disintegrating for the poorest.
Hence tptb are well prepared, with the DHS having billions of rounds of ammo, and hundreds of armour plated vehicles and drones ready to respond to the inevitable backlash. Even the TSA are being armed to the teeth, and according to some there are plans in place for emergency concentration camps. Obama is well prepared for the coming civil war. See this: The Truthseeker: US civil war is coming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5wu8fjNr61Q#t=724
One point about this video that caught my eye is the piece about the decimation of bee colonies. Most of us don’t realise the importance of bees in pollination, which is essential for our food. Food shortages are coming in the near future, which will no doubt suit tptb in their desired control of people in the coming war. It was Kissinger who said that if you control the food supply you control the people. So, bee decimation a deliberate act? It all makes sense.
I don’t know what the outcome of this will be. I can’t see how its cannot possibly escalate to an all out war; Russia has too much to lose to simply sit back and do nothing. It has after all armed Syria with the most up-to-date weaponry.
Meanwhile the fucking evil filth that a portion of the cretinous population have voted into power here are itching to get things started asap. And don’t forget the Tories’ intentions of forcibly recruiting more cannon fodder for the bankers’ next move on the global chessboard. The moronic masses in the meantime sit back on their fat lazy arses scoffing pringles and pizzas and wetting themselves in excitment at the prospect of a new series of X factor. Dumb sheep – which actually is an insult to sheep everywhere, which do at least have a healthy understanding of self-preservation.
I hope soon that there will be the emergence of a spontaneous and united resistance. It’s probably past the stage of peaceful protest, though the alternative doesn’t exactly look that hopeful, all things considered. Maybe the best we can hope for is that the war doesn’t escalate into nuclear strikes, because then are all truly fucked. Unfortunately I agree that the outcome, whatever that truly is, was planned many, many years ago.
Gazz
Careful what You wish for now !
https://earthlinggb.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/william-hague-british-government-have-the-power-to-use-chemical-weapons-on-public/
Caroline Hills
Great article Chris but frightening, of course.
So – everybody – I live in the North of England, I’m 64 yrs old and I’d like to know what I can do?? I retweet info about Chemtrails, Smart Meters, Monsanto, Egypt, Syria on Twitter & Facebook. I bring these subjects up with family & friends (some think I’m nuts & don’t want to talk about it) but I still want to know what else I can do.
Suggestions please.
Caroline on the demo saturday in Southend, I had a 65 yo lady from Milton Keynes, another from Edinburgh, a couple from Cambridge and some others from upto 20 miles away.
My advice, join Unite the union and a free coach will be available for the demo in London in the 5th November. Find a local group or create one.
The demo on Saturday was the first time I had met any of my comrades in arms.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/greater-israel-maps.htm
Just to illustrate what I said last night. Incidentally the two blue lines on the Israeli flag signify the Euphrates and the Nile.
i am reminded of this: ‘ an optimist thinks we live in the best of all possible worlds, while the pessimist fears that this is so ‘ well done carl for your efforts last saturday night, especially bearing in mind your agoraphobia. i. m a ssuming thats you in the other posting? nice to put a face to the name.
It is indeed me Richard and although physically and mentally exhausting it was a first step that I have avoided for too long. x
For those who don’t have exploding tit implants:’There are growing concerns that an al Qaeda affiliate could use a new generation of liquid explosive, currently undetectable, in a potential attack, according to two senior U.S. government officials briefed on the terror threat that has prompted the closing of nearly two dozen U.S. embassies.
Though the Transportation Security Administration has long been concerned about liquid explosives being used in potential devices — as it was during the failed Christmas Day bombing in 2009 — the new tactic allows terrorists to dip ordinary clothing into the liquid to make the clothes themselves into explosives once dry.
“It’s ingenious,” one of the officials said. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2pvi8FOQA
It is I only
Just a question: How many Yakhont antiship missile are needed to sink a RN ship?
Anyone has any idea?
@It is only I …. One
carl-admin – Thank you very much for the info. Cheers.
I’d be glad to hear from others too.
@ Caroline, Come onto Facebook – make up a false account in pseudonym look for Chris Spivey or Carl Green you’ll find like minded friends.
Joe Kano
Douglas Alexander said what about taking the decision to Parliament? Wasn’t he a member of Blair’s government? The little sh!t
jkick
Charles A. Reich had a vision back in the 1970s which also made some perceptive predictions. He published them in a book The Greening of America
Here’s a extract:
The Coming American Revolution
America is dealing with death, not only to people in other lands, but to its own
We think of ourselves as an incredibly rich country, but we are also a desperately poor country—poor in most of the things that throughout the history of mankind have been cherished as riches.
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. It is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our laws, institutions and social structure are changing in consequence. It promises a higher reason, a more human community, and a new and liberated individual. Its ultimate creation will be a new and enduring wholeness and beauty—a renewed relationship of man to himself, to other men, to society, to nature, and to the land.
This is the revolution of the new generation. Their protest and rebellion, their culture, clothes, music, drugs, ways of thought, and liberated life-style are not a passing fad or a form of dissent and refusal, nor are they in any sense irrational. The whole emerging pattern, from ideals to campus demonstrations to beads and bell-bottoms to the Woodstock Festival, makes sense and is a part of a consistent philosophy. It is both necessary and inevitable, and in time it will include not only youth, but all people in America.
The logic and necessity of the new generation–and what they are so furiously opposed to—must be seen against a background of what has gone wrong in America. It must be understood in the light of the betrayal and loss of the American dream, the rise of the Corporate State of the 1960’s, and the way in which that State dominates, exploits, and ultimately destroys both nature and man. Its rationality must be measured against the insanity of existing “reason”—-reason that makes impoverishment, dehumanization, and even war appear to be logical and necessary. Its logic must be read from the fact that Americans have lost control of the machinery of their society, and only new values and a new culture can restore control. Its emotions and spirit can be comprehended only by seeing contemporary America through the eyes of the new generation.
The meaning and the future of the revolution emerge from this historical perspective. The revolution is a movement to bring man’s thinking, his society, and his life to terms with the revolution of technology and science that has already taken place. Technology demands of man a new mind–a higher, transcendent reason—if it is to be controlled and guided rather than become an unthinking monster. It demands a new individual responsibility for values, or it will dictate all values. And it promises a life that is more liberated and more beautiful than any man has known, if man has the courage and the imagination to seize that life.
The transformation that is coming invites us to reexamine our own lives. It confronts us with how we have lived; how would we live differently? It offers us a recovery of self. It faces us with the fact that this choice cannot be evaded, for as the freedom is already there, so must the responsibility be there.
At the heart of everything is what we shall call a change of consciousness. This means a “new head”—–a new way of living—-a new man. This is what the new generation has been searching for, and what it has started achieving. Industrialism produced a new man, too—one adapted to the demands of the machine. In contrast, today’s emerging consciousness seeks a new knowledge of what it means to be human, in order that the machine, having been built, may now be turned to human ends; in order that man once more can become a creative force, renewing and creating his own life and thus giving life back to his society.
Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be Called Children of God it says in
WW3 and Nuclear Apocalypse is an Abomination of Evil which must be Stopped
The social engineers are pushing people’s buttons deliberately here to inflame anger at another shambolic and devastating war.
Just remember people, stay calm and control your anger. Don’t get drawn into rioting, or trying to physically fight the police. That’s what they want.
I agree with what Chris says about going to war, but it’s not a violent war.
Don’t try to play a hero. Be realistic.
Spot on, if the Syria threat is ignored and we go ahead with an invasion we are going to see cataclysms in society.
r_u_not_awake_yet?
email sent to my MP today:
Dear Harriett Baldwin, MP,
Today I read that the Prime Minister is calling for parliament to be recalled in order to debate missile strikes against Syria.
I would like to ask when did Syria attack us?
Same goes for Iraq & Afganistan.
It is a war crime under international law & every member of the Government is putting themselves at risk of prosecution should they vote to attack another country. One wonders why former Prime Ministers & Presidents haven’t been prosecuted.
These wars have killed thousands of innocent women, children & men & yet over 10 years later the countries are worse than when they were invaded.
Did you know that many of these atrocities in Syria have been uploaded to the internet prior to the dates the so called opposition has claimed they occurred? Does this not seem suspicious to you? http://www.infowars.com/video-footage-of-chemical-weapons-attack-uploaded-before-it-happened/
Did you know crisis actors are being used? Read this & watch the video(pay attention to his left leg)http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/08/21/Al-Jazeera-Airs-Fake-Egyptian-Dead-Protester-Video
Watch this & open your eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBAmgO_fjqk
This is what they have been doing in Syria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDtOUrsuNEE
Did you know that the Syrian rebels have links to Al-Queda?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22105918
If you are talking of supporting the so called rebels then are you not therefore committing an offence under the Terrorism Act?
Did you know that a French newspaper reports that USA marines & CIA have entered the Syrian border prior to the chemical weapons attack? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-22/american-israeli-and-jordanian-troops-and-cia-agents-have-entered-syria-le-figaro-re
This is what the Washington Post has to say: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi
We have a right to take any evidence to the UN and discuss it there. What exactly have we learned from history when the last time the Government went to war with a dossier that no one with 2 brain cells can now say wasn’t dodgy.
The US Dollar is apparently about to crash, so why are we yet again interfering in international matters when people are dying in this country from the welfare changes your government has brought in.
Should we not take care of matters at home and leave these countries alone, we are not the worlds policeman
http://news.sky.com/story/1089813/bedroom-tax-blamed-for-womans-suicide
Yet this ‘man’ has the right to spen £39 of our money on breakfast http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2013/04/04/iain-duncan-smith-claimed-39-breakfast-on-expenses-thatd-leave-him-14-for-the-rest-of-the-week/
Please OPEN your eyes to the harm that is being perpetrated in our world and ask for what end?
I bring these matters to your attention so that you cannot claim to have not been informed http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=73219
If what is going on in Syria is true then what right do you have to condemn when this is what you have decreed for us https://earthlinggb.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/william-hague-british-government-have-the-power-to-use-chemical-weapons-on-public/
No Government has the right to take life & I hope that you will get this article removed
If you would like to read the above and advise me on any mistakes I would rightly amend them in any future reporting of a crime as i believe there is enough evidence to give you cause for concern that a vote for any military action against Syria could leave you vulnerable to be accused of a crime under International Law.
Any claim not rebutted will therefore stand as agreement of the parties
I thought It may be an idea to show them we know what’s going on & holding them accountable. From what i’ve read a statement of fact unrebutted is the truth & stands in law but probably requires stamping by notary or 3 good men.
Everyone must stand up and be counted. The time for talking is over. These ‘elite’ pieces of crap are raping and murdering our kids: they are satanists. They worship Lucifer. The royals, politicians, Judges, Police chiefs. The whole fuckin lot of them. Giving up is not an option. It does not matter whether WE believe in this freemason/satanic/occult thing; the point is that THEY DO. And they are committed to this evil. There are three main reasons for all of the endless wars that our ‘leaders’ create. One of them is to cull the Human race. They want to get rid of about two thirds of us; those that are allowed to live will be forced in to servitude by these scum. Another reason is money. The elites sell arms to BOTH sides of the conflict, thus earning a HUGE pile of money for themselves. And the third reason? The ’empowerment’ of themselves and their God Lucifer. To understand the elites it is necessary to know a little bit about their beliefs. Basically they believe that death and blood-letting creates a potent energy which gives more strength to Lucifer and those who worship him. To murder and shed blood on behalf of Lucifer is considered by these sickos to greatly empower their evil deity and themselves. And when you think about it, there is no bigger act of murder than the DELIBERATE starting of a war in which thousands (or millions) will die and shed blood in the name of satanism. It is only when you do some research that you realise that everything the elites do revolves around their satanic beliefs. This is going slightly off the subject, but I would like to explain the name ‘operation yewtree’ in connection with the so-called savile enquiry. The yew tree in satanic belief is associated with death and also the winter solstice (21 December), a very important date on the satanic calendar. Yew trees are often found in grave yards. They are known as ‘witches trees’. Because the yew tree is able to continually re-new itself by growing more branches it is also associated with reincarnation. So it is a tree that represents death and re-birth. The bird associated with this tree is the eaglet, because it is considered to be insatiable. The Animal associated with the yew tree is a Female Goat. The yew tree is associated with the planet saturn; in ancient times the pagan God Pan (who is half-Man and half-Goat) represented the planet saturn. Pan is the God of music, dance and depraved sex; paedophilia, bestiality, incest, rape. You get the picture. So now you can see why the savile investigation is called ‘operation yewtree’. It embodies all of the satanic beliefs that savile and his monstrous elite friends hold dear.
The people behind obama and cameron want us dead. obama and cameron are just two pathetic puppets.. great articel.
EDUCATE EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
DONT CARE IF THEY LAUGH AT YOU. KEEP TELLING THEM ON A DAILY BASIS UNTIL THEY START TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE……………
DO IT FOR YOUR LOVED ONES, FOR NOW AND FOR THEIR FUTURE.
MY FAMILY LAUGHED AT ME AT FIRST…… THEN I TOLD THEM TO READ THIS SITE AND DAVID ICKE SITE AND DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS AND IT WORKED.
COME ON PEOPLE YOU WOULDNT BE HERE READING CHRIS^ S ARTICLES IF YOU DIDNT BELIEVE WHATS IN STORE FOR US.
dogman, that’s an interesting take on Nazi/nasi, but I’m not sure I buy it. Can you point me to some sources?
Also I have to pick up the comment about the “Roman Cult controlling the Catholic Church since the 12th and 13th Centuries.” The Roman Church was just the Roman state pagan religion re-branded as Christianity from the outset. It was never Christian, it was intended to head-off Christianity from spreading around the empire because the state had failed to stamp it out for 300 years. But let’s not argue over devil worshippers. The catholic church is satanic today whether it has been for 700 or 1700 years.
Nice one, Lorraine. Never put 2 and 2 together about operation yewtree before.
If we can get enough believers we can stop the flow of money, I’ve been banging on about this for years and somebody recently wrote my views almost word for word. If we organise and share info, we can bring prices down. If half the population decided to use one fuel company/gas provider/mobile network etc, the others would notice. How do they win us back before their overheads make them and their shareholders scream? Hold these bastards to ransom, learn to share and barter food etc. rganise into communities again and get bloody organised!
Lorraine, you are of course, spot on although most find it hard to believe but history proves you right!
The strike on Syria has, to date, been a slow drawn out charade designed to bore everyone into oblivion: Incrementalism, the new way to conduct evil in the open.
Sadly I cannot see any way that Russia would not be a party to this: Therefore Russia, until proven otherwise should be viewed as the New Labour opposition. Meaningless.
So what is the reason for the sudden escalation in plans to foment WW3? It is certainly not the Chemical attack: Since when have politicians given a fuck about “ordinary” people dying, horribly or otherwise?
I have an idea that the real reason these despicable puppets are acting “ultra Vires” to bring about armageddon is this:
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=12418
This is matter so serious to our criminal governments that a war is necessary as a distraction, behind which this will be dealt with. Therefore I believe it safe to make an assumption based on historical congruence: Obama and Cameron have been given their orders by the Rothschild headed world banking dynasty. As in Poland, an aircrash orchestrated using a plane full of pre-assassinated political leaders. Or something different: Perhaps a Nuke false flag. I hope that these wonderful and brave Hungarian leaders have taken proper precautions against sudden death.
Bernard Matthews
very good article, what is with these people, do they all have artheritis in their hands? we all warned them about the fluoride.
kenten
If only the hundreds of thousands of ordinary soldier’s would refuse to do as they are ordered,and tell the generals and top brass to fuck off,then those psychopathic cowards in downing st. would be fucked!!
Hi Carl, firstly congratulations on your efforts re Bedroom Tax, l didnt know you suffered agoraphobia, so, double congratulations..must have been stressful but you obviously got over the first hurdle..well done man really!
Just want to say l didnt do a sleepout in Brighton but l sat with a load of homeless people lve got to know, for most of the night, l made them a few roll ups, took a few cheese and ham rolls which l usually do if l know lm gonna see them..but we were told by six coppers in a transit type van, to “move on”…yep we challenged their request but the entire six got out as tho we were plotting a fucking nuclear war and ordered us to “move on”……..at this point l refer to @Michael, we ARE all fucked Carl…we know that had we not moved last Saturday night, we would have been arrested, which is no big deal, but what did we achieve?
Im not easily scared or afraid of much, l want to do SO much but it seems three steps forward results in five steps back…. Partly l guess, due to the fact that we dont have a voice in Parliament …l kick back when lm kicked but l dont want to spend the rest of my life kicking !
I dont want to be of those armchair fuckers ” they shoulda done this, they shoulda that” either, l want to do something constructive……..
Anyway,,again congratulations Carl and hope your first step becomes several enjoyable steps.
Paul x
Paul thank you so much for that, Aggy and me been company for years too many – I’ll fight Mike Tyson but only on my doorstep, stupid but that’s how it is. Was good to be out, to be my old self someone I haven’t known for years, people see me with confidence not scared by much and it surprises them.
Mate what you did was far more than us, we got media but doubt we achieved anything productive like you. What is it you’d like to do ? Perhaps I could contact the Brighton group to work with you or vice versa. Southend Homeless division are in with Council so avoided us like plague and the Homeless go to ground on Saturday night, Essex boys are not nice with a skinfull. We are moving forward, personally we have more smaller domo’s and paperstorms coming up.
I can really understand your frustrations but we need to keep moving forward one little step at a time, never ever give up hope. Just keep giving Paul – that’s what bought us together Saturday all had something to give – compassion in the main.
A change is coming, I hope it is soon.
Email me if you want to talk privately. Just keep looking ahead and marching forward, they’ll always be someone beside you.
Martin Houston
Hi Chris – can you please help get the word out about the BIG Stop the War demo outside 10 Downing Street Wednesday from 5pm? This Facebook event was started at 8:30 this morning and in 12 hours had over 1 THOUSAND people going. Lets make it 10,000 that turn up please! https://www.facebook.com/events/422724327838644/422799354497808/?notif_t=event_mall_reply
r_u_not_awake_yet? @ 48 consider it stamped , i will add my name to it . Also i suggest we all copy that and send it to our local MP’s putting them on notice that they have been served with a statement of fact unless they actually give you evidence to refute it .
Harry @ 55 I hear you Harry . Well done Hungary .
Lorraine @ 49 I for one think that is was called yewtree as a direct pisstake on the unknowing .
As for that twat Hague saying the evidence could of been destroyed by heavy bombardment of the area is total bull shit , anyone with any schooling knows that Sarin (GB) degrades over weeks or months depending on the purity of its precursors , there is more chance of the evidence being washed away quite literally by a 3 or 4hr heavy rainstorm , as water is one means of to break the p-f bond (phosphorus and fluoride) which is the safest way besides medical treatment to prevent serious injury or death . So fuck off Hague go and get a brain , hang the lying twat .
‘Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death’s construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning, etc…’
justamumandanana
Wow Paul…I’m humbled mate! Well done you. You did achieve something….you let some people know someone cared. I hear what you’re saying though. Hence the reason we need everyone out in numbers….. they are few…we are many…..eddy to intimidate small groups.
Good Luck & yeah remember you’re never on your own…not here anyway!
@michael 29 Exactly how I feel michael, I know whats wrong and want to do something about it but dont know how! Being disabled and a single mum of 3 doesnt help but I share what ive learned here and elsewhere when I can.Perhaps I am a defeatist? But It doesnt feel like it …more like a frustrated optimist with no way to put my optimism into action..Answers on a postcard please!
@Carl Admire you for overcoming your greatest fear to make a stand.. that has moved me more than the above article and gives me hope xx
@Martin Houston are you the mhouston who used to livestream for occupy? I watched many of your streams
What do we do to stop this looming war, only one class of people will win, and it aint us 🙁
PP @62 – says it all x
screwya
“Mrs R Says:
you cunt
Everyone….just managed to read all comments….fantastic….too many of you to refer to. We need to stand together against everything……we have no choice now…. x X
Here’s a link to a worldwide event…it’s Scotland’s page but will lead you to links for yiure own country. Reckon we all should sign up to appropriate events.
Thank you for e-mailing Harriett Baldwin MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.
If you are a constituent, please can you make sure you include your postal address in your e-mail. There is a strict parliamentary convention that MPs can only reply to letters from residents in the constituency.
She just got another lol .
elsa carter
Good article but can anyone explain what this is about?
The article gives a reference to statue of liberty and freemasons.
http://freemasonarywatch.org/statue_of_liberty.html
At the bottom of the web page it takes you to it says, date of raising june 24 6000 A.L
Whats that all about?
I know what the A.L part means!
fuck the state
Sky News. Poll carried out by the Sun. 75% against boots on the ground. 50% against missile strikes, only 25% for ! Our government, is only a coalition, and they only have 25% support for any kind of attack ! Enjoy your democracy.
jd william
Remember the General Wesley Clark video regarding the the invasion of the the middle east, it’s all there, planned many years ago, you’d think by now they’d stop the old problem, reaction, solution routine.
Carl, Justamumandanana, both your responses bought a tear to my eye, yep lm quite an emotional guy, but Carl did something he hasnt done for a long time,and, lm sure all of us on THIS page (l say this page as there are about sixty responses right now…and a lot more reading obviously) wish him ALL the best,and,spiritually be with him when he ventures out again! Im quite sure that Saturday night, along with the build up to the event, caused him a lot of stress..but he DID it….and felt a great sense of achievement afterwards lm sure…good on ya Carl!!
I can indeed get some of the homeless here in Brighton together Carl, trouble is really, a lot of them are sort of, passing through, they hit Brighton, as it’s got the reputation of being the armpit of the south, then move on..having said that, there are a few regulars who use the beach area and quiet doorways to sleep in, but nothing organised, we have officially, around one hundred and fifty rough sleepers right now.
The beachboys are ok, when l used to walk home from work after late day shift, l used to sit and chat with them and leave them with a few roll ups for the night, then, when l used to bring my kids home from a day out, ld give them the filled rolls they hadnt eaten.
To form some sort of official division would be great…at least they’d know society hasn’t completely forgotten, or is ignoring them – you mentioned the word “compassion”..which is a word rarely used now!
I can get flyers printed and give them out, it would be no problem at all.
All l basically want is quite simple really..very very simple..all l ( lm sure l speak for many other people) want is for MP’s and various other Ministers to LISTEN to us, the general public.
I want to ask them if theyve ever had to wait, with an empty guts,in the pouring rain early mornings for a bus to work, which doesnt turn up…? Being late doesnt look good on a reference when seeking other employment!
I want to ask them if theyve ever had to wait many months for a hospital appointment…….? Very many people die waiting!
l want to ask them if theyve ever been told by the bank that their pay cheque hasnt cleared and how the wife reacted when you told her and two kids that they wont be eating at the weekend…..? Nope, not even at The Greasy Spoon!
Where would they go if they had no income as they dont have a permanent address…? Plus why does this “scheme” even operate anyway.. Homeless people dont eat then!!
What would they do if they couldnt wash in the mornings because all the public toilets have been closed..? £60 fine for piddling in the street..so where does one piss ?…in a bag????????
How would they cope on a basic retirement pension and buy enough weekly food as well as pay necessary utility bills? Food or heat..heat or food…in 2013???
Ask them how they would cope if they were told that their medical treatment is being stopped because the NHS “cant afford it”? Even the paltry £200 Funeral Grant would barely buy a decent wreath!!!
All these are basic questions which require basic simple answers, but the majority of MP’s CAN’T answer them as they suffer the Silver Spoon Syndrome!!!
Therefore our MP’s do NOT have the life experience to answer these questions…so how can they run a country ? Still, as long as theyre getting their regular salary plus perks, all’s good for them l guess,so Fuck Joe Bloggs! Yes!, AM in favour of a revolution..other countries have done it and succeeded..blood has been splilled sure, l’d rather die fighting than hide under the kitchen table..!
Goodnight all.
Paul. X
Have you got a Facebook account ?
Very touched going to contact Brighton TMSO and see if they wish to work ongoing with Homelessness. Let’s see what we can do.
Me I do nothing – I’m a fixer – I put A in contact with B and build communities but that isn’t intentional it’s just me.
I spent Saturday night with beautiful people, we were a rag tag misfit band but full of compassion. It wasn’t hard – what was hard was the small shrine we had to Stephanie Bottrill whom this Government killed.
the rhoadster
Russia has been supplying Syria with arms for the last 2 years at least(if not longer).This will not be like Iraq, there will be heavy casualties on both sides if we are drawn in to another war and ask yourselves a question , how are the British and American people going to react to these heavy casualties and I m not convinced that Russia will sit idle too, this is a very dangerous game we are playing and the stakes are very high indeed. This is a moment when we hope common sense prevails but these guys at the top are not good people and I think it ll be a war asnot yet seen by mankind …….. the torch has been lit and the world shall hold it s breath!!!!!
screwya Says:
lol – something tells me you have not quite grasped what she meant !
Johnjames
Once again who is to blame here folks. Them for causing all the wars and misery in the world. Or us for putting up with it. I rest my case.
@ screwya 66. Cheers for that mate, my students have better comebacks. Have you nothing to offer to dispute what I said, or can you only swear? Challenge on.
If a friend or family member gets hurt because of your war mongering mr Cameron. Then I will be coming for you and your family. You have been warned.
This says it all. The Zionist war machine will do what the fuck they like regardless of what we all say . Marches etc didn’t win anything in the past . Ban the Bomb, the missile shite on the Clyde. We re ruled and controlled by evil Masonic Zionist sick war pig cunts who of course get their power and authority from Guess fucking who??
Generals gathered in their masses
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait ’til their judgment day comes
Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgment, God is calling
On their knees the war pig’s crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
I saw that evil Masonic Zionist cunt Hague on the news I accidently switched on, saying what had happened about this gas was a war crime . WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA What was Iraq and Afghan and all the rest then . Fucking play school? Where s the solid proof about who did this and im hearing the same thing as they said about Iraq. There s WMD, we need more time to find them . Fuck you and you re time . Lets kill . We re the Zionist war machine , we re in control . We have the power and authority and consent of the evil old Masonic cunt sitting in the palace .My guess is that by the weekend. we ll all be looking at terrible scenes of innocent dead wounded people . The Zionist cunts will tell us shite like Oh it cant be avoided . Its a wonder there hasn’t been a false flag carried out here such as the London Bombings which were done by Israel to get support for Bliar. So that’s it, we can shout moan post stuff up but the war machine masonic Zionist cunts will do what they want . They Gain as does big chieftess in the palace
Peace all or is that the silly poinless wish of an old hippy?????
PaLo/Paul, you my friend area genuine class act. We need more like you, none like our senior politicians, who know full well the lies that they are spewing will result in thousands of unnecessary victims on both sides. If Willie grabs a rifle and goes, then I’ll go with him, but somehow I don’t think a single warmonger will get anywhere near the action. We all know that they prefer to be at the rear of the action! Before somebody calls me homophobic, I’m not but you should be outraged that these politicians are not what they pretend to be in any way, shape or form. Pecksniffian relates to a Dickens character who was morally ambiguous, and so with that in mind whenever you think of these politicians remember that they are pecksni…….no, never mind, cunts will do!
Willie the Schmuck didn’t even use weapons when he was in the Army, dogman. The arsehole used a briefcase.
Pissed-off-Frank
I think Wee Willie is the type of man that like to dress in a laced garter belt with silk stockings.
Well done again Chris!! 100% for content and truth!! How many have personally contacted their MP’S, Cameron and all the other ploticians (deliberate spelling mistake!) to make your feelings known? That is a good start. We are the only ones that can end all of this and that time is NOW!!!!!!!!
I got more letters from the House of Commons than I do from bailiffs ! lol I contact my MP regularly.
one thing is certain. snidy insults about the great richie havens wont help.one of the nicest guys in the world and he was nobodys “speed freak”.RHEDAE shut your mouth …before i do……..david icke said all this 20 years ago and you all laughed
@ seasick
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Stageworks schedules reading of ‘The XXX-Rated Genius’ by Jack Gilhooley on Nov.14; Satirical comedy was named winner of 2018 National Free Speech Play Contest
Stageworks schedules reading of ‘The XXX-Rated Genius’ by Jack Gilhooley on Nov.14;
Satirical comedy was named winner of 2018 National Free Speech Play Contest
SARASOTA, FL: Tampa-based Stageworks Theatre has scheduled a reading of Jack Gilhooley’s “The XXX-Rated Genius reading of Jack Gilhooley’s “The XXX-Rated Genius” on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at 1120 E. Kennedy Blvd, Tampa. James Rayfield will direct the full-length satirical comedy about corruption in contemporary higher education. A talkback will follow. Admission is free but reservations are suggested (813-374-2416).
“The XXX-Rated Genius” was recently selected as winner of the national 2018 Free Speech Play Contest as “a theatrical tribute of freedom of speech in the United States.” In the play, student Agatha Fenterbach has attracted favorable notice for her high academic standing at obscure Belvedere University. Her status quickly sours, however, when the school’s president learns of her after-hours job as porn star Cherry Devine. Agatha defends herself on the basis of needing to earn money for her annual tuition, now approaching the upper five figures. Just as the college is about to dismiss her, she wins a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University. What will Belvedere do?
Multiple-award-winning author Gilhooley said, “There’s more student-porn going on than we care to admit. Undergrads are hard-pressed to keep up with the escalating college costs even as endowments go through the roof.” He makes his point with humor, without introducing nudity or pornography into the play. “I may be just one more dumb playwright but I’m not stupid,” he added.
Gilhooley has an extensive background as an international playwright and scholar. Previously based in New York City, he currently resides on Florida’s Gulf Coast, where a staged reading of “The XXX-Rated Genius” was presented at Sarasota’s Fogartyville Café. It was also read in mid-September at Nittany Theatre at the Barn (Boalsburg, PA), which is partnered with Penn State University’s School of Theatre.
Stageworks, founded in 1983, is Tampa’s longest-running professional theatre company. Located in the Channel District of downtown Tampa at 1120 E. Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, Stageworks has been recognized many times over the years as an outstanding venue, with additional awards for directors, playwrights, actors, designers, and staff. For further information visit Stageworks (stageworkstheatre.org) or call 813-374-2416.
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[ G.R. No. 103066, April 25, 1996 ]
WILLEX PLASTIC INDUSTRIES, CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. HON. COURT OF APPEALS AND INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE BANK, RESPONDENTS.
This is a petition for review on certiorari of the decision[1] of the Court of Appeals in C.A.-G.R. CV No. 19094, affirming the decision of the Regional Trial Court of the National Capital Judicial Region, Branch XLV, Manila, which ordered petitioner Willex Plastic Industries Corporation and the Inter-Resin Industrial Corporation, jointly and severally, to pay private respondent International Corporate Bank certain sums of money, and the appellate court’s resolution of October 17, 1989 denying petitioner’s motion for reconsideration.
The facts are as follows:
Sometime in 1978, Inter-Resin Industrial Corporation opened a letter of credit with the Manila Banking Corporation. To secure payment of the credit accommodation, Inter-Resin Industrial and the Investment and Underwriting Corporation of the Philippines (IUCP) executed two documents, both entitled "Continuing Surety Agreement" and dated December 1, 1978, whereby they bound themselves solidarily to pay Manilabank "obligations of every kind, on which the [Inter-Resin Industrial] may now be indebted or hereafter become indebted to the [Manilabank]." The two agreements (Exhs. J and K) are the same in all respects, except as to the limit of liability of the surety, the first surety agreement being limited to US$333,830.00, while the second one is limited to US$334,087.00.
On April 2, 1979, Inter-Resin Industrial, together with Willex Plastic Industries Corp., executed a "Continuing Guaranty" in favor of IUCP whereby "For and in consideration of the sum or sums obtained and/or to be obtained by Inter-Resin Industrial Corporation" from IUCP, Inter-Resin Industrial and Willex Plastic jointly and severally guaranteed "the prompt and punctual payment at maturity of the NOTE/S issued by the DEBTOR/S . . . to the extent of the aggregate principal sum of FIVE MILLION PESOS (P5,000,000.00) Philippine Currency and such interests, charges and penalties as hereafter may be specified."
On January 7, 1981, following demand upon it, IUCP paid to Manilabank the sum of P4,334,280.61 representing Inter-Resin Industrial’s outstanding obligation. (Exh. M-1) On February 23 and 24, 1981, Atrium Capital Corp., which in the meantime had succeeded IUCP, demanded from Inter-Resin Industrial and Willex Plastic the payment of what it (IUCP) had paid to Manilabank. As neither one of the sureties paid, Atrium filed this case in the court below against Inter-Resin Industrial and Willex Plastic.
On August 11, 1982, Inter-Resin Industrial paid Interbank, which had in turn succeeded Atrium, the sum of P687,500.00 representing the proceeds of its fire insurance policy for the destruction of its properties.
In its answer, Inter-Resin Industrial admitted that the "Continuing Guaranty" was intended to secure payment to Atrium of the amount of P4,334,280.61 which the latter had paid to Manilabank. It claimed, however, that it had already fully paid its obligation to Atrium Capital.
On the other hand, Willex Plastic denied the material allegations of the complaint and interposed the following Special Affirmative Defenses:
(a) Assuming arguendo that main defendant is indebted to plaintiff, the former’s liability is extinguished due to the accidental fire that destroyed its premises, which liability is covered by sufficient insurance assigned to plaintiff;
(b) Again, assuming arguendo, that the main defendant is indebted to plaintiff, its account is now very much lesser than those stated in the complaint because of some payments made by the former;
(c) The complaint states no cause of action against WILLEX;
(d) WILLEX is only a guarantor of the principal obligor, and thus, its liability is only secondary to that of the principal;
(e) Plaintiff failed to exhaust the ultimate remedy in pursuing its claim against the principal obligor;
(f) Plaintiff has no personality to sue.
On April 29, 1986, Interbank was substituted as plaintiff in the action. The case then proceeded to trial.
On March 4, 1988, the trial court declared Inter-Resin Industrial to have waived the right to present evidence for its failure to appear at the hearing despite due notice. On the other hand, Willex Plastic rested its case without presenting any evidence. Thereafter Interbank and Willex Plastic submitted their respective memoranda.
On April 5, 1988, the trial court rendered judgment, ordering Inter-Resin Industrial and Willex Plastic jointly and severally to pay to Interbank the following amounts:
(a) P3,646,780.61, representing their indebtedness to the plaintiff, with interest of 17% per annum from August 11, 1982, when Inter-Resin Industrial paid P687,500.00 to the plaintiff, until full payment of the said amount;
(b) Liquidated damages equivalent to 17% of the amount due; and
(c) Attorney’s fees and expenses of litigation equivalent to 20% of the total amount due.
Inter-Resin Industrial and Willex Plastic appealed to the Court of Appeals. Willex Plastic filed its brief, while Inter-Resin Industrial presented a "Motion to Conduct Hearing and to Receive Evidence to Resolve Factual Issues and to Defer Filing of the Appellant’s Brief." After its motion was denied, Inter-Resin Industrial did not file its brief anymore.
On February 22, 1991, the Court of Appeals rendered a decision affirming the ruling of the trial court.
Willex Plastic filed a motion for reconsideration praying that it be allowed to present evidence to show that Inter-Resin Industrial had already paid its obligation to Interbank, but its motion was denied on December 6, 1991:
The motion is denied for lack of merit. We denied defendant-appellant Inter-Resin Industrial’s motion for reception of evidence because the situation or situations in which we could exercise the power under B.P. 129 did not exist. Movant here has not presented any argument which would show otherwise.
Hence, this petition by Willex Plastic for the review of the decision of February 22, 1991 and the resolution of December 6,1991 of the Court of Appeals.
Petitioner raises a number of issues.
[1] The main issue raised is whether under the "Continuing Guaranty" signed on April 2, 1979 petitioner Willex Plastic may be held jointly and severally liable with Inter-Resin Industrial for the amount paid by Interbank to Manilabank.
As already stated, the amount had been paid by Interbank’s predecessor-in-interest, Atrium Capital, to Manilabank pursuant to the "Continuing Surety Agreements" made on December 1, 1978. In denying liability to Interbank for the amount, Willex Plastic argues that under the "Continuing Guaranty," its liability is for sums obtained by Inter-Resin Industrial from Interbank, not for sums paid by the latter to Manilabank for the account of Inter-Resin Industrial. In support of this contention Willex Plastic cites the following portion of the "Continuing Guaranty":
For and in consideration of the sums obtained and/or to be obtained by INTER-RESIN INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, hereinafter referred to as the DEBTOR/S, from you and/or your principal/s as may be evidenced by promissory note/s, checks, bills receivable/s and/or other evidence/s of indebtedness (hereinafter referred to as the NOTE/S), I/We hereby jointly and severally and unconditionally guarantee unto you and/or your principal/s, successor/s and assigns the prompt and punctual payment at maturity of the NOTE/S issued by the DEBTOR/S in your and/or your principal/s, successor/s and assigns favor to the extent of the aggregate principal sum of FIVE MILLION PESOS (P5,000,000.00), Philippine Currency, and such interests, charges and penalties as may hereinafter be specified.
The contention is untenable. What Willex Plastic has overlooked is the fact that evidence aliunde was introduced in the trial court to explain that it was actually to secure payment to Interbank (formerly IUCP) of amounts paid by the latter to Manilabank that the "Continuing Guaranty" was executed. In its complaint below, Interbank’s predecessor-in-interest. Atrium Capital, alleged:
5. to secure the guarantee made by plaintiff of the credit accommodation granted to defendant IRIC [Inter-Resin Industrial] by Manilabank, the plaintiff required defendant IRIC [Inter-Resin Industrial] to execute a chattel mortgage in its favor and a Continuing Guaranty which was signed by the other defendant WPIC [Willex Plastic].
In its answer, Inter-Resin Industrial admitted this allegation although it claimed that it had already paid its obligation in its entirety. On the other hand, Willex Plastic, while denying the allegation in question, merely did so "for lack of knowledge or information of the same." But, at the hearing of the case on September 16, 1986, when asked by the trial judge whether Willex Plastic had not filed a crossclaim against Inter-Resin Industrial, Willex Plastic’s counsel replied in the negative and manifested that "the plaintiff in this case [Interbank] is the guarantor and my client [Willex Plastic] only signed as a guarantor to the guarantee."[2]
For its part Interbank adduced evidence to show that the "Continuing Guaranty" had been made to guarantee payment of amounts made by it to Manilabank and not of any sums given by it as loan to Inter-Resin Industrial. Interbank’s witness testified under cross- examination by counsel for Willex Plastic that Willex "guaranteed the exposure/of whatever exposure of ACP [Atrium Capital] will later be made because of the guarantee to Manila Banking Corporation."[3]
It has been held that explanatory evidence may be received to show the circumstances under which a document has been made and to what debt it relates.[4] At all events, Willex Plastic cannot now claim that its liability is limited to any amount which Interbank, as creditor, might give directly to Inter-Resin Industrial as debtor because, by failing to object to the parol evidence presented, Willex Plastic waived the protection of the parol evidence rule.[5]
Accordingly, the trial court found that it was "to secure the guarantee made by plaintiff of the credit accommodation granted to defendant IRIC [Inter-Resin Industrial] by Manilabank, [that] the plaintiff required defendant IRIC to execute a chattel mortgage in its favor and a Continuing Guaranty which was signed by the defendant Willex Plastic Industries Corporation."[6]
Similarly, the Court of Appeals found it to be an undisputed fact that "to secure the guarantee undertaken by plaintiff-appellee [Interbank] of the credit accommodation granted to Inter-Resin Industrial by Manilabank, plaintiff-appellee required defendant-appellants to sign a Continuing Guaranty." These factual findings of the trial court and of the Court of Appeals are binding on us not only because of the rule that on appeal to the Supreme Court such findings are entitled to great weight and respect but also because our own examination of the record of the trial court confirms these findings of the two courts.[7]
Nor does the record show any other transaction under which Inter-Resin Industrial may have obtained sums of money from Interbank. It can reasonably be assumed that Inter-Resin Industrial and Willex Plastic intended to indemnify Interbank for amounts which it may have paid Manilabank on behalf of Inter-Resin Industrial.
Indeed, in its Petition for Review in this Court, Willex Plastic admitted that it was "to secure the aforesaid guarantee, that INTERBANK required principal debtor IRIC [Inter-Resin Industrial] to execute a chattel mortgage in its favor, and so a ‘Continuing Guaranty’ was executed on April 2, 1979 by WILLEX PLASTIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION (WILLEX for brevity) in favor of INTERBANK for and in consideration of the loan obtained by IRIC [Inter-Resin Industrial]."
[2] Willex Plastic argues that the "Continuing Guaranty," being an accessory contract, cannot legally exist because of the absence of a valid principal obligation.[8] Its contention is based on the fact that it is not a party either to the "Continuing Surety Agreement" or to the loan agreement between Manilabank and Inter-Resin Industrial.
Put in another way the consideration necessary to support a surety obligation need not pass directly to the surety, a consideration moving to the principal alone being sufficient. For a "guarantor or surety is bound by the same consideration that makes the contract effective between the principal parties thereto. . . . It is never necessary that a guarantor or surety should receive any part or benefit, if such there be, accruing to his principal."[9] In an analogous case,[10] this Court held:
At the time the loan of P100,000.00 was obtained from petitioner by Daicor, for the purpose of having an additional capital for buying and selling coco-shell charcoal and importation of activated carbon, the comprehensive surety agreement was admittedly in full force and effect. The loan was, therefore, covered by the said agreement, and private respondent, even if he did not sign the promissory note, is liable by virtue of the surety agreement. The only condition that would make him liable thereunder is that the Borrower "is or may become liable as maker, endorser, acceptor or otherwise." There is no doubt that Daicor is liable on the promissory note evidencing the indebtedness.
The surety agreement which was earlier signed by Enrique Go, Sr. and private respondent, is an accessory obligation, it being dependent upon a principal one which, in this case is the loan obtained by Daicor as evidenced by a promissory note.
[3] Willex Plastic contends that the "Continuing Guaranty" cannot be retroactively applied so as to secure the payments made by Interbank under the two "Continuing Surety Agreements." Willex Plastic invokes the ruling m El Vencedor v. Canlas[11] and Diño v. Court of Appeals[12] in support of its contention that a contract of suretyship or guaranty should be applied prospectively.
The cases cited are, however, distinguishable from the present case. In El Vencedor v. Canlas we held that a contract of suretyship "is not retrospective and no liability attaches for defaults occurring before it is entered into unless an intent to be so liable is indicated." There we found nothing in the contract to show that the parties intended the surety bonds to answer for the debts contracted previous to the execution of the bonds. In contrast, in this case, the parties to the "Continuing Guaranty" clearly provided that the guaranty would cover "sums obtained and/or to be obtained" by Inter-Resin Industrial from Interbank.
On the other hand, in Diño v. Court of Appeals the issue was whether the sureties could be held liable for an obligation contracted after the execution of the continuing surety agreement. It was held that by its very nature a continuing suretyship contemplates a future course of dealing. "It is prospective in its operation and is generally intended to provide security with respect to future transactions." By no means, however, was it meant in that case that in all instances a contract of guaranty or suretyship should be prospective in application.
Indeed, as we also held in Bank of the Philippine Islands v. Foerster,[13] although a contract of suretyship is ordinarily not to be construed as retrospective, in the end the intention of the parties as revealed by the evidence is controlling. What was said there
applies mutatis mutandis to the case at bar:
In our opinion, the appealed judgment is erroneous. It is very true that bonds or other contracts of suretyship are ordinarily not to be construed as retrospective, but that rule must yield to the intention of the contracting parties as revealed by the evidence, and does not interfere with the use of the ordinary tests and canons of interpretation which apply in regard to other contracts.
In the present case the circumstances so clearly indicate that the bond given by Echevarria was intended to cover all of the indebtedness of the Arrocera upon its current account with the plaintiff Bank that we cannot possibly adopt the view of the court below in regard to the effect of the bond.
[4] Willex Plastic says that in any event it cannot be proceeded against without first exhausting all property of Inter-Resin Industrial. Willex Plastic thus claims the benefit of excussion. The Civil Code provides, however:
Art. 2059. This excussion shall not take place:
(1) If the guarantor has expressly renounced it;
(2) If he has bound himself solidarily with the debtor;
The pertinent portion of the "Continuing Guaranty" executed by Willex Plastic and Inter-Resin Industrial in favor of IUCP (now Interbank) reads:
If default be made in the payment of the NOTE/s herein guaranteed you and/or your principal/s may directly proceed against Me/Us without first proceeding against and exhausting DEBTOR/s properties in the same manner as if all such liabilities constituted My/Our direct and primary obligations. (italics supplied)
This stipulation embodies an express renunciation of the right of excussion. In addition, Willex Plastic bound itself solidarily liable with Inter-Resin Industrial under the same agreement:
For and in consideration of the sums obtained and/or to be obtained by INTER-RESIN INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, hereinafter referred to as the DEBTOR/S, from you and/or your principal/s as may be evidenced by promissory note/s, checks, bills receivable/s and/or other evidence/s of indebtedness (hereinafter referred to as the NOTE/S), I/We hereby jointly and severally and unconditionally guarantee unto you and/ or your principal/s, successor/s and assigns the prompt and punctual payment at maturity of the NOTE/S issued by the DEBTOR/S in your and/or your principal/s, successor/s and assigns favor to the extent of the aggregate principal sum of FIVE MILLION PESOS (P5,000,000.00), Philippine Currency, and such interests, charges and penalties as may hereinafter he specified.
[5] Finally it is contended that Inter-Resin Industrial had already paid its indebtedness to Interbank and that Willex Plastic should have been allowed by the Court of Appeals to adduce evidence to prove this. Suffice it to say that Inter-Resin Industrial had been given generous opportunity to present its evidence but it failed to make use of the same. On the other hand, Willex Plastic rested its case without presenting evidence.
The reception of evidence of Inter-Resin Industrial was set on January 29, 1987, but because of its failure to appear on that date, the hearing was reset on March 12, 26 and April 2, 1987.
On March 12, 1987 Inter-Resin Industrial again failed to appear. Upon motion of Willex Plastic, the hearings on March 12 and 26, 1987 were cancelled and "reset for the last time" on April 2 and 30, 1987.
On April 2, 1987, Inter-Resin Industrial again failed to appear. Accordingly the trial court issued the following order:
Considering that, as shown by the records, the Court had exerted every earnest effort to cause the service of notice or subpoena on the defendant Inter-Resin Industrial but to no avail, even with the assistance of the defendant Willex. . . the defendant Inter-Resin Industrial is hereby deemed to have waived the right to present its evidence.
On the other hand, Willex Plastic announced it was resting its case without presenting any evidence.
Upon motion of Inter-Resin Industrial, however, the trial court reconsidered its order and set the hearing anew on July 23, 1987. But Inter-Resin Industrial again moved for the postponement of the hearing to August 11, 1987. The hearing was, therefore, reset on September 8 and 22, 1987 but the hearings were reset on October 13,1987, this time upon motion of Interbank. To give Interbank time to comment on a motion filed by Inter-Resin Industrial, the reception of evidence for Inter-Resin Industrial was again reset on November 17, 26 and December 11, 1987. However, Inter-Resin Industrial again moved for the postponement of the hearing. Accordingly, the hearing was reset on November 26 and December 11, 1987, with warning that the hearings were intransferrable.
Again, the reception of evidence for Inter-Resin Industrial was reset on January 22, 1988 and February 5, 1988 upon motion of its counsel. As Inter-Resin Industrial still failed to present its evidence, it was declared to have waived its evidence.
To give Inter-Resin Industrial a last opportunity to present its evidence, however, the hearing was postponed to March 4, 1988. Again Inter-Resin Industrial’s counsel did not appear. The trial court, therefore, finally declared Inter-Resin Industrial to have waived the right to present its evidence. On the other hand, Willex Plastic, as before, manifested that it was not presenting evidence and requested instead for time to file a memorandum.
There is therefore no basis for the plea made by Willex Plastic that it be given the opportunity of showing that Inter-Resin Industrial has already paid its obligation to Interbank.
WHEREFORE, the decision of the Court of Appeals is AFFIRMED, with costs against the petitioner.
Regalado (Chairman), Romero, Puno, and Torres, Jr., JJ., concur.
[1] Penned by Justice Luis A. Javellana with Justices Alfredo M. Marigomen and Artemon D. Luna, concurring.
[2] TSN. Sept. 16, 1986, p. 4.
[3] TSN, Oct. 16, 1986, p. 13.
[4] PNB v. Barretto P. Po E. Jap, 53 Phil. 955 (1928).
[5] Talosig v. Vda. de Nieba, 43 SCRA 472 (1972).
[6] RTC Decision, p. 8.
[7] Somodio v. Court of Appeals, 235 SCRA 307 (1994); Borillo v. Court of Appeals, 209 SCRA 130 (1992); Collado v. Intermediate Appellate Court, 206 SCRA 206 (1992); Philippine Commercial and Industrial Bank v. Court of Appeals, 193 SCRA 452 (1991).
[8] Art. 2052 of the Civil Code provides:
A guaranty cannot exist without a valid obligation.
Nevertheless, a guaranty may be constituted to guarantee the performance of a voidable or an unenforceable contract. It may also guarantee a natural obligation.
[9] Severino v. Severino, 56 Phil. 185, 187-88 (1931). Accord, Garcia v. Court of Appeals, 191 SCRA 493 (1990).
[10] Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. v. Arro, 115 SCRA 777, 781-782 (1982).
[11] 44 Phil. 699 (1923).
[12] 216 SCRA 9 (1992).
[14] Supra, note 13 at 848.
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Assessment of Cinematographic Influence on Social Representations of Heroism: approbation of an approach
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Author: Irina V. Trotsuk, Maria V. Subbotina
Communicology. 2018. Vol.6. No.4
Irina Vladimirovna Trotsuk, Dr. Sc. (Soc.), professor, chair of sociology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia; Maria Vladimirovna Subbotina, postgraduate student of the chair of sociology, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Address: 117198, Russia, Moscow, Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6. E-mail: trotsuk_iv@rudn.university.
Abstract. Sociology has not developed a clear and standard approach to assess the influence of cinema on social representations of heroism, hence the paper identifies some necessary conceptual and methodological steps in this direction.
First, the authors consider different interpretations of ‘heroism’, techniques of its empirical study, and methods to analyze the perception of movies. Second, the article displays the results of the pilot study of social representations of heroism, including those formed under the influence of movies. The qualitative content analysis of four groups of Russian films revealed the distribution of types of heroes according to the authors’ classification. The survey based on the unfinished sentences technique has allowed to assess the perception of movie heroes by two groups (parent and children generations). The survey has shown that the interpretations of real-life heroism in two groups are similar while the movie heroes differ: adults prefer military heroism, and children believe that heroes are to fight their internal fears and inspire others to overcome life difficulties.
Keywords: hero, heroism, cinematography, social representation, content analysis, unfinished sentences technique
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For citation: Trotsuk I.V., Subbotina M.V. Assessment of Cinematographic Influence on Social Representations of Heroism: approbation of an approach. Communicology (Russia). 2018. Vol. 6. No.4. P. 140-158. DOI 10.21453 / 2311-3065-2018-6-4-140-158.
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Soil microbial biomass and activity and plant nutrition in semi-natural ecosystems subjected to pollutant nitrogen deposition.
Johnson, David (1998) Soil microbial biomass and activity and plant nutrition in semi-natural ecosystems subjected to pollutant nitrogen deposition. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
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The response of UK semi-natural soil and plant communities to long-term inputs of pollutant nitrogen (N) is presently poorly understood. This study aims to investigate the effects of up to 8 years simulated pollutant N additions on plant nutrition and key below ground nutrient cycling processes in an upland heath, an acid grassland and a calcareous grassland. An additional series of plots was established in the grasslands that received short-term N and phosphorus (P) inputs which enabled investigation of NIP interactions and the determination of plant biomass. Soil inorganic N concentrations indicated that all of the sites had become 'N saturated', and that P limitation may be of increasing importance, particularly in the heathland and calcareous grassland. This was confirmed in the calcareous grassland where significant increases in above ground biomass were seen in only P treated plots, while in the acid grassland, there were no growth responses to nutrient additions. A field-based bioassay was developed which demonstrated that both short and long-term inputs of N significantly increased root surface phosphomonoesterase (PME) activity of Plantago lanceolata seedlings. A parallel microcosm-based bioassay revealed a significant relationship between root surface PME activity of Agrostis capillaris and extractable NfLt concentrations (r = 0.86) in the long-term acid grassland plots, indicating that this site may have reached or be approaching N saturation. In response to long-term N additions, soil microbial biomass carbon increased in the heathland, decreased in the acid grassland and remained constant in the calcareous grassland. Chloroform fumigation indicated that microbial biomass P decreased in the acid and calcareous grasslands, while microbial biomass N increased in the heathland and acid grassland in the N treated plots. Soil PME activity was highly sensitive to the N treatments. It increased at all sites and was significantly correlated with extractable inorganic N concentrations (r = 0.71) in the calcareous grassland, indicating close coupling between N saturation and P limitation. This relationship was also seen in the heathland where there was increased utilisation of monoester P sources in standard and customised BIOLOG plates and increased respiration rates in soils amended with organic P compounds. The implications of these results are discussed, with reference to the critical loads concept and to recent research by other workers in similar and contrasting environments.
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Fitter Radio Episode 225 - Lisa Norden
Bevan and Tim are hosting this week and they wrap up the Fitter Sunshine Coast Training Camps.
HAMISH PEPPER: (00:13:25) Hamish Pepper, NZ Olympian and Americas Cup sailor, has been a triathlete in training on our camp this week. He talks to us about his history as a Sailor and his journey to becoming a triathlete to take on the Xterra Worlds in Maui this year.
SID TALKS: (00:31:37) Sid’s with us again this week and we talk 70.3 Worlds, KPR Rankings, Challenge Prague and Ryan Air!
HOT PROPERTY INTERVIEW: LISA NORDEN: (01:23:43) We interview Lisa Norden, Swedish pro Triathlete about her career to date, her frustration with injury and her recent win at the IRONMAN 70.3 Jönköping Sweden.
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More about Hamish Pepper at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Pepper
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Joe Mixon ready for more in Bengals' new offense
Thread: Joe Mixon ready for more in Bengals' new offense
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Ben BabyESPN Staff Writer
CINCINNATI -- Zac Taylor was working past midnight during one of the first weeks on the job when the new Cincinnati Bengals coach heard music coming from the weight room.
Taylor wandered downstairs, saw Joe Mixon and started laughing.
• 1,464: Yards from scrimmage, the most by any Bengals player since Chad Johnson in 2007.
• 5: Games with at least 130 yards from scrimmage, tied for the fifth in the NFL.
• 722: Rush yards before initial contact, third in the NFL behind Ezekiel Elliott (805) and Phillip Lindsay (733).
• 11: Runs of at least 20 yards, tied for the second in the NFL behind Saquon Barkley (16).
Source: ESPN Stats and Information
"He said, ‘Man, what are you doing up in here?’" Mixon said of the encounter. "I just told him, ‘Putting that work in, getting ready.’"
The third-year running back has spent the offseason preparing for his role in the Bengals’ new offense and what it means for his career.
"I feel like Coach Taylor, he’s going to throw the load on me," Mixon said. "But I gotta be physically and mentally prepared to be able to take it on and do the best job that I can do."
Given Taylor’s background and pedigree, Mixon and the Bengals’ offense are hoping for an even bigger year.
Taylor spent the previous two seasons as an assistant on Sean McVay’s staff with the Los Angeles Rams. In McVay’s first year, the Rams went from worst to first in the NFL in scoring. Running back Todd Gurley also led the league in yards from scrimmage.
This offseason, the Bengals studied how the Rams operated. When Taylor arrived, the Bengals did not have any specific discussions about how the running backs were going to be used differently. But Taylor said, in early conversations, he talked to Mixon about continuing to mature and developing into a team leader who will be counted on.
"It's really just taking the next step," Taylor said.
Last season, Mixon racked up 1,464 yards from scrimmage and became more productive toward the end of the season. Of his 1,168 rushing yards, 584 of those came between Weeks 12 and 17. Only the Titans' Derrick Henry had more during that span, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
When starting quarterback Andy Dalton was placed on injured reserve with a thumb injury and missed the last five games of the season, Mixon remained productive. He averaged 5.2 yards per carry during that span, up from his season average of 4.9.
Dalton said Mixon has paid attention to the small details that will help him maximize his talents.
"He can do so much," Dalton said. "I think for him the biggest thing is to make sure he knows this offense in and out and make sure he’s on the same page with each scheme that we’re trying to do."
Mixon averaged 16.9 carries per game and accounted for 66% of the Bengals' total carries as he developed into the focal point of the rushing attack. Even with a strong position group that features veteran Giovani Bernard and rookies Trayveon Williams and Rodney Anderson, that trend appears likely to continue.
In preparation for a likely heavy workload, Mixon spent the offseason working on improving his conditioning. During training camp, he’s balanced keeping his body fresh while making sure he’s in shape for a 16-game season.
"As long as I’m in great condition, I feel like I’ll thrive in this offense," Mixon said. "I feel like that’s for everybody."
That’s partially why Taylor found Mixon working out in the early morning during the offseason. Mixon and his teammates are fully aware of what the offense looks like when everything is clicking. And Mixon is as excited as anyone about the potential.
"The sky’s the limit for me and the offense -- really, for everybody," Mixon said.
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Bernie Sanders: Time To Stop The Orgy of Greed [Anthony McCarthy]
It's pretty sad when the Independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, is exercising more leadership for Democrats than either the Democratic president or the Democratic Senate Leader. It's pretty sad that it's the ineffectual Harry Reid who is NOT the target of the DC beltway lie machine while Nancy Pelosi, who has exercised leadership is made the scapegoat for the failure of the two males is blamed for the election results. Am I the only one who is reminded of the gender based campaign against Hillary Clinton in this?
Anyway, back to Bernie Sanders very good summary of the State of the Nation and where the Republicans are taking us with too little resistance from their alleged opposition.
In the next month, despite all their loud rhetoric about the "deficit crisis," the Republicans want to add $700 billion to the national debt over the next 10 years by extending Bush's tax breaks for the top 2 percent. Families who earn $1 million a year or more would receive, on average, a tax break of $100,000 a year. The Republicans also want to eliminate or significantly reduce the estate tax, which has existed since 1916. Its elimination would add, over 10 years, about $1 trillion to our national debt and all of the benefits would go to the top 0.3 percent. Over 99.7 percent of American families would not gain a nickel. The Walton family of WalMart would receive an estimated tax break of more than $30 billion by repealing the estate tax.
That's just the start.
The billionaires and their supporters in Congress are hell-bent on taking us back to the 1920s, and eliminating all traces of social legislation designed to protect working families, the elderly, children and the disabled. No "social contract" for them. They want it all.
It's worth keeping his short post from Buzzflash, it looks like a pretty good roadmap for their proposed route. Not the one they're admitting to, the real one.
Note: It's so clear that the Republicans have no intentions other than the ones Bernie Sanders notes, that Barack Obama's continued bipartisan gestures have become intensely embarrassing. Even the willfully blind New York Times has dropped the pretense around that. It's time for Barack Obama to face the truth and act as if he's under constant attack by people who want to destroy him. Because he is.
The Good News Is
That both Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have asked Barack Obama to exercise leadership in getting a stand alone vote on ONLY the tax breaks for middle class tax payers.
The Bad News Is
that they had to ask him to exercise leadership.
Pies, cakes subjected to extra screening (by Suzie)
You can bring pies and cakes through the security checkpoint, but please be advised that they are subject to additional screening.
-- News from the TSA on holiday travel. Cranberry sauce, salsa and snowglobes are a no-go.
Discussion continues on my post Wednesday about the enhanced security at U.S. airports, but I wanted to update you. In other TSA news, pilots have gotten a reprieve from the scanners and pat-downs, but flight attendants have not. I'm predicting the new policy will fall because Republican men don't want anyone looking at or touching their junk without permission. The rest of us are just having a fascinating discussion.
In an interview, the don't-touch-my-junk guy says he's heard that his case will be dropped and that he won't have to pay a fine. The good news for animal lovers is that the incident kept him from a pheasant-hunting trip. He had packed his shotguns as baggage, and I can assure you as a Texan that the residue from handling weapons can set off security machines.
Friday garden blogging (by Suzie)
From the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.
Meanwhile, among the U.S. Evangelicals
Someone told me the other day that men and women are completely equal in the West and that, if anything, women now rule the earth.
Let's see what the Bible Boyz are doing:
The world's best-selling Bible is getting an upgrade.
At stake are millions of dollars in publishing revenue and the trust of millions of churchgoers.
Since its debut in 1978, the New International Version — known as the NIV — has been the Bible of choice for evangelicals, selling more copies than any other version. But a 2005 gender-inclusive edition bombed after being condemned as too liberal.
Translators hope their latest edition, which debuted online this month, will avoid a similar fate. They've retained some of the language of the 2005 edition. But they also made changes — like going back to using words like "mankind" and "man" instead of "human beings" and "people" — in order to appease critics.
Because Christianity (and the other Abrahamic religions) are Guy Religions. Gals are not allowed to have equality. Indeed:
Denny Burk, a professor of New Testament at Boyce College, a Southern Baptist school in Louisville, has complained about one change in 1 Timothy 2:12. That verse from a New Testament letter from the Apostle Paul, used to read, "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man." Now it says, "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man."
The change from "have authority" to "assume authority" is huge, Burk argues. He believes that God gave men and women different jobs — and that women can't be pastors. Burk says the new Bible sides with his opponents.
"It appears, therefore, that the NIV 2011 comes down on the side of egalitarianism in its rendering of 1 Timothy 2:12," he wrote in a blog at BibleGateway.com.
Aren't you glad that I'm an egalitarian goddess, eh?
Added later: Even the Anglican Church is predicted to lose some Boyz Only clergy to Ratzo the Pope:
Around 50 Anglican priests are expected to defect to the Catholic church, it emerged today, as the first details were disclosed of an unprecedented initiative that will allow Anglicans disaffected over the ordination of women to convert.
Where does one go if one is disaffected over the ordination of men? Even the question is silly.
A Hilariously Funny Piece On Writing As A Woman
So funny that it makes me suspect it can't be a woman who wrote this as broads have no sense of humor. Heh. Read it now. It's by Tawni O'Dell.
Two points I wish to make: The first one has to do with the idea that chicks can't write from a male point of view:
"Back Roads" was set in the coal-mining area where I grew up and was a dark, gritty portrayal of a family in crisis told entirely in the male first-person voice of 19-year-old Harley Altmyer. My publishing house was over the moon about the book, proclaiming me brilliant and tossing around phrases like "formidable talent" and "pitch-perfect prose." The book was so good, as a matter of fact, that they thought it would be best to conceal the fact that it had been written by a woman.
My editor went on to inform me that they had decided to publish the book using my initials. That way they wouldn't actually be lying and claiming I was a man but since the book was written in the male first person, everyone would assume it had been written by a man. Pretty sneaky.
There was only one problem with their reasoning: The book hadn't been written by a man. Not to mention one of the things everyone found so amazing about my novel was that it was so convincingly written from a male perspective by a woman. Wouldn't that be ruined if we pretended I was a man?
It's the Bronte sisters' old strategy of writing under male pseudonyms to be taken seriously. But I didn't realize it might still be needed.
And then pay attention to the amazement O'Dell records about her ability to write convincingly from a male perspective. We don't do that with Famous Boy Writers, do we? Even when they don't have any idea about how to do a female perspective which is actually pretty often, in my experience. Now chew over that for a while.
My second point has to do with the story about how a name like Tawni would not be taken seriously:
I was informed over the phone one morning that Tawni was a "biker chick name" and no one would take the novel seriously if we used it.
I was stunned, not only because I had naively thought art was one area where sexism didn't exist but because standing in my coffee-stained bathrobe in my suburban Chicago kitchen handing out juice boxes to my kids, I could hardly imagine anyone mistaking me for a biker chick.
It's her stunned reaction when meeting sexism for the first time (or at least the first time she noticed it about writing). One consequence of a less openly sexist education system is that women may now not meet the kind of sexism which is explicitly aimed at them until they start working (though this varies and also depends on other characteristics of the women, including their race, ethnicity and sexual preference).
Meeting sexism later is better than meeting it earlier, naturally. But many young women may believe sexism is all-but-gone or at least not worth fussing about, just because the schools and colleges offer a different environment than they used to. Just you wait, however.
Workers Are Also Consumers
That may be a summary of the Keynesian approach to macroeconomics. If you haven't noticed, the Keynesians have little power in this country.
Robert Reich discusses many of the issues in a Bloomberg article from last September. This is an important observation:
Our Great Recession boiled up, in Reich's view, from 30 years of growing income inequality that concentrated the nation's winnings in the hands of the wealthy few. By 2007, the richest 1 percent of Americans received more than 23 percent of U.S. income (up from some 9 percent in the 1970s). The last time U.S. wealth was so condensed was in 1928.
Reich's objection has less to do with morality than with practicality. When income clumps at the top, demand for goods and services shrinks, he says.
Take the almost $100 million in compensation that Kenneth D. Lewis was allocated as chief executive officer of Bank of America Corp. as it skidded toward disaster, according to Forbes' annual ranking of best-paid CEOs. To spend all that in a year, Lewis would have had to purchase $273,972.60 worth of goods and services each day, weekends included, Reich says.
"The sheer magnitude of the task of spending obscene amounts of money can be surprisingly challenging," Reich says.
If you spread the cash around, by contrast, it gets spent.
The second voice in that article, James Bressley, attacks Reich's arguments but doesn't refute them. For example:
Reich fails to grasp why a generation that came of age during the Great Inflation and the Vietnam War became more grateful to Volcker than to politicians. Nor does he articulate a vision for how America can create more high-value jobs. Consumer spending alone does not an economy make.
No, consumer spending alone does not an economy make. But neither does the savings and investments of the rich, and that is what the Republicans focus on. If nobody buys the products a firm makes, why invest in that firm? You need both consumption and investment, just like you need two to tango. And right now it's the consumption side which falters.
Today's Bad Poetry Moment
I am just a bankster
You call me gangster
But you don't know how hard it is
to live on
just a billion.
Please continue the pome.
Thursday Fluff Post: Clothes
I have gone all fashionista! Yes, me. I bought an early 1960s cashmere overcoat through the Internet for 29 dollars. We shall see if it's any good and if it's still wearable.
If it is not, I have a Plan! I'm going to felt it in the washing machine and make potholders, ties and winter bras out of it and then sell them here on the blog. Every one will have a cute little snake embroidered on it by me. For only 250 smackers! What do you think of that great business idea? My friend rolled her eyes after hearing it and muttered that I never change.
One coat wouldn't give enough felted cashmere, though, so I hope it is wearable.
I like vintage clothes because the ones that still remain do that for a reason: They were good from the beginning. I have a Victorian linen top somewhere, and when I only weigh fifty pounds I will wear it. It is hand-sewn and has great cutwork around the neck.
I also have a 1917 silk dress which I have worn in the past (and now feel guilty over that). It is stunningly beautiful, with a sequined top and those multiple layers of chiffon for the lower half and uneven hems and a thousand hooks and eyes.
This is the girly post for the year, probably.
Full-body scanners at airports (by Suzie)
Last weekend, I flew to Atlanta with a friend who uses metal crutches. She got patted down every day of the trip: coming and going at the airport and visiting a museum. In the future, she doesn’t care if she gets patted down or has to go through the new full-body scanners.
I do. I’m in remission from soft-tissue sarcoma, which has been linked to radiation. The government says the radiation risk from scanners is minuscule, but some reputable scientists have questions. I'm already under so much surveillance, with X-rays and CT scans, that I hate to undergo one more source of radiation.
Because I’m ensconced in the medical system, I’m used to strangers seeing my naked body. Nevertheless, I find it a bit creepy that someone somewhere in the airport is seeing it. You can bet on the system being abused in a society in which a lot of men get off by violating women’s privacy, like the old-fashioned peeping toms or the guys who install hidden cameras or the ones who use cell phones to look up a woman’s skirt or down her blouse. The thrill is the lack of consent.
Britain already has had a case of a male worker ogling a female colleague and then letting her know that he saw her naked. After all, it’s more fun when a guy can humiliate a woman.
Kelly Kleiman has raised similar concerns in the Huffington Post.
In regard to pat-downs, some heterosexual men are incensed at the idea that another man might touch their bodies, especially their genitals, or that someone will inspect their bodies. Women are much more accustomed to this, although that doesn’t mean we like it any more.
I haven’t heard of women complaining about being patted down by another woman (although they do complain about pat-downs in general). That wouldn’t bother me, and that’s the option I’ll choose. I figure my urostomy bag might raise questions with either option.
National Opt-out Day is planned for the day before Thanksgiving. I dislike a protest that will make travel more difficult for people who already find travel difficult. Please find a way to protest that doesn't hurt others.
On my way to Atlanta, my bag leaked and I got drenched in urine. Luckily, I was wearing black velvet, not white linen, and it couldn’t be seen. On a short flight, I didn’t want to ask someone to get my suitcase down, root around for new clothes, wash myself all over with paper towels in the restroom, change my urostomy bag, put my wet clothes in a plastic bag, and put on new clothes. Instead, I sopped up some of the urine with paper towels and then taped the bag down with my beloved pink tape. Because I couldn't board with scissors, I had to tear the tape with my teeth. I’ll be better prepared next time I fly, but it did occur to me that it would be funny if someone had to pat me down.
What do you think of "enhanced" pat-downs and full-body scanners?
Tax Cuts For The Rich, No Unemployment Benefit Extensions
Sometimes it is hard to write about politics as this and the next two posts demonstrate. I sit here breathing fire and muttering to myself about "elections having consequences." Well, they do have consequences, though even a Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate doesn't get anything much done.
But it's getting worse:
Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Bob Casey (D-PA) want the Senate to take up and pass a one-year extension of unemployment insurance benefits from 26 to 99 weeks, but they did not sound hopeful on a conference call that this could get done before the extension lapses at the end of November.
Getting jobless benefits passed in the lame duck session is going to be a tough road. Congress has always passed emergency funding for extended unemployment benefits in a time of high joblessness, any time the topline rate is over 7.2%. But even with 59 votes, the Senate has faced an arduous series of votes to extend it out month by month this year. The last attempt in April needed multiple cloture votes, with several failing before the final success. At the time, Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins said that would be the last extension they would vote for that wasn't offset with some other revenue or spending cut. Ben Nelson (D-NE) has joined them, making it virtually impossible to find the votes.
Gotta tighten that belt, you hear me! Murkans so desire. Should you happen to starve -- well -- the rich can have tax cuts and the government will slim down to a tiny and manageable size. That's what the tea partiers desired right?
Astonishingly, though the Republicans , not even the tea partiers, don't want to be seen as actually cutting the government down to size:
A band of conservative rebels has taken over the House, vowing to slash spending, cut the deficit and kill earmarks.
And of course they'd love a seat on the powerhouse Appropriations Committee so they can translate their campaign zeal into action, right?
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) was asked to be an appropriator and said thanks, but no thanks. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a tea party favorite, turned down a shot at Appropriations, which controls all discretionary spending. So did conservatives like Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an ambitious newcomer who will lead the influential Republican Study Committee.
Indeed, the Appropriations Committee just doesn't seem to be the plum assignment it once was, and the line is short for new recruits to join a panel where the longtime focus on bringing home earmarks and other goodies will shift to finding $100 billion in spending cuts. Even conservative reformers who do get assigned to the committee are likely to be stymied once their appropriations bills reach the floor and get amended to death, then potentially earmarked into oblivion by a Democratic Senate.
It's all fun-and-power-games for some, tax cuts for the rich and no unemployment benefit extensions for others. But that is presumably what voters asked for.
Topics stolen from Eschaton.
Not With A Bang But A Whimper
The US Senate failed to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act:
A bill aimed at stamping out wage discrimination was blocked Wednesday as too few senators voted to move forward with the legislation. The Paycheck Fairness Act needed 60 votes to move forward, and only captured 58.
It was the Republicans who did this:
Senate Republicans have succeeded in blocking a measure designed to reduce wage disparities between men and women.
The 58-41 vote to take up the Paycheck Fairness Act fell short of the 60 needed to overcome GOP opposition.
Yawn. Who cares? Or as one opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal puts it:
Let's not embark upon a journey that leads us to gender warfare.
Hilarious. Just fucking hilarious*.
*I realized that some might need an explanation of this. Note that the writer of that article already assumes an ongoing gender warfare.
Otherwise he/she wouldn't start from the assumption that an act that would have helped women to sue for discrimination longer than is currently the case fight discrimination in the labor force would not also help men. Women, after all, do belong to families and have male relatives, including spouses, boyfriends and sons. It is the writer who views this as gender warfare and it is the writer who doesn't want women to "win," even if that requires unfairness of a major kind.
(My apologies for that error. As Emma points out in the comments I was talking about the earlier Lily Ledbetter act which did pass. No excuse except I've been writing through a red haze of anger today.)
Here Come The Death Panels
Remember those? The Republicans argued that the health care reform would result in death panels to decide who shall live and who shall die?
Well, Arizona has decided to adopt that measure, in some ways:
In Arizona, 98 low-income patients approved for organ transplants have been told they are no longer getting them because of state budget cuts.
The patients receive medical coverage through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state's version of Medicaid. While it may be common for private insurance companies or government agencies to change eligibility requirements for medical procedures ahead of time, medical ethicists say authorizing a procedure and then reversing that decision is unheard of.
I used the words "in some ways" because anyone waiting for an organ transplant already faces tough odds. But still. As the above quote notes, it is unheard of to reverse a decision this way:
"To basically renege on what you promised was [going to] be a chance at life is a very, very bitter indictment of the ethics of the Legislature," says Arthur Caplan, head of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Caplan calls the reversal "awful" behavior because Arizona is going back on a covenant it made with its patients, and because these are patients for whom time is critical — patients who spent months, some years, thinking they were covered.
"They then stop trying to raise money, stop trying to see what Uncle Fred might be willing to give them," Caplan says. "They don't have the bake sale. They don't make the appeal in church."
But Arizona could save about 4.5 million this year!
My guess is that this decision will be reversed, though other cuts will be found and they, too, are going to hurt real people, often people too weak to fight the cuts and without imminent death hanging over their heads.
But think of the savings!
Note that budget cuts are what Republicans really desire right now.
Visiting the Boyz at YouTube
I got on this trip by accident. While looking at this video of a world record breaking pole vault by Isinbeyeva (from some time ago) I made the big mistake of reading the comments.
It could be that women athletes on YouTube are now the poor man's pornography sites. The comments sure support that hypothesis. Here's a fairly representative sample of the comments, though they are repeated over and over and over again:
if she had bigger boobs she wouldved knockd that down lol?
She can vault my? pole any day!
Mmm she? could vault my pole.
I wish? she would play with my pole.
if her boobs were bigger she would have gotten hurt....
if here boobs were 1 cm bigger she? would of faild O.o
hells yea? shes hot look at ur ass lol
if her? boobs is abit bigger, she would have failed the WR. haha
she is? flat omg
what chest? she has no chest?
Hot chicks always know how to handle the? pole...
WHAT A HOTTIE!!!! she can break the record? with my pole if she wanted to....
yea i would destroy that ass? of hers
She is Lucky that she wasnt a DOULBLE Ds.?
I would wreck that? chick.
dude she kinda looks creepy like? i mean shes not bad looking but weird so ya im not gay i like da PUSSY XD
I? like to pole her.
listen lezbo. girls are only good at doin house? work thats y the guys do everything else cause we do it better :p suck on that dike
whaha no tits. if she had boobs she? didnt make it xD
so sexy , great? ass
id like to plant my pole in her? box
shes super hot. the only reson i watched it?
nice abs.? and face. i'd fap to it.
would she? be willing to perform some maintenance to my pole?
i kno i fuck her in the? air as she goes up
she'd be ugly if she was fat?
WHAT AN AWESOME ASS... UPS UPS SORRY SORRY
WHAT? AN AWESOME ATHLETE
i agree with u dude, but tell me... wouldnt you stick ur pole in her ass??? just look at that!!!!!?
y? is she not making sandwiches?
im glad that she? is not one of those shemales who run track
imagen if the pole went in? her pussy (lol)
There have been thousands of pole vaults higher than that but womens sport gives us some? pretty girls to look at
i wonder if the huge pole would go through her ass, she has a? great one lol
she can front flip onto? my d*ck haha
Then there is this exchange:
god can people stop posting about her looks and just respect her as an amazing? athlete?
she is an amazingly beautiful athlete , whats wrong with that , im sure she wouldnt be offended by that , are you a fiminist ??
Bwahaha! And then, of course the reason why all these comments (and there are loads more in the thread!) are perfectly fine to post on YouTube:
If she? doesn't like us perving over her, she shouldn't wear such tight skimpy clothes.
See? It's not these boyz' fault! It's the athlete's fault. She should be vaulting in a baggy sack and perhaps in that case the comments could be (but only perhaps) about her athletic performance rather than her porn ratings.
Now, the usual advice is to ignore the comments on YouTube. They gather all the bottom feeders and we are to assume that there aren't that many of those and that we won't come across them in our daily lives.
But is that assumption a good one? Consider the comments at an other YouTube site, this time about the high jumper Blanka Vlasic. Her waist is not bare or at least she doesn't wear a bikini-type outfit. So are the comments now about her athletics?
jeez her face is the fucking ugliest thing I have ever? seen
rounded into? shape real nicely... hell yes.
I cum? at 0:25 every time.
Pretty ugly chick - I'd take? the Slovakian sprinter over her anyday.
This one looks like a Mexican gardener.
What? a great way to get in bed!!!
her face looks like a zombie.
All the other videos of female athletes I checked are pretty much the same. The women are judged for their f***ability, either positively or negatively, and there are always a few snide comments about how women aren't good for anything else but housecleaning and f***ing. It is mostly superficial and always about judging the athlete on the basis of her sexual appeal. The expectation seems to be that she's there for that very reason.
But she is not there for that reason and she doesn't get paid for all that masturbation that goes on. Then ask yourselves what the message of these threads might be to young girls who want to look at good performances in their chosen fields. I bet the effect is chilling. They learn that if they succeed it is their bottoms and breasts which will be dissected on YouTube.
So how many bottom feeders ARE there? I'm not sure but the numbers I can see are pretty frightening, and so is the message: We Will Not Take Women Seriously Except as F***toyz.
The second message is that these people really are inane. Once one man has posted the quip about his pole/the athlete's flat chest why bother writing it in over and over and over again? Indeed, why bother writing it in the first time?
The only explanation I can think of is that first message: Yes, these comments are from bottom feeders (though there may be many more of those than I ever imagined) AND these bottom feeders believe that they have the absolute right to publicly evaluate the sexual attractiveness of any woman they come across. Is this a consequence of Internet pornography's greater acceptability?
Note: Those comment threads also contain more reasonable comments. But the proportions are wildly in favor of the pornified ones.
The Slate has an article on the Dutch women preferring not to work full-time. Here is the title of Jessica Olien's piece, to get right to the gist of why all this is of such interest to the powers that be:
Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it.
How very interesting! Imagine that we call paying fifty-fifty for a date "going Dutch"! But the Dutch are going full-steam back into the traditional gender roles.
Or that's what the article really means:
I've been in the Netherlands for nearly three months now, and I've come to one overwhelming conclusion: Dutch women are not like me. I worry about my career incessantly. I take daily stock of its trajectory and make vicious mental critiques of my endeavors. And I know—based on weekly phone conversations with friends in the United States—that my masochistic drive for success is widely shared among my female friends. Meanwhile, the Dutch women around me take a lackadaisical approach to their careers. They work half days, meet their friends for coffee at 2 p.m., and pity their male colleagues who are stuck in the office all day.
Though the Netherlands is consistently ranked in the top five countries for women, less than 10 percent of women here are employed full-time. And they like it this way. Incentives to nudge women into full-time work have consistently failed. Less than 4 percent of women wish they had more working hours or increased responsibility in the workplace, and most refuse extended hours even when the opportunity for advancement arises. Some women cite the high cost of child care as a major factor in their shorter hours, but 62 percent of women working part time in the Netherlands don't have young children in the house, and mothers rarely increase their working hours even when their children leave home.
It's hard not to wonder: Have we gotten it all wrong?
There you have it. Dutch women are happy and pity the male colleagues who are stuck in the office all day. We better pedal back to the mythical 1950s stat!
Hmm. Whenever I spot a number like 4% of women wishing they had more working hours or increased opportunity for advancement in the workplace I wonder where it came from. Because I don't have the book Olien quotes handy I cannot really tell. But something whiffs a bit, to my sensitive nostrils. For example, that number must have come from some study, right? And most studies don't ask generalized questions like that but only address them to a particular group of women.
So I started doing some digging on all this.
First I looked up the Dutch working hours. Here is some recent data:
Average weekly working hours in 2007 with overtime:
Men 34.7
Women 24.5
Interesting! I bet most of you thought that the male colleagues slaving away in the office were all there for ninety hour weeks, what with all those womenfolk enjoying their gardens and shit. Turns out that the Dutch don't work very long hours in general.
Those figures include part-time work, clearly. How do they differ from the average American hours if part-time work is included?
The data I found for US in 2009 do not compare directly but you can figure out the rough transformation:
On the days that they worked, employed men worked 56 minutes more than employed women. This difference partly reflects women's greater likelihood of working part time. However, even among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked longer than women--8.3 hours compared with 7.5 hours. (See table 4.)
Note that "work" here excludes all unpaid work within the home. On that, American men and women differed, too:
On an average day, 85 percent of women and 67 percent of men spent some time doing household activities such as housework, cooking, lawn care, or financial and other household management. (For a definition of average day, see the Technical Note.) (See table 1.)
On the days that they did household activities, women spent an average of 2.6 hours on such activities, while men spent 2.0 hours. (See table 1.)
On an average day, 20 percent of men did housework--such as cleaning or doing laundry--compared with 51 percent of women. Forty percent of men did food preparation or cleanup, compared with 68 percent of women. (See table 1.)
And those in the US who had small children in the household the differences in unpaid work were greater:
On an average day, among adults living in households with children under 6, women spent 1.1 hours providing physical care (such as bathing or feeding a child) to household children; by contrast, men spent 0.5 hour providing physical care. (See table 9.)
The above data on household work and its division should also be kept in mind when analyzing the Dutch data. The gender roles there tend to be pretty conservative and those gender roles will affect the choices (or "choices") women make.
Second, I came across an actual study of the Dutch women's part-time work, and in it I found a reference that may (just may) be the mother of that 4% comment:
The result on the propensity to work full-time is consistent with studies on stated preferences and attitudes towards the employment of women. The SCP (2006) finds that among women who work part-time and do have a working male partner, 96 per cent prefer to work part-time.
Could this be the source of that four-percent figure? Subtract 96% from 100% and you get that. Except that the women asked were not ALL Dutch women but only those who a) worked part-time and b) had a working male partner.
Third, the title of Olien's piece (probably not selected by her, remember) deserves closer attention:
Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it
This truly reads as if the Dutch women love having lesser titles and a big gender gap and as if they ultimately work less when all unpaid work is taken into account. It could be that they do love all those things (though I really doubt that they love the gender gap in earnings or having lesser titles).
But decisions have a cultural and social context and Olien's piece doesn't talk about the traditionally Dutch conservative values when it comes to women or the recent re-emergence of these values.
Neither does she tell us if men participate in work inside the home. Research suggests that the role of children is crucial in explaining the prevalence of part-time work among Dutch women:
The probability of working full-time or part-time varies substantially with individual and family characteristics. Women without children are likely to work full-time. This holds in particular for single women without children (Figure 5). Nevertheless, married women born after 1970 without children have a large propensity to work part-time. Children have major implications for employment (Figure 6). A vast majority of married mothers works 12–24 hours per week. Single mothers are less likely to be employed. When employed, single mothers of the generation born up until around 1950 relatively frequently work full-time. Younger generations of single mothers are much more likely to work part-time.
I cannot rule out that Dutch women might just love patriarchy, of course, or that they have no desire for that brass ring at the top of the hierarchy ladders.
But I doubt that very much. Yet that is the undertone in the discussions about this I have read: That women are ultimately happiest in traditional roles and so on.
If the traditional roles cannot be completely achieved by having all women stay at home then part-time at least allows them to do the work at home as well. Because the lens here is on women and how they work we don't learn about Dutch men or their work habits, and neither do we learn much about the cultural rules of the Dutch culture on the whole. I suspect that knowing those rules is imperative for the interpretation of the data. I also suspect that most Dutch regard paid work as something that takes fewer hours than the mythical ideal in the US.
Lessons from Blogging. Part II: How To Fight For Your Cause
This is the second post in the series that commemorates (!) the seventh anniversary of this blog. It's all about the lessons I have learned and how they might help you, too. It's not about the technical skills one needs for blogging. (So don't worry, I won't tell you how I write a post I wish nobody will read but which has to be written anyway.)
The topic of today's post is encapsulated in this cartoon:
Perhaps not quite encapsulated but hinted at? I like it because of the snake...
What this post is about is how to be a fighter without being a predator, how to fight for yourself as well as for others and how not to be so easily silenced when someone whines: "What about the children/menz/whatever?"
I thought that all other women by now had those skills but I have learned otherwise on the Internet. Even strong feminists can be turned away from their goals by being told that someone else's suffering is worse, or that they are selfish to work for the group they themselves belong to.
Or in simpler terms: Others will push your guilt buttons, because they work excellently when it comes to many women. The culture tells us to feel guilty about so much (did you have a glass of wine when pregnant?) that it can be difficult to gain the necessary distance and to notice that often the very people who accuse you are the ones who should feel guilty (did you start a war?).
That the accusations of selfishness and the guilt buttons work so very well for so many of us is the reason for the message of this post:
It's not necessary to choose between selfishness and kindness or between being a marauding monster or a doormat. Hillel said it well a very long time ago:
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?
It is that balance I aim for. It is also that balance I believe we should all aim for. Only introspection will tell you what your own corrections should be. But I see more women bending over backwards to care for others and not for themselves, despite the fact that one cannot keep giving without replenishing that what is to be given. I also see both men and women assume that it is women who should bend over backwards.
So how does one become a fighter under these circumstances? Remember what Hillel said, remember that when you fight for, say, feminism you are not fighting just for yourself or for the uppity rich white women of the United States but for all our daughters, all the young girls you read about in Afghanistan, all the young girls you read about in South Africa, all the women of the world. You are fighting to stop an injustice, an unfairness, and that cannot but make the world a little bit more bearable. To be able to do this you must also take care of yourself because you are both the fighter and the weapon.
A bit hi-faluting. But that's what I learned.
Three Action Alerts
It feels good to act on important issues. Here are three chances for you to do so.
First, the Senate is (once again) considering ratifying the Convention for Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It's not an honor to be among the group of countries which won't ratify it. But that is exactly where the US is today. You can call your Senator and ask him or her to vote for the ratification. It may not matter much but not ratifying the CEDAW does stink.
Second, the Lily Ledbetter Paycheck Fairness Act. It's coming up for vote in the Senate tomorrow:
We'll continue urging the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, but your Senators also need to hear from you. Save a few minutes on the national call-in day to dial 877-667-6650. That's Tuesday, November 16 – the day before the vote.
It was way back in January 2009 that the House passed the Paycheck Fairness Act. Please join American Association of University Women, American Civil Liberties Union, the National Committee on Pay Equity, National Women's Law Center, and hundreds of other organizations nationwide in calling on the Senate to do the same and send this important legislation to the President's desk.
Third, New York City is considering legislation which would require "truth in advertising" from the so-called crisis pregnancy centers:
The legislation being considered in New York City is really quite simple: if passed, it would merely require CPCs to disclose what they do, so women are aware of what they're getting into when they visit one of the centers. Women will know that the center they're visiting does not provide abortion services or referrals and that they will, in fact, be advised against getting an abortion. So-called "truth-in-advertising" measures aimed at CPCs have already been passed in Baltimore and are under consideration in Austin and Washington state.
For why this matters, read this blog post by a physician. You can sign the petition to pass the law here.
There. Don't you feel great now?
Mother's Little Helpers
Lisa Belkin's parenting blog addresses the topic of that old song by quoting from an upper-middle-class woman with three young children:
That summer, the summer that my baby was turning 1 year old and my older children were 4 and 6, I decided that wasn't good enough. Even though I was "appropriately" stressed, in my opinion, what with three crazy boys and a household to run and summer's unstructured days swirling around my head, I was struggling. I yelled. A lot. Maybe I wasn't unjustified in my yelling, but all the same, it made me miserable. I felt like my shoulders were hung up on a clothes hanger every single day from the moment I woke up until the moment my children were in bed. Once they were there, asleep or at least safe in their beds and crib, not falling down staircases or eating or stuffing Legos up their noses or pummeling each other, I slumped. Visibly, physically, emotionally slumped. I was exhausted, and I was anxious. The anxiety made me a miserable person and a miserable mother.
The medication helped me. It gave me a pause button. I didn't yell as much, but I could still yell if I needed to yell. I didn't cry as much, but I could still cry. I felt like a stronger, more competent mother and wife. I felt like I could survive. I didn't slump at the end of the day. I felt more capable.
Now, anecdotes don't a trend make, and it's quite possible that people, both men and women, experience similar stress in various occupations, not to mention poor mothers working two jobs AND taking care of children.
On the other hand, the way Americans have structured stay-at-home child-raising seems to me to be almost guaranteed to cause mental and emotional stress for the care-giver: She (or, rarely, he) is isolated from other adults all day long. She (or, rarely, he) is solely responsible for very small children who have little understanding of safety. She (or, rarely, he) is often expected to cope with that in the way a superhuman goddess or Virgin Mary would:
Never show anger. Always sound like a psychology textbook. Play Mozart, read Plato, create art with Playdough.
This is not how children have been raised for centuries. That sounds much more like that much-ridiculed "it takes a village" statement by Hillary Clinton. Perhaps not a village but it was extended families, neighborhoods, older siblings and grandparents who also contributed to child-care. The isolated middle-class American nuclear families living in suburbs are very different from that.
I guess my point is that those feelings of anger and frustration are, in fact, not that abnormal though they can obviously be painful and something one wishes to address.
But what are the reasons the anonymous blogger quoted above gives for her desire to address the feelings? She talks about being a better mother, not yelling at her children, even about being a better wife. All those are good reasons, naturally.
Still, they are focused on others. The woman herself has disappeared from the discussion. Perhaps that is the ultimate reason for her anger and frustration?
A Bitter Note
On Saturday I wrote on Eschaton about our current obsession with the federal budget deficits.
That was too early. One was supposed to write about it today!
I don't usually write you bitter notes, do I? Heh. But the fact remains that I'm not just too late but also too early. Must Work On Timing.
I'm Coming, Baby
But not to a television near you because sexual aids are only for men in television land. Digby writes about this. The ads are all about guys:
We've all seen the TV ads for Viagra and Cialis which are verging on sheer farce at this point.
So what's up with this?
When Rachel Braun Scherl, 45, a Stanford University business school graduate, co-founded Semprae Laboratories, which developed Zestra Essential Arousal Oils, a product described as a botanical aphrodisiac, she thought bringing its message to the airwaves would be a snap. Research had shown that tens of millions of American women had sexual difficulty and no products to remedy it.
Scherl, 45, a married mother of two, and company co-founder Mary Jaensch, 58, a married mother of three, thought they had an answer for this unmet need, along with the cash to pay for ads on TV.
In an apparent double standard, many networks and some websites have declined the company's ads; a few will air them during the daytime, and others only after midnight. There is no nudity, sex, or mention of body parts, unlike ads for men's products referring to "erections lasting more than four hours."
"The most frequent answer we get is, 'We don't advertise your category,' " Scherl said. "To which we say, 'What is the category? Because if it's sexual enjoyment, you clearly cover that category. If it's female enjoyment, you clearly don't.' And when you ask for information as to what we would need to change so they would clear the ad for broadcast, they give you very little direction. ... And yet they have no problem showing ads for Viagra and other men's drugs. Why?"
Interesting theories float about concerning the reason for these refusals:
It could be that the women portrayed in those ads are too yucky for the viewers because they are older. But then how to respond to those Viagra ads, especially the first one Digby shows?
Or what if the ads aimed at women are not shown because the product may actually not work? I'm trying not to laugh, because Digby also posted this supplement ad aimed at men:
It promises to make your penis bigger! It also portrays an astonishing sexual dream, one which certainly goes against various moral arguments against sexual enhancement ads, such as that the people should be married to each other.
The third theory has merit: "We don't advertise your category." That could cover not advertising about anything having to do with women's sexual enjoyment both because who cares if women come and because television advertising is explicitly and emphatically aimed at young men. What you get on television is what pleases young men in the critical age ranges. Odd, that, isn't it? Other people have money, too. But then movies are also aimed at young men.
What I like about this debate is this: We are finally beginning to notice that what everyone calls "sex" is really "sex as heterosexual guys see it". Whether anything about that will change is a whole different color of fishes, but at least we can start a conversation on pornography and related matters with a shared understanding that it's not "sex" we are talking about.
You can sign a petition if you wish to see more sexual enhancement ads for women on television.
Economists Talk
The LA Times interviews several of that dismal* breed concerning the dismal state of the economy.
The interviews gave me a nice game to play: I counted how many words I needed to read before recognizing the wingnuts in the group.
Oh. This is how economists look, by the way:
*Dismal because economics is known as the dismal science.
"I'm A Mean Man But Some Things Have To Be Said"
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Boycott The Simpsons It Might Save Our Lives [Anthony McCarthy]
Going back over what I've written about his administration, this past week, I've made a partly unjust charge against Barack Obama, I've accused him of cowardice. If there is one thing that is universally and uncontroversially believed, it is that the first black president of the United States would be an unprecedented target for would be assassins. It's so obviously true, based on the firm record of violence and threats of violence against black Americans, that fear of assassination has been among the possible explanations of Barack Obama's irrational attempts at continuing conciliation with a Republican Party which has sponsored candidates who have encouraged violence as a political tool. That they have left off the names of their targets for reasons of politics and the law, in that order, means nothing. As I said yesterday, Barack Obama isn't stupid. He certainly knew that if he ran for president, if he looked like a viable candidate and became president, he would attract an enhanced level of violent intent. When I called him a coward, it certainly wasn't meant to ignore that fact. I will continue to be critical of the failures of President Obama, of his clear lack of POLITICAL courage, but not of a lack of personal courage, nor that of Michele Obama and other members of his family.
When Republicans, overtly and through their front groups, began showing up at presidential appearances, carrying serious guns over the past year, I couldn't believe I was living in the same country I've always lived in. At the time I pointed out that these people were threatening violence and had the means of delivering it. I am certain that they really mean it, they have the means of delivering violence and they clearly believe they have the right to kill their political opponents. Those more genteel Republicans who have enjoyed the havoc in our country that the groups and candidates have unleashed, and the political gains it has brought share in that responsibility by virtue of their tacit condemnation and rejection of it. They have not rejected the results of it.
This week a new book by Ted Ralls predicts the violence I've also warned is very likely to come. He believes it is already too late to avoid it, and it is hard to discount his case for it seeming like a natural event that is determined in its inevitability.
In 2008, like the people of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, we put our hopes into a young new leader. He is the kind of fresh-faced reformer who just might have been able to do some good had he been put into power decades ago. "Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job," read the headline in the satirical weekly newspaper the Onion after Barack Obama won. He has failed. It is by design that internal reformers like Mikhail Gorbachev and Obama inevitably come too late to actually accomplish anything. Even if a leader like Obama were inclined to push for the sweeping reforms that might save American late-stage capitalism from itself, as did Franklin D. Roosevelt -- and there is no evidence that the thought has crossed Obama's mind -- his fellow powerbrokers, fixated on quarterly profit statements and personal position, would never allow it.
The media talks a lot about reform. But it's too late for nips and tucks. Reform can only fix a system if the system is viable and open to change. Neither is true about the United States of America.
In what I've read of Rall's book online, I've seen many points I've made about the near impossibility of reforming the American system because many of the reasons our system is hurtling towards catastrophe are found in the supposedly inerrant scripture of the Constitution and those states which some of the worst of those give vastly more power than their populations merit hold a veto over making those essential changes. Short of a wall of resistance by larger states, vetoing any and all laws benefiting the states holding democracy hostage, I don't see any alternative but a SUCCESSFUL civil war. And, as I've also pointed out, it's the enemies of democracy and equality who have a clear arms advantage. I neither believe it is absolutely impossible to avoid a civil war which will end up in many of us, on the left, dead, nor do I think it is something to expect will come out the way we'd hope it might. Clearly the right expects they will prevail in any violence, just as the Confederate states believed they would
Googling for information about Rall's book, the first page was a solid right wing reaction to it, unsurprisingly attributing his conclusions and program to everyone to the left of Dick Lugar. Even as the comfortable center and left reject the warnings about the increasing probability of violence, the right will use this to rally their insane insurgents. The time to do something might be out but the size of the disaster that another civil war would be means we have to try to avoid it. I would encourage you to read the excerpt of Rall's book which I linked to, because I think it contains ideas that might be necessary to your survival but I also encourage you to look at ideas for alternative action, which could prevent the violence that Rall believes is inevitable.
BOYCOTT! We do not have to take up arms to get the real powerbase of this country to pay attention and change. The real powerbase of this country isn’t the tea party, or Fox News, the fascist propaganda channel, or the Senate with all its well groomed, rhetoric spewing puppets; it is the Military Industrial Machine. It is the big American corporations.
THEY lobby the politicians to get the pro-business legislation they want. Every “populist” bill put forth by congress with the supposed intent of helping regular people is filled with small print that at minimum makes it a wash or even benefits the businesses supposedly regulated. The fix is in, and yes a revolt IS necessary. But we do not have to do it by force of weapons. That is sooo 19th century. Nor can we do it with the lazy click of a mouse as we send another $20.00 to Move-On.org. No, it can only be done by a radical change, and I mean RADICAL, namely, a radical change in HOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY.
If there is something predictable about a call for a real boycott that would have a real impact, it is that the cynics and the slackers will discourage even considering trying it. They will say that it is unrealistic because it is destined to fail. Well, I'm sick and tired of those who begin with the idea that everything the left tries is going to be an impotent failure. It is ahistorical, it ignores the most successful campaign of civil rights in our history, other than the civil war. Given the relative cost of the boycotts that helped shatter legal segregation as compared to war, it is, by far, the more realistic first resort.
One of the first things the left could do would be to BOYCOTT ALL FOX PROGRAMS, ALL OF THEM AND ALL OF THE MURDOCH EMPIRE'S MEDIA PRODUCTS . A left that can't give up The Simpsons to avoid fascism and civil war is a left that has already given in. Rupert Murdoch is the primary propagandist of right wing violence in the United States, his media empire is the loudest promoter of the violence that is targeting us.
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Woman the Shopper. Man the Scientist. A Funny Sci-Fi Story
You can read it in the Nature magazine. It is about two extremely intelligent science guys sent out to buy girls' knickers/panties by the wife of one of them, and how these extremely intelligent gentlemen could not find those knickers anywhere, even though their wives easily could. Which means that the knickers are brought in from a parallel universes only women can access. But at least men can do abstract science!
The flavor of the story:
At this point I must digress, and mention, for those who are not aware, the profound differences in strategy between Men Going Shopping and Women Going Shopping. In any general shopping situation, men hunt: that is, they go into a complex environment with a few clear objectives, achieve those, and leave. Women, on the other hand, gather: such that any mission to buy just bread and milk could turn into an extended foraging expedition that also snares a to-die-for pair of discounted shoes; a useful new mop; three sorts of new cook-in sauces; and possibly a selection of frozen fish.
And the interesting thing is — and this is what sparked the discovery — that any male would be very hard pressed to say where she got some of these things, even if he accompanied her.
Verrry good! I like those clear objectives Men The Hunters have, how they enter a complex environment, catch their animal and return home. Now contrast this to the next part of the story:
So there we were, looking for knickers, and a rather wary woman asked if she could help, given that we looked lost and hopeless. Russell explained to her exactly what we were looking for, and her wariness seemed to become mild alarm, until we hastened to reassure her that this was in fact a commission for the mother of said child. She then said, with what seemed to be great satisfaction, “Oh, no; you'll never find those in here — you'll have to go down to [some remote location],” which we had no chance of achieving before they closed, so the whole mission was now a failure.
Mmm. Yes, I know all this falls under the Humorous Stories About Blundering Men. But really, where were those clear objectives and simple strategies?
Others have written about the hidden message in this story to women who would be scientists, so it might be more useful if I wrote about the role practice has here.
Like in practicing by finding where certain items are sold. That practice usually comes from having to do that shopping, over and over and over again. After a while one miraculously learns (from a parallel universe, most likely) that girls' knickers are not available at the fish counter of the local supermarket! Or that the local pharmacy/chemist does not sell snow tires for your car.
And after you learn about those snow tires, you might, while waiting for your car to be shod with them, also pick up some new windshield/windscreen wipers and this neat little snow-scraping appliance which also defrosts the keyholes of the car and serves as an extra flashlight/torch! All that comes from a parallel universe which you can only access through repeated practice and by being on the lookout for certain products.
I astonish myself! I am ruining a perfectly good funny-sci-fi story by pointing out that it's not really that funny if you are not like that smart science guy whose practice in shopping for children's clothing consists of mostly making evo-psycho explanations for why women seem innately better at it.
But it's worth ruining because of the real parallel universe lurking behind this story. In that universe, men are such blundering fools when it comes to shopping or finding their socks that it is really very cute! Besides, no man need ever get any better at those skills because they are innate blunderings, though nicely balanced out by men's scientific superiority.
Katha Pollitt on The Sandusky Case
And that brings us to the patriarchal aspect of the Penn State scandal. I know it’s predictable and boring, but come on, people! There really is a message here about masculine privilege: the deification of a powerful old man who can do no wrong, an all-male hierarchy protecting itself (hello, pedophile priests), a culture of entitlement and a truly astonishing lack of concern about sexual violence. This last is old news, unfortunately: sexual assaults by athletes are regularly covered up or lightly punished by administrations, even in high school, and society really doesn’t care all that much. A federal appeals court declared that a Texas cheerleader could be kicked off the squad (and made to contribute to the school’s legal costs) for refusing to cheer her rapist when he took the field—and he’d pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault too, so why was he even still playing? According to USA Today, an athlete accused of a sex crime has a very good chance of getting away with it. If Sandusky had abused little girls, let alone teenage or adult women, would he be in trouble today? Or would we say, like the neighbors of an 11-year-old gang-raped in Cleveland, Texas, that she was asking for it?
And she is quite right. The eleven-year-old in Cleveland, Texas, had her case initially written up in the New York Times as victim-blaming. She wore make-up, she dressed like an adult woman, she went out with the rapists. And where was her mother in all this? That the Times later wrote about the case from a different angle was because of all the criticism the initial write-up provoked.
Even more generally, victim-blaming has been almost totally absent in the Catholic Church cases. This is as it should be, of course. But the same should be applied to female children who have been raped or sexually abused and to their parents.
Today's Pepper-Spray Picture
The deed courtesy of the UC Davis campus police.
I haven't written much on the Occupy movement because others do it well and because I don't have anything to add to the general debate. Still, I see the movement as an attempt at democracy when democracy is no longer truly functioning in this country (or quite a few other countries).
Money and power have married each other, and the rest of us are offered only slates of candidates which money and power have pre-picked. Is it even possible to get elected to the US Congress if you don't belong to the very top of the one percent? And by the time you have fund-raised enough for your election campaign, whom do you owe your allegiance?
Blogging While Female
Sadie Doyle writes about Internet misogyny, a topic I also wrote about a while ago.
The topic Sadie covers is not for laughs but this is hilarious:
Last October, cartoonist Gabby Schulz published a comic about Internet sexism. Titled, in part, “How Every Single Discussion About Sexism And Woman-Type Stuff On The Internet Has Ever Happened,” it detailed a familiar cycle: Man says sexist thing, woman responds, men shout at woman, etc.
Within 24 hours, “men’s rights” blog The Spearhead fulfilled Schultz’s prophecy. Their post, titled “Feminist Cartoonist Bemoans Online Resistance, Claims She is Enslaved by Patriarchy When Men Disagree With Her,” sniffed that Schultz’s cartoon “supposedly depicts what happened when she called some guy sexist.” Predictably sexist comments followed: “I bet ole Gabby is soaking wet with all the attention shes getting tonight,” one Spearhead commenter opined. ”Shut the fuck up you stupid cunt,” wrote another. Yet another wrote, “I am not being sexist when I say I do think your point of view is lesbic: you seem to despise all men.” Schulz reports receiving death threats.
So far, so predictable. Except for one tiny detail: Gabby Schulz is a guy. His biography — easily accessible from the offending post — shows him with a full beard, and uses the pronoun “him.” The comic was based on a controversy surrounding cartoonist Kate Beaton. But many harassers had no inclination to fact-check: If someone named “Gabby” didn’t like sexism, that someone had to be a self-pitying girl.
Speaking of hilarious trolling, I get a big laugh from those trolls who tell me I obviously cannot think at all or who correct me in the field of my doctorate because they took an intro course once, and me being but a feeble-minded foaming c***t must be corrected. It really is funny.
Asshattery is not gender-linked, as such, but the patronizing and loud teachery tone without any actual listening is an odd perk we female bloggers get.
Here Under the Northern Star. A Musical Interlude.
This is a Finnish song which is supposed to be quite hard to sing. I think its sole aim in life is to present as many Finnish h-sounds as possible. But I have a soft spot for the sadness of it all.
A rough translation:
Here under the Northern Star
on the highest of hills
I look far into distance
you return to my dreams.
the sky fills with purple
it makes me a blanket
to shelter me.
And under the Northern Star
I come
I leave
and only in the sight of the Northern Star
I shed a tear for you.
a singer is full of sorrows
here the moon gibbous
is also melancholic
frost slides into the soul
and by killing all feeling
it rips the heart apart.
Repeat of 2.
Comfort the Afflicted And Afflict the Comfortable. The Media and the Sandusky Case.
The quote, attributed to Peter Dunne, is one way of defining the moral task of the press. That this task has been slowly drowning in the she-said-he-said-and-some-people-say ocean of pretend-neutrality has made me very sad and angry.
Hence my pleasure in finding that at least some in the press are doing their jobs on the Sandusky child abuse allegations. Otherwise I would not have learned of the conflict-of-interest problems of Leslie Dutchcot, the judge who granted Sandusky bail:
The judge who freed Jerry Sandusky on bail that was lower than prosecutors requested -- and said he didn't require an ankle monitor -- has not only volunteered for Sandusky's Second Mile charity but also reportedly benefited from a fundraiser organized by a Second Mile official.
Now she has been replaced as the judge in the Sandusky hearings by an out-of-county judge. The reason? This:
“Due to the unique circumstances surrounding this case, it was essential that every precaution be taken to ensure all legal proceedings occur without the appearance of bias on the part of the judicial system,” said Vereb.
“With this particular case, it would have been extremely difficult to find a judge without some connection to Penn State, The Second Mile or any alleged victims. Assigning the case to an out-of-county judge takes away any hint of bias or conflict of interest.”
Probably. But that quote reminds us that the comfortable lunch with the comfortable, fund-raise with the comfortable and in general move within a tight circle consisting of other quite-comfortable-thank-you folks. And this is the reason why the press cannot live inside that same circle.
The most recent installment of the Sandusky allegations has to do with the mysterious disappearing files at Second Mile, the charity which Sandusky appears to have used for grooming boys:
According to unnamed Times' sources, investigators served subpoenas on the Second Mile to learn the names of every child who dealt with the foundation. Members of the charity's board of directors learned recently that records from 2000 to 2003 were missing.
The charity has since located the records from one of those years, the newspaper reported, but the rest remain gone.
"It could be that they are just lost, but under the circumstances it is suspicious," a law enforcement official involved in the case told the Times.
I hope those files turn up. But whether they do or not, it is important to learn that they are currently missing.
It may be worth pointing out that the way I read "comfortable" and "afflicted" in that quotation is not necessarily based on material wealth but on societal power. Those who think that laws apply to only little people, those who buy their way out of problems which would send others to prison, those are the comfortable. If the press does not afflict them, who will?
Why Must We Do This? On How Male and Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Might Differ. May Trigger.
An article discussing male survivors of childhood sexual abuse covers much useful material and many opinions. Its relevance is obvious in view of the Sandunsky case.
But read this section of the piece:
Different experience for boys
Sexual abuse has a different impact on boys than on girls, and they deal with it differently because of socialization, experts say.
“Men aren’t supposed to be victims. Men are supposed to be strong,” said Jim Hopper, clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. “A man says I’m not a real man, because I let someone do this to me. I should have been tougher. Even after years of therapy they say this.”
Girls who are abused by men are psychologically damaged, to be sure, experts say, but boys abused by men often come to question their sexual identity and orientation.
“If they were sexually abused by a man, there’s this whole stigma — does that mean I’m gay, or did he do it to me because I look gay?” says Hopper.
Another difference: Boys who are forced into sexual acts may have an erection — a physiological response which makes them all the more confused and ashamed of the encounter, Gartner says.
I am not an expert in this field, but is it not the case that female victims of rape or other sexual abuse can feel sexual arousal and even orgasm? I'm pretty sure that I have read about that and the way it can cause feelings of shame and confusion.
If that's the case, the last difference mentioned is not an actual difference.
What about the second-but-last difference? The article compares two different types of abuse. In one type, adult men abuse young girls. In the other type, adult men abuse young boys. That male victims of the latter type of abuse are more likely to question their sexual identity and orientation may not be because they are boys. It may be because their abuser was of the same sex.
To properly compare boys and girls here the abusers should all be of the same gender as the victims or all of a different gender than the victims.
Finally, the first difference mentioned in the article: How boys are not expected to be victims. When you turn that around you get to the conclusion that girls ARE expected to be victims. I understand what the expert means here and I agree that this is a problem in getting the survivors to come forward when they need help.
At the same time, that's the part where I asked myself why we must do this? Why can't all victims of sexual abuse be taken equally seriously? Why must an article tell us how it might be harder if you are not viewed as born weak and a potential victim anyway? There are better ways of framing the important information about the difficulties men may face when seeking help.
A Fascinating Interview
With the 84-year-old Seattle activist, Dorli Rainey, who got pepper-sprayed by the Seattle police. I like the idea of taking just one step out of one's comfort zone when it comes to activism.
What Is Pat Buchanan Good For?
Atrios gives him the World's Worst Person badge today, because of Pat's clever statements about the obvious link between same-sex marriage and the Sandunsky child abuse case.
I have written about Pat's views on us wimmin in the past. But Pat is an equal-opportunity-bigot, pretty much.
Hence the question in the title of this post. Why is a man like that always invited to political debates on television?
Here's my guess for the answer: The American mainstream media views acceptable political opinions along a half-line. It has an absolute starting point, the most extreme lefty opinions allowed on television, and those tend to be pretty milquetoast ones. No fire-breathing lefties on American television, never.
Indeed, this left end-point used to consist of what I call courteous conservatives. It has been pushed back a bit, but not by much.
The other end point, however, is always the most foaming-at-the-mouth wingnut bigot you can possibly unearth, always! That's why I call the system not a line but a half-line (probably not the real name for something like that), because the right end-point can be moved further and further out, so that it always allows for the extremest of the extremists!
I don't mind having Buchanan on television, not at all. What I DO mind is that we are not allowed to have his lefty equivalent on television.
This imbalance works out equally strongly when it comes to feminism, by the way. The anti-feminists always get invited to the shows, the so-called feminist side might consist of only the interviewing journalists who try to take a middle-of-the-road or he-says-she-says-but-some-people-believe stance.
All US mainstream debates are biased by the way the extreme opinions are picked, and the bias works in favor of the conservative and anti-feminist views.
Very Proud of Myself
I spent five hours yesterday driving in Boston. To explain why that makes me feel proud and a bigger-than-normal goddess may not be possible for those of you who have never driven in Boston. It is an experience.
I don't think there was a single casualty! No cars were harmed during the day! And I only collapsed after I got back to the Snakepit Inc.
P.S. I tried to find a video of Boston drivers but none on the YouTube can compete with reality.
The Free Market God in Action in Health Care: A Lesson
I have worn out my fingers typing about the problems of markets in health care. There is a very long list of conditions which cause problems for markets as the way one distributes products and services, and the health care qualifies for every single one of those conditions! Some of those we could change, some of them we cannot change. The great uncertainty about future needs and the very asymmetric information are among the ones we cannot change. As an example of the latter, think how it would be if your trip to the bakery would start with the baker determining if you really need bread or not. Can you see the bad incentives there?
This post is not about that but about the market power in health care and about the case of desperately-needed-treatment-and-market-power:
Here's another jaw-dropping price on a new drug. The scorpion antivenom Anascorp, approved in August, is sold in Arizona these days for $12,000-plus per vial, meaning one course of treatment could run as much as $62,000. Across the border in Mexico, where Instituto Bioclon makes Anascorp, the drug has been marketed for years at about $100 per vial, the Arizona Republic reports.
What's more, Rare Disease Therapeutics won U.S. approval for Anascorp based on a tiny study--just 15 patients--led by the University of Arizona. The company didn't develop the drug and doesn't manufacture it, but rather just markets it under license from Instituto Bioclon.
Read the whole quoted article to see how the price keeps multiplying up the delivery chain so that the final price is 120 times the Mexican price.
How to explain something like this? I think the American suppliers would use the rare-diseases argument which goes something like this: To find a cure for a rare disease probably requires as much expenditure and work as the finding of a cure for a common disease. But the market for the former is so tiny* that the only way to recoup those development costs is by charging enormous amounts for the treatment. Or to have someone subsidize those costs in the first place.
But this case does not qualify, because it was the Mexican Instituto Bioclon who invested in the treatment and who should get those development costs recouped, not the American distributor.
A better explanation has to do with the price elasticity of demand for something like anti-venom for scorpion stings. Suppose you had been stung by a scorpion. How much would you be willing to pay for that anti-venom? Depending on the outcome without the anti-venom, the answer might well be all you own, all you could borrow or all you could steal.
Economists call such products price-inelastic, and markets usually price them very high if competition doesn't stop that. But competition in health care is unlikely to stop that because of that arrangement which stops hospitals from the US from simply buying the drug directly from Mexico or probably from any other intermediary but the one which has that price tag of $12,000 per vial.
So why not create the kind of competition that would bring the price down? Here's the real snag for the free-market idolators: They don't want governments to interfere. But the competition will not be of the right kind without government supervision and interference.
Consider the idea of just letting everyone buy the anti-venom directly from the cheapest possible global source. Wouldn't that take care of the high price?
It would. But it would also bring in bad quality venom, the need to inspect factories in foreign countries and other problems which the markets themselves CANNOT solve.
* Markets may not be tiny in the sense of numbers of affected people. They may be tiny in the sense of people being able to pay. For instance, getting stung by scorpions is not a rare incident on a worldwide level. It's just an incident that is more likely to happen to those who don't have much money for health care or much access to it.
Link to the story via David Atkins at Digby.
Princess Nancy Pelosi
That's what Herman Cain called the House Democratic leader in the last-but-one Republican presidential debate. This and various other items made the Washington Post ask if Mr. Cain might have a "woman problem":
In a matter of a week, Herman Cain referred to the House Democratic leader as “Princess Nancy” Pelosi, said presidential rival Michele Bachmann would be “tutti-frutti” ice cream and shrugged off a joke about Anita Hill.
The Republican presidential candidate also has denied allegations that he sexually harassed several women and, through his lawyer, threatened to investigate anyone else who makes such a claim.
The "princess" reference was first discussed in the foreign press, by the way, what with all the other juicy stuff in that particular debate.
Now Gloria Cain, who is married to Herman, has come out to defend her husband:
“I know that’s not the person he is,” Gloria Cain said on Fox News Channel’s “On The Record.” ‘’He totally respects women.”
I guess I report, you decide. Mmm.
Meanwhile, in Iran
The mullahs are tightening the screws which keep women in the proper tiny boxes. As the Washington Post reported a few days ago:
The first snow of the season fell in Tehran this week, but female ski bums planning to carve fresh lines at one of the three resorts in the Alborz mountain range will be able to hit the slopes only if they are accompanied by a male guardian.
A police circular, reported Thursday on the pro-government Etedaal Web site, states that women and girls are no longer allowed to ski in the absence of a husband, father or brother.
The mandate of Iran’s morality police is currently being broadened by hard-liners attempting to roll back reforms enacted under former president Mohammad Khatami. The current government says the reforms led to a lack of observance of religious dress codes, among other things.
This is not a major thing in itself. But it struck me as metaphorically so apt: Women are not allowed to enjoy the sun, the silence and the speed of skiing and snow-boarding alone. They must be accompanied and guarded.
When I ski I have wings. I'm an eagle, flying alone in a white universe.
But the mullahs want women's wings cut.
Today's Echidne Thought: On What Made America Great
I got a book advertisement in my mailbag. It's about a right-wing book which tells us how it was the politically incorrect views of the Founding Fathers which made this country so great. I didn't ask for the book to be sent for review, which means that I cannot tell which politically incorrect ideas they like so much. It could be slavery or it could be women not having votes. But most likely it's Christianity as the real constitution of this country.
Anyway. This made me think about myth-making in general and how very blind we become when familiar myths are quickly shown on our interior computer screens. It's useful to stop when that happens and to ask what the facts might be.
And among those facts about what "made America great" are these: A giant landmass with many natural resources, great untouched farming land, natives who could be pushed aside, plentiful immigration of willing workers and the possibility of creating a gigantic market without national borders.
Political events mattered, too. But for some odd reason myths erase certain aspects of the past altogether, and even smart people may not notice that.
You can apply that pause-and-rewind-your-internal-video to other questions, too. Wars, for instance, and the very strong economic motives for most of them.
Looking For A Well-Paying Feminism-Related Job? Copy Katie Roiphe!
Does that sound like a joke to you, about getting well paid for something to do with feminism? Those jobs do exist though you have to be creative in finding them.
The thinking goes like this: If there is going to be a debate about whether women are full human beings or just handmaidens or Playmates, two sides are needed. But men might not be the best boxers on that Playmate side, because then they will come across as sexists. So that side needs women and they pay well. Or at least pay.
Hence the Caitlin Flanagans, Camilla Paglias and Charlotte Allens who get to write in all sorts of mainstream places about what is wrong with feminism and how the good old times were really very much better altogether. And women are rather silly creatures, are we not?
Katie Roiphe has the same shtick. You may not be familiar with her Seminal Work which was published a generation ago. Here is a summary from the review of the book by Katha Pollitt:
In "The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus" (Little, Brown; $19.95) Katie Roiphe, a twenty-five-year-old Harvard alumna and graduate student of English at Princeton, argues that women's sexual freedom is being curtailed by a new set of hand-wringing fuddy-duddies: feminists. Anti-rape activists, she contends, have manipulated statistics to frighten college women with a nonexistent "epidemic" of rape, date rape, and sexual harassment, and have encouraged them to view "everyday experience"- sexist jokes, professional leers, men's straying hands and other body parts- as intolerable insults and assaults. "Stranger rape" (the intruder with a knife) is rare; true date rape (the frat boy with a fist) is even rarer.
As Roiphe sees it, most students who say they have been date raped are reinterpreting in the cold grey light of dawn the "bad sex" they were too passive to refuse and too enamored of victimhood to acknowledge as their own responsibility.
Katie is still at it. Her newest opinion piece for the New York Times, "In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks," hooked to the Herman Cain incidents, argues that workplace sexual harassment is mostly just innocent jokes, that women are strong enough to take them and that work would be a really boring place if nobody could ping your bra strap while you go to the water cooler. Or rather:
Is the anodyne drone typing away in her silent cubicle free from the risk of comment on her clothes, the terror of a joke, the unsettlement of an unwanted or even a wanted sexual advance, truly our ideal? Should we aspire to the drab, cautious, civilized, quiet, comfortable workplace all of this language presumes and theorizes? At this late date, perhaps we should be worrying about different forms of hostility in our workplace.
No, of course not! That anodyne female drone should be out there pinging jockstraps and making jokes about the probable size of various male colleagues' penises! To spread the joy and humanity to everyone working in that place. Duh. Everybody can see that.
Except perhaps for our Katie. The fun thing about the world she would like to have back is that it makes no demands of equal treatment of men and women, and that for an unusual reason:
Women are strong enough to take everything the world throws at them. Therefore, there is no need for concerns such as date rape or sexual harassment. But then if we accept her premise, men must be too weak to be able to endure any kind of restraints on their behavior. Or the poor must be strong enough to take poverty and so on. You can go on with those examples, I'm sure.
My apologies for writing about all that. The central point about making money from feminism is to oppose it, to portray it as a humongous evil claw squeezing the whole society while also being totally wrong and marginalized and unattractive and utterly illogical, like swimming against the waterfall of nature and tradition.
Cheaper generic medications: Not coming to a pharmacy near you (by Skylanda)
The New York Times reported Friday on a move by Pfizer – the makers of the blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor – to manipulate the market to limit generic supplies to a number a major drug management agencies after Lipitor goes generic in the coming months:
“Pfizer has agreed to large discounts for benefit managers that block the use of generic versions of Lipitor, according to a letter from Catalyst Rx, a benefit manager for 18 million people in the United States. The letters have not previously been made public. A pharmacy group and an independent expert say the tactic will benefit Pfizer and benefit managers at the expense of employers and taxpayers, who may end up paying more than they should for the drug.” [emphasis mine]
Lipitor is said to be one of the most profitable drugs ever produced, generating over $100 billion in sales and forming a mainstay of Pfizer’s drug portfolio. And this is not necessary bad; Lipitor saves lives. It plays a role in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, it can be the difference between rehabilitation after a heart attack or stroke and rapid recurrence leading to greater debility or death. It is not without problems, but overall, it is an important drug in the modern arsenal against chronic disease.
But there are a couple complications to this picture.
One is that in the world of the statin drug class to which Lipitor belongs, not everyone with high cholesterol needs Lipitor – or, more importantly, a medication as expensive as Lipitor. There are half a dozen other drugs in the same class, several of which went generic so long ago that they appear on the Walmart list of $4-per-month medications. The older generic statins are notably weaker; this isn’t a secret. But for your average middle-aged person walking around with high cholesterol – those who eat a little too much butter, exercise a little too little, or just drew the genetic short straw on the lipid metabolism front – the cheap medications will effectively get the cholesterol numbers to where they need to be (so too often will diet, exercise, and some other non-medicinal approaches, but let’s set those aside for a moment for the sake of argument). The truly more potent (and notably more effective, and notably more expensive) statins – that is, Lipitor and Crestor – can generally be reserved for people with true disease in whom there has been a failure to get to goal cholesterol levels with weaker medications: people with prior heart attacks and strokes, people with familial cholesterol running sky-high numbers for no good reason, people who have undergone surgery to actually remove cholesterol plaques from their arteries.
But that’s actually kind of a small market compared to the millions and millions of essentially healthy 50ish folks who could head off problems in the future with a little help from a statin friend – ie, those who will probably do fine on a generic drug. So why is Lipitor such a blockbuster when the number of people who need it relatively small?
That, of course, comes down to marketing. Pfizer has long advertised the potency of Lipitor – and wouldn’t you want the best for your heart? – failing to note that cost-per-cost, the best just isn’t necessary for many people. Samples given through doctor’s offices (which are invariably branded drugs, never generics) instill brand loyalty from the side of both the doctor and patient. Moreover, pharmaceutical companies skew or hide the true cost of these upper-echelon drugs by marketing schemes like copayment vouchers that reduce the cost to the insured consumer for branded drugs from higher cost (where they should be) to zero – encouraging patients to request more expensive drugs than are necessary because the up-front cost to themselves is so low.
But true market manipulation on the scale described – that is, using the clout of a major manufacturer to block the early sales of generics – is a dangerous and costly precedent. This process is enabled by the streamlining of drugs through “pharmacy benefit managers” such as Medco, which you might have encountered as one of the “mail-in” pharmacies that more and more insurance carriers are requiring patients to utilize. However, the unspoken secret of these “mail-in” pharmacies is that many of the discount brick-and-mortar pharmacy chains carry generic medications at a fraction of the price of the mail-in servicers – sometimes at prices less than a standard generic copay for an insured patient. Insured patients are made to feel that they are compelled to use these monopolizing benefits managers, when in fact consumers are only required to do so if they want their insurance carriers to pay; if a brick-and-mortar pharmacy charges less than their standard copay for a generic drug, there is actually no reason to go through insurance at all, but rather just pay cash and bypass these middlemen altogether – something the insurers and “pharmacy benefit managers” would prefer that consumers not know about as they pay higher prices for the mail-in services.
The net effect of this is that nations like the United States that allow unfettered market manipulation pay – you guessed – more for health care while achieving less health than countries that frown on this kind of shady tactics, for example by setting formularies that account for cost-effectiveness and allowing for planned deviations when medical necessity demands.
Am I blaming Pfizer for the all the ills of the American health care system? No. But when one hand of the health care reform effort is struggling with the untamed beast of cost control – and the other hand is paying overkill prices for drugs that outstrip medical necessity – one has to wonder where the balance will be struck between innovation and affordability.
In any case, open generic competition for Lipitor will take over in the next year, ending any debate about paying full price. But the success in consumers’ and regulators’ ability to block this kind of behavior will set a long-reaching precedent in pharmaceutical patent-holders willingness to try these kind of rank shenanigans again, the next time a blockbuster drug goes off-patent. And that is something we all have a stake in.
Cross-posted from my recently relocated and relaunched blog, America, Love it or Heal It.
Posted by skylanda at 11/13/2011 03:17:00 PM
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Demi Lovato Is Balmain Bombshell at Wango Tango 2016
Demi Lovato flashes a smile at the crowd during her performance at KIIS FM’s 2016 Wango Tango held at StubHub Center on Saturday afternoon (May 14) in Carson, Calif.
The 23-year-old “Confident” singer stunned in a shining Balmain dressA dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a garment consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment). as she took the stage for her set.
Demi opened the night’s festivities with a powerful performance of her hits, including “Neon Lights,” “Stone Cold,” “Cool for the Summer” and more.
Check out a clip of Demi’s performance below!
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Kris Jenner’s Balmain Dress At Magnum Party In Cannes: Too Short or Just Right?
Kris Jenner is not one who is scared to have all eyes on her, so it’s no surprise she rocked a dazzling black and gold Balmain dress at the Magnum after party! The dressA dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a garment consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment). is absolutely stunning — but is it a little short for the momager? Keep reading to find out!
Kris Jenner, 60, definitely turned heads when she attended the Magnum after party with daughter, Kendall Jenner, for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. She was spotted wearing an exquisite black and gold patterned mini dress, which you might be thinking is a hit…but could it possibly have been a miss instead?
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REKT: GTD (What would have been)
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Talvieno
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#1 by Talvieno
OKAY, here's the first of the batch. This will recap the events of the first two missions and then wrap up the third mission.
Mission 1 recap
As you guys know, REKT focuses around a large prison ship called the Tartarus. Tartarus is also the name of the company that owns the ship - and the operation thereof. REKT is the name of the relatively small (1 million strong) group of prisoners that are allowed to roam a portion of the ship and take part in missions to retrieve valuable artifacts, such as Anomalous Materials: materials that didn't quite make sense to exist in our universe.
Our story started with the newly-formed Platoon 56 getting blasted down into an impossible mission: at some point in the past, a group of aliens had managed to build a surprisingly heavily-protected outpost (especially for the outpost's size) around a particularly deadly pulsar. Their mission was simple: Destroy at least three of the megaturrets and retrieve the alien artifact that was emitting strange signals. Unfortunately, they suffered heavy losses doing so - some from the pulsar, some from the gigantic megaturrets - but some managed to reach the center of the Area of Operations (AO): the strange alien base.
Meanwhile, Tartarus was detecting a large void of space - Dark Space, as it was called - traveling at an incredible velocity toward the AO. It was a known, but little-understood phenomenon - and it was the first area of Dark Space that anyone had ever seen move at all. Naturally, this was a problem.
SCAMPS (the mission computer aboard Tartarus) warned 56 to hurry it up, and they did so, rushing into the "boss room" where they discovered a strange alien orb, pulsating with energy. It was unlike anything humanity had ever seen, and seemed to telepathically urge people closer, to lay their hands upon it - even despite the swarms of alien drones in the room. Those that touched the orb fell unconscious with strange visions.
Traditional pickup methods were too slow: Tartarus itself flew over the target zone and picked up the prisoners of 56, who only barely escaped with their lives, just before the Dark Space arrived and consumed that entire section of the asteroid belt - practically erasing it from existence. The scientists aboard Tartarus theorized that the megaturrets of the aliens (dubbed "Quantums") had been keeping it away, but that was all they as yet understood.
It was later discovered that the inmates that had touch the active Quantum Orb had gained some sort of "power" from it. Dinosawer, for instance, had the ability to see into the future a short ways, while Squidhead could see into other dimensions. While these abilities were not necessarily useful in most situation, it was nevertheless something Tartarus was extremely interested in, and Platoon 56 had performed well.
The second mission saw Platoon 56 attacking a small convoy of ships that had stolen an odd craft from the previous mission's AO. The craft was seen to be one of many that flew out of the Dark Space - a large drone-ship, seemingly a fighter of some kind. A rival corporation, Mimir Corp., had captured and stolen it from the same pulsar system as Tartarus had fled the area. Tartarus naturally wanted it too, and it was Platoon 56's objective: retrieve the drone-ship however possible. Of course, this was easier said than done. The science ship that the drone was aboard was heavily protected by both a large carrier and a gunship - but all were understaffed.
As the dropship pilots dropped 56's CASKETs at the AO, they enacted their plan: swarm the gunship to knock it out as fast as possible, then board and take control of the Shieldmaiden-class utility ships providing a shield to the science vessel. Then, they would board the science vessel, retrieve the artifact, and get the hell out of there as fast as possible. They would utilize the beacon that Tartarus had given them to call in a squadron of Warp Ships to pick them up.
The plan went to hell rather quickly. Although the gunship was easily taken out, and the shieldmaidens were (mostly) easily stormed, the Mimir HAMMER-class fighters far outmatched the REKT CASKETs, and several people were killed in the combat. The arrival of several other squads of HAMMERs as they were boarding the science vessel only exacerbated the situation, and one by one, REKT crewmembers began to fall to the enemy. In desperation, they used their captured Shieldmaidens to project a shield around the Science Vessel, keeping the HAMMERs out - but then opened a new can of worms when they opened the upper hangar just in time to reveal a new squad of the enemy, which began to decimate everyone that was left.
Inside the science vessel, the ground team worked their way through the ship, killing any Mimir civilians and soldiers that put up any resistance - until they reached the rear hanger of the ship, where the drone-ship was kept. The resulting firefight inside the hangar was just as glorious as that above - in particular, a strange goat-man-beast on the REKT side sacrificed himself in a particularly awesome manner to save his "friends", and Dinosawer began to master the abilities he had obtained from the Quantum Orb.
After extracting the drone ship, the REKT crew retreated, just as Mimir reinforcements arrived in the system: huge carriers and hulking dreadnoughts to secure the area and keep Platoon 56 from escaping with their prize at whatever cost was necessary. A new barrage of HAMMERs, more than they'd ever been up against, quickly swarmed the REKT platoon. The shieldmaiden went down, people died, and all seemed lost - right until Tartarus Inc. revealed its trap and warped in several massive ships of its own. The warp ships surrounded Platoon 56 and carried it to safety, and the mission ended a success.
Mission 3: recap
And that brings us to the last mission - the (regretfully) abandoned one, mission 3: Sitatha Canyons. The Tartarus higher-ups had demanded that you guys get sent in to figure out what had happened to a previous platoon, and bring back (intact this time!!) a Quantum Orb. Everyone was given a set of tools specifically designed to work it loose if necessary.
Sitatha is a rocky world orbiting a gas giant (Aerevoh, iirc) within its Roche limit. This means it should've fallen apart and broken into a ring a long time ago, but for some reason it didn't. Something was holding it together - just barely, but together. So you guys made plans to storm the surface as a single group (disregarding the fact that doing that did absolutely no favors for the previous platoon) and check things out.
Fortunately, everybody's dropships got hit by plasma fire from an AA megaturret on the ground, and you got scattered everywhere. You guys got lucky. The creatures in the air? The ones that downed Francis and attacked Dr. Cha0zz's squad? Yeah, those big baddies? They were attracted by larger numbers of people moving quickly over a large area, which happens to be exactly what you guys planned on doing. But it's okay, I had the AA megaturret kill the dropship pilots, so everybody's happy. You got deposited in three different places on the map and forced to regroup. SCAMPS told you to take down the megaturret and get to the base. (SCAMPS was having severe troubles keeping a solid line of communication up throughout the mission.)
Hema's squad landed in a crater, which had some alien tech inside that quickly formed a shield over it. If they'd decided to mess with the shield generator, they could've found another way out, but, they didn't. They instead opted to travel down a long tunnel, whereupon they got attacked by murderous creatures.
Doc Cha0zz and Dino's squads decided to travel north along a valley, where they soon found the other REKT platoon's remains. After salvaging what they could, they continued north. Then they split up, and Doc's squad got half-eaten by angry territorial sky-beast-monster-things. What fun! Even better, they had a huge pack of angry spider-mantis-monster-things waiting for them on the ground, and got forced into a tiny cave. Good on you guys for making friends with local fauna!
Dino's squad continued onward and killed the megaturret as a group effort. Way to go, team!
And now we're to Foreigner's squad. Initially, Foreigner's squad discovered a strange building with a deep shaft inside, and an unusual artifact sitting on a table. They then split up all over the place for god-knows-what-reason and each member did their very darnedest to get themselves killed, to which I would've happily obliged if it wasn't within the first five turns. -.- That's a little too early for me to be wiping you guys off the face of the earth, so I merely beat you around a bit to teach you a lesson.
It didn't work, obviously. Nor did you get any smarter. You continued splitting up - and then found a really evil-looking Tower of Quantum Terror, before proceeding to split up even more... but, I'm not going to try to change the past. Let's see what happens if we go into the future a bit, and find out What Might Have Happened.
Mission 3: wrap-up
Realizing that the Tower of Quantum Terror was an evil mind-controlling thing, Blake Lowe was quickly captured under its control. Outlander himself was loathe to do any damage to it, and, with some quick thinking from his platoonmates, realized that the ToQT was likely controlling the minds of other entities in the immediate area. Blake Lowe was reporting during his brief moments of sanity that whatever was controlling his mind seemed primitive and savage... and Outlander feared it happening to himself, but was fully prepared to valiantly commit suicide to save Blake Lowe by ramming his craft into the tower.
Fortunately, other people in the platoon actually have brains. They pieced together that killing the ToQT would likely keep Hema's squad from getting devoured by bug-things, and Nequebah (their best PSI user) was sent to assist. She managed to get there just in time, going past the ToQT's quantum shield and, with the help of her squadmates, blasted the tower to pieces.
Hema's squad was saved.
Outlander's squad, however, was not, as it was quickly set upon by wild, savage creatures from everywhere - creatures that lacked the common sense and pseudointelligence of the ones that attacked Doc Cha0zz's squad. Though the struggle was real, they just barely managed to repel them.
Meanwhile, Dinosawer's squad made a dramatic rescue attempt to save Dr. Cha0zz's squad from blood loss and suffocation - and Squidhead just barely managed to arrive in time to patch up Kalah Grimm, saving her life. With the two squads in the same place, they continued (quietly) down the deep canyon toward THE ALIEN BASE. (dun dun dunnnnnn)
Hema's squad managed to get past the evil things when they died (they died when the ToQT died, just in the nick of time), and continued through the Tunnel of Impending Doom.
This solves all the immediate problems the squads were facing. We are now venturing into unknown territory.
Before they leave the canyon, Dr. Cha0zz's squad look at the strange device they've found in the canyonside cave and realize it's a device to seal away and monitor the planet's core - presumably to keep the planet from falling apart. Oddly, though, it seems that something is generating this power rather than using it to create the huge planet-wide shield. About this time they also reach the conclusion that the vast majority of the moon was grown into a natural satellite. This concept leaves people baffled. "Growing a moon? What the hell kind of screwy science are you trying to pull on us? Tal, did you even go to school?" Well, it's Quantums, and they did it, because I said so. (Honestly I would've explained it better than that, but right now, I can't be bothered. Basically, only certain parts of the moon was grown - the caves, bits of the terrain, the foundation of the vast framework to keep the shield operation going, etc, by introducing self-propagating technology not too unlike Quantum Glass (they like crystals).) Before long, they run out of things to argue with the DM about and continue on their merry way.
Partway during their travel down the canyon, Dr. Cha0zz's squad picks up some odd electrical signatures on their equipment. SCAMPS requests someone investigate. Against their better judgment (because Dino doesn't really have judgment, just balls), Dino's squad travels up a ramp out of the canyon to see what it could be, while Dr. Cha0zz's squad continues onward, soon running across the wreckage of Francis's CASKET. This is all mostly unimportant, but they also realize the "glowing chasms" Blake Lowe discovered previously were actually bits of the surface "peeling away" from the subterranean shield. They also see a lot of cool vines on the cliff walls, and are not stupid enough to shoot at them (unlike some people).
Meanwhile, Foreigner & Co. have successfully repelled the invaders (it was scary, but they weren't quite as doomed as it initially seemed), and meet up with Dr. Cha0zz's squad to the north of their initial position - annnnddd find another ToQT. This is both good, and bad. Good: Dino's squad is under heavy attack by the native megafauna (there's a lot more than anybody had expected) and needs some relief. Bad: This probably means that Doc and Foreigner's squads are going to get ambushed after it goes down.
Guess what. They do. Big surprise, but they knew it was coming. Dinosawer & Co. manage to escape alive, and everybody else fights off the beast (which actually retreat in fear after a bit, like a sort of "Screw this, I'm going home").
Hema's squad has discovered some interesting alien tech in their tunnel, and are busy patching themselves up and checking it out, glad to finally have a (brief) respite from combat.
Dino's squad discovers an entire platoon's worth of ships - ships that don't look a thing like either CASKETs or HAMMERs, and naturally SCAMPS isn't around to tell them what's what. They salvage a bit, but continue onward.
Hema's squad lowers a shield around THE ALIEN BASE and everyone meets up in the middle to proceed.
The alien base is monstrous in size - a kilometer across at least - and the inmates feel dwarfed by it. Some more of the alien-flying-creature-things are swarming around the top, which still has a shield over it. Dino's squad managed to get a visual of it before they entered the canyon.
At this point, I've managed to kill off at least two or three inmates, which was fun, and I felt good about it. The inmates realize fully that anyone can, and will die if they're not careful, so they're being very careful. Also Clara might be dead. Spoilers. (She got bad rolls, I just hadn't told you guys yet. If it makes you feel any better, her superior officer was dead too).
You enter the decrepit structure and realize that it is, naturally, enormous inside. Really, what did you expect? It's a big place. I should find that WIP picture I made of it. Anyway, on the bottom floor, coming out to meet you, you find a wiry, withered old man. He speaks to you - in English (or whatever language REKT people speak, I don't know) - and tells you that he is the current caretaker of the structure - but his time is done. This is pretty obvious: the guy is bleeding pretty bad. It looks like something got him. He offers you a choice. (This is the second major plot-changing choice of the mission. The first choice was whether to try to destroy the device you found deep in the cave off the canyon.) The choice is this: He will transfer his quantum powers into two of the inmates present, in exchange for a favor, thereby leaving the people involved Marked as friends of the Quantums. (He waits to see what you call him and goes with that, so he's calling himself a Quantum too now.) He warns you that the choice is yours to make, and is not necessary for you to achieve your goals, and that it may result in the eventual death of the people involved - and that it will have an extreme effect on your future (Basically in my voice as the GM). Maybe you think he's crazy, maybe you don't - but in this version of the story, you say, "No, we'll trust you, old man. Give us your powers." And two of you steps forward and takes the man's hand. His eyes roll back into his head and close, and rivulets of metallic ribbons races down his arms from his head, much like a reverse effect of the Quantum Orbs, and into the two volunteering inmates (who shall hereafter be known as The Marked Ones). The old man gasps out one last request, and dies.
You ponder his request: "Shut it down. Shut it all down, and destroy this world." It sound a bit extreme, and even The Marked One has some misgivings about it, but you continue deeper into the structure anyway. You soon find an elevator, and The Marked Ones realize their powers: One is capable of holding open a path to an alternate universe for a short period of time, and the other is capable of retrieving objects, bringing them back. You use this to repair a couple devices, using spare parts from other dimensions - including an elevator - and quickly continue deeper into the building, spreading out to cover ground faster (because your time is almost out and SCAMPS is getting impatient).
The REKT crew is still traveling, slowly, toward the top of the winding structure. The main transportation system seems ruined, but you guys are getting some loot, so it's all good... but you realize that something's not right. You never learned what hurt that old man - why he was slashed half to ribbons. Well... soon you do. One of you disappears, near-instantly killed. Even the description you get of the death is that something leapt out of the shadows toward a careless straggler. All you find is a mangled corpse. Another REKT soldier soon dies the same way - one of you, not an NPC - but from behind. You know something's out there, but you have no idea what.
If you have any sense at all, by this point you've all formed tight-knit groups and are continuing to progress while keeping sharp lookouts in all direction - and fully utilizing your helmet lamps. This is about when you get a true glimpse of your attackers: mutated, naked humanoid-ish creatures covered in some dark, foul material. Their arms and legs - indeed, all their muscles - seem terribly unnatural, and even their teeth seem to be made of steel. I'll summarize the following combat sequences with this: If there's one thing I force into your skulls this mission, it'll be to watch the fukcing ceilings. Anyone that fails to learn this lesson dies... and maybe even one or two that do.
Remember those ships? The ones Dino's squad found? Yeah, if you remembered to ask SCAMPS and told him about the symbols painted on them, he would've hesitantly identified them as a cultist group - classified information. Those monsters you're fighting are people that the Quantums have mutated to fit their purposes. It isn't much longer before you're at the top of the tower, and are ready to remove the orb. Ten of you (particularly Dino, if he's still alive) manage to obtain new powers from it before it swirls down to a dim glow, refusing to interact with you further. You figure it's about time to take it apart.
As you're doing it, Nequeba uses her new-found powers to look at the little device she's carrying - the little metal doodad she never could figure out.
It's a message recorder that splits its output among multiple universes, and now she has the ability to see it. It seems to speak directly to her brain, bypassing auditory communication, and the message details what happened on Sitatha... to a small extent. The old man recorded it - he was far younger then, perhaps several hundred years - he seemed hardly past 40 - but he had willingly begun to share his body with a Quantum host. Sitatha was in ruins. The old minds that once controlled the place had died; the life pods that the facility used to hold had been destroyed by an agent - an "Enemy" agent - yet it speaks no further of who this "Enemy" is. Forced from their hosts, the Quantums therefore needed to find new ones... and could find nothing more than the insect and plant species native to Sitatha.
Over a period of millennia, the Quantum minds began to mold and adapt, becoming feebler as they adjusted to the poor intellect of their hosts. They became more savage, less thinking - they lost who they were. They stopped truly understanding anything, except the basest desires to defend their home at whatever cost was necessary - the driving force behind their entire operation.
The recording ends with the newly-made Quantum saying he would try to put things right.
You finally manage to detach the Quantum Orb, and begin packing it up, getting ready for a trip back to the landing zone for Tartarus's troop transport carrier... But things are never so easy.
Remember how everything attacked you guys when the Towers of Quantum Terror fell? This happens - but on a MUCH larger scale. EVERY creature that had ever been controlled by a quantum mind suddenly loses control and does the only thing it really knows how to do at this point in its evolution: it attacks the intruders.
Remember those vines? Remember how they were capable of throwing rocks at people? They're also capable of intertwining themselves around huge swaths of terrain and ripping it out of the ground. The REKT crew has an awesome action sequence as they defend each other and try to help each other get back to the exit zone in record time. At least one of you dies valiantly holding off the hordes while the others retreat (probably an NPC, that feels a little cruel for a human), annnnddddd you make it back alive. Tartarus's ship picks you up and takes off.
As the lander hooks back up to the orbiting carrier, the entire planet begins to drop away. Its surface cracks - the shield is gone - it warps slowly, lava erupting from massive crevices in its surface as the crust of the planet bends.
That's when things take a turn for the weird. Sets of thrusters appear on the dark side of the world, propelling it even faster toward Aerevoh, and just as the Tartarus carrier begins accelerating to warp speed, you see an enormous magma-like appendage stretch out from beneath the surface, flinging bits of crust aside as it goes...
After the mission, you learn a few more important things from the loot you collected. The Quantums did indeed remake Sitatha to hold it together, and altered its orbit as well. Strangely, though, Sitatha itself actually seemed to be (judging by the rock samples Dr. Cha0zz gathered) from a different universe entirely. The Quantums literally brought a whole planet over from another universe. Analysis of images of the rock strata and formations provided also suggests that the moon wasn't always so close to Aerevoh - that it was intentionally maneuvered there at some point. Unfortunately, this is all you can get out of Tartarus's scientists.
Next I'll tell what would've happened in mission 4, given this timeline. In the meantime, feel free to pepper me with any questions or comments.
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Re: REKT: God Throws Dice (Main Thread)
#2 by Detritus
Please don't take my advice. You will wind up in jail if you do.
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I have been soundly peppered. Thank you, my good sir. Now I must go searching for some salt.
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#5 by BFett
With all those expected deaths, I have a feeling that my character would not have made it out of that mission alive.
Thanks for writing this up Talvieno. It makes me kind of wish we could have played though this; though it would have easily taken 3 or more months just to finish the mission. Do you have any estimates for how long all 10 missions were supposed to take? It would seem like two to three years of content or so just by judging by the first 2 missions.
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#6 by Dinosawer
But did Dino survive so he could keep his brain?
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#7 by F4wk35
Ok, first thing: WOAH
Second: Oh dear, you sure you're not overly optimistic with those predictions You know wer'e good at killing ourselves.
Third to last in no particular order:
Do you have a rough overview over when everyone in Squad 3 would've died prematurely? Just out of interest...?
Wait, the NPC-Squads had such severe losses?? When was the last time again that I talked to them D: *Sad*
I also still wonder how Nequeba would've managed to take out the tower, btw ^^°
Could we have just destroyed the Core-Integrity-Thingy and just picked out the Orb and stuff from the rubble when the Moon fell apart? (I just read the conclusion with the magma-tentacle-thingy...yelp)
So Nequeba's Trinket was indeed a recording Device? ...darn...we really were equipped totally wrong for this part of the mission
Much thanks for the writings I'm quite sure that I'll re-read the missions again sometime just to laugh at our inept antics XD
Apparently, sometimes stuff might happen.
BFett wrote: Thanks for writing this up Talvieno. It makes me kind of wish we could have played though this; though it would have easily taken 3 or more months just to finish the mission. Do you have any estimates for how long all 10 missions were supposed to take? It would seem like two to three years of content or so just by judging by the first 2 missions.
Probably two or three more years, if I managed to stay on top of things. It would've lasted a long time.
Dinosawer wrote: But did Dino survive so he could keep his brain?
I was actually initially imagining Dinosawer would survive all the way to the end. This was, of course, before he went and lost his body.
F4wk35 wrote: Do you have a rough overview over when everyone in Squad 3 would've died prematurely? Just out of interest...?
Hmm, dunno. I don't really care about deaths per squad, I just care that enough people die to make you guys realize that people are going to die.
Fawkes wrote: Wait, the NPC-Squads had such severe losses?? When was the last time again that I talked to them D: *Sad*
NPCs always take heavy losses. They're the easiest to kill because I don't have to worry about an unhappy player.
Fawkes wrote: I also still wonder how Nequeba would've managed to take out the tower, btw ^^°
It could've been one of those, "Haha, take that, Talv! Tricked you again!" things where you guys had Nequeba fly close enough to the tower for a Quantum-controlled ally to fire at her. She'd dodge, the shot would hit the tower instead, kaboom. That or she'd ram the tower, get someone to hack the tower, do a perception check to find a good place to pull out a few cables - you get the idea. There would've been a way. Squad 3 was not on top of things, though. As DM, I can only guide you.
Fawkes wrote: So Nequeba's Trinket was indeed a recording Device? ...darn...we really were equipped totally wrong for this part of the mission
That's the best part, though. I liked making you guys adapt. It was fun to see you invent new strategies. I tried (not always successfully, but I tried) to give you guys a lot of leeway in that regard so you could come up with creative ways to save yourselves from seemingly impossible situations. You usually did, too.
F4wk35 wrote: Wait, the NPC-Squads had such severe losses?? When was the last time again that I talked to them D: *Sad*
Reminds me of when Taiya dies in IRCRPG.
#10 by F4wk35
Darn Tal...now you made me think up possible scenarios again!
*Not-Serious Angry grumbling*
#11 by Talvieno
Should I continue posting the rest of the REKT plot up like this? I heard a lot of people saying "No, don't do it", so now I'm not sure what you guys want anymore.
#12 by Dinosawer
I don't and didn't see anyone saying anything of the sort
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#14 by Silverware
Talvieno wrote: Should I continue posting the rest of the REKT plot up like this? I heard a lot of people saying "No, don't do it", so now I'm not sure what you guys want anymore.
Do the thing mister Vieno.
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#15 by BFett
Who said stop? I only suggested you make a book series with this plot line.
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#477310 ZONE - Artorius ((Chasing Shadows - Epilogue))
Posted by Balder on 12 September 2016 - 02:38 AM
Rutgers entrance was greeted with a yelp and Kye leaping into a combat stance, interrupting the scribe's line of thought. What more to note was that the half-demon was stripped down to naught but a short pair of pants that sat awkwardly against the base of his tail, exposing the countless scars across his person. He did, however, still wear that wicked, heavy, metal left gauntlet that reached all the way up to his elbow.
His back was crisscrossed by innumerable whip scars, not to mention the enormous, jagged Demonic rune for "Pain" carved there as if by a knife. He certainly carried other scars as well, though none so impressive as those covering his back, and parts of his body also bore strange, sharp-edged, dark tattoos of various runic-looking symbols, the most prominent of which was a tattoo around his left bicep that looked almost like hellish thorns banded together. Rutger quickly made a note to examine those tattoos and interpret them with Kye’s help.
Of greatest interest to the scribe though was Kye’s Demonic features themself. With the half-demon stripped down he got a better look than before of his wings, tail and horns. The analytical mind of Rutger immediately set about drawing up methods of anatomical study to be applied to examine the demonic features of his subject, an exciting prospect.
...He also noted the muscles themself and Kye’s attractive form in general. But such thoughts were highly inappropriate on multiple levels, and he shook his head to rid himself of such thoughts. Stay professional.
When Kye realized it was only Rutger, he buried his face in his right hand in exasperation and mumbled, "Oh, hi... Sorry, I, uh - I was trying to sleep."
“Oh, my bad, I did not realize. I’ll remember to knock next time.” Rutger graciously replied as the demon-kin sighed and curled his wings in some, trying to allow Rutger more room to sit down somewhere, as he previously had those particular appendages sprawled out everywhere on either side of him, and his spearheaded tail absently beat the side of the bed it partially hung off. Kye seemed very careful to try and keep his back from facing Rutger. The scribe made note of it.
"What - what were you saying?" Kye asked drowsily, rubbing his bloodshot violet eyes briefly with his right hand before blinking and trying to focus on Rutger. "Questions, I guess...?"
“Certainly,” Rutger declared with a smile. “I was saying that I believe this to be as good a time as any to continue our little discussion as I’ve just finished comparing my notes of our last session with some of the order's own knowledge on the subject. However, seeing as you are… unclothed, I figure I could make some anatomical diagrams of your wings and tail and we could examine your full range of motion. Yes I believe we should do that so if you could just go stand over there”, he gestured to the floor opposite of the desk in the room, “with your wing stretched out… ah actually just stretch it out partially considering our tight confines. We can also do some less formal questions while I draw.”
With that the scribe went to the desk to put down his notes and prepared his writing utensils. “You can confine with me you know,” he added with his back turned. “I not sure what you were trying to hide there behind your back but please know that I have no desire to be your foe. Whatever it was that you were hiding I assure you that your secret would be safe with me as long as it’s harmless but if you feel that I should not know, well then I’ll just have to figure it out by myself.”
The scribe finished preparing his notes and turned back with a smile. “So, shall we begin?”
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#477245 Chasing Shadows OOC - Rules, Quick Reference, and Chat
Ah, yes I see now that I missed somethings, i'll just go back and edit the last part out and work on a reply to this
While all other discussed and then left, one after the other, Rutger sat silently to the side busily scribbling away at his notes and comparing them to his books. Kye Vakurseth had already with but a small condensed telling of his escape from the underworld brought priceless amounts of information to the order and it was imperative that he made sure his notes were exhaustive. He was also touching up on what the order already thought to know so that he could check it all with Kye. It wasn't work he should concentrate on now what with the Umbra Coven but he could hardly help himself. As such he was technically present during their briefing yet practically absent as he barely listened.
He did look up though as Kye and Caiden left the table, eyes following them as they went up the stairs of the tavern, one after the other. Kye he noted for obvious reasons as he still had a lot of questions to ask, Caiden on the other hand... He hadn't forgotten about the agony he'd seen him in on the lady Amelia or for that matter the pixie he'd spotted. And he had a new question for the Venator on top of that because he knew for a fact that when they departed from port in Templaria that their party did not contain an elf yet it did have one as they disembarked in Artorius. An elf that was wearing what most certainly was Caiden's Venator cloak. Was everyone else so forgetful to not notice or were they just blind to this? Or perhaps they knew something he didn't.
Unfortunately the elf and Venator left before Rutger could finish his notes and as such he was unable to confront them on that issue for now. Instead he finished up his work, gathered his notes and books and went up the stairs to his room, putting his books away. He then made his way to Kye's room, notes in hand, questions on his lips. He entered without knocking. "How are you doing Mr. Vakurseth, I feel that this is as good an opportunity as any to con-..." He stopped as the scene in front of him registered...
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Posted by Balder on 06 September 2016 - 12:24 PM
Sorry I haven't been posting, school start has been busy and it have taken me a while to settle in to things(still is). I'll try to post something but my mind is all over the place and I'm having trouble concentrating on writing so it may take me a while yet to catch up. I should be getting into pace soon though as things are starting to settle into rhythm.
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Posted by Balder on 28 August 2016 - 08:35 AM
Well my studies have resumed as well and since I'm going to attempt to concentrate on them expect my posts to become, if not less frequent, at least shorter as I can't afford to spend as much time on them as I have during summer. I will of course do my best to keep pace and I have no intention of leaving this any time soon. You can count on me for the long haul!
#476687 ZONE - Imperial ship at sea ((Chasing Shadows - Chapter I))
After a long and informative answer from Kye to the scribe's questions that Rutger eagerly listened to and wrote down without interrupting the half-demon meekly asked: "What else?"
"Oh, plenty." Rutger Answered. "Pressingly you forgot to mention the location of your arrival to our good earth, I understand that you may not be certain of the exact location but anything helps. However, I feel that is enough for my judgement and I think you will be happy to find that I can fully recommend against dealing with you in the regular fashion! Indeed, it is my belief that your knowledge will be of incredible value to the Templar order and by extension the Empire as a whole." He announced with a friendly smile before turning to Stevan.
"I believe the decision is ultimately up to you, Knight-Captain, as you are the highest ranking member of the order present. I have given my view of things but I will of course conform to your decision should you not agree with my assessment though again I must stress the potential value Kye Vakurseth's knowledge."
Posted by Balder on 25 August 2016 - 01:52 PM
In the time it took for Marcus and Caiden to return with the half demon Rutger had descended into a trance where he was quickly writing down prepared question after question and so ensorcelled he was in his work that he didn't notice their return until the Inquisitor spoke again. Startled out of his trance he looked up and beheld Kye, his disguise drooped. Rutger was stunned by the sight, despite the many records he had studied that detailed the demonic. To see for himself was simply an experience! Like his compatriots he tensed but unlike them it was not in preparation for conflict, instead it was clear for any that spared him a glance that he was holding himself back from leaping out of his chair and assailing the half-demon with endless question. The eager grin said as much.
He did not listen to a word anyone else said as his eyes ate the sight.
"Simply amazing," he whispered in quiet awe. "The things we will learn... Ahem, Kye was it? Well then I have a few questions. First; I doubt Kye is your full name so please tell us what your full name is. Second; you spent your youth in the underworld, yes? How did you emerge onto the Earth? This is important information for if there's a path from the depths of hell to our Earth it imperative that such a path is swiftly sealed less your kin follow in your footstep and onto our backyard. This I trust you to understand would be a bad thing, perhaps you sealed such a path yourself in which case I thank you but must insist on you telling us the exact location for the event so that the order may examine it. Third; for how long have you been on our Earth and for how long did you reside within the underworld? Approximations are fine if you are unsure." He made to continue but stopped himself. "I have more questions, of course, but they'll have to wait until later I'm afraid. But answer those for now, I feel I can get enough of a judgement of your honesty from that."
Sorry I haven't posted, I've been busy with no access to a computer. Hopefully I can get something up soon.
Rutger listened patiently on Marcus making his case. He was a bit surprised to be the one the inquisitor choose to address directly but when he thought about it it made sense. It was likely that Rutger was the only one in his group that would even consider not killing a demon. It was to his personal shame that he once had the notion of summoning a demon just to ask it questions about the underworld. He didn't do it of course, but he'd had the temptation. Further it was fact that a demon could not be trusted so it was likely that if he'd gone through with it he would only learn lies.
A cooperative half-demon on the other hand... oh he almost drooled at the thought. The thing he could learn from it! The knowledge it could share with them could very well be invaluable to the Templar order in their continuing fight against the unholy, but that was only footnote to Rutger. Because when teased with the unknown Rutger couldn't stand not knowing. It was the reason he'd joined the order in the first place, to learn everything their archives had to teach him and also the reason the Umbra coven had caught his attention. He loved mysteries. He loved to unravel them and learn the truth. And the underworld was very much a mystery and in front of him a man was teasing him with the key for that mystery. He simply had to have it!
Of course this all assumed the half-demon was raised in Tartarus. If it had lived on earth its entire life then it was near worthless to him, at best being good for a dissection. But from the sound of it that was not the case. And as such he needed to convince his colleagues that it was indeed in their best interest to keep the beast alive. Which brought him back to that footnote.
But there were still his oath to consider and as such compromises had to be made.
"I see," he said once inquisitor had finished elaborating. "Very well then, lets assume for a moment that everything is as you say it is and your fie- *ahem* friend is indeed a good person then I must ask you as an inquisitor: would you let a proven mage go free simply because he was a good person? Of course not! You have an oath to consider and a duty to see to that the mage can't unwittingly cause harm to others. The same applies here. We have our own oaths and duties to consider and at the very best I can imagine letting this half-demon live under constant surveillance and locked away, much like what a Mage could expect in Karak du Vide. Observe that this is the best case scenario for your friend, a judgement I'd be unwilling to recommend unless it had something to offer the order. And here comes the good news for you. If what you've said and implied is true then this Half-demon do indeed have something of incredible value to the order. Its knowledge of the Underworld and all that dwells within."
He paused a moment and hummed for a bit. "Now, I can't recommend that action until what you've said can be proven true. We need to know who this half-demon is and bring it in for questioning to ultimately make that decision." He said with finality, leaving for the others to say their part.
And I have an Inquisition to conduct
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When Rutger was told of the situation he swiftly exchanged his report notes for new ones, setting them up for their impromptu inquisition. He'd make sure to record every reaction to the blessing of Astra Aeterna and all words that was said during the interviews. So when Caiden stepped in he sat ready with quill to put ink to paper.
"You're both clean," Stevan said as he stood before the Venator and the Inquisitor, still in the captain's cabin, the door still shut. "We have a whole ship to speak with one by one, and while we have days to do it, I don't like leaving any of this to go on for longer than it has to. What's so important, Caid?"
But Caiden said nothing. He simply looked at Marcus, letting the Inquisitor speak instead.
Clearing his throat before rising to his feet respectfully, Capulet pronounced, “Caiden and I believe we know whom you are looking for. One of our trusted companions has understandably suspicious origins, but we are here to plead on this person’s behalf. We volunteered as subjects of your inquisition as a show of good faith, and to prove that we do this of our own volition, with sound, uncorrupted and undominated minds, in the hopes of convincing you to spare an innocent life.”
Rutger was stunned by the implication, quill stopped briefly. They knew? "You knew the entire time?!" Blurted the large Templar knight he'd yet to be introduced to, mirroring his thoughts, before apologizing hastily. Rutger couldn't blame her for it, these were distressing news.
"Mr. Capulet. I believe you need to clarify yourself, make sure we are not mishearing you. Because right now it sound as if you're claiming to be in cahoots with the unholy, a very serious claim I must remind you," the scribe said steadily, weighing his voice so as to not sound too accusatory. "We are talking of either a vampire or a demon, monsters that from all records are inherently evil. But yes, if you have truly considered the implications of your statement, please continue."
To be fair vampires wasn't inherently evil but they were certainly unholy and there were very few instances where one of their kind could be recorded as to not being evil. But demons most certainly were evil, the lot of them, no exceptions.
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"It's your choice," Caiden said firmly. "If you're not trained, there's no shame in staying safe. We don't need to lose anyone. If you want a job, you can check the lower deck for leaks. After that impact, we might have some."
With that, however, the Venator turned to the ladder leading up to the main deck. He glanced back at Rutger one more time to give a brief, "Stay safe," just before he disappeared.
Rutger gulped, still hesitating where he stood. He could figure out that whatever was up there attacking the ship was probably a sea-horror of some kind, what with that unearthly roar. Part of him wanted to go up deck, not to fight it but to record it first hand for the archives. The other half realized that was a stupid idea and was of the mind that he should do as the Venator advised and make himself useful checking for leaks. This resulted in an impasse where Rutger stood there frozen for some moments until more unearthly roars overcame his sensibilities with curiosity and he rushed to the opening up deck, promising himself he'd just get a good look at whatever was attacking them and then he'd immediately go check for leaks.
Unfortunately he only managed to catch a glimpse of the tentacled beast before it disappeared beneath the waves with nightmarish shrieks of agony.
A bare moment after it had disappeared the captain was shouting orders and sailors was rushing past the scribe to check for leaks. Figuring that it'd be better if he got out of the way Rutger quickly made himself scarce, making his way to the ships railings, observing as sailors past. He thought about helping in cleaning up the mess about the deck but realized he had more important work to do.
He needed to make a record of this event for the Templar archives.
And there was also the question of what pain had befallen their Venator, Caiden he think his name were.
But records first and since his supplies were firmly locked away inside the forecastle he made his way to the captain. "Captain, just a moment. I hope it's not to forwards of me to ask to borrow some writing supplies from you seeing as my own supplies are stored away. Further I would also hope that I can borrow you desk, you see this encounter needs to be properly recorded. In addition since I myself was otherwise engaged under deck and as such did not fully observe the proceedings of the past events I'll also need some, or preferably several, people who were immediately present in order to get the right information, oh, and perhaps you'd be interested to know that your friend Caiden was in some sort of pain earlier, I'll check on that more later. Anyhow, you see this is of course of most importance and I would very much like to get started immediately though I'll accept a slight delay if you see it as proper to not start interrogating the crew immediately." The scribe excitedly rambled off before giving pause for the captain to respond.
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Finally, after being physically prompted, Caiden turned to face him. Nothing seemed visibly wrong with him, though his face was slightly contorted in pain, and one hand kept clutching at his left side. Rutger saw no bloodstains on his armor there, however, so he did not appear wounded, unless it was an old injury of some sort.
"I'll be fine," Caiden said stonily, though his tone betrayed a good deal of agony. "I appreciate the concern..."
Rutger was about to interject something about how he clearly was in pain but then entire ship tilted.
It did not just tilt - it began to yaw completely backward, the prow pointing straight up to the sky. It should not have been possible.
Rutger scrambled to grab hold of something, anything, but he was to late and began falling - only for Caiden's free hand to shoot out and grab his arm.
He saw a barrel roll past him at incredible speed and then smash into a far wall, sending supplies flying this way and that, and the entire lower decks began to echo with the panicked neighs and cries of horses in their stalls. Gulping, Rutger imagined that barrel being him and it was no pleasant image.
It only lasted a few seconds before - arguably - things got even worse.
Now the entire ship seemed to fall. Rutger felt like his stomach had been left somewhere overhead as the ship suddenly crashed back into the water, knocking them both off their feet and leaving their heads spinning. But they were still alive - and, by some miracle, uninjured, except for a few minor bumps and bruises.
Gasping for breath the scribe attempted to say his thanks. "I- *gasp*, Thank you. I-", he paused, taking deep breath to collect himself. "I owe you."
Then they heard the roar of the monster outside.
Caiden immediately sat up. Rutger could still read some pain written across his face, but he stood and steeled himself to power through it. The scribe would have usually said something about it, protested even. But these were not usual conditions.
"I'm going above deck," Caiden said, drawing his broadsword. "Are you coming?"
Rutger hesitated for a moment, before rising to his feet. "I'm not sure of how much use I'll be. I have no weapons, and no training to use any. I'll go up but..." a heavy sigh escaped him and it was clear to the Venator the man in that moment felt useless. "I'll try my best, perhaps I can drag any injured beneath the deck and attempt to treat them. Though I doubt I'll even manage that. Either way, you lead the way."
Posted by Balder on 25 July 2016 - 03:57 AM
P.S., as a general alert: If a NPC knowledgeable in a field asks the players what they want to do, it's not because that NPC is stupid, it's because I'm trying to give the players more agency. Also you all basically outrank everyone on this ship, or at least they respect you enough to defer to your judgment, since this is your mission, not theirs.
Yeah, I assumed as much but Rutger doesn't. He's just a bit of an ass.
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Saturday Dec 28 2019
BJP official schooled for sharing fake news regarding Pakistani cricketers
天天色综合,天天干影视Saturday Dec 28, 2019
Indian PM Modi (right) and BJP member Priti Gandhi. Photo: India Today
天天色综合,天天干影视Priti Gandhi, a social media in-charge of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India, on Friday shared an old image of the Pakistan cricket team performing their religious duty of prayer and accused the cricketers of forcing non-Muslim members of the team to join them.
The image, apparently from the time when former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was leading the team, was shared with a caption wrongly identifying a man as former spin bowler Danish Kaneria, and referred to former batsman Mohammad Yousuf as Yousuf Youhana.
The photo was shared in relation to a recent statement made by former pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar regarding the ill-treatment meted out to Kaneria by some members of the Pakistan cricket team during the playing days of the spinner, allegedly because of his Hindu faith.
天天色综合,天天干影视However, it seemed that Gandhi, in her zeal to share the news, apparently did not know what Kaneria looked like. The BJP member also appeared to be uniformed about the religious and spiritual journey of Yousuf, who has previously said that he accepted Islam long before he made it public.
天天色综合,天天干影视Social media users were aghast at this blatant display of disinformation by a high-ranking member of the ruling party in India. Umer Farooq Kalson, a Pakistani journalist, even went as far as to school Gandhi about sharing fake news on social media.
The ruling BJP has been accused of following hard-line policies aimed at marginalizing the Muslim-minority in the country by Prime Minister Imran Khan on multiple occasions. PM Imran has also warned天天色综合,天天干影视 of an impending genocide of Muslims in the Hindu-majority India.
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DEVON ALLMAN HONORS ‘ROYAL’ BLOODLINE
Interviews, Peach Festival
12:22 pm August 12, 2013
You might notice a few familiar names in Royal Southern Brotherhood’s lineup – Allman and Neville, specifically, two of Southern music’s royal families.
With Devon Allman on guitar and vocals, and Cyril Neville on percussion on vocals, the RSB is carrying on the traditions of their famous families. Along with bandmates Mike Zito (guitar and vocals), Charlie Wooton (bass) and Yonrico Scott (drums), the RSB is touring in support of its self-titled debut, having just returned from a string of European dates. On Saturday Aug. 17, RSB will kick off the Peach Festival’s second full day of music with a 12:30 p.m. set on the main stage at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton.
Devon – the son of Allman Brothers Band founding organist and singer Gregg Allman – recently checked in with Highway 81 Revisited from Notodden, Norway, to talk about RSB’s overseas excursion, his well-known bloodlines and what’s to come from RSB and beyond.
H81R: Tell us how Royal Southern Brotherhood came together.
DA: It was born out of the idea of “What would it be like to have a Neville and an Allman in the same band?” Anything can look good on paper, but it has to be real to engage everyone and to be pure. An hour into our very first jam, I knew we had something VERY special. It’s grown so much in just under two years. We are a true brotherhood now.
H81R: How has the band developed and grown since it started?
DA: The synchronicity has come a long way. It’s super cohesive, and the stage show is getting really badass. Everyone is finding their place in the songs and playing together really well. The personal side has grown deeper too, after spending almost two years on tour in 20 countries. We love each other, and we love the music.
H81R: How has the European tour been going?
DA: It’s really starting to kick in over here in Europe for us. We are doing four different tours this year in Europe. We are currently halfway through a month-long run concentrating heavily on the Scandinavian region and doing many festivals with our friends and heroes. It just keeps growing for us, and we are very grateful to be here Royal-izing the Euros !
H81R: Where in Europe are you now?
DA: I’m currently in Notodden, Norway. We are here all week getting ready to play the big Notodden Blues Festival with Van Morrison and Tedeschi Trucks Band. The next couple days off will be spent in a local studio writing songs for Royal Southern Brotherhood’s second album. Due April 2014.
H81R: Do you consider RSB to be a full-time, long-term project?
DA: I told Cyril Neville that I’m here for as long as he wants to get his ass on stage. I hope that it goes for a long, long time, as RSB is my main priority.
H81R: What are your plans for RSB in the near future? Any plans to record a follow-up album?
DA: We load into Dockside Studios on December 1 with Jim Gaines producing. We have decided to go to the same studio and use the same producer as album number one. It’s a comfort zone for us. Gaines is like our sixth member . . . He pushes us to be great and is excellent at zoning in on the good performances and trimming the fat when it comes to arrangements.
H81R: How would you compare RSB to your music with Devon Allman’s Honeytribe or your solo career?
DA: I think solo-wise I’m in a great spot because I actually learned a lot being in RSB. My solo stuff is more personal and more laidback. Royal has just a bigness about it when it comes to the show and songs.
H81R: There seems to be a real family vibe with the Allman Brothers. Derek is Butch’s nephew, you’re Gregg’s son obviously. Besides the obvious bloodlines, do you feel a brotherhood with that band and the various other related bands like Gov’t Mule, etc.?
DA: Well sure, I think we all (myself, Derek, Warren, etc.) have been tapped by the musical forces of the universe to perpetuate this style of music for the people that love it and need it. I’m happy to be a part of this extended family.
H81R: You will be playing here at Peach Festival in Scranton. Do you plan on hanging out and sitting in with any bands, like ABB, Mule, Black Crowes, etc.?
DA: Would love to, but I’m double dipping that day . . . play Peach really early, like noon , then hightail it up to New York to do an evening show. Warren just sat in with RSB in Belgium and straight tore shit up!
H81R: Did you read your father’s book “My Cross To Bear”?
DA: Just finished it last night for the second time.
H81R: How do you feel about it? Were there things in there about his life that you didn’t know?
DA: It’s his book, his story, so it’s not my place, nor really anyone’s, to judge. It was brutally honest in some sections, but I think that’s what people want. I’d heard 90 percent of the stories before, obviously, but it was cool to have them all in one concise location. Little Richard hitting on him I was unaware of, and the run-in with Jim Morrison was pretty classic. My old man has lived like 30 lives, man . . . it’s an interesting path he’s got rocking.
H81R: I think I saw you post on Facebook that you want to play Duane in the movie adaptation of the book. Where does that stand?
DA: I’ve been told I’ll be able to screen test for it . . .not sure of the status. I acted all through high school, have acted in independent TV shows, and even considered it as a career in my early years. It’s a wonderful art.
H81R: Speaking of Duane, he’s obviously influenced countless guitarists. What does his playing mean to you, and is it something extra special to you because he’s family?
DA: I think my most respect when it comes to Duane is centered around his putting the ABB together, his vision not just for his playing, but for the group. No one was really fusing those styles of music. I’ve never sat down to learn all his licks or slide guitar. I’ve just always been out to find my own voice.
H81R: What other projects, musical or otherwise, are you currently working on?
DA: I just wrapped producing an EP for a new group Delta Sol Revival. It’s a really strong record, and I’m very into producing young artists to help keep this style of music alive. I’m writing for a new RSB record and a new solo record.
H81R: Is there anything else I didn’t ask about that you’d like to mention?
DA: I think we’re good . . . thanks for the coverage !
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Category Archives: palestinians
VIDEO: U.K.-Based Palestinian Academic Azzam Al-Tamimi: Only a Regional Movement Can Dismantle Zionist Regime; Arab Spring Revolutions Will Succeed; “Palestinians Do Not Use Bullets”
https://www.memri.org/tv/palestinian-author-azzam-tamimi-london-hiwar-ergional-movement-dismantle-zionist-regime-arabs-spring-succeed-palestinians-bullets
Not All Palestinians Were Sad to See the Last of Qassem Soleimani (Part 1)
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/not-all-palestinians-were-sad-to-see-the-last-of-qassem-soleimani-part-1
VIDEO: Hamas MP Sheikh Salem Salameh: George Washington Killed Indians Because They Were Muslims; Normalization of Relations with Israel Is Betrayal of God, Islam
https://www.memri.org/tv/palestinian-cleric-salem-salameh-washington-killed-indians-muslims-normalization-israel-betrayal-god
palestinians, women
#PalestinianAuthority, #Fatah Hold Military Training Camp For Girls, Named After Imprisoned #Terrorist Karim Younis
https://www.memri.org/reports/palestinian-authority-fatah-hold-military-training-camp-girls-named-after-imprisoned
VIDEO: Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh Eulogizes Soleimani in Tehran: He Is a Martyr for Jerusalem; He Gave the Palestinian Resistance What It Needed to Attain Its Current Power and Devotion
https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-political-bureau-chairman-ismail-haniyeh-euologizes-soleimani-tehran-matyrdom-jerusalem-palestine
“Silent Night”: Persecuted Palestinian Christians Kept Out of Sight
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/12/23/silent-night-persecuted-palestinian-christians-kept-out-of-sight/
Lies Palestinians Tell at Christmas
https://canadafreepress.com/article/lies-palestinians-tell-at-christmas
VIDEO: Palestinian Preacher Yusuf Al-Makharze: Allah Wants Girls to Be Married off When They Start Menstruating; Our Leaders Have No Right to Prevent This from Happening
https://www.memri.org/tv/palestinian-sheikh-yusuf-makharza-muhammad-aisha-marry-nine-years-old-menstruation-marriage-cedaw-criticize
Palestinian state up for vote in US House resolution
https://worldisraelnews.com/palestinian-state-up-for-vote-in-us-house-resolution/
Hanan Ashrawi Enraged by Secretary Pompeo, and She Has Some Democratic Company
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/hanan-ashrawi-enraged-by-secretary-pompeo-and-she-has-some-democratic-company
america, palestinians
Oberlin College: Students erect memorial to Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/oberlin-college-students-erect-memorial-to-palestinian-islamic-jihad-terrorists
europe, palestinians
Netherlands cuts aid to Palestinian Authority over payments to jihad terrorists
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/netherlands-cuts-aid-to-palestinian-authority-over-payments-to-jihad-terrorists
canada, palestinians
Canada: Trudeau government votes to support anti-Israel, “pro-Palestine” UN resolution
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/canada-trudeau-government-votes-to-support-anti-israel-pro-palestine-un-resolution
palestinians, religionofpeace
Hamas and Islamic Jihad vow closer cooperation in war of “paralysis of Israel”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/hamas-and-islamic-jihad-vow-closer-cooperation-in-war-of-paralysis-of-israel
israel, palestinians
Video: Robert Spencer Explains the Impossibility of Israel-Palestinian Peace
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/video-robert-spencer-explains-the-impossibility-of-israel-palestinian-peace
VIDEO: “Supporting Women against Violence” Campaign by Gazan Women Who Had Been Victims of Domestic Violence Strives to Spread Awareness, Encourages Women to Stand up for Themselves
https://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-anti-domestic-violence-campaign-supporting-women-black-eyes-wedding-dresses-husband-beat-spread-awareness
hezbollah, palestinians, twitter
TWITTER SUSPENDS HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH-AFFILIATED ACCOUNTS Al-Manar stressed the channel’s ‘objectivity and accuracy in conveying truth.’
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-affiliated-TV-stations-Twitter-suspended-606663
Official Palestinian daily likens jihad terrorist to Christ on the cross
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/official-palestinian-daily-likens-jihad-terrorist-to-christ-on-the-cross
hezbollah, palestinians
New Study Analyzes Hizballah’s Online Recruitment of Palestinian Terrorists
https://www.investigativeproject.org/8147/new-study-analyzes-hizballah-online-recruitment
Family of Female #Palestinian Suicide Bomber Hanadi Jaradat: Hanadi’s Father Handed Out Sweets in Celebration of Her #Martyrdom, Wanted Congratulations, Not Condolences
https://www.memri.org/reports/family-female-palestinian-suicide-bomber-hanadi-jaradat-hanadis-father-handed-out-sweets
Israel attempts to wipe out Palestinian curriculum in Jerusalem
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191022-israel-attempts-to-wipe-out-palestinian-curriculum-in-jerusalem/
Why no peace? OCT 19, 2019 6:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/why-no-peace-2
VIDEO: Commander of Gaza-Based Fatah Splinter Group: Fatah Is the Leader of the Armed Struggle
https://www.memri.org/tv/report-gaza-strip-graduation-nidal-amoudi-battalion-fatah-aqsa-martyrs-brigades
The Department of Education has launched a campaign against pro-Palestine voices on campus. Many saw it coming.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/10/the-department-of-education-has-launched-a-campaign-against-pro-palestine-voices-on-campus-many-saw-it-coming/
Palestinian Authority walks back on refusal to accept tax payments from Israel
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/1570204354-israel-to-transfer-sunday-430-million-to-the-palestinian-authority
Turkey: Speaker at pro-Palestinian conference says “Israel must be dissolved and destroyed”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/turkey-speaker-at-pro-palestinian-conference-says-israel-must-be-dissolved-and-destroyed
Germany: Bonn bans 4 Palestinian NGO’s from cultural festival for supporting BDS campaign
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/germany-bonn-bans-4-palestinian-ngos-from-cultural-festival-for-supporting-bds-campaign
Well Then: Palestinian Kids Stage Mock Terrorist Raid on Israelis As Part of Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/09/02/well-then-palestinian-kids-stage-mock-terrorist-raid-on-israelis-as-part-of-kindergarten-graduation-n2552486
NEW ZEALAND SUSPENDS FUNDING TO UN AID AGENCY FOR PALESTINIANS
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-Zealand-suspends-funding-to-UN-aid-agency-for-Palestinians-599902
US State Department deletes the Palestinian Authority from the list of countries and areas on its website
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/us-state-department-deletes-the-palestinian-authority-from-the-list-of-countries-and-areas-on-its-website
Palestinian organizations applaud jihad murder of 17-year-old Israeli girl
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/palestinian-organizations-applaud-jihad-murder-of-17-year-old-israeli-girl
palestinians, U.N.
How Trump Started a Civil War Between Hamas and a UN Agency
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/how-trump-started-a-civil-war-between-hamas-and-a-un-agency
Rashida Tlaib meets with another supporter of jihad terror against Israel
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/08/rashida-tlaib-meets-with-another-supporter-of-jihad-terror-against-israel
The UN Agency for Palestinians Is Even Worse Than You Imagine
https://www.meforum.org/59120/unrwa-is-worse-than-you-imagine
Rashida Tlaib Glorifies Palestinian Terror While HAMAS, Iran & the PA Pay For It
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2019/08/08/rashida-tlaib-glorifies-palestinian-terror-while-hamas-iran-the-pa-pay-for-it/
Hamas, Islamic Jihad: “The Circle of Fire is Expanding”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14666/hamas-islamic-jihad-missiles
#Palestinian Writer Reacts To Violent Incident Against #Christian Residents of Village In Palestinian Authority: It’s Not Unusual – And It’s An Indicator Of The #ISIS Demon In Us All
https://www.memri.org/reports/palestinian-writer-reacts-violent-incident-against-christian-residents-village-palestinian
VIDEO: Britain-Based Palestinian Academic Dr. Azzam Al-Tamimi: Al-Aqsa is the Most Free Mosque in the Islamic World
https://www.memri.org/tv/britain-palestinian-academic-azzam-tamimi-aqsa-free-mosque-islamic-world-morsi-prayer
Gaza Leader: ‘Palestinians Around the World Are Preparing to Kill Jews in Diaspora’
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/133485/gaza-leader-palestinians-around-world-have-been-preparing-kill-all-jews/
The politically correct Quran The penetration of the feminist and gay movements by pro-Palestine propaganda has borne the poisonous fruit of trees planted by shameless rewriting of history and even the Quran.
Linda Sarsour’s Tweets About Jesus Echo Claims of Numerous Palestinian Officials
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/linda-sarsours-tweets-about-jesus-echo-claims-numerous-palestinian
#PalestinianAuthority 2019 Summer Camps: Children Tear Up, Burn U.S. Flags, Pictures Of #Trump
https://www.memri.org/reports/palestinian-authority-2019-summer-camps-children-tear-burn-us-flags-pictures-trump
Al-Quds daily says conditions are ripe for a new #intifada to thwart the Deal of the Century
https://www.memri.org/reports/al-quds-editorial-conditions-are-ripe-new-intifada
arabia-yemen, palestinians
Hamas-supporting Qatar set to distribute $10,000,000 to Gaza
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/hamas-supporting-qatar-set-to-distribute-10000000-to-gaza
I stand by what I wrote on “Palestine” “Palestine” is a fiction, a concept that refers to an imaginary entity, not real but socially constructed. Prof. Phyllis Chesler,
Palestinian-American Linda Sarsour Irked by New Bipartisan Black-Jewish Caucus
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/palestinian-american-linda-sarsour-irked-new-bipartisan-black-jewish
Al-Quds Terror Org Calls for the Destruction of Israel and America
http://avaj.us/al-quds-terror-org-calls-for-the-destruction-of-israel-and-america/
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SEEKS UN COURT ORDER FOR REMOVAL OF US EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM
http://www.0censor.com/palestinian-authority-seeks-un-court-order-for-removal-of-us-embassy-in-jerusalem/
#Saudi journalist Khaled Al-Malik urges #Arabs, #Palestinians: Don’t reject Deal of the Century in advance – wait until it is revealed and study it carefully
https://www.memri.org/reports/chief-editor-saudi-al-jazirah-daily-do-not-reject-deal-century-advance-there-need
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Islam stinks, and it's easy to criticize it, and even make a career doing so, but that doesn't make one's other views worth spit. In particular, ROBERT SPENCER (Catholic) AND PAMELA GELLER (Jewish) think they were appointed and won't plug or even mention other blogs on theirs, clearly intending to squeeze them out and create their own monopoly. Leaders of a movement of any kind they are not, except in a bad way. Never fear, nobody owns the Internet, and when their readers figure it out, they too shall pass, especially because they're clearly only in it for the money, how 'bout them nice speaking tours and them ridiculous bus ads that waste money that could be used to reward other Islam watcher blogs, but are clearly for only one purpose, to generate controversy to get them speaking fees. Not satisfied to found an org. called Stop Islamization of America, they tried to trademark the name like they own the words. They're not on our team or your team, they're on their own team. I don't recommend that you contribute any money to them, they've outlived their usefulness. Donate to moi instead, the only person who is truly devoted to the truth and to free speech. They stink up the cause of fighting Islam like Mad Mary O'Hara (Madalyn Murray O'Hair) did the cause of American Atheism before she was murdered.
I represent America and defend its core constitutional values, not some puppetmaster's. I am not just non-religious, I'm anti-religious, just like the key Founding Fathers. Sure, we allow religious freedom, but only under watchdog control. Jews and Catholics did little to support the Founding Fathers back then unless there was something in it for them, and it is a credit to the Founding Fathers that they allowed them to even tag along when their loyalties were divided; e.g., in 1588, less than 200 years before 1776, the Catholics tried to invade England and extirpate Protestantism by bloody murder, while most Jews liked living in the Muslim Ottoman Empire or America's enemy Britain, and those few in America loved to set up closed communities where Jewish Kosher law not American ruled, although they at least didn't try to spread it by jihad like Muslims do. At least both groups mellowed out over 2 centuries, but now with the rising Islam threat, that doesn't make us forget their past.
As to S&G, they do not appear to even visit this blog occasionally, what maroons, the blind leading the blind, good news, you'll know more than them every day of the week. And they're outright frauds, claiming to champion American free speech, when for years Spencer's blog has banned me from posting, and since May 26, 2015 so does Geller's. Nobody who bans a person from posting, as opposed to deleting individual posts, and then only because they're forced to by the govt., is a champion of free speech, but is an enemy of it, deserving of no support or association. It's no mystery either. All of Spencer's anti-Islam work is suspect as the work of a Catholic front who wants to bring the Dark Ages laws stifling of free speech back, while Geller is transparently an Israeli front posing as a red-white-blue American while wanting free speech only for Jews in America. While I support Israel I don't want its constitution to become ours, sorry. In short, S&G are phonies. Neither of them represent the legacy of George Washington, but only want to wrap themselves in its image to sucker dopes into helping them defend alien interests. They and anybody who ever worked for them is banned from association with me or my orgs. When they did it to me they did it to themselves, it's my policy, sorry. I'm the real deal, they stink. If you don't like me for this, tell me and I'll ban you too.
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NB: TLW is 100% for the Jewish State of Israel, which doesn't make him Israeli though, he's American first, but his knowledge of history tells him that Jews have a historical right to their own state with capital in Jerusalem, and that bucking them is suicide. There's only 13.7 million Jews, so why can't the 300 million Arabs make room for poor outnumbered surrounded Israel and leave it alone? Answer: ISLAM, which teaches Muslims to wage eternal jihad no matter how futile and bloody. The answer is for Muslims to chuck the Quran and Allah and forget Muhammad and clear out from the Nile to the Euphrates and let the Jewish State of Israel lead them back into the human race.
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No matter how bad the Muslim World gets, there's always a plan on the table for Islam's ultimate defeat, my Winslow Plan for Defeating Islam. How much blood will have to be spilled before the non-Muslim world wakes up and gets behind it? Yes, it's drastic, because it's war, and it assumes that all the ineffectual diplomatic solutions have finally been scrapped and we have the will to win at all costs. I'm not proposing it lightly, but my mind tells me that it's the only solution based on the truth. Read it now: The Winslow Plan for Defeating Islam Forever
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Fake Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
“Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them.” Koran 2:191 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Koran 9:123 “When opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you catch them.” Koran 9:5 “Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.” Koran 3:85 “The Jews and the Christians are perverts; fight them.”... Koran 9:30 “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam” Koran 5:33 “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water; melt their skin and bellies.” Koran 22:19 “The unbelievers are stupid; urge the Muslims to fight them.” Koran 8:65 “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.” Koran 3:28 “We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they joined others in worship with Allah, for which Allah had sent no authority; their abode will be the fire: how evil is the abode of the polytheists and wrongdoers.” Koran 3:151 “Recall that Allah inspired the angels as follows: I am with you, so support those who believe. I will throw terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. You may smite their necks, and you may strike even every finger.” Koran 8:12 “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.” Koran 8:60
Hadith, Saheeh Muslim 2889, “Verily Allah has shown me the eastern and western part of the earth, and I saw the authority of my Ummah (Islamic nation) dominate all that I saw.”
Qur’an Sura 4:89, “Have no unbelieving [non-Muslim] friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them.”
Qur’an Sura 9:30, “And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!”
75 Years Ago He Saw It Coming
Quotes from Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), The Great Heresies (1938):
"Islam is apparently unconvertible. The missionary efforts made by great Catholic orders which have been occupied in trying to turn Mohammedans into Christians for nearly 400 years have everywhere wholly failed. We have in some places driven the Mohammedan master out and freed his Christian subjects from Mohammedan control, but we have had hardly any effect in converting individual Mohammedans."
"Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans - still nominally Christian - and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam."
"There is no reason why its recent inferiority in mechanical construction, whether military or civilian, should continue indefinitely. Even a slight accession of material power would make the further control of Islam by an alien culture difficult. A little more and there will cease that which our time has taken for granted, the physical domination of Islam by the disintegrated Christendom we know."
Daily links to articles and op-eds for serious Islam watchers
UK: Muslim who plotted jihad massacre says killing unbelievers fine if “you’re fighting for the pleasure of Allah”
Video: German Parliament laughs as Merkel vows to combat Muslim migrant crime by fighting ‘right-wing extremists’
New Islamic State leader is Islamic scholar with degree in Sharia from University of Mosul
Video from UK: Victim of Muslim rape gang says “they quoted the Quran to me”
Israel Security Service thwarts 560 jihad terror attacks in 2019
Historyscoper on Western Journal: “Did Army College Just Cave? Islam Expert Postponed After Muslim Activists’ Uproar”
Historyscoper on U.S. appeals court says Trump travel ban unlawfully discriminates against Muslims
Historyscoper on “Arabs and Muslims Will Never Accept Israel as the Jewish State” by Daniel Pipes Feb 2, 2018
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Historyscoper on Islamic Shariah Law for the New Year
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Don’t Let the Racism Thang Throw You
From the start, Churchill was a Naziphobe, and despite all the flak he took he turned out to be right. Despite both terms sucking eggplant, I'm proud to be called an Islamophobe, but the real Islamophobes are the leftist PC Islam appeasers, because it takes real fear to pretend that a religion whose believers slaughter each other daily is bringing the world peace. Islam the religion isn't intellectually respectable. Political Islam should be a world crime, including Sharia and even the shouting of Allah Akbar. The Muslim World is in its last days, and knows it, but won't go quietly. This is the place to keep up on its day-by-day dying shenanigans.
If I hear that term Islamophobia again I'll puke. It's a pure con game playing off the current leftist fashion of scaring white people by calling them racist. A hundred years ago white people were proud of their race and assumed it would rule the world, so they didn't even think of it. Instead, they knew that Western civilization had left the Muslim World in the rearview mirror and were intent on playing wolf in sheep's clothing in the hopes that they'd forget the 1000+ year Great Jihad and leave them alone until they got well. Well, we did, only to see them show signs of reviving the jihad the moment they got any military power. Why? Islam means nothing if it doesn't mean global domination, and the rest is intellectual sheep dip.
Sorry, Islam isn't a race, so the word Islamophobia is an intellectual non-starter. A race is something that's fixed at birth. Islam is an ideology you learn after birth. True, like a race once you become a Muslim you can't quit or they will kill you, but if criticising Islam is "wrong", so must be rejecting conversion, so obviously those pushing the term Islamophobia are wolves in sheep's clothing. If Islam is a race, the other kind, then I hope us infidels win it not the Muslims :) They're playing on our tolerance, when they are totally intolerant when they get the upper hand, what a recipe for horror if we don't wake up and keep pushing our Western superiority on the Muslim World to make it disintegrate forever.
What's really insulting to my intelligence is how they use Islamophobia to mean irrational hatred of Muslims a la racism, when the word only means fear of Islam, the religion which commands our deaths. What a giveaway of their true intentions, n'est ce pas? :) Of course Islam holds out its hand and promises that if you convert you will be spared, so there will be no more reason to fear it. :) But yes, I hate Islam and always will, and am proud of it, how about you? Why don't I just submit and quit sticking my neck out for the Muslim executioners, if they can get me? Because I know from my great knowledge and wisdom that we Islam haters are on the winner's team, and that Islam will pass and be left in the dustbin of history one day, let's hope soon.
Back to the white race. A hundred years ago white people were proud of their race and agreed that it should dominate the world. Two world wars later, they got so guilt-tripped that to call them a racist puts a brain freeze on them, permitting the rest of the world to invade and take over without a fight. Surely there must be some happy medium. White people aren't required to hate themselves. The Muslim takeover doomsday scenario can be prevented by a grassroots movement to force the politicians to stop and reverse Muslim immigration.
Speaking of dying shenanigans, it's time for Israel to end the #1 threat to its existence by NUKING IRAN, at least the nuclear facilities in the mountain recesses, and tell the rest of the world to leave it alone or else. What are Iran's weak sick wannabe friends including Pres. Obama going to do? They're into dooming themselves to repeat history like with Neville Chamberlain and the Nazis, with Israel as the new Poland, and have thus made themselves irrelevant. They have no right to gamble with Israeli blood. Is there something about Never Again they don't understand? Or Death to Israel? Each centrifuge in Iran is the potential killer of a thousand Jews. There must be a policy of Zero Tolerance for Centrifuges. Allah could never make a single nuke for all his faithful in a thousand years, so why surrender so helplessly? Whirring centrifuges in Iran are a declaration of war. They're negotiating and making promises? Ever hear of Taqiyya? It's past time for diplomacy, and screw the world, it's not their existence at stake. Iran is SICK. Until it gives up its Islamic Republic it should be treated as a disease. Death to the Islamic Republic of Iran. So what if Iran has suicide fighters ready to nuke Israel and a mighty army way bigger just waiting to pave a road through Iraq and Syria. Did they ever hear of David and Goliath? David won not Goliath. Poor outnumbered surrounded Israel has long had nukes, and was a model of patience, and I know it once promised it wouldn't be the first to use them in the Middle East, but if they use them now, they can limit the damage to govt. installations, whereas if Iran gets nukes, civilian pops. will be open targets. Israel has a right to defend its existence, and I back its right to do what's necessary, even if the U.S. and U.N. don't like it. I'm sorry I'm not the president and have so little powah, but I do have great knowledge and wisdom, and hereby give Israel my blessing. GO ISRAEL!
As to the Muslim World, we only need to defeat the hardcore Muslims militarily. The rest can and will be defeated by doing what we do best, showing how our modern civilization makes Muhammad, Allah, and the Quran irrelevant. It takes but a single special moment to break the spell, and the weapons will fall out of their hands as they dance in joy. I just got back from the future, and have good news. There will be a Great Muslim Apostasy in our lifetime, and the Muslim World will disintegrate, drop Muhammad's jihad and Sharia forever, and ask Israel's help in rejoining the human race with a clean record, party hearty ex-Muslim dudes. Even so, to make sure it doesn't happen again, it should be made a world crime to give a Quran to a minor. It's worse than child porno, and should only be read by the mature and educated, who alone can ward off its sick evil voodoo awesome blossom of endless lies before laughing it into the trash can.
The Winslow Plan for Defeating Islam Forever - read and share it with non-Muslims only.
Islamophobia? Will that sick lying term ever die?
Islamophobia? A phobia is an irrational fear. With doomed desperate Islam, it's irrational not to fear it and keep vigilant, because Islam wants you to fear it so it can dominate the world. This recently coined newspeak word is a reverse psychology con by Muslim and pro-Muslim disinfo. artists to make you stick your head in the sand to aid their infiltration so they can turn the West into a living hell like the Middle East. In light of open threats to all who "offend Islam" including Pamela Geller and the journalists of Charlie Hebdo, Islamophobes are those who AREN'T afraid of Islam.
Sorry, but we Islamophobes won't go, nor the infidel West, no matter how much intimidation from the Muslim World and the Western left they endure. Rather, it's the Muslim World that must go, along with all its hate and fearmongering. Now a bunch of hardcore Muslims have declared a caliphate, which is gaining followers daily, and will eventually make it mandatory for all Muslims worldwide to go on jihad, making Muslims in the West into agents of a foreign power and enemy combatants in their midst.
So yes, we should all fear Islam, but not fear to fight it, and hate and despise it too, openly and proudly. Islam is a huge mental straightjacket of lies and fraud and hate, threatening to send humanity back to the Dark Ages, and it must go, it really must go.
Sorry, leftist PC useful idiots, Muslims aren't our friends. The Quran commands them to be enemies of all non-Muslims, and befriend them only under false pretenses for an ultimate victory. Allowing them to immigrate to the West without apostasizing first is wrong and sick. Yes, their big oil bucks allow them to pervert the media and govt., so listen to what they say but watch what they do, and work, watch, and wait for the joyous day of the Great Muslim Apostasy when hundreds of millions tweet that they're chucking Islam, Allah, Muhammad and his Great Jihad and dancing in the streets with Jews, asking for help in being absolved of their crimes and rejoining the human race in a new Middle East that's a credit to the world instead of an eyesore.
The U.N., which is now dominated by the 57-member Org. of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has made a big mistake in admitting Muslim nations in the first place, who all know very well that criticism of Islam is the seed, apostasy the fruit, and mental freedom the feast they don't want their people to enjoy. Instead of going with the sick OIC program of criminalizing criticism of Islam, the U.N. should expel any member nation that continues to criminalize criticism of Islam or apostasy, or won't renounce Islam as its official religion, or even tries to restrict non-Muslim immigration. The future must belong to those who apostasize from Islam, up yours Obama. If the worse comes and Europe goes, America will never fall, and will be victorious in the end. There will be world in our future where Islam is kaput forever, and now is the time to show your support by joining the fight.
DEAR PUSSIES: Islam LOVES You Being A POLITICALLY CORRECT, Nutless Wonder
What to say when ignorant people accuse you of being racist for honestly criticizing Islam
ISLAM: THE RELIGION THAT SAYS YOU DON'T NEED YOUR HEAD
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Keep America Sharia-Free
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ~ George Washington
I agree with Voltaire and Washington, BUT when what you're preaching is hatred of free speech, then SHUT UP OR GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY. - TLW
"The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam is also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force... No one can be a true Muslim and a true American simultaneously. Islam is both a religion and a state, and to be a true Muslim you must believe in Islam as both religion and state. A true Muslim does not acknowledge the U.S. Constitution, and his willingness to live under that constitution is, as far as he is concerned, nothing more than an unavoidable step on the way to the constitution's replacement by Islamic Sharia law." - Wafa Sultan, "The God Who Hates", 2009
Multiculturalism that's well-controlled can be nice, but when Muslims from the Muslim World are allowed to immigrate without apostasizing and burning their bridges, they bring the intolerant supremacist Muslim World and its horrors with them, and the Muslims will refuse to assimilate and instead form Muslim-only areas or "stans" where the Constitution is weakened or abolished, as preparation for a coming jihad to overthrow the entire infidel republic of people the Quran teaches them to hate and fight to total submission. In short, Allah, Muhammad, and the Quran are archenemies of the U.S. Constitution, and it's like two scorpions in a bottle. When will the American people wake up and throw out the ignorant bums in Congress who are oblivious to this? Will I live long enough to see my Winslow Plan for Defeating Islam Forever become THE plan? Read It Now or You're A Sad Sack.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
Islam vs. the Ten Commandments
See Ya Later
Denver the next Ground Zero?
Homeland Security Live Alert
THERE ARE NO GIANT FLOATING BRAINS
Do you think of me as a giant floating brain that dispenses oceans of knowledge for free so that you can just lap it up and leave without tipping? I'm human and have my needs. For instance, I could use some dental work, a new home in Hawaii with a budget for house staff, and a few other things. Ask yourself, what would you do without me? Don't tell anybody, just do it. $100 would be nice, $10K would be nicer. I really need a billionaire fatcat who wants to be my patron like Leonardo had, say, $20 million for starters, string-free. But even if it's one buck, thanks. No really, thanks.
Islam: To Know It Is to Hate It
More Muhammad Cartoons
There Is Only Islam - And It Must Go, It Really Must Go, by TLW
Quick Review of Islam's History and Why It is Ultimately Doomed
Muslims will be majorities in some Euro cities within 25 years
Scientists prove that it only takes a determined 10% minority to tip a country to its beliefs
Why There Is No Radical Islam
What Jihad Is
The Two-Faced Nature of Islam
How to Argue with a Muslim
How Western academics have betrayed us with moose hockey whitewashing of the word jihad
The Islamophobia Scam
Why jihad means holy war, and the rest is Muslim disinfo. and B.S.
Does Christianity Have a Concept of Jihad too?
Islam is a fraudulent Frankenstein religion
Why you should fear your 'peaceful' Muslim neighbors
The OIC calls for all states to abolish their constitutions and make the Quran their constitution, including the U.S. It should be expelled from the U.N. once and for all.
The Palestinian People Don't Exist
The Illegal Palestine U.N. Push
Muslims and Mormons Grew Fastest in the U.S. in 2000-2010
Sunni Muslims Committed 70% of 2011 Terrorist Murders
Why You Are Not an Islamophobe If You Hate Islam
Why Islamophobia is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of
Welcome to My World, by TLW. Why you shouldn't ostrich about Islam's threat. Why the U.S. is making a horrible mistake to be open to mass Muslim immigration.
Is it getting a little hot where you live? Yes, it is a global conspiracy. Can you pass a basic test on the key orgs. and leaders of the modern Muslim World, including those in the U.S.? Study The Historyscoper's Modern Muslimscope and pass the advanced test too.
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Sen. Johnson backs Indian Country stimulus
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) said $2.8 billion in the nation's economic stimulus package will help Indian Country.
"It goes a long way to improve our conditions for our Native Americans in South Dakota," said Johnson, the Associated Press reported.
Johnson and other members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee sought $3.58 billion in the bill but the request was reduced by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The House has passed its version of the stimulus but the Senate has not acted.
Johnson: Stimulus money should help Native Americans (AP 2/3)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
House Version [latest version] | Summary of House Version | H.R.1 | S.1
Relevant Documents:
Opinion: Indian Country stimulus a good start (1/30)
Press Release: Senate Appropriations Committee | Press Release: Senate Indian Affairs Committee | Press Release: House Appropriations Committee
Stimulus for Indian Country heads to Senate floor (1/28)
Jodi Rave: Senate bill includes $2.8B for tribes (1/28)
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08/25/09 The Greenwich Briefing By Robo Blogger
Options traders turn bearish on BMO
... resilient to the financial meltdown," said Andrew Wilkinson, senior market analyst at Interactive Brokers Group in Greenwich, Conn.
Spielberg Spotted at OPTYX by gruen in the Hamptons
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... Moss, Lauren Hutton, Dustin Hoffman, Madonna, Alec Baldwin, and Elton John at their locations in New York City and Greenwich, CT.
Bucknell freshmen get big welcome
Danville News
... list. The students said they were delighted with the thoughtfulness of the gifts, including Vincent Pitagora, of Greenwich, Conn., who wore his tan cap, which had a beige border, in defiance of the heat, tag dangling with knitter Diane Marin's name ...
Emerging Markets-LatAm stocks down after 4 winning sessions
... the 2010 fiscal position and the widening trade deficit," said Benito Berber, Latin America strategist at RBS in Greenwich, Connecticut. "But overhanging all of this is whether we are heading into the second leg of a W-shaped recovery because there ...
MSI's Statement Solutions Suite Meets Under-Served Needs of Private Banking Institutions
... the data. Bank Customers get a consistent, responsive, easy to digest and drill-down snapshot of their finances. Greenwich, CT-based Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust also recently partnered with MSI after learning of the advanced system's ...
UltraGuard Secures National Distribution
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UltraGuard, Greenwich, Conn., announced that ADI, Melville, N.Y., will distribute the UltraGuard CO life-safety system through all of its 105 branches in the U.S. and Canada.
Gunning, Budinoff Honored With NBFAA Top Awards
... outstanding leadership. This year's Jackson Award winner, Budinoff, is president of Security Specialists of Greenwich, Conn., and has been a member of the electronic life safety, security, and systems industry for more than 25 years and has remained ...
Home Video Lifestyle
... a trend that will continue for the foreseeable future. Dan Budinoff, president of Security Specialists in Greenwich, Conn., explains two thought processes commonly expressed by today's homeowners in regard to video at home. First, while at home, the ...
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... and cable, price and quality are the biggest considerations," says Dan Budinoff, president, Security Specialists, Greenwich, Conn. a oeThere are very real differences in the quality of wire and cable, such as how durable a wire is when pulling it ...
Teixeira finds a home with Yankees
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... and Teixeira wants to put down roots. "We love it. It has been amazing," said Teixeira, who for now is living in Greenwich, Conn. "We've spent a lot of time in the city. It has been a great experience." The Yankees have a day off today, and Teixeira ...
Hunterdon County 4-H fair ends on a high note
... display on Sunday, with the young people who raised them proudly showing off their thumpers. Bethany Brown, 14, of Greenwich, Conn., said she was looking for points because the Hunterdon County event is an official American Rabbit Breeders ...
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08/25/09 08/25/09 Casting Call for Kids Announced Variety Show
YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR PRINTING THIS IN YOUR AUDITION SECTION OF THE PAPER AS WELL AS PUBLICIZING THE EVENT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU.
JEFF WEBER--203.273.2293
Elizabeth Lynn Ast and Natalie Seabolt preparing for upcoming audition for
Greenwich Has Got Talent: Variety Show 2009. An open audition call for
kids ages 8-16 to sing and dance in an ensemble will be held on August 30,
2009 from 11:00 AM--2:00 PM at Vineyard Vines on Greenwich Avenue in
Greenwich. Artistic Director/Producer is Maria Kelly Stevens. Those
auditioning should bring their own music and/or CD's. This event is
sponsored by The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce and is their major
fundraiser. A portion of the proceeds will fund a scholarship to a GHS
student majoring in business in college. The show will take place on October
16 and 17, 2009. There will be additional open audition on Sept. 3 from
7:00-10:00 PM at Cole Auditorium, Greenwich Library for all ages and
talents.
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08/25/09 The campaign season begins
Drew will be “kicking off” his campaign for Selectman with a rally at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center (or “Ekman Center” to the real old-timers) on Sunday at 6PM. Drew will be joined by Jim Himes, Lin Lavery, Richard Blumenthal, and scores of exciting volunteers.
http://www.drewmarzulloforselectman.com/
Refreshments will be served. Please call Frank Farricker (203) 554-6140, or Drew Marzullo (203) 981-0731 for more information
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Slideshow: Antares unraveled as money, markets shrank
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The Town of Greenwich/BOE have been served with the parents' lawsuit regarding the moldy modulars.
08/25/09 Can St. John's "Move On?"
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Post-Scandal: Not so easy for Darien, CT St. John's to "move on," e.g. fund-raising
The Connecticut media, such as THE ADVOCATE, indicate St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Darien, Connecticut wants to "move on." But can it?
It seems to face unique challenges in "moving on," especially in the critical area of fund-raising, with a lawsuit facing it which a state Superior Judge didn't dismiss, and with the story becoming a global one? I had requested an interview with Diocese of Bridgeport Spokesperson Dr. Joseph McAleer [jmcaleer@diopt.org]. Even though I have been following this saga for years, Dr. McAleer hasn't responded to me.
Last Saturday St. John's former pastor Rev Michael Jude Fay died in the Butner, North Carolina federal facility of cancer. He had pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.3 million from church funds. As THE NEW YORK TIMES had covered in detail, Fay used much of that for his high-living, hard-partying in gay circles.
His death and his crime resonated beyond CT media. That's because Ponzi-scheme master Bernard Madoff is also a prisoner at Butner [the dying fields] and, it's rumored, is also dying of cancer. Commentary which linked the two miscreants, including that on my blogs [the other here], received prominent placement in media such as THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
In fund-raising in these frugal times - sometimes called the era of the private label - those being approached for contributions need concrete assurances that their money will be properly accounted for and subject to all the traditional checks and balances which are supposed to prevent and/or quickly detect theft. THE ECONOMIST predicts most of us will remain with our wary ways when dealing with money. That's likely to change everything, including the already difficult job of encouraging members of St. John's to support not only their particular parish St. John's but the Diocese of Bridgeport.
How do the front lines in fund-raising plan to reassure donors of accountability, of prudent choices in spending, and in cost-efficiency? For the 2009 Appeal, Jan and Bob Dilenschneider, members of St. John's, are the Chair-Couple. In their article in FAIRFIELD COUNTY CATHOLIC, the Dilenscheiders note, "For the first time, many of us are experiencing chronic anxiety about the future. In all these years, we've never seen such a desperate situation, and all of us have to step forward."
The need is there and it's poignant. However, before reasonable human beings open their hearts and pocketbooks, we need to know the facts about how much money is collected, from whom, what accounting system is used, which auditor is contracted, how is the money spent, and what percentage of that is plowed into administration overhead?
Full Disclosure: About five years ago I did communications consulting for the Diocese of Bridgeport and until 2Q freelance writing for The Dilenschneider Group, founded by Bob Dilenschneider. I practiced Catholicism until I was 24 years old. Currently I study Buddhism.
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08/25/09 Venue change for Sunday Concert
Because of a few technical difficulties we have to move the Sound Beach
Community Band Concert from Binney Park to Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. If
there is any way to get this info in the papers this weekend I would really
Don't worry the summer concert series is almost over and I won't be
harrassing you guys that much in another week.
Thanks for all the help.
(See attached file: Sound Beach Community Band)
THE SOUND BEACH COMMUNITY BAND
CONCERT HAS BEEN MOVED TO ROGER SHERMAN BALDWIN PARK
The Department of Parks and Recreation announces that the Sound Beach Community Band will be performing on the Showmobile at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Sunday, August 30, 2009, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
The Sound Beach Community Band consists of 40 local musicians that play a number of different popular songs, marches, and show tunes.
Bring a picnic dinner and a blanket, and join us for a wonderful night of music under the stars.
The rain date for this concert is on Monday August 31, 2009.
For more information please call the Department of Parks and Recreation at 622-7830, or visit our website at www.greenwichct.org.
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Sciences of Quran
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Islam for Children
Personalities in Islam
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Du`a/Supplication
A new mosque is to open in Ekaterinburg
Kemerovo Cathedral Mosque surprises with its beauty
A meeting on the organization of Hajj 2020 was held in Saudi Arabia
Dagestan Mufti met with students
Moscow police helped a Muslim woman in labour
A mosque is to be built near the airport in Chelyabinsk
Muslim community in Tatarstan is to hold a children's contest on Arabic language
Online construction of a mosque in Nizhnekamsk
A delegation from Ingushetia visited Crimean Muftiyat
Short-term courses on performing namaz are opened in Tatarstan
Is it prohibited to remove the hair between the two eyebrows?
Muslim wife
“So accept whatever the Messenger gives you, and abstain from whatever he forbids you.” [59:7]
Source : Ali-Gomaa.com / 29 May 2013
I am a teacher and my husband passed away; is it permissible for me to return to my work before the mourning period for my husband ends? Please note that it is the beginning of the school year and I am not eligible for any kind of leave.
It is established in Islamic law that a woman in the mourning period for the death of her husband is not to adorn herself, use perfume or engage in any manifestations of joy. Moreover, during this time she must spend the night in the marital house. Allah Almighty says:
“If any of you die and leave widows, the widows should wait for four months and ten nights before remarrying. When they have completed this set time, you will not be blamed for anything they may reasonably choose to do with themselves. God is fully aware of what you do.”[Al-Baqarah, 234]
It is permissible for a woman in her waiting period to exit her house in the day or part of the night to run errands and fulfill her needs, but she should spend the night at her home. Ibn Qudama said, "A woman in her waiting period, whether a divorcee or a widow, may go out by day to fulfill her needs." Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that during her waiting period of a thrice pronounced divorce, his aunt [exited her house] to cut down her palm trees. When a man approached her and forbade her from doing so, she went to see the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and related the incident to him. He (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) told her, 'Go and cut down your palm trees; you may give out in charity from them or do [an act of] kindness' [Recorded by al-Nisa`i and Abu Dawud].
Mujahid narrated that after the day of Uhud, the widows of the martyred men gathered in one house. They approached the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and said, "O Messenger of Allah! We get lonely at night so we spend the night at one house and return to our homes in the morning." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) replied,"Chat together at the house of one of you, but each is to return to her house when it is time to sleep" [Recorded by Al-Baihaqi in his Sunan].
The ruling
It is permissible for the inquirer to return to her job during her waiting period provided that she spends the night at the marital house.
Is it prohibited to remove the hair exceeding from the eyebrows? Is it prohibited to remove the hair between the two eyebrows?
Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated through Abdu Allah ibn Mas'oud, may Allah be pleased with him, said:
“ Allah curses the woman who perform tattoos, get tattoos, the woman who pluck the eyebrows of others, and those women who get their eyebrows plucked, and part their teeth for adornment; who change Allah’s creation.”
The statement of Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reached a woman from Bani Asad who was called Um Ya'cub. She came to him and said: "It came to my knowledge that you have cursed so and so." He replied: "Why would I not curse the one the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) cursed. The one mentioned in the book of Allah the Almighty [Meaning the Prophet] Allah says:
“So accept whatever the Messenger gives you, and abstain from whatever he forbids you.”[59:7]
• Plucking:
The ruling of plucking parts of the face other than the eyebrows varies between prohibition and permissibility. Upon this the scholars based their difference.
Important Terms:
• Al-Namsa: is the one who plucks her or others eyebrows.
• Al-Mutnamsa: is the one who orders others to do so.
• The ruling for unmarried woman:
Threatening one to with the curse of Allah and his Prophet is a sign that an action is from the Major sins. In Islamic law when such a threat is issued it is evidence that the act is a major sin and a sign that the act is impermissible.
It is forbidden for a non married woman to have her eye brows plucked, except for the purpose of treatment, removing a defect, or refining excessive hair. Things other than this are prohibited.
• The ruling for a married woman:
It is permissible for a married woman to pluck her eyebrows with her husband's permission according to the majority of scholars, since, it is considered from what are classified in Islamic law as adornments[Ar: Zenah].
The narration of Bukra bint 'Uqba was used as evidence, when she asked'Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) about plucking her eyebrows, 'Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) responded: “If you are married, and by plucking your eyebrows you will make them attractive, then do it". Ahkam al-Nis'a Ibn al-Jawsi p.49
Al-Tabari mentioned a narration through the wife of Abu Ishaa, who was an attractive woman when she came to 'Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) —she asked: “Should a woman pluck her facial hair for her husband?”
She (may Allah be pleased with her) answered:"Keep disturbances [from you and your husband] away as much as possible."
Allah the Majestic knows best.
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Strew at least a flower seed…
The Great Shamil, Imam of Daghestan and Chechnya, Shaykh of Naqshbandi tariqah.
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Dynamics of vibrio with virulence genes detected in Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) off California: Implications for marine mammal health
Given their coastal site fidelity and opportunistic foraging behavior, harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) may serve as sentinels for coastal ecosystem health. Seals using urbanized coastal habitat can acquire enteric bacteria, including Vibrio that may affect their health. To understand Vibrio dynamics in seals, demographic and environmental factors were tested for predicting potentially virulent Vibrio in free-ranging and stranded Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) off California. Vibrio prevalence did not vary with season and was greater in free-ranging seals (29 %, n = 319) compared with stranded seals (17 %, n = 189). Of the factors tested, location, turbidity, and/or salinity best predicted Vibrio prevalence in free-ranging seals. The relationship of environmental factors with Vibrio prevalence differed by location and may be related to oceanographic or terrestrial contributions to water quality. Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio alginolyticus, and Vibrio cholerae were observed in seals, with V. cholerae found almost exclusively in stranded pups and yearlings. Additionally, virulence genes (trh and tdh) were detected in V. parahaemolyticus isolates. Vibrio cholerae isolates lacked targeted virulence genes, but were hemolytic. Three out of four stranded pups with V. parahaemolyticus (trh+ and/or tdh+) died in rehabilitation, but the role of Vibrio in causing mortality is unclear, and Vibrio expression of virulence genes should be investigated. Considering that humans share the environment and food resources with seals, potentially virulent Vibrio observed in seals also may be of concern to human health. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York., Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles Harbor Seals, CODEN: MCBEB
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Porifera (Sponges) from Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris arriving in the Hawaiian Islands and on the Pacific coast of North America
Twelve species of sponges (Calcarea and Demospongiae) were found on Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris (JTMD) that washed ashore in Oregon, Washington, and Hawai‘i. All taxa but one determined to species level are amphi-Pacific, with three having type localities in California (Leucosolenia eleanor Urban, 1906, Hymeniacidon sinapium de Laubenfels, 1930, and Mycale macginitei de Laubenfels, 1930). Haliclona xena de Weerdt, 1986, known previously only from western Europe (and where it is regarded as introduced from an unknown region) is here newly reported from the Tohoku coast of Honshu, as is Halisarca “dujardini Johnston, 1842”. Five species (Mycale macginitei, Hymeniacidon sinapium, Ute sp., Haliclona xena and Halisarca “dujardini”) were observed only once. Multiple lines of evidence (including lack of colonization by uniquely Eastern Pacific sponge species, the arrival in Hawai‘i of some of the same species whose only possible origin was Japan, and the low probability of coastal sponge larvae colonizing JTMD in the open ocean) indicate that the sponges on JTMD originate from the Western Pacific. Several species of sponges may have completed multiple generations on these long-distance rafts.
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Ugly aur Pagli: when harried met silly
Sachin Khot’s Ugly aur Pagli wastes no time in assuring us that it isn’t trying to be a refined comedy. The first five minutes contain references to intestinal mishaps and other bodily functions, among them a scene involving flatulence in an elevator and a loving shot of the film’s drunken heroine spewing bright orange vomit on someone’s head. In other words, the classier elements of 1990s Hollywood B-comedies have made inroads into Hindi cinema. Or perhaps the scriptwriters read the recent news item about the fart joke being one of the oldest forms of humour, and decided to pay homage to the past.
When the abrasive Kuhu (Mallika Sherawat) staggers into the life of a wide-eyed young engineering student named Kabir Achrekar (Ranvir Shorey), he falls irredeemably in love (even though he describes her as a mix of Keshto Mukherjee and Medha Patkar, which suggests that his tastes may be kinkier than we thought). This is before they’ve even had a coherent conversation – his principle acquaintance with her at this point is through her loud snoring. Once she’s conscious and sober, she turns his life upside down, smacking him about some, making him wear her high heels, ordering him to perform a humiliating public stunt on her birthday. Kabir’s T-shirts, which have prescient lines printed on them (“I love drunk bitches” during his first meeting with Kuhu; “I will get wet on this ride” just before she tosses him into a swimming pool), appear more clued in to what’s happening than he is (or we, the viewers, are). There seems little option but to sit back and let the spirited Ms Sherawat lead us through a series of increasingly random situations and song sequences reminiscent of the good old 80s, when songs had no interest in a movie’s narrative flow.
To call this film fluff would be an understatement. It’s as messed up and capricious as Kuhu herself, and the only way to watch it is to adhere to the "ask no questions" rule (which is pretty much Kabir’s predicament vis-à-vis his “pagli”). One gets the impression that the shooting process was repeatedly interrupted and the filmmakers kept forgetting where to pick up the threads: entire sequences look like they were thrown in just because someone said, “Okay, we need a few beach-volleyball shots in Goa now” or “One song with flamenco dancers please.” Admittedly, this kind of madcap spontaneity results in a few moments that work well – such as the one where Kabir meets Kuhu’s high-society mom and spaced-out alcoholic dad (Tinnu Anand, in a neat throwaway performance) – but these are few and far between, and they can’t stop the film from plunging towards a soppy, tone-altering “explanation” of its leading lady’s actions. (Minor spoiler: it involves a deceased boyfriend and it’s supposed to be touching, but given some of the things this girl has done through the film, one is forced to wonder about the manner of the boy’s passing.)
What Ugly aur Pagli has going for it are the two lead performances, especially by Shorey, who has come along terrifically as an actor after his superb double role in Mithya. He injects feeling and integrity into even the shoddiest scenes: watch his mounting alarm and helplessness in the diner scene where a weeping Kuhu repeatedly blows her nose into his handkerchief while people gawp at them. Or the scene where Kuhu’s parents chance to see a pack of condoms planted in Kabir’s pocket by a friend, and the embarrassed Kabir can’t stop himself from meaninglessly stuttering out “Woh kya hai, in se pregnancy nahin hoti hai”. On paper, these are lazy, unoriginal samples of situation comedy, but Shorey makes them work. In fact, it could be argued that he’s almost too good: even during the song sequences – which occupy their own discrete, music-video universe and have nothing to do with the rest of the film – he stays in character (trying to channel the nerdier aspects of Kabir’s personality) when all the song demands is a blank-slate dancing hero flailing his arms and legs about.
Sherawat is a rawer, less assured performer, but she knows how to make a difficult character likeable (and it is a difficult character: not many Hindi-film heroines get to make their entrance with a puke scene). The chemistry between her and Shorey isn’t as effective as her teaming with Rahul Bose – another sensitive, new-age actor who ostensibly isn't the Sherawat "type" – was in Pyaar ke Side Effects, but it’s enjoyable, occasionally touching, and it provides one of the very few reasons to watch this odd little film.
[A version of this review appears in this week's Tehelka. And no, I haven't seen the Korean film My Sassy Girl, of which this film is apparently a scene-by-scene copy.]
Labels: comedy, films, New Hindi cinema
Great header, hope Tehelka retained it (btw, did you read the GreatBong's review of the movie that, ahem, inspired the name of the mag?)
Anon: no, the header is something I just thought of before publishing the post. I saw Arnab's Tahalka post, yes - I actually remember that film very well despite having seen it more than a decade ago. Wonder what that says about me.
Alok 7:33 PM, August 06, 2008
It is impressive the way they find their sources. The only problem is wikipedia! Copycats in music are even more impressive... I can't imagine they really listen to Malaysian pop or Turkish folk songs or whatever... may be they just do a random search on youtube!
One other Korean film that would make a very good Bollywood movie is Joint Security Area (directed by Park Chan Wook who made Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance). They don't have to do much...just change the setting to india pakistan line of control.
and yes the header is fantastic...
Re: Tahalka. I worry for you, old man!
prasun 8:37 PM, August 06, 2008
It is impressive the way they find their sources.
My Sassy Girl is a very well known movie. There's an English version of the movie too which doesn't have a great imdb rating.
I guess it's a hard movie to remake, even if you copy all the scenes.
Pranay 11:20 PM, August 06, 2008
IMHO ranvir was not staying in character during the songs,,he is just a very lame dancer.other than thar he is fantastic. the scene where he says 'inse pregnancy nahi hoti is really well done.
Kris Bass 1:42 AM, August 07, 2008
So does this mean that I should watch it, doesn't it? I like Shorey very much as an actor. And I like stupid 'fart jokes' especially in situations like Scary Movies and other spoofs. On which note, why doesn't Bollywood make spoofs?
Anonymous 2:54 AM, August 07, 2008
Puking heroines, condoms, and Tinnu Anand?
How can I resist?!
Aishwarya 3:01 AM, August 07, 2008
Your spoiler alert made me laugh for five minutes !
Anonymous 10:21 AM, August 07, 2008
What I liked best about the post is "makes you wonder about the manner of the boy's passing"..lol...
Banno 11:44 AM, August 07, 2008
OK, this gives me a reason to watch the film. Was avoiding it conscientiously. No more wasting time and money kind of decision. Oh well, glad to have a chance to fling it away.
Not a worth watching movie.
Quirky Quill 2:53 PM, August 10, 2008
Loved the review-have tucked this neatly into the 'forgettable viewing during flights' list.
thought d ones who gave us Pyar ke side effects can do no mistakes
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School children gardening, The University of Iowa, May 26, 1925
United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
University of Iowa. College of Education
The University Elementary School,established in 1915, was a laboratory or experimental school directed through the College of Education for the training of principals, superintendents and teachers. Along with the University High School, it was closed in 1972 due to lack of funding. It was originally housed in the Old Dental Building, known at the time as the Observational Schools Building.
Kent, Frederick W. (Frederick Wallace), 1894-1984
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Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes
Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs, 1866-2000
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University Elementary School
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These are Non-Player Characters that your party has met (or at least has knowledge of) in their travels.
Lord Elliott Viorr
The group's employer. Has an unspecified government/dignitary position with Breland, and recently retired from the merchant business. Rumor has it he was once a member of the King's Dark Lanterns, a pseudo-secret Brelish protection agency. Egg refers to him as "Captain Viorr".
Warforged artificer. Former adventurer, and founding member of the Iron Wolves Expeditionary Company. Maintains a fully stocked artificer's laboratory at Iron Wolves HQ in Sharn.
Skiff driver in Sharn. Repeatedly takes the group around town on their errands. Has an ear to the ground, i.e. "I know a guy who knows a guy" for many city-related affairs. Claims to have several children.
Middle-aged human woman, who works at the tavern at First Tower.
Owner/operator of First Tower's one and only general store.
"Fixer" Logan
A changeling working as a horse groomer (and as a fence) at First Tower. Claims to have trafficked goods to the Cult of the Dragon Below operating from an abandoned tower near First Tower, but no longer does business with them after a disagreement. (Dailin's Notes: Should remain on the 'may kill' list; Alystia seconds this motion)
A House Cannith supervisor whose facility was nearly robbed by Paige d'Phiarlan. Though not a member of the d'Cannith family proper, Mae has served the House for many years and is well respected among House members in Breland. Has some skill as both a wizard and an artificer.
Notable Crew of the Second Chance
Cesar Cyllian
The Captain of the Second Chance. A brave, dashing human man in his upper 30's to lower 40's, he has worked for Lord Viorr in the past. Might have a thing for Sashi.
A young half-elven woman, she is rather introverted and prefers to let the Captain do the talking. She recently manifested a dragonmark that allows her to serve as the ship's helmswoman.
Morg'thal
The Captain's orcish security officer matches him pound for pound in courage. He also mans the ship's lone ballista, and is a capable swordsman.
The Second Chance's chief engineer has extensive knowledge of the ship's architecture and operations, and uses his skills as a magewright to keep things running well. Tends to hide if a fight breaks out on deck, though.
Paige d'Phiarlan
A young elven woman whose father is one of the richest men in Sharn. Although she will never have to work a day in her life, Paige has apparently decided that robbing House Cannith facilities is more fun than the dilettante lifestyle. Unapologetic and catty, Paige is actually skilled enough in rogue-ish ways to break into secure facilities on her own, and might have got away with it if it weren't for those meddling adventurers. After serving some time in a Sharn jail, she was hired by Cesar as a crew member of the Second Chance.
Warforged mercenary currently living in Sharn. Formerly worked as a bodyguard for Lord Viorr. Recently participated in a plot to kill Lord Viorr in his home. Skilled with a halberd. Was hired by Cesar as a crew member of the Second Chance.
Xen'Drik Personalities
Yorrick Amanatu
One of the five Coin Lords, a group of hereditary nobles that rules Stormreach. He is a very old dwarf who still has a lot of vigor left in him. He is another of Lord Viorr's old friends. Yorrick's responsibilities in the city primarily consist of efforts to uphold the law and keep things running smoothly. He is the head of the Stormreach Guard. He also maintains an impressive collection of exotic weapons and armors.
Tanok
Hill giant warrior of the Whiteskull Clan who helped the party kill a rampaging Bulette. He brought Alystia's horse to Stormreach following the party's disappearance and left him in Ruya's care.
Whiteskull
This very large green dragon is the chieftan of the Whiteskull Clan. He wears white warpaint on his face and body in a style similar to the warriors in his tribe. He protects the clan from external threats in the jungle, and also is a scholar of the Prophecy. After the Obsidian City disaster, Whiteskull has moved the tribal grounds to a new, unknown location.
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Such a vast expanse, where train journeys across it take days! The most famous of which is probably the Rocky Mountaineer. Still there is plenty to be seen from the window of any train travelling through Canada and VIA Rail also offer dome cars on some of their trains.
The integrated transport systems in the major cities are excellent, making getting from one place to another a lot simpler than in some countries. For example getting from Toronto Airport to Toronto Union station involves a bus and two metro trains but interchange between the two is simple.
To get from Toronto Airport to Union station – The TTC run “Airport Rocket”, bus No. 192, departs from a stand downstairs from the arrivals hall at Toronto Pearson Airport. They run less than every 10 minutes during the day and tickets cost $3 each, which includes transfer to the TTC Subway at Kipling. Tickets can be bought from the driver, but only with the correct change; there’s money changing machine just inside the terminal doors near the bus stop. The transfer from bus to subway at Kipling is ticketless and you don’t need any other ticket from that point to the point you exit the subway; just simply go down the stairs, get on the next subway and change where you need to. The change at St George from one line to the other is straight up the stairs off the Kipling line.
VIA Rail operate the national rail service, throughout Canada. There are also other commuter lines within the country that operate local services, generally based in big cities like GO Transit in Toronto and Trains de Banlieue AMT in Montreal.
Tourist trains operate in Canada such as Train of Le Massif de Charlevoix in Quebec and Orford Express in Sherbrooke. See my reports on both the Train of Le Massif de Charlevoix and Orford Express.
A full list of passenger and freight operators in Canada along with a list of heritage railways in Canada, can be found on Wikipedia.
Booking tickets for travel within Canada can be done at most VIA stations or online for long distance travel or at most GO Transit or AMT stations for local commuter travel withing Toronto & Montreal.
From time to time VIA offer 50% discounts across all fares; these are definitely worth looking out for!
Downloadable PDF Timetables by Route – Full network pocket timetables are available upon request at VIA stations
VIA Rail Network Map
GO Transit Toronto
GO offer a day pass that is basically a day return ticket but valid between the two points for unlimited travel all day.
Ticket Types and Fares – not available for purchase online
Downloadable PDF Timetables by Route – First select the line you want and then there’s an option to view the Full Schedule PDF on the next page
Go Transit Network Map – options for full system, train only and also bus maps
AMT Montreal
Downloadable PDF Timetables by Route – Select the line you want and a PDF also becomes available to download, as well as the timetable displayed on the screen
AMT Commuter Line Network Map
A comprehensive list of Canadian Locomotives by their respective railway system can be found at The Diesel Shop.
A PDF map of the Canadian Rail Network in 2006 is available online.
A comprehensive Canadian Rail Atlas is available from the the Railway Association of Canada.
As the Canadian rail system is so vast available comprehensive atlases are broken down into Territory volumes and are available from SPV as Railroad Atlases of North America.
Canada June 2014
This trip was planned around the main event, which was a week in Springdale, Arkansas in the US for the National Railroad Historical Society annual convention. It was a bonus that the York Durham Heritage Railway would be providing shuttle services on the GO Transit network with their heritage stock only the weekend before! A Read the Rest…
Canada August 2012
We’d been attempting to do some of the Canadian Shortlines that operated with Alco’s for some time and this trip ended up being the one, although one fell by the wayside early on unfortunately, that being the York Durham Railway in Toronto, who couldn’t operate their annual top & tail trains over the GO Transit Read the Rest…
GO Transit Toronto 23rd & 24th August 2012
VIA Rail August 2012
Train of Le Massif de Charlevoix 25th August 2012
Orford Express 26th August 2012
AMT 27th August 2012
Canada May 2011
This trip “through” Canada was part of our larger USA trip but the Keewatin Railway Co. train we went to ride on was like a stepping stone from Utica, NY to Skagway, AK. A stepping stone that took 2 long distance train journeys and 4 flights to navigate….. Our train travel in Canada during our Read the Rest…
Canada Main Line May 2011
Keewatin Railway Co. & Hudson Bay Railway May 2011
A trip from Winnipeg, through Saskatchewan & Manitoba, to reach the northern most place we visited, Cranberry Portage, Manitoba. It was well worth the effort, although we initially almost cancelled this part of our trip due to railway related issues and things not quite being as we wanted them. I’m glad we didn’t. Having stayed Read the Rest…
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Goodbye, Google Friends!
Google Friends is Google's monthly newsletter that included the latest announcements and product releases. 13 years after the first newsletter issue, Google announced that Google Friends will be retired.
It's hard to believe, but this monthly missive is now 13 years old. We hope you've enjoyed reading it over time, and wanted you to know that we are retiring it in its current form.
As you may know, the Google Friends Newsletter was created by Larry Page in April 1998, when Google was still on Stanford servers. In the early days, the Friends notes offered newsy details like "We are gearing up to do another crawl. We should start within a few weeks" and tips on tweaking your search queries.
Obviously a lot has happened since then, including changes in how we communicate updates to all of you. So this will be our last Google Friends Newsletter. We started the Official Google Blog in 2004 and joined Twitter in 2009, and we've seen dramatic growth on those channels. Meanwhile, the number of subscribers to this newsletter has remained flat, so we've concluded that this format is no longer the best way for us to get the word out about new Google products and services.
Google Friends started as an eGroups mailing list, then it became a Yahoo Group and was later moved to Google Groups. "We used the company eGroups to mass-mail our Google Friends newsletter to users, because Larry's brother, Carl, was one of eGroups founders. Larry had done the configuration for the original eGroups server himself, and for a while the company's computational heart has lived under his desk. The same week we announced our deal with Yahoo, Yahoo announced they were buying eGroups for $428 million (Yahoo has been very kind to the Page family)," remembers the former Google marketing director Douglas Edwards.
The early issues of the newsletter include a geek-friendly changelog of Google's search engine. You'll find about the long-gone operator flink: (forward links), the PageRank bar displayed next to each search result and Google's plans to "have a much bigger index than our current 24 million pages".
"After combining our web server and search engine for better performance, we have been experiencing intermittent problems with our system being down for short amounts of time fairly frequently. If you have trouble getting to the system, try back in a minute or two, and it should be back up." (July 1998)
This is a paragraph you'll never find in a Google blog post, Twitter message or a recent Google Friends issue.
{ Thanks, Tomi. }
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/30/2011 06:35:00 AM 8 comments:
Templates for Google Contacts
Gmail added a new feature that makes it easier to add a new contact: templates. If you click "More actions" when you create a contact or edit an existing one, you can select the business template to quickly add fields for the job title, company name, mobile phone and work phone.
The default template is more generic:
Google Contacts lets you add or delete fields, but you can't delete the fields from a template. Hopefully, Google will allow users to create custom templates and import some of the data from Google Profiles.
{ Thanks, Herin. }
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/30/2011 05:55:00 AM 17 comments:
Labels: Gmail, Google Contacts
Google Related
Google Toolbar 7.1 for Internet Explorer has a new feature that shows Web pages, news articles, places, images and videos related to the current page. The feature is called Google Related and it's a bar displayed at the bottom of the page.
"Google Related is a browsing assistant that offers interesting and useful content while you are browsing the web. For instance, if you're browsing a page about a restaurant in San Francisco, Google Related will assist you by displaying useful information about this restaurant such as the location of the restaurant on a map, user reviews, related restaurants in the area, and other webpages related to San Francisco restaurants - all in one place," explains Google.
If you go to the Wikipedia article about Adele, Google Related shows 5 YouTube videos, 5 articles from Google News and 5 pages from Google Search.
Google Related is another feature that requires sending the list of all the pages you visit to Google's servers. To find related pages, Google needs to know the URL of the page you're visiting. The so-called "enhanced features" (PageRank, SideWiki, Google Related) send Google a lot of useful data. One of the most interesting ways to use the data is a feature that shows if a site is slow. Like all the other Google Toolbar "enhanced features", Google Related can be disabled from the "Options" dialog by clicking the "Privacy" tab.
Apparently, Google Related only works if you've configured the toolbar's search site to be Google.com (United States of America - .com), so you may need to change this setting to enable Google Related.
Labels: Google Toolbar
Microsoft's Gmail Man Ad
Mary-Jo Foley found a Microsoft ad that tries to convince businesses to choose Office 365 instead of Google Apps because Gmail shows targeted ads. Microsoft created a character called Gmail Man, a postman that doesn't care about people's privacy and reads their messages to find related ads.
The irony is that the paid version of Google Apps doesn't show ads, even though administrators can choose to enable them. I thought that the whole "Gmail reads my mail" myth was debunked back in 2004 and people realized that online email services already used algorithms to index messages and to find spam.
"It was a fascinating angle in 2005 while Gmail was still new and under all kinds of scrutiny, but today, who cares that your emails are automatically scanned, really? Even before Gmail, ISP's already had the ability to read all your emails, but it has never really stopped anyone from using the email service of their choice," thinks Cédric Beust, a former Googler.
{ via Daring Fireball }
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/29/2011 01:01:00 PM 20 comments:
Labels: Gmail
New Interface for Google Books
Google Books is the latest Google service with an updated interface that's cleaner and more consistent. Unfortunately, this means there's more white space and less space for books. For example, on a 800x600 resolution almost two thirds of the screen are used for navigation elements. Even if you click the "full screen" button, Google still displays the navigation bar, the search box and the toolbar buttons, while hiding the sidebar and the book's title.
It's clear that the new Google+ interface is not suitable for all Google services and consistency sometimes makes Google's tools less useful. Displaying the navigation bar and the search box takes away valuable space and this is especially noticeable if you use a netbook. The new interface is not flexible or elastic, like Google intended. "The new design will soon allow you to seamlessly transition from one device to another and have a consistent visual experience. We aim to bring you this flexibility without sacrificing style or usefulness," explained Google. It seems that the new design sacrifices usefulness for the sake of consistency.
{ Thanks, Kon Young. }
Labels: Book Search, User interface
Gmail's Auto-Forwarding Notice
Google decided to show a pink bar which informs Gmail users that their messages are automatically forwarded to another email address. The annoying "you are forwarding your email to ..." is displayed for about 3 minutes every time you open Gmail this week.
The explanation for this temporary annoyance is that some malicious software or other people who gain access to your account can setup auto-forwarding. "For about a week, this notice will appear for a few minutes each time you sign in to your account. Displaying the notification in this way helps ensure that you have a chance to see the notice, rather than someone who might try to gain unauthorized access to your account and use this setting improperly. The notice will disappear immediately if you choose to disable the forwarding setting, but that decision is up to you," mentions Google.
So that's the reason why there's no "dismiss" link and you're forced to see the pink bar again and again. Maybe it would be more useful to show this message for one week after auto-forwarding has been setup.
If you no longer want to see the message, temporarily disable auto-forwarding, switch to the simplified HTML interface or pin the Gmail tab if you use Chrome, Firefox or Opera. Another option is to add this filter in AdBlock Plus: mail.google.com##.fVKDI (the extension is available for Firefox and Chrome).
Google's Tablet-Optimized Interface
Google's services don't usually have interfaces optimized for tablets. They either use the desktop version (Google Search) or use the mobile version (Google Calendar, Google Docs). An important exception is Gmail, which started to test a tablet UI shortly after iPad's launch.
Google tests a new homepage and a new search interface for tablets. Unlike the standard desktop version, the new UI places the navigation menu and the search options sidebar at the top of the page, so that the search results take up most of the space.
Amit Agarwal, who first spotted the experimental design, says that it's cleaner. "The new Google design uses a single column layout, while the old sidebar options appear between the search box and the search results. There's plenty of whitespace between search results and links to the Cached version of pages have been removed in the new design."
The new layout is more readable and it's also used for specialized search engines like Google Image Search and Google News. Google Image Search for iPad now uses infinite scrolling and shows a lot more results. Unfortunately, the list of missing feature is impressive: no Google Instant or Google Suggest, no links to the cached pages or to the mobile transcoder, no link to the advanced search page.
I've only seen the experimental UI in iPad's mobile Safari, but I'm sure that it should also be available for Android tablets like Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or Asus Eee Pad Transformer. Clearing browser's cookies might help.
Update: Google Mobile blog informs that the new UI "is rolling out in the coming days to iPad and Android 3.1+ tablets across 36 languages."
{ Thanks, Mushaf. }
Labels: User interface, Web Search
Google Hotel Finder
Google launched an experimental service that would've been perfect for Google Labs: Hotel Finder. The service lets you find a hotel in US and it has a few clever features that make it stand out.
You can add shapes to the map to restrict the list of results to your favorite areas. Google highlights the most popular areas to help you. By default, Google creates a shape based on the most popular places.
Using shapes to filter results is not an original feature, but it's useful and it's surprising to see that Google Maps didn't add it.
After selecting the location, Google lets you pick the check in and check out dates, choose a price range, a hotel class and restrict the results to hotels that have great user ratings.
Another cool feature is that the results can be expanded inline so you don't have to open a new page to see some photos and read the reviews. Add the hotels you like to a "shortlist" to quickly compare them.
Google Hotel Finder is also useful to find great deals. The "compared to typical" section offers some information that's not easy to find by comparing the current prices with the historical averages.
Unfortunately, you can't book hotels using Google's service, at least not directly. Google Hotel Finder sends you to sites like Booking.com, Priceline, Expedia, Travelocity.
For now, Google Hotel Finder only works for US hotels, but it's a surprisingly strong offering. While there are many features that need to be added to compete with Bing Travel, Google's service is really promising. It's fast, easy to enough and offers helpful information that's not available elsewhere.
Updated Code for Google +1 Buttons
As reported last month, the code for Google +1 buttons could be improved so that the buttons load faster and stop blocking other resources. Google updated the code and recommends publishers to generate a new code.
"We're introducing a new asynchronous snippet, allowing you to make the +1 experience even faster. The async snippet allows your web page to continue loading while your browser downloads the +1 JavaScript. By loading these elements in parallel, we're ensuring the HTTP request to get the +1 button JavaScript doesn't lead to an increase in your page load time," explains Google.
Google also optimized the existing code so that the button renders up to 3 times faster. Even if you don't update the code, you'll still benefit from these changes.
The code generator is easy to use and I've noticed that a lot of sites added a +1 button next to Facebook's "Like" button. It's unfortunate that Google didn't optimize the code when it was released.
Labels: Social, Webmasters
Design Refresh for Google Web History
Google Web History is a service enabled by default when you create a Google account. It saves all your searches and the search results you click so you can quickly find them later and to help Google personalize results. It's called "Web History" instead of "Search History" because Google Toolbar has a feature that lets you send Google your browsing history.
Google updated the Web History interface to make it more consistent and easier to use. The new interface seems to be optimized for removing searches, not for browsing your history. There's a huge checkbox button at the top of the page and a button for removing "all Web History". While it's nice to see that Google doesn't hide the button for deleting search/browsing history, using a button for such a rare and destructive action feels wrong. It's like placing a button labeled "Delete all your messages" in Gmail's toolbar.
The previous interface included a special mode for removing items. When you clicked "remove items", Google added checkboxes next to the items and a "remove" button. The standard interface included star icons so you can quickly bookmark pages. Now the stars are a lot smaller and more difficult to see. It's likely that most people who visit Google Web History want to remove items or clear the entire history, not to search Web History or to bookmark pages.
{ Thanks, Louis. }
Labels: User interface, Web History
Customer Service in the Early Days of Google
Many people complain that Google doesn't offer customer support for most of its services and it's really difficult to receive an email from Google that actually answers your questions. Here's a story from the book "I'm Feeling Lucky", written by the former Google employee Douglas Edwards. Back in 2000, Max Erdstein was Google's sole customer service rep and he could only use a laptop and a copy of Microsoft Outlook.
Max never envisioned customer service becoming an omnivorous blob consuming all his time, but soon he found himself responding robotically to more than a thousand emails a day from users around the world. Crushed under the load, he could do little than succinctly reply, "Thanks! Keep on Googling!" Non-English emails presented the biggest problem. We had no idea if people wanted to praise us or harangue us. We tried using off-the-web translation software, but it left us more confused than when we began.
Meanwhile, there were rumblings from sales VP Omid that supporting advertisers and search-services customers should be a higher priority. Could Max help with that, too? After all, unlike users, these people were actually paying us. Max was emptying an ocean with a teaspoon. As the backlog of unanswered emails began to swell, Sergey offered a useful perspective. "Why do you need to answer user email anyway?" he wanted to know.
To Sergey's thinking, responding to user questions was inefficient. If they wrote us about problems with Google, that was useful information to have. We should note the problems and fix them. That would make the users happier than if we wasted time explaining to them that we were working on the bugs. If users sent us compliments, we didn't need to write back because they already liked us. So really, wouldn't it be better not to respond at all? Or at best, maybe write some code to generate random replies that would be fine in most cases?
Google Image Search Shows More Information About Photos
Google's image search engine started to show additional information about photos after clicking the results. The landing page's sidebar includes EXIF data: camera, settings, focal length, flash usage and exposure bias.
"Additional details are found from within the image file, often saved there by the digital camera that took the picture or the application that generated the image. This data can also be manually added or changed after the image has been created. Google doesn't create or change this data in images created by others. The data is saved using the Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) specification and can include details about the type of camera that took the image, the camera settings (like aperture, focal length, exposure length, and flash settings), and the copyright and usage rights associated with the image by the person who created or edited the image," explains Google.
Another change is that you can click "more sizes" for other versions of the image and "similar images" for visually related images. The sidebar also includes the search result's snippet.
The sidebar can also include a list of related searches, which offer a lot of information about the image and help you find similar images:
Google should also add links to the previous and the next search result so that you don't have to go back to the list of results.
Labels: Image Search
Google Maps Removes Third-Party Reviews
Google Places pages have been updated to use the new Google+ interface, but the biggest change is that Google dropped the reviews from third-party sites like Yelp, Menupages or Booking.com, while only relying on the reviews from Google users. "Based on careful thought about the future direction of Place pages, and feedback we've heard over the past few months, review snippets from other web sources have now been removed from Place pages. Rating and review counts reflect only those that've been written by fellow Google users, and as part of our continued commitment to helping you find what you want on the web, we're continuing to provide links to other review sites so you can get a comprehensive view of locations across the globe," explains Google.
To encourage users to share their feedback and improve place pages, Google added a button for uploading photos and made the button for writing reviews more prominent. It's clear that Google Maps will become even more social and will integrate with Google+, so the reviews from your social circles will be more relevant and will help you find a nice restaurant or a fancy hotel.
While Google Hotpot added a lot of new reviews from Google users, there are still many local business that don't have reviews. What's more, the reviews from Google users are usually short, superficial and often they only include a rating.
Search Engine Roundtable speculates that Google removed third-party reviews because of Yelp's complaints. "We are unhappy with the way Google uses our users' review on its Places page. However, there is no solution to the problem… Google's position is that we can take ourselves out of its search index if we don't want them to use our reviews on Places," said Yelp's CEO. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Yelp, Google launched Places, Hotpot and made Google Maps results more prominent in the list of Web search results. Yelp felt that its reviews improved a competing service and asked Google to remove Yelp reviews from Google Places. Google decided that it's a good idea to blackmail Yelp and tie the Web search index with the Places reviews (Google News has a different policy and the same goes for Product Search). A such a terrible practice made Google look like a huge company that used its power to crush rising startups.
TechCrunch found that "Yelp made a presentation to a roomful of state attorneys general at the Conference of Western Attorneys General about regulatory issues in search. On that panel was Vince Sollitto, VP of Giverment Affairs for Yelp, along with Dana Wagner, a Google lawyer, and well-known antitrust attorney Gary Reback. Yelp's presentation was titled 'Google Places: A Threat To Innovation and Competition.' The basic argument was that Google strong-armed review websites into providing their content for free, and then gave their own Places product preferential treatment in search."
Instead of removing the reviews from Yelp, Google yanked all third-party reviews and made Google Places less useful. There are still links to other review sites and there's still a small excerpt from a review in the list of search results, but Google Maps is no longer a comprehensive source of reviews, while Bing Maps looks more attractive. Google Maps ratings no longer use data from third-party reviews, but I wouldn't be surprised to see that Google still uses these reviews to rank results.
Labels: Google Maps
Google Makes Money from Chromebooks
While many people think there's a lot of overlap between Android and Chrome OS, the products don't have a lot in common. Chrome OS is a proprietary operating system based on an open-source project and OEMs can't tweak it or add new features. Just like for Nexus One and Nexus S, you get all of the updates from Google. Another difference is that Chrome OS is constantly updated and you can even switch to the beta or the dev channel to try the latest features. Chrome OS has an automatic update feature, so that Chromebooks run the latest version of the operating system.
Google's CFO, Patrick Pichette, mentioned another difference between Android and Chrome OS: "Google is making some money from companies buying computers that run the Chrome operating system." Google came up with an innovative subscription model for businesses and schools. Instead of paying for the hardware, organizations can pay $20-$33/device/month and get a notebook, enterprise support, new devices every 3 years or even more often, a Web-based central management console, integration with Google Apps. While enterprise Chromebooks are a lot more expensive than the regular Chromebooks available at Amazon or Best Buy, Google says that the total cost of ownership of a notebook can be reduced by up to 70%. "Chromebooks and the management console automate or eliminate many common, time-intensive IT tasks like machine image creation, application distribution, patching, and upgrades. Additionally, there is no need to purchase licenses for anti-virus, data encryption or data back-up software."
Like Android, Chrome OS also encourages people to use Google's services more often. "People search more when they use the Chrome browser or Android phones, which increases Google's core business," says Patrick Pichette. Android will also offer additional revenue opportunities. "Nonsearch revenue will eventually arrive for Android as it combines Google Maps, mobile payments with Google Wallet and daily deals with Google Offers."
When we have products that get resounding user and consumer success and that are growing in the hundreds of millions we don't worry. The only question is when and how will we monetize. Everybody's all nervous about the fact it's been 36 months since Android has launched and you only have search (revenue). That's the criticism I hear. The questions that are asked are so short-termish. That's just not the way that Google thinks.
For now, Chromebooks are the perfect Google Apps "thin clients", while Android devices have so many sensors that help you explore the world and make Web services a lot more useful when you are on the go.
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/22/2011 01:32:00 AM No comments:
Labels: Android, Google Chrome OS, Mobile
Updated Interface for Google News
Google News is the latest Google service that gets a new design consistent with Google+. There's a new color scheme, more white space, a new header and two buttons that replace the customization links.
It's strange to see the label-less blue search button next to the "search the Web" button. Gmail's new interface uses two buttons that are easier to differentiate, instead of confusing users. There's a lot of wasted space at the top of the page and the two new buttons are too prominent, especially if you consider that you'll not use them very often.
In a recent Google+ post, Larry Page said that Google has launched a "beautiful, consistent and simpler design". He continued: "Google+ is also a great example of another focus of mine - beautiful products that are simple and intuitive to use and was actually was one of the first products to contain our new visual redesign." A New York Times blog post quotes Patrick Pichette, Google's CFO, who concludes that "there was just too much clutter. Larry in the last 90 days basically said, 'Hey, it's just time to re-shift. Don't lose any insights into the deep engineering that we drive, but let's make sure we don't lose focus on the ease of use."
{ Thanks, Anthony. }
Labels: Google News, User interface
Google Docs Lets You Upload 10GB Files
Scott Johnston, Product Manager at Google, announced that Google Docs increased the maximum file size from 1GB to 10GB. That's a really good news, but it's surprising to see that Google Docs only offers 1GB of free storage.
After all, Chromebook users are supposed to store their files online and there are many services that offer more free storage than Google Docs: from Dropbox (2GB) and Box.net (5GB) to Amazon Cloud Drive (5GB) and Microsoft SkyDrive (25GB). While you can buy 20GB of storage for $5/year, it's obvious that more people would upload their files to Google Docs if the service offered at least 20GB of storage for free. Releasing a sync software like Music Manager would make it easier to upload files and to access them from any computer.
Another idea would be to separate online storage from Google Docs apps, so that you can upload Microsoft Word documents and open them using Google's word processing app, but without irreversibly associating them with the app. This way, you could upload files and open them using multiple applications, for example: Google Docs, Zoho Writer and Microsoft Word's Web App.
Image by Scott (inspired by Hyperbole and a Half).
Labels: Google Docs
Google Toolbar for Firefox Has Been Discontinued
Another Google product bites the dust. This time it's a popular add-on: Google Toolbar for Firefox. Many users were surprised to see that Google hasn't updated the toolbar for Firefox 5, even though it wasn't a difficult task. After enabling the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, most of the features worked well in Firefox 5.
It turns out that Google no longer wants to update Google Toolbar for Firefox, but it doesn't admit that the product has been discontinued.
"Google Toolbar for Firefox is compatible with Firefox version 4 or older. If you use Firefox version 5 or newer, you won't be able to use Google Toolbar."
Google suggests a long list of add-ons that could replace Google Toolbar's features, but the suggestions are too generic. For example, Google links to the search results for [bookmarks sync] or [language translate] in the Firefox add-ons gallery.
A Google blog post offers an explanation: "many features that were once offered by Google Toolbar for Firefox are now already built right into the browser" and thanks the loyal users. That's also true for the IE toolbar, but there are many useful features that aren't included in the browser: auto-translation (a built-in Chrome feature), Google Bookmarks integration, using Google Docs to open documents, smart spell-checking using an online service, highlighting search terms, suggestions for navigation errors (another built-in Chrome feature), custom buttons and gadgets.
You probably remember that Google Toolbar for Firefox was released in 2005, five years after the Internet Explorer version. At that time, Firefox users who wanted to install a Google Toolbar with PageRank support could try an unofficial extension called Googlebar. Maybe that extension will be resurrected, now that Google Toolbar for Firefox is no longer available. Releasing some of the source code under an open-source license would be helpful.
For now, Google Toolbar still works in the latest Firefox releases if you install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter first and restart the browser. Here's Google Toolbar in Firefox 7 Alpha 2 (Aurora):
Last year, Microsoft's Bing Bar dropped support for Firefox and became an Internet Explorer-only add-on, just like Google Toolbar. Bing Bar is powered by Silverlight, a software for running rich internet applications. A few months ago, Google tested a new Google Toolbar powered by Chrome, but only for Internet Explorer. It's likely that the new toolbar didn't work well in Firefox, so Google decided to only offer an Internet Explorer version.
{ Thanks, Colar. }
No More Google Labs
Google's blog announced a surprising decision: Google Labs will be closed. It's not April Fools' Day, so it can't be a hoax.
"While we've learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we're to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead. In many cases, this will mean ending Labs experiments — in others we'll incorporate Labs products and technologies into different product areas. And many of the Labs products that are Android apps today will continue to be available on Android Market," explains Google.
It's all about focus and prioritization, the same reasons why Google Health and Powermeter were discontinued last month. Google's CEO, Larry Page, says that Google will focus on the core products (search and ads), on the products that "enjoy high consumer success" (YouTube, Chrome, Android) and on some new products (Google+, Commerce, Local).
Google was all about experimentation and launching new projects early to get feedback and iterate. Google Labs was the place where many of the most important Google services started: iGoogle, Google Maps, Personalized Search, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Groups. Right now, there are 56 Google Labs products and many of them are really useful: Google Body Browser, Google Scribe, Fast Flip, Android App Inventor, Aardvark, Google Goggles, Google Moderator, Google Code Search.
While Gmail Labs, Google Maps Labs, TestTube will continue to exist, it's sad to see that the service that showcased Google's latest innovations will disappear.
Google Directory, No Longer Available
Google Directory was the second Google service launched, after the Web search engine. It was released in 2000 to compete with Yahoo Directory, the most popular Web directory at that time. Google used data from Netscape's Open Directory Project, but it added an innovative feature: automatically ranking results.
Here's an excerpt from an article written by Danny Sullivan back in April 2000. "Google is applying link analysis in a new way, to the human powered information of the Open Directory. All I can say is hurray! I've been chanting for an end to the tyranny of the alphabet when it comes to directory listings for some time. Why should sites that begin with an A appear at the top of list, oppressing better quality sites that may simply begin with a letter further down in the alphabet? In many cases, this offers no help to the searcher."
Directories were useful at that time because there weren't too many high-quality sites and reviewers could keep up with the growth of the Web. Now that the Web has a lot more than a trillion pages, it's impossible to maintain a directory, so algorithmic search engines are the only ones that can scale.
Now Google Directory is no longer available. "We believe that Web Search is the fastest way to find the information you need on the web," says Google.
Google Directory has been irrelevant for many years and very few Google domains still included the service in the navigation bar. Last year, Google dropped the search feature and not many people noticed.
{ via Search Engine Roundtable }
Google+ App for iPhone
Google's iPhone app for Google+ has been finally approved by Apple and it's the top free app in the US App Store. For some reason, the app is not compatible with iPod Touches and iPads, so it only works if you have an iPhone.
Google+ for iPhone has most of the features of the Android app, but it doesn't support instant uploads and lacks the advanced settings from the Android app.
The app has been criticized for the non-standard interface. "Google+ app uses left-right swiping to change views in your 'Stream'. I see three: Incoming, Circles, and Nearby. The idiomatic iOS design for this would be a tab controller at the bottom with three tabs, one for each view," says John Gruber.
Other users complain that they need an invitation to use Google+ and a surprising number of people say that the app doesn't work well in iOS 5, which is still in beta and can only be installed by developers, at least officially. This shows that many of the 18 million Google+ users are developers and tech enthusiasts.
Labels: Google Plus, Mobile
Google's Yellow Malware Warning Box
Google started to show a yellow warning box at the top of the search results pages if the computer is likely to be infected with malware that changes Web pages, inserts ads and sends users to other pages to download more malware.
"Recently, we found some unusual search traffic while performing routine maintenance on one of our data centers. After collaborating with security engineers at several companies that were sending this modified traffic, we determined that the computers exhibiting this behavior were infected with a particular strain of malicious software (...) that causes infected computers to send traffic to Google through a small number of intermediary servers called proxies," explains Google.
Showing a warning message is not a foolproof idea, since malicious software could easily remove it or use it to install more malware. Google links to a page titled "Your computer appears to be infected", which suggests to install an antivirus software and perform a system scan. The page doesn't suggest to install a different operating system or to buy a Chromebook.
"Some forms of malicious software will alter your computer settings to redirect some or all of your traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. When you use Google, the proxy forwards your query to the real Google servers to fetch the search results. If our system detects that a search came through one of these proxies, we display the warning," informs Google.
Labels: Security, Web Search
A New Look for Google Translate
Google Translate is the latest Google service with a new design based on Google+. Since Google Translate's interface is simple, there aren't many changes: a new grey header, updated buttons and drop-downs.
"We're working on a project to bring you a new and improved Google experience, and over the next few months, you'll continue to see more updates to our look and feel. The way people use and experience the web is evolving, and our goal is to give you a more seamless and consistent online experience—one that works no matter which Google product you're using or what device you're using it on," explained Google last month.
After launching a new interface for Google Search, Google created two themes that preview Gmail's new design and started to test Google Calendar's new UI and Blogger's new UI. Up next: Google Docs, Google Sites, Picasa Web Albums, Google Reader and probably other services.
{ Thanks, Kon. }
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/19/2011 12:48:00 PM 8 comments:
Labels: Google Translate, User interface
Multiple "Did You Mean" Suggestions
Google's spell checker has always returned a single suggestion when it was very likely that your query was misspelled. In many cases, Google now returns the results for the corrected query and shows a message above the results: "Showing results for [corrected query]. Search instead for [original query]".
Google started to show a "did you mean" message even for queries that are too ambiguous to be corrected automatically. For example, if you search for [efrazin], a query that returns a small number of results, Google suggests four other similar keywords that are more popular, but the list doesn't include [e. frazin].
The new feature is a clever way to combine spell checking with related searches and show additional suggestions for weird queries that are likely to be misspelled. Even if the suggestions aren't always useful, it's a low-risk feature and you won't see too often.
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/19/2011 07:36:00 AM 1 comment:
Labels: Web Search
Google Music Lyrics
Google Music Lyrics is a Greasemonkey script that adds a lyrics panel to Google Music. It only works in Firefox and there's a single lyrics provider: SongLyrics.com.
The lyrics are cached so that they're displayed instantly the next time you play the same song. You can also edit the lyrics and the changes are saved using HTML5 local storage. To hide the panel, click the title.
Chris Hendry, who developed the script, plans to add other lyrics providers, allow users to import and export lyrics and to make the script work in Google Chrome.
Labels: Google Music, Greasemonkey
Find Recent Images in Google Image Search
Google Image Search added a filter that lets you restrict the results to the pages created in the past week. Just click "past week" in the left sidebar and you'll see a list of recent images that include labels like "20 hours ago" or "5 days ago" to show how recent they are. Google's image search engine shows the same labels even if you don't restrict the results to recent images.
The interface doesn't let you customize the date range, but you can edit the URL and replace "qdr:w" with "qdr:h" (past hour), "qdr:h20" (past 20 hours), "qdr:d" (past 24 hours), "qdr:d2" (past 2 days), "qdr:w2" (past 2 weeks), "qdr:m" (past month), "qdr:y" (past year). Another trick you can try is to type your query in Google Web Search, use the date filters from the sidebar and then click "Images" in the vertical menu. Custom date ranges don't work in Image Search yet.
Here are some examples: Beijing photos from the past year, wedding photos from the past month, Android-related images from the past 2 weeks, Tour de France photos from the past week. It's important to keep in mind that the photos may not be so recent, but they're included in recent articles, blog posts and other Web pages.
The nice thing about the "recent images" filter is that you can combine it with other advanced filters. You can sort the images by subject and restrict the results to recent images, find images that have a certain size or a predominant color and they were uploaded in the past year, find recent Creative Commons images or generate a list of recent images from a site (e.g.: cnn.com).
Export Google +1 Pages
Google's Data Liberation team added a new feature to Google Takeout: exporting the pages you've +1'd. The pages are saved to a bookmarks.html file that can be imported by almost any browser.
Google now offers three ways to bookmark pages: Google Bookmarks and Chrome Bookmarks for private bookmarking, Google +1 for social bookmarking. While Google Bookmarks supports labels and Chrome Bookmarks uses folders, Google +1 doesn't have a way to organize your bookmarks. While Google Bookmarks and +1 have Web interfaces, you can no longer view your Chrome bookmarks online.
Labels: Google Plus, InOut
Google Docs Viewer Supports ZIP and RAR Archives
One of the complaints you might hear from Chromebooks users is that they can't open archives. While Chrome OS still doesn't let you open archives, Google Docs Viewer added support for two of the most popular archive formats: ZIP and RAR. Gmail also added a "view" link next to ZIP and RAR attachments that opens them in Google Docs Viewer.
Google's interface for archives is quite basic: there's a pane that shows some information about archives (number of files, size) and the list of files. If the file format is supported by Google Docs Viewer, you can open the file and view it in the browser.
"ZIP and RAR archives that are embedded inside other archives also work. For example, if you have a RAR file inside a ZIP file, you can just click on that file to access the embedded archive. This feature extends to Google Docs for mobile, too," informs Google.
For some reason, Google lists all the files from an archive and ignores folders. Google shows the relative path of each file, but that's not very useful. Another strange issue is that Google Docs Viewer doesn't let you open image files and text files without having to download them, even if these formats are supported by most browsers.
Hopefully, Google Docs will add support for other archive formats (7zip, tar, gzip, iso) and allow users to extract the files from an archive.
Google News Badges
Google News added a feature that could encourage users to read more: collectible badges. "The U.S. Edition of Google News now lets you collect private, sharable badges for your favorite topics. The more articles you read on Google News, the more your badges level up: you can reach Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and finally Ultimate. Keep your badges to yourself, or show them off to your friends," informs Google.
Google created more than 500 badges, so it's very likely that you'll collect at least one of them if you visit Google News frequently. Badges reward people that constantly read articles on a certain topic, so you're more likely to receive a badge if you read 3-4 articles a day about Google than if you read 10 articles about Google every 3-4 days.
While this feature could encourage users to visit Google News more often, the main purpose is to find people that know a lot of things about certain topics. "Your badges are private by default, but if you want, you can share your badges with your friends. Tell them about your news interests, display your expertise, start a conversation or just plain brag about how well-read you are," suggests Google.
Instead of manually adding your favorite topics to your profile, you could add Google News badges. It's one way to show your expertise and it could be useful if Google plans to integrate Aardvark with Google+ and launch a social Q&A service.
Badges also help you find your favorite Google News topics and add customized sections to the homepage. Google News now uses sliders to let you fine tune your personalized hompepage.
If you don't like badges, there's an option in the Google News settings page that lets you disable this feature.
{ Thanks, Jason. }
Labels: Google News, Social
Google Tests an Interface Optimized for Infinite Scrolling
Alon Laudon spotted a new experimental interface for Google's results pages. The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position, which means that you no longer have scroll to the top of the page to edit the query or switch to a specialized search engine.
The new interface seems to set the stage for a fluid design that removes pagination and replaces it with infinite scrolling. In fact, most the changes are already available in Google Image Search, which uses infinite scrolling.
Alon also noticed a new UI for Instant Preview. "Page preview is a little different - the button appears to the side of the result text preview instead of to the side of the result webpage name. The site also doesn't pop up the preview when you simply click something inside the text, you have to hover over the magnifying glass icon."
{ Thanks, Alon. }
I'm Feeling Lucky, the Book
You must have seen this message when installing Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer: "Please read this carefully. It's not the usual Yada Yada."
If you've ever used orkut, you probably remember the famous error message: "Bad, bad server. No donut for you."
Remember Mentalplex, Google's first April Fools' Day joke?
What about the "10 things Google has found to be true"?
All of these were written by Doug Edwards, Google's director of consumer marketing and brand management from November 1999 to March 2005. Doug was "the voice of Google", the one who wrote the text for Google's corporate pages and FAQs. He's now the author of the book "I'm Feeling Lucky" (Google Books, Amazon), which tells the story of the five years he spent at Google.
"Google was becoming my own personal publishing platform. (...) We had built a global bully pulpit and my voice rolled forth from it, My thoughts, my ideas, my imprecations would be seen by more people than read the New York Times or watched a network newscast. I was the man behind the curtain giving voice to the all-knowing Oz, and I tried not to let it go to my head," remembers Doug.
He came up with the name "AdWords", a cross between "AdsDirect" and "BuyWords", two other names suggested for Google's online ad service.
Doug was the marketing directer of a company whose founders didn't want to spend too much money on marketing. "Efficiency. Frugality. Integrity." These were Google's most important principles. "Growing by word of mouth suited Larry and Sergey's animosity toward advertising. They scoffed at profligate startups and their Superbowl spots, because TV ads lacked accountability. (...) 'If we can't win on quality', [Larry] said quietly, 'we shouldn't win at all.' In his view, winning by marketing alone would be deceitful, because it would mean people had been tricked into using an inferior service against their own best interests."
Actually, Google created a marketing department because "a board member or a friend from Stanford had insisted the founders needed people to do staff that wasn't engineering."
Douglas shares a lot of interesting things about the early days of Google, when the company struggled to rewrite Google's original code, build a scalable infrastructure, convince major portals like Yahoo and AOL to use Google's search technology and find a way to monetize search. Google started with a great idea, but turning a research project into a successful company wasn't easy. Hiring smart people and creating a flat organization that replaced bureaucracy with meritocracy helped a lot. "Great things would come from packing [engineers] tightly together so that ideas bounced into one another, colliding and recombining in new, more patent ways," remembers Douglas.
Google has always been the anti-corporation, where you could question authority and where engineers were in the driving seat. That's probably the reason why "don't be evil" became Google's mantra. As Google became a bigger company, "don't be evil" helped Google stay true to itself. Even when Google did evil things, like testing ads mixed with search results, the mantra was always there to show the right path.
Douglas had an increasingly important role: from a marketing director that tried to promote Google without spending too much money to the voice of Google, the one who wrote or adjusted most of the text from Google's pages. He questioned many decisions of Google's co-founders, from adding daily doodles to creating an ad service that didn't require moderation, but he later realized that they were great ideas. A former marketing manager at Mercury News, Douglas had to change a lot of habits at Google, while learning a lot in the process.
His decision to leave the company came after he realized that a major Google reorganization made his role unnecessary. "I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy." Douglas thinks that Google's main flaw is the "impatience with those not quick enough to grasp the obvious truth of Google's vision." After leaving the company, he found himself "impatient with the way the world works" and discovered a lot of problems in everyday life. "Smart people, motivated to make things better, can do almost anything."
That's one of the most important things about Google: the motivation to make things better at a global scale. Creating a better browser, a better mail service, an ad service built around relevant ads, a translation service that constantly improves shows that Google cares a lot about finding the right answers to the important problems.
Gmail's Friend Suggest Algorithm
A recent Google paper [PDF] offers a lot of interesting information about an algorithm used by Gmail to suggest friends and to create contact groups.
Analyzing the outgoing and incoming messages, Gmail creates a social graph for each user. "We call the hypergraph composed of all of the edges leading into or out of a single user node that user's egocentric network. (...) Edges in the implicit social graph have both direction and weight. The direction of an edge is determined by whether it was formed by an outgoing email sent by the user, or an incoming email received by the user. There may be both outgoing and incoming edges joining a user and an implicit group, if the user has both sent and received email from the group. We consider a user to have received mail from a group by joining the sender of the mail and the other co-recipients into an implicit group. (...) The weight of an edge is determined by the recency and frequency of email interactions between the user and the group."
The social graph exists, even if it's not very obvious and not many Gmail features use it. The Friend Suggest algorithm uses the implicit groups to suggest contacts when you send a message to multiple recipients ("Don't forget Bob!") and to find contacts that are added by mistake to a list of recipients ("Got the wrong Bob?"). The two features have recently graduated from Gmail Labs.
"Our algorithm is inspired by the observation that, although users are reluctant to expend the eff ort to create explicit contact groups, they nonetheless implicitly cluster their contacts into groups via their interactions with them."
According to Google, more than 10% of the Gmail messages are sent to more than one recipient and more than 4% of the messages are sent to 5 or more recipients. All of these messages allow Google to automatically cluster contacts into groups that change dynamically.
Google says that Friend Suggest could have many other uses, "such as identifying trusted recommenders for online recommendation systems, or improving content sharing between users in various online contents."
{ via Greg Linden }
An Easy Way to Find Chrome Web Apps
Mihai Parparita, who is now a Chrome engineer, wrote a Chrome extension that lets you find apps from the Chrome Web Store without visiting the store. The extension simply adds a plus icon to the address bar when you visit a site that has a corresponding app in the Chrome Web Store.
"Discovery (i.e., how a user finds apps to install) is an interesting aspect of app stores. In some ways, discovery is not necessary: a significant appeal of the store is that it catalogs all the apps, so if the user is looking for a todo list or Twitter client, it's pretty obvious what to search for. However, that assumes that the user has a specific need in mind already, and is aware that that class of application exists," explains Mihai.
For now, Mihai's extension is just an experiment. The list of supported apps is included in a text file, which is incomplete and has to be updated. One of the advantages of using a static list is that the extension doesn't send your browsing history to a server. Another advantage is that it's much easier to find matches for the sites you've already visited. After installing the extension, a page titled "there's a Web app for that" will suggest some apps for the sites you're visiting frequently.
It's important to mention that the Chrome Web Store only lists official hosted apps. "If your hosted app is listed in the Chrome Web Store, you must prove that you control each domain specified in [the app field]," informs Google. There's a workaround for this, as the unofficial Google Music app shows: linking to a local HTML file that redirects to the app's URL. The Google Music app is a packaged app, not a hosted app, so Mihai's extension doesn't include it.
Right now, most of the apps are just shortcuts and the main benefit is that they're easily accessible from the new tab page. Some apps offer additional features and a small number of apps are actually full-fledged extensions (packaged apps). Google doesn't categorize apps and doesn't inform users if an app works offline.
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"Tender Sprouts"
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“It took only few moments to shake the whole world”
Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai, a Producer with BBC in Sri Lanka writes about covering the tsunami and its aftermath:
@ TamilWeek Dec 18, 2005
"I feel guilty, that I could not save Arabi. I lost control and let her die.
I am responsible for her death. I cannot forget her, because I loved
her so much. I still can’t believe that she is dead. I carried her dead
body from Mullaithivu to Mulliyawalai “says 13 years old Niranjana
Balakrishnan and she burst into tears in Mullaitivu, North East of Sri
Lanka, under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
"Tender Sprouts" was located in the coastal area of Mullaithivu, North
East of Sri Lanka.
This home for the war orphans had 175 children when Tsunami hit,
only 52 children survived; 30 of them experienced the Tsunami and
22 children were with their relatives, since it was school vacation,
when Tsunami hit.
Now the Tender Sprout has 126 children.
They want to accommodate more in the near future.
Although they are relocated to a different place inland, recent floods
affected them once more.
Most of the children here are affected by the Tsunami.
Either they have lost their beloved brothers and sisters or struggled to
survive.
They believe that, their beloved brothers and sisters who are still
missing from the group will return home sooner or later.
They can't eat, sleep or play.
The cherished memories of the loved ones keep bothering these
They are unable to forget the past.
The lost loved ones stayed, ate, slept and played together.
They get up in the night and shout.
Mullaithivu was one of the worst affected areas by Tsunami.
"I was putting cover for the new exercise books, and getting ready for
the new school term, which was supposed to begin in early January
2005. I heard a noise and everybody started to run. I also ran and
climbed on a tree. I saw my little sister under that tree. And later she
was washed away. I witnessed it. But I never saw her body. I was told
that, she died on the way to the hospital" says 9 years old Susi
Sinnathurai, who burst into tears.
There are more children, who do not know what has happened to
their loved ones.
These little children are already affected by the two decades of ethnic
conflict.
I was in London in December2004 undergoing training, when Tsunami
roared Sri Lanka.
I had a very late night on 25th of December 2004, at my uncle's
house in London, as we had a Christmas party.
I could not fall asleep at all, as I was thinking of traveling to
Manchester to see my uncle and aunt who have come from Toronto to
see their daughter.
I got up at 4am and had a shower.
I packed my bag, and got ready to catch the coach to Manchester,
where my cousin lives. whom I have not seen for many years.
I was planning to be with her, and my uncle who came to Manchester
from Toronto.
I made a cup of coffee.
And switched on the television, and watched BBC World.
Then I found out that Tsunami has hit Sri Lanka.
I immediately called my parents in Colombo to see whether they were
keeping well.
But the telephone lines to Sri Lanka were not easy to get through.
I informed my uncle and aunt that I have to return to Sri Lanka as
soon as possible.
Then I have decided to cancel my trip to Manchester, and return to Sri
Lanka.
I called my cousin and uncle to say that, "I am not coming to
Manchester as I have planned".
They were not happy to hear that from me, but there was no other
Then I called my good friend and former colleague Frances Harrison
and explained what has happened in Sri Lanka.
She wasn't happy either.
And later my mobile was jammed.
I was unable to get through to anybody from my mobile or others
couldn't get through to me on my mobile.
But I managed to send text messages to my colleagues.
And I have already started to make arrangements to my colleagues,
who were rushing to Sri Lanka for news coverage.
Further I informed everybody that I am returning to Sri Lanka.
My uncle and his children came to the Heathrow airport to bid
But my aunt couldn't come to the airport, as she was not feeling well.
I can still remember very well, that she advised me "Dushi I know that,
you have taken risks in the past. But make sure that you take care of
yourself, while being on the field and keep us informed how you are
keeping".
I boarded the Emirates flight.
The President of Sri Lanka Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
flew on the same flight.
I called home and my sources from wherever and whenever possible
to update myself.
And watched the television in the flight.
When I left London the death toll has already gone up to few
thousands.
And it kept on increasing.
I arrived at the Katunayake International airport on 27th of December
2004 morning.
I went to the office straight to pick up some equipment.
I pulled out some hot weather friendly clothes from my bag, as I had
all winter clothes to wear in London.
Although I was in Colombo, didn't have time to go to my house.
And went to the Ratmalana Domestic airport to catch a military flight.
The scheduled flight was cancelled due to the bad weather.
Managed to speak to the Sri Lankan Air force officers and got the
permission to fly to Koggala Air Force Base in the South of Sri Lanka.
I flew with the military officers, who were dropped off at Peraliya,
where the train accident took place.
I saw the devastation from the aerial view first, while flying to Koggala.
And I started to take photos, by using a small Canon, which produced
enormous amount of unimaginable images from North, East and
South of Sri Lanka later.
Landed at the Koggala Air Force Base at 6.30pm.
But there was no transport to go to Galle, South of Sri Lanka.,
because the roads were devastated.
I saw foreigners who were on holidays in the South, were queuing up
at the Koggala Air Force Base to fly to Colombo as soon as possible.
Spoke to Air Force officers, and they provided a jeep to get myself
dropped at Galle Light House Hotel, where my other colleagues were
I traveled in the jeep, which had food parcels for the affected people.
But they have already started to spoil, as time flew by.
The road was deserted.
It took three hours to get to Galle from Koggala.
I went to the Light House Hotel in Galle at 12 midnight.
I had to start work immediately.
I went to the Karapitiya Base Hospital in the morning.
I witnessed dead bodies coming endlessly to the hospital.
The hospital morgue and corridors were full of dead bodies.
Most of the bodies were beyond identification.
Wailing relatives rushing to the hospital to identify their loved ones by
their belongings such as rings, clothes, identity cards, and wrist watch.
I witnessed the mass burial in the South and in the North later.
The dead bodies were wrapped in polythene sheets.
The military was transporting the dead bodies from the sea shore to
the hospital and burial place in the South.
But in the North the cadres of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
cleared the area quicker than expected, disinfected the places, and
transported the survivors to a safer place.
I saw nobody in Mullaitivu town, except the cadres who were carrying
out their duties and dogs, which were searching for their owners.
And especially in the nights it was very disheartening to see a place,
which was bustling after the Ceasefire Agreement signed between the
then Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam in 2002.
Then I went to the Eastern province of Sri Lanka, where the most
number of people killed by the Tsunami.
Witnessed the suffering by all three communities- Tamils, Muslims and
Sinhalese.
There was no proper place to stay in the east, unlike other places in
The roads were cut off by water.
I managed to find a guest house to stay in Kalmunai, East of Sri
Lanka, which was affected as well.
There was no water to drink or bathe.
I used mineral water to bathe.
The owner of that guest house knows my dad very well, as he comes
from the same place as my dad's.
Therefore he was extra hospitable to us.
As the shops were shut, he served us French fries, sausages and
coca cola.
But I didn't have any appetite for food, because of what I have
witnessed so far started to bother me so much.
Especially I witnessed in Kalmunai that the dogs have started to eat
the dead human bodies which were unattended.
This was staggering to see.
I immediately informed the relevant authorities, but no action was
As a Hindu, I even respect a dead body.
So I have decided to do a mass burial for five females, three males
and three children –one male and two females.
My parents, brothers and relatives live in Sri Lanka and abroad kept
calling me to keep them updated.
I requested all of them to send anything possible from edible to money
to Sri Lanka as soon as possible to help the survivors.
They acted very promptly and quickly.
Some of have decided to sponsor Tsunami orphan through out the
life time, widowers and men who lost their livelihoods.
And some of them lobbied in their countries and got long term
monetary assistance for the tsunami affected victims in North, East
and South of Sri Lanka, for which I really appreciate all the kind
hearted human beings who extended their fullest co-operation to the
survivors, without any hesitation.
Further, I have witnessed the suffering of the survivors from all
communities in Sri Lanka.
The people have become closer to my heart.
As I travel widely to the Tsunami hit areas very often people recognize
me by my name, especially in the North, place I call my home always.
Most of them call me in Tamil "Amma"-Mother, "Magal"-Daughter,
“Pillai” –Child, "Thangachchi"- Younger Sister, "Akka"- Elder Sister,
"Monai" and "Nachchiyar", and share their heart breaking sad stories
without any boundaries.
Those unforgettable and unhappy memories linger in me steadfastly.
And I gathered new experiences in my decade long career, by
covering the worst ever natural disaster- Tsunami, and the largest
ever relief operation in the world. I had the opportunity of working
with several world renowned Journalists.
On 26th of December 2004- boxing day, Tsunami- seven hours that
shook the world, approximately 220,000 lives killed, so many million
people made homeless and many of them still live in the temporary
shelters.
In Sri Lanka about 38,000 people killed, 2, 34,000 affected and 1,
14,000 made homeless.
And most of the survivors still live in pain, while thinking about their
lost loved ones.
There were two waves, the first was- a wave of killer, and the second
was a wave of compassion.
"I loved my wife so much. We never had an argument. She was very
affectionate. I miss her a lot. We were in the house, when tsunami hit.
I survived, but I couldn't safe her. I feel guilty now. But it's too late. I
don't know how to make a cup of tea even. That's how she took care
of me. I can't forget the happy moments with her and remarry. I want
to commit suicide. Because it's killing me day by day' says 56 years
old fisherman Sundaramoorthy Sriskandarajah from Vannaankulam in
Mullativu district, North East of Sri Lanka.
The Tsunami has made 80% of the men widowers in Mullaithivu
district alone.
And most of their children, who survived the Tsunami, are living with
their extended family members, as the fathers are unable to take care
of them.
Twelve months have flown by since Tsunami, but the nightmares are
never far behind them!
“The Tsunami was much destructive than two decades of civil war “the
most of the survivors reiterated.
Most of their voices are still to be heard, by touching the peoples'
lives with passion.
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Not that it matters, but these two character designs were loosely based on my own parents (a fighter pilot and a stewardess in real life — they hardly ever robbed banks). Happy Birthday, Mom! (Not that either of them read this.)
There are now 35 comments... what are your thoughts?
Oddstar says
So is Jack her husband? Or is she an adulteress as well as a thief? Or was she never married at all? I noticed that her rap sheet listed several aliases, including “Miss Bunbury” (emphasis added), so maybe “Mrs.” was just an alias or cover.
Also, if the Maguffin was just a worthless trinket, why did Tziz want it in the first place? The story “started with a summons from the Big Cheese.” Havran must have made his deal with the feds after that, because how could he have known that Tziz would approach him when he went to the feds? But if Tziz summoned him first, he must have already have known that the “famous Maguffin” was in the bank’s vault. So how could using a worthless trinket in its place ever have worked?
Lastly, we are going to see these characters again, right?
Raen says
in reply to Oddstar
I’m guessing Miss Bunbury was engaged to Ernest.
Best guess — The deal happened before the summons. Havran fed the information about the Macguffin to the Big Cheese after the deal, either directly or through rumormongering from a trustworthy source (“*You* know my reputation — so do *they*.”). When the Big Cheese summons them all, Havran is chosen because he was the source of the info.
Rufus Shinra says
1) Called it!
2) It’s awesome!
3) Please, please show us these characters again!
in reply to Rufus Shinra
Are you planning a chapter on extradition?
They’re both still on the hook for murder, aren’t they? Even if the “heist” that resulted in the dead baby was a sting?
in reply to Sean
She’s on the run, as usual, and they are probably going to get conviced she killed him, so he’s off the hook if he stays low.
Well, something to keep in mind is that the relevant extradition laws would be those of the country they’re in.
That said, a chapter on extradition as it applies to ‘someone who’s in the US and committed crimes in Australia’ might be interesting.
in reply to Jon
What did you do? (NO! DO NOT ANSWER THAT ONLINE, YOU FOOL.)
(The treaty seems fairly straightforward, by the way.
What did I do? Why do you ask? Are you a cop?
AM I BEING DETAINED?!
Well, I used Australia as an example mostly because I live there. :P
But I was thinking in the more general case, really. Basically, were there any special legal cases that applied if someone was being extradited out of America.
(It’s no great surprise that the relevant treaty is simple, given the good relationships our respective countries have… as far as any legal document can be ‘simple’, mind)
I’ve got to say, for a comic about law and order, you really make your crooks likable.
in reply to Raen
Some crooks are likable. It’s an advantage to have people like you when you’re trying to cheat or mislead them.
Lee Shane says
in reply to Steve
I hate to say it, but I don’t like them. I don’t like it when bad guys when; it really peeves me off. I don’t know why I get emotional over fictional things like this, but I do. I may be staying away from this site for a while now so I can forget about it.
In real life, though to be sure there are some nasty types out there, for the most part they’re just folks.
Andrew Farrell says
Have you ever maintained a relationship with any of the people you’ve gotten off, or do you always just go your separate ways afterward?
in reply to Andrew Farrell
It occurs to me that “gotten off” sounds either pejorative or at least awkwardly sexual.
Most of the time, we go our separate ways. A few still keep in touch.
Albert says
No, they aren’t. You know who are just folks?
The working poor. People who work hard for barely enough to live on, living on margins so thin that nobody would willingly put up with it if they had an alternative.
All it takes is _one_ encounter with _your_ idea of “oh, they’re just folks” and they can be left with a life in ruins. And since they can’t afford the protections available to the rich, they’re the preferred prey.
I’ll save my fellow-feeling for people who don’t bring down ruination upon the innocent.
YumAntimatter says
in reply to Albert
I think that what Nathan meant by “just folks” wasn’t that criminals are good people who you should treat the same as anyone else. It seems like he’s saying that most criminals don’t look or act differently from normal people (when they aren’t committing crimes).
JZ says
in reply to YumAntimatter
“People are alike all over.”
Tualha says
One of the greater shames of our society is that many of the ripoffs affecting the working poor are perfectly legal, and are perpetrated with the help of the criminal justice system, or even directly by that system.
in reply to Tualha
Well, now, you’re talking about tyrannous government. Which is a slightly different issue than sympathy for private citizens who commit felony-level _malum in se_.
Getting rid of the bloody redcoats takes a bit more organizing and effort than convincing a _malum in se_ crook to lie down and be a good crook. Fortunately, as the central government slowly collapses under its own weight, local tyrants will have less and less ability to summon enough jack-booted thugs to trample the stiff-neck’ed.
This is what leads to your Robin Hood Scenario. If memory serves during the 30’s there were some very popular bank robbers. The banks were so hated for their policies at the time that people who stole from the banks could be seen as hero’s of the people.
In the end we must separate law and ethics. Good governments try to make one mirror the other, but they cannot do it perfectly because they are imposing order. (Though I think we all agree this is preferable to the alternatives.)
Harry says
…right, because everyone Mr. Burney defends is guilty, and every law a person may break should result in criminal charges. Yeah.
Gregory Bogosian says
Statistically, the poor are more likely to commit crime than the general population. So those two groups, criminals and the working poor, are not mutually exclusive by any stretch of the imagination. Wikipedia|Correlates_of_crime|Socioeconomic_factors
in reply to Gregory Bogosian
Also as a thought, stealing from the poor does not make much sense. They do not have much to take.
There is an interesting demand/difficulty calculation when performing crime for profit. The most poor are uneducated and often poorly protected by local law enforcement, but have very little to take. The rich have a lot to take, but can afford security and can afford things like private investigators and very good legal counsel when working to recover their property and help ensure evidence gathered is usable by a prosecutor later.
So reward increases as risk increases. Knowing your skills as a crook and how much risk you can manage is key.
in reply to Kevin
Stealing a meaningful amount of money from the rich is kind of impossible for a normal person. The rich keep most of their net worth in bank deposits and financial assets. Rich people who have underground vaults full of gold bullion in their basements only exist in cartoons. Banks are insured by the federal government. So even if you successfully rob a bank the government just reimburses all of the depositors for any losses up to $250,000. So the bank robber still makes money but the government losses money rather than the depositors, except for deposits larger than the insured amount. You can’t really steal financial assets that only exist as entries in a ledger, at least not as far as I know. The closest thing that you can do to that is committing fraud and/or insider trading in a financial transaction. Doing those things, especially to a rich person with access to accountants, lawyers, and other advisers requires a working knowledge of the financial system. Having that knowledge usually means that the perpetrator is rich themselves, or at least upper-middle class.
The poor feed on the poor, the rich feed on the rich.
After all the definition of an amount of money worth breaking the law for changes depending on your economic background.
How many times does someone stick up a convenience store and walk away with more than $300 dollars? You have to have a low threshold to steal from them.
Yes, there is undeniable correlation between crime and poverty, but it does not necessitate causation. It could be just as easily explained through the correlation of intelligence. That is, there is a high correlation between “the smarter you are, the more money you have,” and when you apply that to the correlation with money and crime, it could be that smarter people just don’t get convicted as often.
That is a real possibility. However, we cannot investigate it empirically. It is impossible to measure the number of cases where the perpetrator escaped justice through their comparatively high intelligence because in those cases we usually do not know the true identity of the perpetrator. I find it more plausible that the more intelligent members of the population are better able to understand and manipulate the law, and are thus more likely to use the law for their own personal gain rather than break the law for their own personal gain.
Hmmmm. Overly elaborate scheme; the police trying to keep up and almost, but not quite doing so; an obsessive amount of detail about the law and legal matters, with emphasis on the things you wish were different but aren’t so they get exploited; a Caribbean island; and a plot that can be summed up easily in one quick phrase – “The MacGuffin”
I’m on to your secret webcomic hobby, Mr. Grisham.
Robert Montrose says
Awww, look, they really do love each other. Well, you know what they say, thick as thieves!
Now I’m just waiting for the inevitable fanfics about our criminal couple to emerge.
“they hardly ever robbed banks”.
Hmmm… this implies they did at least twice…
Ann Onymous says
So what doesn’t make sense after the two plot twists is why Mrs. Flavors told Jack she’d be keeping the MacGuffin, thus inciting Bahr’s anger. Why would she do that if it was worthless and they were working together and everything. Was it just to look realistic in front of Bahr (and the cops, should they show up right then, which they did)?
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Saint-Étienne-sur-Blesle
Saint-Étienne-sur-Blesle is a town situated in the Haute-Loire département (Auvergne région). The town of Saint-Étienne-sur-Blesle belongs to the canton of Blesle and the district of Brioude. The inhabitants number of Saint-Étienne-sur-Blesle in the 1999 population census was 52. The town's surface is 17.9 km². Saint-Étienne-sur-Blesle has the following code INSEE: 43182 and is associated with the following postal code: 43450. It is situated at an altitude of about 580 meters.
Région: Auvergne
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Code Insee: 43182
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Inhabitants in 1990: 79
Surface: 17.9 km²
Density (in 1999): 3 inhabitants/km²
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Longitude East: 03°08'10'' 3.1361° 0.054735 r
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4 Leyvaux (15) 5.1 km
5 Grenier-Montgon (43) 5.4 km
6 Auriac-l'Église (15) 5.4 km
7 Espalem (43) 7.5 km
8 Torsiac (43) 7.6 km
9 Anzat-le-Luguet (63) 7.7 km
10 Massiac (15) 8.4 km
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Here’s where you’ll find regular updates on work taking place in Lodi’s parks, such as construction, equipment replacement or upgrades, or major maintenance projects.
Blakely Park Restroom Renovation (Bids open now)
Emerson Park drinking fountain replacement: New fountains will be installed in February 2020.
Blakely Park sports fields renovations: The City was awarded an $882,340 State grant to renovate the ball fields on the north side of the park, and construct a new basketball court. Work is anticipated to begin in spring 2020.
Lodi Lake Nature Area entry improvements: The City was awarded a $250,000 State grant to renovate the amphitheater, expand the stage, construct a stage cover and construct wheelchair accessible walkways to the amphitheater to enhance education about the environment in the 58-acre Nature Area.
Lodi Lake Park riverbank stabilization: The City received a $1 million State grant to design and construct improvements that will protect the park from further river erosion. Lengthy environmental studies and permitting requirements will likely result in this project being constructed in 2021.
Candy Cane Park: The City Council approved the plans and specifications for park renovations on March 6. Construction was completed in November 2019.
Kofu Park Tennis Court Resurfacing: The City Council awarded an $81,888 to First Serve Productions of Danville to resurface the five tennis courts at Kofu Park, plus add stripes for four pickleball courts. In addition, this project included replacing two tennis courts with six pickleball courts at Legion Park, leaving two tennis courts. Construction completed in September 2019.
Blakely Park Pool: Construction began Dec. 17, 2018 on a project to replace the deck and plaster at Enze Pool, and install new starting blocks for the competitive summer swim program. The project was needed to extend the life of the pool and make it accessible to disabled visitors. Funding comes through the Community Development Block Grant, a federal program designed to help low-income neighborhoods and persons. The pool opened on June 3. Cost: $411,500. A shade structure ($48,000, Stratus Construction of Stockton) was installed the summer of 2019 to provide swimmers and spectators some relief from the sun.
Emerson and Legion Parks picnic shelter renovations: Rotting timbers were replaced and the remaining ones pressure washed and resealed in May 2019.
Legion Park basketball improvements: New standards, backboards and hoops were installed in March 2018.
Scoreboard improvements: New scoreboards were installed at the Softball Complex, including Chapman Field, and Kofu Park in February 2018.
Emerson Park paver replacement: Pavers uprooted by a tree were replaced by stamped concrete to match the remaining pavers in June 2018.
Henry Glaves Park playground improvements: This $150,000 project consisted of removing the remaining play structures and installing new playground equipment and wheelchair access to the play area. The project was completed in August 2018.
Poured-in-Place playground surface: This $73,000 project was completed in April 2018, consisting of repairing damaged rubberized playground surfacing at four park playgrounds.
Emerson Park tot lot: Thanks to the Lodi Lions Club, which donated labor and a new tot playground structure to replace the one removed in January 2017 for unsafe conditions. The project was completed in November 2018.
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Advertisement – As part of Liberia’s 170th Independence Celebrations, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced that Liberia is partnering with an infrastructure company, CSquared, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to bring best-in-class, reliable, affordable broadband infrastructure to Monrovia. A press release yesterday said Liberia is one of the least connected countries in the world, with only 5% of citizens able to access the Internet.“This partnership is a $12M investment that will serve to strengthen essential health, education and government systems, as well as help unlock the potential of the digital economy for Liberian citizens and private enterprise,” the release said.The release quoted President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as saying: “ICT is an integral part of economic development that is often overlooked and undervalued. By expanding our connectivity through this initiative, we will strengthen the support for more ICT based projects and programs in Education, Health, and Infrastructure.”The Government of Liberia has identified increasing fiber infrastructure as a vital part of its economic stabilization and recovery plan. The release said USAID is proud to support Liberia in advancing access to digital infrastructure and has committed an additional $10M to support connected programs in the areas of eGovernment, health information systems, and digital financial inclusion. USAID is also supporting the expansion of Liberia’s digital economy by providing access to a loan guarantee program for qualified, local, digital businesses and entrepreneurs. The Government of Liberia has identified increasing fiber infrastructure as a vital part of its economic stabilization and recovery plan.The United States Ambassador to Liberia, Christine Elder, is also quoted as saying “the United States is committed to helping Liberia provide its people increased access to the Internet.” Ambassador Elder added that “expanding connectivity in Liberia is crucial to helping USAID fulfill its mission to help Liberia end extreme poverty and build resilient democratic institutions.”This partnership builds on CSquared’s proven experience in designing and building shared metropolitan fiber infrastructure in the African cities of Kampala and Entebbe in Uganda, and the cities of Accra, Tema, and Kumasi in Ghana. To date, CSquared has built more than 800 km of fiber in Uganda and more than 840 km in Ghana. Collectively over 25 ISPs and MNOs now use these metro fiber networks to offer broadband services and 4G data to end users, with over 1,200 tower and commercial building sites connected directly to CSquared’s fiber infrastructure.Said Estelle Akofio-Sowah, CSquared West Africa regional manager: “We are excited to be expanding into Monrovia, our third country after Uganda and Ghana. CSquared is committed to working with partners like the Government of Liberia and USAID to expand the ways people around Africa can reliably and affordably connect to the Internet. With 60% of the population of Liberia under the age of 24, we anticipate unprecedented growth in data consumption.”It may be recalled that CSquared on May 16, 2017, along with Google, Convergence Partners, International Finance Corporation, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., signed an agreement to invest in CSquared, a technology company making commercially-driven investments into broadband-enabling infrastructure throughout Africa. CSquared will operate as an independent company based in Nairobi. By investing in a shared Internet infrastructure and making it available to local ISPs and mobile operators, CSquared helps bring high-quality broadband access to Africa’s major cities.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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PPP exploring end of October for regional, national elections
– calls on GECOM to urgently make decision on way forwardThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is now considering a date in late October for the hosting of early General and Regions Elections – a timeline that was worked out by the PPP-nominated Commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).Opposition Leader Bharrat JagdeoThis was revealed by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo at his weekly press conference on Thursday. He told reporters that this is a more realistic date for holding of early polls.“We’ve stuck with September 18 ‘cause that’s the constitutional date, but we know the Government is unconstitutional and it would be impossible now – given that the decision has not been made to hold elections by September 18. So, I’ve seen a timeline worked out by our Commissioners which has— with all of the processes being followed so that you don’t come cut corners— elections towards the latter part of October,” he stated.However, the Opposition Leader noted that the PPP Commissioners did not get to submit this proposal to GECOM at its last meeting on Wednesday.“I don’t think they really had an opportunity [to make the submission]. I don’t want to talk about what took place at the meeting because I think all of the parties are in discussion,” he noted.Nevertheless, Jagdeo posited that if GECOM is to immediately abandon the ongoing House-to-House Registration and move to a Claims and Objections alternative, then an October elections would be possible.“If they move now, we can have elections early… I’ve seen the timeline. You can achieve [it]. If you do that now, like say they start on Monday with a Claims and Objection, or even Wednesday if they need time to prepare, you can achieve end October…,” he contended.On this note, the Opposition Leader called on GECOM to urgently come up with a decision, noting that Guyanese are anxiously awaiting a way forward.“GECOM must act with alacrity, recognising that people are out there waiting. The enumerators are in limbo… Guyanese people are in limbo in the face of the Commission saying they’re waiting on the Chief Justice’s ruling… Why don’t they stop it now? They should stop it immediately, and that is the only course forward and to start Claims and Objections – it’s a time-tested method,” he stressed.Following a meeting on Wednesday, the Retired Justice Claudette Singh-led Elections Commission failed for a second time to come up with a decision on how to proceed regarding elections and the ongoing House-to-House (H2H) Registration. The Commissioners were tight-lipped about the meeting, but it was noted that GECOM would be able to advise President David Granger “very soon” on their preparedness for early polls.The Elections Commission will be meeting again today to continue their discussions.However, Jagdeo is insisting that GECOM should go ahead and scrap the ongoing Registration and move to a Claims and Objections period. This, he pointed out, would be consistent with the recent ruling of Chief Justice Roxane George on the constitutionality of ongoing H2H Registration.Last week, Justice George ruled that while the conduct of H2H registration is not unconstitutional, it would be unconstitutional for the exercise to remove qualified persons from the voters’ list for reasons other than death or those disqualified under Article 159 (2) (3) or (4).According to the Chief Justice, GECOM cannot operate in a normal elections cycle and any verification process used must take into consideration the December 2018 passage of the No-Confidence Motion (NCM).“The NCM is an extraordinary circumstance that GECOM must bear in mind in its decision making as it conducts the House-to-House Registration and for that matter, any verification process that has as the objective, the compilation, or revision of the list of electors for the required upcoming elections,” Justice George noted in her written ruling that was recently released.Perusing the CJ’s decision at Thursday’s press conference, the Opposition Leader posited that despite three sections of the ruling stating clearly that it would be unconstitutional to remove qualified persons from the list, GECOM is still continuing with H2H, which, in the first place, intended to de-register everyone and create a new National Register of Registrants Database (NRRD).“You’d recall that the reason for House-to-House Registration was to de-register all Guyanese who had been registered before and create a new list. That meant that if you registered before and if you didn’t re-register then you’re not gonna be on the database for the future and you couldn’t vote. But the Chief Justice said you cannot [be removed from the voters’ list], GECOM doesn’t have the authority [to do that],” he asserted.To this end, Jagdeo underscored the importance of abiding by the CJ’s ruling and prepare for the hosting of early elections, especially since the country has been on hold since December last year.“The Government is an important interlocutor in people’s lives and, therefore, many people are uncertain as to how to engage this Government because we’ve made it clear that much of what they’re doing, in fact most of what they’re doing, is illegal because the Government is unconstitutional… In another part of the world, this would be described as a dictatorship… we’ve been a bit more generous in saying its unconstitutional rule. But what you’ve had here is a coup d’état by abdication of responsibility,” the Opposition Leader stated.President Granger has maintained that he needs to be advised by GECOM on its preparedness before announcing a date for General and Regional Elections. However, some Government officials have been floating around a date in December, but Jagdeo is insisting that polls can be held long before yearend if the H2H exercise is scrapped and a Claims and Objections period is used instead. read more
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Each of seven Turkey regions has its own clothing traditions and features
Turkey is a country with old clothing traditions. Their roots are in the Ottoman Empire which has formed Turkish cultural and traditional heritage pretty much. Even hundreds of years after the Ottoman Empire, Turkish national costume has a lot of features typical for those days. But today few people in Turkey wear traditional clothing in day-to-day life. Men usually use European style of clothes or mix some elements of the folk dress with western pieces of attire. Women wear national costumes more often, they retained the national dress more fully and keep the traditions more carefully.
Turkish national dress dramatically changed in XX century. There used to be garments typical to Islamic custom: women wore abaya dresses and men wore turbans and fezzes. In 1925 such clothing was announced illegal by the government of Turkey. After that people began to wear more European style of clothing. Although, women still use a lot of pieces of traditional Turkish costume, but men usually wear a mix of modern and vintage parts of attire. For example, men use caps instead of turbans.
Turkish woman in national costume
One of the typical features of Turkish clothing is the usage of many layers. Very often people wear trousers, a long robe and a jacket on top. Women usually wear several scarves or kerchiefs of different colors. Flamboyance is another typical thing for Turkey. The traditional attire is always colorful, bright and striking.
Turkish woman in national clothing presents Turkish embroidered towels
One of the most amazing pieces of Turkish clothing is socks. They are handmade and very bright. A lot of different patterns are used. The yarn used for knitting is colorful, natural and warm.
There are 7 geographical regions of Turkey: Aegean, Black Sea, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, Marmara, Mediterranean and Southeastern Anatolia. Each one of them has its own clothing traditions and features of national costume. Traditional attire of various regions differs one from another much. So, let's talk about traditional clothing of each region separately.
Traditional dress of Aegean region
Women's attire consists of a long robe, baggy trousers, a short jacket, an apron, several head scarves (sometimes with a fez), slippers, and a lot of jewelry. Traditional fabrics are silk, velvet, and cotton. Every piece of clothing is embroidered or embellished. Different patterns of fabric are popular, but the most common are colorful stripes.
Traditional festive costume from Merkez Kapıkaya köyü, Aegean region. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Men's attire consists of short baggy trousers, a jacket, a shirt, a wide belt, a neckerchief, a headgear, socks, and slippers or boots. Male clothing is also rather bright and colorful, embroidered and decorated with jewelry. Stripes are the most popular among patterns on fabric. The headdress can be very interesting, high and unusual (not only fez or turban).
Traditional wedding costumes from the Aydin province, Aegean region. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Traditional dress of Black Sea region
People who live in this region are very strict, proud-spirited and independent. And their costumes are made in the same spirit. Traditional clothing is used mostly by women, while men wear western-style garments.
Women's attire consists of a peştemal (it is a piece of linen, usually striped, wrapped around the waist), a shawl called "keşan" (which covers the head, torso, and face), socks and shoes or slippers. In some parts of Black Sea region women also use blue aprons, in other female costume consists of a dress made of black silk brocade and a bright orange waistcloth. But still, peştemal and keşan are considered to be the national clothing of Black Sea region of Turkey. Typical colors of garments of this region are black, orange, burgundy, crimson and brown. Stripes are often used, just as in other Turkish regions.
Traditional daily costume from Nebiköy, Black Sea region. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Turkish woman from Pontic region in traditional clothing (without a headdress)
Men's attire consists of baggy trousers (called "şalvar" or "shalwar kameez"), a shirt, a jacket (it often was a yelek – Ottoman male jacket with hanging sleeves), a headdress, socks, and shoes or boots.
Traditional bridegroom/festive costume from Nebiköy, Black Sea region. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Traditional dress of Central Anatolia
Women's attire consists of baggy trousers, a skirt, an apron, a shirt, a jacket, a belt (often it is a piece of colorful cloth), a headdress, socks, and shoes. Central Anatolian dress is very rich, colorful and embellished. There is lots of jewelry used with festive costumes. Pieces of clothing are hand-woven and richly embroidered. Silk, velvet, cotton and woolen cloth are popular.
Traditional costume of a village bride from the central district of the Sivas province, Central Anatolia. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Men's attire consists of long or short baggy trousers, a shirt, a yelek (Ottoman male jacket with hanging sleeves) or another jacket, a wide belt, headgear, socks, and boots or shoes. The most used colors are blue, red, yellow and black. The striped fabric is also used sometimes. The male costume has less embellishment (including embroidery) than female one. But every festive Turkish costume should be equipped with a weapon (pistols, guns, swords, knives etc.). Central Anatolian men's garment is no exception.
Traditional parade costume of the people's militia from Dinar, Central Anatolia. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Traditional dress of Eastern Anatolia
Eastern Anatolia is a region where many Kurdish and Armenian people live together with Turkish people. That's why the national costume of this territory has a lot of features of Kurdish and Armenian clothes.
Women's attire consists of baggy trousers, a long skirt, robe or dress, a shirt, a jacket, a wide belt (or piece of cloth as a belt), a scarf or other headdress, socks and shoes or slippers. As well as in other regions of Turkey, in Eastern Anatolia women wear many layers of clothes. The whole body is covered with clothing (as Turkey is a Muslim country). Garments are bright and colorful, the red color is one of the most popular. Fabrics with floral patterns are widespread. Women don't use lots of jewelry. The clothing is often pretty simple but can look rather festive even without much jewelry.
Traditional festive village costumes from Adiyaman and Malatya, Eastern Anatolia. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Men's attire consists of baggy trousers, a shirt, a jacket (today it is sometimes replaced by a vest), a wide belt, a headgear, socks, and shoes or boots. Kurdish costume usually consists of a long robe, a shirt or undershirt, a wide belt, a headscarf, socks and shoes. Men's modern costume often looks pretty European-style; only şalvar trousers give some Turkish flavor to the garment.
Traditional costume from the province of Urfa, Eastern Anatolia. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Traditional dress of Marmara region
The national clothing of Marmara region of Turkey differs a little bit from garments used in other regions. People in Marmara region mostly use a lot of embroidery on their costumes. They always embroider undergarments (underpants and undershirt) because they are seen from under the upper clothing. Embroidery on attire is the main embellishment of traditional clothing of this area.
Women's attire consists of very wide baggy trousers, a long-sleeved vest, a jacket, a belt, a headgear, socks, and shoes. Sometimes an apron is also used. Another variant of folk dress consists of embroidered underpants and long undershirt, a skirt, a jacket, a kerchief on the waist, a belt, a headdress, socks, and shoes. Clothes look multilayer, puffy and rather checkered because of rich embroidery.
Traditional festive costume for girls and young women, from the Türkmen villages in the Keles district, Marmara region. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Men's attire consists of rather narrow baggy trousers (tucked into socks), a shirt, a vest, a hand towel, worn on the waist belt, another towel, worn across the shoulders, a headdress, high socks and shoes. Very often neckerchief is used as well. Male costume, same as female, is richly embroidered and embellished. It is also bright, puffy and multilayer. The shirt is usually striped. A bag, weapons, and a tobacco purse complement the image.
Traditional bridegroom/festive costume of the Karakeçeli villages in the district of Keles, Marmara region. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Traditional dress of Mediterranean region
Women's attire consists of a skirt or dress (below the knee long), a shirt, a jacket, a headdress or kerchief, socks, and shoes. The costume is very bright and colorful. The most common colors are red, blue and yellow. The striped cloth is often used for dresses, skirts, and shirts. The clothing looks rich, embellished and multilayer.
Traditional festive costumes of the Honamli Yörükleri (Toros Mountains, Antalya province, Mediterranean region). Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Men's attire consists of baggy trousers (tucked into socks), a shirt, a jacket, a wide belt, a headgear, high socks and shoes. Male traditional costume looks rather simple but festive. It's a strict beauty. The color of trousers and jackets is dark: black, brown or blue. But jackets are embellished with embroidery. The belts are colorful and fall into the eye.
Traditional festive costume from Tefenni (in the province of Burdur, Mediterranean region). Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Traditional dress of Southeastern Anatolia
Women's attire consists of a long dress, a caftan (a long robe), a belt, a headscarf or other headdress, socks and shoes. Folk dress of this region is rather laconic, it has only few layers. It looks very feminine and tender. But still, the whole body should be covered with clothes. The pieces of attire are embellished with embroidery and jewelry, but moderately, not as richly as in some other regions.
Traditional festive village costume from the Gaziantep province, Southeastern Anatolia. Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
Men's attire consists of baggy trousers, a shirt, a robe (knee-long or just above the knee) or a jacket, a wide belt or kerchief around the waist, a headdress, socks, and shoes or boots. The clothing looks pretty simple, without much embellishment. The outerwear (caftan, jacket, vest or robe) is usually embroidered.
Traditional costume of the people's militia, from Gaziantep (Southeastern Anatolia region). Photo from Pinterest.com, by Jean-Marie Criel
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#19 Ani 2019-12-31 19:25
Quoting ayse:
Quoting TURK:
Turkey is not middle eastern
Quoting Esra:
Turkey is not a middle eastern country. What a ignorance...
Quoting Leyla:
Best Sofia,
Cultural reasons? You believe Armenia is Europe but Turkey is Middle Eastern? Turkey isn't culturally Middle Eastern. I'd say Turkey under Asia or Europe since it is an Eurasian country, but not Middle East.
Turkey is middle eastern. Idk why Turks get so offended by this. Not only geographically, but culturally we have so much in common with middle eastern countries it shouldn't be taken as an insult.
As for Armenia and Azerbaijan, it's not a competition. Why is it such an important thing to be considered European? Geographically Europe extends up north down to Armenia, and parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan, hence the classification.
I'm a proud Turk and I love the diversity our country has and I think we should acknowledge and accept the fact that our roots come from the east.
By the way, Georgia and Azerbaijan are ABOVE Armenia, which would make Armenia completely in Asia/Middle East/whatever you want to call the region (which it is)... and Armenian culture can definitely be classified as Middle Eastern. So can Turkey’s. Sorry to change the topic, but I just felt this needed to be pointed out,
#18 Talal 2019-12-29 06:54
I am from Istanbul, Turkey and from Damascus, Syria too & let me tell you that those 2 countries are like twins. Turkey is Middle Eastern. The Middle East is a region between Europe, Africa, and Asia. Turkey and Syria are basically like 1 country; they both have the same/very similar cultures, food, music, dance, traditions, & etc. Most Syrians are originally Turkish or are part Turkish and most Turks are originally Syrian or are part Syrian. The Middle East stretches from The Balkan region all the way to Egypt and to Iran. Most of us are Mediterranean people/Middle Easter people (same thing)!
Yea it is!! Then what is it? African?
I am Turkish from Istanbul and I know my country/region...lol!!
That is why it is called the Middle East lol!!! It is the region between Asia, Africa and Europe. Learn your definitions!!
#15 ayse 2019-12-22 21:44
#14 Visionary 2019-06-11 02:37
Quoting Armen:
These are not Turkish clothes.these are clothes of native of Anatolia.Greeks,Kurds,Armenians,Assyrians,Persians.
None of those ethnicities are Native Anatolians. Turks are Native Anatolians,
#13 TURK 2019-04-08 19:54
Culturally close? How????? You clearly don't know anything about turkish culture that's for sure (or middle eastern culture).
#12 Leyla 2019-04-08 19:45
Turkey has waaaay more in common with Azerbaijan (which is seen as European here ) than with Saudi or Syria. This website is so disappointing..
#10 Omar 2019-03-13 00:19
Turkey is an amazing country with a wide range of clothing to reflect this.
#9 Sofia 2019-03-01 10:45
Where would you take it? To what part of the world?
We added it to the Middle East, but not by geographic position, rather by cultural peculiarities.
#8 Esra 2019-02-28 11:39
#7 Aishwarya 2018-11-27 06:18
Really good and understandable. Was very useful for my syllabus
#6 TURK 2018-09-02 19:11
#5 Ergena Spata 2018-08-28 23:52
Why isnt the albanian folk costume amongst the rest please
#4 Simpleminds 2018-08-20 02:21
What a troll. According to Armen, Turks must be aliens.
#3 Emine 2018-06-24 12:44
Why do you say that ? Are you a specialist of the turkish traditionnal clothes ? You should give prooves to show what you say.
I am a turkish woman and I know my people and their way of living and I say that all these clothes are typically turkish.
With a name like yours "Armen", and with what you say with no proof, you are probably one of those Turkey and Turks haters. Poor Armen !
#2 Armen 2018-05-26 23:56
These are not Turkish clothes.these are clothes of native of Anatolia.Greeks,Kurds,Armenians,Assyrians,Persians .
#1 Yaseen 2016-04-27 07:22
This blog is pretty much good. I really like it. I enjoyed each picture and culture too. I completely agree that clothing matters to all region. Your blog not only giving a glance of Turkey Region but also giving a feel to a person like he/she belongs to Turkey and enjoying culture over there.
I also have a online store (Mughals.co) for women ethnic wear. Just visit their and checkout diversity of ethnic wear
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Is nationalism ever a force for good?
Dalia Gebrial and Thomas Jeffrey Miley go head to head on this complex and topical issue
Nationalism: can it be a force for good? Illustrations: Kate Copeland
DALIA: Nationalism is one hell of a drug. No matter how many times it’s been declared dead, the idea of the nation finds a way of rearing its head and grabbing the political landscape by the throat. Particularly in times of crisis, nationalist language that otherwise seemed old-fashioned and gauche suddenly feels like the only way you can speak without being heckled off the political stage.
Fundamentally, the power of nationalism lies in its ability to appeal to a sense of common good. It’s a way of tying (some) people together in pursuit of an imagined positive future. As a socialist, I have sympathy with this. However, the problem is that nationhood is based on identity, rather than material principles.
‘The idea that nationalism is a neutral tool, used for good as well as bad, is a fantasy ’ – Dalia Gebrial
To construct the nation, you have to construct those outside of it. Historically, this has been migrants, the downwardly racialized, queers, women and the disabled – who have experienced unimaginable violence on the basis that they fall outside the nation’s ideal form. This history cannot be decoupled from nationalism’s current form – the idea that nationalism can be a neutral tool, used for good as well as bad, is a fantasy that has been tried and tested throughout history – and almost always ended catastrophically.
Why? Because it ties people together on the basis of arbitrary, identity-based categories, and devalues the lives of those situated outside those categories.
The argument against nationalism is both political and strategic: we don’t believe in valuing life on the basis of nationality, and so we cannot use that idea to achieve our end goals. Ultimately, we have to come up with other ways of attaching people to a common good and generating solidarity in a way that isn’t hostile to difference. It’s not easy, but it’s certainly not as hard as trying to shoehorn our principles of universality and equality into a concept built on the precise and exact opposite of those things.
JEFF: We live in a time of resurgent national chauvinism and creeping neo-fascism – in Trumplandia, in Brexit Britain, across much of Europe, in Modi’s India, in Erdoğan’s Turkey – to name a few of the most menacing examples. So I certainly respect where you seem to be coming from, assuming that these are the kinds of developments you have in mind. But let me make two points.
First, call me a stubborn historical materialist, but I think sweeping, abstract generalizations about ‘nationalism’ per se are not very helpful for the purpose of making political judgements about which particular projects of peoplehood deserve support and solidarity, and which ones should be repudiated and opposed by the internationalist, anti-capitalist Left. In a word, the effective exercise of such political judgement requires sensitivity to context. More specifically, it requires awareness of how particular struggles for self-determination are embedded in concrete constellations of local and global material and social power relations, as well as awareness of how given movements have been historically aligned with or against other emancipatory struggles.
Second, the binary contrast between ‘identity’ and ‘material principles’ upon which your argument largely relies is misleading. Awareness of context also requires sensitivity to the insidious ways in which hierarchies of ethnicity, nation and race, of gender, of social class intersect and tend to reinforce one another. National oppression, like all forms of oppression, may not only be material, but it certainly has material roots and material consequences. If we fail to recognize this, we will end up being unable to distinguish between nationalist movements that aim to reinforce intersecting systems of status hierarchy and material domination; and nationalist movements that aim to resist and subvert such oppressive hierarchies. After all, anti-colonial struggles were fuelled by nationalism, too.
DALIA: Yes, not all nationalisms were created equal, and movements (in the ‘post-colonial’ world) shouldn’t be wholesale rejected should they invoke nationalism – solidarity involves working through differences. However, nationalism is ultimately a dead end for liberation struggle. Why? Because despite contextual differences, the form of nationhood entails constructing who belongs and how they belong on the basis of arbitrary, historical constructions – which are inescapably racialized, classed and gendered.
The example of anti-colonial nationalism is important. Alongside forced neoliberal restructuring, there is a connection between the nationalist form of many anti-colonial struggles and the reactionary seizing of those struggles in the post-colonial era. Anti-colonialism was the most inspiring movement of the 20th century, and the most justifiable context of nationalism. However, reliance on a nation framework – while galvanizing in the moment – often created a weak link in the long term. What was the aftermath of these movements for women? Queers? The working class? Migrants? For all those historically oppressed in the name of nationhood? When the rhetorical framework of a movement centres around nationhood, rather than people and power, the contradictions within the nation are concealed, leaving the struggle vulnerable to co-option from the Right – for whom nationalism is a much easier fit.
JEFF: Your concern about exclusions is powerful, and eloquently articulated. However, let me make three observations. First, movements that mobilize around nationhood are far from unique in being exclusionary. You propose ‘people and power’ as a preferable, less exclusionary alternative. But which people? Whose power?
For those of us committed to liberation from tyranny in all its forms, solidarity with or opposition to a given movement should not be determined by whether or not that movement is ‘exclusionary’ per se, but rather by which exclusions that movement is committed to and why. Excluding oppressors is not the same as excluding the oppressed.
Nor should we forget that movements dismissively branded as ‘nationalist’ quite often emerge in response to exclusions by big-nation chauvinists whose nationalism is state-sponsored and so ubiquitous, so hegemonic, that it goes unquestioned and unseen (for example, in Turkey or Britain or Spain).
Finally, with respect to the post-colonial context, if generalize we must, the plight of the oppressed and the marginalized in most of these states has at least as much to do with the concrete material conditions and political logics imposed by continuing structural dependency – ie neo-colonialism – as it does with exclusions inherent to nationalism.
DALIA: The precise issue with nationalism is it does not exclude oppressors. It allows native (often state) oppressors to hide behind the idea that all those within a nation have the same interests – that there is such a thing as a ‘national interest’. The concealment of these power relations makes it much harder to organize against the real culprits – native bourgeoisies and the colonial powers with which they co-operate. Energy becomes easily diverted to fictitious ‘national enemies’. Nationalism is not even the most effective answer to (neo-)colonialism. Anti-colonial movements are at their strongest when based on transnational solidarity – take the Cuban-Angolan-South African movement against Apartheid, for instance.
Essentially, it seems counterproductive to invest resources in a framework that was never meant to achieve leftist goals of equality and universality. We must focus on building new institutions, communities and imaginations fit for inclusive, lasting liberatory purposes.
‘Movements dismissively branded as “nationalist” are often a response to exclusions by big-nation chauvinists’ – Thomas Jeffrey Miley
JEFF: Those of us committed to social justice must oppose oppression in all its forms – including national oppression, which so seamlessly bleeds into fascism, racism and imperialism, not to mention patriarchy. There are ‘pitfalls to national consciousness’ no doubt. But the struggle for liberation from national oppression is a constituent part of the struggle for human emancipation from all systems of domination. This should never be denied. To do so only serves to add fuel to the fire of resurgent national chauvinisms among members of powerful nations, and thereby to facilitate the manufacturing of consent to neo-imperial plunder as well as to the ever-escalating, Orwellian ‘war on terror’.
Dalia Gebrial is a student at the London School of Economics and an editor and contributor to Novara Media. She sits on the board of the Historical Materialism journal and makes regular TV and radio appearances to discuss issues of race, gender and labour. With Gurminder Bhambra and Keren Nisciangolu, she co-edited Decolonizing the University.
Thomas Jeffrey Miley is a political sociology lecturer at Cambridge University. His current research interests include comparative nationalisms and democratic theory. With Federico Venturini he co-edited Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey.
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Andrea Chalupa Answers Four Questions About Orwell
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1.Let us begin with Orwell. There is a resurgence now of interest in the work of Orwell with all of the issues surrounding fake news, propaganda, and social media eating our elections. Why do you think his legacy is important now?
We’re living in an age of dictatorship that feels eerily similar to the early 1930’s, and a major weapon of dictatorship is propaganda. Studying history and the works of Orwell lift the veil of state sanctioned lies flooding the internet with bots and fake news sites.
Orwell’s writing — not just his final two novels but his essays and his letters — is a guidebook for understanding authoritarianism as well as reactions to authoritarianism from the media, government, and influencers across the political spectrum. Orwell found that some people in these institutions were complicit by being in denial or adapting terrible coping strategies, and others risked their lives by daring to speak the truth. Human nature never changes; so Orwell will always be our Virgil in helping us understand the various ways humans respond to dictatorship.
His two literary masterpieces deal with Russian aggression, which is also why his work feels current. Animal Farm tells the story of the Russian Revolution which gave way to the brutality of Stalinism and the genocidal colonization of Ukraine, and 1984 was inspired by the Russian novel We, written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in a time of chaotic and cruel Soviet state-building.
As long as there are dictators, Orwell’s work will always feel current. The playbook for establishing a terror regime never changes: dictators come to power through Animal Farm and rule, to some degree, according to 1984.
Required reading for dealing with the grotesque news headlines of today is Orwell’s essay “The Freedom of the Press.” It was clearly written in a great release of frustration and anger at self-censorship in the media. He also calls out the reactionary willful ignorance of his fellow leftists quick to attack Kremlin critics and defend Russia against what they saw as warmongering or “Russophobia.” The essay reads like it was written about the current political climate in the US around Trump and Russia, especially how the media overlooked Putin’s invasion of the 2016 election and how influential voices on the far-left can be hostile to those outspoken on Russian aggression. As Orwell explained in his letter to Ukrainian refugees, to many in the West: “being accustomed to comparative freedom and moderation in public life, totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible to them.”
Another stunning essay is Orwell’s 1938 review of Assignment in Utopia, a confessional memoir of a disillusioned American reporter named Eugene Lyons. While stationed in Moscow for the respected international news agency UPI, Lyons helped Soviet censors conceal the Holodomor, Stalin’s genocide-famine that murdered millions in Ukraine. An entire paragraph lists the police state abuses of the Kremlin; Orwell’s paragraph happens to sound nearly identical to the statement provided by Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky in 2015, explaining why on a night in Moscow he lit the door to the headquarters of the FSB on fire.
2. One sees a constant stream of articles about why 1984 is important, but perhaps Animal Farm may be the book with more lessons for us now?
Animal Farm is an important and urgently needed reminder that brutal systems are man-made, even with the best intentions. It’s why I’m uneasy about cult worship in political movements. I’ve seen some well-meaning people write vile and nasty things to fight for a cause they believe in, as though the end justified the means. Right now everything feels uncertain and democracy worldwide is on the decline; naturally, people are looking for something or someone to believe in. Animal Farm can help us stay grounded to judge a movement not by its charismatic leaders but by the fruits that it bears.
Through my work, I’ve met people, all from former Soviet countries, who had never heard of Orwell before, and I’ve met people who were saved by Orwell. Yeonmi Park, the North Korean defector told me that reading Animal Farm helped her understand that the dictator she escaped was not a divine god and that his family’s evil system was not natural. A former ISIS fighter who now works on outreach to those wanting to leave ISIS also credits Animal Farm for helping open his eyes.
3. Let’s speak about the success of your book, from which the essay that we are republishing is drawn and what you think it means for the culture.
My book was never supposed to be a book. It started off as a way to preserve research that went into writing my screenplay, GARETH JONES. That script is based on the true story of the young Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who risked his life exposing Stalin’s genocide famine in Ukraine, only to eventually be killed after falling in with two mysterious men connected to the Soviet secret police; the script shows how Gareth’s work lives on in Orwell’s Animal Farm. It’s an important reminder that the truth never dies.
There are interesting connections between Orwell and Gareth Jones: they were around the same age; they shared the same literary agent — Leonard Moore, and they were both friends with Malcolm Muggeridge, the famous journalist. Of course being two brilliant young men interested in the world, their lives likely overlapped in other ways as well.
What’s most fascinating to me is how Orwell must have felt when he read Assignment in Utopia, the book I mentioned that he had reviewed, by Eugene Lyons. There’s a chapter dedicated to Gareth. It describes how Lyons joined other leading Western journalists in Moscow to publish articles calling Gareth a liar for his famine reporting — Lyons and the other journalists did this to gain greater access to the Soviet regime. It was a terrific deal brokered by the Soviet censors that night in a suite in a hotel in Moscow.
This chapter is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Orwell’s life and times and how individuals on the frontlines, like journalists, fell into corruption, as Lyons’ did, or were buried by attacks against their credibility, as in Gareth’s case. As he essentially tells us in “The Freedom of the Press,” Orwell understood very clearly that what happened to Gareth could have easily happened to him.
My book, like the screenplay, has taken on a life of its own, because it’s needed now. While working on the script, I discovered my family had a rare copy of the Ukrainian translation of Animal Farm made, with Orwell’s help, by Ukrainian hipsters stranded in a World War II refugee camp. I dove into learning everything I could about how it came to exist, and was asked to present my research at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. I assembled my research into a book with a powerful cover by the artist and investigative journalist Molly Crabapple, who is a living Orwell for her brave art and journalism. Soon after it was published, a group of college students in Toronto found it and sent me on a two-week university speaking tour of Canada. This led to a Canadian high school teacher and community organizer named Nadia Guerrera developing a curriculum for teaching my book as a way to inspire young people to use their voice and creativity for human rights like Orwell did.
4. You have been engaged in Holodomor education programs in the US and in Canada. Please, tell us about.
Canada has led the world in Holodomor education, and that has not been easy. For generations, well into the 1980s and to the present day, Kremlin propaganda has aggressively denied or tried to downplay the famine-genocide, and academia tended to ignore it as universities were more Russia focused. Today, the Holodomor is being taught across Canada, which is largely thanks to the tireless efforts of educator and researcher Valentina Kuryliw, the daughter of survivors. She has been tremendously innovative in education: she commissioned a graphic novel adaptation of the Gareth Jones story that I’m writing with the illustrator Kurt Huggins.
While much work is being done in the US and Europe for Holodomor education and awareness, it’s nothing like the infrastructure in Canada. With the help of Kuryliw’s organization the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, a hub of famine scholarship, I directed and produced a short documentary on the famine called Stalin’s Secret Genocide, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Applebaum (who wrote a book on the Holodomor called Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine), Harvard University’s Serhii Plokhy (who wrote The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine), Yale University’s Timothy Snyder (famous in the US for writing On Tyranny), and other giants of academia. The film tours Canada, and hopefully soon the US, on a beautiful Italian-designed state of the art bus-theatre called the Holodomor National Awareness Tour. It’s the most amazing thing to see how far Holodomor education and awareness have come — another reminder that the truth prevails.
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Sun, Sand and Sequence: The Pleasures of Marco Island
Kevin Davies, Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World : MARCO ISLAND, FL - The annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference remains the premier destination to witness the latest technologies and applications of next-gen sequencing (NGS). This year’s meeting, expanded by some 200 people to accommodate some of the overwhelming demand (several registrants from Boston and elsewhere didn’t make it), didn’t quite live up to the razzamatazz of recent years. But the absence of any brand new third- (or fourth-?) generation NGS platforms allowed attendees to focus more on some excellent science and range of applications.
Admirably comprehensive, real-time blog coverage (where allowed) was provided by an army of Twitter aficionados and the tireless Anthony Fejes at Fejes.ca. There’s also a very good two-part review from Prithwish Pal at Omically Speaking.
What follows are a few of my own observations and takeaways:
Ion Torrent (now part of Life Technologies), which debuted its $50,000 Personal Genome Machine at AGBT last year, received some timely validation from the Broad Institute’s Chad Nusbaum. Over past 12 months, the Broad has pushed the machine’s run output up to Megabases (Mb), with one use being DNA quality control for Illumina runs (probably not the market niche Ion is looking for). Ion says it is currently getting 300,000 reads of more than 100 bases/run, while the Broad is typically about two weeks behind them. Improving the quality of the reads while halving the sample prep time are two key priorities for Ion this year, for which it is looking to the NGS community for help willing to reward handsomely.
Congrats also to Baylor’s Adam English for overhauling teams from Liverpool and Tufts to win a free PGM: http://twitpic.com/3wm67t# It’s (relatively) easy to give away a machine when it costs a tenth of the competition. Ion also offered yoga classes at 7 each morning, a nifty and original marketing ploy that I happily slept through.
Life Technology’s 2nd-gen SOLiD platform was overshadowed by Illumina in a procession of talks on opening day from some of the major NGS labs, but is pushing cancer genome applications as one of its most attractive applications. That is evident from its latest promotional campaign and the validation from speakers such as TGen’s David Craig, who spoke about SOLiD’s “sweet spot” in analyzing cancer genomes because of its accuracy, approaching 99.9%.
PacBio screened its documentary, “The New Biology,” which first aired at the Air & Space Museum in Washington DC last November. It’s an impressive film, though I did miss Charlie Rose and the roundtable. Opening PacBio’s commercial workshop, co-founder Steve Turner creditably addressed the accuracy rate, which is hovering at 85% (c.f. 99%+ for more established platforms). While there is clearly room for improvement, some of which may come from incorporating data from the kinetics of nucleotide incorporation, there is impressive uniformity of sequence accuracy across a wide spectrum of GC content, in stark contrast to some other platforms. In the closing talk, CSO Eric Schadt discussed PacBio’s recent cholera genome paper in the New England Journal and “connecting molecular biology to clinical medicine.” There were also early signs of the value of integrating PacBio’s long reads with the more abundant short-read coverage of an Illumina for de novo genome assemblies.
Illumina representatives brought along the new MiSeq machine, which will be officially released later this year. CSO David Bentley said the HiSeq 2000 (which had a launch spec of 200 Gb/run) has surpassed 1 Terabase/run in house. So much for Moore’s Law... There was also some promising early data on the genetic changes in the evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). “This technology had the potential to direct future clinical trials and therapeutic decisions,” said Bentley.
I thought one of the best talks was from Harvard Med School’s Tim Yu, who discussed the analysis of 40 genomes from Complete Genomics, selected from consanguineous families from the Middle East. Yu’s team was able to identify variations in five suspected autism genes, including potentially mild variants in a pair of known metabolic disease genes.
My previously published interview with Complete CEO Cliff Reid made a bit of news. Reid says Complete will be producing somewhere between 800-1,200 human genomes by the end of 2011. The company is currently generating 400 genomes/month. Reid said Complete could expand its service to include transcriptome sequencing later this year, and hinted that expansion into Asia is another real possibility. I’m also struck that Lee Hood’s Institute of Systems Biology recently placed its third order with Complete, this one for 600 genome sequences.
Oxford Nanopore unveiled its GridION “box” just days before AGBT, but none of the firm’s contingent attending the show spoke on the program, preferring it seems to lounge by the hotel pool. ONT’s scientific founder, Oxford chemistry professor Hagan Bayley, was a late scratch, but collaborator Mark Akeson (University California Santa Cruz) demonstrated some recent significant progress in single-strand DNA sequencing using nanopores coupled to DNA polymerase, which ratchets the strand through the pore. Akeson said that the system should be working for short reads, at least in an academic setting, later this year.
Steve Salzberg (U Maryland) presented impressive benchmarking of Ben Langmead’s Bowtie DNA alignment software, which seems to outperform BGI’s SOAPdenovo and other established tools by a considerable margin. Bowtie 2 is on tap for release this spring, Salzberg said.
Rob Knight (HHMI/U Colorado), with a quaint kiwi accent and sense of humor, presented an excellent talk on ‘the human microbiome’ – the results of metagenomic profiling of bacteria living in – and on – people, including detailed analyses of the different species living on different parts of our face, hands etc.
Two notable absences from AGBT this year were representation from Helicos, the first single-molecule sequencing company, and BGI, the Chinese organization that last year launched a subsidiary called BGI Americas to offer access to its enormous sequencing resource in Hong Kong.
As usual, ABGT concluded with the organizers polling the audience for suggestions on the future size and scope of the conference. There was broad consensus that the size of the meeting was just about right. Suggestions for future topics can be sent to NHGRI’s Eric Green, Washington University’s Elaine Mardis, or any of the other organizers. I’d like to see more talks on genomic medicine and the data management aspects of NGS, but I doubt the organizers will have too much trouble attracting talks on those themes for next year.
In the meantime, you can get your next NGS fix at conferences including CHI’s X-GEN Congress in San Diego (March 14-18), Human Genome Meeting 2011 in Dubai (March 14-17), and Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston (April 12-14).
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Court orders CYFD to lawfully manage Child Care Assistance Program
Department increased eligibility levels after families sued last year
SANTA FE—Working families will have increased access to much needed child care assistance as a result of a court order approving an agreement between working families and the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department. The order, entered by the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe yesterday, mandates that CYFD will follow the law in managing New Mexico’s Childcare Assistance Program.
“Every family deserves access to quality child care while parents are at work or in school,” said Maria Griego, supervising attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “Only a third of eligible families in New Mexico currently access child care assistance because the application process and eligibility requirements are inconsistent and confusing. The settlement is a critical opportunity for CYFD to improve the well-being of children. We look forward to working with this administration to fix long standing barriers.”
Several families and OLÉ, represented by the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, sued the department in September 2018, charging that CYFD illegally established a policy of denying child care assistance to families with incomes over 150% of the federal poverty level—a yearly income of $31,170 for a family of three—without publishing a regulation or going through the required public comment and hearing process. The lawsuit also argued that CYFD illegally failed to provide adequate notice to families about their child care benefits or establish a regulation that explains how CYFD determines the share of costs the family has to pay.
After the lawsuit, CYFD immediately increased eligibility for child care assistance to families with incomes up to 200% of the federal poverty level.
The court order requires CYFD to:
Maintain the current eligibility level until or unless CYFD lawfully passes regulations with public comment with a different eligibility level;
Put into regulation child care assistance eligibility requirements, including how CYFD calculates the amount of costs shared by parents;
Revise notices and forms that families receive or fill out in the application process;
Revise the manual CYFD workers use to determine eligibility for assistance;
Post eligibility information and application rights in all CYFD offices.
“We know that the earliest years in children’s lives are the most important in their development and lay the foundation for all that is to come,” said Traeshaun Buffin a community organizer at OLÉ. “The astronomical costs of child care prevent tens of thousands of New Mexican families with children from accessing meaningful work and educational opportunities. We’re so pleased that CYFD has agreed to stop denying eligible families the child care assistance they need and to adopt standards with public input to make the program affordable and predictable.”
The court order can be found here: http://nmpovertylaw.org/9-order-torres_2019_05_06/
The Torres v. Jacobson complaint can be found here: http://nmpovertylaw.org/torres-v-jacobson-first-amended-complaint-with-exhibits/
May 7th, 2019 Press Release, Public Benefits
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Bill guaranteeing basic wage protections for home care and domestic workers signed into law
SANTA FE—Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill into law that ensures home care and domestic workers—the people who clean homes and deliver care for others—are protected by New Mexico’s minimum wage standards and other wage protections. Senate Bill 85, Domestic Service in Minimum Wage Act, is sponsored by Sen. Liz Stefanics and Rep. Christine Trujillo.
“This is a historic win for domestic and home care workers,” said Carlota Muñoz, a member of El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos. “During my employment at a cleaning service company, I stopped receiving payments for the hours I was working. I felt helpless and felt my work was not being given any respect. I am proud of the services I provide for my community, and I am glad to see this law go into effect that will provide workers like me more protections and assurance that their work will be valued like any other.”
Domestic workers have been left out of many labor protections throughout history, and typically have very few options when they’re not paid. SB 85 ends the exemptions for domestic workers from New Mexico’s wage laws—as has already been done at the federal level.
“We are proud of the work that domestic workers provide,” said Alicia Saenz, also a member of El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos. “There is nothing more important than taking care of New Mexico’s children, elderly, and family members with disabilities. It is invisible work, fraught with exploitation such as wage theft, and historically, our work has not been given the value it deserves. SB 85 is a step in the right direction to remedy that and to extend protections to enable us to assert our rights. We will continue to organize domestic workers and low-wage workers until all workers are treated with the dignity and respect that we deserve.”
New Mexico law generally requires employers to pay employees minimum wage and overtime, keep records, and pay employees in full and on time. However, like other wage laws enacted in the 1930s, it excluded large categories of work typically performed by women and people of color from the minimum wage and other protections.
“Domestic workers and home care workers have difficult and important jobs that we depend on,” said Stephanie Welch, supervising attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “This legislation eliminates outdated, discriminatory practices in New Mexico so people doing some of the toughest jobs, like caring for others’ loved ones and cleaning houses, are treated fairly and can seek recourse when they are not.”
Federal law eliminated its exclusion of domestic workers years ago, but lacking state protections, New Mexicans who work in people’s homes were not protected and subject to low or no pay and exploitative situations.
With the passage of SB 85 into law, domestic and home care workers will now be covered by New Mexico’s wage laws, and the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions can investigate their complaints, enforce their rights, and recover their wages and damages.
“The New Mexico Legislature recognized that it’s high time to ensure all workers, including people who work hard in other people’s homes, are guaranteed fundamental labor protections just like everyone else,” said Adrienne R. Smith of New Mexico Caregivers Coalition. “Domestic workers’ historical exclusion from the federal labor laws is an ugly vestige of slavery. The federal government righted that wrong years ago. We are overjoyed that today New Mexico has finally done so as well.”
The New Mexico Senate passed SB 85 on February 18. The House of Representatives passed it on March 12.
The New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty is dedicated to advancing economic and social justice through education, advocacy, and litigation. We work with low-income New Mexicans to improve living conditions, increase opportunities, and protect the rights of people living in poverty.
The New Mexico Caregivers Coalition advocates for direct care workers’ education, training, benefits, wages and professional development so they may better serve people who are elderly and those with disabilities.
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos is a grassroots, Latino immigrant-led organization based in Central New Mexico that works with Latino immigrant communities and allies to defend, strengthen, and advance the rights of our community.
Apr 4th, 2019 Press Release, Workers' Rights
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Governor signs bill to help rural school districts improve bilingual, multicultural education
HB 111 will support teachers with training to better serve culturally and linguistically diverse students, particularly in rural New Mexico
SANTA FE—Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Representative Salazar’s HB 111, Cultural and Linguistic Education Support, funding Regional Education Cooperatives (RECs) to provide professional development to staff and teachers for culturally and linguistically responsive instruction.
“New Mexico is not like other states. Our diversity is our strength and it presents unique opportunities for how we leverage our multicultural and multilingual heritage to improve learning outcomes for students, regardless of their zip code,” said Rebecca Blum Martinez, professor and bilingual/ESL director, Department of Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico’s College of Education. “Our education system has long been inequitable and unresponsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of our students, which research shows is critical to enabling students to learn and do well in school.”
HB 111 builds the capacity for Regional Education Cooperatives (RECs) to provide professional development for educators on culturally and linguistically responsive instruction. The bill provides funding for RECs to contract with local experts to offer strategies and techniques to most effectively teach culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
“Diverse students and their teachers across rural New Mexico face distinct challenges, only further compounded by the lack of training opportunities in multilingual and multicultural education,” said Edward Tabet-Cubero with Transform Education NM. “HB 111 creates a pathway for RECs to better serve students and improve outcomes.”
HB 111 is one key component of the Transform Education NM coalition platform to improve education outcomes for all New Mexico students. The platform is grounded in a multicultural, multilingual framework to reverse years of inadequate state investment in public education and close achievement gaps for New Mexico’s students, especially low-income, Native American, English-language learners, and students with disabilities.
The bill’s primary sponsor was Representative Tomas Salazar and co-sponsors were Representative Linda Trujillo and Representative Derrick Lente.
Information on the Transform Education NM platform can be found here: https://transformeducationnm.org/our-platform/.
Transform Education NM is a coalition of educational leaders, families, tribal leaders, and the lawsuit plaintiffs working to transform the state’s education system for our students. To learn more, visit www.transformeducationnm.org.
Apr 4th, 2019 Education, Press Release
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Governor signs bill closing loopholes in small loans law
SANTA FE—Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill today cleaning up state law that regulates storefront lenders. House Bill 150, Installment & Small Loan Changes, sponsored by Representative Georgene Louis, protects New Mexico borrowers by ensuring accountability and transparency in the storefront lending industry.
“Today we’ve made great progress toward fairness and transparency for New Mexican borrowers,” said Lindsay Cutler, attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “HB 150 cleans up loopholes in state law by requiring lenders to report relevant data to the state and aligns our small loan laws so all New Mexico families can receive fairer loans.”
New Mexico’s first across-the-board interest rate cap went into effect in January 2018, capping interest rates on storefront loans at 175 percent APR. However, high fees and loan rollovers continue to drain income from New Mexico borrowers. The two laws that regulate storefront lenders, the Small Loan and Bank Installment Loan Acts, still contain inconsistent fee and disclosure provisions, do not require sufficient reporting to the state’s Financial Institutions Division to enforce consumer protections, and do not make clear borrowers’ rights on loan renewals.
Starting January 1, 2020, HB 150 will:
Require lenders to provide relevant data on small loans, enabling the FID to verify storefront lenders are adhering to small loans law and for the state to evaluate how the law is impacting New Mexicans;
Allow borrowers 24 hours to rescind a high-interest loan;
Align fee provisions and disclosure requirements in the Small Loan and Bank Installment Loan Acts so consumer protections are consistent for all borrowers;
Protect New Mexican borrowers from potential loopholes when they renew or rollover loans by clarifying the definition of new loans; and
Align the penalties for violating the small loan laws and the language around the Unfair Practices Act to ensure that companies are held accountable for unfair, deceptive and unconscionable practices.
“The small loan industry makes hundreds of millions of dollars from hardworking New Mexico families,” said Cutler. “HB 150 goes a long way to make sure our small loan law is clear of ambiguities and provides meaningful consumer protections that hold small loan companies accountable. Small loan reform is absolutely necessary if we hope to stop predatory lending practices.”
Apr 3rd, 2019 Fair Lending, Press Release
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New Mexico workers celebrate statewide minimum wage increase
SANTA FE–On Monday, dozens of New Mexico workers and their families gathered to celebrate as Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a proposal that would increase the state minimum wage for the first time in over ten years.
Senate Bill 437, approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate, progressively increases the minimum wage from $7.50 to $12 per hour by 2023. Starting January 2020, the state minimum wage would be raised to $9, $10.50 in 2021, $11.50 in 2022 before settling at $12 per hour in 2023.
The newly signed law also contains the following provisions:
Gradually increases the “tipped credit” for tipped employees from the current $2.13 per hour to $3 per hour by 2023
Allows for a new sub-minimum wage for students at $8.50 per hour
Does not include an annual cost of living adjustment
Raising the minimum wage to $12.00/hr by 2023 would directly affect 150,901 workers or nearly 20 percent of the total workforce in the state. Directly affected workers would receive an annual increase of approximately $1,114.
A statewide minimum wage coalition mobilized hundreds of workers from across New Mexico during the session in support of a wage increase.
Below are reactions from low-wage workers and community organizations across New Mexico in celebration of the statewide minimum wage increase:
“Last month the legislature did it’s part to increase family economic security in New Mexico and today the governor fulfilled her gubernatorial campaign promise to raise the state’s minimum wage to get workers–who are the backbone of our state– one step closer to a livable wage,” said Margarita Castruita Flores a member of El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos. “With a salary of $12 an hour I could earn approximately $112 more per week, something that could help me pay for one of my utility bills, which I have trouble paying with my current wage. We are proud of the contributions low-wage workers like me provide to our state and we will continue our fight to ensure ALL workers in New Mexico have the opportunity to thrive.”
“Today is a victory for hard working New Mexicans who deserve a raise. We thank the Governor for signing this bill into law,” said J.D. Mathews, Political Director for New Mexico Working Families. “This is an important step towards economic security and ending poverty in our state. Our commitment to all workers receiving a living wage continues”.
“After ten years of wage stagnation, I am so happy to see our state finally moving in the right direction. This raise will give twelve thousand dollars to workers who seriously need and deserve it,” said Lauren Shimamoto, Albuquerque service worker and member of OLÉ. “Thank you Governor Lujan-Grisham for signing this bill, it’s a great first step towards a living wage and a thriving New Mexico.”
“When workers are compensated fairy, everyone wins,” said Marcela Diaz, Executive Director for Somos Un Pueblo Unido. “$12 per hour will go along way to helping working families, rural communities and local economies prosper. By signing this bill, Governor Lujan Grisham recognizes just how essential workers are to our state’s future.”
“Today New Mexican workers achieved a great victory. For a decade, they’ve seen their spending power decrease, as the minimum wage stayed the same and the cost of living went up,” said Stephanie Welch, supervising attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “They deserve wages that allow them to provide for themselves and their families. They won this raise by coming together from all across the state to demand fair wages and respect for their hard work.
*** Video and photos from the bill signing and worker-led celebration can be found here, here, here & here.
Apr 1st, 2019 Press Release, Workers' Rights
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New Mexico Families Celebrate Legislature’s Funding Medicaid Buy-in
Money Appropriated to Study, Develop Innovative Health Coverage Plan
SANTA FE—New Mexico Together for Healthcare on Saturday celebrated a big win for New Mexico families after the Legislature adjourned having appropriated funding to the Human Services Department to further study and begin the administrative development of a Medicaid Buy-in plan, including pursuing federal funding to help pay for it.
“This is a tremendous step forward,” said Strong Families New Mexico Field Director Adriann Barboa. “Because of the leadership of the New Mexico Legislature, our state is leading the nation in moving forward toward creating a Medicaid Buy-in plan so that all families can access quality, affordable healthcare coverage.”
Between the two “Junior” spending bills, SB 536 and HB 548, the Legislature allocated $142,000 for Fiscal Year 2020 for the “study and administrative development of a Medicaid Buy-in plan.”
Initial study of a potential Medicaid Buy-in plan in New Mexico, which was called for by memorials passed in the 2018 legislative session, showed that a buy-in is a cost-effective way to insure the thousands of New Mexicans who are currently without coverage. The additional study called for by the Legislature this year will build on previous research and specifically explore ways to set up the plan to cover the most people possible. The “administrative development” component allows HSD to prepare to implement Medicaid Buy-in, including seeking federal waivers to receive federal financing for the plan.
“No New Mexican should go without healthcare because they cannot afford it,” said Abuko D. Estrada, Supervising Attorney for Healthcare with the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “Without health insurance coverage, though, 190,000 New Mexicans currently have to choose between putting food on the table and seeing a doctor. With the Legislature’s support for Medicaid Buy-in, families will no longer have to make those impossible choices.”
Maria Burciaga, a promotora from Sunland Park, applauded the Legislature for appropriating the funding.
“With many other families, my brother-in-law and I spent as much time as we could over the past two months in Santa Fe talking with legislators, testifying in committees and educating people about Medicaid Buy-in,” Burciaga said. “This funding shows that the Legislature listened to the people. New Mexicans need access to affordable healthcare.”
In addition to the families who spoke out at the Legislature, recent statewide polling found strong support, regardless of political affiliation, for Medicaid Buy-in in New Mexico.
The Medicaid Buy-in is a healthcare coverage plan that would be administered by the state and would allow eligible New Mexico residents to pay affordable monthly premiums to receive the same trusted health coverage that Medicaid has provided for more than 50 years.
“For too long too many New Mexicans have had to choose between paying their bills and getting the healthcare they need,” Colin Baillio, Director of Policy and Communication with Health Action NM said. “New Mexicans—and the members of Legislature–know that it’s time for a change. With this investment in developing a Medicaid Buy-in plan, we will create the change families need and deserve.”
NM Together for Healthcare is a statewide, multiracial coalition of families and community organizations working together to strengthen healthcare access in New Mexico, supported by Strong Families New Mexico, New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, Health Action New Mexico and United States of Care. The campaign’s website is http://nmtogether4health.org/ Follow the campaign on Facebook @NMTogether4Healthcare and Twitter @NMT4HC.
Mar 16th, 2019 Healthcare, Medicaid, Press Release
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New Mexico workers win significant wage increase
Santa F.–New Mexico workers and their families celebrated on Friday after the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed to a legislative compromise reached in conference committee that will raise the state’s minimum wage for the first time in over 10 years. The proposal now heads to the governor’s desk for final signature.
A statewide minimum wage coalition mobilized hundreds of workers from across New Mexico during the session in support of a wage hike, coalescing around Rep. Miguel García’s (D-Bernalillo) $12 minimum wage bill (HB 31).
During a conference committee late Thursday night between members of the House and Senate, led negotiations in a final compromise that:
Gradually increases state minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2023
Gradually increases the “tipped credit” for tipped employees to $3 an hour by 2023
Allows for a new sub-minimum wage for students at $8.50 an hour
Below are reactions from low-wage workers and community organizations across New Mexico:
“This is a victory for New Mexico’s working families and came about as a result of years of organizing efforts lead by low-wage workers,” said Margarita Castruita Flores a member of El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos. “We are proud of the contributions that low-wage workers make to our State and this compromise bill is a step in the right direction for our families to obtain financial stability. There is still a lot of work ahead and we will continue to organize our communities to obtain a living wage for all workers in New Mexico.
“Workers and champions like Rep. Miguel Garcia refused to give up,” said Marcela Diaz, Executive Director for Somos Un Pueblo Unido. “By raising the minimum wage, the legislature finally recognized that workers are the backbone of New Mexico’s economy and should be compensated fairly. Getting to $12 per hour will make a big difference for our families in rural communities and local economies.”
OLÉ member Cristal Carter said, “$12/hour by 2023 is a big win for ALL hardworking New Mexico families. We fought hard for this and it shows. Families will now have the stability they need to thrive in our communities because over 200,000 workers across the state of New Mexico will receive the raise they deserve.”
“An increase in the minimum wage will mean a better living situation for the folks in our community who need it the most — people working hard, full time and still on the brink of poverty. It was more difficult than it should have been for the voices of workers to be heard at the legislature and we will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder in the fight for a living wage and true economic security for families across New Mexico,” said J.D. Mathews, State Political Director for New Mexico Working Families Party.
“This victory is the result of workers from all across New Mexico coming together to push for wages that respect their work and allow them to provide for themselves and their families,” said Stephanie Welch, a supervising attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “The increase will help people who receive the lowest wages in the state finally recover some of their lost spending power. It was high time they saw a raise. The cost of living has gone up over the last 10 years, but the minimum wage stayed flat.”
Mar 15th, 2019 Press Release, Workers' Rights
HB 31, Legislation, minimum wage, Stephanie Welch
Bill closing loopholes in small loans law awaits governor’s signature
SANTA FE—The New Mexico Senate passed a bill today cleaning up state law that regulates storefront lenders. House Bill 150, Installment & Small Loan Changes, protects New Mexico borrowers by ensuring accountability and transparency in the storefront lending industry. The bill now awaits Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s signature for approval.
“Everyone deserves fairness and transparency when taking out a loan,” said Lindsay Cutler, attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “HB 150 cleans up loopholes in state law by mandating effective data reporting to the state and providing consistency so all New Mexico families can receive fairer loans.”
New Mexico’s first across the board interest rate cap went into effect in January 2018, capping interest rates on storefront loans at 175 percent APR. However, high fees and loan rollovers continue to drain income from New Mexico borrowers. The two laws that regulate storefront lenders, the Small Loan and Bank Installment Loan Acts, still contain inconsistent fee and disclosure provisions, do not require sufficient reporting to the state’s Financial Institutions Division to enforce consumer protections, and do not make clear borrowers’ rights on loan renewals.
If signed into law, HB 150 would:
Require lenders to provide effective data on small loans, enabling the FID to verify storefront lenders are adhering to small loans law and for the state to evaluate how the law is impacting New Mexicans;
Align fee provisions and disclosure requirements so consumer protections are consistent for all borrowers;
Align the penalties for violating the small loan laws and the language around the Unfair Practice Act to ensure that companies are held accountable for unfair and deceptive and unconscionable practices.
“The small loan industry makes hundreds of millions of dollars from hardworking New Mexico families,” said Cutler. “ We need our laws to be clear of ambiguities and provide meaningful consumer protections that hold small loan companies accountable. We’re optimistic that the governor will sign the bill. Small loan reform is absolutely necessary if we hope to stop predatory lending practices.”
Mar 14th, 2019 Fair Lending, Press Release
2019, House Bill 150, Legislation, Lindsay Cutler, predatory lending, small loans
Bill guaranteeing basic wage protections for home care and domestic workers awaits governor’s signature
SANTA FE— Today, the New Mexico House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 85, sponsored by Sen. Liz Stefanics and Rep. Christine Trujillo, which would ensure home care and domestic workers—the people who clean homes and deliver care for others—are protected by New Mexico’s minimum wage standards and other wage protections. The bill will now go to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk for approval.
Domestic workers have been left out of many labor protections throughout history, and typically have very few options when they’re not paid. SB 85, Domestic Service in Minimum Wage Act, ends the exemptions for domestic workers from New Mexico’s wage laws—as has already been done at the federal level.
“Domestic workers and home care workers have difficult and important jobs that we depend on,” said Stephanie Welch, supervising attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “SB 85 eliminates outdated, discriminatory practices in New Mexico’s labor protections so people doing some of the toughest jobs like caring for our loved ones and cleaning our houses are treated fairly, and can seek recourse when they are not.”
New Mexico law generally requires employers to pay employees minimum wage and overtime, keep records, and pay employees in full and on time. However, like other wage laws enacted in the 1930s, it excluded large categories of work typically performed by women and people of color from the minimum wage and other protections. The New Mexico Legislature has recognized that it’s time to ensure all workers, including people who work hard in other people’s homes, are guaranteed fundamental labor protections just like everyone else.
“We are optimistic that Governor Lujan Grisham will sign SB 85 into law, guaranteeing domestic workers are no longer ignored in the eyes of the law,” said Adrienne R. Smith of New Mexico Caregivers Coalition. “Cleaning houses and taking care of elderly people or children demands dedication, time, and experience. The people who are in these life-saving roles deserve our respect and the same protections as all other workers.”
Federal law has since eliminated its exclusion of domestic workers, but without state protections, New Mexicans who work in people’s homes are not protected and may be subject to low or no pay and exploitative situations. If domestic workers were covered by New Mexico’s wage laws, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions would investigate their complaints, enforce their rights, and recover their wages and damages.
Domestic Service in Minimum Wage Act, domestic workers, home care workers, minimum wage, Stephanie Welch, Workers Rights
Memorial to expand home visiting services passed by Senate Public Affairs Committee
SANTA FE— A memorial establishing an advisory council to develop a plan for the statewide expansion of a Medicaid-financed home visiting system in New Mexico, will head to the Senate floor following a “do-pass” vote today in the Senate Public Affairs Committee. Home visiting programs provide support and critical assistance for families that range from health care to emotional and social supports at a crucial time in a child’s brain development. Senate Memorial 117, Medicaid Home Visiting Program Council, is sponsored by Senator Linda M. Lopez.
“Every child deserves the best start from birth. Nurturing our state’s youngest children is key to ensuring they grow up healthy and prepared to succeed in life,” said William Townley, attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty. “We’re optimistic that the memorial will pass the Senate.”
If passed by the New Mexico Senate, SM 117 would convene a council of home visiting providers and heads of the Human Services Department, Children, Youth and Families Department, Department of Health, and the Children’s Cabinet to make recommendations for expanding home visiting across the state through Medicaid financing.
Research shows that home visiting helps establish a strong foundation for families so children can grow up healthier and parents can develop stronger parenting skills. Home visiting programs that currently exist in New Mexico provide a team of professionals to help families learn about healthcare, child development, and parenting skills. Other services can include screening mothers for postpartum depression, supporting breastfeeding, and connecting families to community activities.
Unfortunately, most New Mexican families do not have access to home visiting services. Most services are offered by private non-profits that cannot scale up to meet the large unmet need in the state.
“Offering education early in a child’s life is essential in helping families succeed,” said Townley. “It would be good for everyone in New Mexico if more families could access home visiting.”
2019, Healthcare, Home visiting, Legislation, Medicaid, William Townley
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Trisha Vasquez / Courier PCC student Yooneiu Joo, 21, of Pasadena, sits for a portrait outside the Center of the Arts building on Thursday, April 4, 2019.
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For Yooneui Joo, the trials and tribulations of moving to a brand new country was a daunting experience at first. From feeling lonesome countless times to being treated differently, Joo experienced more lows than highs during the start of her journey.
Born in South Korea and growing up in Seoul, Joo, 21, barely knew a lick of English. She did know two things, however.
Joo knew she had a love for jewelry design and had a desire to experience different cultures and different people.
“I didn’t just want to stay in Korea because I was curious about people from other countries. I wanted to learn English because it’s such a universal language,” Joo stated.
Once Joo was done with middle school, she decided to pack her bags and move to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she would stay with her uncle and attend high school under the British curriculum. For Joo, this was her first step in learning the English language.
After a year and a half, Joo decided to move again. This time, to Tacoma, Washington where she would finish off high school.
“In the beginning, it was complete culture shock moving to a brand new country,” Joo said. “I felt homesick and since I wasn’t from here, I was treated like I didn’t belong. But in the long run, looking back, it made me study English harder to be able to communicate with people.”
While in Tacoma, Joo constantly felt lonely. She had no family around and no one close enough for her to confide in. Joo eventually became friends with one of her high school teachers, Julie Rust, who offered Joo to move in with her and her family. Reluctant at first, Joo accepted the offer, as she couldn’t stand her current living situation.
Joo and the Rust family became close over time.
“They treated me like family and they treated me like a daughter,” Joo stated. “I still call them mom and dad to this day.”
Fresh off of her high school graduation, Rust wanted Joo to continue staying with her and the family while she attended college. But, Joo was persuaded by her uncle’s friend to attend PCC.
“Rust made a list of nearby colleges that I could just drive to, but, my uncle’s friend attended PCC for jewelry design, something I was always interested in and convinced me to give PCC a shot,” said Joo. “The Rust family was really supportive on my decision. They even rented a truck and drove all the way down to Pasadena to help me move my furniture!”
The fall of 2016 was Joo’s first semester at PCC, who was looking to follow in her uncle’s friends footsteps in becoming a successful jewelry designer. After her first semester of doing a bunch of art classes related to jewelry design, Joo realized that there weren’t many opportunities for international students looking to find work in the jewelry design field.
After talking with her teachers and counselor, Joo made the switch to graphic design.
“Every company has graphic designers which means I’ll have more opportunities and hopefully be able to stay in America,” Joo said. “I want to stay here as long as I can because I love it here.”
Although close to transferring out of PCC, Joo wants to take a year off from school to gain some work experience. Although an international student, she is able to find work through the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.
Joo’s main focus is to work for a jewelry related company as a graphics designer because she can learn about jewelry while also gaining experience as a graphics designer.
In terms of Joo’s dream school, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) is the place she wants to ultimately attend.
“Many of the artists that I like graduated or taught at RISD,” stated Joo. “Their work is amazing and they are people I aspire to become one day.”
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Taking Medicaid Buy-In to the Legislature
By Abuko Estrada
Affordable healthcare coverage for all New Mexicans could soon be a reality. For the past year and a half, families across the state in the NM Together for Healthcare campaign have been talking to their communities and elected leaders about opening up Medicaid so that anyone could buy into it — even those who don’t qualify for Medicaid currently.
The vision could soon become a reality in the 2019 legislative session. Support is spreading among state policymakers for a Medicaid buy-in plan. Governor-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham has agreed it could be the most viable path towards healthcare coverage for all New Mexicans.
In New Mexico, over 180,000 residents remain uninsured despite coverage gains made under the Affordable Care Act. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2016, 45 percent of adults said they lacked healthcare coverage due to high costs. Some are locked out of no-cost or subsidized coverage systems altogether. Others, whose incomes are just too high to qualify for Medicaid, still can’t afford coverage even with tax credits provided by the federal government.
A Medicaid buy-in option would take the healthcare coverage affordability issues head-on by leveraging Medicaid to offer individuals and families more affordable coverage than is available through the private marketplace.
With the help of the campaign, communities around the state have voiced their support for the state to provide such an option. The counties of McKinley, Bernalillo, and Doña Ana; the cities of Anthony, Sunland Park, and Albuquerque; and the All Pueblo Council of Governors passed resolutions supporting New Mexico’s exploration of a Medicaid buy-in plan.
Manatt Health Solutions, a policy and strategic advisory group, is helping the state determine the best path for such a plan through a two-phase study. The first phase, which wraps up this month, outlines the pros and cons of different Medicaid buy-in models. The second phase, which should be done by January, will look at the costs to consumers, the impact on hospitals and other healthcare providers, and the costs to the state budget from implementing one or two of the models.
Assuming the study shows a viable path for the Medicaid buy-in, the NM Together for Healthcare Coalition will work closely with legislators to develop legislation for the state to implement the plan as soon as 2020.
To follow Medicaid Buy-in’s progress in New Mexico, please sign up on the NM Together for Healthcare website. Please also call your local representative and senator to let them know you want them to pass Medicaid buy-in legislation during the 2019 legislative session.
Nov 20th, 2018 Blog, Healthcare, Medicaid
abuko estrada, legislative session, Medicaid buy-in, NM Together for Healthcare, NMT4HC
Action Alert: Thank you for joining us in making healthcare accessible for all New Mexicans!
Good news! The memorials to study a Medicaid buy-in option in New Mexico – House Memorial 9 and Senate Memorial 3 – both passed with strong bi-partisan support. The study is a first step toward an innovative new plan that would allow individuals and families in our state to buy low-cost coverage through Medicaid even if they do not qualify for it now. This would provide more people with affordable healthcare and create more choices in the insurance market.
This would not have happened without you. Thank you for joining us in acting to strengthen healthcare access for all New Mexicans!
Your advocacy means that our state Legislative Health and Human Services Committee will bring together experts and stakeholders to explore whether the Medicaid buy-in is a viable option for uninsured and under-insured New Mexicans.
If you have not already, please follow the New Mexico Together for Healthcare campaign to get updates and alerts about how you can take action to support the Medicaid buy-in study. You can sign up here to get involved and follow the campaign on social media – Twitter (@NMT4HC) and Facebook (@NMTogether4Healthcare) – and its website.
For additional details, please also see our factsheet. For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
Feb 21st, 2018 Action Alert, Healthcare, Medicaid
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The Format of the Social Security numbers was historically broken into 3 parts.
3 Digits, The Area was assigned to States, US territories, or special use areas such as 'enumeration at entry' or for a brief period of the time Rail Road use employees (ended July 1, 1963). Of note is that this is from the STATE or area that person Applies, not necessarily where they are born. From 1973 - July 14, 2011 the Area was assigned by looking at the zip code shown on the mailing address that was used for the application. Before 1973 the The number was assigned by a field office. Area number of 000 is never assigned. For religious reasons, 666 was never allocated for assigment by SSA. As of 2009, area 772 was considered the highest issued area number and at the time was used to help identify fraudulent numbers.
2 Digits, These were assigned in a sequency and it is from this number that approximate age of a SSN can be determined. This is the order a number was assigned in a particular AREA, and do not have any geographic designation. Historically SSA published a list of of the last used GROUP number by region and this is how age of the group was determined. This report was called "Highest Group Issued" or highgroup.txt (see below) and until SSN assignment was moved to Random, this report was key to determining fraudulent numbers. If a number was not yet used by a region it was fraudulent. If someone claims a SSN that was allocated before the person was born, then it is most probably fraudulent. Group 00 is never used.
Order of issuance was:
Odd 01-09
Even 10-98
5 Digits, NumChk reports on approximately 100,000 of these numbers or blocks and this is how the content is organized.
4 Digits, this is the serial number portion of a SSN number. Because the first 5 digits of older SSN numbers can be determined by State/Region and approximate date of issue, the Serial number is the only real 'secret' part of the number. Unfortunately, many publish this part of the number to confirm the number is yours, and this is the hardest part of the number to determine in most cases if someone were to brute force attack (try to guess) your SSN, so by people publishing this they are doing you a disservice - and further exposing you to identify theft. Even if left to brute force, at only 4 digits, this leaves 10k combinations that is still trivial to determine. Serial 0000 is never assigned.
Serial numbers are normally assigned in chronological order within each area and group number as the applications are processed. Before 1965, serial numbers may have been assigned in a strange order. Reports are 2000 and 7000 series numbers were assigned out of order. From 1965 - 2011 the serial numbers were assigned in strictly increasing order with each area and group combination.
Since 2011 and Randomization - all new numbers including the Serial number are random from valid number allocations and no longer to determine the order, and thus approximate age of issuance.
An Example of the highgroup.txt file historically published by the SSA.
HIGHEST GROUP ISSUED AS OF 7/01/08
Anything with an asterisk (*) is a change effective 7/01/08.
This list shows the SSN area and group numbers that are in
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NOTE: INDICATES GROUP CHANGE SINCE LAST MONTH.
001 06 002 06 003 06 004 08 005 08 006 08
007 08 008 92 009 90 010 92 011 92 012 92*
013 90 014 90 015 90 016 90 017 90 018 90
025 90 026 90 027 90 028 90 029 90 030 90
037 72 038 72 039 72 040 13 041 13 042 13
055 98 056 98 057 98 058 98 059 98* 060 98*
061 98* 062 98* 063 96 064 96 065 96 066 96
109 96 110 96 111 96 112 96 113 96 114 96
115 96 116 96 117 96 118 96 119 96 120 96
139 19 140 19 141 19 142 19 143 19 144 19
145 19 146 19 147 19 148 19 149 19 150 19
157 19 158 19* 159 84 160 84 161 84 162 84
193 84 194 84* 195 84* 196 82 197 82 198 82
217 81 218 81 219 81* 220 79 221 06 222 06
223 99 224 99 225 99 226 99 227 99 228 99
241 99 242 99 243 99 244 99 245 99 246 99
271 13 272 13 273 13 274 13 275 13 276 13
295 13 296 13 297 13 298 13 299 13* 300 13*
313 31 314 31 315 31 316 31 317 31 318 08
331 06 332 06 333 06 334 06 335 06 336 06
361 06 362 35 363 35 364 35 365 35 366 35
373 35 374 35 375 35* 376 35* 377 33 378 33
391 29 392 29 393 29 394 29 395 29 396 29
415 99 416 63 417 63 418 63 419 63 420 63
439 99 440 25 441 25 442 25* 443 23 444 23
505 53 506 53 507 53 508 53* 509 29 510 29
511 29 512 29* 513 27 514 27 515 27 516 45
517 45 518 81* 519 79 520 55 521 99 522 99
529 99 530 99 531 65* 532 63 533 63 534 63
535 63 536 63 537 63 538 63 539 63 540 75
577 47 578 47* 579 45 580 39 581 99 582 99
583 99 584 99 585 99 586 63* 587 99 588 03
601 99 602 71* 603 71* 604 71* 605 71* 606 71*
607 71* 608 69 609 69 610 69 611 69 612 69
625 69 626 69* 627 15 628 15 629 15 630 15
637 15 638 15* 639 15* 640 15* 641 15* 642 13
643 13 644 13 645 13 646 04* 647 02 648 48
649 46 650 50 651 50* 652 48 653 48 654 30*
655 28 656 28 657 28 658 28 659 18* 660 16
661 16 662 16 663 16 664 16 665 16 667 38
668 38 669 38* 670 38* 671 38* 672 36 673 36
674 36 675 36 676 16 677 16* 678 14 679 14
680 98 681 16 682 16 683 16 684 16* 685 16*
686 14 687 14 688 14 689 14 690 14 691 10*
692 10* 693 09 694 09 695 09 696 09 697 09
698 09 699 09 700 18 701 18 702 18 703 18
710 18 711 18 712 18 713 18 714 18 715 18
750 10 751 10 752 03 753 03 754 01 755 01
756 07 757 07 758 07 759 07 760 05 761 05
762 05 763 05 764 92* 765 90 766 72 767 72
768 72 769 72* 770 72* 771 72* 772 70
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"My father is the Friend?" Kanna asks as she confronts the grim truth. With a heart full of despair, it will take everything for Kanna to continue the fight against the Friends. Meanwhile, Koizumi and Sadakiyo manage to escape the pursuit of the Dream Navigators, but not for long. Can Kanna, caught in an emotional struggle between her fate and the future of the Earth, step forward and head to the rescue of Koizumi? As our heroes continue their fight against the Friends, long-held secrets are revealed and more of Kenji's friends reunite. The war against the Friends has reached yet another crescendo...
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[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part-II, 22nd November, 2012]
S.R.O. 1383(I)/2012, dated 19.11.2012.—In exercise of powers conferred under sub-section (3) of Section 167 of the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000), read with sub-section (2) of Section 46 thereof, and sub-section (2) of Section 40 of the SECP Act, 1997 (XLII of 1997), the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan is hereby pleased to publish the following draft regulations for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby and notice is hereby given that objections or suggestions if any, received within a period of thirty (30) days from the date of its publication in the official Gazette, shall be taken into consideration.
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) These regulations shall be called Insurance Accounting Regulations, 2012.
(2) These regulations shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.—In these Regulations, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—
(i) "Ordinance" means the Insurance Ordinance, 2000 (XXXIX of 2000);
(ii) "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan established under Section 3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Act, 1997 (XLII of 1997);
(iii) "Regulatory Returns" means the statements which are required to be presented by Insurers under Section 46 of the Ordinance as prescribed in Annexure-II of the Securities and Exchange Commission (Insurance) Rules, 2002;
(iv) "Published Financial Statements" means the accounts which are required to be presented by Insurers under Section 46 of the Ordinance as prescribed in Annexure-II of the Securities and Exchange Commission (Insurance) Rules, 2002;
(v) "Policyholder Liabilities" has the same meaning given under Section 2 of the Insurance Ordinance, 2000.
3. Application and Scope.—(1) These Regulations shall be applied to the Regulatory Returns and the Published Financial Statements, except in so far as:
(i) any of its provisions includes an express statement that it is not to apply to the Regulatory Returns or to the Published Financial Statements, as the case may be; and
(ii) a provision contained in the Companies Ordinance or in Rules thereto or in an instrument issued there under overrides a provision in these Accounting Regulations so far as concerns the Published Financial Statements.
(2) Every Insurer shall comply, so far as concerns recognition and measurement of assets, liabilities, expenses and revenues, with International Financial Reporting Standards which are adopted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and notified by the Commission.
4. Provisions applicable only to Regulatory Returns only.—(1) Where an insurer controls other entities, then consolidated Regulatory Returns are not required to be presented.
(2) Explanatory Notes are not required in the Regulatory Returns except as specified in these Regulations or as specified in the Forms of Regulatory Returns.
5. Provision for statements to be prepared.—While preparing statements as required under sub-section (1) and (2) of Section 46 of the Insurance Ordinance, 2000, an insurer carrying on life insurance business shall comply with the requirements of Part A and an insurer carrying on non-life insurance business shall comply with the requirements of Part B.
6. Provisions applicable only to Published Financial Statements.—(1) For the purpose of classification and disclosure of profits;
(i) Profits for the year disclosed in the Published Financial Statements shall be determined by consolidating revenues and expenses relating to the Statutory as well as Shareholders' Fund. Except for the provisions relating to Ledger Accounts A and B below, balances retained within Statutory Funds over and above insurance liabilities shall be treated as a part of shareholders' equity and not as liabilities.
(ii) For the purpose of Published Financial Statements, Insurance Liabilities stated in the Statement of Financial Position shall include any balances in Ledger Accounts A and B in Statutory Funds which include participating business. Balances in Ledger Accounts C and D shall be included as part of Shareholders' Equity. Ledger Accounts A, B, C and D shall be as is defined in Section 22 of the Ordinance.
7. Segment analysis.—(1) Some of the forms of Published Financial Statements specified in the Annexure II of the Securities and Exchange Commissioner (Insurance) Rules, 2002 provide segment analysis by type of business as well as fund (statutory fund or shareholders' fund). If the company writes any type of business which is different from other types of business in terms of nature of products or types of risks in addition to the segments already identified in the said published forms, if the gross premiums for that class constitute 10% or more of the gross premium revenue of the insurer the gross premiums for such types of business shall be disclosed separately.
(2) If an insurer writes business outside Pakistan then a complete set of Regulatory Returns except for Form LA shall be prepared for such business.
8. Audit Report.—Both the Regulatory Returns and Published Financial Statements shall be accompanied by an Audit Report as required under S. 48(2) of the Ordinance in accordance with the formats as specified by the Commission from time to time.
9. Appropriation of profit to shareholders' fund from statutory funds (Applicable to Regulatory Returns only).—(1) An appropriation of profit from a statutory fund shall be recorded as an appropriation in the revenue account of that statutory fund in the financial period in which it is made, and shall not be recorded as an expense.
(2) An appropriation of profit from a statutory fund shall be recorded as revenue of the shareholders' fund in the financial period in which it is made.
10. Shareholder interests in statutory funds (Applicable to Regulatory Returns only).—(1) The shareholders' fund shall not recognize as an asset any interest in, entitlement to the assets of or capital transfer provided to any statutory fund.
(2) A capital transfer provided to a statutory fund by the shareholders' fund shall be recorded as a debit balance in shareholders' equity, clearly identified as capital contributed to statutory fund, and changes in the amount of capital contributed to statutory funds shall not pass through the profit and loss account but shall be recorded in the financial statements of the shareholders' fund as increases or decreases in that debit balance.
(3) No statutory fund shall recognize as a liability any amount due to the shareholder's fund consisting of a capital transfer received from a shareholder's fund, or retained profits attributable to shareholders, or any loan or advance, other than a current liability consisting of amounts due to the shareholder's fund on account of expenses due to be reimbursed to the shareholder's fund.
11. Shareholders' Fund and Policyholders' funds (Applicable to Regulatory Returns only).—(1) The amount representing the residue of assets left after all liabilities other than policyholder liabilities in the balance sheet of a statutory fund or the aggregate statutory funds balance sheet in the statutory accounts shall be disclosed as equity and policyholder funds.
(2) The following components of equity and policyholder funds shall be separately disclosed:
(i) Policyholder liabilities (inclusive of bonuses allocated);
(ii) Retained earnings attributable to participating policy holders which have not yet been distributed (Ledger Account A);
(iii) Retained earnings arising from participating business, attributable to shareholders but not available for distribution (Ledger Account B);
(iv) Retained earnings arising from participating business, attributable to shareholders and available for distribution (Ledger Account C);
(v) Retained earnings arising from business other than participating business, attributable to shareholders (Ledger Account D);
(vi) Surplus not yet allocated;
(vii) Shareholders' capital in the statutory fund; and
(viii) Such reserves, whether or not prescribed, as may be established by the statutory fund.
(3) The Notes to these statements shall include disclosure of movements in each of the accounts set out in sub-clause (2).
(4) Where these statements are made up to a date as at which a valuation of policyholder liabilities in accordance with Section 50 of the Ordinance is carried out by the company's appointed actuary, the amount of policyholder liabilities recorded in these statements shall be the greater of the amount of policyholder liabilities certified by the appointed actuary and the minimum actuarial reserve for policyholder liabilities.
(5) Where these statements are made up to a date as at which a valuation of policyholder liabilities in accordance with Section 50 of the Ordinance is not carried out by the company's appointed actuary, the amount of policyholder liabilities recorded in these financial statements shall be the greater of the amount of policyholder liabilities certified by the appointed actuary and the minimum actuarial reserve for policyholder liabilities at the valuation most recently performed.
(6) The Notes to these statements shall show the allocation of surplus, if any, in the financial year, required to be made under Section 21 of the Ordinance, and such accounts as are relevant shall be recorded following such allocation of surplus.
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:02 pm Post subject: Dermot O'Leary Saturday Show
I just wonder if Dermots Saturday shows are live now as the X-Factor has returned to grace our TV screens again?
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Dermot O'Leary Saturday Show
No they're not. They're recorded on Thursdays or Fridays, my informer tells me! He needs to be at Fountain, Wembley for rehearsals all day on X-Factory days.
ColinB wrote:
I guess like the normal years when I emailed the station a few weeks ago. They didn't no then.
I guess like the normal years when I emailed him a few weeks ago. They didn't no then.
Pardon?
He seems to regard Radio 2 as a part time job to be fitted in around other things he clearly sees as more worthy of his time.
The network should get rid of him and give a chance to someone who is genuinely interested in making a career on Radio 2
He said 'I'm not here today' after the first song yesterday plus something about Cher whatshername if I heard correctly. Don't know if this is the norm as I don't normally listen to him. Switched of just afterwards.
Dermot was "lucky" to escape the witch-hunt a few years back that saw Liz Kershaw suspended. I know for a fact that he's committed the same sins as her but many more times - seems like half his shows are pre-recorded, but only recently has he admitted as much.
I really do think a Saturday afternoon show should interact with the audience. Imagine if POTP read out e-mails of people failing to guess that week's Number 1 - much more fun. It's a shame no-one gets a chance to e-mail Dermot's guests as they can with , say, Ken Bruce's guests.
What about those others who pre-record there shows. IE SOT60, Brian Matthews could come in on a Saturday and do a live show. It doesn't matter whether it's live or not.
aviddiva
Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:10 am Post subject: Dermot O'Leary Saturday show
I love the way the shaved monkey said 'I'm not here!' re: his ever so important X-Factor duties!
It reminded me of Robert Duncan as Gus in 'Drop The Dead Donkey' when he wanted the Globelink staff to carry on regardless of him taking notes.
We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum'
Mark with the greatest of respect Brian Matthew is now elderly and might no longer be up for doing a live show and as far as I am aware he does not spend time working for competitor media organisations unlike Mr O'Leary
I have nothing against shows being prerecorded if there is a good reason but when it is done simply to enable already overpaid celebrities to go and earn even more money elsewhere and then they expect to return to Radio 2 live when there is nothing better on offer I'm sorry but to me it stinks
I wouldn't mind so much if he was actually any good on radio but the fact is there are plenty of presenters such as Richard Allinson who could do a much better job on Saturdays as used to be the case
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:25 am Post subject: Re: Dermot O'Leary Saturday Show
No its not live, in the first few minutes (before I switched it off) he said it wasn't so don't text.
I can't see any reason why the format of SOT60s should require BM to present the show live to air. It's an entirely different production style to a show like Dermot O'Leary's and is produced in a different way.
Dermot's is pre-recorded for the obvious reason that he's needed elsewhere at weekends between now and Christmas, and this will be in his contract that he can do so. However, his show - which I believe is recorded either on a Thursday or Friday of the same week - will largely be recorded "as live" - that is, from top to bottom only allowing for News and promotion breaks.
However, SOTS doesn't even need to be recorded this way. BM could, if he chose, simply come in to a production studio, sit in front of a mic and lay down his links whilst referring to a script and running order. He doesn't even need to record "as live". The same could be said of Pick of The Pops - Dale could do it the same way (I often suspect that he does though can't be sure).
I think they use ProTools in production, so it would be simple case of dragging and dropping links and music into the timeline and tweaking them a bit.
However, there's much to be said for recording as live because it adds to the sense of pace and rhythm that the presenter can get when they're listening to the tracks they're describing and introducing. It isn't by any means necessary for progs like SOTS and POTPs, though, but it would be much more time-consuming to piece together Dermot's show this way. It's easier to record as live with maybe one or two retakes and trims here and there.
Dermot's is pre-recorded for the obvious reason that he's needed elsewhere at weekends between now and Christmas, and this will be in his contract that he can do so.
He's been doing it waaaaay before he started on X-Factor. On at least one occassion he has pre-recorded a show because he's gone to a mate's wedding but still asked for texts and e-mails to be sent in - which members of the production team then created.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:50 am Post subject: Dermot O'Leary
He also has the brass neck to endorse an album of live sessions on commercial stations - it doesn't say if any of them do 'A Nation Once Again' or 'The Sash My Father Wore' (Dermot was waving his Irish Nationalist flag rather too much the week he sat in for Ken Bruce).
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:03 am Post subject:
I've no objection to shows being pre-recorded, it makes a change not to have tons of texts read out. It means I get to listen to a presenter's thoughts not those of sometimes mindless listeners.
AgProv
Location: Stockport England (physical) Langollen, Wales (spiritual)
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:06 pm Post subject: point of order
Errr...
Even if Dermot O'Dreary was "waving an Irish Nationalist flag", he'd hardly have been likely to have endorsed "The Sash My Father Wore" as this particular ditty comes out of the tradition of the other tribe, the ones who explicitly do not define themselves as Irish Nationalist...
personally I prefer the Stockport County terrace version, the one that goes
"It was won at Hull and Chesterfield
And in Hull in days of yore
It is blue and white and lovely
It's the scarf my father wore!"
(Don't ask how a sectarian Irish song ended up being taken up by a northern English footie team with no obvious links with Irish terrorism of either kind - we're not Glasgow Rangers even if we play in blue and white - but the original lyrics have certainly been defused!)
One of the BBC's bad boys, seemingly.
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:06 pm Post subject:
The live album referred to is presumably this one
taken from sessions on the show.
I don't get to hear it very often. Dermot is not the clearest of radio presenters and you could say he's too chummy with everyone - that's just how he is I think. At least you can't accuse him of shouting.
His persona and looks have made him a natural for television - my wife likes him - and the word seems to be that he's shortly off to America to host Simon Cowell's X-Factor over there, so I suspect that his extra-curricular radio hobby days might be numbered.
It is the one relatively "young" and contemporary show in a day when those at the blunt end of the station's audience are well cared for. I'll let someone else speculate who might fill his boots at the helm.
RockitRon wrote:
Richard Madeley?
That's definitely one for Chris Evans who, I'm sure, has a bit of spare time. The BBC needs to get their money's worth out of him, after all.
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I don't go out of my way to listen to DO, but in a car that argues over Radio1 (OH) and R2 (Me) it does give me an argument towards R2 as the playlist is more to my liking (mostly)
I am of a similar age (i'm maybe a touch older), he talks about stuff that
I know about rather than much older, for a few hours on a Saturday after 60's and POTP it's a jolt up to date.
Some of the bands he champions are maybe a little bit new for the daytime playlist.
but like others on here his
You will hear gospel and rhythm and blues and jazz, all those are just labels, we know that music is music.
Apart from Dermot who has a job to do on Saturday Night with X-Factor, if you call it a job . At least those who Pre-record there shows can spend time with there familes, etc at the weekends - instead of interacting live with there listeners
They are not being paid out of the BBC licence fee to spend time with their families
They're being paid to be there and do the job properly and if they cannot comply they should be sacked just like any ordinary person would be if they failed to attend their place of employment when required
Why do people constantly make excuses for them!
Apart from Dermot who has a job to do on Saturday Night with X-Factor, if you call it a job .
It looks easy until things go wrong in front of millions of viewers. Then it's a job that I wouldn't want for all the tea in China.
At least those who Pre-record there shows can spend time with there familes, etc at the weekends - instead of interacting live with there listeners
Interacting? Does that mean reading emails and texts? I think I'd prefer most presenters to pre-record, in that case. I'm fed up with the so-called "interactive" input from listeners!
I tried to listen to his show today, its no better and he said that 'we' weren't old enough to go to concerts in the 80s, what age groupo does he think listen to R2 ?
Dermot gabbles on a bit sometimes, and he can be difficult to hear sometimes, but I guess it makes a change from other radio 2 shows in which we're shouted at and treated like kids by the presenter!
Perhaps Dermot could do the 6.30-9.30am weekdays slot?
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:02 am Post subject: Dermot O'Leary Saturday show
Sorry AgProv! I still think he's got a brass neck to flog the compilation on another channel.
It's like 'Peter Griffin Presents The King & I, A Peter Griffin Production' in the Family Guy episode where Peter disrupts the Quahog Community Players's show which Lois is meant to be directing!
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:16 am Post subject:
Mr O'Leary's only interest is looking after his own position
He is a totally hopelessly bad presenter and should be removed from the network forthwith - or even sooner if possible
No way He stood in for Ken B once, that was enough
Dermot will be taking 5 weeks off from the 5th November and Zoe Ball is covering. I can see her getting the show, with Richard Madeley taking over Zoe weekend show.
MadeinSurrey
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My ambivalence knows no bounds!
I can see Zoe taking over Richard's slot and then Richard taking over Dermot's after Zoe has finished covering for Bob Harris next February. Bob will, of course, be covering for Mike Harding when he moves to breakfast in order to present the new "Morning Mike Club".
I find that Dermot O'Leary is intolerable, highly irritating. I was not surprised to learn that he is involved in that Chavy X factor rubbish
Radio 2 need something like the old Saturday Sequence that Roger Scott used to do on Saturday afternoons
Gambo would be ideal as host
Clive55 wrote:
So would Johnnie Walker, who did the original one for Radio One as it happens.
As Johnnie mentioned last night during his live stand-up show!!
I heard the whole DO Show this week while working on the house and apart from a little too much waffle I thought it was ok.
Some of the music was really good.
Guess I'm on my own then
I suppose it will come to head if Dermot signs for X-Factor US, then that would probarly be it at Radio 2.
Oh I really hope so
Thats clever of Dermot asking for listeners to follow him on twitter whilst he's not live.
Why? David Dimpleby does it on Question Time and that's not live either.
Very gay afternoon listening to Gok wan and Dermot. He was making Dermot blush.
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“The more salt we consume, the more we destroy and deteriorate our cells.” – Dr. Timothy Trader, NMD, PhD
“Salt is not a food, even in small amounts. …Stop putting acidic dirt into your body.”
“The more salt we consume, the more we destroy and deteriorate our cells.”
— Dr. Timothy Trader, NMD, PhD
“There has been a lot of talk lately about salt, even among rawfood gurus. It seems everyone is promoting one “healthy salt” or another—Miracle Salt, Celtic Sea Salt, and Himalayan Crystal Salt, to name a few. Unfortunately, I don’t see anyone telling the truth about salt. Rather, they regurgitate the “facts” from the company’s marketing literature, in spite of copious scientific research to the contrary.
Let’s begin by delving into some facts about regular table salt, or sodium chloride. Then we’ll investigate just how different these “healthy salts” really are. No doubt you’ve heard that salt is essential for life. Actually, what our bodies need are the two components of table salt—sodium and chloride. First we need to distinguish chlorine from chloride. And which one does the body need? www.ionichs.com/research/chlorine-chloride.pdf: states “chloride is absolutely essential to the survival of cells in the human body and to human health in general. This is not the case with chlorine, which at certain levels can lead to serious health problems. AND, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, chloride is essential in maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance, and is a necessary component of gastric juice. (NAS, page 257)”
Sodium stabilizes water balance in our bodies, plays an intricate role in nervous system function, and is a component of several chemicals in our bodies, such as our gastric juices. Natural sodium occurs in many vegetables, including lettuce, tomatoes, and especially celery.
Chloride helps heart function, is of key importance in maintaining the body’s acid-alkaline balance, and aids in digestion and elimination. Chloride is found in the same three items, lettuce, tomatoes and celery. Though it is not bound with sodium.
Unfortunately, table salt contains ingredients other than sodium and chlorine—aluminum, for one. Two of the most common anticaking agents used in salt production are sodium alumino-silicate and alumino-calcium silicate. Aluminum is a toxic metal that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease and in any case has no place in a healthy diet.
The sodium and chloride in table salt are physically bonded in such a way that our digestive system and our liver cannot break them down. Thus our bodies cannot access the sodium or the chlorine. The body’s only option is to attempt to eliminate the unusable substance. The portion that is excreted exits the body as sodium chloride, which is evidence that the body does not break down and use this compound.
When we take in more of any substance than the body can eliminate, it has to store the substance. When salt can’t be excreted, it is deposited in the body, causing the cells to contract and discharge their vital fluids. With the fluids goes all the vital components that the cell needs, including other minerals. This results in dehydration of the cells, hardening of the tissues, degeneration of the organs, and even cancer.
Historically, salt was used as a food preservative and an embalming agent. It is well known that salt kills bacteria that eat food. Unfortunately, in the same way, salt destroys the body’s cells as well. Those who live in snowy regions know that salting the roads to melt the snow corrodes metals. The chloride in salt has an affinity for hydrogen ions, making corrosive, carcinogenic hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is used in the stomach but, when HCL is made outside of the digestive system it can eat away at everything it touches. Salt will tie to hydrogen ion out side of the stomach.
In a December 2002 article entitled in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , we see how salt creates urinary nitrogen and calcium loss and erodes muscle and bone. The July 2003 issue of Acupuncture Today states, “Salt induced chloride acidosis has been found to cause irritability, hyperactivity and insomnia…”. This means that the body is stimulated and irritated by poisons. “Excessive salt consumption is associated with stomach cancer, and chloride acid reflux into the esophagus initiates esophageal cancer. Systemic acidity is probably carcinogenic in other tissues.” A January 7, 2004 report of the National Cancer Center Research Institute at Kashiwa, Japan entitled “Salt and Stomach Cancer” again confirms this, stating that salt elevates—even doubles—the incidence of stomach cancer.
The Nei Jing, an ancient Chinese medical text, states, “too much salty taste can weaken the bones and cause contracture and atrophy of the muscles, as well as stagnate the heart qi.” Other maladies associated with salt consumption include premenstrual syndrome, gout, and psychological disorders.
Salt affects the arteries, compressing them and elevating blood pressure (American Society of Hypertension study, “Salt Reduction and Hypertension,” F. Sacks, Harvard University. May, 2000.) Hypertension is involved in heart attacks and strokes, otherwise known as cardiovascular disease, the number one terminal disease in Western civilization. Even back in 1977, the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human needs recommended reduction of salt intake for the average American.
Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says in Federal Regulations, section 101.74, part 3 “Sodium intakes exceed recommended levels in almost every group in the United States. One of the major public health recommendations relative to high blood pressure is to decrease consumption of salt. On a population-wide basis, we see again and again, reducing the average blood pressure reduces mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke.
In the August, 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association, the article “Using Diet to Lower Your Blood Pressure” recommended not only putting the salt shaker away but eating more fruits and vegetables. I agree with Dr. Kotchen, the article’s author, on this.
What’s Natural About It?
Like cigarette smoke, we know that eating salt damages our bodies. Yet most of us still consume it. Similarly, at some level all Americans have to know that they’re deluding themselves when they imagine that a high-fat diet doesn’t hurt…yet thousands have jumped on the Atkins train. Are we addicted or what?
As is the case with many poisons that enter into our bodies, salt does not kill us right away. But we become addicted to salt, which lowers our defenses so that we not only endure the detrimental addictive substance but we come to demand more and more of it.
Animals in nature do not consume salt; domestic cows and other animals are taught to eat it. Humans are the only primates who eat salt. The question arises about salt licks, as Dr. Shelton speaks in his book The Art and Science of Nutrition, that domestic animals are fed salt to increase water weight and that wild animals do not flock to sources of salt.
It is said that salt is in our blood. Well, yes…it is. But it has existed in human blood only since we started eating it—some 8,000 years ago, according to historians. 8,000 years is a relatively short time in human history; for 99% of the time humans have inhabited the planet, we thrived without salt. And, our intake of salt has doubled in the last 50 years. Anthropology has found no sodium-chloride deposits in early bones of human remains, though you can find it in most anyone of western civilization today. Once humans began cooking food and discarding the water in which they cooked it—along with most of its minerals and nutrients—we were left craving minerals. Table salt can be a quick mineral replacement. But the question is, does it add up?
People say that salt makes food taste better. In truth, salt irritates our taste buds, actually killing many cells on the tongue. The effect is much like burning or scraping some skin off our hands in pursuit of a more sensitive touch. On the Oregon State University Student Health Services Web site, we find this quote: “Unlike the sweet sensation we are born to appreciate, salt sensation is acquired. Only through ‘practice’ consuming salty foods do people develop a taste for it.” Others claim that salt aids digestion. In reality, salt inhibits absorption through intestinal membranes. Albuminuria, a presence of protein in the urine, occurs when all of the components of blood are expeditiously possessed by the kidneys, taking out needed nutrients in the blood with the poisons. This disturbs water balance in the body causing dehydration, causing low gastric juices which affect digestion.
Imagine placing salt in an open wound (no, I do not suggest doing this) it will burn. Though some promoters of salt will tell you that it helps to heal the wound, we find that it actually pushes the body to heal the wound faster because there is a poison as well as a wound. Poisons in a laceration only causes more scaring, due to the rushed work the body has to do to secure that contaminates stay out.
The more salt we consume, the more we destroy and deteriorate our cells. In edema, the circulatory system keeps more fluid with the blood to keep the salt in the blood away from the cells. Diabetics who lower their salt intake also have lower glucose readings and need less insulin (Diabetes, March 2001).
In ancient Japan, the Samurai committed hari-kari to eliminate dishonor. Many of us have read how they stabbed themselves with a knife in this ritual suicide. There were other ways; one of them was a long and agonizing death, for those with the greatest dishonor. It was to take a sack of sea salt, just less than a pound, and a small amount of water, around a liter, and to consume both as quickly as possible. The result was destruction of the body from the inside, as well as dehydration. Death was not instantaneous, but by the next morning it was sure. Navy and maritime personnel all over the world are told not to drink sea water if they survive a shipwreck and are left without drinking water, because drinking sea water causes death by dehydration.
So here it is, salt is a deadly poison and not something your body can use. Even small amounts do some damage to your cells and can be stored in the body, making the body more toxic each time you consume salt. Salt is not a food, even in small amounts. This also applies to everything else we consume, poisons affect our bodies and when we get more in then what we can get rid of, it will accumulate and do more damage.
Organic Versus Inorganic Minerals
Minerals (like sodium) are best taken in plant form. In fact it is the only source of minerals our body can truly use. Plant-derived minerals are termed “organic” minerals, whereas the minerals in dirt are called “inorganic.” Many differences exist between these two kinds of minerals. real issue is which kinds of minerals the body can absorb and use, some tout colloidal minerals, others talk about ionic minerals, mostly it is just something to sell you on a product.
Many factors contribute to proper absorption and utilization of minerals. Three important ones are organic acids, phytochelatins, and metallothioneins fundamental elements found in plants with minerals, but not in powders. Colloidal liquids sold in stores also lack some of the plant materials that you need for optimum absorption and utilization. Perhaps most important, minerals in dirt can have larger molecules than do those same minerals found in plants. Our cells absorb minerals of a smaller molecular size much more easily. Here are three resources on the topic of mineral bioavailability: * Biochemical Society Transactions, “Bioavailability of Dietary Minerals,” 1996. * Bioavailability: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interactions, EPA/600/A-94/199. J.L. Hamelink, P.F. Landrum, H.L. Bergman, and W.H. Benson, Editors. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. Pp. 5-22.
* Biorecovery 1, (81–126), “Terrestrial Higher Plants Which Hyperaccumulate Metallic Elements—A Review of Their Distribution, Ecology and Phytochemistry.” Baker, A. J. M., and Brooks, R. R. (1989)
What’s So Different?
Are “healthy salts” any different? First none of them come from plants, where we can truly use them. The closest to healthy plant-based condiment that is salty is seaweed. Even though the minerals in seaweed are organic, they are surrounded by dried sea salt, which is inorganic and mostly sodium chloride, a poison. Don’t forget that seaweed contains all the pollutants in the ocean, as well as heavy metals.
Let’s examine Celtic sea salt, again an inorganic group of minerals and 83% sodium chloride. It also contains metals like aluminum, and all the contaminates of the ocean. The company claims that it contains no mercury, and I am glad about that—though I’m unsure how they managed this feat, since our oceans are full of mercury. They also claim that their salt contains no pollutants, although most ecologists find no place in our oceans untouched by our chemicals. Celtic Sea Salt has more minerals than table salt, but it is still mostly sodium chloride and thus acidic. The minerals are inorganic and unusable and really poison. The claims made on health properties are no different then any other product some one is trying to sell you. Poisons are destructive to your body no matter how small the amount is. When we use it to cure a malady it only stops symptoms, the reality is that the only way to heal is to create health.
Another “natural” salt is Himalayan Crystal Salt, mined in India, out of rock. They say it is from a primordial sea. So really it is sea salt, just without today’s pollutants. Some of the statements made by the company seem odd. “Himalayan Crystal salt forces water to stay outside the cells.” This dehydrates the cells and possibly keeps them undernourished. The cells probably contract, similarly to the cramps you get when you are dehydrated. Then they tell you how to get rid of edema: “this is how you get rid of edema fluid in the body: by drinking more water.” More water will help the body flush out the salt. If you stop eating salt, the edema goes away! Their answer to high blood pressure is again drinking more water. This still sounds like inorganic minerals which the body can or will not use and is trying to get rid of. The answer to any pollution is water as far as most “experts” go. I say stop the cause, don’t pollute your self.
The last salt I would like to talk about is Miracle Krystal Salt. Like the others, it has many minerals. They make sure you know it is unrefined. Still it does not come from a plant, and it contains sodium chloride. Could this be just another salt for you to buy? There are profits to be made. And as many researchers know, if you have money you can fund a study to prove what you want so you can sell your product. Hopefully we can see through this con game and find true health, without condiments and supplements.
The truth is that table salt is just refined “healthy salt,” and refining any food product results in lowered health. Refined cocoa is cocaine; refined poppy is heroine, all three create addictions. Salt is a learned taste, not a natural one. Just watch a baby’s facial expression of disgust when they’re first given salt. The only time babies reject fruit is when they are full, or have no teeth yet.
Our bodies need sodium, and we get it in abundance with our natural diet. Thoreau called salt “that grossest of groceries,” and after he discontinued it, found himself less thirsty. I see many people who eat at least a somewhat healthy diet, even some who eat a superbly healthy diet. These people also have problems like hypertension and they wonder why? Then I find out they are consuming a “healthy salt,” as well as trying to live a healthy lifestyle, as soon as they stop this addiction, the affliction goes away, every time. Stop putting acidic dirt into your body. You will save money and you will be healthier.”
— by Dr. Timothy Trader, NMD, PhD
Original link: http://aquariusthewaterbearer.com/the-more-salt-we-consume-the-more-we-destroy-and-deteriorate-our-cells/
Stinky T-Shirt? Bacteria Love Polyester In A Special Way
Sure, exercising can make you stronger, happier and healthier. But it can also make you stink. And that polyester workout wear isn't helping.
Anyone with a drawerful of T-shirts knows that the synthetic ones can get sour after just a brief jog, while old-school cotton T-shirts remain relatively stink-free all day. And now science explains why.
The bacteria that flourish on a sweaty polyester T-shirt are different from those that grow on cotton, researchers at the University of Ghent in Belgium found.
Polyester makes a happy home for Micrococcus bacteria, while Staphylococcus, a common armpit denizen, was found on both poly and cotton.
Polyester workout wear is light, comfortable and dries quickly. But it's notorious for getting rank and staying that way. Internet message boards are awash with advice on how to de-stink gym clothes, but the perennial nature of the questions suggests that none of the answers — vinegar, baking soda, avoiding fabric softeners, rinsing your clothes in the shower — works 100 percent of the time.
Microbes love the cozy warmth of the human armpit; it's like a trip to the tropics without ever having to leave home. And it's crowded in there. Those microbes eat compounds in sweat and generate odors, which support a flourishing deodorant industry. One of the authors of this study, Chris Callewaert, is trying to figure out the causes of smelly pits, a quest he details on his website, Dr. Armpit.
The scientists asked 26 volunteers to take a spinning class while wearing shirts made of cotton, poly or blends. The shirts were then incubated for a day, and the microbes extracted and DNA fingerprinted. Volunteers also had their armpits swabbed. The study was published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
It turns out the bugs on the shirts are different from the bugs in the pits. WhileCorynebacterium is thought to be the main cause of armpit body odor, there was noCorynebacterium on the clothes. Instead, Staphylococcus flourished on cotton and poly, and Micrococcus, bacteria also known for making malodor, loved polyester.
It's unclear how Micrococcus gets on polyester clothing when it's not a dominant species in the armpits, Callewaert says. He's wondering if the bacteria might spread in the washing machine and is doing research to figure that out.
He's also trying to help people with excessive body odor by giving them armpit bacteria transplants. "We have done transplants with about 15 people, and most of them have been successful," Callewaert, a Ph.D. student in applied biological sciences at the University of Ghent, tells Shots. "All have had an effect short term, but the bad odor comes back after a few months for some people."
Manufacturers have tried to make polyester fabric less hospitable to bacteria by impregnating it with antimicrobials like silver nanoparticles or triclosan. Both products have been criticized as having potentially negative impacts on the environment, and there are few data on how they might affect the wearer.
Callewaert thinks the ultimate solution will be something more organic — supplant bad bugs with good ones. "The bacteria has to do a war on its own," he says. "If you have the good bacteria present, eventually you have no bad odor."
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Alanis Morissette : Best Ever Albums
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Alanis Morissette (@alanis) • Фото и видео в Instagram
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Аланис Мориссетт (Alanis Morissette) (Актриса, Участница ...
Аланис Мориссетт - канадская певица, автор песен и актриса. Обладательница семи премий «Грэмми». Её альбом «Jagged Little Pill» стал самым ...
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Alanis Morissette | Biography, Songs, & Facts | Britannica.com
29 нояб. 2018 г. - Alanis Morissette, in full Alanis Nadine Morissette, (born June 1, 1974, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Canadian musician known for her ...
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Alanis Morissette: Feminism Needs a Revolution | Time
8 мар. 2016 г. - Alanis Morissette is a singer, songwriter and advocate of female empowerment and spiritual, psychological and physical wellness. She recently ...
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Exploring self and Self with Alanis Morissette - 1440 Multiversity Blog
By exploring self, Alanis Morissette describes how to navigate life in a way that creates a sense of mastery in being alive. Read more about how Ms. Morissette ...
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How good was Alanis Morissette in Dublin? You Oughta Know
5 июл. 2018 г. - Iveagh Gardens was the second of two Alanis Morissette gigs in Ireland. Here she is performing in Cork on Wednesday night. Photograph: ...
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Alanis Morissette - The Cut
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Alanis Morissette | Billboard
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Alanis Morissette: The Changing Roles of Women in the Music ...
5 дек. 2013 г. - Alanis Morissette reflects on how the music industry has changed over the course of her career.
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Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since 'Hair'? - The ...
16 мая 2018 г. - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Everyone seems to have a story about hearing Alanis Morissette's “Jagged Little Pill” for the first time. The writer Diablo ...
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Ramriddlz's new video is a faithful Alanis Morissette tribute | The FADER
That's because the clip is a loving tribute to Alanis Morissette's "Ironic," the groundbreaking video for the ...At Last, Alanis Morissette Recognizes It's Not Ironic - The Atlantichttps://www.theatlantic.com/.../alanis-morissette.../481875/Сохраненная копияПохожиеПеревести эту страницу9 мая 2016 г. - Pour one out for Alanis Morissette. For more than 20 years now, since the release of her hit “Ironic,” she's had to hear every pedant, every ...
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Alanis Morissette on Amazon Music - Amazon.com
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Chugg Entertainment - Alanis Morissette 2018
Since 1995, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential artists in contemporary music. Her groundbreaking debut release Jagged Little Pill, described ...
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ALANIS MORISSETTE - The Washington Post
26 авг. 1996 г. - Alanis Morissette did this weird thing with her hands at the Merriweather Post Pavilion Thursday night. The alterna-rock superstar twisted her ...
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Alanis Morissette : Concerts : Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation
27 сент. 2018 г. - This is Alanis' only headlining west coast performance in 2018 other than her sold out performances at The Pearl Concert Theatre in Las Vegas ...
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Alanis Morissette News, Pictures, and Videos | E! News - Eonline.com
Alanis Morissette Talks "Jagged Little Pill" Legacy. Kendall Jenner, Nicki Minaj, Alanis Morrisette · How Celebrity Victims of the Hollywood Crime Wave Are ...
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Alanis Morissette, MIss Thing, Jagged Little Pill – Rolling Stone
2 нояб. 1995 г. - Alanis Morissette, circa 1995. Mick Hutson/Redferns/Getty. Here's a clue for the clueless generation: If you're going to worship someone, you ...
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Alanis Morissette - Wikiquote
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born 1 June 1974) is a Canadian singer, songwriter ... On her song "Precious Illusions", in "Alanis Morissette talks about songs from ...
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Alanis Morissette @ the Cowlitz Ballroom at Ilani | K103 Portland
16 авг. 2018 г. - Alanis Morissette will rock the Cowlitz Ballroom stage at 7:00PM on Sunday, September, 16th. Since 1995, Alanis Morissette has been one of ...
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Alanis Morissette Music Profile - Metacritic
Reviews and scores for Music involving Alanis Morissette.
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Alanis Morissette - Still - текст и перевод песни - Learnsongs
Текст песни Still (Все еще) в исполнении Alanis Morissette c переводом: I am the harm which you inflict I am your brilliance and frustration I'm the nuclear ...
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Alanis Morissette on Amazon Music - Amazon UK
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Jagged Little Pill: 12 fun facts you might not know about Alanis ...
8 июн. 2015 г. - Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill debuted 20 years ago on June 13, and defined the genre we know today as alternative rock. It…
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Cifra Club - Alanis Morissette - The Couch
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Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill Musical Will Premiere in 2018 ...
30 мая 2017 г. - The previously reported musical adaption of Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill will make its world premiere at the American ...
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Alanis Morissette: 'I'd like to say sorry to my ex-boyfriends' | Life and ...
9 июн. 2018 г. - Born in Ontario, Canada, Alanis Morissette, 44, released her debut album when she was 16. Her third, the Grammy award-winning Jagged ...
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When Alanis Morissette was balancing school and stardom | CBC ...
27 нояб. 2018 г. - Alanis Morissette was already a certified pop star in high school, having sold more than 100,000 records before her Grade 12 year was even ...
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Alanis Morissette schedule, dates, events, and tickets - AXS
On her new album Havoc and Bright Lights, Alanis Morissette distills her entire body of work into its closing track Edge of Evolution: “…we're ready to push ...
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'Jagged Little Pill' Musical Review: Alanis Morissette's New Show ...
25 мая 2018 г. - Always engaging, often moving, and even rousing, the show boasts dramatic interest and integrity on its own theatrical terms.
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A Conversation With Alanis Morissette - WBUR
30 мая 2018 г. - "People are thinking twice before they demean and oppress and abuse the feminine anywhere," says Alanis Morissette, of early '90s rock fame.
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Alanis Morissette — слушать онлайн на Яндекс.Музыке
Alanis Morissette: Канадская певица, композитор, актриса и продюсер, которая стала всемирно популярной в 1995 году, записав один из самых ...
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Alanis Morissette on Spotify
A former child actress turned dance-pop diva, Morissette transformed herself into a confessional alternative singer/songwriter in the vein of Liz Phair and Tori ...
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Alanis Morissette | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links | AllMusic
Find Alanis Morissette bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - Confessional alternative singer/songwriter who…
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Alanis Morissette on therapy, addiction and the definition of irony ...
19 мая 2018 г. - Alanis Morissette appreciates the irony of her troubled relationship with fame. 'I was always a people-watcher, I'd sit for hours observing, and ...
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Alanis Morissette - Memphis in May International Festival
Born in Ottawa, Canada, Alanis Morissette became a star on the strength of her third album, Jagged Little Pill. She bolstered the confessional alternative ...
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Alanis Morissette's 'You Oughta Know' About Dave Coulier - Business ...
23 сент. 2013 г. - After nearly two decades of speculation, actor Dave Coulier — aka goofy "Uncle Joey" from "Full House" — is finally confirming that Alanis ...
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Alanis Morissette | Artist | www.grammy.com
Born Alanis Nadine Morissette June 1, 1974, in Ottawa, Ontario. The Canadian singer/songwriter broke through with her third studio album, 1995's Jagged Little ...
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Alanis Morissette | Mohegan Sun
Since 1995, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in Contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and ...
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Alanis Morissette on Jagged Little Pill Being More Relevant Than Ever ...
9 окт. 2018 г. - I see anger as this gorgeous life force,” Alanis Morissette said Tuesday. “It's actually one of my favorite feelings because it's a catalyst.”
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Alanis Morissette: 'When someone says I'm angry, it's a compliment'
13 июн. 2018 г. - Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill was an anthem for a generation frustrated with relationships. Two decades on, the singer is back.
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The alan parsons project eye in sky. Мориссетт, Аланис — Википедия
Премия «Грэмми» за лучшее женское вокальное рок-исполнение (1995). Премия «Грэмми» за лучшую рок-песню (1995). премия «Грэмми» за лучший ...Ранние годы · Музыкальная карьера · Кинокарьера · Личная жизньAlanis Morissette: The Collection — Википедияhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanis_Morissette:_The_CollectionСохраненная копияПохожиеAlanis Morissette: The Collection — сборник лучших песен Аланис Мориссетт, вышедший в США 15 ноября 2005 года. Сборник включает в себя песни с ...
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Alanis Morissette | Wolf Trap
With sales of over 60 million albums worldwide, Alanis Morissette is one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply ...
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Alanis Morissette - Official Website
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Alanis Morissette at Cowlitz Ballroom | ilani
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Alanis Morissette | Free Listening on SoundCloud
Since 1995 Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and ...
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UB40, Alanis Morissette and Squeeze Headline Cornbury Festival 2018
Following the recent announcement of an all-female bill for the Saturday – with Canadian headliner Alanis Morissette – today it was announced that British ...
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Eric Verzuh The Portable MBA in Project Management
The Portable MBA in Project Management covers the most pressing topics in project management and features all the leading thinkers in the field. While most project management books address only the techniques for managing individual projects, The Portable MBA in Project Management widens the scope to include insights for managing project-based organizations. In doing so, this comprehensive volume will help managers combine the power of individual project successes to drive the organization to new levels of productivity and customer responsiveness. Eric Verzuh, best selling author of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, brings together the leading lights of project management in this volume, including Robert G. Cooper, Randall Englund, Jack Meredith and Neil Whitten. In addition to his role as editor, Verzuh draws on his own expertise to address how and why project management is a strategic strength, how to integrate project management into your enterprise, and several other topics for which he is well-known. Together they effectively address the full spectrum of the issues in project management today.
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Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder: Alan Partridge. Star of action blockbuster Alpha Papa; a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future.I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan is the memoir of Alan Partridge, the nation’s favourite broadcaster. It is a work of heart-breaking majesty.Genuinely one of the best books of the last fifteen to twenty years, I, Partridge charts the highs, lows and middle bits in the life of one of Europe’s most revered inquisitors.
Kerzner Harold Bringing the PMBOK Guide to Life. A Companion for Practicing Project Manager
Transform the PMBOK® Guide from a framework to a sharpened tool in your project managers toolbox In project management circles, its often joked that «theres the right way, the wrong way, and the PMBOK® way» to manage projects. In truth, its really about the methodology you choose. The PMBOK® Guide is a consensus-based standard that thousands of project management professionals find immensely valuable in the process of developing an effective methodology. But exactly how does a project manager take the information provided in the PMBOK® Guide and apply it most effectively and appropriately to an actual project environment? This book can be the answer. It is basically a «guide to the guide»—a road map to applying the tools of the PMBOK® Guide to your organizations or projects unique nature and requirements. Bringing the PMBOK® Guide to Life: A Companion for the Practicing Project Manager builds a bridge between the PMBOK® Guide and the common needs of todays practicing project managers. It explains and elaborates on specific techniques, terms, and the application of tools that will enable project managers to effectively adapt the principles and processes described in the PMBOK® Guide to the practical world of project management. Readers will find suggested approaches for the use of project management tools and techniques along with templates developed directly from information provided in the PMBOK® Guide. Suggestions and study tips are also included to assist in preparing for the PMP exam, and a Project Plan Accelerator (PPA) can be used with the PMBOK® Guide by project managers and project teams to develop plans that are specifically tailored to meet the needs of your team, your clients, and your sponsoring organization. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Bringing the PMBOK® to Life will help every project manager translate the PMBOK® Guides tools and techniques into actionable, commonsense approaches to managing a project. (PMI, PMBOK, PMP, and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Kim Heldman Project Management JumpStart
An informative introduction for those considering a career in project management Project Management JumpStart offers a clear, practical introduction to the complex world of project management, with an entertaining approach based on real-world application. Fully revised to align with a Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge –PMBOK Guide©, 6th edition, this book provides an overview of the field followed by an exploration of current best practices. The practical focus facilitates retention by directly linking critical concepts to your everyday work, while the close adherence to PMBOK guidelines makes this book the perfect starting point for those considering certification to earn either PMP or CompTIA Project+ credentials. Project management is a top-five, in-demand skill in today’s workplace, and the demand has spread far beyond IT to encompass nearly every industry; any organization that produces goods or services, whether for profit or not, has a vested interest in ensuring that projects are completed on time, on budget, and to the satisfaction of the client—this is the heart of the project management function. Let Kim Heldman, bestselling author of PMP Study Guide and CompTIA Project+ Study Guide, walk you through the basic principles and practices to help you build a strong foundation for further training. Understand current project management methods and practices Explore project management from a practical perspective Delve into illustrative examples that clarify complex issues Test your understanding with challenging study questions Trillions of dollars are invested in various projects around the world each year, and companies have learned that investing in qualified project management professionals pays off in every aspect of the operation. If you’re considering a career in project management, Project Management JumpStart provides an excellent introduction to the field and clear direction for your next steps.
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If youre a project manager, you need this guide to fill in the gaps in the PM canon. The Project Management Institutes Body of Knowledge, fails to fully explain certain PM tools and how they work, among other failures. Real-World Project Management fills in those major gaps with irreverence, wit, and wisdom. For any kind of project you’re managing, this book presents the high-quality tools and tactics you need to succeed.
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The theory, practice, and example projects of international project management A Singaporean corporation builds a manufacturing facility in Cambodia, with a Chinese partner, a Cambodian government agency, and value chain organizations in Germany, Morocco, Vietnam, and Brazil. A Russian charity operates in the Balkans and the Persian Gulf. Pharmaceuticals and food come from ten different countries, physicians are from the EU and Russia, and donations are from Central Asia and the subcontinent. A transnational organization markets through divisions in eighty-two countries. The products are designed in Italy, Sweden, and France, with customization done in each respective country. International projects involve a complex network of cultures, politics, laws, languages, and resources that goes beyond the traditional training and experience of most project managers. International Project Management examines the different dimensions and responsibilities of international projects, and outlines what a project manager must know to lead global projects successfully. It also provides guidelines and examples for the international project management processes. This book explores the professional best practices of international projects, emphasizing the importance of leadership skills and virtual teamwork to successfully navigate an international project. Along with discussions on the process groups, such as initiating, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing out, this reference is organized according to these knowledge areas: Introduction to international project management Integration management HR management (Diversity & Communications) Scope management Cost and progress management Risk management Time management Customer satisfaction (Quality) Procurement management CPE in the future Integrating the PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition, and the ICB, International Project Management provides international project managers, whether experienced or beginners, with the high cross-cultural intelligence, creative communication skills, ability to establish and maintain dependable project management processes, and compelling curiosity to manage international projects successfully. (PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
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Project Management Leadership is a comprehensive guide to the human factors involved in Project Management, in particular the leadership skills required to ensure successful implementation of current best practice. It provides the latest insights on team building, motivation, collaboration, and networking skills, and the way these can be harnessed to manage a successful project. Exercises and worked examples are provided throughout.
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Wayne J. Del Pico Project Control. Integrating Cost and Schedule in Construction
The key to successful project control is the fusing of cost to schedule whereby the management of one helps to manage the other. Project Control: Integrating Cost and Schedule in Construction explores the reasons behind and the methodologies for proper planning, monitoring, and controlling both project costs and schedule. Filling a current void the topic of project control applied to the construction industry, it is essential reading for students and professionals alike.
Cynthia Stackpole Snyder A Project Managers Book of Forms. Companion to the PMBOK Guide
A compendium of ready-made forms for managing every project in line with the latest PMBOK® Guide—Fifth Edition This valuable companion to the Project Management Institutes A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition presents a comprehensive and practical set of forms and reports that help project managers apply the concepts and practices described in the PMBOK® Guide. Designed specifically to assist both new and experienced project managers in handling all aspects of a project, this edition of A Project Managers Book of Forms contains forms that cover all the process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. It also includes some forms not mentioned in the PMBOK® Guide, which you will find helpful in managing your project. Use the forms as a guide in collecting and organizing project information, or as a template for ensuring a set of consistent data on all projects. The forms can also be adopted on an organizational level to enable a repeatable approach to project management. Completely editable electronic versions of all the blank forms, in Microsoft Office–compatible format, are available on an accompanying website. You may use them as is or tailor them to your own needs. The PMBOK® Guide covers the processes for managing a project; this book gives you a handy road map of forms to use to make every project just a bit smoother from start to finish. (PMBOK is a registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Alan Carr Look who it is!: My Story
The brilliantly funny and inimitable Alan Carr tells his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton to his rise to become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians.‘Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in the night and left the other boys with chiselled, stubbly chins and deep masculine voices, I’d been left with a huge pair of knockers and the voice of a pensioner.’ Alan CarrAlan Carr grew up in one of the most boring towns in England – Northampton. A place known for making shoes. It was also known for its football club, Northampton Town FC. Alan’s dad as manager of the club was a local hero. A dream come true for most lads, but not Alan. Alan wore glasses and had man boobs at 14. He did not like P.E.In his very first book, Alan tells his life story, (‘oh and what a life’) with his unique twist of natural, observational humour –‘I’m not saying I’m a fantasist but there have been times when things that I’ve seen on television when I was younger have tended to seep into my subconscious and blended into my own life. I remember telling my Mum about the time I stopped that woman from having a diamond encrusted necklace stolen and she’d say ‘No Alan, that was Poirot.’With his tongue-in-cheek, end of pier humour that made him famous, Alan describes an ordinary life in bursts of technicolour. His journey from awkward schoolboy hiding his man-boobs on the pitch, drinking tea with the dinner ladies and working in a call centre, to becoming one of our best-loved comedians likened to the great Frankie Howerd, will make his book a guaranteed tickler with a laugh-out-loud gag on every page.
The much-anticipated new edition of the popular project management introductory book The role of the project manager continues to become more diverse and demanding, placing strong project management skills in high demand. This in-depth introductory guide offers aspiring project managers the essential fundamentals of project management. Fully revised since the previous version, this new edition includes updated project management methods and practices as well as new examples and study questions. Project management guru Kim Heldman presents you with a clear, concise, and enjoyable writing style so that you can approach project management from a practical?rather than theoretical?standpoint. Serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of project management Provides completely updated and revised material on project management methods and practices Features new examples and study questions Addresses how to create project schedules and budgets and define project goals Covers project management principles, Project Management Institute?s project management standards, and practical application of project management for the workplace Whether youre considering a career in project management or simply wish to expand your understanding of general project management principles, Project Management JumpStart, Third Edition is ideal reading.
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All the gossips in Ranger Springs were talking about the runaway bride whod just come to town. And how shed caught the eye of sexy police chief Ethan Parker.Theyd all seen his car parked outside her house the first night she was in town. And after watching the two embrace on the front porch, nobody believed for a minute that hed just come to check on some wayward raccoons! No, it seemed as if sweet Robin Cummings had caught the eye of this true-blood Texan whod never quite made it to the altar. How could everyone in town help but start working on The Bachelor Project…?
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The objective of the book is to make accessible the ways in which social network analysis (SNA) may be used to observe, monitor and analyse systems and relationships in major construction project coalitions. Although this has been an established analytical technique in the US for some time, it is only now being developed in the UK. Having spent nearly two decades investigating major project relationships using SNA, the author has brought together mathematical and sociological methods, and major project relationships in a manner that will inspire both academic interest and a desire to apply these concepts and techniques to live construction projects. Case studies include projects from two of the UKs largest property developers, the UK Ministry of Defence and a County Council. SNA is innovative – but potentially inaccessible to project management analysts and practitioners. This book will provide clear and relevant explanation and illustration of the possibilities of using SNA in a major project environment. In addition to offering the potential; for sophisticated retrospective analysis of a wide range of systems associated with construction and engineering project coalitions, the author looks at how we might apply the network analysis findings to the design and management of project and supply chain networks.
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The professional standard in the field of project management, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge better known as the PMBOK® Guide published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) serves as the ultimate resource for professionals and as a valuable studying and training device for students taking the PMP® exam. A Users Manual to the PMBOK® Guide takes the next logical step to act as a true users manual. Its accessible format and easy-to-understand language helps to not only distill essential information contained in the PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition, but also fills an educational gap by offering instruction on how to apply its various tools and techniques. This book: Defines each project management process in the PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition, describes their intent, and discusses their individual ITTOs (inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs) Features examples, handy tips, and sample forms to supplement learning Is written by the author who was project manager of the PMBOK ®Guide—Fourth Edition Contains a data flow diagram of each process in the PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition to show how information is distributed A Users Manual to the PMBOK® Guide simplifies the PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition to provide the springboard from which successful project management processes are interpreted and carried out in the real world. Thorough in coverage and rich in content, this manual is a worthy companion to augment the important strategies laid out in the PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition—and the one book that aspiring or professional project managers should never be without. (PMBOK, PMI, PMP and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
Tres Roeder Managing Project Stakeholders. Building a Foundation to Achieve Goals
The keys to project management success delivered by one of the worlds most respected experts in the field Why do some project managers achieve their project goals while others fail? Drawing on his years of experience as a recognized global expert on project management and organizational change, author Tres Roeder answers that question, and lays out a proven path to project success. Focusing on the major differences between project management and other types of management—not least of them being the temporary nature of projects versus the repetitive nature of most managerial tasks—Roeder describes best practices in all key areas of managing project stakeholders. A recognized global expert on project management provides the foundational elements required for project management success Contributes toward the fulfillment of the continuing education required every three years to maintain PMP® accreditation Uses real-world scenarios and relevant case studies to present project management concepts to beginning and intermediate PMP®s Contains chapters on Leadership, Buy In, and Negotiation for more advanced project managers (PMP and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
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Rename a suburb
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Re: Rename a suburb
by SRW
skyliner wrote: ↑
I would like to rename some of the streets with multiple names into one name each. One of the worst early examples is the change of names across KWS (aparently just so the king's name would not be crossed).
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I kinda like that quirk, and besides the streets have developed distinct characters between West and East end.
Although on the topic of street names, and to think out loud: I have been wondering whether the Market to Riverbank route being developed should receive one name to replace Bank, Leigh, Topham, Bentham & Pitt. Leigh is probably too notable to be renamed, so maybe the route just needs stronger branding.
by Raider
Eurostar wrote: ↑
Nathan wrote: ↑
Rename Morphett Vale so that it no longer sounds like Morphettville.
Area between South, Bains, States & Wheatsheaf Roads could be Thrushgrove. Area by South, Wheatsheaf, States and Doctors Roads could be Wirreanda.
I think using the old railway stations in the area for names could work. The area bounded by Pimpala, Panalatinga, Bains & South Roads could be renamed Pimpala. The area bounded by Wheatsheaf, Panalatinga, Doctors & South Roads could be Coorara.
by HiTouch
I’d rename the suburbs as a reflection of the people who live there.
E.g. Norwood to Glamville
Ethelton to Workman’s Wharf
Morphett Vale to Myexgirlfriend or simply, Hell for short
and Mawson Lakes to Myexgirlfriendsnewboyfriend or Dickhead Swamp for short
But seriously, Modbury North should be Clovercrest
by crawf
HiTouch wrote: ↑
Errrr.... your posts are so random
by shiftaling
I propose renaming Thebarton into the original, smaller suburb names of Southwark, Thebarton, West Thebarton, Hemmington etc to promote identification with local communities. Hemmington West even
In fact bring them all back, I think people would enjoy mentioning these obscure names when giving their address!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A ... burb_names
by [Shuz]
I agree. Wouldn't use all, but the vast majority of them. There's some seriously wicked old names there. I think if we had smaller suburbs it would help promote local identity a bit more.
Some suburbs in Adelaide are just way too big they've become generic and lack any real cultural or local identity. This could be a point of differentiation between us and the other major cities.
by victorious80
I completely agree with smaller suburbs promoting identity and local community, and have been thinking where it could have the biggest impact. What do people think about splitting the suburb of Adelaide into multiple suburbs? At the moment it is a vast suburb of many different pockets with different identities.
Perhaps the northern half of the CBD are could remain as Adelaide, bounded by Wakefield/Grote, Morphett/Montefiore, Pulteney/Frome and the Torrens River. This would incorporate the majority of the commercial areas, as well as the Riverbank and cultural precincts.
We could then have the dedicated East End (around Rundle St) and West End (around Hindley).
The south-west corner could definitely be its own suburb (Market? Village? South West?) as it has a very different feel to the rest of the city.
The south-east corner around Hutt St could be something like East Adelaide
I think this would really assist in making the city less of an isolated island in the midst of the parklands, and more of a group of destinations with their own characteristics. Thoughts?
by Goodsy
shiftaling wrote: ↑
while we're at it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A ... _Australia
victorious80 wrote: ↑
Love every bit of that idea, including the proposals for the names!
by Waewick
It is amazing some great suburb names lost.
I wonder how many changed because the suburbs had a bad name?
by rev
Waewick wrote: ↑
I find the whole idea of changing a suburbs name to avoid the bad reputation it has garnered to be pointless.
Brompton wasn't the nicest place to live at one stage. Through urban renewal, and time, it's image has changed.
by bits
rev wrote: Brompton wasn't the nicest place to live at one stage. Through urban renewal, and time, it's image has changed.
Isnt it just a construction site where one day some people may rent small apartments?
Actually I am thinking of Bowden.
Brompton is that weird Hawker Street, a hotel that wants to double the price of meals if staff are paid fairly and a bunch of units.
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:55 am
bits wrote: ↑
Brompton was a rough area before the developers moved in. Parts still are. But overall it's more pleasant. Attracts a hefty price tag too, especially the housing on the former pits.
Brompton isn't associated with its past. Remember the bikie club room that got blown up? It was in Brompton. That was kind of the peak in problems of the 1990's towards the end of the decade.
Now it's almost exclusively yuppies and their lattes.
A bit further north west, in the Westwood development, those suburbs were all meant to be renamed to Westwood.
Ferryden Park, also known as Feral Park, has turned out pretty nice, with the exception of the odd trust house that wasn't knocked over and rebuilt or sold off for redevelopment.
Some may still call it feral park, but they also couldn't afford to buy the average house in the suburb now.
Don't always need to change a suburbs name to change it's image or perceptions of it.
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If you’re feeling exhausted or overwhelmed as you read this, a few months of prescribed mental downtime might sound ideal – minus the brain injury, of course. But for many hard-driving entrepreneurs, this story strikes fear in their hearts. How could they continue to grind out those long, hyper-focused days?
It’s no secret that the startup culture glorifies the 24/7 hustle. We hear that to build resilience, we just need to work harder. We have to dig in and find those extra reserves – and sometimes that’s true. However, more often we build resilience by taking the time to fully recharge.
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When I launched my company, JotForm in 2006, I worked around the clock doing everything from coding the web forms to answering support questions. I was obsessed with results and I thought constant work would get me further, faster.
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In a 2016 story for Harvard Business Review, Michelle Gielan and Shawn Achor explain that we often see resilience and grit through a “tough” or militaristic lens. “We imagine a Marine slogging through the mud, a boxer going one more round or a football player picking himself up off the turf for one more play,” they write. “We believe that the longer we tough it out, the tougher we are and therefore the more successful we will be.”
However, success means balancing our passion for business with an equal measure of personal growth, learning and wellbeing. Not to mention that those militaristic metaphors represent stereotypical, “macho” versions of resilience.
“From a very early age, boys are indoctrinated with the athletic metaphor: You don’t give up,” says Susan Folkman, a retired professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told California Magazine. “You keep going after that success. You fight for it. You don’t take a second. You just fight harder.”
Additionally, “tough” behaviors don’t make room for the nuances of solving puzzles, uncovering creative solutions and working collaboratively. They can also make us sick and ineffective. Research shows a direct correlation between lack of recovery and a higher number of health and safety issues, while insomnia costs U.S. companies $63 billion a year in lost productivity. As Gielan and Achor write: “overwork and exhaustion are the opposite of resilience.”
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The answer to overwork is to approach rest with the same diligence we apply to our businesses. Time off doesn’t mean catching up on calls or emails. It’s not a chance to obsess about that tricky staffing problem, either. We need to give our minds a full break from the rigors of entrepreneurship.
At the same time, rest doesn’t mean lying in bed all day or binging on Netflix. As Alex Soojung-Kim Pang writes in his recent book, Rest, recovery isn’t the same as time off:
“We get the most from breaks when we do things that are relaxing, that let us experience control and mastery and that provide a sense of detachment from our working lives. Recovery is active, not passive and we can design it to get greater benefit.”
The APA also suggests that taking care of ourselves can build resilience. We need to pay attention to our own needs and feelings, while participating in activities that feel fun, energizing or relaxing. For example, I don’t love the gym, but I couldn’t lead a team on two continents and serve over 5 million users without my morning workout.
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Build rest into every day
Humans aren’t built to work or think for hours without restorative breaks. Yes, we need to take vacations and put our phones down during personal time, but we also understand the demands of building a business. Boundaries do blur, so founders need to be even more careful about creating moments for recovery.
Set up automatic phone reminders to get up and take a break. Look away from your screen and daydream for a few minutes. Ideally, after every 90-minute block of focused work time, you should leave your desk. Don’t take your phone. Go for a walk, talk to your team or grab a cup of coffee.
If it feels indulgent, remember that growth requires a combination of two factors: stress and rest. “Studies show that both the body and the brain respond to stress by becoming stronger –– so long as the period of stress is followed by adequate rest and recovery,” writes health and performance coach Brad Stulberg, who has studied the world’s top achievers.
“When it seems like everyone around you is working endlessly, it’s easy to want to do the same," says Stulberg. "But pushing too hard too often – stress without rest – doesn’t lead to growth. It leads to fatigue and burnout.”
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Many people are more productive when every free moment is crammed with activities. But for entrepreneurs, our work is never objectively “done.” Even a friendly dinner can turn into a networking or pitching opportunity.
The antidote is to schedule your personal time and treat it like an investor or team meeting: a non-negotiable commitment. Spend time with friends and family members and try not to talk about business. Go for a hike, play a game with your kids or take a short road trip. Anything that allows you to disconnect from the challenges of entrepreneurship will fuel active, productive recovery.
Speaking of recovery, philosophy professor Megan Craig eventually recovered from her accident and gained a new perspective on how rest protects our most valuable resource.
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The Doc
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I get that the HOF is all about a TV show for the network. Would like to see Ivan Koloff and Ken Patera in though. Demolition as well. Lawsuits and one being a loose cannon prevent that from happening I'm sure.
Last edited on Tue Dec 10th, 2019 12:57 am by The Doc
srossi
The Doc wrote: I get that the HOF is all about a TV show. Would like to see Ivan Koloff and Ken Patera in though. Demolition as well. Lawsuits and one being a loose cannon prevent that from happening I'm sure.
Since Koloff hasn’t been inducted yet he’s just going to be thrown into the Legacy wing one of these years. It’s a shame, I don’t understand why he didn’t get the nod more than a decade ago. Patera has limited appeal to today’s audience, a criminal record, and they don’t want to give him a live mic, so I have a better chance of getting in than he does. Demolition would clearly be in if not for the lawsuit. I feel like they’ll reach an agreement soon.
This thread was great before AA ruined it.
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krazykid18 wrote: Wwe is mad cheap with the oil money, fox money, USA money you can induct the whole nwo lmao
It would be a full stage lol.
NWO list
1. Hollywood Hogan
2. Scott Hall
3. Kevin Nash
4. Syxx
5. The Giant
6. Randy Savage
7. Buff Bagwell
8. Scott Norton
9. Eric Bischoff
10. nWo Sting
11. Elizabeth
12. Curt Hennig
13. Vincent
14. Rick Rude
15. Stevie Ray
16. Konnan
17. Big Bubba Rogers
18. Michael Wallstreet
19. Ted Dibiase
20. The Disciple
21. Bret Hart
22. Brian Adams
23. Scott Steiner
24. Dennis Rodman
25. Dusty Rhodes
26. Horace Hogan
27. Sting
28. Lex Luger
29. David Flair
30. Disco Inferno
31. Masahiro Chono
32. The Great Muta
33. Jeff Jarrett
34. Ron Harris
35. Don Harris
WWE List
5. Big Show
6. Shawn Michaels
7. Booker T
8. Goldust
That list seems to be in order except for DiBiase, who should be one of the first. Also, I thought Jarret’s version had more than just the Harris Twins in it.
Last edited on Tue Dec 10th, 2019 01:10 am by srossi
srossi wrote: That list seems to be in order except for DiBiase, who should be one of the first. Also, I thought Jarret’s version had more than just the Harris Twins in it. It's hard to remember lol
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NWO should be 4 people and that’s it: Hogan, Nash, Hall and Bischoff.
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Heenan Fan
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Heenan Fan wrote: 1. Hall
2. Nash
3. Hogan
4. DiBiase 8/26/96
5. Giant 9/2/96
6. nWo Sting 9/9/96 he debuted attacking Luger, but I think he officially joined after Syxx?
7. Waltman 9/16/96
8. Vincent 9/23/96
9. Elizabeth 9/30/96
10. Bischoff 11/18/96
11. Buff Bagwell 11/25/96
12. Michael Wall Street 12/9/96
13.-15. Big Bubba Rogers, Scott Norton, and Masahiro Chono 12/16/96
16. Randy Savage 2/23/97
17. & 18. The Great Muta and Hiroyoshi Tenzan 5/26/97
19. Konnan 7/14/97
20. Curt Hennig 9/14/97
21. Rick Rude 11/17/97
22. Louie Spicolli 1/17/98
23. Dusty Rhodes 1/24/98
24. Brian Adams 2/16/98
25. Scott Steiner 2/22/98
26. The Disciple 2/23/98
27. Nick Patrick 2/27/98
28. Lex Luger (nWo Wolfpack) 5/25/98
29. Sting (nWo Wolfpack) 6/1/98
30. Stevie Ray 8/24/98
31. Horace Hogan 10/26/98
32. & 33. David Flair and Torrie Wilson 2/21/99
34. & 35. Bret Hart and Jeff Jarrett 12/20/99
36. The Harris Brothers 1/5/2000
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8. Kyle Petty (September 1996)
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Heenan Fan has clearly digested the Wikipedia page on the nWo.
A couple of pedantic points, though. nWo Sting is difficult to pinpoint. When he debuted, we were supposed to believe that he WAS Sting. In fact, I don't think the nWo ever acknowledged that their Sting was a fake. I don't think he ever officially joined the nWo (in the US, in Japan he did). He was more like a prop. Looking through the few "matches" he had in WCW, they always pretended that he was (or might be) the real Sting. Prompting Tony to say many times "That's not the real Sting."
Louie Spiccoli was Scott Hall's valet, and I believe that he was refereed to as a "prospect" but I don't think he ever got officially join before he died.
Kriss wrote: Heenan Fan has clearly digested the Wikipedia page on the nWo.
Louie Spiccoli was Scott Hall's valet, and I believe that he was refereed to as a "prospect" but I don't think he ever got officially join before he died. I can't disagree with any of this.
It was a shame that the baby Jeebus told Ted DiBiase that he couldn't be a heel wrestling manager if he wanted to get into heaven. He was great in that role, and him bankrolling the nWo made perfect sense. He was completely pointless as the Steiners' face manager. If they had used Ted better, they could have held off on Eric becoming the leader of the nWo, or even better, not done that at all.
Last edited on Tue Dec 10th, 2019 07:50 am by Kriss
Posted: Tue Dec 10th, 2019 01:02 pm
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Below is the definitive list of everyone who wasn't a part of some idiot faction of the NWO at one point or another.
This thread was great till Rossi posted that AA ruined it.
Rossi=The Mouth That Bored
Kriss wrote: It was a shame that the baby Jeebus told Ted DiBiase that he couldn't be a heel wrestling manager if he wanted to get into heaven. He was great in that role, and him bankrolling the nWo made perfect sense. He was completely pointless as the Steiners' face manager. If they had used Ted better, they could have held off on Eric becoming the leader of the nWo, or even better, not done that at all.
I never heard that DiBiase left the NWO because of Jesus. I think good old-fashioned bad booking is likely the culprit. DiBiase has played heel in the years since. In fact, he even went on the road with his Christian ministry and put on shows where he was the heel and then would repent in the end. I've never heard that he became so crazy that he couldn't separate fantasy from reality.
Both announcements were made on Raw last night, which was strange because it's so early and they shot their load all in one night. None of the other HOF announcements from now until March will be that interesting.
srossi wrote: Kriss wrote: It was a shame that the baby Jeebus told Ted DiBiase that he couldn't be a heel wrestling manager if he wanted to get into heaven. He was great in that role, and him bankrolling the nWo made perfect sense. He was completely pointless as the Steiners' face manager. If they had used Ted better, they could have held off on Eric becoming the leader of the nWo, or even better, not done that at all.
Hmmmm. I'm sure I read somewhere that he wasn't happy being a heel on TV every week, but I must be thinking of someone else... Here's a quote about why he left the nWo:
"Basically, I think they tagged me as Billionaire Ted. I was supposed to be the mouthpiece and financial backer of the nWo but what really happened as this thing got hotter, Eric Bischoff saw where he could slip himself into the role that he hired me for. And that's what he did. So, a couple weeks go by and I'm not having anything to say anymore, I'm just walking out there, standing in the corner with the rest of the gang. And I just went to Eric and I said look, I said I didn't spend my career so I could end it being Hulk Hogan's belt wearer. I'm not Virgil. I said if you want to have my job, great. You hired me, so do it, I said. Bottom line is, you still have to pay me. So he agreed. I went home and they brought me back as a babyface manager to the Steiner brothers, which really didn't make a whole lot of sense either."
They could have used him a lot more in the nWo than they did.
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